BOSSILEA ensata. 
Sword-stemmed Bossiea. 
Linnean Class and Order. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSE. DC. prodr. 2. p. 93. 
Subordo Il. PAPILIONACE#.—Tribus Ul. Lorex, Supra fol, 2. 
Subtribus 1. GentsteEx. Legumen uniloculare. Stamina sepissimé monadelpha- 
Folia simplicia aut palmatim trifoliata rariis pinnata. Cauwles sepissimé fruticost. 
BOSSLEA. Supra fol. 9. 

B. ensata, ramis complanatis linearibus aphyllis, denticulis floriferis, carina subnuda, 
bracteis superioribus ab inferioribus distantibus pedicello brevioribus. DC. 
prodr.2. p. 117. 
Bossiza ensata. Sieb. pl. exs. nov. holl, n. 434. Swt. hort. brit. add, p. 475. 
Bossiza rufa, Lodd. bot. cab. 1119. nec aliorum. 

A dwarf upright bushy Shrub : d7anches numerous, crowded, 
branching in all directions, leafy on young plants, but leafless on 
old flowering ones: young branches flat, linear, nearly equal in 
breadth throughout, toothed, of a bright green, at first yellowish ; 
old ones becoming nearly round, but winged. Flowers numerous, 
proceeding singly from the teeth of the branches, yellow marked 
with a brownish purple. Pedzcles smooth, producing several 
bractes at the base, and two about the middle of the pedicle. 
Bractes small, ovate, concave, bluntish, the lower ones smallest. 
Calyx tubular, smooth, two-lipped; ciliate: upper-lip largest, 
slightly cleft, the segments broad and blunt: lower-lip three-cleft, 
the laciniz ovate, acute, tipped with brown, spreading. Vew- 
illum broad, rounded, with a notch in the centre, and a slender 
unguis tapering to the base, the upper side bright yellow, striated 
with numerous small lines, with a sort of crescent-shaped brown- 
ish purple mark near the base, which extends up through the 
centre ; back of the same colour, all but near the margins. Ale 
or wings spathulate, concave, with a slender unguis on one side 
at the base, yellow tinged with brownish purple or copper-colour. 
Keel about the length of or scarcely so long as the wings, notched 
at the point, blunt and bluntly keeled, brownish purple or dark 
