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CHOROZE’MA DICKSONII. 
DICKSON’ CHOROZEMA. 
EXOGENZ, oR DICOTYLEDONE &. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOSA. 
eg eee Artificial divisions DECANDRIA, 
to which MONOGYNIa, 
dncinestal: this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS, 
No. 106. 
GENUS. Cuorozema. Lapittarpiere. Catyx ad medium vel brevius 
bilabiatus, a superiore a nag fork Sea tripartito. CoroLLe 
ix longius, rotundat vel bifidum. Artz oblonge 
basi iirestate Carina is Saori frre cosa, gactstens Sramina libera, fila- 
mentis glabris. Ovarrum sessile vel breviter stipitatum, dense pluriovulatum. 
Srytus brevis, uncinato-recurvus, glaber. Sriama obliquum vel subrectum, 
tenue vel capitatum. LrecumEn ovatum, sessile vel subsessile, turgidum, intus 
nudum. Hers suffrutices, fruticesve. Fouta alterna vel sparsa, simplicia, 
coriacea, sepius glabra. Stieutz parve,subulate. InrLrorEscENTIA a racemosa 
. vel axillaris s nh m terminalem foliosum approximatis. 
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PEDICELLI Viet Pome Sebati vel aurantiaci. Benraam: Annalen 
des Wiener Museums, v. p. 74. 
SPEC ac Cu orozeMA Dickson, caule fruticoso, erecto; foliis sparsis, 
lanceolatis, is, mucronatis, sub-recurvis, utrinque sub-pilosis; racemis 
foliis 5 oipieaitta, spicatis; calyce pilis nigris, et albidis longioribus, vestito. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CyorozemMa. CALyx split to the iniddle 
or not so deeply into two lips, of which the upper one is broad and 
shortly two-cleft; the lower one deeply three-cleft. STANDARD scarcely 
longer than the wings, round, emarginate or two-cleft. Wuves oblong, 
narrowed at the base. Ket shorter than the wings, ventricose, blunt. 
StTaMENS free, the filaments smooth. Ovary sessile or borne on a short 
stalk, with several ovules. Styzte short, hooked, smooth. Sticma 
oblique or nearly straight, slender or capitate. Pop ovate, sessile or 
nearly so, swollen, without any pithy substance inside. : 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, CHorRoOzEMA Dicksonit. SuHrRvup 
erect, branched, slender, twigs ascending, green, hairy, and sprinkled 
with darker green spots. Leaves lanceolate, spreading or reflected, 
ciliated, and having generally, on both surfaces, a few long spreading 
hairs, mucronate, without stipules, shortly petiolate. RAcEMES oppo- 
site to the leaves, spicate; pedicels cernuous, solitary in the axils of 
subulate deciduous bracts. FLOwERs few on each raceme, collected 
near the apex, large and handsome, orange-red. Calyx _bilabiate, 
