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CHOROZEMA varium. 



Various-leaved Chorozema. 



DECANDRIA MOJ^OGyNIA. 



Nat. Old. Fabace/b or Leguminos^e, § Papilionace/B. 

 CHOROZEMA. Botanical Register, vol 12./o^. 986. 



C. varium ; foliis subsessilibus subrotundo-cordatis undulatis spinoso-dentatis 

 integrisque pubescent! bus, racemis erectis multifloris foliis paulo longioribus, 

 calycibus basi obtusis pilosis tube dentibusque subaequalibus. Bentham 

 in Eot. Reg. 1839. miscell. no. 63. 



Legumen h-pollicare, obovatum, injlatum, subpiibescens, venis transver- 

 sis appj'oximatis clevatis in ventre evanescentibus, intus glabrum. Semina 

 circiter 20, olivacea, ossea, Icevigata, grant Milii magnitudine. 



Of the beautiful Flora of the Swan River Colony I pro- 

 pose so soon to give an account in the forthcoming Appendix 

 and Index to this work, that it is unnecessary to say more 

 on this occasion than that this plant is one of its prettiest 

 ornaments. 



It was introduced in the year 1837 by Mr. Smart, who 

 gave seeds of it, marked " Native pea," to the Horticultural 

 Society, in whose garden it was speedily raised, producing 

 two or three varieties, one of which has the leaves almost 

 entirely free from spiny toothings, but not different in any 

 other respect. In its own country it must be a very rare 

 plant, for I do not find it in any of the collections of dried 

 specimens which I have examined, excepting in that sent 

 home by Mr. Drummond in the course of the present season, 

 and even there it only occurs in fragments, with the ripe 

 pods adhering to them. 



With respect to its cultivation, Mr. Fortune, who raised 

 it in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, and whose sub- 



