CHAP. XLT. 



LEGUMINA'CEiE. PHASEOXEjE. 



649 



361 



ere are 

 most of 



also several 

 which have 



formation too late in the autumn of 1835, to be able to examine the plant, so as to determine any 

 thing certain respecting its species. Possibly, it may be a new species ; but we think it more pro- 

 bable, from the leaves of a plant in our own garden, also raised from the seeds we brought from 

 Carlsruhe, which has not yet flowered, that it is nothing more than Wistaria frutescens. 



App. I. Suffruticose hardy or half-hardy Species of Vhascblecr. 



"Lupinus arbbreus Sims (Bot. Mag., 



t. 628., and our fig. 361.), the tree 



lupine, is somewhat shrubby, and, as 



a standard, will grow to the height 



of 6 ft. Its native country is un- 

 known ; but it has been in cultiva. 



tion in British gardens since 1793 ; 



and it produces its pale yellow flow. 



ers in July and August. There is 



a large plant of it, trained against a 



wall, in the garden of the London 



Horticultural Society; but, though 



it grows as high as the wall, it cannot 



be considered as truly ligneous; and 



it is rather tendor. Flowers fragrant. 

 L. rnultiflbrus Desrous., with azure 



blue flowers ; h.dlb/frons Benth. {B. 



Reg.,t. 1642.), ashrubby Californian 



species, with deep blue flowers ; L. 



MarshaU\kx\usSwt. Fl.-Gard.fiA ser. 



t. 139., and our. fig. 3Cr2. ;L. canalicit- 



latus Swt. Fl.-Gard., 1st ser. t. 283. ; 



L. versicolor Swt. Fl.-Gard., 2d. ser. 



1. 12. ; L. pulche'/lus Swt. Fl.-Gard., 



2d. ser., t. 67. ; are all technically 



considered somewhat suffruticose, 



and will grow to the height of from 



3 ft. to 6 ft. when trained against 

 a wall lasting 2 or 3 years, if not destroyed during winter by severe frost, l h 

 other species described in Don's Miller, bearing the same general character, but 

 not yet been introduced. 



App. II. Half-hardy Species of Vhaseoleae. 



T>6lichos lignbsus L. (Smith Spic, t. 21.) is a ligneous climber, with rose-coloured flowers, having a 

 purplish keel, which is tolerably hardy : it has been an inhabitant of our green-houses since 1776, 

 and flowers in July and August. . 



Pachi/rhlzus trilobus Dec, Dobchos tnlobus Lout:, is a twining shrub, a native of China and 

 CochinlChina, where it is cultivated for the tubers of its roots, which are cylindrical, being about 2 ft 

 long and are boiled and eaten by the natives, in the same manner as yams are in the West Indies 

 Theflowers are of a bright purple, with a yellow spot in the centre of the standard. This species 

 has not yet been introduced. 



Mucuna macrocdrpa Wall. {PI. As. 

 Bar., 1. p. 41. t. 47., and our fig. 363) 

 is a twining shrub, a native of Nepal, 

 on the mountains. The flowers are 

 party-coloured, the standard green, 

 the wings purple, and the keel brown. 

 The legumes are very large, as are 

 the racemes of flowers. It has not 

 yet been introduced, but, when it is, 

 it will probably be found half-hardy 

 or hardy. 



Erythrlna Crista-galli L. {Smith 

 Exoi. Bot., 2. p. 95. ; Swt. Fl.-Gard., 

 p. 214.), the coral tree, is a splendid :^v,^ 

 plant, a native of Brazil, where it ^^%*« 

 grows to the height of 20 ft. In Bri- jSm?~ 



tish gardens, it will grow at the base XSBgp 

 of a wall, with a little protection dur- .Xsggjgig 

 ing winter, and produce its bright deep V^« 

 scarlet flowers from May to July. \^ 

 E. \aurifblia Jacq., the E. Crista-galli 

 of Bot. Beg., t. 313., is considered by 

 some as a species ; and by others as a 

 variety of E. Crista-galli. It pro- 

 duces its rich but dull crimson flowers 

 from July to September. No con- 

 servative wall ought to be without 

 these plants, since they may be easily 

 protected at the root by a little straw ; 

 and, even if killed down every year, 

 they will produce shoots, which will 

 terminate in long spikes of coral-like 

 flowers every season. They require 

 a deep sandy soil, somewhat rich ; and 

 are propagated by cuttings of the 

 shoots, or division of the root. There 

 are some other green-house species, 



not yet introduced, which are probably equally hardy with the above; and, probably, many of the 

 tove species would stand out with some protection. 



