Linnaeus. But Cesalpini a century earlier has termed 

 it C. sylvestris candicans, a circumstance which explains 

 the name Genista candicans, employed by Linnaeus when 

 some years later he transferred the plant to the latter 

 genus. Although C. monspessulanus has been in cultiva- 

 tion for nearly two centuries it has never, owing to its 

 tenderness, become a common shrub. A few succeeding 

 mild winters allow it to develop into a bush six feet high, 

 and then it makes a bright display when in flower during 

 the second and third weeks of May. But it rarely 

 survives the effe, ts of fifteen to twenty degrees of frost, 

 so that sooner or later it has to be replaced. This is 

 easily arranged for, as seeds, at least from cultivated 

 specimens, are easily obtained from southern France. It 

 likes the sunniest possible position and does not require 

 rich soil or feeding at the root. It rarely ripens its seed 

 at Kew. 



Description.— Shrub, 3-10 ft. high, much branched, 

 the twigs distinctly striate and at first clothed with 

 spreading hairs. Leaflets obovate or obovate-oblong, 

 more or less obtuse, apiculate, £-£ long, \-\ in. wide, 

 glabrous above, pubescent beneath. Flowers in clusters, 

 sometimes almost umbellate, of 3-9 on specialised lateral 

 twigs ; pedicels hardly T \ z in. long, rather villous, minutely 

 bracteate about the middle, 2-bracteolate at the tip. 

 Lalyx 2-hpped, J-J in. long, rather villous ; teeth of the 

 i^pper hp minute, the central rather longer than the 

 others, those of the lower lip triangular. Corolla yellow, 

 :i in. long ; peta's nearly of the same length, the standard 

 wide-oblong or rounded-elliptic and glabrous, the wings 

 glabrous, the keel blunt and sparingly silky upwards. 

 / od ^~\\ in. long, J in. wide, silkily hairy. 



_ Fig. 1_, a flower, the petals removed ; % standard ; 3, wing-petal ; 4, keel- 

 petal ; 5, pistil :- all enlarged. 



