LUPIN us Mutabills. 

 Changeahle-Jloivered Lupin. 



Class and Order. — Diadelphia Decandria. 



Syn. Lupinus mutabilis. Bot. Mag. pi. 2682. 

 — Lupinus mutabilis. SicecCs B. F. G. vol. 2, p. 130. 



Root fibrous — stem sufFruticose, branching, smooth — leaves on long petioles, 

 digitate ; leaflets (generally nine) oblong, mucronate — spike lateral- 

 flowers verticillate, on short pedicels, white, changing to a beautiful 

 purple as decay approaches — calyx two segments ; upper segment erect, 

 emarginate ; lower one acute — vexillum nearly round, sides reflexed, 

 yellow at the base — alse broad obtuse — carina acute, enclosing the 

 parts of fructification — stamens ten — filaments united at the base, con- 

 cealing the germen— style a little longer than the stamens — stigma 

 very small — legumen broad, margin deeply undulate, containing gene- 

 rally three white smooth seeds. 



The genvis Lupinus is now become very interesting, from the 

 numerous fine species that have lately been introduced; none can 

 exceed in beauty the one here fio;ured, which possesses a peculiar 

 attraction from its flowers being- most beautiful when in a state of 

 decay. According to the Bot. Mag. p. 2682, it was " raised from 

 seeds received by Mr. Barclay, from Begota, in Columbia, and com- 

 mvmicated in flower in August 1826." There is no doubt it will soon 

 be generally cultivated, as it bears seeds in abundance, which may be 

 sown in good rich soil in the open ground, and the plants thus reared 

 will flower abundantly during the summer months, and continue in 

 beauty till destroyed by fi'ost. It is yet uncertain whether this species 

 be more than annual. Amongst the finest of this genus are 



L. polyphyllus. L. nootkatensis. 



— canaliculatus. — perennis. 



— versicolor. — lepidus. 



PI. 44. 



bicolor. 

 leucophyllus. 



