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THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
The plate in my last number (p. 225) was figured from some greenhouse 
plants in the nursery of Mr. Knight, King’s Road, Chelsea. I was 
very much struck with their beauty and the brilliancy of their colours, 
and I was told that they had been all raised from Australian seeds, by 
Mr. Knight. In consequence of my absence from town, they were sent 
to Mr. Don, who wrote the following description of them; according to 
which, it appears that their names are different from those affixed to 
them at Mr. Knight’s, and consequently from those in my plate. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANTS FIGURED IN PLATE 8, P. 225, ACCORDING TO 
THE NAMES AFFIXED TO THEM BY MR. GEORGE DON. 
AOTUS, Smith. THE AOTUS. 
Lin. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Leguminosse. 
Generic Character. —Calyx without auricles. Pods stalked. Seeds dotted, rugose. Leaves 
rough above. 
Description, &c. —This genus is very nearly allied to PultenEea; but 
it differs in the calyx being without any ear-like appendages, whence 
the name, which is derived from two Greek words, signifying “ no ears.” 
1.—AOTUS VILLOSA, Smith. THE HAIRY AOTUS. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 949, and our fig. 1, in Plate 8. 
Specific Character. —Leaves linear, acute, hairy; flowers solitary, axillary, forming racemes 
at the top of the branches. 
Description, &c. —This pretty little plant was raised at Mr. Knight’s 
exotic nursery, from seeds received last year from Yan Diemen’s Land ; 
but it appears from Mr. Don to have been first introduced in 1790. It 
is a greenhouse shrub, flowering nearly all the summer, and it should be 
grown in a mixture of sand and peat. 
PLATYLOBIUM, R. Br. THE AUSTRALIAN FLAT PEA. 
Lin. Syst. Diadelphia Decandria. Nat. Ord. Leguminosae. 
Generic Character. —Calyx bracteate, two-lipped; upper lip round, large, bifid. Stamens 
all united. Legume naked, compressed, winged at back, many-seeded. 
Description, &c. —The pods of all the species belonging to this genus 
have showy flowers, and large, flat, broad pods. ‘ They are all natives of 
Australia. 
