inflorescence, from the latter by the subequal petals. G. 
hispanica thrives best in a moderate, rather than rich soil, 
and in a sunny position, and is an admirable plant for the - 
Rock Garden, or a sunny terrace only suited for dwarf 
plants. Few shrubs, even in May, can produce a more 
brilliant display. In shady positions or too rich a soil, 
our plant makes soft, sappy growths which do not flower 
freely and are apt to be winter-killed. It is increased by 
August cuttings under a cloche, or by seeds. The material 
for our plate came from a plant cultivated out of doors at Kew. 
Descriprion.—Undershrub, erect or suberect; sterile 
twigs pinnately or decompoundly spinescent, often pendulous 
or nearly so, up to 23 in. long, green and beset here and 
there with long hairs; flowering twigs alone bearing fully 
developed leaves, springing either from the main stem 
below the sterile twigs or from the sterile twigs themselves, 
about 3 in. long, beset with long white adpressed_ hairs. 
Leaves simple, narrowly oblong-lanceolate or oblong- 
oblanceolate, acute or subacute, base cuneate, ? in. long, } in. 
wide, glabrous above, below and on the margin beset with 
more or less deciduous long white. hairs, entire, lateral 
nerves indistinct ; petiole obsolete. Racemes dense, almost 
capitate, about in. long and wide; bracts small, early 
deciduous ; pedicels % in. long. Caly« green, 2-lipped, 
pubescent outside, as are the pedicels, peduncles and 
flowering twigs; tube under ys in. long; upper lip with 
two deltoid rather blunt teeth about as long as the tube; 
lower lip with three lanceolate teeth, the lateral rather 
shorter than the central. Corolla yellow ; standard rounded- 
ovate, about 1 in. wide, glabrous, claw 75 in. long; wings 
over } in. long, 1 in. wide, the lower margin towards tle 
base with a few white hairs, claw under ,!, in. long; keel 
over 3 in. long, under 3 in. wide, with a few white hairs on 
the back towards the tip. Stamens monadelphous, Ovary 
& In. long, many-ovuled, clothed with long white hairs; 
style nearly 4 in. long, stigma small, capitate. Pod rhom- 
boid-oblong, over 1 in. long, } in. wide, dark brown, at 
first beset with a few long hairs but soon glabrous; seeds 
almost ellipsoid, brown, somewhat shining, ys in. long. 
Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, a flower, the corolla removed : 3, standard; 4, wing- tal; 
5, keel-petal; 6, pistil :—ail’ enlarged, ‘ Sad 
