November, 1892, by Mr. Ford, F.L.S. (Superintendent of 

 the Botanical Garden of Hong-kong). Plants reared from 

 this source flowered in September, 1893. Mr. Watson in- 

 forms me that a group of these, each bearing a tall raceme 

 of rose-purple flowers, was a great attraction to visitors. 

 The plants died down to the base after flowering. 



Descr. A tall suffruticose plant, covered except the 

 leaflets and perianth with hooked hairs, woody, and often 

 decumbent below, and sending up annual herbaceous leafing 

 and flowering branches five feet high, with spikes of pink- 

 purple > flowers twenty inches long. Leaves alternate, 

 spreading and drooping ; petiole and rachis terete ; 

 leaflets two to four pairs, rarely solitary, four to six inches 

 long by one and a half to two inches broad, linear-oblong, 

 acute, bright green, smooth or scaberulous above, pubes- 

 cent and finely reticulate beneath; nerves six to ten 

 pairs ; stipules broadly cordate, suddenly narrowed into a 

 long subulate point, ciliate, pink; stipels subulate. Baceme 

 one to two feet, shortly peduncled, cylindric ; peduncle 

 clothed with ovate-lanceolate persistent bracts. Flowers 

 in densely crowded pairs ; pedicels half an inch to an inch 

 long, hhtorm, decurved, ciliate ; flower-bracts two-flowered, 

 ovate-lanceolate, caducous, upper more slender, uppermost 

 lorming a pink brush terminating the raceme. Calyx one- 

 sixth inch long; segments subulate, fringed with tubercle- 

 based hairs two upper shorter connate below. Standard 

 mWn. t P .i rpl f within >Pale blue externally; wings 

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