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BOSSIZA cordifolia. 
Heart-leaved Bossiea. 
Linnean Class and Order. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSAE. DC, prodr. 2. p. 93. 
Subordo I, PAPILIONACE.—Tribus 11. Lore®, Supra fol. 2. 
Subtribus I, GenisteE&, Legumen uniloculare, Stamina sepissimé monadelpha. 
Folia simplicia aut palmatim trifoliata raritis pinnata, Caules sepissimé fruticosi. 
BOSSIA, Supra fol. 9. 
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B. cordifolia, ramis teretibus conferte foliosis lanato-villosis, caule erecto ramoso, fo- 
liis subsessilibus cordatis acutis spinoso-mucronatis supra scabris subtus nervis 
pilosis ; marginibus recurvis, peduncalis bibracteatis foliis subequalibus, 
ce el it ES DO OE OEE LE EA LE A A 
A dwarf erect bushy evergreen Shrub, more or less branch- 
ed: branches round, densely clothed with woolly hairs, and 
crowded with leaves. Leaves rigid, sessile or nearly so, heart- 
shaped, acute, and terminated with a sharp rigid spine, rough on 
the upper side and of a darkish green ; underneath glaucous, and 
clothed with procumbent hairs, particularly on the nerves: mar- 
gins rough and revolute; those on the main stems opposite, or 
in threes, whorled ; on the smaller branches alternate, but very 
much crowded, generally bent downwards: lower ones about as 
broad as long, upper ones narrower. Stipules subulate, brown, 
fringed. Flowers axillary, solitary, yellow, with a purple circle 
at the base, and a dark purple keel, fragrant, the scent resembling 
Furze, or Ulex europeus. Peduneles about the length of the 
leaves. Bractes 2, very small, at the base of the calyx. Calyw« 
turbinately campanulate, keeled on the upper side, 2-lipped, 
with woolly fringed margins: wpper lip much the largest, trun- 
cately rounded, notched in the middle ; lower lip 3-parted, the 
segments small, ovately lanceolate, acute, recurved. Vewillwm 
broad, rounded, slightly notched in the middle on the margin, 
yellow, with a light purple half circle near the bottom, which is 
slightly branched into short lines. Ale or wings linearly spa- 
thulate, eared at the base, with a very slender unguis. Keel 
