DESORIPTION.—Shrub, evergreen, 3-5 ft. high; stems 
and branches woody, the younger more or less silky, the 
older sparingly hairy, the bark flaking. Leaves 2-1 in. 
long, 3-5-foliolate; petiole pubescent, }—} in. long; 
leaflets sessile, obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, mucronu- 
late, entire, }-2 in. long, }—} in. wide, green above, paler 
beneath, adpressed silky or in the cultivated plant 
sparingly hairy on both surfaces, lateral nerves more or 
less raised beneath ; stipules ovate, acuminate, + in. long, 
scarious. /Vowers usually solitary at the ends of short 
one- to few-leaved twigs, occasionally accompanied by a 
second nearly terminal flower, hermaphrodite or male, 
white; pedicels 1—} in. long, rather loosely silky or 
almost villous with long hairs. Sepals: outer herbaceous, 
green, obovate-oblong, acute, mucronulate, 1—} in. long; 
inner almost membranous, yellowish, always longer than 
the outer, ovate, mucronately acuminate ; all beset with 
white hairs outside, and somewhat villous towards the 
apex within. Petals obovate or suborbicular, about 4 in. 
long. Stamens half as long as the petals. Ovary densely 
clothed with long hairs. Style clavicular or almost 
filiform. Stigma somewhat capitate. 
Fig. 1, leaf and stipules; 2, vertical section of a flower, the petals removed ; 
3 and 4, stamens ; 5, carpel; 6, style :—all enlarged. 
