444 GARDEN PLANTS. PABT II. 



with its long bare stems, but producing very large, handsome, 

 pendulous flowers of two varieties, white and red. Plants raised 

 from seed come into flower within a year, when about three 

 or four feet high, and when of that size are rather ornamental. 

 After these have flowered it is best to destroy them, and then 

 raise fresh plants from seed. Dr. Voigt mentions a double- 

 flowered variety. 



Clianthus. 



C. puniceus GLORY-PEA PARROT'S-BEAK. A shrub of mode- 

 rate size, bearing flowers somewhat resembling lobsters' claws, 

 two or three inches long, pendulous, bright scarlet. This showy 

 plant, though easily raised from seed, is immediately killed 

 on the approach of the Hot season. C. Dampieri is grown here 

 successfully as an annual. 



Sutherlandia. 



S. frutescens. A native of the Cape, a shrub very similar in 

 character to the last, but smaller in every respect, with flowers 

 not a quarter the size, but more numerous, and of a brighter 

 scarlet. Plants are easily raised from seed, and kept alive with 

 no great difficulty through the Hot and Eains seasons, but never 

 seem disposed to bear flowers in the plains. 



Swainsonia. 



A genus of pretty herbaceous plants about two feet high, with 

 twining stems, and foliage resembling that of an Indigo ; natives 

 of New Holland. Plants may be easily raised from seed pro- 

 curable from seedsmen in England. They require shelter during 

 the Kains. They blossom here, but are not long-lived. 



S. galegifolia. Bears charming pea-like flowers of moderate 

 size, of a delicate rose colour, with a small white spot on each 

 wing, in April. 



Lathyrus. 



L. latifolius EVERLASTING PEA. Plants raised from seed and 

 placed in a sheltered situation during the Hot and Kain seasons, 

 I have known to be kept alive several years in the vicinity of 

 Calcutta, but they have shown no tendency whatever to blossom. 



Lourea. 



L. Vespertilionis. A small, erect, herbaceous plant, two or 

 three feet high, hardly to be considered ornamental, but interest- 



