A virgately branching shrub ; branches loosely and scat- 

 teredly leaved, smooth, silkily ftirred, older ones with a 

 dark brown bai-k, when flowerbearing beset like a spike on 

 all sides by numerous very short and sometimes nearly ob- 

 solete verticillately 4-leaved generally 2-flowered branchlets 

 issuing from their proper buds. Leaves ternate, about an 

 inch long, silkily furred underneath; Zeo^e/^ elUptically ob- 

 long, rather pointed, nearly of the same length as the 

 petiole, ^ith a small mucro or distinct sharp point ; petiole 

 silkily furred. Flowers yellow, oblong, about an inch and 

 a quarter Ipng, longer than the leaves parallelly paired: 

 peduncles short, very thick. Calyx pale green, mem- 

 branous, villous^ twice shorter than -the vexillum, tubu- 

 larly oblong,, slightly swollen, slightly compressed, very 

 ^hallbwly bilabiate ; lips straight contracted, upper one ob- 

 tuse nolehed, lower one ovate tapered tridenticulate. Vex^ 

 ilium with a hardish euneate folded ungiiis, of the length of 

 the round lanlina, which last is bent back at the sides and 

 waved at the lip^er part of the margin : i^i)ftgs not much 

 Shorter than this, oblong, obtuse, pressed dlostely to the 

 sides of the keel, wrinkled at the edge: heel greenish, ob- 

 longly falcate, as much shorter than the wings as these are 

 shorter than the vexillum. ^laments monadelphous: an- 

 thers deep yellow, oblong. Germen linear, compressed, 

 Mlkily fiirred: ^tyle but little shortter than this, Subulate, 

 nearly smooth: stigma a blunt slightly pubescent pbint. 



