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in whose Exotic Flora, tab. 131, there is an excellent figure 

 and description. Notwithstanding these authorities, I must 

 confess that it appears to me to be a genuine species of Ana- 

 gyris, with which genus it agrees in the concretion of its 

 stipulae, in the inequality of its petals, and as far as I can 

 judge from the inspection of half ripe pods, in its fruit also. 

 The plant has indeed so entirely the habit of Anagyris fcetida 

 that it seems to me highly inexpedient to separate them 

 generically. Removing the species from Thermopsis will 

 also relieve that genus, which consists otherwise of herbace- 

 ous plants only, of a plant which is extremely different from 

 the rest in habit. 



It is a native of the northern districts of Nepal, whence 

 seeds seem to have been sent to England by Dr. Wallich 

 so long since as the year 1820. In our Gardens it forms a 

 tall bush, with handsome, ternate, dark green leaves, very 

 dark green branches, and large yellow flowers, which are 

 produced in great profusion from April to September. The 

 plant is perfectly hardy, and a good addition to our shrub- 

 beries, in which it has long been hoped in vain that Anagyris 

 fcetida might be established. 



LIII. Rubus parvifolius. Linnceus. 



R. foliis ternatis quinatisque subtus tomentosis, caule pedunculis petiolisque 

 aculeis recurvis. Ker in Botan. Regist.fol. 496. 



The fine season of 1825 caused this ornamental little plant 

 which was introduced by the Society from China so long ago 

 as 1818, to bear fruit in abundance, a circumstance that has 

 not been known to have occurred in Europe before. The 

 fruit was small, of a clear and brilliant pink colour, very juicy, 



