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SWAINSONA Greyana. 
Capt. Grey's Swainsona. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. FABACEX, (LEGUMINOUS PLANTS, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 544.) 
SWAINSONA.— Bot. Reg. fol. 994. 
S. Greyana; suffruticosa incano-tomentosa, foliolis 5-8 jugis oblongis retu- 
sisve, racemis multifloris folio longioribus, calycibus lanatis bibracteatis, 
leguminibus glabris inflatis stipite androeceo longiore. 
A gay-flowered half herbaceous plant, sent to the Horti- 
cultural Society by his Excellency Captain Grey, from the 
banks of the Murray in New Holland, where it had been pre- 
viously found by Sir Thomas Mitchell. It has dull brownish 
hoary leaves, from whose axils a profusion of large purple 
flowers, with a white eye, appear in the summer. Our draw- 
ing was made in the garden of the Horticultural Society in 
July last. 
Why the Swainsonas are said to have two calli on the 
calyx we know not; the original species does not appear to 
possess them : but they all have two remarkable ones near 
the base of their vexillum. 
This species requires the same kind of treatment as the 
common Lotus Jacobwa, growing freely in a soil composed of 
sandy loam and a small portion of well decomposed dung. 
It is easily increased by cuttings of the young shoots, in the 
early part of summer, and flowers freely during the summer 
and autumn, if kept in the greenhouse. 
Fig 1. represents the ripe pod ; 2. a seed ; 3. the embryo 
as taken out of the seed; the stamens and style. 
