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LUPINUS ramosissimus. 
Branching Lupine. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LeGumınosz. $ PAPILIONACEZ. 
LUPINUS, L. 
L. ramosissimus, Bentham Pl. Hartw. ined. 
This is a pretty, half-hardy, shrubby species, growing 
three or four feet high in any good garden soil, and well suited 
for cultivation in the open border, if treated as a summer 
annual. The seeds should be sown early in February, and 
afterwards potted singly ; and when the danger of late spring 
frost is over, they should be planted out, where they will 
bloom freely from June to October. 
The plant was raised in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, from seeds collected by Mr. Hartweg on Chimborazo, 
at an elevation of 13,000 feet above the level of the sea. 
The flowers smell like those of the Sweet Pea. 
The name that is given it is as yet unpublished by Mr. 
Bentham; and as it will doubtless appear in some early 
number of the Plante Hartwegiane, we forbear from attempt- 
ing to frame for it a specific character. In fact, in so difficult 
a genus it would be impossible to do so in the absence of an 
accurate examination of the neighbouring species. 
