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P L A T E DXXV.
P O D A L Y R I A HIRSUTA.
Hairy Podahjrìa,
CLASS X. ORDER L
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX sub-bilabiatus, quinquefidus. Corolla
papilionacea. Aloe vexilli longitudine, Legumen
ventricosum, polyspermum.
EMPALEMENT nearly bilabiate, fivc-cleft, Blossom
butterfly-shaped. Wings the length
of the standard. Pod ventricose, and manyseeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
PoDALYRiA foliis simplicibus, hirsutis, ovatis
vel oblongis : corollis magnis, purpuréis,
plerumque simplicibus : pedunculis longis :
ramis teretibus, pilosis.
PODALYKIA with Simple, hairy leaves, ovate or
oblong. Blossoms large and purple, mostly
single. Footstalks long. Branches round
and hairy.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. The standard.
3. One of the wings.
4. The keel.
5. Chives and pointal.
6. The chives spread open.
7- Seed-bud and pointal.
PoDALYRiA is a section of the genus Sophora, separated from it by Lamarck, and named after the son
of ^sculapius, the celebrated physician who accompanied the Grecians in their fampus expedition
against Troy.
This species, we have little doubt, is the P. hirsuta (an unfigured species) enumerated by Willdenow,
although by some it is thought to be distinct from it, on account of the leaves being somewhat longer]
and the flowers of a finer colour; differences, we think, accounted for in the latitude of growth resulting
from varied modes of culture.
Our drawing was made from a plant raised from Cape seed, by Messrs. Whitley and Brames in the
year 1806,
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