" scattered over them. Buds from the axils of the leaves, 

 ^'very resinous, cone-shaped with imbricate scales. Pe- 

 " tioles scattered, spreading very much, club-shaped at the 

 *' base, channelled towards the top, very long. Leaves un- 

 ^' equally pinnate, with six pairs of leaflets, which are ovate, 

 " laciniate, serrate, acute, smooth, flat. Peduncles ter- 

 " minating, scattered, spreading, branched into many 

 " pedicles. Flowers panicled, three or more on each pe- 

 « dicle." 



Calyx five-leafletted : leaflets oblong, obtuse, upright, 

 smooth, subciliate, a line and an half long: 2 lower ones 

 further removed, a little larger. Petals 4, inserted into the 

 receptacle. Unguis or narrow part, linear, upright, shorter 

 than the calyx, villous. Lamina or broad part oblong, 

 obtuse, three times longer than the calyx, deep yellow; two 

 lower ones a little smaller, wide of each other at the base. 

 Nectary formed of two plaited processes at the base of each 

 of the laminae, at first yellow, at last scarlet. Filaments 8, 

 inserted into the receptacle, girdling the germen, filiform, 

 roughly furred, yellowish, while the flower is in perfection 

 upright, scarcely longer than the calyx, finally bent down- 

 wards and elongated. Anthers ovate, of a grey or ash 

 colour. Germen superior, oblong, three-cornered, pubes- 

 cent. Style filiform, little shorter than the petals. Stigma 

 obsoletely 3-cleft. Pericarp (observed when unripe) obloiig, 

 3-Bided, 3-ceUed. Seeds two in each cell. 



