CHOROZEMA TRIANGULARE. 
(Triangular Cliorozema.) 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOSiE . 
Generic Character. —Calyx nearly five-parted, Specific Character.— Plant a low, evergreen shrub, 
two-lipped ; upper lip bifid, lower one three-lobed. Leaves subhastate, pinnatifid, spinous, pointed ; lobes 
Corolla with a ventricose keel and short wings. Style entire. Bracts at the summit of the pedicels. Flowers 
short, hooked. Stigma oblique, obtuse. Legume ven- small, showy, 
tricose, one-celled, many-seeded, sessile or sub-sessile. 
The present species is one of the prettiest of its interesting family, and in the 
greenhouse, when in a healthy state, is always interesting; its singularly-angled 
bright-green leaves rendering it so even when not in flower. It is a native of 
New Holland, where it was discovered by Baxter. To this country it was intro- 
duced in 1830, but now even is somewhat scarce, which may arise in part from the 
delicacy of its nature, it being one of the more delicate of the genus. 
In habit it is naturally less straggling than some species of Cliorozema, and by 
judicious managing can be rendered very compact : it is in an intermediate degree 
robust, well clothed with leaves, and bears in early spring, very freely, its short spikes 
of lively scarlet and purple flowers ; and although, in common with the greater part of 
Legumi?ioscB, doing so at that period only in a greater degree than many others of 
them, it is from the cause already mentioned, throughout the whole year an object 
of interest. 
As compared with some other delicate plants of the same natural order, and with 
closely allied genera, Chorozemas are not generally cultivated with that success their 
merits would render desirable. One of the principal causes of failure in managing 
them, in common with fine-rooted plants in general, is, we are persuaded, the injury 
their hair-like roots are too frequently exposed to from the pots in which the plants 
are growing being unguarded from the injurious effects of burning sun, and other 
drying influences, conjunctively with evils of which these are the fertile source, not 
less in magnitude, but which here would occupy too much space to detail. 
C. triangulares as before noticed, being delicate, some difficulty in cultivating it 
well (as may be expected) is experienced : when, however, well grown, it amply 
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Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
