other species are reputed valuable fodder plants for sheep 
when mixed with other herbage, but one or two species of 
 Swainsona, including S. galegifolia, are poisonous to stock, 
and produce symptoms like those caused by the N. 
American ‘“‘loco”’ weeds. Several species have become 
well-known greenhouse plants, and the following have 
been figured in this magazine :—S., coronillxfolia (t. 1725), 
S. greyana (t. 4416), and S. occidentalis (t. 5490). 
Swainsona maccullochiana is by far the finest species 
from a horticultural standpoint. Mueller states that its 
stem is simple in the lower part and that it grows in the 
form of a small tree. It was first introduced into English 
gardens by Messrs. H. Low & Co. of Enfield, who 
exhibited it in flower at the Temple Show in 1901, when 
it was awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal 
Horticultural Society. Our plate was prepared from a 
plant which was raised at Kew from seeds sent by Mr. 
G. F. Berthoud, Waroona, West Australia, and flowered 
in July, 1904. 
Descv.—An erect, sparsely pubescent shrub, eight feet 
high or less. Stem stout at the base. Leaves with eight — 
to thirteen pairs of leaflets; leaflets elliptic or obovate, 
mucronate, nearly glabrous above, puberulous below. 
Ftaceme many-flowered, with subulate-setaceous bracts. 
Pedicels two lines long, with two setaceous bractlets at 
their apex. Calya-teeth acuminate, rather shorter than the _ 
tube, the two uppermost deltoid, the lower ones narrower. — 
Corolla reddish-purple ; standard ovate-orbicular, emargi- 
nate, reflexed, slightly exceeding the obtuse keel: wings © 
rather shorter than the keel, oblong, rounded, auricled at — 
the base. Ovary stipitate, silky-pubescent ; style without — 
a terminal tuft of hairs, Pod shortly stipitate, two-celled — 
by intrusion of the ventral suture, softly pubescent. Seeds 
wrinkled.—T, A. Spraaun. 
Fig. 1, calyx laid open and stamens; 
ig. 2, standard; 3, wing; 4, keel; 
5, pistil; 6, pods :—all slightly enlarged, ee a . 
