Native of New Holland, and, as Mr. Brown believes, of 

 the neighbourhood of Port Jackson. Introduced some years 

 back by Lady Northampton. The draAving was taken from 

 a specimen kindly sent to us by Mr. Herbert, from his col- 

 lection at SpofFor'th, near Wetherby. The plant is one that 

 does not flower freely till of some years standing ; when it is 

 very ornamental. It does best planted in the border of a 

 conservatory, and climbs to a considerable height. 



A smooth woody twining branched shrub, branches 

 brownish green, round, shallowly 4-cornered. Leaves ter- 

 nate, distant, dark green, nettedly veined, about 3 inches 

 long, leaflets oblongly ovate rounded at the top and mucro- 

 tiate, lateral ones fixed to the petiole by a thick flexile joint, 

 the middle one a little the largest, about 1 k inch long; petiole 

 stiff, striated, channelled, with a t^ick fleshy joint at the 

 base. Common stipules two, semiovate, awnedly acu- 

 minated, reddish, partial ones minute linearly subulate, red. 

 Racemes simple, axillary, manyflowered, longer than the 

 petiole, upright, two inches or more in length, peduncle 

 flexuose, striated, gi*een, with 2 bractes at the base, pedicles 

 in alternate pairs, rather shorter than the corolla, about 

 equal to the intervals between the pairs, angular, connected 

 by a joint with the calyx. Flowers violet purple, about half 

 an inch long. Calyx coloured, more than twice shorter 

 than the corolla, tubularly campanulate, 2-lipped, gibbous 

 at the back, slightly villous at the edge, upper Up shortly 

 2-cleft, with acute straight lobules, lower one 3-cleft, with 

 Etellately spread equal acuminated mucronate segments. Vex- 

 illum obcordately orbicular, reflectent, with a white double 

 green-figured spot in the middle, obsoletely unguiculate: 

 wings equal in length to this, of one colour, pointing for- 

 wards, pressed to the keel by their inner flat surface, 

 hatchet-shaped, with a short bifurcated unguis : keel diverging 

 from the vexillum, pale, twice smaller than the wings, of 

 two falcate obtuse petals, with white unequally two-pronged 

 ungues. Filaments diadelphous, not much longer than the 

 calyx, turned up with a sharpish angle: anthers greenish 

 yellow, ovately round; pollen granular and clotted. Germen 

 smooth, compressedly linear, sessile, the length of the 

 calyx, terminated by a short continuous style of nearly the 

 same thickness ; stigma an obtuse slightly pubescent point. 



