The specimen figured was from a plant raised from seed 

 sent by Mr. Henry to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1898, 

 which flowered in the open air against a wall in July, 

 1902. The violet calyces contrasting with the milk-white 

 corolla make a very effective and attractive contrast. 



Descr. — A low, much-branched, spinescent shrub, two 

 to four feet high, with pubescent branchlets, petioles, 

 pedicels, and calyx. Leaves an inch to an inch and a half 

 long, shortly petioled ; leaflets six to seven pairs, with a 

 terminal one, rather close-set, sessile, a quarter of an inch 

 long, elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, pubescent beneath. 

 Mowers white, in shortly peduncled, terminal, erect, or re- 

 curved, six- to twelve-flowered racemes. Calyx small, cup- 

 shaped, shortly five-toothed, violet blue. Petals about half 

 an inch long, sub-equal in length. Standard obovate- 

 spathulate, reflexed. Keel-petals obtusely auricled at the 

 base. Carpels one or two, very slender, hairy. Pod one 

 to two inches long, slender, moniliform, long-beaked, 

 smooth, glabrous, joints three to five, ellipsoid, interstices 

 long, much constricted ; valves free, membranous. Seeds 

 about one-seventh of an inch long, ellipsoid.—/. D. H. 



pefaf." 5' SA^T? ^ d sta, ? en8 ; 2 ' 3 standard 5 3, wing-petal; 4, keel- 

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