PODALY’RIA BUXIFO'LIA, 
~ BOX-LEAVED PODALYRIA. 
EXOGENA. oR DICOTYLEDONES. 
“NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOS&, 
CALYCIFLORE, DECANDRIA, 
OF MONOGYNIA, 
OF LINNEUS. 
to whic 
DECANDOLLE. this Plant belongs. 
Artificial divisions } 
No. 204, 
GENUS. Popatyria. Lamarck. Catyx laxe campanulatus, demum basi 
intrusus, pac ea Corotta papilionacea, petalis breviter unguiculatis ; 
vexillum amplum, orbiculatum, emarginatum, patens, ale obovate, oblique ; 
carina alis brevior, ovata vel late obovata incurva obtusa. Stamina decem, basi 
brevessime connata, ceterum libera, glabra, Ovanium sessile, villosum, pluri 
UMEN ovale vel o 
pa * 
gum, coriaceum, turgidum, villosum. Frurices capenses, foliis are re 
alternis; peduncelia quilistibos solitariis, unifpris vel ras mirtnt bracte 
SPECIES. Poparynia BURIFORA 5 (Eamance) FOLIIs ovatis rarius oblongis 
supra i arius bifloris, bracteis parvis 
cuneatis, calycis hirsuti laciniis ‘lanceolatis carina brevioribus, superioribus 
binis semi connatis, supra subgibbosis. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, PopALyriA. Catyx loose, bell- 
shaped, at length projecting inwards at the base. CoroLta papilio- 
naceous, the petals on very short claws; the standard large, orbicular 
emarginate, spreading; the wings obovate, oblique ; the keel shorter 
than the wings, ovate or broadly obovate, curyed, blunt. STAMENs ten, 
slightly connate at the base, free from thence, smooth. Ovary sessile, 
hairy, with many ovules. Sty e filiform. Stigma small. Pop oval 
or oblong, swollen, thick, and hairy. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, PODALYRIA BUXIFOLIA. STEM 
shrubby, erect, much branched, young branches clothed with a soft 
down, older ones often smooth. Strreu.es small, linear lanceolate, 
deciduous. Leaves simple, nearly sessile, broadly or narrowly ovate, 
sometimes nearly orbicular, rarely oblong, usually blunt, with a very 
small projecting point, from half an inch to three quarters in length, 
perfectly smooth on the upper side, clothed with thick silky. hairs 
underneath, the margins recurved. PepuUNCLEs axillary, sometimes 
one-flowered, and very short, at others nearly two inches long and 
bearing two pedicellate flowers. Bracrts at the base of the pedicels, 
or in the middle of the one-flowered peduncle, small, oblong or 
cuneate, falling off early. Catyx thick and hairy, divided to about 
the middle, the divisions broadly lanceolate, shorter than the keel, all 
