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CHOEOZEJIA FLAVA. — C. TRIANGULARIS. 
CHOEOZEMA FLAVA. 
Nat. OrdeTt Legtiminos^ \ Papilionacile. 
Generic Ch^vracter. — Chorozema, Lahill. — Calyx half five- 
toothed, two-lipped, upper lip bifid, lowex' three-parted. Co. 
rolla with the inflated keel shorter than the wings. Style short, 
hooked. Stigma oblique, obtuse. Legume inflated, one-celled, 
many-seeded, sessile, or sub-sessile. [DecandoUe, Prodroimts.) 
Chorozema flava. — Yellow-flowered Chorozema. — Leaves 
elongate-ovate, the margins sinuately toothed, the teeth and 
apex armed with slender spines, shiny above, reticulate beneath ; 
bracteoles about the middle of the pedicels ; standard of the 
corolla deep yellow, wings and keel lemon-coloured. 
17))ESCRIPTI0N. — A low evergreen shi-ub of a loose graceful habit. Stems slender, and witb 
•^ the pedicels and calyces sparingly covered with short hairs. Leaves from one to two 
inches long, elongate-ovate, shining above, opaque beneath, with the reticulated veins very 
distinct, the margins excavated by small shallow round sinuses, with acute spinous teeth 
between them, bearing some resemblance to the holly leaf. Flowers in terminal and axillary 
open leafy racemes ; pedicels arising in the axils of bracts, and with a pau- of minute bracts 
halfway up. Calj'x five-toothed and two-lipped. Corolla with the standard large, trans- 
versely expanded and emarginate, deep yeUow with green veins at the base ; wings lemon- 
yellow, longer than the keel ; keel inflated, enclosing the stamens and short-hooked style. 
Legume ? 
HiSTOET. — This elegant little plant is, like its congeners, a native of New South Wales ; 
its history is unknown, excepting that it was introduced by Baron Hugel, we believe, to Kew. 
Our figure is from a plant in the greenhouse of Messrs. Henderson of the Wellington Nm-sery, 
St. John's Wood, who inform us that it is a very freely blooming plant, flowering all through 
the summer. Its delicate habit and shiny leaves give it a very graceful character, and although 
the flowers are less showy than those of some other species, the freedom with which it produces 
them renders it a desirable greenhouse plant. 
The name of the genus is derived from choros, a dance, and zema, drink ; Labillardiere 
having named it in celebration of the discovery of a fi-esh water spring, while travelling on the 
west coast of New Holland. — A. H. 
CHOROZEMA TRIANGULARIS. 
Chorozema triangularis, Lindley. — Xi'iangular Chorozema. i longer than the teeth ; bracteoles at the summit of the pedicels. 
— Leaves sub-hastate, pinnatifid, spinous; the point entire, | — Lindl,^ Bot. JUg.X.l^l^) Paxtmi'sMag. Bot.nm.'ii.H. 
¥^ESCRIPTION. — A low, slender, evergreen shrub, with sub-hastate, pinnatifid, spinous- 
^ pointed leaves. The racemes axillary and terminal, leafy ; bracteoles at the summit of the 
pedicels. The standard of the corolla scarlet, with a yellow patch at the base ; wings pui-ple. 
Its habit is closer than that of most of the gemis. — A. H. 
History. — Introduced into this country in 1830, from New Holland, where it was disco- 
vered by Baxter. Otu- drawing was made fi-om a plant in the Brookland's Nui'sery. 
CrLiTTRE. — Among the additions lately made to our collections of hard- wooded plants, Cho- 
rozema flava is one of the most distinct and beautiful. It promises to be of free gi-owth, and 
flowering throughout the season, will be found usefrd for conservatory decoration. Being, 
however, of loose habit, it wlU requii'e considerable stopping and pinching back to induce it to 
form a bushy and compact specimen ; and imtU the plant attains considerable size, it will be 
advisable to remove the flower sjsikes directly they are produced. Chorozemas delight in rich 
turfy peat, -with a little fibrous loam and leaf mould, liberally intermixed with gritty sand, and 
potsherds broken small. If the plants ar-e strong and well rooted, give them a liberal shift, 
breaking the soU rather fine, and depending more for mechanical action upon the composition 
and mixture of the soils, than upon large pieces of turf and peat ; for though these may act 
advantageously for a time, the sand is soon washed away, and the composition becomes sour and 
imhealthy. After the plants are potted, place them in a close pit or a warm part of the green- 
house, water cautiously at the root untU they get into free growth, but sprinkle them Hghtly 
over head once or twice a day in bright clear weather. When the plants are thoroughly 
established they may be watered with clear weak Hquid manure twice a- week. Chorozemas 
Q are very subject to the attack of a species of Acarus or red spider, peculiar to them, and which '\ 
Xi it has been found veiy difficult to remove. The best plan is to place a plant upon its side in XI 
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