Sutherlandia
(named in honour of James Sutherland, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh; he published, in 1683, "Hortus Medicus Edinburgensis"). ORD. Leguminosae. A monotypic genus. The species is a canescent, half-hardy shrub, very handsome when in flower. It succeeds best in a compost of loam and peat; and may be readily increased by seeds, or by young cuttings.
S. frutescens (shrubby).* Bladder Senna of the Cape. fl. scarlet or bright red, handsome, in axillary racemes; calyx five-toothed; standard oblong, shorter than the boat-shaped keel; wings very short. June. fr. a curious, papery, inflated, many-seeded pod. l. impari-pinnate; leaflets numerous, elliptic or oblong, entire, exstipellate; stipules small, narrow. h. about 3ft. South Africa, 1683. (B. M. 181, under name of Colutea frutescens.) S. f. microphylla (small-leaved). fl. two or three to a peduncle. l., leaflets oblong-linear, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 1816.