Viminaria
(from vimen, a twig; alluding to the twiggy, leafless branches). Rush Broom. ORD. Leguminosae. A monotypic genus. The species is a greenhouse shrub, with Rush-like stems. It thrives in a mixture of loam and peat. Propagation may be effected by cuttings of half-ripened shoots, inserted in sand, under a bell glass, in April; or by seeds, sown on a gentle hotbed. V. denudata (naked). Australian Rush Broom; Victorian Swamp Oak. fl. orange-yellow, small, in long, terminal racemes; calyx teeth short, equal; petals on rather long claws; wings shorter than the standard; stamens free. August. l. alternate, mostly reduced to filiform petioles 3in. to 9in. long, the lower ones on luxuriant specimens occasionally bearing at the extremity one to three oval-oblong or lanceolate, herbaceous leaflets, 1/2in. to 1 1/2in. long. h. 10ft. to 20ft. (or sometimes low and decumbent). Australia, 1780. (B. M. 1190; P. M. B. xiv. 123.)
