loosely leaved. Leaves scattered irregularly round the 
stem, much longer than the intervals, cuneately oblong, 
owing to the small point at the end being bent back appear- 
ing retuse, silky underneath, nearly smooth above, having 
only a few hairs, and those chiefly on the principal nerve: 
peticle decurrent, thick, very short, downy underneath, 
widened at the base: stipules 2, minute, subulate, shaggy, 
caducous. Raceme terminal, severalflowered, loose, up- 
right; peduncles shorter than the calyx, robust, with a 
flat-pressed fur, an ovately subulate stiff reflex externally 
shaggy bracte at the base, and two other oppositely lateral 
very small linear shaggy widespread ones above the base. 
Calyx bilabiately campanulate, slightly villous, with the 
two upper segments wide apart, the three lower near - 
together. Vexrillum or standard three times longer than the 
calyx, yellow, oblately orbicular, slightly emarginate, an 
inch broad, reflexly erected, standing wide of the keel, 
smooth, with a deep slightly villous ‘plait along the middle 
of the back, where it is marked with brown veins and in 
some degree red, two small teeth are placed within the front 
of the base and point forwards; unguis short, vaulted, 
tomentose; ale or wings plain yellow, shorter, pointing di- 
rectly forwards, embracing the keel, lapping over each 
other convolutely above, broad, cuneately obovate; carina 
or keel pale, ventricose, close, protuberant beyond the 
wings, acuminate with an abruptly raised once twisted 
point, marked along its under side by a lanceolate line of 
down, at the upper deeply winged by the folding together 
of the lips of the fissure. Filaments monadelphous to the 
middle, five alternate ones firm and extended, with small 
roundish anthers, which part the first with their pollen; the 
five others shorter with several times Jonger and linearly ta- 
pered anthers, at first unstrung and flaccid, but becoming 
firm and extended when their anthers part with the pollen, 
which they do much later than those of the others. Germen 
ensiform, flattened, smooth: style filiform, upright, shaggy: 
stigma a short gland upon the truncated apex of the style, 
pointed slantingly, pale, frosted. Pod oblong, inflated, 
cylindrical, with a longish dagger-point, horizontal. Seeds 
15-20, triangularly kidney-shaped, with a small prominent 
hooked beak at one end. 
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а Calyx. 5 Vexillum or standard. с Ale or wings. d Two petals forms 
ing the Carina or Keel. e Stamens. ‚РЬШ, 
