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The second species rises with a twining shrubby stalk to the 

 height of six or eight feet and more; multiplying greatly by age, 

 becoming loaded with a profusion of purple flowers growing in ra- 

 cemes; the richness of the corolla is enlivened by two green spots at 

 the base of the banner. For the most part the flowers go off in this 

 climate without producing any seed-vessels. It begins to flower in 

 February, and continues during the summer. It is a native of Bo- 

 tany Bay. 



The third has a shrubby, slender, twining stem, five or six feet 

 high and more, red, branched, leafy. The leaves ternate, on pe- 

 tioles from an inch to two inches in length, channelled above, round 

 underneath: leaflets ovate or elliptic, quite entire, the two side-ones 

 on very short petioles, the end one on a petiole half an inch in 

 length, bending and swelling immediately under the leaflet, and hav- 

 ing there a pair of deciduous stipules. Almost the whole plant is 

 covered with hairs pressed close. 



The flowers are of a purplish-scarlet colour. It is a native of New 

 South Wales, flowering from April to June. 



The fourth is a shrubby climbing plant, growing to the height of 

 many feet, if supported, and producing a great number of flowers 

 on its pendent branches. The leaflets nearly round, and in the older 

 ones especially curled at the edges. The flowers for the most part in 

 pairs, of a glowing scarlet colour, at the base of the keel somewhat 

 inclined to purple; the bottom of the banner is decorated with a 

 large yellow spot, verging to green. It flowers from April to June, 

 and is a native of New South Wales. 



Culture. The first sort is increased by laying down the young 

 branches in the early autumn. When well rooted in the following 

 autumn, they may be taken off and planted where they are to re- 

 main, or in nursery-rows, being watered when the weather is hot, 

 and the roots protected in the winter by some sort of strawy ma- 

 terial. 



They succeed best in dry warm light soils. 



The other sorts may be raised by sowing the seeds, when they 

 can be obtained from abroad or produced here, in pots of light 



