with spreading tomentum, most abundant at its subdivision, 
and at the origin of the panicle; branches unequal, the 
central the longest, but less than half as long as the petiole, 
three-foliolate ; leaflets very hairy on the lower side, at least 
when young. Peduncele (two and a half inches long) arising 
from the petiole (about an inch) below its subdivision, ra- 
ther less hairy than the petiole or its branches, suberect, 
bearing the pedicels, which are subglabrous, secund, and 
often bipartite near its apex. Bractee small, subulate, ad- 
pressed, solitary below the origin of the pedicels and their 
subdivisions, and six imbricated, adpressed upon the sides 
of the calyx, sprinkled with red spots, deciduous. Flowers 
white, drooping, the upper expanding before the lower. 
Calyx spreading or subreflexed, sepals rhomboideo-lanceo- 
late, marked obscurely on the back by several parallel 
colourless ribs. Petals erect, blunt, involute in the edge, 
together forming a short cylinder in the centre of the flower, 
each having a short, spreading, subulate, compressed apex 
reaching to about the middle of the sepal. Stamens yellow, 
erect, half as long as the petals ; filaments very short ; an- 
thers elongated, subulate, two-lobed, opening by lateral 
valves rolling up from the base ; connective pointed. Pistil 
scarcely longer than the stamens; germen oblong ; style 
lateral, about as long as the germen, green ; sti cupped, 
fringed. Graham. eee 
