time in this country in the garden of Mr. Ingham Whitaker 
at Pylewell Park, Lymington, by Mr. W. F. Hamilton, by 
whom aspray was submitted for identification in November, 
1912, followed later by further material which has admitted 
of the preparation of our plate. Under greenhouse condi- 
tions the species has thriven well and flowered freely under 
Mr. Hamilton’s care. 
Description.— Shrub, about 3 ft. high ; branches olabrous, 
or puberulous towards the tips, green. Leaves alternate, 
exstipulate, 3-foliolate, glabrous or puberulous on the lower 
surface ; petioles 14-4 in. long; petiolules 7, in. long; 
leaflets 1-23 in. long, 2-11 in. wide, ovate, acute, wide 
cuneate or cuneately rounded at the base. Racemes 
terminal, 8-14 in. long; bracts very caducous, 2-1 in. long, 
$-% in. wide, lanceolate or -ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
concave, puberulous outside or glabrous; pedicels ob- 
conically thickened upwards, slender below, green, minutely 
2-bracteolate near the base, the upper thickened portion 
dull brownish-purple, faintly glaucous. Calyx 3-lobed, 
glabrous, green, slightly glaucous; lateral lobes over $ in. 
long, } in. wide, lanceolate, acute; anterior lobe 2 in. long, 
$3 In. wide at the base, narrowed above intoa very slender 
tip. Corolla very large, glabrous, pale greenish-yellow, 
keel dull brownish-purple at the tip; standard 14 in. long, 
1} in. wide, ovate, subacute, base abruptly narrowed into 
a claw } in. long; wings $-1 in. long, } in. wide, base 
abruptly contracted into a claw over + in. long; keel long 
acuminate, 13-12 in. long, 2 in. wide. Stamens mona- 
delphous below, the free portion 1-1} in. long. Style 2} in. 
long, abruptly incurved at the top of the staminal sheath. 
Pod stipitate, turgid-cylindric, 2% in. long, 2 in. thick; 
stipe over 4 in. long. 
Fig. 1, a flower, part of the calyx and vexillum removed ; 2, a flower with all 
the petals removed; 3, pistil :—all very slightly enlarged. 
