can we find that it has been descrioed by any author. There 

 is a specimen from the Cape, preserved in the Eanksian 

 Herbarium, under the name of Colutea pulchetla, which, 

 if not the same, is certainly a very nearly allied species, but 

 in that the habit is more lax, seeming 1 to be rather herbaceous 

 than shrubby, on which account we have avoided adopting 

 exactly the same name. 



Not having had any opportunity of examining the seed- 

 vessel, and having neglected making any memorandum of 

 the style and stigma, we are not sure that this plant is 

 properly a Lessertia, and being certainly shrubby, we felt 

 inclined to arrange it under Swainsona ; but as it is a native 

 of the South of Africa, and agrees in stipulation with Les- 

 sertia, we have thought it safest to add it to that genus. 



Flowers in May, and requires the protection of the 

 greenhouse in Winter. 



