A genus detached from HEDYSARUM by Dr. Roxburgh ; 
and principally distinguished by a sessile oval bloated two- 
seeded pod. The present species has been referred to it by 
Mr. Brown in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis ; 
though the Doctor continued it in Hepysarum. It forms 
à largish short-stemmed shrub, belonging to various 
parts of the East Indies. Introduced by Mr. Lambert in 
1787, and is still cultivated in the collection at Boyton. 
The drawing was taken from a plant in the hothouse at the 
Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road. 
Branches numerous, rodded, villous, and covered, like 
the rest of the plant, except the corolla, by minute re- 
sinous? granular globules, at first white, lastly red. Leaves 
somewhat deflex, subovately oblong with a short point, 
nerves parallel, straight, many, hairy underneath; base 
cordate, 3-5 inches long and about + narrower: petiole 
several times shorter than the leaf, villous, straight, as- 
cending, with a thickened flexile joint at each end: stipules 
caducous. Racemes compound; racemules enclosed in 
large leafy imbricated bractes. Flowers dull greenish dirty 
white, small. Corolla not much longer than the calyx: 
standard broad, reflex, streaked. Wings shorter than the 
vexillum, narrow. Keel longer than the wings, the two 
petals running into one towards the upper part of the under 
side. Stamens diadelphous. | Germen pedicled, elliptical, 
flattened, shaggy, two-seeded ; ovules kidney-shaped. Style 
several times longer, slender, from a thicker middle taper- 
ing towards each end. Sigma headed, pale. 
