The essential marks of the present genus, ar6 ; a shoii; 

 ventricose pod or silicle, a broad flat oblong style, condu- 

 plicate seed-lobes and a close calyx. It consists as yet only 

 of three species, all native of Europe. The present belong 

 to Spain, and is not often met with in our collections, 

 though cultivated by Miller in 1759, Usually preserved in 

 a pit or jframe. 



An upright suffrutescent plant from two to three feet 

 high, very much branched, with a short hardish haired fur, 

 and pale brown ripd. Leaves loosely scattered, generally 

 widi two smaller ones in their axils, giving the appearance 

 of their being temate and sessile, like those of Cytisus 

 sessilifolius ^ whence we are told the specific name was sug- 

 gested, thickish hard and fleshy, spatulate with an elliptical 

 or^n obovate bWe, roughly fuiTed with the pubescence in- 

 clined forwards, ciliate. Racemes terminal, manyflowered, 

 loosely and scatt^redly disposed^ oblong, cylindrical, up-, 

 right, spreading, simple. Pedicles one-flowered, very short, 

 bi'acteless. Flowers yellow, ascendent, before they decay 

 generally turning to brownish purple below the blade o^ 

 the petals, odorous, f of an inch long. Cah/x §^ of an inch 

 long, roughly furred, tubular, leaflets cohering slightly 

 by their membranous edges, oblong, obtuse. Petals ob- 

 cordately spatulate; unguis filiform, nearly 3 times longer 

 than the lamina, convolute above the calyx ; lamina of one 

 colour, veiny, small, ob cordate. Stamens all fertile (not 

 with the two connate pairs antherless, as described by Lin- 

 nsetis), coming above the calyx: anthers recurved at the 

 top. Germen ova}, smooth, compressed, ^ncipital, sub- 

 sessile: sti/le laminar, oblong, in a cross direction with the 

 germen, nearly of the same dimensions, flatly ancipitaJ, 

 palely green, headed by a small round somewhat bilobed 

 frosted deep green stigfnq. 



The drawing was taken in May, at the nursery of 

 Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, Fulh^m. 



