Carmichaelia
(named after Captain Dugald Carmichael, F.L.S., an acute Scotch botanist, author of the "Flora of the Island of Tristan da Acunha," inserted in the twelfth volume of the Linnaean Society's Transactions). ORD. Leguminosae. Very ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrubs, flowering for a considerable length of time. They thrive in a compost of sandy peat, to which may be added a very little fibry loam and leaf soil. Cuttings of half-ripened side shoots root in sand, under a glass, in a cool house, in April or May.
C. australis (southern).* fl. lilac; racemes simple, rising from the denticulations of the branches. May, September. l. with three to seven obcordate leaflets. Branches compressed. h. 2ft. to 4ft. New Zealand, 1823. (B. R. 912.)