Description.—Shrub about 3 ft. high. Young branches 
quadrangular, sparingly pilose. Leaves trifoliolate ; petioles 
1-1} in. long; leaflets subsessile, obovate or oblong, 
about 4 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, rounded or slightl 
emarginate at the apex, glabrescent above, thinly clothed 
with silky hairs beneath ; lateral nerves indistinet. Flowers 
yellow, axillary, solitary or two together ; pedicels equalling 
the petioles. Calyx subcampanulate, } in. long, shortly 
two-lipped, lips shorter than the tube, sparingly villous 
outside; upper lip bidentate; lower tridentate. Standard 
somewhat rounded, many-veined, scarcely 4 in. across, claw 
1 in. long. Wing petals obovate, 3 in. long, + in. broad, 
7-nerved, claw } in. long. Keel petals 4 in. long, claw } in. 
long. Staminal tube glabrous, $ in. long; anthers oblong. 
Ovary glabrous; style } in. long, stigma minute. Pod 
1-13 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, glabrous. Seeds 5 or 6, reni- 
form, without a strophiole——J. Hurcuinson. 
Cunrivation.—Although Cytisus glabrescens is not a 2 
newly discovered plant, it has only appeared in cultivation 
during comparatively recent years. The plant from which 
the accompanying plate was prepared was obtained for the 
Kew collection in 1896, from Mr. Spith of Berlin. It has 
proved to be quite hardy and one of the most attractive of 
the dwarfer Brooms, flowering in May, and thriving well in 
a light loamy soil, in a position exposed to full sunshine. 
It is of a close, dense habit, and isadmirably adapted for the _ 
Rock Garden or for any position where it is not in danger 
of being overgrown by plants of stronger habit, The — 
original plant at Kew, after twelve years, is still not more 
than 18 in. high. It can be increased by cuttings, 
dibbled in sandy soil under a cloche during August— 
W. J. Bean. J Go Co ge ee 
Fig. 1, calyx and stamen mS 2. calge Jebd teen with visti: & wh ate ae 
4, keel-petal; 5 and 6, anthers; 9, seed :—ail enlaryed: 7, fruit; 8, seed rie 
natural size. 
