Nissolia
(named after William Nissole, French botanist, Professor at Montpellier, born 1647, died 1735). ORD. Leguminosae. A small genus (only two species) of stove suffruticose herbs, of twining habit, indigenous to tropical America. Flowers yellow, in axillary racemes, or thyrsoid at the tips of the branches. Pods linear. Leaves impari-pinnate; leaflets few, exstipellate; stipules setaceous. Nissolias thrive in a peat and loam compost. Propagated by cuttings of short, stubby, half-ripened shoots, in spring or summer. Probably none of the species are now in cultivation.