AMICIA ZIGOMERIS. 
(Two-jointecl-podded Amicia.) 
Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA. DECANDRIA, 
Natural Order. 
LEG UMINOSiE. 
Generic Character — Calyx campanulate, five-cleft, i pressed, many-jointed, with the joints truncate at both 
two upper lobes roundish, large, two lateral ones ends. 
minute, the lowest one oblong, keeled, and concave. Specific Character. — Leaflets cuneate-obcordate. 
Corolla with an orbicular vexillum, and with the wings j mucronate ; vexillum broadly obovate, mucronate ; 
applied to the keel. Stamens ten, monadelphous, with I legumes having two joints. — Bon's Gard. and Botany, 
the tube or sheath cleft in front. Legume linear, com- | Sysonyue.— Zigomeris flava. 
The genus Amicia is very limited in extent, two species only being recorded as 
comprising it ; they are natives of North and South America. A. zigomeris is of 
rather ancient acquaintance, being catalogued as in cultivation twenty years ago ; it is 
stated to be a natural inhabitant of Mexico, and a stove climber, but it is neither a 
true climber, nor correctly a stove plant. We meet with it in the greenhouse, where 
it grows very well, and where, in a situation not exposed to much damp and cold 
currents of air, it would flower, which it does in winter. The " Botanical Magazine," 
publishing it two or three years ago, states : — " There is a remarkable feature in the 
entire plant, leaves, calyx, and even the corolla, that they are everywhere filled with 
pellucid, glandular dots, resembling those of Hypericum.'" 
The species is not in particular esteem among culturists, owing possibly to its 
freedom of growth, and disposition to become rather straggling. It is a tall and 
erect growing plant, but branches laterally with much freedom, has abundant, hand 
some foliage, and produces flowers plentifully ; they are large, handsome, and have 
a value peculiar to all flowers that come naturally in the winter season, beyond the 
circumstance of acceptability on account of their scarceness, that they possess a 
natural and vigorous appearance those obtained by artificial production do not 
wear, and which in some measure detracts from their interest. 
• A. zigomeris succeeds in a loamy soil, is easily struck from cuttings, and may be 
grown to an interesting object as a pot plant, judicious training being exercised to 
produce a desirably formed specimen. But it is most in its true character when 
allowed to grow comparatively as it likes, planted to train on a column or open 
