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BOSSI^A paucifolia. 

 Few leaved Bossicea. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. LEGUMiNOSiE. 



BOSSIjEA. Botanical Register, vol. 1841. fol. 55. 



B. paucifolia; glabra, inermis, ramis compressis alatis, foliis paucis obovatis 

 oblongis linearibusve, pedicellis folio brevioribiis, legumine glabro lati- 

 tudine pluries longiore. Bentham in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 108. 

 Walpers Repertorium, vol. 1 . 578. 



B. virgata, Hooker in Bot. Mag. 1842. t. 3986. 



This New Holland bush, which has been raised several 

 times from Swan River seeds, is one of those plants whose 

 appearance depends chiefly upon the way in which it is 

 managed. Under ordinary circumstances it is a straggling, 

 naked, inelegant species ; but when kept dwarf, and in very 

 good health, it forms a pretty compact bush, gaily sprinkled 

 with yellow and crimson blossoms. 



It was originally raised from seeds by Robert Mangles, 

 Esq. of Sunning Hill ; and in July, 1841, it was named and 

 defined in this work by Mr. Bentham. Afterwards, in De- 

 cember, 1842, it was figured in the Botanical Magazine 

 under the name of B. virgata, Sir William Hooker not being 

 aware that it had been already published. 



Our drawing was made from a plant in the possession of 

 Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton, in April last. 



Fig. 1. represents the calyx ; 2. the ovary, cut in half, to 

 shew the ovules. 



It is a greenhouse shrub, and will best succeed if potted 

 in rough peat mixed with"" a little loam and sand. When potted, 

 the stem should never be immersed in the soil, but rather a 

 little elevated, which will preserve the plant from damping off 



