il P L A T E CCCXIX.
V I C I A GALEGIFOLIA.
Goafs-Riie-leaved Vetch.
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
O R D E R IV.
Chives in two sets. Ten Chives.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX. Perlanthiura tiionophylluni, tubulamm,
ereñum, femi-quinquefidura, a culum; dentibus
fuperioribns brevioribas, coniiiventibus;
oinuibus sequalis latitudiiiis.
COROLLA papillionacea.
VexiUum ovale, ungue lato oblongo, apice emarginatum
cura acumine, lateribus reflexuin,
linea longitudinali comprefla elevata.
Alce duíE, oblongae, ereñae, leraicordatae,
ungue oblongo, vexillo breviores.
Cariìia nngue oblongo bipartito, ventriculo
compreiro, lemiorbiculato, alis breviore.
STAMINA. Filamenta diadelphia (fimplex et novemfidum).
Antherae erectae, fubrotundae,
quadrilblcEe.
Neclarii gianduia; intra ñamen compofitum
et geniien e receptáculo oritur, brevís, acuminata.
PisTiLLUM. Gernien lineare, compreffum, longura.
Stylus iiliforrais. brevior, ad angulum
ereftucn adfcendens. Stigma obtufum,
fub apice traniverfe barbatum.
P E K I C A R P I U M . Legumen lorgum, coriaceuro,
uniloculare, bivalve, acumine terminatum.
SEMIN A plura, fubrotunda.
S P E C I F I C
Vicia pedunculis multifloris eretìis : floribus
ftriatis; foliolis ovalibus, fubtruncatis, reflexis.
EMPALE.MENT. Cup one-leaf, tubular, upright,
lialf live-cleft iliarp; the upper teeth the
ihorteft, approaching; all the teeth of equal
breadth.
BLOSSOM baiteifly-lliaped.
Stajidard oval, with a broad oblong claw,
notched at the top, with a point in the
middle, fides reflexed, comprefled and raifcd
in a line running lengtliways.
IFings two, oblong, ereft, half-heart ftiaped,
with an oblong claw, ihorter than the
fiandard.
Keel, with an oblong two-parted claw, the
hollow part compreffed like a half circle
fliorter than the wings.
CHIVES. Threads in two lets, (one alone, the
other nine-clef[.) Tips upright, roundilh
four-furrowed.
Honey-czip, gland arifing from the recep.
tacle between the united threads and the
feed-bud; fliort and tapered.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud linear, compreffed and
long. Shaft thread-iliaped, Ihoi ter, turned
upwards from an angle. Summit blunt»
bearded tranfverfely on the upper part at
the end.
SEED-^VESSEL. Pod long, tough, one-celled,, twovalved
terminated by a point.
SEEDS many, rather round.
CHARACTER.
Vetch with many-flowered, upright fruit-flalksj
flowers Itreaked; leaflets oval, rather appearing
cut off at the points, reflexed.
EEPERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Cup.
2. The Standard, or upper Petal of the Flower, fliewn in front.
3. The fame, fliewn from the back-fide.
4. One of the Wings of the Bloffom.
5. The Keel of the fame.
6. The Chives, natural fize.
7. The Pointal, natural flze.
8. The Chives, magnified, fhewn from the front fide.
O. A half-ripe Pod.
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T H I S pretty plant is a native of New Holland, and was firfl received in feeds from thence under the
name of Indigofera coccinea, in the year 1800, by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith. It grows
into a bufhy plant, making a number of branches from the root, but is rather a woody than herbaceous
plant'; yet the branches have all the charafler of moft of the fpecies of this genus. It has not
as yet been increafed by cuttings, but from every appearance the feeds will ripen in this country; and
there is little doubt but the roots may be divided with fafety. It flourillies in a mixture of fandy peat
and loam. Our figure was taken from a plant in the Colledion of Meffrs. Colvilles, King's Road,
Chelfea; where it has likewife flowered this prefent Auguft, 1803.
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