or pubescent. Leaves nearly orbicular in circumscription, one 
to two and a half inches in diameter, two-lobed to the middle, 
rounded cordate or truncate at the base; lobes obtuse, each 
three- to four-nerved ; petioles slender ; stipules subulate. Ra- 
cemes small, few-flowered, terminal. Flowers pale golden- 
yellow, with a deep-purple blotch at the base of the upper 
petal. Calyx spathaceous, rather short. Petals obovate or 
obcordate, concave, connivent. Stamens teu, all fertile, nearly 
free. Legume flat, linear, but gradually narrowed down- 
wards, acute, glabrous or puberulous.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and stamen. 2. Ovary and base of calyx with the stamens 
removed :—both magnified. 
