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TAB. 4195.

GENISTA (TELINE) SPACHIANA. Mr. Spach's Genista.

Nat. Ord. LEGUMINOSE.-DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Generic Character Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore bipartito, inferiore 5-dentato, aut

5-lobus, lobis 3 infer. ad apicem fere coalitis. Vexillum oblongo-ovale. Carina oblonga recta genitalia non omnino continens. Stamina monadelpha. Legumen plano-compressum aut rarius subturgidum, polyspermum, rarius oligospermum, eglandulosum.-Frutices floribus flavis. De Cand. GENISTA (Teline) Spachiana; ramis striatis nodosulis pilis ascendentibus pube- rulis, sterilibus apice obtusè mucronatis, floralibus pendulis; foliis omnibus 3-foliatis, foliolis ellipticis lanceolatisque, acuminatis, subtus præcipuè se- riceo-hirtis, nervo medio crasso, mox supra fusco-virentibus, stipulis brevis- simis angustè lineari-lanceolatis; spica terminali ovata, bracteolis linearibus tubo calycino brevioribus, labio inferiore longius 3-dentato dentibus linea- ribus labium superius excedentibus, vexillo rotundato profundè emarginato, medio ad apicem subpubescente, alis latis apice rotundatis glabellis, carina oblonga hirta alis subbreviore; stigmate antrorsum (versus axim) declivi, legumine hirsutissimo seminum caruncula flavicante. P. B. Webb. Thrifty Whiskers tent to class them under numerous subgenera. If therefore neither Salzwedelia, nor Voglera, nor any other divisions can be admitted as genera, the group of Teline, the types of which are G. candicans and G. Canariensis (the latter considered to be a genus by Moench and in the Phytographia Canariensis') must subside likewise into a sub-genus, though geographically most distinct, occupying almost exclusively the south-western extremity of the Old World. Nine Telines were described in the Phytographia Canariensis;' to these must be added the Spartium virgatum of Madeira; the present species; and another, the seeds of which were sent with it from Teneriffe, and which has flowered in Mr. Young's garden G. (Teline) discolor, nob.; with a fourth yet unnamed from the mountains about Tetuan; in all thirteen species, of which eight are peculiar to the Canaries, two to Madeira, and three to the western shores of the Mediterranean region. s about The G. (Teline) Spachiana, indigenous to the high mountains of the N.W. of Teneriffe, will probably prove hardy in the cli- mate of England. It existed for several years at Paris in the open ground, and was only destroyed by the cold of the late severe winter.-P. B. Webb. This is a pleasing addition to the many-flowered and sweet- scented group of Canarian Geniste which in early spring en- liven the conservatory and greenhouse. Though a native of the Canaries, the present species was not taken up in the 'Phytogra- phia Canariensis' forming part of the Hist. Nat. des Iles Canaries,' the author of that portion of the work not being able to decide on the specific value of the plant, owing to the incomplete specimens in fruit, but without flowers, which alone existed in his herbarium. It has now flowered from seeds sent by him formerly to Europe, both at Mr. Young's nursery at Milford near Godalming and at the Jardin du Roi at Paris. It has been named in honour of Mr. Edward Spach, assistant-naturalist in the latter establishment, whose learning and acute observation have so much advanced the "amiable science." M. Spach, in his elaborate revision of the Genista just pub- lished in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, has not discovered any character sufficiently marked to enable him to break up this exten- sive group into new and convenient genera. He has been con- NOVEMBER 1ST, 1845. Q -119 un botovost too f A o ni Dodail 1990 Jusiu