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The first is a magnificent tree, displaying iu 

 pendulous brandies of large golden flowers in 



May and June. It is a name of Now Zealand. 



The second species is a smooth tree, with 



small leaves almost ft edge-shaped ; I lie flowers 



large and yellow ; the legume compressed, toru- 



. flat at the back and belly, keeled at the 



sides with longitudinal membranes. It is a na- 



i New Zealand, flowering in May and June. 



The third has I perennial creeping root, from 

 which arise several erect stalks from three to four 

 high: the leaves unequally pinnate: the 

 rs pale blueand small, in lonj axillary spikes 

 standing erect close to the stalk: thev smell 

 sweet. It is a native ot" the Levant, flowering 

 in Jnlv and August. 



The fourth species has a herbaceous stem, 

 commonly decumbent : the leaves cuneate- 

 oblong, smooth, yellowish green; the stipules 

 ensiform, longer than the shortest petiole; the 

 flowers are blue. It is a native of Carolina, 

 flowering in June and July. 



The fifth has a perennial root, from which 

 arise several stalks about a foot and half bisrh, 

 sending out from the bottom a great number of 

 small branches : the flowers come out towards 

 the end of the branches in short spikes; are 

 vellow and appear in July. It is a native of 

 Barbadoes and Virginia. 



The sixth species has the stem even, high, 

 dark purple : the leaves, like those of Laburnum, 

 even, elliptic, smooth on both sides, an inch 

 and half long: the stipules scarcely any: the 

 ne a foot long, pendulous: the flowers 

 White, the size of those of Laburnum. It flowers 

 in June, and is a native of Virginia and Carolina. 



The seventh species has a downv stem, six or 

 seven feet high: the leaves unequally pinnate, 

 composed of rive or six pairs of leaflets: the flowers 

 in short loose axillary spikes, large and yellow, not 

 unlike those of Spanish Broom, void of scent: 

 the pods larger, woolly, five or six inches lontr, 

 having four or five large swellings, in each of 

 which is a roundish brown seed as big as a pea. 

 It i- a native of Ceylon. 



The eighth is a shrub, with a round hoary - 

 pubescent stem, and round spreading subtomen- 

 tose branches, six or seven feet in height : the 

 leaves on alternate, long, spreading, round, 

 hoary petioles, thickened at the base: leaflets 

 opposite, mostly six-paired with an odd 

 entire, flat, hoary, white tomentose beneath, 

 on short round petioles : the flowers in a sort of 

 spike: the peduncle terminating, erect, a foot 

 long, simple, round, many-flowered : flowers 

 frish, ped'.incled, yellow, Itisanativeof 

 the West-Indies; flowers there in May and June. 



The ninth species has the branches round, 

 even, purplish: the leaves alternate, unequally 



pinnate : leaflets subop) rt pe 



tides, oblong, blunt with a point, quite entire, 

 glaucous beneath, smooth, spreading an inch 

 long: the flowers on panicled raccmed branch- 

 let.-, of a white colour. It is a native of Japan. 

 'I lie tenth is a tender j I shrub, when 



more advanced in its wild state naked £ the 

 leaves alternate, unequally pinnate t leaflets 

 twenty-three, narrow -lanceolate, equal, 

 entire, shining above, subtomentose beneath : 

 the raceme terminating, composed of white re- 

 curved flowers. It is a native of the Cape. 



The eleventh species is a shrub the height of 

 a man: the root lias the smell and taste ,of li- 

 quorice : the stem upright, round, tuberclcd, 

 gray : branches alternate, spreading, like the 

 stem : the haves alternate, unequally pinnate, 

 spreading, eight inches long: petioles round on 

 one side, channelled on the other, pubescent: 

 the leaflets from twelve to fifteen pairs, opposite, 

 on short petioles, those of the outmost longer,- 

 quite entire, one-nerved, bright green, 

 beneath, spreading very much, flat: the stipules 

 linear, acute, pubescent, brownish, erect, per- 

 manent: the racemes axillary, solitary, peduu- 

 cled, spreading, bractcd, pubescent, tour or live 

 in. lies long: the Bowers alternate, nodding, 

 yellow , eight or nine lines in length, on round 

 pedicels jointed at the top. It is a native of 

 Africa, and flowers there in July. 



The twelfth has a shrubby, round, leafy, even 

 stem : the branches almost upright, tonic: 

 somewhat angular towards their tops: the leaves 

 scattered, on short petioles, ten lines long, and 

 four broad, quite entire, rounded at the end with 

 a reflexed point, grooved above and keeled !u- 

 neath, coriaceous. On each side of the petiole 

 an awl-shaped tomentose stipule, twice as long 

 as the petiole : the flowers towards the end of 

 the branches from the axils of the leaves, soli- 

 tary, on peduncles the length of the aeljacent 

 leaf, whitc-tomentose ; seldom two-flowered. 

 It is a native of the Cape, (lowering from No- 

 vember to January. 



Culture, — The first five sorts are hardy, and 

 may be increased by seeds or parting the roots. 



The seeds should be sown in the spring in 

 pots of tine mould, and when the plants are 

 up they should be removed into separate pots, 

 till they have obtained sufficient strength, when 

 they may be planted out where they at 



The roots may likewise, in many of the soil:-, 

 be parted at the same season and planted in pots, 

 or where thev are to remain. 



'I he first and second sorts may also be raised 

 from cuttings and layers, planted or laid . 

 at the same season. These, when planted against 

 a wall, so as to be protected from frost iu « inter, 

 succeed very well. 



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