According to Ph. Miller Cybisus purgans was introduced 

 into England before 1768. It is an old inhabitant of the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowers in May. According 

 to Willkomm and Lange the flowers have the fragrance of 

 vanilla, but this was hardly perceptible in our specimens. 



Descr. — An erect, nearly glabrous, copiously branched, 

 rigid shrub, three to five feet high, with sub-erect branches, 

 often nearly leafless, and erect, striated, sub-sericeous 

 branchlets. Leaves hardly half an inch long, scattered, 

 sub-sessile, trifoliolate ; leaflets linear- or linear-obovate, 

 minutely silky beneath ; stipules 0. Flowers in loose, 

 erect racemes at the ends of the branches, solitary or binate, 

 from the axil of a minute, persistent, unifoliolate leaf, sub- 

 erect, half an inch long, golden-yellow. Pedicels shorter 

 than the flowers, minutely pubescent. Calyx one-tenth of 

 an inch long, turgid, silky, minutely bibracteolate, at the 

 base, 2-lipped, lips broad, obtuse, upper minutely 2- 

 lower 3-toothed. Standard erect, orbicular, very shortly 

 clawed, concave, margins incurved, base shortly cordate, 

 with two small inflexed auricles. Wing-petals about one- 

 fourth shorter than the standard, obovate-oblong, concave, 

 tips rounded. Keel-petals nearly as long as the wings. 

 Staminal-tube shortly ten-cleft, filaments subulate, anthers 

 ovate-oblong, apiculate. Ovary villous, narrowed into a 

 glabrous style nearly as long as the pod, stigma minute. 

 Pod an inch long, linear-oblong, three- to four-seeded ; 

 valves thin, hairy. Seeds orbicular, compressed, smooth ; 

 funicle crenate. — /. D. H. 



^ig"- 1» Portion of branchlet with calyx bracteoles and stamens ; 2, standard ; 

 3 and 4, anthers ; 5, ovary ; 6, pod j 7, seed -.—All enlarged, except fig. 6, which 

 is of the nat. size. 



