Descr. Shrub erect; branches hoary, covered with short, 
erect, blunt hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, trifoliate, 
without stipule ; or stipetticles ; leaflets ovato-elliptical ,con- 
cave, soft, glaucous, scaly, mucronulate, without pubes- 
cence, excepting a very few hairs like those on the branches 
along the middle rib, which is prominent behind, veins ob- 
lique and obscure, scarcely seen on the back: petioles (an 
inch to an inch and a half long) rather shorter than the 
leaflets, spreading wide, hoary and pubescent like the 
branches, slightly compressed laterally, and obscurely 
grooved above. Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves, 
but collected into terminal pseudo-racemes, pedunculate ; 
peduncles nearly as long as the petioles, more green than 
them, but equally pubescent. Calyx campanulate, rather 
more green and somewhat less pubescent than the peduncle, 
truncated at the base, four-cleft, segments ovate, acute, 
connivent at the apices. Corolla yellow, faintly but offen- 
sively perfumed ; petals four, imbricated, two approaching 
each other laterally in the upper part of the flower, two at 
the sides slightly removed from the upper ones and from 
each other below, ovato-elliptical, undulate, nearly without 
claws, more than twice as long as the calyx. Disk nectari- 
ferous, large and fleshy, shortly cylindrical, spreading and 
flat and pubescent on its upper surface, with a broad, conni- 
vent somewhat rugged tooth at its upper edge. Stamens 
Six, twice as long as the petals, free, declined a little, insert- 
ed upon the disk towards its centre; filaments tapering a 
little, yellow, slightly pubescent ; anthers erect, two-celled, 
bursting along the face, and while bursting, becoming gra- 
dually revolute ; pollen granules very minute, yellow. Pistil 
abortive in the upper flowers, in the others declined, pro- 
jected nearly twice as far as the stamens, on a rather stout, 
filiform, green, slightly pubescent footstalk, which is twice 
as long as the petals, or about as long as the stamens; 
Germen boat-shaped, inflated, concave above, unilocular, 
green, glabrous, nearly as long as the petals, apiculate from 
the persisting, short style ; ovules yery numerous, kidney- 
shaped, in two rows along each of the two sutures, both 
of which are prominent along the inside of the germen. 
Graham. 
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_ Fig. 1. Flower, with part of the Calyx and the Petals removed. 2. Petal, 
3, Ovary laid open: magnified. 4. Fruit: nat size. 
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