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Spiked^owered Psoralea.
C L A S S XVII. ORDER IV.
DIADELPHM DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods, Ten Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX longitudine Jeguminis, Stamina diadelpha.
Legumen nionospernium subrostratum
evalve.
EMPALEMENT the length of the pod. Chives
diadelphous. Pod one-seeded roundish
and valveless.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER, &C.
PsORALEA^ foliolis obovatis recurvato-mucronatis
subtus punctatis, spica terminali
oblonga. Wìlld. Sp. Pl. 3. 1345.
PsosALEA^ with leaflets inversely egg-shaped,
recurvedly mucronated and dotted beneath,
and an oblong terminal spike of flowers.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1 The empalement.
2. A standard.
3. One of the wings.
4. The keel.
5. The chives and pointai.
6. The seed-bud and pointai.
THE spiked-flowered Psoralea is a shrubby plant, and rises to the height of a foot or two ; producing
its spikes of flowers in the montlis of July and August, at the ends of its branches. It is a native of
tlie Cape of Good Hope, and in this country is found to succeed very well in any green-house which
has a flue to keep out the frost: and is propagated by seeds, and also by cuttings if carefully managed.
Although not a very newly-introduced plant, it is certainly not a frequent one in our gardens; indeed
we do not recollect having ever seen it in any collection, except the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley and
Brames, Old Brompton ; where our drawing was made some time since ; and where it was considered
and treated as a new species : which, however, as appears by our synonym above given, is not the case.
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