HOAREA hedysarifolia.
Hedysarum-leaved Hoarea.
H. hedysarifolia, acaulis, foliis simplicibus ovatrs pinna-
tifidis pinnatisve: foliolis segmentisque oblongo-ellip-
ticis integris 2-3-lobis hirsuto-canescentibus,. stipulis
acuminatis, scapo diviso, umbellis multifloris, petalis
angustis longe unguiculatis patentibus, tubo nectarifero
calyce reflexo duplo longiore.
Hoarea hedysarifolia. Swt. hort. brit. p. 76. n. 63.
Root tuberous, branching out into other small tubers. Leaves crowning the root, thickly clothed with a hairy canescence;
lower ones simple, entire, ovate, others pinna-
tifid or pinnate; leaflets and segments oblong, elliptical or
sometimes lanceolate, entire, 2-cleft or 3-lobed, opposite
and alternate, the terminal one largest, all clothed with a
dense hairy canescence, but not toothed. Petioles flattened
on the upper side and convex on the lower, thickly
clothed with a short canescence, and longer hairs intermixed.
Stipules narrowly lanceolate or linear, taper-
pointed, and joined some way up to the petioles. Scape
branching, and producing several umbels of flowers, clothed
with a short white pubescence, and longer hairs intermixed. Peduncles stout, cylindrical, producing a many-flowered
umbel. Involucre of numerous linear, acute, hairy, bristle-
pointed bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, acute,
hairy, fringed, and the points tipped with bristle-like white
hairs; upper segment rather the largest, erect, the others
all reflexed. Nectariferous tube more than twice the
length of the calyx, sessile or nearly so, a little flattened
on each side. Petals 5, spreading, very long and narrow
with a long unguis, two upper ones broadest, spathulate,
recurved from above the middle, of a purplish crimson,