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LUPINUS* arbustus. 

 Half-shrubby Lupine. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminos.'e. 



L UPINUS. — Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1 096. 



L. arbustus ; perennis, floribus alternis pedicellatis bracteolatis, calycis labio 



superiore bifido : inferiore integro acuto, foliolis 7-13 obovato-oblongis 



utrinque sericeis, leguminibus 3-5-spermis. Douglas jour n. ined. 



Caulis teres, albus, glaber, subdecumbens, pedalis v. sesquipedalis. Foliola 



7-13, oblonga, utrinque parce sericea ; stlpulis pai'vis, subulatis. Flores 



alterni, v. obsciire verticillati. Pedicelli breves. Calyx villosus ; labio 



superiore leviter bifido, obtuso, inferiore integerrimo, acuto. Bracteolae 



minimce, deciduce. Vexillum obcordatum, cceruleum, medio purpureum, 



majuscuhmi. Alae et carina rosece ; hac ciliatd. Leguraen apice latius, 



3-5-spermum ; sernina parva, alba. Douglas. 



Ill almost every one of our recent Numbers we have 

 had to record a new perennial Lupine, from the stores of 

 Mr. Douglas. We have now to add another to the list, 

 scarcely inferior in beauty to any that have preceded it. 



" It is very local in its range," as we are informed by 

 our enterprising friend, " growing only in gravelly soils in 

 North California, invariably under the shade of solitary 

 pines or oaks among coppice-wood. It is common near 

 Fort Vancouver, flowering in May and June. Its nearest 

 affinity is with Lupinus laxiflorus of the present work." 



Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society in August last. 



* See fol. 1198. 



