Amicia
(commemorative of J. B. Amici, a celebrated French physician). ORD. Leguminosae. A pretty, greenhouse or half-hardy perennial, succeeding in any warm, sheltered spot. Young cuttings will root in sand, under a hand glass, in heat.
A. Zygomeris (two-jointed-podded).* fl. yellow, splashed with purple on the keel; peduncles axillary, five or six-flowered. Autumn. Legumes with two joints. l. abruptly pinnate, with two pairs of cuneate-obcordate, mucronate leaflets, which are full of pellucid dots; branches and petioles pubescent. h. 8ft. Mexico, 1826.