supplementary to 'Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit, 137 



An evergreen shrub, with slender branches, oblong, serrated, 

 acute, green leaves, and corymbs of white flowers produced on 

 short axillary shoots towards the tips of the branches. The spe- 

 cies is dioecious, and it is the male sex which is figured. The 

 corolla in this is of five distinct petals, and its outline of greater 

 extent than that of a sixpenny-piece. The stamens are fifteen. 

 {Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



The figure is from this sex of the species, in a living state, in 

 the garden of the London Horticultural Society, where it is 

 trained to the southern face of a tall wall, and is sheltered above, 

 more or less, through the winter. It is pleasing in its foliage and 

 its flowers. 



LXXVII. LegumindcecB. 



1985. ZUPrNUS [between Brazoria and San Felipe (Mr. Drummond) 1835 S s. 1 Bot. mag.'3467 

 *subcarn6sus Hook, almost-fleshy-fen/ed? O or 1 jl Dp B W Texas (M. Berendier), and 



The leaf has a long petiole, and a disk of five leaflets that are 

 in substance singularly thick and almost fleshy ; they are glabrous 

 on the surface, and silky with scattered hairs on the subface, and 

 severally obovate-lanceolate and retuse. Flowers disposed in 

 terminal pyramidal racemes, many in a raceme. Corolla ex- 

 tremely richly coloured : standard bent back, especially at the 

 sides, orbicular, deep rich blue, with a nearly quadrangular 

 white or yellowish-white spot in the centre ; wings deep blue, 

 oval, combined by their lower margin and concealing the keel, 

 which is much acuminated, white, purple-black at its tip. " An 

 extemely beautiful, and, apparently, very distinct species." 

 Raised, and one may conclude in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 

 from seeds received from the late Mr. Drummond. {Bot. Mag., 

 Feb.) 



2066. TRIFO'LIUM 



tl8515 reflexura i. reflexed {the effloresced flowers) Ji. A ot ?1 jn.jl Ro W "long cultivated in 

 the southern states of North America, and as farnorth as Kentucky." "Texas." 179* S 1 

 Bot. mag. 3471 



Long cultivated in the southern states of North America, and 

 even as far north as Kentucky, by the name of buffalo clover. 

 The figure, as compared with the kind of clover cultivated in 

 British fields ( T. pratense) , shows a more globular head of flowers, 

 and these individually party-coloured : the standard, by the de- 

 scription, is of a beautiful rose-red ; the wings and keel are white. 

 " After flowering, the wings spread considerably, and, by slightly 

 cohering with the sides of the keel, they cause it to dilate and to 

 have the appearance of a white bird with its wings expanded." 

 Stems decumbent. Foliage resembling that of T. pratense. 

 Flowers, after flowering, deflexed : those of T. repens, the white- 

 flowered clover, are obviously so. T. reflexum is stated to be 

 handsome, and one would desire it in a garden. Is not the field 

 clover a very ornamental plant? Tl reflexum has been raised 

 from seeds, which the late Mr. Drummond had sent from Texas ; 

 it is most probable, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. (Bot. Mag., 

 Feb.) 



