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* LUPINUS arboreus. 



Tree Lupine. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. FabacejE or Leguminos^, § Papilionace^. 

 LUPINUS. Bot. Reg. vol. \3.fol. 1096. 



L. arboreus; caule suffrutescente decurabente nitido subglabro, foliolis 7-9 

 lineari-obovatis acuminatis longitudine petioli, stipulis subfalcatis, racemo 

 elongato laxifloro, floribus subverticillatis flavis, calycis profunde bilabiati 

 ebracteolati labiis subintegris. Agardh. synops. lupin. 25. no. 42. 



L. arboreus. Bot. mag. t. 682. DC. prodr. 2. 409. 



One of the first of the Tree Lupines raised in this country, 

 and if well grown one of the finest. It grows eight or nine 

 feet high, and forms a stout woody stem, which will live over 

 mild winters, and becomes the second year a very beautiful 

 object. 



There are many varieties in the gardens, one of the pret- 

 tiest of which is that now figured from a seedling plant 

 raised by the Earl of Mountnorris at Arley Hall. It pro- 

 duces a great profusion of clear pale yellow flowers arranged 

 in upright whorled racemes. 



This species is said in books to be a native of South 

 America, I know not upon what authority. It is probably a 

 mistake, for Mr. Douglas found it in California, and the seeds 

 from which Lord Mountnorris's plants were raised were 

 obtained from the same country. 



A tolerably hardy shrub, but not sufficiently so to endure 

 the past severe winter, as all the plants in the gardens near 

 London are killed even against a south wall, where they had 



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* See Bot. Reg. vol. 14. fol. 1198. 



