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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



vi. Chronanthus Dec. 



Derivation, from chronos, a year, and anthos, a flower ; applied to this section because the petals 

 remain attached to the calyxes all the year. 



Seel. Char. Calyx with the upper lip bifid, and the lower one trifid ; lobes 

 acute, of the same length as the tube. Petals permanent. Legume oval, 

 much compressed, 2-seeded. {Dec. Prod., ii. p. 157.) 



M 27. C. oRiENTA^Lis Lois. The Oriental Cytisus. 



Identification. Lois, in N. Du Ham., 5. p. 156. ; Don's.Mill., 2. p. 157. 

 Synonyme. C. orient&lis, &c , Gerard a.x\i Vail. Herb. 

 Engravings. Pluk. Phyt., t. 31. f. 3.; and om fig. 365. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Stems erect, hairy. Leaves almost sessile, 

 trifoliolate, hairy ; leaflets hnear, acute. Flowers large and 

 yellow, subterminal, on short pedicels, and few. The flowers 

 and pods are both glabrous. Calyx hairy, more 5-cleft than 

 bilabiate. {Dec. Prod., ii. p. 157.} An erect hairy shrub. 

 Native of the Levant. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. Introduced in 

 1818. Flowers yellow, large and persistent; June and July. 



Legume black ; ripe in October. 



365. C. orientilis. 



Other Species of Cytisus. This genus, in British gardens, is in such a stateof 

 confusion, that nothing can be done in it satisfactorily till all the kinds are 

 collected together, and cultivated for two or three years till they show their 

 flowers and fruit. Perhaps two thirds of the alleged species in the London 

 gardens are only varieties. In the mean time, all that a cultivMtor can do is to 

 procure as many kinds as he can ; and in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges 

 he will find the greater number of those above described, though some of them 

 have been killed by the winter of 1837-8. Among the species probably hardj-, 

 by far the handsomest in point of foliage is the C. (EoUcus Guss. (Bot. Reg. 



t. 1 902., and our/g. 366.) 



It is a tall, very hoary 



shrub. A native of Strom- 



boli. Height 5 ft. to 8 ft. 



Introd. in 1835. Flowers 

 ' pubescent, yellow, cam- 



panulate, and the young 



legumes glabrous. It has 



the appearance. Dr. Lind- 

 ' ley observes, of being an 



intermediate species be- 

 tween C. iaburnum and 



C. triflorus. {'Se6Arb. Br., 



1st ed., p. 2551.) C. ra- 

 Icemosus Marnock (Flor. 



Mag., vol. ii. t. 18. ; and our j/?g. 367.) is a hand- 

 some shrub, of moderately robust habit ; a native of the Peak of Teneriffe. 

 Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. Introduced in 1835. The flowers are terminal, in a 

 spike about 6 in. in length, and of a bright yellow. There were plants in the 

 Epsom Nursery in 1838. Many other species of Cytisus are described by 

 authors, for which we refer to Don's Miller, Webb's Iter Hisjyaiiiense, Bois- 

 sier's Elenchus Plantarum, Duby and DeCandolle's Botanicon Gallicum, and 

 the first edition of this Arboretum. Many genera of ligneous plants require to 

 be cultivated together, in the same garden, in order to settle their nomen- 

 clature : but while some of these, as Quercus, Pinus, &c., would consume the 

 greater part of a lifetime in procuring them from the different quarters of the 

 world, and waiting till they came into flower, the genera Genista, C'jtisus, 

 and Adenocarpus are almost exclusively European, and might be collected in 

 the course of one year ; while, in three years after the seeds were sown, the 

 plants would in most cases come into flower. It is surprising, therefore, that 

 some amateur of leisure does not undertake their arrangement. 



3ti7. Cytisus rocemosus. 



366. cytisus sdlicus. 



