raised by Mr. Bull, with whom it flowered in April of the 
present year. 
Descr. A shrub, four to six feet high; young branches 
calyx, pedicels, and usually the leaves beneath clothed with 
appressed silky pubescence. Stems and branches very slender. 
Leaves one to two inches long, very shortly petioled, from 
linear with margins recurved to orbicular with waved margins, 
tip apiculate or not base, rounded, coriaceous, glabrous and 
dark green above, paler and usually silky beneath. Stzpules 
subacute, recurved. Vowers three quarters of an inch long, 
axillary, solitary or two or three together, shortly pedicelled 
or racemose. Calyx broadly campanulate with an urceolate ~ 
gibbous tube; lobes short, broad, subacute. Petals about 
twice as long as the calyx, dark purple, yellowish-green, or 
red ; standard reflexed, cordate, shorter than the oblong obtuse 
wings, which equal the obtuse keel. Ovary hairy, many- 
ovuled. Pod short, ovoid, crustaceous.—/. D. #1. 
Fig. 1, Flowers; 2, standard ; 8, wing petal; 4, kee!s; 5, ovary :—all 
magnified. - . 
