fully justified in treating the latter as a distinct species. 
In the Temperate House at Kew C. pallidus has formed 
a freely branching shrub four feet high, pleasing on 
account of the silvery pubescence of its leaves and for 
its terminal clusters of slightly fragrant yellow flowers, 
which appear in April. Under suitable conditions it is 
likely to reach twice to thrice the height mentioned, so 
that it can only be conveniently grown in a large 
greenhouse. 
DEscrIPtion.—Shrub 4-10 ft. high; twigs silky when 
young, soon loosely adpressed silvery-pubescent; bark 
green, striate. aves 3-foliolate; petiole 1—1} in. long, 
pubescent like the twigs; stipules more or less persistent, 
narrow, ; in. long, silky; leaflets oblanceolate or narrow- 
oblanceolate, shortly sharply acuminate, narrowed at the 
base into a short petiolule, 2-14 in. long, 1-1 in. wide, 
papery, rather loosely adpressed-pubescent on the upper 
surface, green silky on the under surface, midrib slightly 
impressed above and raised beneath, lateral nerves not 
prominent, margin often slightly recurved. Flowers 
arranged in loosely clustered terminal 10-flowered 
racemes ; bracts deciduous; pedicels about 1 in. long, 
silky like the calyx; bracteoles narrow, about } in. long. 
Calyez somewhat 2-labiate; tube ys in. long; the two 
upper lobes 4 in. long, j!; in. wide, the three lower 
connate in a 3-toothed lip. Standard elliptic-ovate, 
emarginate at the tip, over 3 in. long, over 4 in. wide, 
outside white-pubescent with adpressed hairs along the 
nerves; claw y'5 in. long. Wéings under } in. long, + in. 
wide ; claw y'5 in. long. Keel distinctly auriculate, under 
2 in. long, + in. wide, silky outside; claw '; in. long. 
Anthers long and short. Ovary 1 in, long, silky; style 
: ot 2 y3 M4 
glabrous upwards ; stigma minute. 
Fig. 1, portion of a leaflet ; 2, flower, the petals removed, showing the three 
bracteoles; 8, wing-petal: 4. kee]. ; arr ny as : f 
the ovary :—all ate od. 3 4, keel-petals; 5, pistil; 6, longitudinal section © 
