terete; leaflets distant, alternate, spreading, very shortly 
petiolulate, three to four inches long, by one to one and a 
half broad, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, 
base acute, rather hard, shining, midrib stout ; nerves very 
slender, finely reticulated; stipelle none; stipules minute. 
Flowers one and a half inches long, in axillary few-flowered 
short and shortly peduncled racemes, nodding or pendulous ; 
pedicels one-half to one inch long, very slender. Calyx 
campanulate, pale green, terete, shortly five-lobed ; base 
acute; lobes broadly ovate, acute, erect. Petals twice as 
long as the calyx, obovate-spathulate, convolute, forming a 
campanulate corolla, rose-red; tips broad, almost truncate. 
Stamens subequal, filaments slender; anthers included, 
ellipsoid, yellow. Pod (young) three inches long, oblan- 
ceolate, falcate, narrowed into a very slender stalk, tip 
suddenly and obliquely contracted into a slender subulate 
style.—J. D. H. . 
Fig. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, calyx and young pod ; 4, young seed :—all enlarged. 
