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_GALEGA orientalis. 
Oriental Galega. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. VI. 
_ GALEGA. Cal. tubulosus 5-dentatus dentibus subulatis subeequalibus, 
Legumen oblongum rectum subcompressum, polyspermum ad singula semina 
seepé nodosum, inter eadem obliqué striatum aut transversim sulcatum, 
Frutices aut seepius herbe, quedam tinctorie ; stipule a petiolo distincte 3 
Jlores spicati axillares et terminales. Jussieu loc. cit. 359. 
Div. Foliis pinnatis. 
G. orientalis, foliis pinnatis, foliolis ovatis acuminatis glabris, stipulis ovatis, 
floribus cernuis. Willd. sp. pl. 8. 1241. 
Galega orientalis. Lamarck encyc. 2. 589. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 355. 
Marsch. Bieb. taur. cauc. 2. 182. 4 
Galega orientalis latifolia, altissima, flore cexruleo. Tournef. cor. 273 
cujus specimen archetypum in Herb. Banks. videndum est. ; 
Herba perennis. -Caulis 4-pedalis, erectus, flexuosus, foliosus: rami 
Jistulosi, teretes, villost, striatuli, ascendentes. Fol. impari-pinnata, ampla, 
sub5juga, sessilia, subtis et ad petiolum communem villosa, supra glabra, 
ciliolata, venosa, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis, subsessilibus, duplo fere longiori= 
bus intervallis, longitudine nunc biunciali latitudine subunciali, acuminatissi- 
mis, nervis laterum ascendentibus, ramosis. Stipule gemine, magne, ovate, 
brevitts subacute, integre subsemiamplexicaules, nervosee, subtis villose, su- 
pra glabre. Racemi longi, laaits multiflori, erecti, terminales et azillaress 
floribus cernuis; pedunculo capitato-villoso; pedicellis flexilibus, gracillimis, 
brevioribus corolla, longioribus calyce, Bractew anguste, lineares, acute, 
capitato-villose, longitudine feré pedicellorum, erecta. Cal. capitato-villosus, 
duplo brevior corolla v. ultra, Stigma parvulum, capitellatum. Legumina 
cernud. 
This species was first recorded by Tournefort, by whom 
it was observed during his travels in the Levant, where it is 
“native. It was afterwards described from the specimen of 
that naturalist by the Chevalier de Lamarck, in his excellent 
Encyclopédie Botanique, and thence transferred by Willde- 
now into his edition of the Species Plantarum. A sample 
gathered by Tournefort, and which formed a part of his 
Herbarium, is now deposited in that of Sir Joseph Banks, 
by whom the plant was introduced into this country in 
1801. It may be easily known from officinalis, by the 
greater size of its foliage and stipules, and by its nodding 
flowers and pendulous pods. The leaves remind us of those 
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