tural Society, in August last. It is propagated by seeds, 
which are produced in some abundance. 
Annual. Stem branched, diffuse, corymbose, about 
a foot high, silky, with long hairs. Leaves digitate, 
silky, hairy, with distinct subulate stipules; leaflets 5-7, 
linear-spatulate, scarcely an inch long at the largest. 
Flowers whorled, the whorls on a long stalk, 3-4-flowered, 
solitary, rarely two or three, and never, as far as I know, 
in greater number. Bracteæ subulate, deciduous ; bracteole 
none. Calyx between silky and woolly, two-lipped; the 
S lip deeply bifid, the lower twice as long, and entire. 
exillum ovate, white, becoming reddish-purple, reflexed 
at the sides; ale oblong, longer than the vexillum ; keel 
acute, ciliated with down at the apex. Pod linear-oblong, 
somewhat falcate, many-seeded, torulose, pubescent. Seeds 
small, clouded with greenish-brown, baving on each side 
a dark oblique line. 3 
J. L. 
