more ? ) with slender, acutely angled, sparingly leafy, un- 

 armed or sparingly muricate branches and branchlets. 

 Leaves six to ten inches long, scattered ; petiole and rachis 

 slender; leaflets 30 to 50 pairs, opposite and alternate; 

 one half to one and a half inches long, from oblong to 

 linear, tips rounded and apiculate, bright green above, pale 

 beneath. Racemes shorter than the leaves, few-fld. ; bracts 

 small, caducous; pedicels one half to three-fourths of an inch 

 long ; bracteoles minute, caducous. Flowers an inch broad ; 

 standard and wings golden-yellow, speckled with red on 

 the back of the standard, and with a red streak on the 

 wings ; keel sulphur-yellow. Calyx green ; tube small, 

 turbinate, teeth triangular. Standard recurved, orbicular, 

 deeply notched, bi-convex, with two connate oblong calli 

 at the very base. Wings spathulate-oblong, obtuse, much 

 narrower than the keel, but as long. Keel-petals hatchet- 

 shaped, with a slender claw. Filaments and ovary quite 

 glabrous. Pod ten inches long, by one-fourth of an inch 

 broad, linear, stipitate, strict, ending in a straight acute, 

 dagger-like beak, margins thickened, valves convex, slightly 

 constricted at the narrow septum between the very numerous 

 seeds. Seeds oblong, rounded at both ends.—/. D. H. 



<■ v lg i ^ ' Calyx and ovar y; 3 > ba se of standard; 4, wing-petal; 



o, keel-petal; 6, stamens ; 7, pod ; 8, portion of ditto with one valve removed ; 

 «, seed :— All but figs. 7 and 8 enlarged. 



