PLATE CCCCLXXIV. 
PSORALEA PINNATA, 
Winged-leaved Psoralea. 
CLASS XVII. ORDER Iv. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives, 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Caxrx longitudine leguminis. Stamina diadel- Empacemenr the length of the pod. ’ Chives 
pha. Legumen monospermum, sub-rostra- diadelphous, Pod.one-seeded, beaked, and 
tum, evalve. valveless, 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Psoravza pinata, foliis patentibus apice acutis, PsoraLea with winged leaves, spreading, sharp- 
recurvatis : floribus axillaribus, pedunculis pointed, and recurved. The flowers grow 
longis, 3 ! from the axille of the leaves upon long 
footstalks, 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
}. The empalement. 
2. The standard of the blossom, 
3. One of the wings, 
4. One of the same shown from the inside. 
5. The chives, 
6. The seed-bud and pointal. 
Tue Psoralea pinnata is a very ornamental plant for the conservatory, and certainly denerves . = 
. Fepresentation, At present there are only two uncoloured. engravings of it extant: one in the 
tetrapetala of Rivinus, No. 5.; the other in Hermann’s Hortus Lugdunensis, tab, 273. The par 
are a well marked natural genus, and appeat.much more characteristic of each other than many 
Our drawing was made from a fine specimen received from the collection of the Hon. W- Irby. 
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