226 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
§ vi. Chrondnthus Dec. 
Derivation. From chronos, a year, and anthos, a flower ; applied to this section because the petals 
remain attached tothe calyxes all the year. 
Sect. Char. Calyx with the upper lip bifid, and the lower one _trifid ; lobes 
acute, of the same length as the tube. Petals permanent. Legume oval, 
much compressed, 2-seeded. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 157.) 
st 27. C. ornrenTA‘LIs Lois. The Oriental Cytisus. 
Identification. Lois. in N. Du Ham., 5. p.156,; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 157. 
Synonyme. C. orientalis, &c., Gerard and Vail. Herb. 
Engravings. Pluk. Phyt., t. 31. f. 3.; and our jig. 365. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stems erect, hairy. Leaves almost sessile, 
trifoliolate, hairy; leaflets linear, acute. Flowers large and 
yellow, subterminal, on short pedicels, and few. The flowers 
and pods are both glabrous. Calyx hairy, more 5-cleft than 
bilabiate. (Dec. Prod., ii, p. 157.) An erect hairy shrub. 
Native of the Levant. Height 2ft. to 3ft. Introduced in 
1818. Flowers yellow, large and persistent ; June and July. 
Legume black; ripe in October. 365. C. orient&lis. 
Other Species of Ciytisus—This genus, in British gardens, is in such a state of 
confusion, that nothing can be done in it satisfactorily till all the kinds are 
collected together, and cultivated for two or three years till they show their 
flowers and fruit. Perhaps two thirds of the alleged species in the London 
gardens are only varieties. In the mean time, all that a cultivator can do is to 
procure as many kinds as he can; and in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges 
he will find the greater number of those above described, though some of them 
have been killed by the winter of 1837-8. Among the species probably hardy, 
by far the handsomest in point of foliage is the C. edlicus Guss. (Bot. Reg. 
{ t. 1902., and our jig. 366.) 
It is a tall, very hoary 
shrub, A native of Strom- 
boli. Height 5 ft. to 8 ft. 
Introd. in 1835. Flowers 
pubescent, yellow, cam- 
panulate, and the young 
= legumes glabrous. It has 
S, the appearance, Dr. Lind- 
™ ley observes, of being an 
intermediate species be- @ 
tween C. Labirnum and 
C.trifldrus. (See Arb. Br., 
A Ist ed, p. 2551.) Cra © A Cftisus racemosus. 
ane ‘Wcemdsus Marnock (Flor. 
566. Cytisus wedlicus. Mag., vol. ii. t. 18.; and our fig. 367.) is a hand- 
some shrub, of moderately robust habit; a native of the Peak of Teneriffe. 
Height 3ft.to4ft. Introduced in 1835. The flowers are terminal, in a 
spike about 6 in. in length, and of a bright yellow. There were plants in the 
Epsom Nursery in 1838. Many other species of C¥tisus are described by 
authors, for which we refer to Don’s Miller, Webb’s Iter Hispaniense, Bois- 
sier’s Elenchus Plantarum, Duby and DeCandolle’s Botanicon Gallicum, and 
the first edition of this Arboretum. Many genera of ligneous plants require to 
be cultivated together, in the same garden, in order to settle their nomen- 
clature: but while some of these, as Quércus, Pinus, &c., would consume the 
greater part of a lifetime in procuring them from the different quarters of the 
world, and waiting till they came into flower, the genera Genfsta, C'ytisus, 
and Adenocarpus are almost exclusively European, and might be collected in 
the course of one year; while, in three years after the seeds were sown, the 
plants would in most cases come into flower. It is surprising, therefore, that 
some amateur of leisure does not undertake their arrangement. 
