notched at the point, sharply keeled at the back and channelled
on the upper side, spotted on each side of the channel
with several small blue specks, and a large blue spot on
each side near, the base. Wings about the length of the
vexillum, ovate, concave inwards, bluntly rounded, striped
more or less with blue lines, that branch considerably. Keel
acute, with a long sharp dark purple point, fringed longitudinally
with long white hairs on the inner side, slightly
eared on each side at the base, and bearing a slender unguis.
Stamens 10, all joined into a tube at the base; anthers
5, short and nearly round ; the other 5, much larger
and oblong. Pod densely clothed with long white hmr.
2>tyle ascending, smooth and glossy. Stiqma small, capitate,
bearded.
This fine plant is a native of Peru; and from the kindness
of A. B. Lambert, Esq. we have had an opportunity
of comparing our specimens with those collected by Ruiz
and Pavon, now preserved in that gentleman’s Herbarium,
with which they agree precisely; the plant is woody at the
base, and would make a sort of shrub, if a little protection
were allowed it in Winter; to be planted against a wall in
a southern aspect, and to be covered with a mat in severe
frost, would suit it very well. It thrives well in the common
garden soil; and if pretty rich, the stronger it will grow ;
It may either be increased by cuttings, that root readily,’
u n ^ r a hand-glass; or by seeds, which ripen plentifully.
Our drawing was made this Summer from a strong plant
growing m the open border, with above a hundred spikes
ot flowers open on it at once, at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, at
Koehampton, where every thing appears to be thriving with
the greatest luxuriance.
. ^ ® received it the Summer before, from the collec-
flon of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury Hill, from Messrs.
Nursery, at Epsom, Mr. Miller’s, of Bristol, and
M r . Wheeler s, of Warminster, but the flowers always dropped
off m carnage : the two varieties at the bottom of the
plate were from the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames,
and Milne, at Fulham, where it is cultivated by the name
ot L. perumanus.
Lupinus is derived from the Latin, and signifies a kind
of pulse of bitter and harsh taste.
2. A I i g h t ¡ n ¡ n ^ 3. Calyx. 4. Vexillum 5 Tim
mpii« showing the fringe on the upper edge. 7 . The 10* Sta-
8. The h^airv'ova^riir oblong anthers, the 5 long ones with round ones,
fringed sugma ’ Sfrle and small capitate