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broadest. Flowers pink, tinged with blue. Vexillum broadly
obovate or obcordate, striated with numerous darker veins,
which are more or less branched. Wings obovate or broadly
spathulate. with a slender unguis on one side at the base,
and a short blunt ear on the other. Keel shorter than the
wings, inflated, with 2 short ears, one on each side, the
unguis bifid at the base. Stamens 10, diadelphous, 9 joined
in a tube, but distinct at the points; the other distinct.
Ovarium smooth, containing 3 ovula. Style ascending,
smooth about half way up, the upper part villous. Stigma
slightly dilated. Pod ovate, flat, 1 to 3-seeded, two winged
at die back and front, back wings broadest and undulate.
Seeds chestnut-coloured, nearly round, slightly flattened on
each side.
Our drawing of this singular plant, was made last Summer
from living specimens, kindly sent to us by A. B. Lambert,
Esq., in whose garden at Boyton they flowered and
ripened their seeds; Mr. Lambert informs us, that the plant
from which our drawing was made, was raised the preceding
Autumn, and had continued to grow in the open bor-
der'all through the Winter, but was protected a little in severe
frost; by this management it flowered earlier, and its
flowers and pods under the ground were also produced;
but we believe, if sown early in Spring, it might answer
nearly as well; February we should consider a very proper
time to sow it; and as the plants grow they should be
earthed up a little, that they may be able to produce their
flowering shoots under ground. I t is a native of Syria, and
a very pretty annual plant, producing its flowers in succession
a great part of the Summer; it only requires to be
sown in the open borders of the Flower Garden, in light
soil.
r. Flowers from the roots. 2. The fungus like tubercles from the roots.
the roots. 11. One of those from the branch. 12. The same open, to show the
three seeils.