sent seed to the Botanic Gardens of St. Petersburg from 
the Ussuri river, a southern tributary of the Amoor m 
Mantchuria, in the year 1858. The specimen here figured 
flowered in an open border of the Leguminous collection in 
the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in October last. 
Descr. A slender leafy shrub, three feet high and up- 
wards ; stem angular, usually hoary ; branches very sees 
often elongate and pendulous. Leaves three-foliolate, petio 6 
very slender, one-fourth of an inch to three inches long; 
leaflets very variable, one-half to two inches long, elliptic 
oblong obovate obcordate or rounded, tip rounded or acute, 
with or without a short or long mucro, petiolules short 
slender, upper surface smooth glabrous, under glabrous 
or pubescent; nerves numerous, spreading, very slender. 
Racemes axillary, rarely terminal also, short or long, often 
six to nine inches long and drooping or suberect ; peduncle 
and rachis very slender, glabrous pubescent or silky; bracts 
minute, subulate. Flowers opposite alternate and fascicled, 
one-third to two-thirds of an inch long; pedicel slender. 
Calyx one-fourth of an inch long, with two minute bracteoles 
at the base, pubescent or silky; tube short; lobes lanceo- 
late, acuminate, straight. Corolla three times as long as 
the calyx, bright rose-purple, white or violet; standard 
ovate, very shortly clawed, reflexed with recurved margins ; 
wings shorter than the standard, falcately oblong, obtuse. 
Upper stamen free. Pod one-quarter of an inch long, 
membranous, flattened, obliquely ovate-rotundate or subtra- 
peziform, base narrowed, point-beaked, margins slightly 
thickened, faces reticulate. Seed flattened, orbicular-oblong, 
testa brown smooth.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Section of calyx, staminal tube, and ovary; 2, calyx and bractevles; 
3, standard; 4, wing 
3; 5, keel; 6,stainens; 7, ovary :—all enlarged, 
