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* LUPINUS arboreus. 



Tree Impine. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Fabaceje or LEGUMiNOSiB, § Papilionace-e 

 LUPINUS. Bot. Reg. vol. l3.foL 1096. 



L. arboreus; caule sufFrutescente decumbente nitldo subglabro, follolis 7-9 

 lineari-obovatis acuminatis Ipngltudine petioli, stipuUs subfalcatis, racemo 

 elongato laxifloro, floribus subverticillatis flaris, caljcis profundi bilabiati 

 ebracteolati labiis subintegris. Agardh. synops. lupin. 25. no. 42. 



L. arboreus. Bot. mag. t. 682. DC. prodr. 2. 409. 



One of the first of the Tree Lupines raised in this country, 

 and if well grown one of the finest. It grows eight or nine 

 feet high, and forms a stout woody stem, which will live over 

 mild winters, and becomes the second year a very beautiful 



object. 



There are many varieties in the gardens, one of the pret- 

 tiest of which is that now figured from a seedling plant 

 raised by the Earl of Mountnorris at Arley Hall. It pro- 

 duces a great profusion of clear pale yellow flowers arranged 

 in upright whorled racemes. 



This species is said in books to be a native of South 

 America, I know not upon what authority. It is probably a 

 mistake, for Mr. Douglas found it in California, and the seeds 

 from which Lord Mountnorris's plants were raised were 

 obtained from the same country. 



A tolerably hardy shrub, but not sufiiciently so to endure 

 the past severe winter, as all the plants in the gardens near 

 London are killed even against a south wall, where they had 



* See Bot. Reg. vol. 14. fol. 1 198. 







