the specimen here figured in January last. It is of course 
a stove plant. 
Descr. Apparently a branching soft shrub, or a herb 
with soft woody bases to the stems, and probably the 
branches also, when fully erown. Branches terete, knotted. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, three-foliolate, quite glabrous ; 
leaflets four to six inches long, subsessile, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, quite entire, deep green above, paler beneath ; 
petiole one to three inches long. Inflorescence shortly 
peduncled, terminal, erect, corymbosely candelabriform, 
eight to ten inches in diameter; peduncle very short, stiff, 
erect; bracts small, subulate, caducous; pedicels two 
inches long, slender, spreading and decurved from the 
_ rachis, then ascending. Flowers erect ; sepals four, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, half an inch long, green. Petals four, 
sulphur-yellow; two dorsal four inches long, erect, very 
narrowly linear-spathulate, narrowed into a long claw, flat, 
smooth, with a midrib and lateral veins; two lower or 
anterior petals similar, but much smaller or almost wanting, 
pointing forward. Fertile stamens five, anticous, filaments 
slender, decurved and then ascending, shortly united at 
the base; anthers small, oblong; barren stamens united 
into a dorsal strap-shaped, erect body, five-cleft at the tip, 
the segments curled at the top. Ovary small, cylindric, — 
two-celled, on a slender peduncle, very caducous.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Diagram of the floral organs; 2, flower with the two dorsal petals 
removed; 3, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged: 
