exceeding a vard in height; branches flexuose, 4-ridged; 

 the small bristles that form the fur are decumhent and fixed 

 down at their middle with the two ends pointed and de- 

 tached, as we see them on a larger scale in Malpighu. 

 Leaves alternate, widesct, widespread, with a thicker fur 

 underneath; leaflets ohlongly oval, scarcely an inch long, 

 nearly equal, with a small recurved point, nerves, excepting 

 the main one, very faintly marked: petiole usually shorter 

 than the leaflets, fixed to the branch by a joint, as the 

 leaflets are to that: stipules 2, herbaceous, subulate, awned, 

 caducous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, upright, several 

 times longer than the leaves ; flowers numerous, in a spike- 

 like raceme, scattered, near together, widespread, about 

 half an inch long, purplish red; pedicles x^vy short \ bractes 

 -caducous, about equal to the calyx, coloured in part, spot- 

 ted, formed of a compressedly vaulted awned lamina and a 

 short green unguis. Cali/x hispid, coloured, oblately cam- 

 panulate, about 3 times shorter than the corolla, haltScleft ; 

 limb bilabiate, segments unequal, linearly subulate, ciliate, 

 in the upper lip divaricate and slanted downwards, in the 

 lower placed parallelly like the teeth of a comb, the middle 

 one largest. Petals all of the same colour, veined, nearly 

 of one length: vexillum oblong, rhomboidally ovate, slightly 

 acuminate, refracted fi-om below the middle, unguis red, 

 broad, concave, gibbous at the back, not covered by the 

 calyx, lamina with a double white and violet streaked spot 

 'at the base: tcings falcately lanceolate, divaricate, downy 

 at the point, unguis simple: keel deflected, lanceolately 

 navicular, with a short-pointed spur at each side: ungues 

 simple, oblong, divergent, red. Stamens diadelphous : the 

 tube of the filaments vei-y shallowly 9-cleft, reddish and 

 incurved at the top: anthers upright, ovate, with a small 

 crested point at the back, tomentosely bearded at the base. 

 Germen round, villous, straight: st^le as short agmn as 

 that, subulate, reddish, incurved: stigma a white compress- 

 ed glandular head. 



The drawing was taken at Messrs. Whitley and Co.'s, 

 Fulham. 



