1827, and it flowered in 1828. Our drawing was made in 
the Chiswick Garden, in the autumn of that year. 
** Cespitose, 6 to 10 inches high, densely clothed with 
rigid, long, silvery, scabrous, or slightly barbed hairs. 
Leaves covered with short and less copious hairs than the 
stem. Leaflets 5-9, linear-lanceolate, equally hairy with 
the stem, almost pungent in a dry state, and rusty brown 
colour. Raceme terminal, dense, whorled, many-flowered. 
Pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx hirsute, with two 
minute, subulate bracteole ; the upper lip bifid, the lower 
entire, and falcate. Flower purple-blue. Verillum rounded, 
dark purple. Wing falcate, purple-blue; keel falcate, 
ciliated at the apex, obtusé, pallid. Pod rigidly hirsute, 
2-3-seeded. Seeds small, long, white."— Douglas. 
J. L. 
