1. The Catkin, or terminal part of a male branchlet, magnified slightly. 2. The Shaft and Summit of a female floret. 3. The Cone, whilst yet in flower. 4. The same magnified. The Casuarina stricta is a native of New South Wales, and was introduced, by Messrs. Kennedy and Lee, in the year 1775. It is a hardy green-house plant, grows to the height of ten or twelve feet before it flowers, which is in November. It is perfectly dioicous; the male and female blossoms, never coming on the same plant, and either have little to recommend them for beauty; their singularity is what should sooner attract our notice. The two figures, on the plate, which are the male and female, were taken from two plants, in flower, at the same time, in the collection of the Dowager Lady de Clifford, Paddington. All the species, hitherto discovered, since the first, upon which the genus was formed, the C. equisetifolia has, like this, the male and female parts of fructification on different plants; that only, being monoicous, or with the male and female parts on the same plant. [Illustration] PLATE CCCXLVII. SOPHORA CAPENSIS. _Vetch-leaved Sophora._ CLASS X. ORDER I. _DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Ten Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, breve, campanulatum, basi superne gibbum; ore quinque-dentato, obliquo, obtuso. COROLLA papillionacea, pentapetala. _Vexillum_ oblongum, sensim latius, rectum, lateribus reflexis. _Alæ_ duæ, oblongæ, basi appendiculatæ, longitudine vexilli. _Carina_ dipetala; petalis alis conformibus, marginibus inferioribus approximatis, navicularibus. STAMINA. Filamenta decem, distincta, parallela, subulata, longitudine corollæ, intra carina recondita. Antheræ minimæ, assurgentes. PISTILLUM. Germen oblongum, teres. Stylus magnitudine et situ staminum. Stigma obtusum. PERICARPIUM. Legumen longissimum, tenue, uniloculare, ad semina nodosum. SEMINA plurima, subrotunda. EMPALEMENT. Cup one-leaf, short, bell-shaped, hunched at the base on the upper side; mouth five-toothed, oblique, obtuse. BLOSSOM butterfly-shaped, five petalled. _Standard_ oblong, gradually wider, straight, reflexed at the sides. _Wings_ two, oblong, appendicled at the base, the length of the standard. _Keel_ two petalled with the petals conformable to the wings, the lower margins approaching and boat-shaped. CHIVES. Ten threads, distinct, parallel, and shaped, the length of, the blossom, within the keel. Tips very small, turned upwards. POINTAL. Seed-bud oblong, cylindrical. Shaft the size and situation of the chives. Summit blunt. SEED-VESSEL. Pod very long, slender, one-celled, knobbed at the seeds. SEEDS many, roundish. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Sophora foliis pinnatis; foliolis lanceolatis, mucronatis, subtus tomentosis; caule fruticoso. Sophora with winged leaves; leaflets lance-shaped, pointed, downy beneath; stem shrubby. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Cup. 2. The Standard, or upper Petal.