by two to three inches broad, oblong or ovate-oblong, 

 obtusely caudate-acuminate, base rounded, membranous, 

 bright green, paler beneath, nerves six to eight pairs ; 

 petiole with a swollen cylindric base, and slender rhachis, 

 grooved above. Floivers two inches long, in a short, stout 

 raceme, two to three inches long from the old wood ; bracts 

 small, deciduous ; pedicels short. Calyx one half to two- 

 thirds of an inch long, cylindric, terete, very shortly five- 

 toothed, greenish purple ; base rounded. Petals pale, 

 bright red-purple, of nearly equal length, straight, narrow, 

 obtuse ; standard oblong, narrowed into a slender claw, 

 dorsally rounded, sides incurved, wings dimidiate-oblong, 

 subfalcate, claw long, slender ; keel-petals like the wings, 

 but straight er, as long-clawed. Stamens ten, nine united 

 for two-thirds their length in a narrow tube, tenth very 

 slender, free ; anthers very small, linear-oblong. Ovary 

 stipitate, very slender, narrowed into a filiform straight 

 style, with a minute stigma, many-ovuled. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Calyx and stamens; 2, wing petal; 3, keel-petal; 4, ovary and 

 disk : — All enlarged ; 5, reduced view of leafing branch. 



