CHAP. XLI. LEGUMINA‘CEX. PIPTA’'NTHUS. 567 
British gardens, in warm sheltered situations. It may be considered 
as rather tender, and not of many years’ duration: nevertheless, in fine 
seasons, it ripens abundance of seeds. It was introduced in 1821, and 
flowers in May and June. It may be propagated by cuttings of the 
roots, and of the shoots, as well as by seeds or layers. In most of the 
counties north of London, the safest situation for it will be against a wall; 
and it well deserves a place there, on account of its luxuriant deep green 
foliage, and large bright yellow flowers. Price, in the London nurseries, 
2s. 6d. each; and at Bollwyller, where it is a green-house plant, 3 francs. 
App. i. Half-hardy Species of Sophores. 
Sophora velutina Lindl. (Bot. Reg.,t. 1185.) is a Nepal shrub, introduced in 1820, which grows to the 
height of from 4 ft. to 6 ft. The flowers are pale purple, in long racemose spikes. Mr. G. Don sug- 
gests the idea of grafting it on the S. japénica, by which means, he says, it would be rendered so 
hardy as to stand our winters in open shrubberies. 
S. fomentdsa Hook.,the S. occidentalis of Lindl. (Bot. Reg., t. 3390.), is an evergreen Brazilian shrub, 
growing to the height of 5ft. There is a variety of this species not yet introduced, the leaves of 
which are dark green and shining ; and the flowers are in spike-like panicles, in form and colour 
much like those of the Spanish broom, but rather paler. (See Gard. Mag., xl. p. 191.) 
239 Edwardsia_ chilénsis ON iy 
Miers, the Sophora ma- soy > pe 
crocaérpa of Smith and a ey 
of Don’s Mill., (Lodd, 240 PP 
Bot. Cab., t. 1125., and 3 és 
our fig. 239.) is a native 
of Chili, introduced by 
Messrs. Loddiges in 
1822. It was planted 
against a wall in the 
arboretum at Hackney; 
and, after having stood 
there 3 years, it flower- 
ed there, for the first 
time in England, in 
April 1826. Its flowers 
are large, and ot a rich 
yellow; the leaves are Z& 4 3 
also large; and, what 23°47 
is rather uncommon in = 
plants of thisorder, they 
are evergreen. In 1835, . 
the plant in the arboretum of the Messrs. Loddiges was 5ft. high. (See a description of it in Gard. 
Mag., vol. xi. p. 584.) It may be considered as one of our most ornamental half-hardy shrubs, and 
may probably prove to be quite hardy, It grows freely in light loamy soil, and is propagated by 
cuttings. 
Edwardsia grandiflora Salisb., the Sophora tetraptera of Ait., (Bot. Mag., t. 167., and our fig. 240.) is 
a handsome New Zealand low tree or shrub, introduced in 1772, and producing its large pendulous 
bright yellow flowers in April and May. This is a most ornamental plant, and, in the environs of 
London, succeeds perfectly when trained against a wall, requiring very little, if any, protection. In the 
Chelsea Botanic Garden, there is a tree 12 ft. high ; and some nearly of equal height in the garden of 
the Horticultural Society, and in Loddiges’s arboretum. 
E. microphglla Salisb., 
the Sophdra microphylla 
of Ait., (Lam. Iil., t. 325., 
and our fig. 241.) is also a 
low tree from New Zea- 
land, closely resembling E. 
grandifldra, but much 
smaller in all its parts, It 
is equally hardy, if not 
more so, and is truly orna- 
mental when in _ flower. 
Plants of it in the Botanic 
_ Garden at Kew have stood 
* against a south wall for 
upwards of 20 years. In 
the Chelsea Botanic Gar- 
den, there are plants of it 
7 ft. high; and in Dorscet- 
shire, in the Upway Nur- ; 
sery, Dorchester, it has ripened seeds as a standard in the open border. There isa variety in the 
Chelsea Botanic Garden, with very narrow leaves, which, in 3 years, has attained the height of 6 ft. 
E. myriophglia Wand. (Don's Mill., 2. p.111.), E. minima Lodd. Cat., is a New Zealand shrub, 
introduced in 1818, and is, doubtless, as hardy as the other species of the genus. 3 
E. chrysoph@lla Salisb. (Don’s Mili., 2. p.111., Bot Reg., t. 738.) isa native of the Sandwich Islands, 
where it grows tothe height of 8 ft. or 10 ft., producing flowers rather smaller than those of E. myrio- 
ph¥lla. It seems as hardy as any other species; for a plant of it has stood in the front of the stove in 
the Botanic Garden at Kew since it was first introduced in 1822. ~ 
Cyclopta genistoides R. Br.; Bot. Mag.,t 1259., the Gompholdbium maculatum of Bot. Rep., t. 427 



