and considered a new species of Liparia. It has,, however, 

 since the publication of the Leguminos^e in De Candolle's 

 " Prodromus," been published in the " Linnaea," and, still 

 more recently, in Walpas' useful " Repertorium Botanices 

 Systeiriaticae/' under the name here adopted. It flowers 

 in the early spring months, and makes a pretty appearance 

 with its rather large, orange-yellow heads of flowers. 



Descr. Stern erect, but weak and flexuose, or strag- 

 gling ; branches frutescent, yellow-brown, angled, the 

 older portions marked with the cicatrices of fallen leaves. 

 Leaves ovato - elliptical, according to Walpas ; in our 

 plant oblong-lanceolate (whence Mr. Bentham has con- 

 sidered it a var., angustifolia,) rather rigid, plane, acute, 

 three-nerved, sessile, turning black in drying, as do the 

 flowers. Flowers ten to twenty, rather large, collected 

 together in a terminal, bracteated head. Branches several, 

 large, imbricated, ovato-rotundate, acute, ciliated. Flow- 

 ers longer than the branches, full orange-yellow. Petals 

 as in the Genus. 



Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea. 2. One of the Alae. 3. One of the Petals 

 of the Keel. 4. Leaf: — magnified. 



