LA'LAGE ORNA'TA. 
CRIMSON LALAGE. 
EXOGENZ, DICOTYLEDONES: 
Natural division 
to which 
this plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOS/. 
Artificial divisions MONODELPHIA, 
to which DECANDRIA, 
this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. 
No. 141: 
CALYCIFLORE 
OF 
DECANDOLLE. 
NUS. Latace. Linpztey. Catyx quinquefidus, laciniis angustis sub- 
pie vel — altius connatis. Corou.z vexillum explanatum, orbi-— 
culatum, emargi m alis longius; ale oblonge, basi longe auriculate; carina © 
alis parum ane incurva es Stamina monadelpha, vagina postice 
fissa. ANTHER# omnes xquales ovales oblonge, medifixe. Vacrna disci nulla. 
Ovanium subsessile, <dicpihadliaies eicapamete aaa oe wee 
Stigma minutum, terminale. Lee Neesees FRU ustralas: OLA 
stipulata, aiaran, simplicia, plana. Fores Fa tag ba tisee val erent 
bracteis aridis deciduis basi imbri 
Ss NDL Fouris ovatis subtus leviter 
sericeis, binctéis fuscis latis oiitosimitein prt ae calycis laciniis posticis 
ultra medium connatis. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, LaLace. Catyx five-cleft, the divisions 
narrow, nearly equal, or the two upper ones joined together higher up. 
Corotta papilionaceous, the standard spreading, round, emarginate. 
longer than the wings; the wings oblong, with a long ear at the base; 
the keel rather shorter than the wings, curved, blunt. Stamens 
monadelphous, the sheath split on the upper side. ANTHERS all 
similar, oval-oblong, attached by the centre. No sheath to the disk. 
Ovary nearly sessile, very hairy, with several ovules. Sryze filiform, 
smooth. StTicMa minute, terminal. Pop unknown. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, LaLaGE ORNATA. STEM shrubby, 
erect, the young branches clothed with silky appressed hairs. Sri- 
. PULES brown, dry, lanceolate, subulate. Leaves on very short stalks, 
alternate, entire and simple, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sharp, some- 
what waved, rounded or somewhat heart-shaped at the base, leathery, 
much veined, smooth, or with a few scattered and very short hairs on 
the upper surface; thinly covered with appressed silky hairs under- 
neath. FLowers axillary, one, two, or three together. PEpICELS one- 
flowered, three or four lines long, silky, surrounded at the base by a 
few broad brown dry sheathing bracts, of which the outer ones are 
very short, the inner one nearly as long as the pedicels, broad, con- 
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