Drscr. A climbing shrué of great length; the older portions 
of the stem as thick as one’s finger, and reticulated, as it were, 
with pits or hollows in the oblong areoles. Young leafy branches 
slender, terete, herbaceous, glabrous. Leaves distant, on long 
petioles, trifoliolate; /eaflets petiolulate, oblong or oblong-elliptical, 
retuse, glabrous, glaucous beneath. Racemes on rather long 
peduncles, compound, eight to ten inches in length, drooping, 
many-flowered. Calyz with two small dracteas at the base, 
tubular-campanulate, somewhat two-lipped and nregularly four- 
to six-lobed. Pefals of the corolla deep ruby-red, nearly equal. 
Vexillum partially reflexed, ovate, clawed, with two blunt teeth 
at the base of the lamina. 4/@ and carina oblong, clawed, each 
petal with a blunt tooth at the base of the lamina. Stamens 
diadelphous (9 and 1). Ovary linear, on a long stipes, and 
tapermg into a subulate style. Leguwmen three inches long, 
stipitate, compressed, downy, acute. WV. J. H. 
Cur. A stove-climber, well adapted for training up rafters 
or on trellis-work, and which grows freely, especially if planted 
in a bed of good rich soil. Where there is not sufficient room for 
it to extend, it may be treated as a pot-plant, and trained upon 
4 trellis fixed to the pot; but we have not found it, either way, 
to flower very readily. It may be increased by cuttings, placed 
in heat under a bell-glass. 7. S. 
Fig. 1. Vexillum. 2. Ala. 8. Carina. 4. Stamens surrounding the pistil. 
5. Pistil:—all more or less magnified. 6. Legumen :—natural size. 
