largest in the middle, oblong, subemarginate, minutely mu- 
cronate, opaque, green and glabrous above, paler, and with 
minute adpressed pubescence below, edges slightly revolute, 
middle-rib channelled above, prominent and round below. 
Racemes axillary, pendulous, many-flowered ; lower flow- 
ers expanded first, flexuose ; common peduncle and pedicels 
green and slightly pubescent, each pedicel springing from 
the axil of a small, green, ovato-lanceolate, spreading 
bractea, and with two subopposite bracteoles in the middle. 
Calyx campanulate, green, its mouth somewhat oblique, 
with five subequal, deltoideo-subulate, adpressed teeth. 
Corolla of nearly uniform red, and becoming livid in fading, 
very handsome, but the whole raceme is less so than it 
otherwise would be, in consequence of the gradual elonga- 
tion of the pedicels being disproportionately greater than 
the rachis, by which the whole forms a dense and confused 
ovate mass. Vexillum ovato-acuminate, reflected from near 
its base, slightly striped with white near its centre, some- 
what callous at the keel. Ale about half as long, narrow, 
oblong-sickle-shaped, with a callous, colourless, curved 
claw, and a tooth on its upper edge of nearly a similar tex- 
ture, but shorter. Carina as long as the vexillum, nearly 
colourless on its inside in the lower half, monopetalous, with 
a colourless undivided claw and short blunt tooth on the 
edge on each side, acuminate, curved forwards. Stamens 
ten, diadelphous ; filaments colourless ; anthers uniform, 
oblong, yellow ; pollen-granules minute, golden coloured, 
shining, round. Pistil green, as long as the keel, and 
closely wrapped up in it ; germen glabrous, furrowed along 
its upper edge. Style covered with long, simple white 
hairs in a line along its upper side, and extending nearly to 
its middle. ‘ The flowers are succeeded by brownish- 
lack pods, two inches and a half long, seated on a slender 
Stipe, and convex on the upper instead of the lower edge, 
So that unless attention be given to the manner of growth, 
't would seem as if the seeds grew from the lower instead of 
the upper edge. They are covered all over with a deli- 
cate cottony down, in which lie the small, kidney-shaped 
seeds, of a dull yellowish ochre colour, mottled with small 
crown blotches and speckles.” (Hort. Trans. l. ¢.) 
raham. 
