rosy flowers (C. Dallimorei), the other with yellow flowers 
as shown at fig. B of our plate. From this second, yellow- 
flowered plant has been raised a seedling which has cream- 
coloured flowers touched with rose, as shown at fig. C of our 
plate. This last is a very promising garden plant with 
much the character of C. praecox, Hort., but without the 
offensive odour of that broom. The material for our plate 
has been derived from the original plants at Kew referred 
to above. As a garden plant C. Dallimorei is of great 
promise. It has scarcely the vigour of either parent; the 
original plant, indeed, was for several years of feeble 
growth and vigour, and it was only when a twig was made 
strong enough to graft on a young Laburnum that its 
continued existence became assured. This grafted plant 
was the first to flower, and the stock has since been increased 
from it by the same method. The hybrid produces good 
seed and a number of plants have been raised, the flowering 
of which will be watched with interest. 
_Descriprion.—Shrub, deciduous, ultimately 6 to 8 ft. 
high, of thin, virgate habit ; branchlets anvled and clothed 
with adpressed hairs when young. Leaves unifoliolate or 
trifoliolate ; lateral leaflets narrowly elliptical or lanceolate, 
the middle one oblanceolate, } to 3 in. long, yy to 4 in. 
wide, sessile, acute, dull dark green, ciliate, and at first 
clothed with grey adpressed hairs on both surfaces, 
glabrescent above; petiole } to 3 in. long, flat and slightly 
winged. lowers papilionaceous, produced in May from 
the nodes of the preceding year’s growth, solitary or in 
pairs. Calyx helmet-shaped, 2-lipped, } in. long, glabrous. 
Standard orbicular-cordate with a short claw, somewhat 
cucullate, 3 to £ in. long, pale purple touched with rose and 
with deeper lines at the a, wing petals § in. long, rich 
crimson, especially towards the ends; keel white, tinged 
with purple; peduncle slender, + to 4 in. long, pubescent. 
Stamens and style glabrous, Ovary clothed with silky hairs. 
Pod 1 to 12 in. long, 4 to } in. wide, pubescent on the 
sutures, roughened with minute warts. 
Fig. A, Cyrisus Datrimorer: B ( : 
. . 2 ; B, yellow-flowered seedling from same seed- 
pod as A; C, seedling from B; 1, flower, petals removed ; 2, standard; 3 and 4, 
Ss eel denen 5, pistil; 6, section of ovary:—A-C, of natural size; 
