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SWAINSONA CORONILLIFOLIA. PURPLE- 
FLOWERED SWAINSONA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Generic Chara@er. 
Cal. g-dentatus. Vexillum explanatum, majus Carina obtufa. 
Stigma terminale. Stylus poftice longitudinaliter barbatus; antice 
imberbis. Legumen turgidum (non veficarium) BkRown.—Swain- 
fona, Sariss.—Loxidium, VeNTEN. dec. gen, nov. 
Specific Charatter and Synonyms. : 
SWAINSONA corouillifolia ; vexillo bicallofo, caule fuffruticofo 
ere€to, pedicello leguminis filamentis perfiftentibus (parum) 
breviore. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 327. 
SWAINSONA coronillefolia. Salil. Parad, Lond. 28. 
As this plant is a native of New South-Wales in Auftralafia, 
this circumftance, in itfelf, leads to a fufpicion that it ought to 
be confidered as a genus diftin& from Co.utea, otherwife we 
own that we fhould hardly have been fatisfied with the charaéters 
by which the two genera are attempted to be diftinguifhed. The 
only contrafted points given in the Hortus Kewenfis are, that 
the ftigma in Swainsona is terminal, in Coturea lateral ; 
and the flight difference in the confiftence of the Legumen, 
which appears to us not very remarkable after maturity. 
It was undoubtedly impoffible to feparate Swainsona 
from Coxurea, whilft fruticofa and berbacea, which fwerve 
much more remarkably from the European fpecies, remained 
attached to the latter. Thefe are confequently raifed into 
diftin&t genera by Mr. Brown. Sy 
The other fpecies of this genus has been already figured in 
the Botanical Magazine, under the name of Coturtes (now 
Swainson) galegifolia (vide N™ 792.) Both fpecies, the only 
ones known in our gardens, though eafily diftinguifhed by the 
colour of their flowers, are botanically charaéterized, only by 
the difference of length of the pedicle of the feed-pod. 
An ornamental low greenhoufe fhrub, with herbaceous 
branches. Communicated by Meffrs. WuitLey, Brame, and 
Mine. Introduced in 1802, by the Right Hon. Sir Josrru 
Banks, Bart. K.B. Flowers moft part of the year. Propa- 
gated both by feeds and cuttings, 
