the name of Wisteria, These plants agree in habit, ia 

 the form, number, position, and pubescence of the leaflets ; 

 in the swollen base of the petiole ; in the terminal many- 

 flowered racemes j in the shape of the vexillum ; and the 

 connexion of the alae at the point. 



Our plant differs from Glycine frutescens in the greater 

 length of the raceme ; the larger size and deeper violet colour 

 of the flowers ; in the longer pedicels ; and in the want of 

 or more deciduous nature of the bractes ; in the tube of the 

 calyx being much shorter ; in the hairiness of the germen ; 

 but scarcely in any other respect that we can discover. 



We prefer retaining it under the name of Glycine at 

 present, (though neither this, G. frutescens, nor G. Apios, 

 at all correspond with the generic character) as till the legu- 

 men shall have been examined, it must be uncertain where 

 it ought to be arranged. 



The specimen of this beautiful climber, from which our 

 drawing was taken, was communicated through our friend, 

 Alexander M'Leay, Esq. from the collection of Charles 

 Hampden Turner, Esq. at Rooksnest-Park, near Godstone 

 in Surry. The plant was brought from China three years 

 ago by Captain Welbank ; and we are informed by his gar- 

 dener, Mr. D. M'Leod, was at first kept in the peach-house, 

 heated to 84°, where it was nearly destroyed by the red spider. 

 On the heat being reduced to below 60°, the plant was more 

 vigorous, but still weakly. Early in August the gardener 

 removed it from the wall of the peach-house, set it in a pot 

 of vegetable mould, and tied the branches to a stick. In the 

 month of September it lost all its leaves. It was kept all the 

 winter on the floor, in the coldest and darkest part of the 

 greenhouse ; in which situation the mould in the pot was 

 frozen three different times during the winter. In the be- 

 gining of March it shewed flower-buds, and the plant was 

 removed to a more favourable situation in the house ; but no 

 leaves were put forth till the last week in March, when the 

 flowers were nearly expanded. The gardener has propagated 

 it both by layers and cuttings, and proposes to try how far 

 it will bear the cold of our climate. 



