CHOROZEMA TRIANGULARE, 
(Triangular Cliorozema.) 
Class . Order. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMIN OSiE . 
Generic Character. — Calyx nearly five-parted, 
wo-lipped ; upper lip bifid, lower one three-lobed. 
lorolla with a ventricose keel and short wings. Style 
hort, hooked. Stigma oblique, obtuse. Legume ven- 
ricose, one-celled, many-seeded, sessile or sub-sessile. 
Specific Character. — Plant a low, evergreen shrub. 
Leaves subhastate, pinnatifid, spinous, pointed ; lobes 
entire. Bracts at the summit of the pedicels. Flowers 
small, showy. 
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 
iright-green leaves rendering it so even when not in flower. It is a native of 
Slew Holland, where it was discovered by Baxter. To this country it was intro- 
luced in 1830, but now even is somewhat scarce, which may arise in part from the 
lelicacy 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 
udicious managing can be rendered very compact : it is in an intermediate degree 
•obust, well clothed with leaves, and hears in early spring, very freely, its short spikes 
if lively scarlet and purple flowers ; and although, in common with the greater part of 
jeguminosce, doing so at that period only in a greater degree than many others of 
hem, it is from the cause already mentioned, throughout the whole year an object 
>f interest. 
As compared with some other delicate plants of the same natural order, and with 
losely allied genera, Chorozemas are not generally cultivated with that success their 
aerits would render desirable. One of the principal causes of failure in managing 
hem, in common with fine-rooted plants in general, is, we are persuaded, the injury 
heir hair-like roots are too frequently exposed to from the pots in which the plants 
re growing being unguarded from the injurious effects of burning sun, and other 
lying influences, conjunctively with evils of which these are the fertile source, not 
ess in magnitude, but which here would occupy too much space to detail. 
C. triangulare, as before noticed, being delicate, some difficulty in cultivating it 
rail (as may be expected) is experienced : when, however, well grown, it amply 
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