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PAPILIONACEOUS PLANTS. 
Pultencea, liloba, stricta, and retusa, are very handsome when 
well managed; stricta requires to be frequently stopped while 
young, but biloba, under any management, will come covered 
with its pretty yellow and red flowers every season. 
Billwynia. All this genus well deserves to be grown in every 
greenhouse, but to particularize, such as fioribunda, glycini- 
Jlora, cinerascens, and ericifolia should never be omitted ; these 
are all yellow, with a blotch of red in the upper petals. 
Oxylobium pultencea is the only species worth growing, hut that 
is a real beauty, the dense heads of large bright, entirely 
yellow flowers make it particularly desirable. 
Mirbelia is composed of several very pretty species, well deserving 
attention, more especially reticulata, fioribunda, pungens , and 
speciosa, because of their free habit of blooming, and for the 
prevailing purple which distinguishes them from the majority 
of the class. 
Burtonia conferta,' or violacea, as it is commonly called, is a 
lovely little plant with somewhat the habit of a heath, and 
beautiful bright, deep blue flowers. 
Eutaxia myrtifolia is another old plant that has been thrown 
out of cultivation, because, I presume, of its inclination to 
ascend ; but this may readily be corrected while the specimens 
are young, and then few plants exceed in genuine loveliness. 
Of those not botanically called Papilionaceous, but included in 
other allied sub-orders, and possessing the same general charac¬ 
teristics, I would mention, as calculated to meet the tastes of 
most cultivators, the following : 
Hovea celsi, pungens, and chorizemafolia. The only objection to 
be urged against these plants is their tendency to get up, as 
it is called, but if we were to confine our attention only to 
such as grow in the desired manner, much of the credit due 
to superior cultivation would be thrown away, and the merit 
of management considerably lessened. The beautiful blue, 
purple, and white flowers of these species will amply repay 
any trouble that may be taken with them. 
Goodia lotifolia is a pretty growing and extremely free flowering 
plant, that only requires to be known to ensure it a place 
among plants of the kind; its flowers are large, pale yellow, 
and faintly marked with red. 
