oblong raceme of flowers. Calyx with five rather unequal 
teeth, and clothed with short, but shaggy, blackish hairs. 
Vexillum broad and roundish, clawed, yellowish in the 
centre, the rest bright-bluish purple, but not a deep purple, 
with deeper oblique lines. Ale short, pale yellow, ob- 
longo-obovate ; Carina obtuse, yellowish below, the rest 
dingy purple. Anthers orange-coloured. Germen oblong, 
very hairy : Style curved upwards, slender. 
Communicated from the Birmingham Botanic Garden by 
Mr. Cameron, who raised the plants from Chilian seeds. 
It is found in the plains at Conception, Valparaiso, and 
Coquimbo, and will probably always require the protection 
. a greenhouse, or of a frame. Its flowering season is 
ay. 
in the Botanical Miscellany, Mr. Arnorr and myself 
have had occasion to notice the variable character of this 
plant. We there considered that state as », which is 
clothed with soft and silky hairs: 6, with the leaves some- 
what glabrous above: y, with the stem and leaves gla- 
brous ; and 3 with the leaflets linear. The present may 
almost be considered a fifth variety, having more copiously 
and compactly woolly leaves and stems than any of the 
others. 
Judging from the very young state of the fruit, I am 
inclined to think this plant would be more correctly referred 
_ to Puaca. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 3, Section of the Ovary : magnified. 
