Coursetia
(named after Dumont de Courset, 1746-1824, author of "Le Botaniste Cultivateur," five vols. 8vo, Paris, 1802; and co-editor of the "Bon Jardiniere"). ORD. Leguminosoe. A genus of stove evergreen tomentose shrubs. Flowers bluish, in axillary racemes. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with many pairs of small ovate leaflets; the common petiole sometimes terminating in a bristle, but rarely in an old leaflet; stipules setaceous. They thrive well in a compost of loam and peat, well drained. Cuttings of firm young shoots will root in sand, during the early part of summer, if placed in a mild bottom heat and covered with a bell glass. There are about ten species, all natives of the warmer parts of the New World.