917. 
GENISTA canariensis. 
Canary Genista or Cytisus. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lucuminosm. Jussieu gen. $45. Div. V. Corolla irregu- 
laris papilionacea. Legumen 1-loc., 2-valv.  Frutices aut herbe ; folia 
simplicia aut ternata aut rarits digitata; stipule nunc subnulle, nunc con- 
spicue imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte. 
GENISTA. Cal. bilabiatus 3: dentibus binis superioribus brevissimis. 
Bertil oblongum, a pistillo staminibusque deorsiim reflexum. Willd. sp. 
ple 3. 936, 
Div. Inermes. 
G, canariensis, foliis ternatis oblongis subtis pubescentibus pilis patulis, 
pedunculis multifloris terminalibus, ramis angulatis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 
936, 
Genista canariensis. Linn. sp. pl. 2.997. Hort. Kew. 3. 13. ed. 2. 4. 258. 
Schulte obs. bot. 145. 
Cytisus I. Clus. hist. 1. 94. 
Frutex nunc orgyalis, villoso-canescens, ramosus, foliosus, ramis striato- 
angulosis. Folia numerosa, undique sparsa, ternata, foliolis % uncie@ longis 
oblongo-obovatis, mucronatis, firmulis, utrinque villosis. Flores lutet, fra- 
grantes, in ramis paniculatim digesti ; pedunculi albidi, villosi, filiformes, 
graciles, angulares, plures, axillares, infra flores diminuto-foliati, racemo 
subcorymboso plurifloro terminati; pedicelli breviores calyce, bracteolis 2 
linearibus hirsutis stipati. Cal. parvus, albo-villosus, tubulosus, bilabiato- 
Jissus, labium superius bifidum lobulis subulatis distantibus, inferius por- 
rectum trifidum lobulis linearibus. Corolle vexillum reflecum, oblongum ; 
ale lineares, anguste, vexillum carinamque cequantes; Carina pallida, 
villosa, dipelata, porrecta, petalis lineari-oblongis sublatiortbus alis, apice 
rotundatis, superné versis obliquatis, bast supra ungues gibbosis. Stam. 
monadelpha. Stylus setaceus, superné ascendens, glaber: stigma obtusum, 
compressum: germen lineare, virens, sericeum. 
A species native of Spain and of the Canaries; and a 
long standing inhabitant of our greenhouses. ‘The present 
plant corresponds with that which has been delineated by 
Clusius as the Spanish one; the specimen from the Canaries, 
deposited by Mr. Masson in the Banksian Herbarium, has 
a larger foliage and blossom, and a ferruginous pubescence, 
but agrees in all other respects. The species comes very close 
to the hardier Montpellier Cytisus (Grenista candicans) so 
frequent in our shrubberies, and which becomes in dry sandy 
soils spontaneous. It is seldom permitted to attain the full 
size, but is renewed frequently, the young plants being more 
compact and sightly, as well as better suited to the green- 
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