﻿PLATE DXXV. 

 PODALYRIA HIRSUTA. 



Hairy Podalyria. 



CLASS X. ORDER I. 

 DECANDRIA MONOGYN/A. Ten Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 lyx sub-bilabiatus, quinquefidus. Corolla [l Empalemevt nearly bilabiate, fivc-cl< 

 papilionacea. Alae vexilli longitudine. Le- 

 gumen ventricosum, polyspermum. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Podalyria foliis simplicibus, hirsutis, ovatis || Podalybia with simple, hairy leaves, ovate or 



vel oblongis : corollis magnis, purpureis, oblong. Blossoms large and purple, mosdy 



plerumque simplicibus :pedunculislongis: | single. Footstalks long. Branches round 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The empalement. 



2. The standard. 



3. One of the wings. 



4. The keel. 



5. Chives and pointal. 



6. The chives spread open. 



7. Seed-bud and pointal. 



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odalyria is a section of the genus Sophora, separated from it by Lamarck, and named after the son 

 of JEsculapius, the celebrated physician who accompanied the Grecians in their famous expedition 

 against Troy. 



This species, we have little doubt, is the P. hirsuta (an unfigured species) enumerated by Willdenow, 



though by some it is thought to be distinct from it, on account of the leaves being somewhat longer, 



>d the flowers of a finer colour j differences, we think, accounted for in the latitude of growth re- 



ig from varied modes of culture. 



Rawing was made from a plant raised from Cape seed, by Messrs. Whitley and Brames, i» tbe 



year 1806. 



