vigorous growth. The rusty tomentum on the younger 
parts gives the plant a very characteristic appearance ; 
and the flowers, which are lemon-yellow with a scarlet 
blotch, have a singularly pleasing effect. 
Descr.—A tall, climbing, prickly shrub, the younger 
shoots with a rusty-brown coating of hairs. Leaves bipin- 
nate, with 9-12 pairs of pinnules; rhachis armed on the 
lower surface with numerous recurved prickles; leaflets 
4-8 pairs on each pinnule, ovate, acute, 3-1 in. long, 
1-4 in. broad, slightly shining and quite glabrous on the 
upper surface, dull and much paler on the lower; midrib 
puberulous on the lower surface. Itacemes about 6 in. © 
long, borne in the upper axils; rhachis rusty-tomentose. 
Sepals obovate-oblong, ciliate, the lowermost one larger 
than the others, and rusty-pubescent on the back. Petals 
ovate, lemon-yellow, the uppermost one smaller than the 
others, reflexed or revolute, and marked with a scarlet 
blotch. Stamens declinate ; filaments villous in their lower 
half. Ovary shortly stipitate, pubescent, two-ovuled ; 
style stout. Pod obliquely  elliptic-oblong.—T. A. 
SPRAGUE, 
Fig. 1, flower with lateral and anticous petals removed; 2 and 3, anthers; 
4, pistil :—all enlarged. 
