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CHOROZEMA spectabile. 

 Showy Chorozema, 



DECANDRIA MONOGYN1A. 

 Nat. ord. Leguminosje, or Fabace^e 

 CHOROZEMA. Botanical Register, vol. 12. fol. 986. 



C. spectabile; caule volubili tereti, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis mucronulatis 

 subtus glabriusculis, racemis multifloris laxis, calycibus semiquadrifidis ; 

 laciniis tubo longioribus. Supra misc. no. 66. 



A Swan River shrub of great beauty, in consequence of 

 its long drooping clusters of orange-coloured flowers, which 

 appear in profusion in the months of winter. It is far 

 superior to both C. rhombeum and ovatum in all respects, and 

 differs from them both in foliage and in its many flowered 

 racemes, which however are not always so long as in the 

 accompanying figure, although they often are so. C. ovatum 

 has moreover winged branches and reticulated leaves, neither 

 of which are found in this. 



Fig. 1. represents the stamens and the tube of the calyx, 

 with a linear bract adhering to it ; it will be observed that 

 the tenth stamen is smaller than the others, flexuose, and 

 more slender. Fig. 2. shews the appearance of the ovary 

 when cut through ; it contains twenty-six ovules in two rows. 



The figure is from the Garden of the Horticultural 

 Society ; I have also received the plant from Mr. Standish of 

 Bagshot, and from Robert Mangles, Esq. of Sunning Hill. 



It is a greenhouse twiner of very ea^y cultivation. It 

 grows best in a light free soil composed of peat and leaf 

 mould with a little loam and sand. Seeds are produced from 

 it in abundance, and therefore it may easily be increased in 

 this way or by cuttings which strike readily in silver sand. 



August, 1841. r 



