subject of a separate g:eniis, under the name of Galactia, 

 siig-gested by the mJlky juice said to pervade every part of 

 the plant. The genus was reduced by Linnceus to Cutoria; 

 has been since revived by Michaux; and we find our species 

 restored to its original place by Persoon, in his Synopsis 

 Plantaruin. 



The drawing was made from a plant raised by Mr. Her- 

 bert at Spoflbrth, from imported seed. It flowered in Octo- 

 ber, wlien specimens were obligingly forwarded to us. In- 

 troduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1794. 



Branches slender, round, woody, tawny green, covered 

 by a short close-pressed fur. Leaves alternate, distant, 

 ternate, often reflectent, villous underneath and at the 

 petiole, quite smooth above and deep green; leajiets ovately 

 ohlong, firm and thickish, nettedly veined, end-one about 

 an inch long or more, and about j of an inch broad, point- 

 less, side-ones a little smaller and mucronate; petiole about 

 -J- an inch long; general stipules 2, opposite, subulate, par- 

 iial ones awnshaped. Racemes spiked, axillary, solitary, 

 upright, loosely many-flowered, undivided, 3 or 4 times 

 longer than the leaves, composed of distinct 3-or more- 

 flowered pendulous fascicles tending to a same front; pe^ 

 dtincle straight and upright, filiform, villous, scarcely di- 

 verging from the branch, furnished at the base by 3? 

 brown villous bractes subulately narrowed from a broad 

 base; pedicles capillary, shorter than the calyx, aggregated, 

 villous, flexile, bowed downwards, each with a short subu- 

 late bractelet at the base. Flowers reversed, nearly an 

 inch long, straight, oblong, pendulous, in the bud of a 

 vivid pinkish red, fading as they expand from paler to dirty 

 white. Cali/x membranous, pale, villous, 3 or 4 lines 

 long, tubularly campanulate, bilabiate, 4-clcft, tipper Up «>f 

 one ovately lanceolate lobe larger than the rest, lower of 3 

 distinct lanceolate lobes, middle one recurved and larger than 

 its side-ones: traversed at the base by two lanceolate minute 

 villous close-pressed deciduous bractes. Petals of one 

 length, tender: vexillum cuneately oblong, nearly 3 times 

 broader than the wings, accumbent: aUc straight, elong- 

 atedly oblong, narrow, obtuse, confining the keel between 

 them; carina bifid, straight, ol)tuse, of '2 petals exactly like 

 the wings: ungues all short. Filaments diadelphous, straight, 

 reddish at top i*/5/i7 straight: ^ermp» many-seeded, silky, 

 linear: ^/y/e capillary, smooth: A//^»?a a minute head. Pod 

 about 2 inches long, narrow, with several beedsi 



