branches, slightly- pubescent. Leaves scattered, slender, nar- 

 row-linear, erecto-appressed, acute, or with a soft mucro, 

 channelled above, the margin revolute, slightly and minutely 

 silky beneath between the revolute margins; petiole very 

 short, scarcely any. Flowers one to three in the axils of the 

 leaves, longer than they, and so copious as to form a dense, 

 cylindrical mass of many inches in length, of a lively yellow 

 color, spotted with red. Peduncle very short. Calyx sub- 

 cylmdncal, deeply two-lipped, slightly silky; upper lip 

 obliquely truncated, bifid; lower lip three-dentate: teeth 

 rather small. Vexillum subrotund, unguiculate ; just above 

 the claw is an oblong spot, surrounded by a red line. Alee 

 obtuse, yellow. Carina red. Stamens ten ; anthers oblong. 

 Cyan, ovate, very silky. Style a little deflexed, then curved 

 up. Stigma obtuse. 



Fig. 1. Flower 2 Carina. 3. One of the Ate. 4. Carina. 5. Calyx, 

 Stamens and Pistil 6. Pzstil. 7. Upper, and 8, under side of a Leaf ; all 

 more or less magnified. 



