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PODALYRIA. buxifolia. 
Box-leaved Podalyria. 
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DECANDRIA AJONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOS&. i 
PODALYRIA, L. Cal. 5-fidus, ineequalis, basi intrusa. Corolla 
papilionacea, vewxillo majore. Stamina persistentia, basi connata. Legumen 
veutricosum, polyspermum. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2d. 3.6. 
nn,” 
P. buxifolia, foliis simplicibus ovalibus supra glabris subtus sericeis, pe- 
dunculis unifloris, calycibus basi intrusis tomentosis coloratis, Willd. sp. 
pl. 2, 505. : i; 2 ; 
Senses buxifolia, Retz. obs. 1. p. 35. 0 
Sophora pedunculata. Thunb. prodr.'79. 
Podalyria, No.4. Lam. ill. t. 327. 
Podalyria pedunculata. Pers. syn. 1, 453. " 
Suffrutex, ramis teretibus sericeis. Folia ovalia, plana, mucronulata, 
supra glabra, subtus sericea ; infra-axillaria majora. Flores magni, purpurei, 
longé pedunculati, pedunculo sericeo, versus apicem articulato. Calyx 
campanulatus, bilabiatus, sericeus, labio superiore bilobo, inferiore 3-partito: 
laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, alis brevioribus. Vexillum explanatum, obcorda- 
tum. Al oblonge, dimidiate, unguiculate, subpatentes, cum carina vexillo 
multo breviores. Stamina ascendentia, persistentia, inclusa, 3 superiora 
libera, '7 inferiora in phalange und semiconnata; stamen supremum stigmati 
applicitum, styli longitudine, inferiora stylo breviora. Ovarium villosum, 
polyspermum, Stylus glaber. Stigma simplicissimum. 
This species of Podalyria is nearly related to P. myrtil- 
lifolia ; from which, however, it is constantly distinguish- 
able, by the much greater length of its peduncle, and b 
the upper surface of its leaves being entirely destitute of 
pubescence. ‘To these distinctions may be added, the greater 
size of the flowers of this species, and the villous, not closely 
pubescent, surface of its calyx. 
A pretty greenhouse plant, said to have been introduced 
from the Cape of Good Hope, in 1790; but not noticed in 
the last edition of Hortus Kewensis. Our drawing was 
made at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery last July. 
An undershrub with round silky branches. Leaves oval, 
flat, with a little mucro, smooth aboye, silky beneath; 
those below the branchlets larger than the rest. Flowers 
large, purple, on long stalks 3 their stalk silky, jointed to- 
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