LATHYRUS ARMITAGEANUS. 
MR. ARMITAGES LATHYRUS. 
Class. Order. 
DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
EEGUMINOS.E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Brazil. 
8 feet. 
June, Aug. 
Shrub. 
in 1829. 
No. 526. 
Lathyrus was a generic name, in use amongst the 
Greeks. Theophrastus applied it to a plant evi- 
dently not unlike our own Lathyrus. Armitagea- 
nus has been deservedly adopted as a specific name, 
in honour of the late J. Armitage, Esq. a zealous 
and accurate scientific botanist ; by whose exertions, 
combined with those of the late Dr. Darwell, the 
Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society 
may be said to have originated. 
A single plant of this shrubby species of Lathy- 
rus was raised by C. H. Cope, Esq. from seeds col- 
lected in Brazil ; and from a cutting presented by 
him, in 1833, to the above society, the species has 
not only been preserved, but also liberally distri- 
buted to other establishments. It is a native of 
Brazil, and it appears also to be indigenous about 
Buenos Ayres, W. Borrer, Esq. having recognized 
it as identical with one which he raised, a few years 
ago, from seeds collected there. 
This species approaches nearer to magellanicus, 
than to any other that has been described, but differs 
from it by its stipules being narrower, not broader, 
than the leaflets; shrubby, not annual; glaucous. 
