published. I would gladly adopt it, were it just to abandon 
_ that given by Webb, and circulated on two occasions in 
printed slips, with number and locality attached. 
For seeds of this singular and beautiful plant the Royal 
Gardens are indebted to Mr. Wildpret, of the Orotava 
Botanical Gardens, Teneriffe, which were received in 1881, 
and the plants flowered in a cool greenhouse in May of last 
ear. 
* Descr. A small excessively branched slender bush, 
clothed with appressed very short silky pubescence, giving 
it a silvery hue. Branches decurved, woody, slender ; 
branchlets divaricate, filiform, leafy. Leaves rather crowded, | 
spreading, sessile ; leaflets two-thirds to three-fourths of an 
inch long, filiform. Flowers one and a half inch long, 
axillary, loosely crowded on short shoots towards the ends 
of the branches, solitary or two together, very shortly 
pedicelled. Calyx three-fourths of an inch long, green, — 
silky, tube subcampanulate, five-angled, cleft to the middle 
into five ovate-lanceolate acuminate falcate lobes, of which 
the two upper are much the largest. Corolla scarlet. 
Standard narrowly lanceolate, sharply recurved like a horn. 
Wings shortly clawed, much broader and rather longer than 
the standard, dimidiate-lanceolate, subacute, cordate at the 
claw; keel longer than the wings, incurved, narrowed to a 
long point. Staminal tube long, slender; free portions of 
the filaments capillary, five longer as long as the tube, four — 
shorter half as long. Style unequally cleft into two subu- 
late arms.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of branch and leaves ; 2, calyx; 3, corolla; 4, stamens; 5, style ae 
arms :—all enlarged. : 
