OF ORNAMENTAL PEHENNIALS. 1^7 
OTHER SPECIES OF BAPTISIA. 
B. CONFUSA, S'to/. 
Nearly allied to B. auttralit. A native of North America, introduced before 1758. 
B. MINOR, Lehm. 
Introduced in 1828. A dwarf species, with yellow flowers. 
B. MOLLIS, Nutt. 
Stems purplish, and flowers blue ; leaves often two inches long, and one inch broad. A decumbent plant j a 
native of Upper Carolina ; introduced in 1824. 
B. VILLOSA, Ell. ; SOPHORA VILLOSA, Walt. ; PODALYRIA VILLOSA, Michx. 
Flowers yellow, resembling those of a Lupine. A native of Virginia and North Carolina, in low sandy 
grounds; introduced in 1811. This species looks very well in a mass with B. (dha and jB. australu. 
GENUS II. 
RAFNIA, Thunb. THE RAFNIA. 
Generic Chailxcter. — Calyx cleft into five to the middle, four 
upper lobes broadest, sometimes distinct, sometimes variously connected ; 
lower lobe setaceous, and very acute. Corolla smooth, with an obtuse 
keel and a roundish vexillum. Stamens monadelpbous, with the 
Lin. Syst. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
sheath cleft in front at length. Legume lanceolate, compressed, many- 
seeded. Smooth plants, usually assuming a lurid blackish hue in 
drying. Leaves simple, entire, not stem -clasping, alternate, but with 
the floral ones sometimes opposite. Flowers of all yellow. 
Description, &c. — The plants belonging to this genus were formerly included in that of Crotalaria, but they 
were separated, by Professor De CandoUe, on account of a difference in the calyx and the pod, which contains 
only one seed ; and the new genus was named by him in honour of Professor Bafn, a German botanist. All 
the species have yellow flowers, and all but one are greenhouse shrubs. 
1.— RAFNIA TRIFLORA, Lin. THE THREE-FLOWERED RAFNIA. 
Specific Character. — Leaves simple, ovate, sessile, glabrous. 
Branches angular. Peduncles lateral, one-flowered, but growing three 
together. 
Synonymes. — Crotalaria triflora, Lin. ; Borbonia cordata, Andr. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mafg. t. 482 ; and our Jig. 1 in Plate 34, under 
the name of B.iptisia triflora. 
Description, &c. — This very showy plant is a biennial, introduced from the Cape of Good Hope in 1786. 
It requires a slight degree of protection during winter ; but if the seeds be sown on a hot-bed in February, and 
the plants afterwards removed to single pots, they may be set in the open air all the summer, and if kept in a 
frame or greenhouse during winter, they may be planted in the open ground in May, when they will flower in 
July and August. To ripen seed, however, a plant may be kept in the greenhouse. This plant when first 
inirodiiced was called Crotalaria, afterwards Baptisia, and lastly Eafnia. 
