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plant clothed with appressed silky hairs. Flowers scarlet ; 

 keel large, boat-shaped, with a long beak. This is the hardier 

 species of the two, and will flower freely in the South with the 

 protection of a wall and a slight covering in Winter. It varies 

 in the colour and size of the flowers. This species is from New 

 Zealand. 



2. G. Dampieri. An extremely handsome species from 

 Australia, more properly a greenhouse plant. Whole plant 

 densely villous. Flowers 4 or 5 inches across when expanded, 

 red with a black or dark purple blotch at the base of the 

 standard. There are several varieties in cultivation, of which 

 marginatus is perhaps the finest. In this the ground is white 

 bordered with red and the spot black. 



18. COLtTTEA. 



Shrubs with imparipinnate leaves and yellow or reddish 

 flowers in axillary racemes. The stipitate membranaceous 

 inflated pod is the main character of the genus. There are 

 about seven or eight species, from the Mediterranean region 

 and tropical Asia. The name is from tcoXovrsa, which was 

 given to a plant by the ancients. 



1 . C. arborescens. Bladder Senna. This is the only species 

 familiar in gardens, having yellow flowers and bladder-like 

 pods. It is a native of the South of Europe. 



19. HALIMOD^NDRON. 



A genus of one shrubby species. Leaves abruptly pinnate. 

 Flowers pink, rather large, umbellate, axillary, or fascicled on 

 the old nodes. Pod stalked, very turgid, thickly coriaceous. 

 From aXt/Ltoy, saline, and SevSpov, a tree, from the nature of its 

 habitat. 



1. H. argenteum. Foliage usually covered with a silvery 

 down. Leaflets few, the upper ones sometimes reduced to 

 prickles. A very pretty shrub, especially when grafted upon 

 the Laburnum as a standard. A native of Kussian Asia. 



20. CABAGANA. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, often fascicled, 

 the rachis usually terminated by a bristle or rigid prickle. 

 Stipules often spinescent. Flowers yellow, rarely white or 

 red ; peduncles 1 -flowered, seldom 2- or 3-flowered, fascicled 

 on the old nodes or axillary. Calyx gibbous above. Pod 



