Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

TAB. 6522.
LATHYRUS ROTUNDIFOLIUS.
Native of South Russia and Asia Minor.
Nat. Ord. LEGUMINOSEN.•Tribe VICIEN.
Genus LATHYBTTS, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. i. p. 520.)
LATHYRTTS rotundifolius ; glaberrimus, caule elato late alato ramoso, foliis 1-jugis,
foliolis elliptico- v. obovato-rotundatis 3-5-nerviis obtusis subacutisve apiculatis,
stipulis semisagittatis oblongis lanceolatisve acutis petiolum vix a;quantibus,
pedunculis folio sublongioribus, racemis 6-7-floris, calycis lobis triangularibus
acutis tubo brevioribus, corolla rosea, legumine longe lineari subincurvo paulo
compresso basi subattenuato dorso carinato, seminibus oblongis reticulatis.
L. rotundifolius, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. iii. p. 1088 ; Bieberst. Ft. Taur. Cauc. vol. ii.
p. 156*; Cent. Plant. Bar. Boss. vol. i. t. 22 ; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 370;
Boiss. ÏÏ. Orient, vol. ii. p. 612.
L. miniatus, Stev. Verz. Taur. p. 140.
L. peduncularis, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. vol. ii. p. 775.
This very beautiful plant has been long cultivated iti
England, though when and how introduced is not certain.
It is not described in Aiton's Hortus Kewensis, nor, up to
this time, cultivated at Kew ; it is not included in Mamaout
and Decaisne's " Flore Elémentaire des Jardins et des
Champs," which is the fullest work of the kind known to
me, nor do I find it in the more accessible works devoted
to English out-of-door gardening ; yet I observed it last
summer growing in the gardener's cottage at Lytchett, and
it probably occurs elsewhere, though overlooked as too like
an Everlasting Pea to be worth notice. Nevertheless it is
one of the most charming plants of its kind, perfectly
hardy, a free flowerer, and for the brilliancy and delicacy
of its rose-coloured flowers, it ought to be a favourite.
Like its near ally, the Everlasting Pea, it is scentless.
A variety of this plant, L.rotundifolius,var.t ¡n>*, which
is figured in the Botanical Register, tab. 333, is a very
inferior plant, with much smaller and darker-coloured, more
OCTOBEB 1ST, 1880.