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DALEA sicotor. 
-Two-coloured Dalea. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.—Nar. Orv. LEGUMINOSZ. 
( Gen. CHar.—Ale et Carina columne staminum adnate. Stam. 5-10, con- 
: pai absque filamento libero. Legumen monospermum.—V ent. 
Dalea bicolor ; decandra, spicis terminalibus clongatis, foliis subquinque- 
jugis obovatis, caule rutin: | 
Dalea bicolor, Wi1tLp. Hort. Berol. v. ii. t. 89. , ( 
A rather small, straggling, suffrutescent plant, with iyiticheioed iihnibieg 
slightly pubescent zig-zag stems. Leaves alternate, composed of 4 or 5_ 
pairs of smallish obovate, obtuse, rather distant leaflets, and a terminal 
odd one ; these are furnished with a central rib, are slightly petiolated, and 
sprinkled beneath with numerous distinct impressed dots, resembling 
those of the Common Rue. Stipules small, subulate. 
_ Spike terminal, about 2 or 3 inches long, compact, acuminate, of numerous 
- imbricated flowers. Bracteas lanceolato-acuminate, concave, green, ca- 
ducous. Calyx short, whitish, pubescent, with 5 green teeth, of which 
the 3 lowermost are rather the longest, and 10 longitudinal green ribs. 
Corolla of 5 unequal petals.. Vexillum ovate, straight, its sides deflexed, 
. yellowish-white, with a long claw, which is, for the greater part of its 
length, at a considerable distance from the other petals. Ale oblongo- 
falcate, appressed to the carina, yellowish-white, the extremity violet- 
coloured ; carina of 2 subovate, clawed petals, united by their lower edge, 
larger than the ale, yellowish-white, tipped with blue: both the ale and 
carina have their claws incorporated with the tube of the stamens ; this is 
cleft above at the base, and terminated in 10 filaments, each tipped with 
a deep orange-coloured anther, bearing yellow pollen. Germen ovate, 
pubescent, rising in part above the slit of the tube of the stamens; the 
style concealed, for the greater portion of its length, by the stamens ; the 
stigma obtuse, glabrous. 
Pericarp a one-seeded, roundish, pubescent, gibbous legumen, inclosed. with- 
in the persistent calyx. Seed large, somewhat ee ie hl 
dons 2, large ; radicle pointing upwar ds. 
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