subsessile, elliptic or obovate-oblong, acuminate, contracted 

 to the obtuse base, thinly coriaceous, penninerved ; stipules 

 conical, recurved, rigid, or ; stipellas subulate. Flowers 

 in short axillary racemes, shortly, stoutly pedicelled, 

 sweet-scented ; bracts and bracteoles small, linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, fugaceous. Calyx-tube five to seven 

 inches long, very narrow, coriaceous, dilating upwards ; 

 limb short, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-fid, lower spreading, 

 3-partite, segments imbricate, green within. Petals very 

 large, milk-white, flabellately closely and stoutly veined or 

 ribbed, narrowed into short, stout ribbed claws, margined 

 with a crisped band of golden papillaa ; standard nearly orbi- 

 cular, three to four inches broad ; wing and keel petals 

 shorter and narrower. Stamens shorter than the petals ; 

 filaments stout, glabrous ; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary 

 rufously woolly ; style longer than the stamens ; stigma 

 capitate. Legume six to eight inches long, broadly linear, 

 valves tomentose, margins hardly thickened. Seeds few. 

 —J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flowers with calyx and petals removed, of the nat. size, 2, section 

 of staminal tube and ovary ; 3 and 4, anthers : — All enlarged. 



