leaf’ to the petiole while seedlings, or one here and there 
occasionally and irregularly ata later stage of growth. On 
that in Mr. Griffin’s conservatory at South Lambeth, from — 
which the drawing has been taken, we found no sign of 
any leaf, but merely long slender petioles, resembling so 
many bare rushy twigs. On one of the spontaneous speci- 
mens preserved in the Banksian Herbarium we observed 
two abruptly pinnated leaves, the one with two pair of ob- 
long obcordate leaflets of about half an inch in léngth, the 
other with three pair. 
The genus was instituted by Thunberg, and seems prin- 
cipally distinguished from Sparrium by the numerously — 
seeded cylindric legume or pod, and the broadly rounded — 
sinuses of the calyx. . 
_ The present plant was about five feet high, vimineous, — 
with round streaked glaucous scattered branches. On 
the side of the petioles which faced the branch, appeared 
generally six small teeth-like stipules, arranged in three 
pairs, equidistantly situated between the two extremities of 
the petiole, at the base of which was an articular constric- 
tion with a pale yellow zone. Flowers smaller than those 
of the common yellow Lupine, of a red-violet colour, not, 
as in the specimen observed by Linneus, yellow; racemes 
few-flowered, terminating the solitary straight upright axil- 
_ lary peduncles, which were marked with the purple spots 
that have suggested the name for the species. The corolla 
is singular, as far as our experience reaches, in producing 
on each side of the carina (or boat of the flower,) from 
within outwards, a short hollow conic pointed spur directed 
backwards along the side with an ascending curve. 
A greenhouse plant, apparently of easy culture; thriy- 
ing most in peat-mould; flowering late in the autumn. 
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