Barbieria
(in honour of J. B. G. Barbier, M.D., a French physician and naturalist, author of "Principes Generaux de Pharmacologie ou de Matiere Medicale," Paris, 1806). ORD. Leguminosae. An ornamental stove evergreen, requiring a mixture of peat, loam, and sand. Propagated by cuttings of half-ripened wood, which should be placed in sand, under a glass, in stove heat.
B. polyphylla (many-leaved).* fl. scarlet, 2in. long; racemes axillary, few-flowered, shorter than the leaves. l. impari-pinnate, with nine to eleven pairs of elliptic-oblong, mucronate leaflets, pubescent in an adult state. Porto Rico, 1818. SYNS. Clitoria polyphylla and Galactia pinnata.