DILLWYNIA CLAVATA. 
(Club-shaped Dillwynia.) 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOS^, 
Generic Character.— CaZ?/.*' five-cleft, bilabiate, ta- 
pering at the base. Petals inserted in the middle of 
the tube of the calyx. Lamina of vexillum twice the 
breadth of the length, two-lobed; lobes spreading. 
Ovary two- seeded. Style hooked. Stigma capitate. 
Legume ventricose. Seeds strophiolate.— Don'* Gard. 
and Botany. 
Specific Character.— PZani an evergreen shrub. 
Leaves numerous, sessile, nearly linear, mucronate. 
Flowers in clusters near the summit of the branches. 
Vexillum very broad, somewhat kidney-shaped, yel- 
low, streaked with red. Wings and heel reddish- 
crimson. 
Our figure of this pretty greenhouse shrub was made in the conservatory of 
his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick, Middlesex, where it is well 
cultivated under the superintendence of Mr. Edmonds, and blooms at several 
periods of the year, according to the state of the specimens ; April, May, and the 
other months connected with spring, are, however, its usual seasons of flowering. 
In common with the rest of the genus, it is an Australian plant, and appears 
to have been derived from the Swan River settlement. "We have observed it in 
the London collections for the last two or three years, and it is abundant in most 
respectable nurseries. 
Although not so gay a plant as some of its allies, or, at least, not so generally 
producing a profusion of bloom, it is really a superior species when properly 
managed ; its seeming inferiority being due to its disposition to grow straggling 
when not artificially checked. There is, in fact, a laxness in its manner of growth, 
which is by no means favourable to its aspect, but which may readily be controlled 
and altered by the timely use of the simplest expedients. It is a plant calculated 
to bring practical skill into play ; and when it has been subjected to appropriate 
treatment, it rewards the cultivator most liberally. 
Its habitude being stronger, more robust, and less branching than that of most 
Dillwynias, it requires pruning to keep it dwarf and symmetrical ; and, to give 
this pruning its full influence, it should be done while the shoots are growing, and 
not in the autumn, winter, or very early spring. It must likewise be began in 
the earliest stage of the plant's progress, and is to be continued as often as the 
