Pendel Court, Kent, in March of last year. The balsamic 

 odour is very perceptible even when dry, but doubtless it 

 is much more developed on hill-sides under the bright skies 

 of a Chilian summer, than in an English green-house in the 

 month of March. 



Descr. A nearly glabrous, excessively branched, 

 copiously-flowering shrub, covered with balsamic glands ; 

 branches very slender, leafy. Leaves one to one and a 

 half inch long, shortly petioled, pinnate, rachis flattened 

 and denticulate, leaflets ten to thirteen pairs, very small, 

 one-eighth to one-sixth of an inch long, sessile, dark green, 

 oblong or cuneately obovate, subentire or serrulate, 

 rugose and channelled down the middle. Racemes termi- 

 nating the branches, effuse, three- to eight-flowered, sparsely 

 puberulous ; rachis and pedicels very slender, the latter 

 one-half to three-quarters of an inch long; bracts minute. 

 Flowers two-thirds of an inch in diameter, golden yellow. 

 Calyx-tube from broadly campanulate to subglobose, 

 minutely hispid, teeth small, triangular, acute. Standard 

 orbicular. Wings obtuse, rather shorter than the obtuse 

 keel. Ovary pubescent. Pod about one inch long, very 

 shortly stipitate, somewhat pubescent ; joints six to eight, 

 semicircular. — J. B. H. 



Fig. 1, Portion of rachis and leaflets; 2, calyx and young pod; 3, wings; 4, 

 keel ; 5, stamens ; 6, pod (frona dried specimen) : — all but Jig. 6 enlarged. 



