CH0R0ZEMA SPARTIOIDES. 
(Broom-like Chorozema.) 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA, 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Generic Character,— Calyx nearly five-parted, two- 
lipped ; upper lip bifid, lower one three-lobed. Corolla 
with a ventricose keel and short wings. Style short, 
uncinate. Stigma oblique, obtuse. Legume ventricose, 
one-celled, many-seeded, sessile or sub-sessile. 
Specific Character. —Plant an evergreen shrub. 
Branches irregular, slightly drooping. Leaves few, ses- 
sile, rather spatulate, retuse. Peduncles very long, 
axillary. Corolla large ; standard yellow, deep brown 
near the base, with streaks radiating from thence ; 
wings purplish. 
It was with some hesitation that we were led to regard the specious plant now 
figured as identical with the diminutive object represented in the Botanical Cabinet 
of Messrs. Loddiges under the name of C. spartioides^ — the latter appears so 
exceedingly small ; and we are assured by those gentlemen that their plant never 
grew higher than three or four inches, and always seemed peculiarly small and 
slender. Nevertheless, though we are not sure that our plant may not be a superior 
variety, we feel satisfied that it belongs to the species, as well from the form of its 
foliage as the colours of its blossoms. 
We may remark here, too, that the specimen from which our drawing was 
taken, had been highly cultivated ; and exhibits a strength and luxuriance which 
are not very common to the species. Indeed, we hold this point before us as a 
principle ; never figuring a plant from an imperfectly grown specimen when it is 
possible to procure it in a better-grown state ; and hence it is sometimes most 
erroneously considered that our plates are overdrawn or exaggerated likenesses of 
the objects we depict. 
In the present instance, we have only been able to show a portion of the speci- 
men. It grows up with a short stem, and then spreads out its branches horizontally, 
or in a partly drooping style. These branches are peculiarly irregular and zigzag ; 
but when the plant is nicely cultivated, it forms a low bush, not more than three 
inches above the soil, compact, and, during the blooming period, very showy with 
its fine yellowish flowers. It was raised from New Holland seeds several years 
