LUPIMTS PUBESCENS AM) HAETWEGII. 
Nat. Order. — Legumxnosje. 
Generic Character. — Zupinus, Tournefort.— Calyx deeply 
two-lipped, upper lip shorter and two-toothed, the lower three- 
toothed. Corolla papilionaceous ; standard with the sides re- 
flexed, the wings coalescent above and behind, the keel acumi- 
nate, with two claws. Stamens ten, monadelphous, the tube 
entire; anthers alternately oblong and sub-reniform. Ovary 
with two or many ovules ; style filiform, incurved ; stigma 
terminal, sub-rotund, bearded. Legumen coriaceous, oblong or 
linear, compressed or roundish, two- or many-seeded, with 
oblique transverse constrictions between the seeds. — Herbs, 
under-shrubs or shrubs, in the warm, temperate and subtro- 
pical regions, more rarely in the tropics, all over the world ; 
most abundantly in North America ; leaves digitate with three 
or many leaflets, most frequently with five, very rarely simple 
by abortion ; stipules adnate to the petiole ; peduncles opposite 
the leaves, terminal ; flowers spiked or racemose, frequently 
whorled, with a single bract, most commonly with two brac- 
teoles.— CEndlicher Gen. Plant. 6473). 
Lupixrs pubescens, Bentham. — Hairy Lupine (Fig. 1). — 
Perennial [!], canescent with short patent hairs ; stipules small, 
awl -shaped; leaflets 7-9, oblong lanceolate, acute, shorter than 
the petiole, hairy on both sides ; flowers loosely half-whorled ; 
bracts very short, caducous ; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; 
upper Up of the minutely bracteolated calyx emarginate, lower 
entire ; corolla glabrous ; legume hairy, 4-6 seeded. 
Lutxnus Hartwegii, Lindlcij. — Hartweg's Lupine (Fig. 2). 
— Annual, hairy; stipules bristle-like, leaflets seven to nine, 
oblong, obtuse ; raceme elongated, many -flowered ; bracts 
bristle-like, plumose, twice as long as the unopened flowers ; 
setaceous bracteoles of the calyx very long; keel naked. 
BESCRIPTICXN". — L. pubescens is a half-hardy species allied to L. Bogotensis, hoary, with 
short spreading hairs, which are various in form, scarcely silky in the young plants. It 
grows from a foot and a half to two feet high. Leaves digitate, seven-nine-lobed, the lobes 
lanceolate, acute, hairy on both sides, shorter than the petiole; stipules small, rarely two lines 
long, awl-shaped. Eacenie bearing numerous flowers in imperfect whorls, the bracts very short, 
soon falling off; pedicels shorter than the calyx; bracteoles minute inconspicuous. Calyx two- 
lipped — the upper lip notched, the lower entire. Corolla violet blue. Legume hairy, with 
four to six seeds. 
L. Hartwegii is a half-hardy annual growing about two feet high, erect, clothed with long 
hairs. Leaves digitate, with seven to nine oblong obtuse green leaflets, very hairy with lax 
hairs. Racemes elongated many-flowered, with plumose setaceous bracts, quickly deciduous, 
twice as long as the unopened flowers ; calycine bracteoles very long, setaceous. Flowers 
brilliant blue with the standard reddish or sometimes purplish in the middle, the keel smooth. 
—A. H. 
History. — L. pubescens is found in Guatimala, and also in the neighbourhood of Quito in 
Peru. From the former place it was introduced by the Horticultural Society a few years since. 
It is a very free flowering plant, not so much known or cultivated as it deserves to be. The 
species is described as a perennial; but it assumes the annual character in cultivation. 
L. Hartwegii is a Mexican species introduced in 1838 ; and is one of the best of the annual 
species. "We devote this plate (perhaps some others), to somewhat "common'" plants, in the 
hope of seeing them introduced more generally to the gardens of amateurs, where the less showy 
older annual lupines arc still sometimes retained. 
Culture. — These Lupines arc very desirable plants for beds and borders ; and arc free- 
growing, in good rich garden soil. They should be sown in March and April, and will then 
bloom from Juno to October. The first sowing maybe made in pots in a frame as with the 
half-hardy annuals, if early blooming is an object. — M. 
THE GENERA AKD SPECIES OF CULTIVATED FE MS. 
By Mr. J. HOULSTON, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew; and Mr, T. MOOSE, F.B.S. 
Sub-order — POLYFODXACE2 : ZW&0 — PoLTPODIM. 
Sect. n. -Symnlophlobicrr, J. Smith.— From symploke, connection, and phlcpt, a vein ; the veins anastomosing, N u to form a 
network. 
MENISCIUM, Schrsier—Seme derived from meniskos, a crescent; the fructification funning short curved 
lines. 
Pori linear, medial, somewhat transverse, arcuate or orescent- shaped, continued across the junction of two 
anastomosing venules, and subsequently becoming confluent. Veins pinnate, curved, somen hal parallel ; venules 
<v arcuate, or angularly anastomosing, producing from their junction an cxcurivnt voinlot, free, or uniting with the 
anastomosing venules above, dividing the surface of the frond throughout into numerous rectilinear parallelograms. 
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