the seeds, ten or twelve in number, subspherical, attached in two rows 
by a short stalk to the upper margin, terminated at the extremity by the 
persistent style. : 
The seeds of this delicate and graceful little plant were re- 
ceived in our Botanic Garden from the Cape of Good Hope; — 
and the plants produced flower with us in the month of June. 
These were of short duration, and quickly succeeded by the com- 
paratively large and slightly inflated scariose seed-vessels. 
The genus was separated from Colutea by De CaNDOLLE, 
and. dedicated to M. DE LeEssert of Paris, a great patron of 
botanists, and eminent for his extensive herbarium. Mr Brown 
has followed the illustrious Genevese, and in the second edition 
of the Hortus Kewensis, has drawn up a character differing 
from that of Colutea, in the want of a bicallose vexillum, and 
of a “ stigma laterale sub apice uncinato styli, postice longitu- 
dinaliter barbati.” 
Of the genus Lessertia, all the known species are natives — 
of the Cape of Good Hope, as those of Colutea appear to be of 
the south of Europe. .Swainsonia, a genus instituted by Mr 
SALISBURY, seems very closely allied to this, and the species 
(S. galegifolia) figured in the Botanical Magazine, seems to 
possess altogether the habit of our present plant. 
Fig. 1. Single flower. Fig. 2. Vexillum. Fig. 3. One of the ale. Fig. 4. 
_ The carina. Fig. 5. Stamens and pistil. Fig. 6. Style and stigma. 
Fig. 7. The Legume (natural size). Fig. 8. The legume partly laid open, 
to shew the situation of the seeds.—All but Fig. '7. more or less maeaiies. 
