the extremity of the stems, about an inch long, scattered, 
sessile, elliptical, acute, villous on both sides, and at the 
margin, single-nerved, acute, quite entire, the margin often 
reflexed. Stipules none. Flowers collected into a com- 
pact head at the extremity of the branches, each upon a 
very short pedicel, with a minute bractea at the base. Ca- 
lyx somewhat ovate, scarcely two-lipped, villous, pale 
green, five-toothed, teeth subulate, the two upper ones the 
shortest, the lower one the longest. Corolla YF a clear and 
rather bright yellow. Vexillum roundish, with a rather 
short claw. Ale oblong, somewhat falcate, carina subcym- 
biform. Stamens ten, filaments diadelphous, nine united 
and one free, white. Anthers subglobose, yellow. Pistil 
about equal in length with the stamens. Germen ovate, 
clothed with long, silky hairs, and tapering gradually into 
the filiform, white style ; stigma obtuse. 
_ A native of the Cape of Good Hope, requiring the usual 
treatment of the plants of that kind, ani the protection 
of a hag atte where it bears at the extremity of its 
branches, in the month of November, its heads of bright 
yellow blossoms. Although introduced in 1774, by Mr. 
rancis Masson, it has not hitherto found a place in any of 
our illustrated Botanical works. 
We are indebted for the specimens here given to the 
Messrs. SHepuerns, who raised it from Cape seed in 1829. 
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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Vexillum. 3. Ale. 4. Cari Cal 4 Sia 
mens. 6. Pistil: magnified. anna, 5, Calyx an 
