at variance, and that our plant agrees better with the latter 
than with the former. They are probably all three mere varie- 
ties of one species. Be that as it may, our species forms a hand- 
some stove-shrub, which bore in April, 1857, for the first time, 
its beautiful heads of yellow flowers, quite silky from the nume- 
rous long filaments of the stamens. 
Descr. Our plant of this forms a good-sized shrub, ten to 
twelve feet high. Stems terete, glabrous, much branched; the 
branches drooping, quadrangular, the younger ones clothed with 
dense, ferruginous, woolly hairs. Leaves consisting of two or three 
opposite pairs of /eaflets, which are sessile, varying in length from 
four to eight or ten inches, coriaceo-membranaceous, glossy, 
slightly villous, ovate or obovate, shortly acuminate, closely — 
penniveined, and the veins united by obliquely transversely 
parallel ones; paler beneath, where the veins are prominent. 
Petiole broadly winged, so as to have an obovate form; rachis 
too, between the two pairs, winged, giving a spathulate form, 
terminated between the superior pinne with a long spinule, and 
between the base of each pair of leaves is a large, scutellate, 
sessile gland. Stipules lanceolate, rather large. Peduncle soli- 
tary, axillary, villous, simple, twice the length of the petiole, 
bearing a globose sessile Lead of yellow flowers. Calye cylindri- 
cal, two-lipped, downy. Corolla infundibuliform, five-cleft, vil- 
lous. Stamens twice ‘as long as the corolla, numerous. Azthers 
very small, abortive? Ovary oblong. Style as long as the sta- 
mens. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
