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valuable plants that has recently been obtained. The plant is not 

 quite hardy it appears, being cut down by the first sharp frost, but is 

 similar to that of Clianthus puniceus. If planted in a conservatory, 

 or grown in a greenhouse, there is no doubt but it would bloom nearly 

 all the year ; and if turned out into the open border in May would 

 there bloom for five months. It deserves a place in every situation 

 where it can be grown. 



HARDENBERGIA MACROPHYLLA. (Broad-leaved.) 



LEQUMlNOSiE. DIADELPHIA DECANDRtA. 



A native of the Swan River colony, from whence seeds were sent to 

 Robert Mangles, Esq., Sunning Hill, Berks, in whose garden plants 

 were raised. The one from which our drawing was taken is a fine 

 specimen, growing in the conservatory of R. Barclay, Esq., Lay ton 

 in Essex. The drawing was obligingly sent us by Mr. Kyle, the 

 intelligent gardener there, who had it done by the artist who draws 

 for Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and is a fac-simile of one taken 

 for that publication. Mr. Kyle states that at the time the artist took 

 the drawings the plant had greatly exhausted itself by blooming most 

 profusely, and but a small remnant of diminished racemes were left, 

 so that the figure given is but about one-half the length of the general 

 racemes. This fact was not only stated to us by Mr. Kyle, but the 

 stalk of a raceme was sent us, and which was more than double the 

 length of our figure, besides having two lateral branches nearly as long 

 as the centre one, previously forming altogether a fine graceful cluster 

 of beautiful blossoms. The drawing sent to us had been in the hands 

 of the engraver some time, and the plate so completed, when the 

 natural specimen was sent us, that we regret it was too late to make 

 it correct in size. Our readers, however, will see the size of each 

 separate bloom as well as the colour, and with the above descriptive 

 remarks upon it, will be able to form a tolerably correct opinion of its 

 blooming merits. Mr. Kyle states that the plant under his care he 

 obtained in May, 1840, and he planted it in the border of a con- 

 servatory when it was about a yard high. During the last summer 

 it had grown so rapidly as now to be thirty feet in length. The habit 

 of the plant is very luxuriant, branching widely, covered with a 

 beautiful rich green foliage, and bearing a vast profusion of its 

 racemes of beautiful blue flowers. It is a most desirable plant for a 



