FABACEiE. 



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narrow straight leaves and yellow flowers. The species 

 most approved of for the greenhouse are acicularis, um- 

 bellata, Hoolcerii, latifolia, pliysoides, pungens, idicina, etc. 

 D. p/iysoides, a native of Western Australia, is a species 

 spoken of in the following terms of praise in the ' Botanical 

 Magazine' : — "The flowers are exceedingly handsome, varie- 

 gated with several colours — orange, red, green, and black 

 — produced copiously on the branches, and they continue 

 a long time in perfection, so that the plant is highly orna- 

 mental to the greenhouse in the months of April and May. 

 The whole plant is rigid and glaucous, the lower leaves often 

 small and terete, the upper ones oblong and obliquely cu- 

 neate, so that the shape a good deal resembles a hatchet, 

 more dilated at the upper angle, mucronated on the other, 

 and marked with two nerves on each side." They require 

 a turfy peat soil, and cuttings root in pots of sand and co- 

 vered with a hand-glass. 



CASSIA. 



Gen, Char. {Decandria Monogynia.) Calyx five-leaved; petals 

 five ; three upper anthers sterile, three lower beaked ; flowers 

 nearly regular. 



