December 21, 1892.] 



Garden and Forest. 



605 



Virginianiim, which was introduced from the West Indies The genus is almost entirely American, chiefly Brazilian. 



last year as "a new and beautiful species of Clitoria." It is a near ally of Clitoria, of which genus C. ternata, a 



Of the other twenty-four species of Centrosemaknownto stove-climber, with large pea-shaped deep blue flowers, is 



botanists, none, so far as I can ascertain, have ever been a well-known garden-plant. All the species are more or 



Fi^. 103. — Galax aphylla.^See pa^e 604. 



cultivated here as garden-plants. Judged by dried speci- 

 mens in the herbarium, by pictures and the descriptions of 

 botanists anS. collectors, a considerable proportion of these 

 plants are deserving of the attention of gardeners. 



less climbers, some of them twining like a Scarlet-runner, 

 others being of less rambling habit. The leaves are gen- 

 erally trifoliate, the leaflets Phaseolus-like, except in one or 

 two species, in which two of the leaflets are entirely sup- 



