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A S P A L A T H U S G L O B O S U S.
Roimd^owering Aspaîathus.
CLASS XVIL ORDER IV.
DUDELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads in two Sets. Ten Chivee.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER
CALYX quinquefidus. Corolla papiHonacea.
Legnmen ovatum, inaristatura, sub-disperniLim.
EMPALEMENT five-cleft. Blossom butterfly,
shaped. Pod egg-shaped^ beardless, nearly
two-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
AÍPALATHUS foliis ramos vestientibus, linearibus,
tomentosis : floribus terminalibuSj
in capitulo rotundato villoso confertis :
eoroUis fuscis : rarais longis, gracilibus.
ASPALATHUS with leaves clothing the branches,
linear, and downy: flowers terminal, crowded
together in a round woolly head : blossom
brown : branches long and slender.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower.
2. The empalement spread open.
3 . The standard.
4. One of the wings.
5. The keel.
6. The chives.
7 . The same magnified.
8. Seed-bud and pointal.
9. The same magnified.
THIS nondescript species of Aspalathus we have not seen in any collection but that of G. Hibbert, esq,
where in the summer of 1801 it was in fine bloom, full three feet high, and its long pendulous
branches gave it a very graceful appearance. Its compact globular heads of flowers remained a considerable
time in perfection ; but the close soft hair with which they were surrounded, indicated a delicacy
of habit too susceptible of the damps which have since destroyed the plant, and we believe it is
for the present lost to this country.
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