leaflets, longer and narrower calyx-tube, and more silvery 

 indumentum. Yet another Hungarian form has been 

 figured by Waldstein and Kitaibel (PL Rar. Hung. t. 166) ; 

 this has pure yellow flowers and has been considered by 

 Kerner a state of C. ratisbonensis ; in reality, however, 

 it approaches more closely to the true C. biftorus. Not 

 impossibly these two Brooms, C. ratisbonensis and C. bU 

 florus, are not always separable, the limits between them 

 becoming obliterated either by crossing or from con- 

 vergent fluctuations. The plant now figured may there- 

 fore be such an intermediate state which has become 

 persistent in cultivation and given rise to a fairly 

 characteristic garden form. In favourable conditions 

 vigorous plants produce sprays over a foot long, covered 

 with blossom. If given a loamy soil and a sunny situa- 

 tion it succeeds without further trouble ; its abundant 

 seed makes propagation easy. In the wild state C. ratis- 

 bonensis extends from Western Siberia through Central 

 and Southern Russia, Silesia, Bohemia and Hungary to 

 Southern Bavaria, while there is an isolated area in 

 Inunngia. The material for our plate was provided 

 by a plant m the collection of Leguminosae at Kew. 



Description.-A small shrub, old branches ascending 

 irom a prostrate base, young shoots erect, adpressed 

 silky-pubescent. Leaves distinctly stalked ; leaflets obo- 

 vate-oblong or obovate or oblanceolate, glabrous above, 

 grey-silky beneath. Flowers f-f in. long, produced 

 singly or m twos or threes along the shoots of the 

 previous season so as to form long racemose spravs. Calyx 

 tubular about f in. long, adpressed silky. Corolla yellow, 

 standard glabrous in the wild plant often with a reddish- 

 brown blotch which is usually absent in the garden form. 

 J od linear-oblong, adpressed silky. 



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