Scottea
(named in honour of R. Scott, M.D., Professor of Botany in Dublin). ORD. Leguminosae. A monotypic genus, now included, by Bentham, under Boissaea. The species and its varieties are elegant, greenhouse, evergreen shrubs, thriving in sandy peat. Propagated freely by cuttings of the young wood, inserted in sand, under a glass.
S. dentata (toothed). fl. orange-red or yellow, more or less tinged with green, on solitary pedicels; calyx 1/4in. to 1/3in. long, with short, obtuse teeth; standard 1/2in. to 2/3in. long; keel and wings over 3/4in. long; bracts broad and rigid, but very deciduous. Summer. l. opposite, varying from broadly ovate-cordate or triangular to hastate-lanceolate or almost linear, 1/2in. to 1in. long, acute or obtuse, irregularly denticulate. h. 3ft. to 7ft. Australia, 1803. (L. B. C. 1458.) S. d. angustifolia (narrow-leaved). l. hastate-lanceolate to almost linear; margins revolute. 1825. (B. R. 1266, under name of S. angustifolia.) S. d. hastata (halberd-shaped). l. ovate-hastate or hastate-lanceolate, 3/4in. to above 1in. long, 1/4in. to 1/2in. broad. 1833. (B. 134 and B. R. 1233, under name of S. dentata; B. R. 1652, under name of S. laevis.)