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LUPINUS bimaculatus.
Twin-spotted Lupine.
Linnean Class and Order. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSAL. Juss. gen. p. 34j.
l u p i n u s . Supràfol. 12.
L. bimaculatus, perennis, procu.nbens; foliolis 5 oblongo-spatliuUtls, calycibus
appcndiculatis; labio superiore bipartito ; inferiore indiviso acuto longioie,
leguiiiinibus teretibus tomentosis sub-5-spcnuis.
Lupinus bimaculatus. Hooker Mss.
Root perennial. Stems procumbent, branched, solid, cylindrical,
clothed with adpressed silky hairs, about a loot long.
Leaves stalked, ciuinatc; leaflets oblong-spathulate, mucronulate,
slightly couduplicate, silky beneath, ghdiroiis and pale
o rceu above, an inch and a half long. Petioles an inch or an
iiich and a half long, nearly cylindrical, thickened at the base.
Stipules linear, acute, silky. terminal, solitary,
stalked, many-flowcred, ovate or ovate-ohloiig, 2 or 3 inches
lono- Peduncles 2 or 3 inches long, cylindrical sdky.
Uhaclm slightly angular. Pedicels about 4 lines long, fildomi,
silky. Bractes lanceolate, acute, silky, membranous, caducous.
Calyx silkv, about as long as the pedicels, appendiculale
upper lip cloven, with 2, ovate, acute, slightly coloured
seoirieiits; lower one twice longer, ovate-lanceolate, acute,
enftre, keeled, Vexillum orbicular, slightly emarginate, blue,
marked in the centre with a large pale yellow spot which
afterwards changes to a dull red. Wings obovate, ventricose
blue, enclosing the keel, whicli is glabrous and white, and
split below, with a dark blue, elongated pointed, incurved
apex Stamens 10, nioiiadcl])hoiis. Filaments awl-sbaped,
white, glabrous, 5 shorter with linear anthers, and 5 longer
with rounded anthers. Style slender, glabrous, bligma terlit/.