lobed. Racemes unarmed, a foot long, conical, several at 
the ends of a leafless branch from the base of its terminal, 
yet unexpanded leaf-bud ; widely divaricate, horizontal, 
and growing out at right angles with the branch, densely 
furfuraceo-tomentose in all its parts except the base of its 
main-stem, which is more or less naked, and dark blackish- — 
purple on the upper side, and wherever the coat is acci- 
dentally rubbed off ; the main stem is nearly as thick as the 
little finger at the base, then gradually attenuated, round 
throughout and perfectly straight. Flowers produced in 
June and July, very conspicuous, large, and handsome, in 
irregular, distant, partial whorls of from four to eight or 
thereabouts ; the stamens and carina always directed to- 
wards the base of the raceme. Bracteolas at the base of 
the pedicels, scarcely visible, very minute or obsolete, quick- 
ly deciduous ; none at the apex as in E. potanthes, Brot. — 
Pedicels round, densely furfuraceous, generally three to- 
gether, seldom more, occasionally only one or two, growing 
at right angles to the main stem, but irregularly all round 
it, halfan inch long. Flower-buds elongated, round, sub- 
lageniform, their ends truncated obliquely. Calyx densely 
furfuraceo-tomentose, pale brown, of a leathery but soft 
substance, dimidiate, or splitting partly down on the upper 
side, and resembling a campanulate spatha ; the lower 
lamina or limb or part opposite to the cleft, broad, wrink- 
led across, truncated obliquely, and with five irregular, 
blunt, shallow, nearly equal, small teeth. Standard re- 
flexed, large, ample, as broad (an inch and a half to two 
inches) as long, bright orange-red (red-lead approaching to 
vermillion) ; its limb broad oval scarcely notched, faintly 
lined or striated ; the claw short, green at its base. Wings 
exserted, Jonger than the calyx, ovate, concave, imbricated 
and closing over the keel, about three-fourths of an inch 
long and half an inch broad; at first green, finally chesnut- 
red, their edge intense purple-red. The éwo petals of the 
keel are similar in shape and colour to the wings but 
smaller; they can scarcely be said to form any keel, but are 
imbricated beneath the two wings, their tips appearing 
a little beyond these last. Stamens submonadelphous ; 
sometimes apparently diadelphous, nine and one, but the 
tube is only split a little farther down than usual, and the 
upper single stamen is united at the base with the rest. 
However, nine of the stamens are farther and more per- 
fectly united to each other than to the tenth in most cases. 
The tube formed by their filaments is pale green or white 
at the base, deep crimson or purple upwards, cleft wags 
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