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LEGUMINA'CEvE. PIPTA NTHUS. 



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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, 

 2*. (u/. each ; and at Bollwyller, where it is a green-house plant, 3 francs. 



App. i. Half-hardy Species o/'Sophoreae. 



Sophora vrlufina Lindl. (Bot. Reg.,t. 1185.) is a Nepal shrub, introduced in 1820, which grows to the 

 height of from 4ft. to 6ft. The flowers are pale purple, in long racemose spikes. Mr. G. Don sug- 

 gests the idea of grafting it on the S. japoiiica, by which means, he says, it would be rendered o 

 hardy as to stand our winters in open shrubberies. 



S. tntnentdsa Hook., the S. occidentaiis 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 

 mucli like those of the Spanish broom, but rather paler. (See Gard. Mag., xl. p. 191.) 



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Edv'drds\& chiltnsis 

 Miers, the Sophdra m,i- 

 crocarpa of Smith and 

 of Don's Mill., (Lodd. 

 Bot. Cab., t. 1125., and 

 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 of a rich 

 yellow ; the leaves are 

 also large; and, what 

 is rather uncommon in ' 

 plants of th is order, they 

 are evergreen. In 1835, 



the plant in the arboretum of the Messrs. Loddiges was 5 ft. 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. 



Ertt/'urdsin grandifldra Salisb., the Sophbra tetrapteraof Ait., (Bot. Mag., 1. 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 

 Jx>ndon, 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. microphylla Salisb., 

 the Sophbra microphylla 

 of Ait, (Lam. III., t. 3-25., 

 and our fig. 241.) is also a 

 low tree from New Zea- 

 land, closely resembling E. 

 grandiflbra, 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 Dorset- 

 shire, in the Upway Nur. 

 cry, Dorchester, it has ripened seeds as a standard in the open border. There is a variety in the 

 Chelsea Botanic Garden, with very narrow leaves, which, in 3 years, has attained the height of 6ft 

 E.myriophylla Wand. (flnnV 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 



E. chrysophijlla Salisb. (Don's Mill., 2. p. 111., Bot Reg., t. 738.) is a native of the Sandwich Islands 

 where it grows to the height of 8 ft. or 10 ft, producing flowers rather smaller than those of E 

 phy^la. It seems as hardy as any other species ; for a plant of it has stood in the front of the 

 the Botanic Garden at Kew since it was first introduced in 1822. 



Cycldpia gopfctfkfaf R. Br ; Bot. Mag., t 1259., the GomphoU,bium maculatum of Bot 



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