CLITORIA FULGENS. 
(Bright-flowered Clitoria.) 
Class. 
DIADELPHIA. 
Generic Character.— Calyx furnished with two 
jge bracts at the base, five-cleft. Vexillum large. 
I . tamens diadelphous, inserted along with the petals, 
bove the base of the calyx. Style rather dilated at the 
llaex. Legume linear, compressed, straight, two-valved, 
Ruminated by the base of the style, one-eelled, many- 
ieded. Seeds usually separated by cellular substance, 
sillary, pedicillate. 
\ Section — Centrosema. Calyx campanulate, cleft 
ito five beyond the middle. Vexillum furnished with 
Order. 
DECANDRIA. 
a spur behind. Bracteoles striated lengthwise. Leaves 
pinnately trifoliate, having one pair of leaves and an 
odd one. 
Specific Character.— Plant a twining evergreen 
sub-shrub. Stem round, clothed with numerous short 
depressed hairs. Leaflets ovate, pilose, with a fringed 
margin. Inflorescence racemose, on a stalk six inches 
long. Vexillum scarcely expanding. 
Synonyme.— Centrosema coccinea — Hort . 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOSjE. 
The most fascinating feature of all houses devoted to the display of flowers is, 
i our mind, those elegant plants usually called creepers. Gently supported by 
ae aid of pillars or of trellises, and hanging loosely about them, or depending in 
raceful festoons from the roof, they lend an air of ease and finish that contributes 
ot a little to enhance the beauty of the general aspect, by divesting it of stiffness 
nd formality. 
The present species is an elegant addition to the number of these plants, and 
?as obtained by Messrs. Yeitch and Sons, of Exeter, who exhibited a specimen at 
le Horticultural fete at the Chiswick Gardens in May, as a species of Centrosema , 
ne of the division of the genus Clitoria. It was discovered by their collector, 
Ir. William Lobb, growing on rocks, — over which the graceful slender branches 
oread in all the wild luxuriance of nature, — on the Organ Mountains of Brazil, 
1 the autumn of 1840 ; and seeds were received from him, at the Exeter Nursery, 
i the spring of 1841. These were sown immediately, and produced plants which 
owered for the first time, though rather scantily, last autumn. The abundance, 
owever, in which the blossom buds have been developed during the present spring, 
istify us in considering it most likely to prove a very free-blooming plant. 
The long, slender, and slightly hairy stems, are well adorned with handsome 
>liage, having a smooth and bright green upper surface, and the lower side of a 
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