of leaflets: stipules detached from the petiole, straight, 

 linear, very short, soon dropping off. Racemes axillary, 

 solitary, inclining to upright, rather shorter than the leaf; 

 peduncle obsoletely furred. Flowers alternate, near, hori- 

 zontal, pedicled, rosy-red, sweet: bractes 2-3 at the base 

 of the pedicles, very short, membranous, purple. Calyx 

 outspread, of a fall purple colour, obsoletely furred with 

 blackish villi, under the vexillum truncate, under the 

 carina unequally five- toothed. Petals unguiculate: vexil- 

 lum upright, rounded, emarginate, streaked, with a white 

 spot at the base : alee as long as the vexillum, reflex, ob- 

 long, bluntish : carina a little shorter than the alee, spurred 

 on each side just above the unguis. Filaments diadelphous: 

 anthers upright, with a glandular apex, pale-yellow. Ger- 

 men linear, compressed, smooth: style filiform, kneed; 

 stigma capitate. Pod reflex, cylindrical, with a thick 

 fungous pith, by which it is divided into 3-4 one-seeded 

 cells. Seeds blackish, faintly four-cornered, when observed 

 through a magnifier pitted with small thickset hollow dots. 



We have relied chiefly for the above description on the 

 one given by M. Ventenat in French. 



