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DALEA BICOLOR. 
Two-coloured Dalea. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.—Nart. Orv. LEGUMINOS#. 
Gen. Cuan.— Ale et Carina columne staminum adnate. Stam. 5-10, con- 
nate, absque filamento libero. Legumen ee ent. 
Dalea dicolor ; decandra, spicis terminalibus elongatis, foliis sins 
Jugis obovatis, caule fruticoso 
Dalea bicolor, Wu.up. Hort. Berol. v. ii. t- 89. 
A rather small, straggling, suffrutescent plant, with cylindrical branching 
slightly pubescent zig-zag stems. Leaves alternate, composed of 4 or 5 
pairs of smallish obovate, obtuse, rather distant leaflets, and a terminal 
odd one ; these are furnished with a central rib, are slightly petiolated, and 
beneath with numerous distinct impressed dots, resembling 
green 
Corolla of 5 unequal petals. Vezillum ovate, straight, its sides deflexed, 
yellowish-white, with a long claw, which is, for the greater part of its 
length, at a considerable distance from the other petals. Ala oblongo- 
falcate, — to the carina, yelowish-whis the extremity vole 
mlinton Ge cee with the tube of the stamens ; om? 
cleft above at the base, and terminated in 10 filaments, each tipped with 
a deep anther, bearing yellow pollen. Germen ovil®; 2 
pubescent, rising in part above the slit of the tube of the stamens; T° 
style concealed, for the greater portion of its length, by the stamens; 
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