of some of the Orobi, but have odd paired leaflets, while 

 those of the Obobi have even paired leaflets. 



The specimen from which the drawing has been made, 

 was sent us by Mr. IJiggs, the curator of the Botanic Gar- 

 den at Cambridge. The plant is far from common in ou * 

 collections; though we believe quite hardy. Flowers from 

 June to August. Said by Mr. Marschal von Bieberstein, to 

 be abundant in the forests of the subalpine regions of Mount- 

 Caucasus. 



A perennial herbaceous plant. Stem 4 feet high, up- 

 right, flexuose, leafy: branches hollow, round, villous, 

 streaked, ascendent. Leaves unevenly pinnate, large, about 

 5-paired, sessile, underneath and on the common petiole 

 villous, smooth above, slightly ciliated, veiny; leaflets 

 ovately lanceolate, subsessile, nearly twice longer than the 

 intervals, sometimes two inches in length and one in 

 breadth, acuminate, side nerves Eiscendent, branching. 

 Stipules in pairs, opposite, large, ovate, shortly pointed, 

 entire, about halfstemclasping, nerved, villous underneath, 

 smooth above. Racemes long, loosely manyflowered, up- 

 right, terminal and axillary; flowers cernuous; peduncle 

 capitately villous ; pedicles flexile, very slender, shorter than 

 the corolla, longer than the calyx. Bractes narrow, linear, 

 pointed, capitately villous, about the length of the pedicles, 

 upright. Calyx capitately villous, twice shorter than the 

 corolla or more. Stigma sniall, headed. Pods cernuous. 



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