Our drawing was made in April last, at Mr. Mackay s 
Nursery, at Clapton, where a vast number ol othei equally 
remarkable and interesting plants from the same country 
are cultivated. 
A beautiful greenhouse shrub, with round fuscous 
villous branches. Leaves acicular, rather hairy, pungent, 
solitary, or collected in parcels of threes, when the outer¬ 
most are smaller than the middle one; the axillae being 
often prominent and villous. Flowers disposed in long 
terminal leafy racemes, solitary, or in pairs, about as long 
as the leaves. Calyx shaggy, with white hairs, with two 
little bracteolae at the base, tubular-campanulate, two¬ 
lipped, the lower lip half 3-fid, the upper 2-toothed. Vex- 
illum much larger than petals, with a lunulate, emargi- 
nate, spreading lamina, which is of a beautiful purple 
colour, green at the base; the claw green, channelled, 
dilated upwards. Alee falcate, obtuse, pale purple, shorter 
than the vexillum, auricled at the base, with linear claws 
much shorter than calyx. Carina much shorter than alae, 
and paler, ovate, acute, inflated, its segments auricled at 
base. Stamens ten, perigynous, included in the carina. 
Filaments filiform, smooth, nearly equal. Anthers roundish, 
two-celled, cordate, emarginate, with a thin, inconspicuous 
connectivum. Pollen small, white, smooth, angular. 
Ovarium linear, villous, many-seeded, with a short smooth 
pedicel, and arcuate ovula with a funiculus. Style uncinate, 
smooth. Stigma capitate. 
