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by feeds, which muff be fown in a good hot-bed ; ' 
and when the plants come up, they, muft be treated 
in the fame way as other tender exotic plants which 
are kept in the bark-ftove. 
CGJLJJTEA. Toxirn. Inft, R. H. 649, tab. 417. 
Lin. Gen. Plant. 776. ' Bladder Sena. 
• The Characters are, 
It hath a bell-Jhaped permanent empalemep of one leaf 
indented/ in five parts. The flower is of the butterfly 
• kind. The ftandard , wings , and keel vary in their fi- 
gure in different, fpecies. It hath ten ftdmnd , nine of 
which are joined , the ' other flands feparate , which are 
terminated by Jingle fummits. In the center is fituated an 
oblong germen , which is comprejjed , fupporting a ri/ing 
ftyle, crowned by a bearded line , extended from the mid- 
dle of the upper part of the ftyle. The germen afterward 
becomes a broad fwollen pod with one cell, including fteve- 
ral kidney-fhaped feeds. 
l his , genus of plants is ranged in Linnaeus’s third 
fedtion of his leventeenth clafs, infilled Diadelphia 
Decanciria. The flowers of this clafs have ten (la- 
mina, nine of which are joined, and the tenth Hands 
feparate. * 
The Species are, 
1. Colutea ( Arborefcens ) arborea, foliolis obcordatis. 
Hort. Cliff. 365. Tree Bladder Sena with heart-fhaped 
lobes. Colutea veficaria. C. B. P. 396. Common Blad- 
der Sena. 
1. Colutea ( Ijlria ) foliolis ovatis, integerrimis, caule 
fruticofo. Shrubby Bladder Sena with oval leaves which 
are entire. 
3. Colutea ( Orient alis ) foliolis cordatis minoribus, 
caule fruticofo. Bladder Sena with fmaller heart-fhaped 
leaves , and a Jhrubby. ftalk. Colutea Orientalis flore 
fanguinea coloris, lutea macula notato. Tourn. Cor. 
44 - 
4. Colutea ( Frutefcens ) fruticofa foliolis ovato-oblon- 
gis. Hort. Cliff. 366. Shrubby Bladder Sena with oblong 
oval leaves. Colutea iEthiopica flore Phceniceo, folio 
Barbs Jovis. Breyn. Cent. 1. 73. Ethiopian Bladder 
Sena with a fcarlet flower. 
5. Colutea (. Americana ) foliolis ovatis, emarginatis, 
leguminibus oblongis comprelfis acuminatis, caule 
arboreo. Bladder Sena 'with oval leaves indented at 
the top , oblong , comprejjed, pointed pods , and a tree- 
like /talk. Colutea Americana, veficulis oblongis 
compreffis. Houft. MSS. American Bladder Sena 
with oblong comprejjed pods. Dr. Pluknet titles it Co- 
lutea Verm Crucis veficaria. Aim. m.pl. 1 -65. f. 3. 
Bladder Sena of Vera Cruz. 
6 . Colutea ( Herbacea ) herbacea foliolis linearibus. 
Hort. Upfal. 2 66 . Herbaceous Bladder Sena with narrow 
leaves. Colutea Africana annua, foliolis parvis, mu- 
cronatis, veficulis compreffis. Hort. Ami 2. p. 87. 
tab. 44. 
7. Colutea ( Brocumbens *) caulibus procumbentibus, fo- 
liolis ovato-linearibus, tomentofis, floribus alaribus 
pedunculis longiffimis. Bladder Sena with trailing 
ftalks, oval narrow leaves which are woolly , and flowers 
growing from the fides of the ftalks, with very long foot- 
Jlalks. 
The firft fort is commonly cultivated in the nurfery- 
gafdens, as a flowering flirub, to adorn plantations. 
This grows naturally in Auftria, in the fbuth of 
France and Italy, from whence the feeds were origi- 
nally brought to England ; this hath feveral woody 
Items, which grow to the height of twelve or fourteen 
feet, fending out many woody branches, gamifhed 
with winged leaves, compofed of four or five pair 
of oval lobes, placed oppofite, terminated by an odd 
one - 5 thefe are indented at the top in form of a heart, 
and are of . a grayifh colour. The flowers come out 
from the wings of the leaves upon (lender foot-ftalks, 
about two inches long, each fuftaining two or three 
flowers of the butterfly kind, whofe ftandard is re- 
flexed and large. The flowers are yellow, with a 
dark-coloured mark on the petal ; thefe are fucceed- 
ed by inflated pods an inch and a half long, having 
a fearn on the upper fide, containing a Angle row of 
kidney-lliaped feeds, fattened to a placenta. This 
COL 
floweis in June. and July, and the feeds ripen in aif 
tumn. . There is a variety of this with reddifh pods, 
which is equally common in the gardens, and i-s flip- 
pofed to.be only an accidental variety, for thepiarrts 
do not differ in any other part. 
I he feeds of the fccond fort were brought from the 
Levant by the Reverend Dr. Pocock, which fucceed- 
edin the garden at Chelfea; and fince Dr. Ruffe!, 
who Eefided many years at Aleppo, brotjg'ht over 
dried iamples of this fort, which he affures me grow 
common near that city. This fort feidom grows 
more than fix or feven feet high ^ the branches are 
very (lender, and fpread out on every fide, gamifhed 
with winged leaves, compofed of nine pair of Email, 
oval, entire lobes, terminated by an odd one 5 the 
flowers (land upon (lender foot-ftalks, about the fame 
length of the former. The flowers are alfo like 
thole, but are of a brighter yellow. This fort begins 
to fiov/er early in May, and continues flowering till 
the middle of October. 
-The third fort was difeovered by Dr. Tournefort in 
the Levant, from whence he fent the feeds to the 
royal garden at Paris, where they fucceeded, and 
fince have been communicated to mod of the curious 
gardens in Europe. This hath a woody (lem, which, 
lends out many branches on every fide/ which do not 
rife above feven or eight feet high ; thefe are not fo 
ftrong as thofe of the firft fort, and are gamifhed 
with winged leaves, compofed of five or fix pair of 
final! heart-fhaped lobes, terminated by an odd one. 
The flowers proceed from the fide of the branches, 
(landing upon foot-ftalks, each fuftaining two or 
three flowers, fhaped like thofe of the firft fort, but 
fmaller ; they are of a dark red colour, marked with 
yellow: thefe appear in June, and the feeds ripen 
in autumn. 
The fourth fort grows naturally in .Ethiopia, from 
whence the feeds were brought to Europe. This 
hath a weak (hrubby ftalk, which fends out fide 
branches, growing ere£t, gamifhed with equal winged 
leaves, compofed of ten or twelve pair of final!, oval, 
oblong, hoary lobes. The flowers are produced at 
the upper part of the branches from the wings of the 
leaves, each foot-ftalk fuftaining three or four fcarlet 
flowers, which are longer than thole of the other 
forts, and are not reflexed ; thefe are fucceeded by 
inflated pods, containing one row of kidney-fhaped 
feeds. The ufual time of this plant producing its 
flowers is in June ; but when the feeds are fown early 
in the fpring, the plants frequently flower the follow- 
ing autumn. 
The fifth fort was fent me from La Vera Cruz, in 
New Spain, in the year 1730, by the late Dr. Houf- 
toun. This hath a (hrubby ftalk, which riles to the 
height of twelve or fourteen feet, fending out many 
branches, gamifhed with winged leaves, compofed of 
three pair of oval lobes, terminated by an odd one j 
thefe are indented at the top, and are of a light green. 
The flowers are of a bright yellow, and (land two or 
three upon each foot-ftalk, and are fucceeded by 
compreffed winged pods near four inches long, which 
end in long points. 
The fixth fort grows naturally at the Cape of Good 
Elope. This is an annual plant of little beauty, fo 
is rarely cultivated but in botanic gardens for the 
fake of variety. It rifes with a (lender herbaceous 
ftalk about a foot and a half high, dividing upward 
into three or four branches, garniffied with winged 
leaves, compofed of five or fix pair of very narrow- 
lobes an inch long, which are a little hoary. The 
flowers are fmall, of a purplifh colour, (landing 
three together on (lender foot-ftalks, which are fuc- 
ceeded by flat oval pods, each containing two or 
three kidney-fhaped feeds. It flowers in July, and 
the feeds ripen in autumn, and the plant decays foon 
after. 
The feeds of the feventh fort were fent me from the 
Cape of Good Hope, in 1753, which have fucceeded 
in the garden at Chelfea. This plant hath many Gen- 
der ligneous (talks, which trail on the ground, and 
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