CHAP. XLI. 



i.eguminaY.e/k. pipta'ntiius. 



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British gardens, in warm sheltered situations. It may be considered 

 as rather tender, and not of many years' duration : nevertheless, in fine 

 seasons, it ripens abundance of seeds. It was introduced in 1821, and 

 flowers in May and June. It may be propagated by cuttings of the 

 roots, and of the shoots, as well as by seeds or layers. In most of the 

 counties north of London, the safest situation for it will be against a wall; 

 and it well deserves a place there, on account of its luxuriant deep green 

 foliage, and large bright yellow flowers. Price, in the London nurseries, 

 2s. 6d. each ; and at Bollwyller, where it is a green-house plant, 3 francs. 



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App. i. Half-hardy Species a^Sophoreae. 



Sophora veluthm Lindl. (Pot Peg.,t. 1185.) is a Nepal shrub, introduced in 1820, which grows to the 

 height of from 4 ft. to 6 ft. The flowers are pale purple, in long racemose spikes. Mr. G. Don sug- 

 gests the idea of grafting it on the S. jap6nica, by which means, he says, it would be rendered so 

 hardy as to stand our winters in open shrubberies. 



S. tomentdsa Hook , the S. occidentalis of Lindl. (Pot Peg., t. 3390.), is an evergreen Brazilian shrub, 

 growing to the height of 5 ft. There is a variety of this species not yet introduced, the leaves of 

 which are dark green and shining ; and the flowers are in spike-like panicles, in form and colour 

 much like those of the Spanish broom, but rather paler. (See Gard. Mag 



Edwdrds\a. chilensis 

 Miers, the Sophbra ma- 

 crocarpa of Smith and 

 of Don's Mill., (Lodd. 240 

 Pot Cab., t. 1125., and 

 our fig. 239.) is a native 

 of Chili, introduced by 

 Messrs. Loddiges in 

 1822. It was planted 

 against a wall in the 

 arboretum at Hackney; 

 and, after having stood 

 there 3 years, it flower- 

 ed there, for the first 

 time in England, in 

 April 1826. Its flowers 

 are large, and of a rich 

 yellow ; the leaves are ^0M 

 also large ; and, what l& ' 

 is rather uncommon in 

 plants of this order, they 

 are evergreen. In 1835, '" ^ 

 the plant in the arboretum of the Messrs. Loddiges was 5 ft. high. (See a description of it in Gard. 

 Mag., vol. xi. p. 584.) It may be considered as one of our most ornamental half-hardy shrubs, and 

 may probably prove to be quite hardy. It grows freely in light loamy soil, and is propagated by 

 cuttings. 



Edwdrds\& grandifibra Salisb., the Sophbra tetrapteraof Ait.,(^o/. Mag., 1. 167., and our fig. 240.) is 

 a handsome New Zealand low tree or shrub, introduced in 1772, and producing its large pendulous 

 bright yellow flowers in April and May. This is a most ornamental plant, and, in the environs of 

 London, succeeds perfectly when trained against a wall, requiring very little, if any, protection. In the 

 Chelsea Botanic Garden, there is a tree 12 ft. high ; and some nearly of equal height in the garden of 

 the Horticultural Society, and in Loddiges's arboretum. 



E. microphylla Salisb., 

 the Sophora microphylla 

 of Ait., (Lam. III., t. 325., 

 and our fig. 241.) is also a 

 low tree from New Zea- 

 land, closely resembling E. 

 grandiflbra," but much 

 smaller in all its parts. It 

 is equally hardy, if not 

 more so, and is truly orna- 

 mental when in flower. 

 Plants of it in the Botanic 

 Garden at Kew have stood 

 against a south wall for 

 upwards of 20 years. In 

 the Chelsea Botanic Gar- 

 den, there are plants of it 

 7 ft. high ; and in Dorset- 

 shire, in the Upway Nur- 

 sery, Dorchester, it has ripened seeds as a standard in the open border. There is a variety in the 

 Chelsea Botanic Garden, with very narrow leaves, which, in 3 years, has attained the height of 6 ft. 

 E.myriophylla Wand. (Don's Mill., 2. p. 111.), E. mfnima Lodd. Cat, is a New Zealand shrub, 

 introduced in 1818, and is, doubtless, as hardy as the other species of the genus. 



E. chrysophylla Salisb. (Don's Mill., 2. p. 111., Pot Reg., t. 738.) is a native of the Sandwich Islands, 

 where it grows to the height of 8 ft. or 10 ft, producing flowers rather smaller than those of E. mvrio- 

 phylla. It seems as hardy as any other species ; for a plant of it has stood in the front of the stove in 

 the Botanic Garden at Kew since it was first introduced in 1822. 



Cyclbpia genist'dides R. Br ; Pot. Mag., t 1259., the Gompholobium maeulatum of Pot Rep., t. 427 



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