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TEMPLETONIA glauca. 
Glaucous Templetonia. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PAPILIONACEX. R. Brown in Flinders’ appendix. 2. 551. 
TEMPLETONIA. Supra vol. 5. 383. 
T. glauca, foliis glaucis, bracteis duabus calyci approximatis, staminibus dia- 
delphis. Bot. mag. 2088. Link enum, 2. 227. 
We have had no opportunity of describing this plant, 
our drawing of which was made in the greenhouse of the 
Comte de Vandes, at Bayswater, in July. It is a hardy 
greenhouse plant, scarcely differing in any essential parti- 
cular from Templetonia retusa ; from which, however, it is 
obviously distinguished by the glaucous colour of its leaves. 
A native of the southern parts of New Holland, whence 
it was introduced to the gardens of this country about the 
year 1817. 
The world is looking with anxiety to the appearance of 
the next volume of M. Decandolle’s Prodromus, of which 
Leguminosz are understood to form a principal portion ; 
and where we hope to find the excellent principles respect- 
ing the arrangement of that order, or cluster of orders, 
laid down by Mr. Brown, in his Appendix to Flinders 
Voyage, applied with the usual discrimination and talent 
of our excellent friend. M. Decandolle has long made 
these plants his particular study, and, except the New 
Holland portion, they are perhaps more open to correction 
and improvement in classification thaa any other large na- 
tural order. 
* The Papilionaceze," Mr. Brown observes, “ comprehend 
about three fourths of the whole of Leguminos at present 
known, and include nearly the same proportion of Austra- 
lian Leguminose. They admit subdivision into several na- 
tural sections, but in New Holland may be divided almost 
equally, and, without violence to natural affinities, into 
those with connected and those with distinct stamina. Of 
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