. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. rly appropriate; and the richness of itsblossoms causes its introduction to plant-houses to be very desirable. Seeds shouldbe saved from specimens in a cool greenhouse, or, when they are duly ripened,from those in the opon air, and not from such as are kept in the stove. Although strictly an annual species, it may be multiplied by cuttings, whichwill live, and sometimes flower, all the winter in a cool stove. Their blossoms donot, however, open perfectly in the winter season, for want of a greater amount ofsolar influence. Its nat
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. rly appropriate; and the richness of itsblossoms causes its introduction to plant-houses to be very desirable. Seeds shouldbe saved from specimens in a cool greenhouse, or, when they are duly ripened,from those in the opon air, and not from such as are kept in the stove. Although strictly an annual species, it may be multiplied by cuttings, whichwill live, and sometimes flower, all the winter in a cool stove. Their blossoms donot, however, open perfectly in the winter season, for want of a greater amount ofsolar influence. Its native locality is Jlendoza, a province of South America, between BuenosAyres and Chili. It has flowered, and been propagated extensively, at the nurseryof Messrs. RoUisson, Tooting, to whom we owe permission to obtain the presentfitmre, which was made in September last. The genus is named from porlo, to carry or bear, and lac, milk, in allusion tothe juicy or succulent character of the species. P. TJttUusonil commemorates thegentleman by whom it was K>;fa-rAi/,i Av/<y. / 31 CALLISTACHYS LONGIFOLIA. (long-leaved CALLISTACHYS.)CLASS. ORDER. DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. LEGUMINOS^. Generic Character.—Calyx bikbiate, very villous ; upper lip bifid, lower one three-parted. Vexillumerect, longer than the kt-el and wings, which are about equal in length. Stamens inserted in thedisk. Style incurved. Stiyma simple, acute. Legume stipitate, woody, dehiscent at the ape.^ ;young ones many celled. Dons Gard. and Botany, Specific Character Plant an evergreen shrub, growing four or five feet in height. Stems very strong, roundish, covered with pubescence, branching freely. Stipules small, awl-shaped. Leaves some-times six inches long, lanceolate, mucronate, reticularly veined, smooth above, downy in a terminal spike. Segments of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, densely covered with brown-ish hairs, persistent. Vexillum large, pale yellow. Wings red
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