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formation too late in the autumn of 183/, to be able to examine the plant, so as to determine any 

 thing certain respecting its species. I'o.^silily, it may be a new species; but we think it more pro- 

 bable, from the leaves of a plant in our own garden, also raised from the seeds we brought from 

 Carlsruhe, which has not yet flowered, that it is nothing more than Wist;'.r/,< irutuscens. 



App. I. Suffhtticose hardy or half-hardy Species of Pkasebletf. 



l.itplnitsarbiireus S\ms(Bot. Mtt., 



t. (i-JS., and our fig. 3(1.}, the tree 



lupine, is somewhat shrubby, and, ;i*> 



a standard, will grow to the height 

 361 f l > rt - lts native country is tin. 



known ; but it has boon in cultiva- 

 tion in British gardens Binco 17:' ; ; 



and it produces its pale yellow flow. 



crs in July and August. There is 



a large plant of it, trained against a 



wall, in the garden of the London 



Horticultural Society ; but, though 



it grows as high as the wall, it cannot 



be considered as truly ligneous ; and 



it is rather tender. Flowers fragrant. 

 L. multifl<>rns Desrous., with azure 



blue flowers ; L.dl/tifrons Benth. (B. 



Reg.,t. 164'-'.), a shrubby California!! 



sprru's, with deep blue flowers ; L. 



Marshall'&nus Swt. Fl..Gard.,'2A ser. 



t !;',') , and our Jig. 3(>2. ;L. canalicu- 

 latus Swt. Fl.-Gard., 1st ser. t. 283. ; 



L. versicolor Swt. Fl.-Gard., 2d. ser. 



1. 12. ; L.putchellus Swt. Fl.-Gard., 



2d. ser., t. 67. ; are all technically 



considered somewhat suffruticose, 

 and will grow to the height of from 



3ft. to 6ft. when trained against 



a wall lasting 2 or 3 years, if not destroyed during winter by severe frost, 'i here are also several 

 other species described in Don's Hilter, bearing the same general character, but most of which have 

 not yet been introduced. 



App. II. Half-hardy Species of Phaseblcte. 



Dtlichos lienbsus L. (Strith Spic., t 21.) is a ligneous climber, with rose-coloured flowers, having a 

 purplish keel, which is tolerably hardy : it has been an inhabitant of our green-houses since 1776, 

 and flowers in July and August. 



Pachurhizus trilobus Dec., Dohchos trilobus Low., is a twining shrub, a native of China and 

 Cochin-China, where it is cultivated for the tubers of its roots, which are cylindrical, being about 2 ft 

 long and arc boiled and eaten by the natives, in the same manner as yams are in the West Indies 

 The flowers are of a bright purple, with a yellow spot in the centre of the standard. This species' 

 has not yet been introduced. 



Mucuna mucrocdrpn Wall. \Pl. As. 

 Rar., 1. p. 41. t. 47., and our fig. 363.) 

 is a twining shrub, a native of Nepal, 

 on the mountains. The flowers are 

 party-coloured, the standard green, 

 the wings purple, and the keelbrown. 

 The legumes are very large, as are 

 the racemes of flowers. It has not 

 yet been introduced, but, when it is, 

 it will probably be found half-hardy 



Eruthrlna Crista-galli L. (Smith 



Exoi. Hot., 2. p. <>5. ; Swt. Fl.-Gard., 

 p. 214.), the coral tree, is a splendid 

 plant, a native of Brazil, where it 

 grows to the height of 20 ft. In Bri- 

 tish gardens, it will grow at the base 

 of a wall, with a little protection dur- 

 ing winter, and produce its bright deep 

 scarlet flowers from May to July. 

 E. \aurif)lia Jacq., the E. Crista-galli 

 of Bot. Reg., t. 313., is considered by 

 some as a species ; and by others as a 

 variety of E. Crista-gi'illi. It pro- 

 duces its rich but dull crimson flowers 

 from July to September. No con- 

 servative wall ought to be without 

 these plants, since they may be easily 

 protected at the root by a little straw ; 

 and, even if killed down every year, 

 they will produce shoots, which will 

 terminate in long spikes of coral-like 

 flowers every season. They require 

 a deep sandy soil, somewhat rich ; and 

 are propagated by cuttings of the 

 shoots, or division of the root. There 

 are some other green-house species, 

 not yet introduced, which are probably equally hardy witli the above; and, probably, many of the 



tove species would stand out with some protection. 





