freely all the year round in a stove. It is a native of 
Guiana. 
_Descr.—A small, softly-pubescent undershrub, about two 
feet high, woody at the base, with slender, spreading 
branches. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, trifoliolate. 
Leaflets two and a half to three inches long, ovate-lan- 
ceolate, acute, base cuneate; lateral opposite, sessile ; 
terminal rather larger, petiolulate, all puberulous above, 
finely tomentose beneath ; nerves six to ten pairs, nearly 
straight, prominent beneath. Petiole three to four inches 
long, very slender; petiolule two-thirds of an inch long. 
Flowers an inch across, golden-yellow, crowded at the bifid 
top of the peduncle, very shortly pedicelled, sub-tended by 
a few small leaflets; peduncle about as long’as the petiole, 
and as slender. Sepals half an inch long, lanceolate, 
pubescent. Petals orbicular-obovate, connate above the 
base by their margins. Inner filaments pilose. Styles 
short ; stigmas capitate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, calyx; 2, bases of three petals; 3, disk, stamens, and stigmas; 
4, ovary :—all enlarged. 
