stipellate, shortly stalked, rather thick, unequal, oval, 
oblong, obovate, or nearly orbicular, 1-2} in. long, apicu- 
late, strigillose above, shining, rusty-hairy beneath. 
Flowers rose-purple, with a white eye on the standard, 
about 2 in. in the greatest diameter, clustered in racemes ; 
racemes, including stalk, 2-6 in. long, or as much as 
10 in. in some wild specimens; pedicels §—-} in. long. 
Bracts rusty-hairy, ovate-caudate, longer than the flower- 
buds, falling off before the flowers expand. Caly« densely 
silky-hairy, 2-lipped; upper lip bidentate; lower lip 
equally 3-lobed, lobes triangular, acuminate. Standard 
nearly orbicular, shortly clawed. Wing-petals and keel- 
petals similar, obovate, rounded, clawed, auriculate above | 
the base. Stamens 10, upper one free. Ovary sessile ; 
style included. Pod flat, straight, about 2 in. long, rigidly 
apiculate, densely clothed with reversed hairs, usually 
4-seeded. Seeds almost black, reniform, about + in. long, 
furnished with a white, clavate strophiole, about ¢ in. 
long.—W. Borrine Hemstey. 
Fig. 1, calyx and genitalia; 2, standard ; 3, a wing-petal ; 4, a keel-petal; 
6, a pod; 7 and 8, seeds :—all enlarged except 6 and 7, which are natural size. 
