caducous, silky. Pedicels spreading wide, silky. Calyx 
equal in length to the pedicel, bilabiate, upper lip of two 
approximated, lower of three spreading acute, segments. 
Petals five, nearly of equal length; standard concave, semi- 
circular, crenate, slightly marked with orange in the throat, 
claw short; ale elliptical, truncated at the base, claw ver 
slender, keel of two petals united in the middle, subinflated, 
each petal shaped like one of the ale, but with rather a 
longer claw, and with a pouch projecting outwards and 
backwards to near its base. Stamens hypogynous included, 
free: filaments slightly compressed: anthers inserted b 
their backs; pollen yellow. Style ascending, exserted. 
Stigma,small, blunt. Germen pedicelled, shorter than the 
stamens, silky. Ovules about eight. 
Seeds of this plant were received at the Botanic Garden, 
Edinburgh, from Van Diemen’s Land, through Wit.1aM 
Henperson, Esq. in February, 1829, marked “ Prussian 
Shrub.” The plant has been treated in the greenhouse, in 
the usual way of New Holland Shrubs, and in April last, 
when above three feet high, it flowered for the first time— 
every subdivision of its numerous branches bearing, upon 
its apex, a crowded bunch of flowers. 
It appears from the Hortus Kewensis that the species was 
introduced from Van Diemen’s Land, by Mr. Brown, in 
1805 ; but it seems to have been afterwards lost. 
The profusion of flowers with which it is covered, and 
the continued succession of these during a long while, ren- 
ders it a very desirable species for cultivation. Graham. 
 Fig.1. Back view of a Flower, 2, Front view of ditto, 3, Vexillum, 
4. Stamen. 5. Pistil—Magnified. a eS 
