somewhat comprehensively, as a species with four distinct 
varieties of which our plant is one, Mr. Hutchinson points 
out that the characters which distinguish the two are such 
as to justify their segregation, not merely from the stand- 
point of the cultivator, but from that of the taxonomist. 
The peduncles of P. pinnata are exceedingly short, its 
calyx-lobes are ovate-lanceolate, acute and subglabrous, 
while the indumentum is much Jess dense than in P. affinis, 
which has peduncles as long as the leaves, a strongly 
10-ribbed calyx tube, and short, rounded, very densely 
hirsute calyx lobes. The true P. pinnata is widely spread 
in South Africa from the Cape Peninsula to Algoa Bay. 
The plant here figured has a more restricted range and has 
been met with only in the divisions of George, Knysna, 
Uniondale and Uitenhage. In most parts of England 
P. affinis can only be grown as a pot plant, when it may 
be made to form bushes 3 feet or so in height, or planted 
in the border of a sunny greenhouse, when it soon becomes 
a large Cassia-like shrub reaching 10 feet high; at Kew 
it flowers in early spring and forms a very attractive object 
in the Conservatory and the Temperate House. The specimen 
from which our plate has been prepared came, however, 
from the garden of Mr. T. A. Dorrien Smith, resco Abbey, 
Isles of Scilly, where the plant is quite hardy in the open 
and flowers in April. 
Description.— Shrub; branches 4-angled, glabrous or 
sparingly hairy, with resinous glands; flowering twigs 
procumbent, up to 10 in. in length, more or less angled, 
about 14 lin. thick, glabrous or at first sparingly pilose 
with black hairs. Leaves odd-pinnate; leaflets opposite, 
3-4-paired, shortly stalked, linear, acute, 13-2 in. long; 
1-14 lin. wide, l-nerved, coriaceous, soon becoming gla- 
brous, dotted with black glands ; leaf-rachis 14-14 in. long, 
narrowly channelled above, sparingly hairy; petiolules 
fleshy, pubescent, 3 lin. long; stipules fleshy or coriaceous, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, the largest 2 lin. long. Peduncles 
axillary, 1-flowered, clustered at the ends of the branches, 
as long as the leaves, pubescent, with two terminal bila- 
biate calyecine bracts. Calyx with a subeampanulate tu 
3 lin. long, 23 lin. wide, with conspicuous resinous glands, 
10-ribbed externally, the ribs densely hirsute with black 
