BOSSI AA RU FA. 
_ _RUFOUS BOSSLEA. 
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NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOSAE. 
CALYCIFLORR, fA, Artificial divisions DIADELPHIA 
OF EOFS to which DECANDRIA,. 
DECANDOLLE, &) =e Plant belongs, OF LINNEUS. 
GENUS. Bosst#a. Vewrenar. Catyx bilabiatus, coe superiore ma- 
jore semibifido obtuso. STaMINA omnia co nnexa, LeGuMEn plano-compres- 
Semina strophi- 
mo DrcanpoutE : Prodromus Syslemats Universalis Regni Vegetabilis, IJ, 
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SPECIES. Bossrxa RUFA, Loppices. Ramis complanatis Jlinearibus 
aphy lis, q , carina subnuda, 
bus “distantibus pedicello brevioribus. DrcanDoxze. Prodromus, II spoali. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Boss1#a. CaxLyx two-lipped, the 
upper lip larger, nearly two-cleft, obtuse. STaMENS united into a 
_ monadelphous tube. Pop flatly compressed, stalked, many-seeded, 
both margins thickened. Sxxps strophiolated. 
Description oF THE Spxcies, Bossi#a ruFA. A shrub with 
straggling branches, nearly two feet high; branches leafless, flat, com- 
pressed, or more properly roundish, narrow, and winged on each side 
owing to the base of each branch being decurrent, the wings toothed, 
and bearing the flowers, which are placed in the teeth of the upper 
branches. FLoweErs soca | eee 8 » bracteolated : the bracts of 
two pairs, the one pair at the pet 
mote, placed about mid-way betweole 
shorter than the pedicels: flowers mah 17 rarely extending to the 
extremity of the branch. Caxyx slightly pubescent, two-lipped, up- 
per lip larger, obscurely two-cleft, obtuse, under lip also somewhat 
two-cleft, and more acute. COROLLA papilionaceous, standard large, 
spreading or reflexed with a long slender claw, limb emarginate, din- 
gy yellow, with a brownish spot at the base and reddish brown lines 
diverging thence. to the margin ; wings small, obtuse, yellow, carina 
Rurexznce TO THE DissEcTIoNs 
1, The Standard. 2, one of the wings. 3, one half of the keel. 4. ovary and spe 5, a pedicel 
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