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the ends of the branches. Prpice.s at first from a quarter to half an 
inch long; often nearly an inch long when the pod is ripe, smooth, or 
more frequently slightly hairy. Bracts at the base of the pedicels, 
and bracteol about half way up, subulate, very deciduous, leaving a 
small toothlike scar. Canyx about two lines long, more or. less co- 
loured, smooth or slightly hairy; the two upper teeth very broad with 
a sharp angle on the interior side, lateral teeth broadly ovate, lower 
one narrower, pointed, all of them less than half a line long. ' STan- 
DARD more than twice as long as the calyx, of a rich purplish red, with 
a thickened white spot at the base, the very short claw bent inwards. 
Wines of the colour of the standard, with a fine subulate tooth at the 
base on the inner side. Kerert rather deeper coloured, each petal with 
a tooth at the base like the wing. Ovary smooth, nearly sessile, with- 
out any sheaf round the base, with about ten ovules. Pop about 
two inches Jong and three lines broad, narrowed at the base, termi- 
nated by the subulate style, perfectly smooth. 
Poputar aND GeoGcrapuicaL Notice. This and some other 
a distinct genus, adopted by all botanists under Thunberg’s name, 
unfortunately inapplicable to it, if any importance be attached to its 
etymology. It would have been better, therefore, if Thunberg’s name 
had been retained as a mere sectional designation for the Podalyrie 
with calyptriform bracts, and a new name given to the present plant, 
but it does not now appear worth while to make the change, and thus 
add to the synonymes. From wild specimens it would appear that 
there isa larger variety of this plant with obovate leaves, larger flowers, 
and said to become a tree, but some specimens again are intermediate. 
The species has an extensive range, having been found in rocky situa- 
tions, from the chain of the C — to the hills of the province 
of Swellendam. G. B. 
InTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTure. Hypocalyptus obcor- 
datus was tutrodticed to this country in 1823 as Crotalaria cordifolia. 
drawing was made in the Birmingham Horticultural Society’s 
Garden, where the plant has greenhouse protection, is potted in sandy 
joam and peat, and increased by cuttings of the half-ripened wood. 
RIVATION OF TH 
Hypocaryprvs from jo since: and danieves ‘aie or hid, in allusion to the 
s of a supposed species,as above mentioned. Oxcorparus, obversely 
heart-shaped. 
NONYMES, ‘ 
near Leesan: Linneus: Mantissa, p. 266. Loddiges’ Botanical 
Cc 
Hypocatyrrvs oscorpatvs. “'Thanberg : Flora Capensis ed. Schultes, p. 570, 
De Candolle Prodromus, v. 2, p. 537. 
