an occasional cutting back of the young succulent 
growths. Planted in broad masses at Kew, where it has 
been in continuous cultivation since the time of the elder 
Aiton, it gives charming effects when in bloom in May. 
It does not need a rich soil, and as it ripens seed in 
abundance it is easily increased. The material for our 
plate was derived from a plant in the collection at Kew, 
with mixed white and pink-flushed flowers. 
Descriprion.—Shrub, of upright habit, 5-7 ft. high, moderately branched, 
the branches striate, at first silvery-silky, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves 
low down 3-foliolate, with petiole 1-1 in. long, those higher up 1-foliolate, short- 
petioled or nearly sessile; leaflets linear-lanceolate or narrow oblong, in 
cultivated plants up to 4 in. long, } in. wide, in wild plants smaller and 
proportionately narrower, silvery-silky ; stipules 0. Flowers profusely arranged 
along the virgate branches, solitary or in twos or threes to each leaf-axil ; 
pedicels slender, }-Lin. long. Calyz persistent, shortly campanulate, sparingly 
hairy, the lips short, denticulate, of about the same length. Corolla white or 
in one cultivated race flushed with rose; petals of about the same length, up to 
-$in. long. Pod somewhat obliquely linear-oblong, 1-12 in. long, 4-} in. wide, 
adpressed silky, 
Tas. 8693.—Fig. 1, part of a leaf; 2, a flower, the petals removed; 3, calyx, 
laid open, with pistil; 4, standard; 5, wing; 6, keel :—all enlarged. 
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