middle leaflet two to three and a half inches long, lateral 

 alternate, much smaller, all shortly petioled. Flowers in 

 drooping branched panicles three to live inches long; 

 branches very slender, green, as are the pedicels. Pedicels 

 swollen and conical at the apex. Calyx very small, five- 

 angled, green. Corolla two-thirds of an inch in diameter, 

 pale mauve, divided nearly to the base into five ovate-lanceo- 

 late, acute, glabrous, spreading segments. Stamens free, short, 

 unequal m height; anthers broadly oblong, very obtuse, 

 yellow, opening by two large terminal pores. Ovary ovoid, 

 glabrous; style subulate.—/. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower; 2, apex of peduncle and ovary ; 3, stamen :— all magnified. 



