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P L A T E DCXXXIL
C Y T I S U S ELONGATUS.
'Elongated Cytisus.
CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.
DIADELP EI A DE CANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Stamens.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX sub-bUabiatus. Stigma simplex. Legameli
oblongum, compressum, polysper-
CUP sub-bilabiate. Stigma simple. Pod oblong,
compressed, many-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Cytisus flovibuspedunculatis, lateralibus, subquaternis;
caule erecto: ramis elongatis;
calycibus tubulosis ; foliolis obovatis.—
midst, et Kit. Hung. v. 2. p. 200. /. 1S3.
CYTISUS with lateral flowers, commonly by fours,
on footstallis; ,the stem erect; branches
elongated; cups tabular, and leaflets inversely
egg-shaped.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. Empalement.
2. The vexillum.
3. One of the alae.
4. The carina.
5. The chives.
6. The same spread open.
7. Seed-bud and pointal.
THIS ornamental species of Cytisus was discovered by Francis Count Waldstein and Dr. Kitaibel, m the
county of Bereghi and the Banatian forests in the eastern parts of Hungary, during their botanical excursions
in that before nearly uninvestigated region, and published in their Figures and Descriptions of
the rare Plants of Hungary, above quoted, at Vienna in 1802. The plant was introduced to this
country by Mr. Donn of Cambridge in 1S08, and from fine flowering specimens which he communicated
last May the present drawing was taken. The common height of the plant is said to be from
three to five feet, and the thickness of the stem about an inch. It is perfectly hardy, and has not as
yet been enumerated in any catalogue of plants cultivated in this country.
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