Africa; and who in the years 1860-63 contributed a 

 prodigious number of seeds and living plants to Kew, as 

 this Magazine testifies. The specimen from which our 

 drawing* was taken is an immense climber in the Palm 

 stove, which never flowered till some of its shoots, getting 

 beyond the reach of the pruning-knife, reached the roof, 

 and there blossomed profusely in September of last year. 



Desce. A tall slender climber, with filiform whip-like 

 extremities of the branches ; branchlets finely pubescent. 

 Leaves a foot long or more, with two to three pairs of 

 leaflets and an odd terminal one ; petiole and rachis very 

 slender, the former with a cylindric thickening at the base ; 

 leaflets four to seven inches long, shortly petioliilate, 

 elliptic-oblong, acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base 

 rounded, smooth and bright green above, paler beneath 

 with sometimes a few appressed hairs on the midrib and 

 nerves beneath ; stipules small, broadly ovate. Racemes 

 twelve to sixteen inches long, subpaniculate, or with one 

 or two long flowering branches at the base ; rachis tomen- 

 tose, with two small recurved stipular bracts at the base. 

 Flowers in clusters of eight or ten, shortly pedicelled, 

 three-quarters of an inch long. Calyx hemispheric, red- 

 brown; mouth with five broad crenatures. Corolla rose- 

 pink ; standard orbicular, shortly clawed, finely silky 

 externally ; wings dimidiate, oblong, obtuse, as long as the 

 linear-oblong nearly straight keel. Ovary pubescent, six- 

 to eight-ovuled ; style short, incurved. Pod two to three 

 inches long, linear-oblong, flat, acute, base narrowed, 

 tomentose, few-seeded. Seeds orbicular, compressed. — ■ 

 J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Filiform top of a branch ; 2, leaf; 3, inflorescence }— ■ all of the natural 

 size ; 4, calyx and ovary ; 5, standard ; 6, wing petal ; 7, keel petal ; 8, stamens ; 

 9, section of ovary ; 10, pods ; 11, seed : — all but Jiffs. 1, 2, 3 and 10 enlarged. 



