long, that flowered in March, 1897, and has ripened seeds. 

 In the previous summer a plant of it had been tried in the 

 open air, when it grew freely, but did not survive the 

 winter. 



Descr. — Stem glabrous, or sparsely pubescent, six to 

 twelve feet high and more, climbing, four-winged, sparingly 

 branched. Leaves two to four inches long, petiole short, 

 rachis slender, terminating in a forked tendril. Leaflets 

 eight to ten, one to nearly two inches long, opposite and 

 alternate, from elliptic to narrowly linear, obtuse, flat, or 

 with the sides involute, nerves very slender, nervules 

 finely reticulate above ; stipules one-tenth to one-eighth of 

 an inch long, bifid, lobes diverging, acute, entire, or 

 toothed. Raceme elongate, seven to ten-flowered, with a 

 pair of flowers at the base; flowers shortly pedicelled, 

 nearly two inches long ; petals deep blood-red, the keel 

 paler. Calyx shortly tubular, five-toothed, green, upper 

 teeth longest. Standard suborbicular when spread out, 

 reflexed, tip emarginate, sides revolute, wings two-thirds 

 of an inch long, obliquely oblong, obtuse, shorter and 

 narrower than the pale, rose-colrd., acute keel, which is an 

 inch long or more. Ovary pubescent. Pod three inches 

 long, compressed, glabrous, ten- to twenty-seeded. — 

 J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Involute leaflet ; 2, caljx and stamens ; 3, ovary : — All enlarged. 



