Gouan (figured at tab. 3193 as A. alopecuroides, L.), a 

 native of the South of Europe. The plant figured, which 

 was raised from seed sent by Mr. H. Whittall, of Smyrna, 

 in 1895, flowered in the herbaceous grounds of the Royal 

 Gardens in June of the present year. 



Descr. — A perennial herb, with erect simple stems as 

 thick as a swan's quill, glabrous throughout, or villous 

 towards the upper part. Leaves alternate, rather distant, 

 six inches to a foot long, spreading and recurved ; rhachis 

 slender, glabrous or pubescent, bearing leaflets nearly 

 to the base ; leaflets fifteen to twenty-five pairs, about an 

 inch long, opposite and alternate, sessile or very shortly 

 petiolulate, ovate-oblong, rounded at the base and tip, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, or above only, and more or less 

 softly hirsute beneath, rather thick, glaucous green, midrib 

 slender, nerves very obscure ; stipules up to an inch long, 

 subulate-lanceolate. Flowers in dense globose or shortly 

 ovoid axillary heads, one and a half to two inches in 

 diameter, an inch long, very shortly pedicelled: bracts 

 minute, subulate. Calyx-tube about one-third of an inch 

 long, oblong, softly hirsute, green, teeth very short, ovate. 

 Corolla primrose-yellow ; standard oblong, recurved, shortly 

 two-lobed ; wing-petals rather shorter than the standard, 

 claw nearly as long as the ovate-oblong obtuse limb, base 

 with an incurved auricle ; keel petals like the wings, but 

 shorter and broader. Ovary hirsute. Pod very small, 

 included in the calyx-tube, ovoid-oblong, beaked, hirsute, 

 2-celled ; cells 1-2 -seeded. Seeds sub-reniform, com- 

 pressed. — J. D. E. 



Fig. 1, Section of calyx with ovary ; 2, wing-petal ; 3, keel-petal ; 4, stamens 

 and ovary ; 5, fruiting calyx ; 6, seed :— All enlarged. 



