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and rather silky. Flowers in terminal heads. Calyx hairy, in a silky man- 
ner. Corolla and legume silky. Branches glabrous. (Dec. Prod.) A low 
shrub. Barbary, on arid hills; and Spain, m Andalusia, on hills. Height 
1ft. to 2ft. Introduced in 1779. Flowers yellow; April to June. 
Variety. 
a G.u. 2 capitata Dec. Spartium capitatum Cav. Annal. 1801, p. 63. — 
Branches and leaves covered with silky villi. Native of Mogador. 
§ 2. Spinose. Leaves all, or some of them, trifoliolate, 
« 6. G. LusitTa’nica LZ. The Portugal Genista. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 999., exclusive of the synonymes of Clus. and J. Bauh.; Lam. Dict., 
2. p. 662., exclusive of the synonymes; Dec. Prod., 2. p.146.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 450. 
Engravings. Andr. Bot. Rep., t.419.; and our jig. 310. 
Spec. Char., $c. Branches spiny, round, becoming striate. 
Leaves trifoliolate, opposite, upon short petioles ; the leaflets 
linear, folded, somewhat silky. Flowers few, terminal. 
Calyx very hairy. (Dec. Prod.) A very spiny shrub, ever- 
green from the colour of its young shoots. Portugal. 
Height 4 ft. Introduced in 1771. Flowers yellow ; March 
to May. Legume ?. 
Remarkable for having opposite leaves and branches ; a cha- 
racter not common among Leguminacez. 
510. G. lusitanica. 
a 7. G.(L.) RADIA‘TA Scop. The rayed-branched Genista. 
Identification. Scop. Carn., No. 871.; Dec. Prod 22) 146. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 149. 
Synonymes. Spartium radiatum Lin. . 996., Mill. Icon., Sims Bot. Mag.; G. ilvénsis Dalech. 
Engravings. Mill. Icon., t. 249. f.1.; Bot. Mag., t. 2260. ; and our jig. 311. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches angled, grouped, glabrous. 
Leaf trifoliolate, almost sessile, opposite, the leaflets 
somewhat silky. Flowers in terminal heads, 2—4 in a 
head. Corolla and legume silky. The old branches 
show a tendency to become spiny. The legumes are 
oval, short, compressed, pointed with the style, and 
include two seeds. (Dec. Prod.) A low shrub, of short 
duration, evergreen from the colour of its young shoots. 
Italy, Carniola, and the Vallais. Height 2ft. to 4ft. 
Introduced in 1758. Flowers yellow; June and July. 
Legume ?. 
Variety. f 
s G. (1) r.2 umbelldta, G. umbellata Poir., Spartium «(i 
umbellatum Desf., appears, from a plant that \ \Iiy 
was in the Hort. Soc. Garden in 1837, to belong ‘ 
to this species. 
Differing from G. lusitanica principally in being without 
spines, and having its leaves somewhat longer. Both G. 
radiata and G. lusitanica have a very singular appearance 
when without their leaves; and, in that point of view, they may 
be considered as almost as interesting in winter as they are in 
summer. 
Bil. G. (1.) radiata. 
41 8, G. EPHEDROI‘DES Dec. The Ephedra-like Genista. 
Identification. Dec. Légum. Mém., 6.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 147.3; Don’s Mill., 2. 
. 150 
p. le 
Engravings 
. Dec. Légum Mém., 6. t. 36.; Maund’s Botanic Garden, t. 498. ; and 
our fig, 312. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves some trifoliolate, some simple, few ses- 
sile ; leaflets linear, almost glabrous. Branches rigid, round, 
L becoming striated and spiny. Flowers in spikes, alternate, 
si2.Gephedrtides, Yellow. Calyx somewhat pubescent. (Dec. Prod.) A shrub, 
