supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 599 



Flowers yellow, twin or ternate ; pedicels longer than the calyx, 

 pubescent. Calyx campanulate, membranaceous, pubescent, 2- 

 lipped ; upper lip 2-toothed ; lower ovate, quite entire. Stand- 

 ard oblong, blunt, longer than the wings, which are reflexed at 

 the margin. Keel pubescent at the base, with very narrow 

 linear claws. Stamens monadelphous, alternate ; anthers smaller. 

 Young legumes glabrous. {Bat. Reg.) A native of Stromboli, 

 and introduced into England in 1835, or before. It was raised 

 by the Hon. W. F. Strangways, in his curious garden at Abbots- 

 bury, and flowered there for the first time in May, 1836. In 

 the climate of London, it is supposed to require the protection of 

 a wall : there is a fine plant against that of the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden. " In foliage it bears a striking resemblance to 

 C. proliferus ; but its flowers are altogether different. Its real 

 affinity seems to be with C. triflorus, from which it differs in being 

 a much larger and more woody plant, with terminal racemes of 

 flowers ; in its larger, deeper, and more distinctly campanulate 

 calyx; and smooth, not hairy pods. It seems as if it were an 

 intermediate species between C. Laburnum and C. triflorus." 

 {Bot. Reg., Oct.) 



1985. iUPrNUS Tourn. [fl.-gar. 2 s. 35&. 

 *17711a macrophyllus ^e?j/A. large-leaved [? long-leafleted] ^ A spl 4 in.jl. B S s.l Sw. 



A tall, robust, perennial herb, the whole clothed with copious 

 pubescence. The stems are from 3 ft. to 4 ft. high ; the racemes 

 1 ft. long, and the flowers from ten to fifteen in each whorl, 

 and those of one whorl nearly or quite touching those of the 

 next. " Nearly related to L. polyphyllus, from which it is prin- 

 cipally distinguished by its more robust habit, and larger leaves, 

 which, together with the rest of the plant, are clothed with copious 

 pubescence. The whorls of flowers are also more crowded, the 

 pedicels shorter, the lower lip of the calyx longer than the upper 

 one, and the corolla is of a purple colour. In other respects 

 both plants are much alike, and it is not improbable that they 

 may be only forms of the same species. We have, however, 

 preferred following Mr. Bentham, who regards them as distinct 

 species, not having had ourselves sufficient opportunities of study- 

 ing their characters when growing together." A highly orna- 

 mental plant, well deserving a place in every flower-garden. 

 Plants are in the nursery of Mr. Gorrie, Stratford, Essex. {Brit. 

 Fl.-Gard., Oct.) 



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1506. CRATjE^GUS 12925 Ar6nia Bosc, Dec, Loud. Arb. brit., Bot. reg. t. 1897. 



Synonymes : Jliespilus Arbnia fVi'lld. ; Mespilus orientalis apii folio subtus hirsito Pocock. 



Spec. Char. — Nearly spineless. Branchlets tomentose. Leaves 

 cuneate, pinnatifid, and trifid ; lobes broad, linear, somewhat cut 

 at the tip ; shining above, rather glabrous and glaucous beneath ; 

 corymbs almost sessile; fruit of an apricot colour, somewhat 

 angled, having two stones, which have a very thick shell. (Litidl.) 



