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LUPINUS • macrophyllus.
Large-leaved Lupine.
Linnean Class and Order. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSiE. Juss. gen. p. 345.
LUPINUS. Supràfol. 12.
L. macrophyllus, perennis, hirsutus; foliolis numerosis (12-15) lanceolatis
acutis, verticillis multifloris contiguis, calycibus ebracteolatis pedicellos ex-
cedentibus : labiis integris ; inferiore lanceolato acuto duplò longiore.
Lupinus macrophyllus. Benth. MSS.
A tall, robust, perennial herb, the whole clothed with
copious pubescence. Stem 3 or 4 feet high, straight, cylindrical,
striated and stained with purple towards the top.
Leaves on long nearly filiform foot-stalks, and consisting of 12
or 15 lanceolate, acute, hairy leaflets, attenuated towards the
base, and varying from one to four inches in length; those
of the radical ones longer and broader. Petioles from a span
to a foot long, slightly dilated at the base. Stipules lanceolate,
acute, hairy. Racemes terminal, a foot long, composed
of numerous crowded verticils. Flowers from 10 to 15 in
each whorl. Pedicels cylindrical, purple, shorter than the
calyx. Calyx ebracteolate, bilabiate; lips entire ; the lower
one about twice as long as the upper, lanceolate, acute.
Corolla blueish purple ; vexillum rounded, mucronulate, the
sides folded back; wings cordate-oblong, connivent; keel
consisting of two petals cohering together, white and furnished
with a lobe at the base, the apex acuminate, incurved,
and of a darker purple. Stamens 10, monadelphous. Filaments
white, glabrous. Anthers orange, those of the five II