Spoffoi-th; wliore it grows in the bark-bed of the vStove, and 

 flowers principally in the wintei-season. 



A twiiihig shrub; stems woody, ash-colourerl, about the 

 thickness of a pen and smooth; all the rest of the plant 

 covered with a viscous fur: branches f»;recn, shaggily villous, 

 round. Leaves wide apart, alternate, scarcely exceeding 

 two inches, of a lively green, thinly haired, each hair 

 standing on a small glandular base, spotted underneath 

 by a resinous etllorcscence; leaflets roundishly rhomboidal, 

 angularly and longishly acuminated with a blunt tip, 

 branchingly nerved, reticulately veined, the terminal one 

 about an inch long, lateral ones nearly twice smaller, in- 

 equilateral, veiy shortly petioled: common petiole longer 

 than the terminal leaflet, stillish, roughly villous, chan- 

 nelled above, jointed at the base and with all its leaflets; 

 sfipiiles 2, opposite, ovately lanceolate, short, green, up- 

 rightly patent, glandularly haired on the outside and 

 streaked; partial ones, none. Racemes axillary, solitary, 

 generally undivided, longer than the leaves, upright, from 

 several to many (4-20-) flowered, .'J-5 inches long; peduncle 

 slender, villous, flexnose; J?oR'er^ about half an inch long, 

 deep yellow, very shortly pcdicled; pedicles furnished at the 

 base with a small ovate iioiuted herbaceous pubescent cadu- 

 cous hracfe. C^(//.r 4-parted, i>ale-grecn, glandularly pubes- 

 cent, twice shorter tlian the corolla, bilabiate, slightly com- 

 pressed; upper lip shortest, ovately tajiercd deeply convex 

 at the back, bifid at tiie tip, the lobules acute; lower Up 

 straight, trifid M'ith lanceolately subulate segments, the 

 middle one of which is twice as long as the side ones. 

 Petals of the corolla equal iu length: vejeillum streaked, 

 reflex, obcordately round, villous on the outside and marked 

 with incomplete purple streaks, furred at the base of the 

 front of tlie blade with a green semicircular fleshy ridge, 

 and convolutely eared on each side: ungues of the length 

 of the calyx, convex: tvings oblong, doubly imgnicnlated, 

 3 times as narrow as the vcxillum, enclosing the keel, taw- 

 nyish, obtuse: keel pointing straight forwards, slightly fal- 

 cate, veined, pale, somewhat ventricose, very obtuse, each 

 petal stained with purple at the top. Filaments equal: 

 anthers oblong, short, yellow, upright. Germen two-seeded, 

 oblong, slightly falcate, shorter than the style, furred : stt/le 

 white, smooth, swollen in the middle: stigma a slantingly 

 depressed simple point. 



