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Introduced in 1731. This plant, from its being supposed to live only in a stove, and its taking so much room, 
from its growing two feet or three feet high, and branching very much, is now very little cultivated ; but if the 
seeds were raised on a hotbed, and planted out in June, it would be a great ornament to the flower-garden. 
C. LESCHENAULTII, Dec. 
A native of the Neilgherry mountains, where it is called Guili-guedje by the natives. The flowers are of 
a pure bright yellow. 
C. SPECTABILIS, Roth. 
The flowers are of a rich dark purple, with golden yellow anthers. Plants of this species, and C. retusa 
mixed, would produce a magnificent eflfect. C. spcctahilis is a native of the East Indies, and was introduced in 
1820. 
C. JUNCEA, Lin. 
Greatly resembling the common broom. A native of the East Indies, where its fibres are used as a substitute 
for hemp, and its young shoots as a food for cows. The flowers are small and yellow, but the pod is enormously 
large, being above a foot long and half a foot broad. The plant frequently grows eight feet high. It was introduced 
in 1700. There are several other species very nearly allied to this one ; all of which have yellow flowers and 
rush-like stems. 
C. TECTA, Roth. 
The flowers are yellow, striped with blackish-brown. There are several other species, natives of the East and 
West Indies, two of which are dwarf plants ; one, C. nana, Burm, has yellow flowers ; and the other C 
PROSTRATA, Roth. Both are natives of the East Indies, and both have been introduced. These plants would be 
suitable for rock- work in a warm situation, and would produce a fine effect. 
GENUS II. 
LUPINUS, L. THE LUPINE. 
Lin. Syit. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
stigma. Legume coriaceous, compressed, torulose. Erect herbs, with 
digitate leaves, composed of 5 — 9 leaflets, rarely simple, and racemoBe- 
spikes of blue, white or yellow flowers. — (G. Don.) 
Generic Chaiuctkr. — Calyx bilabiate. Vexillum reHcxed on the 
sides. Keel acuminated. Stamens monadelphous, tho^sheatb entire, 
bearing 5 small round anthers, and 5 oblong ones, which are later in 
coming to perfection. Style filiform, crowned by a bearded roundish 
Description, &c. — The lupine is a very interesting plant to the student in botany, as well as a showy one 
to the more general observer. It is interesting to the botanist on account of the largeness of its seed, and the 
distinct manner in which it shows the progress of germination ; and also from its affording an excellent example, 
on a large scale, of the different parts of a papilionaceous flower. If the seed of a lupine be laid in the upper 
part of a small crocus -glass, and kept covered with water, the process of vegetation may be distinctly traced. 
The aril, or skin that covers the seed, will first begin to crack and peel off, to admit the swelling cotyledons, into 
which the seed divides, to burst forth, and take the form of what are called the seed-leaves. From the knot in the 
centre of the seed, the little plumule rises, with the flower-stalk and true leaves ; while the root descends from 
the same point. The flower consists of five petals, one of which is much longer than the others. This large 
petal is called the standard or vexillum, and it stands at the back of the others. In front of the standard are 
two much smaller petals, which are called alae, or wings ; and below them are two petals curiously joined together, 
which form what is called the carina, or keel. All papilionaceous flowers are formed in this manner, and they 
