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CHOROZEMA DICKSONIL 
(mr. Dickson's chorozem4.) 
class. ordkh. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
' NATURAL ORDER^ 
LEGUMINOS^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx half five-cleft, bilabiate ; upper lip bifid, lower one tliree-parted. Keel 
of the flower ventricose, shorter than the wings. Style short, hooked, crowned by an obliquely 
obtuse stigma. Legume ventricose, one-celled, many-seeded, sessile or subsessile. — Don's Gard. 
and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant an erect, evergreen shrub, branching freely, growing from two to three feet 
in height. Leaves usually alternate, sessile, ovate- lanceolate, mucronulate. Flowers axillary, 
solitary or in pairs, having long peduncles. Standard large, bright red, with a yellow blotch at the 
base. Wings and keel purplish crimson. 
No genus of Australian plants contains fewer uninteresting species, or com- 
prises more generally those which are positively ornamental, than Chorozema. 
Each plant composing it is more or less beautiful on account of the showy colours 
of its flowers, and there are a few which likewise possess a healthy and vigorous 
habit, while most of them may be made to assume a luxuriant appearance bv 
judicious treatment. 
C. Henchmannii, which perhaps bears a greater profusion of blossoms than any 
of the dwarfer kinds, has unfortunately very meagre foliage, and its poverty in this 
respect is often rendered more conspicuous by the number of stakes, or the inap- 
propriate trellis to which it is supported. If slightly pruned, and thus induced to 
grow in a more bushy manner, it will not need the assistance of stakes, and its 
aspect will be greatly improved. C. ovata, again, slender and weakly as it usually 
is, may be greatly improved by cautious pruning, and by care in the administration 
of water. 
The present highly elegant species, which has, when properly grown, flowers 
fully equal to those of C. ovata, sufi'ers much from neglect, and is often met with 
in a rambling, unornamental condition. If aptly managed, however, it displays a 
