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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. OC. Dampiéri.icAn 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. COLUTEA. 
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 xodovréa, which was 
given to a plant by the ancients. 
1. C. arboréscens. 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. HALIMODENDRON. 
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 éAipos, saline, and dzvdpor, a tree, from the nature of its 
habitat. 
1. H. argéntewm.—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 Russian Asia. 
20. CARAGANA. 
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 
