ADENOCARTUS INTERME'DIUS. 
INTERMEDIATE ADENOCARPUS. 
Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOSAE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Sicily. 
3 feet. 
March, April. 
Perennial. 
in 1825 ? 
No. 650. 
Adenocarpus is deduced from two Greek words, 
ADEN, gland; and karpos, fruit. This compound 
word alludes to certain glands with which the leg- 
ume is beset. Intermedius is, we presume, applied 
to the character of the plant being intermediate be- 
tween other species — perhaps Hispanicus and par- 
vifolius. 
Adenocarpus has, at present, but six species, all 
very ornamental plants in spring, when clothed, as 
they then usually are, with a profusion of brilliant 
yellow flowers. The genus has been made up, prin- 
cipally, from Cytisus, one of the principal distinc- 
tive characters being alluded to in the name, the 
legume of Adenocarpos having pedicellate glands 
on all sides, whilst that of Cytisus is glandless. 
These glands are little appendages found on vari- 
ous parts of some plants ; whilst they are not at all 
discoverable on any part of others. The object 
which the gland is intended to effect is not at pre- 
sent understood. Linneus’s definition does not teach 
much, he says it is ^^a little tumour discharging a 
fluid and modern science has not at present disclo- 
sed to us anything more satisfactory. Dr. Lindley^ 
