AMICIA ZIGOMERIS. 
(Two-jointed-podded Amicia.) 
Class. 
MONADELPIIIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Order . 
DRCANDRXA, 
Generic Character.— Calyx campanulate, five-cleft, 
wo upper lobes roundish, large, two lateral ones 
ainute, the lowest one oblong, keeled, and concave. 
lorolla with an orbicular vexillum, and with the wings 
applied to the keel. Stamens ten, monadelphous, with 
he tube or sheath cleft in front. Legume linear, com- 
pressed, many-jointed, with the joints truncate at both 
ends. 
Specific Character.— Leaflets cuneate-obcordate, 
mucronate ; vexillum broadly obovate, mucronate , 
legumes having two joints. — Don s Gavd. and Botany. 
^ynonyme.— Z igomeris Jlava. 
The genus Amicia is very limited in extent, two species only being recorded as 
omprising it ; they are natives of North and South America. A. zigomeris is of 
■ather ancient acquaintance, being catalogued as in cultivation twenty year sago , it is 
dated 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, wheic 
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 pi eduction do not 
wear, and which in some measure detracts from their inteiest. 
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 chaiacter when 
allowed to grow comparatively as it likes, planted to train on a column 01 open 
