base. Stipules like the leaflets, but rather shorter, and broader, and 
less wedge-shaped. Peduncles four to six inches long, bearing an 
umbel of four to eight fragrant flowers, larger than in our Lotus cor- 
niculatus. Floral leaf composed of three nearly sessile leaflets, like 
those of the stem leaves but smaller. Pedicels much shorter than the 
calyx. Calyx campanulate, nearly smooth, the teeth linear, nearly 
equal in length, and as long or rather longer than the tube. Petals 
white excepting the keel, which is tipped with a purplish tint. Pod when 
full grown nearly two inches long, straight, cylindrical, divided across 
in the inside between the seeds with a cellular tissue. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. The genus Lotus, if con¬ 
fined to what are perhaps its most natural limits, contains chiefly 
South European, North African, and central Asiatic plants, with a few 
Australian species, for all the American plants described as Loti will 
probably ultimately be included in Hosackia, or referred to a new 
genus. One, our common wild Lotus, has a very extensive range, 
being found all over Europe, and central Asia, and being like¬ 
wise common in Australia; in the latter country have also been found 
a pink-flowered species,published as Lotus Australis: an unpublished 
scarlet one, and the present one, with very delicate pale, almost white, 
flowers, which have the advantage of being very fragrant. It is a 
native of Van Diemen’s Land, or, as it is now m.ore generally called, 
Jasmannia, from whence specimens have been sent by R. Gunn, Esq. 
under the No. 439, and grows also, probably, along the South Coast 
of the Australian continent. G. B. 
Introduction; Where grown; Culture. This was first 
raised by Messrs. Loddiges, in 1822, from Australian seeds, and it 
has since been again sent over by various collectors, and will probably 
soon become common in conservatories. It flowers about midsummer, 
and may be increased from seeds or cuttings. Use sandy soil with 
plenty of drainers. 
Derivation of the Names. 
Lotus, the name of a great variety of plants amongst the ancients, applied bj 
modern botanists to the present genus, under the impression that our Lotus 
corniculatus might have been the wild herbaceous Lotus of Dioscorides. 
Albidus, whitish. 
Svnonyme. 
Lotus albidus. Loddiges; Botanical Cabinet, t. 1063. 
