remains of the old stipules where the leaves have fallen 

 away. Leaves three in a whorl, sessile, ovate, or ovato- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, spinoso-pungent at the apex, spread- 

 ing, penninerved. Stipules small, subulate or almost aci- 

 cular. Flowers axillary, solitary, or in very few -flower- 

 ed, short racemes. Pedicels short, hairy. Calyx hairy: 

 tube short ; limb two-lipped, red within ; upper lip of two, 

 lower of three spreading, acuminated teeth. Vexillum 

 broadly rotundato-cordate, deep yellow, red at the base of 

 the limb. Alee oblong, yellow. Carina obtuse, but nearly 

 of the same shape as the alee, yellow, the upper portion red. 

 Stamens sixteen, free, rather longer than the pistil. Ovary 

 sessile, ovate, silky : Style subulate, curved upwards, gla- 

 brous. Thefruit I have not seen. 



Fig. 1. Portion of a Branch, with the Whorl of Leaves and Stipules. 2. 

 Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil. 3. Vexillum. 4. Ala;. 5. Carina. 6. Pistil : 

 — all more or less magnified. 



