them ; they are longitudinally veined, and have a silky pubescence 
beneath. Stipules small, subulate, with a subulate lobe or awn 
at the base, and with a slight depression at the back, where it is 
set on to the stem. Peduncles solitary, axillary, about as long as 
the leaves, bearing a raceme of eight or ten or more pendent, 
secund flowers, an inch long, of a very rich bright purple-red 
colour. Pedice/s short. Calyz also short in proportion to the 
length of the corolla: upper lip of two short teeth, dower with 
three teeth or lobes, of which the middle one is longer than the 
lateral ones, all erect and appressed against the corolla, silky- 
green, tinged with purple. Vewillum large in proportion to the 
rest of the flower, veined, notched at the apex. Wings deeper 
coloured than the rest of the flower. Staminal tube very long : 
one stamen free. Ovary linear, compressed, stipitate : s¢y/e with 
a brush of hairs beneath the stigma. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Vexillum. 3. One of the ale. 4. Carina. 5. Stamens. 
6, Pistil :—2magnified. 
