XXV. LEGUMINA‘CEE: U LEX. 199 
Gen. Char. Calyx bilabiate ; lower lip trifid, upper lip 2-lobed; segments 
soon falling off. Petals deciduous. Vewillum large, obcordate, rutescent. 
Wings cuneated. eel cucullate, accumbent. Stamens 10; free, deciduous. 
Stigma minute. Legume broad-linear, compressed, ‘6-seeded, stipitate. 
(Don's Mill.) 
Leaves compound, trifoliate, stipulate, sub-evergreen ; leaflets elliptical- 
oblong, acute, broad. Flowers large, yellow. — One species only in British 
gardens. 
S #1. P. nepate’Nnsis Swi. The Nepal Piptanthus. 
Identification. Swt. F1.-Gard., 26*. ; Dec. Prod. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 112. 
Synonymes. Thermépsis /aburnifdlia D, Don Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 239.; Anagyris indica Wall. MSS.; 
Baptisia nepalénsis Hook. Exot. Fi. t. 131. 
Engravings. Hook. Exot. F., t. 131.; Swt. Fl.-Gard.,t. 264.; and our jigs. 297. and 298. 
Spec, Char.. §c. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets elliptical-oblong, acute, broad. 
Stipules 2, large. A sub-evergreen shrub. Nepal. Height 8 ft. to 10 ft. 
Introduced in 1821. Flowers rich yellow; May and June. Pod green, 
turning to brown ; ripe in October. Decaying leaves yellow and green. Naked 
young wood dark green. 
The young leaves are silky ; and the flowers are of a bright yellow, and are 
much larger than those of the common laburnum, to which they, and also the 
leaves and the shoots, bear a general 
resemblance. In British gardens it 
may he considered as rather tender, 
and not of many years’ duration; 
nevertheless, in fine seasons, it ripens 
abundance of seeds. It may be pro- 
pagated by cuttings of the roots, and 
of the shoots, as well as by seeds or 
layers. In most of the counties north 
Sz of London, the safest situation for it 
297. P.nepalénsis. Will be against a wall; and it well de- 
serves a place there, on account of 
its luxuriant deep green foliage, and large bright yellow flowers. Anagyris 
indica Wall., Mr. Gordon considers as differing a little from the species. 
298. P. nepalensis, nat. size. 
Sect. II. Zo rem. 
Genus IV. 
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O'LEX L. Tue Furze. Lin. Syst. Monadélphia Decéndria. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 881.; Lam. Ill., t. 621.; Dec. Prod., 2. p.144.; Don’s Mill., 2. p.148. 
Synonymes. Ajonc, Fr.; Hecksaame, Ger. 
Derivation. Said to be derived from ac, Celtic, a point ; in reference to the prickly branches. 
Gen. Char. Calyx bibracteate, bipartite, one of the lips 3-toothed, the other 
bidentate. Stamens all connected. Legume oval-oblong, turgid, many- 
ovulate, but few-seeded, hardly longer than the calyx. 
Leaves simple, linear, caducous, often changing into spines. Flowers 
solitary, yellow. 
Branchy spinous shrubs, evergreen from the colour of the bark, with yellow 
flowers, natives of Europe, which wiil grow in any.tolerably good soil that is 
dry; and are readily propagated by seeds, or by cuttings planted in sand. 
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