YQ 968 
PSORALEA pubescens. 
hay Downy Psoralea. i 
DIADELPHIA DE CAN. sept A. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosx. Tribus II, Lotex Dec. Piss 
PSORALEA L.—Sepala 5 ad medium concreta in calycem 5-fidum 
Persistentem, tubo seepids glanduloso, lobis acuminatis infimo pauld produc- 
tore. . Stamina 10 sepits diadelpha, decimo interdim basi cum ceeteris 
connexo, Legumen calycis longitudine eyalye monospermum interdim in 
Tostro desinens, Frutices aut Herbee tuberculis glandulosis sepuis verru- 
cos@. Folia varia, stipulis petiolo bast adnatis. Flores dispositione varit, 
ceruler, albi, v. purpurascentes. Dec. prodr. 2.216. 
Somer eine eal inant essa ee ih Silda Denn itl Sealed 
P. pubescens ; foliis ternatis, foliolis ovato-oblongis pubescentibus, spicis in- 
_ ferruptis pedunculatis axillaribus folio brevioribus, ramis petiolisque vil- . 
losis. Willd. enum. 2.788. : Bee S rae 
t pubescens. Balbis in Pers. syn. 2.347, Link enum, 2.258. “ Poir. 
dict. 5. 686—suppl. 4.-590.” sec. Dec. prodr.1.220. 
-frutescens, « Poir, dict.?” sec, D. C. 
Caulis tere 
S, pube densd, incanus. Fol 
Petiolo communi vi 
nodis villosis eg 
ulringque puncticu 
ia longée petiolata, patentia; 
Uoso demim glabro, glandulis parvis resinosis intermixtis ? 
landulosis. Foliola _ subequalia, ovato-oblonga, obtusa, 
ante lata, pubescentia, ad venas villosa. ; Spice in axillis folio- 
Superrorum, foliis breviores, pilis albis villosissim:. Bractece obovate, — 
pl aati, extis villosissime, calyce paulo breviores. Calyx villosus sericeus, 
orolla amoené cerulea, calyce pauld longior. Be 
This beautiful 
the neighbourhood 
communicated its gs 
species of Psoralea was discovered in 
of Lima, by the late Mr. Cowan, who 
eeds to his friends in England. The 
Plant from which our drawing was made was raised by 
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., to whom we are indebted 
lor the pportunity of examining specimens from his Her- 
aes fae are not acquainted with the plant in a living 
P we have no hesitation in referring this species to the 
+ pu , 
escens of Balbis, who long ago raised it in the garden 
