PLATE DCXXfV 



LOTUS australis. 

 Southern Lotus y or JBird' s-foot Trefoil. 



CLASS XVIL ORDER IV. 

 DIADELPHIA DECAISDRIA, Stamens in Two Sets, Ten. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Legumen cylindricum, strictiim. Filamenta 

 sub-cuneiformia. Alae sursum longitudi- 

 naliter conniventes. 



Pod cylindrical, straight. Filaments somewhat 

 wedge-shaped. Wings united lengthways 

 above. 



Lotus herbaceus, foliis stipulisque lanceolatis 

 obovato-lanceolatisque pubescentibus ; flo- 

 ribus amplis paucis ; capitulis longe pe- 

 dunculatis : leguminibus tereti-linearibus 

 calyce duplb longioribus. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Herbaceous Lotus, with lanceolate and inverse- 

 ly ovate downy leaves and stipules j large 

 flowers few together, in heads upon long 

 footstalks J the pods roundish linear, and 

 double the length of the calyx. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The empaleraent. 



2. The vexillum. 



3. One of the wings. 



4. The keel. 



.5. Chives and pointal. 



6. The chives spread open and magnified. 



New Holland, so rich in new families of plants, sometimes (though rarely) also furnishes us with a 

 few species belonging to genera common to our northern regions, as in Convolvulus, Chenopodiura, 

 Campanula, and our present subject, of which the specimen was communicated from Fonthill last 

 July by Mr. Milne. By whom the species was introduced we have not been able to learn j but we 

 have seen dried specimens of it, brought over by the late Governor King, in the herbarium of 

 A. B. Lambert, Esq. 



The plant is of humble growth, and rather conspicuous when in blossom from its fine heads of 

 flowers, but has not yet produced seeds in this country ; and our account of the fruit is from the foreign 

 specimens above mentioned. Like most other New Holland plants, Lotus australis requires to be 

 kept in the Greenhouse, or at least sheltered in winter. 



In our account of Euphorbia meloformis we omitted to add that the figure was taken from a fine 

 plant in the collection of J. Vere, Esq. Kensington Gore, in August last. 



