A twining shrub, furred over by а roughish viscous 
nap, the hairs of which stand upon minute transparent 
globular bulbs, often seen to remain where the hair that 
surmounted them has fallen away, giving to the leaf or 
other part where this happens, the appearance of being 
glandularly fretted instead of furred; branches angularly 
fluted, distantly leaved older ones becoming tawny or ' 
dusky. Leaves ternate, furred, according to Hermann 
with a bituminous smell, older ones dusky green, leaflets 
ovate, less than an inch long, pointed, 3-nerved, slightly 
wrinkled, the middle one subrhomboidal or faintly 3-lobed, 
lateral ones unequally sided, the inner side narrowest, very 
shortly petioled: common petiole sometimes longer, some- 
times rather shorter than the leaflets, not jointed, flutedly 
angular: stipules ovately lanceolate. Racemes axillary, soli- 
tary, upright, with several widishly set flowers, longer than 
the leaves, pubescent. Flowers yellow, two thirds of an inch 
long, elliptically oblong, round-pointed; pedicles shorter 
than the calyx, bracteless. Calyx shaggily furred, cleft to 
below the middle, green, stained with brown; tube com- 
pressed; segments linearly subulate, the middle of the three 
lower ones largest. Vexillum or standard ascendent, ellip- 
tically-obcordate, very little longer than the keel, marked 
at the back with purple veins and keeled, deflectent at the 
sides; blade with two teeth at the bottom of the back; 
unguis cuneate, equal to the tube of the calyx: ale or 
wings deep yellow, of one colour, much smaller than the 
keel, oblong, touching by their tops over the back of the 
keel: carina or keel broadly falcate, recurved ascendent, 
obtuse, compressed, pale yellow or sulphur-coloured, tinged 
at the top with dark violet-purple, its two petals cohering at 
the lower margins, open at the upper, where the fissure is 
bordered with deep yellow. Filaments diadelphous, shortly 
separated above, bending upwards with an acute angle: 
anthers ovate, short, tawny ; pollen of small polished globules, 
grumously granular, not pulverulent. Germen furred, with 
a longish silky close pressed pubescence, 4 times shorter 
than the style or more: style green, villous downwards, 
bent upwards at the other end: stigma capitate or headed, 
glandolar, papulous. Pod shaggily furred, inflated or dis- 
tended as if blown out, about two inches long; seeds several. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 
Jey and Co. Fulham. | 
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