Viborgia
(named in honour of Eric Viborg, 1759-1822, Professor of Botany at Copenhagen). SYN. Wiborgia. ORD. Leguminosae. A genus consisting of seven species of South African, rigid, sometimes spiny, greenhouse shrubs. Flowers yellow, in terminal, often unilateral racemes; calyx teeth sub-equal; standard ovate or orbicular; keel incurved; bracts and bracteoles small or inconspicuous. Pods stipitate, flat, indehiscent. Leaves digitately trifoliolate. Only one species calls for mention in this work. It thrives in a mixture of sandy loam and fibry peat. Cuttings of young shoots should be inserted in sandy soil, under a glass, in May.
V. obcordata (obcordate-leafleted). fl., racemes terminal or spuriously lateral, 3in. to 8in. long, densely many-flowered. July. l. rather distant; leaflets cuneate-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, the young ones thinly silky, the older ones glabrate. Branches long, twiggy, graceful. h. 3ft. to 6ft. SYN. Crotalaria floribunda (L. B. C. 509).
