SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Psoralea pinnata, foliis patentibus apice acutis, recurvatis: floribus axillaribus, pedunculis longis.
Psoralea with winged leaves, spreading, sharp-pointed, and recurved. The flowers grow from the axillæ of the leaves upon long footstalks.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. The standard of the blossom.
3. One of the wings.
4. One of the same shown from the inside.
5. The chives.
6. The seed-bud and pointal.
The Psoralea pinnata is a very ornamental plant for the conservatory, and certainly deserves a coloured representation. At present there are only two uncoloured engravings of it extant: one in the Flora tetrapetala Rivinus, No. 5.; the other in Hermann’s Hortus Lugdunensis, tab. 273. The Psoraleas are a well marked natural genus, and appear much more characteristic of each other than many of the Papilonaceous genera.
Our drawing was made from a fine specimen received from the collection of the Hon. W. Irby.[Pg 85]
