CLlTORIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 796. Terhatfea. 
Tourn. Ad. Reg. 1706. Clitorius. Dill. Hort. Elth. 
76. We have no Englifh tide for this plant. 
The Characters are, 
The flower hath u permanent jmpalement of one leaft 
which is tubular, ere hi, and indented in five parts at the 
top. The flower is of the butterfly kino l, having a large 
fpreading ftandard , which is ere ft, and indented at the 
top ; the two wings are oblong , obtuj e, and floorter than 
the ftandard , which is clofled. The keel is fhorter than 
the wings ; it is roundifh and hooked ; it hath ten ftamina , 
nine of which are joined , and one ft ands feparate f which 
are terminated by Jingle ftummits. In the center is fituated 
an oblong germen, flupporting a riflng ftyle , crowned by an 
obtufe Jligma. The germen afterward becomes a long , nar- 
row , comprejfledpod , with one cell , opening with two valves , 
inclofing fever al kidney-Jhaped feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the third fedion of 
Linnaeus’s leventeenth clafs, intitled Diadelphia De- 
candria •, the flowers of this fedion have ten ftamina, 
which compofe two bodies. 
The Species are, 
1. Clitoria {Ternatea) foliis pinnatis. Hort. Cliff. 360. 
Clitorea with winged leaves. Ternatea fiore fimplici cas- 
ruleo. Tourn. Acad. Reg. Sc. 1706. 
2. Clitorea ( Brafliana ) foliis ternatis, calycibus cam- 
panulatis folitariis. Hort. Upfal. 215. Clitoria with 
trifoliate leaves , and a fingle flower with a bell-jhaped 
empalement. Planta leguminofa Brafiliana, Phafe- 
oli fiore, flore purpureo maximo. Breyn. Cent. 78. 
tab. 32. 
3. Clitoria ( Virginiana ) foliis ternatis, calycibus cam- 
panulatis fubgeminis. Flor. Virg. 83. Three-leaved 
Clitoria with two fl.owers joined, whofle empalements are 
bell-jhaped. Clitorius trifolius fiore minore casruleo. 
Hort. Elth. 90. Tab. 76. 
4. Clitoria {Mariana) foliis ternatis, calycibus cylin- 
dricis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 753. Clitoria with trifoliate 
leaves, and cylindrical empalements to the flowers. Clito- 
rius Marianus trifolius fubtus glaucis. Pet. Hort. 
Sicc. 243. 
The firft fort grows naturally in India; the feeds of 
this were firft brought to Europe from Ternate, one 
of the Molucca Iflands, and this induced Dr. Tour- 
nefort to give the title of Ternatea to this genus. 
There is a variety of this with white flowers, and ano- 
ther with large blue flowers, which make a fine ap- 
pearance. The feeds which I received of the latter, 
produced all the plants with very double flowers, 
without the leaft variation ; but in cold feafons the 
plants do not produce any pods here. 
This rifes with a twining herbaceous ftalk to the 
height of four or five feet, in the fame manner as the 
Kidney-bean, and requires the like fupport ; for in 
the places where it grows naturally, it twifts itfelf 
about the neighbouring plants ; the ftalks are gar- 
nffhed with winged leaves, compofed of two or three 
pair of lobes, terminated by an odd one ; thefe are 
of a beautiful green, and are placed alternate on the 
ftalks ; from the appendages of the leaves, come out 
the foot-ftalks of the flower ; each of thefe is encom- 
paffed by two very fine leaves about the middle, 
where they are bent, fuftaining a very large, gaping, 
beautiful flower, whole bottom part feems as if grow- 
ing to the top. 
The flowers have a green membranaceous empale- 
ment, which is cut into five parts. T'he ftandard of 
the flowers is large, and is fpread open very wide ; 
and the flowers are of fo deep a blue colour, as to 
Itain paper, after having been many years dried, al- 
moft as blue as indigo ; thefe flowers are fucceeded 
by long flender pods, containing feveral kidney- fhaped 
feeds. 
The fecond fort grows naturally in the Braflls, from 
whence thefe feeds were brought to Europe. This 
hath a twining ftalk like the former, which rifes five 
or fix feet high, garniftied at each joint with one tri- 
foliate leaf, ftanding upon a long foot-ftalk. The 
flowers come out fingly from the foot-ftalk of the 
leaves, ftanding upon pretty long foot-ftalks, which 
are encompaffed about the middle with two Mali 
oval leaves ; the flowers are very large, the ftandard 
being much broader than that , of the firft fort, and 
the two wings are larger •, the flowers are of a fine 
blue colour, lb make a fine appearance. The flow- 
ers appear in July, and in warm feafons the feeds 
will ripen in autumn, foon after which the plants 
decay. 
There is one with a double flower of this fort, which 
I raffed in the Chelfea garden feme years paft, from 
feeds fent me from India ; but the plants did not pro- 
duce feeds here, and being annual, the fort was loft. 
The flowers of this were very beautiful. 
Hie feeds of the third fort were fent me from the 
Bahama Iflands ; this fends out from the root two of 
three flender twining ftalks, which rife to the height 
of fix or feven feet, garniftied at each joint with one 
trifoliate leaf, whofe lobes are oblong and pointed. 
At the oppofite fide of the ftalk, the foot-ftalk of the 
flower arifes, which is little more than an inch long, 
naked, and fuftains a fingle flower, which is of 3 
purple colour within, but of a greenifh white on the 
outfide, not half fo large as either of the former : 
thefe flowers are each Succeeded by long, flender, 
compreffed pods, ending in a point, which contain 
one row of roundifh kidney-fhaped feeds. This fort 
flowers in July and Auguft, and the feeds ripen in 
autumn. 
The feeds of the fourth fort were fent me from Ca- 
rolina, where the plants grow naturally. This rifes 
with a twining weak ftalk about five feet high, gar- 
nifhed with trifoliate leaves like the former, whofe 
lobes are narrower, and of a grayifh colour on their 
under fide •, the flowers come out by pairs on the 
foot-ftalks ; their empalements are cylindrical. The 
flowers are fmall, and of a pale blue colour within, 
but of a dirty white on the outfide. This flowers in 
Auguft, but rarely ripens any feeds in England. 
All thefe forts are annual with us in England, fo that 
unlefs theffeeds ripen, the fpecies are loft ; and as the 
two forts with double flowers have not formed any 
pods in this country, fo far as I have been able to 
learn, therefore the feeds of thefe muft be procured 
from the countries where they naturally grow. In- 
deed thefe are fuppofed to be only varieties, which 
accidentally arife from the fingle. If this be true, I 
cannot account for the fuccefs of thofe plants which 
grew at Chelfea, for they were all of the fame double 
kind, without the leaft variation *, and this was not 
from a fingle experiment, but in three different years 
when I received the feeds, the plants did all of them 
produce double flowers. . 
The feeds of thefe plants muft be fown upon a good 
hot-bed early in the fpring; and when the plants are 
two inches high, they fhould be carefully taken up, 
and each planted in a fmall pot filled with light frefh 
earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners bark, 
obferving to fhade them till they have taken frefh 
root, and refrefh them with water as they may re- 
quire it. After they are well rooted in the pots, they 
muft have air every day in proportion to the warmth 
of the feafon, to prevent their drawing up weak ; 
their waterings fhould be repeated two or three 
times a week, but they fhould not have too much a £ 
each time. As thefe plants have climbing ftalks, 
they will foon grow too tall to remain under com- 
mon frames, therefore they muft then be removed 
into the ftove, and plunged into the bark-bed ; but 
if their roots have filled the pots, they fhould be re- 
moved into larger, and afterward they muft be treat- 
ed in the fame manner as other plants from the fame 
countries. 
CLUSIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 577. Plum. Nov. Gen, 
20. tab. 20. The Balfam-tree. 
The Characters are. 
It hath an imbricated empalement, compofed of roundifh 
concave leaves which fpread open ; it hath five or fix large , 
roundifh, concave , flpreading petals. In the bottom, is 
fituated a globular neclarium, including the germen, which 
is pervious at the top , from which place the Jligma arifes . 
