1 44 THE LADIES' FLOWER-GARDEN 
GENUS IX. 
GALEGA, Juss. THE GOAT'S-RUE. 
Lyn. Syst. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Grneric Character. — Calyx with fivo subulate equal teeth. Vexil- 
lum obovate-oblong. Keel obtuse. Stamens monadelphous, having 
the tenth one concrete, with the others one half of its length. Style 
filiform, glabrous, crowned by a terminal dot-formed stigma. Legume 
rather terete, torulose, obliquely-striated. Seeds cyUndiical. Smooth, 
erect, perennial herbs, with impari-pinnate leaves, ovate or lanceolate, 
somewhat sagittate stipules, and axillary, simple, many-flowered 
racemes. Flowers blue and white. (G. Don.) 
Description, &c. — Hardy, robust-growing perennial plants, with showy flowers. The common species 
(G. officinalis) was formerly used in medicine, and it was said to have such an effect in increasing the quantity 
of milk in goats, that it was called Goat's Rue. The name of Galega refers to the same property. The genus 
was formerly a very extensive one, but there are now only four species, all of which are ornamental, though 
some axe more so than others. 
1.— GALEGA BILOBA, Sweet. TWO-LOBED LEAVED GOAT'S-RUE. 
Engraving Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 159. 
Specific Character. — Stem angularly striated, rather flexuous ; 
leaves usually with five — eight pairs of oblong, silky, pubescent leaf- 
lets, which are mucronate and two-lobed at the apex ; stipules ovate, 
lanceolate, acute, acutely-serrated, sagittate ; flowers crowded ; bracteas 
subulate ; twice the length of the pedicels. 
Description, &c. — A very handsome, robust-growing plant, with a profusion of rather small blue flowers. 
Several stems rise from three feet to five feet high, with numerous glaucous green leaves, which are two lobed at 
the apex, with a slender mucro or bristly point between the lobes. The species is a native of the south of 
Europe, whence it was introduced about 1823. 
2.— GALEGA PERSIC A, Pers. THE PERSIAN GOAT'S-RUE. 
Enoha VINOS. — Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 244; and our/?. 3 
in Plate 35. 
oblong, rather retuse, mucronate, glaucescent leaflets; stem angular, 
flexuous ; stipules narrow-lanceolaie, sagittate ; bracteas linear-subu- 
SpEciFic Character. — Leaves usually with flve pairs of ovate- late, longer than the pedicels. (G. Don.) 
Description, &c. — A tall, robust-growing plant, with numerous branching stems rising from the same root, 
and a profusion of rather large white flowers, which are slightly fragrant. The species is a native of Persia, 
whence it was introduced in 1816. It is quite hardy in British gardens, where it will grow in any common 
garden soil ; and it is easily propagated by seeds, which it ripens iu great abundance. It is very nearly allied 
to G. biloba, and, like it, takes up too much room for a small garden. 
3.— GALEGA ORIENTALIS, Lam. THE ORIENTAL GOAT'S-RUE. 
Syhonyme. — G. montana, SchuUes. 
Engravings Bot. Reg. t. 326 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2192. 
SpEcinc Character. — Leaflets ovate, acuminated, smooth ; stipaloa 
broad-ovate ; racemes longer than the leaves ; legumes pendulous ; 
roots creeping. (G. Don.) 
Description, &c. — A handsome plant, with small dark purple flowers, of much more delicate habit of growth 
than the preceding species. It is a native of the Levant, where it was first discovered by Toumefort, and Whence 
it was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1801. It is also found in the forests on Mount Caucasus. It is quite 
hardy, and will grow in any common garden soil. The stem is about four feet high. 
