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WISTARIA CONSEQUANA. 
(consequa's wistaria.) 
class. order. 
DIADELPHIA. DEOANDRIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx cam pan ul ate, somewhat bilabiate; upper lip with two short teeth, lower one 
with three subulate teeth. Corolla papilionaceous. Vexillum bicallose. Wings conforming to 
the keel, which is two-edged. Stamens diadelphous. Nectariferous tube girding the stipe of the 
ovary. Legume standing on a short stipe, coriaceous, two-valved, one-celled, rather torulose at 
the seeds. — Don's Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plants, climbing or trailing shrub. Leaves laxly and unequally pinnate, from 
nine inches to a foot in length ; leaflets ovately-lanceolate, acuminate, with very short petioles, 
triflingly undulated, covered with sericeous down ; stipules small, scale-like, villous. Racemes 
usually at the ends of the branches, drooping, many-flowered. Suds collected together in the form 
of a catkin, and enveloped in large hairy bracts, which fall off as the flowers expand. Flowers 
showy, bluish-violet. Calyx short, campamilate, somewhat tinged with purple, bilabiate ; upper lip 
ovate, emarginately truncate ; lower one trifid, pointed. Vexillum rounded, reflexed, cordate at 
the base. Wings and keel of the same shape, parallel, rather shorter than the standard, and of a 
deeper hue, obtuse. Stamens with a small secreting hollow below the insertion of the single 
filament. Anthers short, ovate. Germen pedicellate, linear, slightly compressed, villous, many- 
seeded. 
Synonymes. — Wistaria sinensis. Glycine sinensis. 
Unwilling that the popularity and comparative commonness of this peculiarly 
handsome plant should prevent us from indelibly recording its beauty in our pages 
by a well-executed drawing, we have determined to disregard those dissuasives, 
and present our readers with the figure now annexed. It is not our ordinary 
practice to delineate those plants which may be witnessed in every nursery, and in 
most private gardens where opportunities exist of cultivating them with facility ; 
but all will concede that the charming Wistaria deserves to form an exception to 
any such rule. 
No plant within the limits of our knowledge is more universally esteemed, or 
has such sterling claims to our attention. It has been pronounced, by experienced 
individuals, to be completely hardy ; it can be grown in almost any position, either 
on the rafters, roof, or back wall of a greenhouse ; it may be trained to a wall or 
flat trellis in the open air, a circular trellis, or a pole. It may likewise be treated 
as a dwarf shrub, and, by constant pruning, brought to thrive without any foreign 
support ; or, finally, its branches can be allowed to trail over rock work and be 
intermixed with the stones composing it, so as to form independent roots. Beyond 
