dillera of North America. The present very handsome 
species is a native of South America, and “ was raised by 
Mr. Nem, from seed sent by Mr. Tweepie of Buenos 
Ayres, and flowered freely in the greenhouse at Canonmills 
in June, 1833. It approaches very near to Lupinus multi- 
florus of Encyclop. Méthodique, vol. iii, p. 624, and had it 
not been for the very conspicuous pedicels in Mr. Nettt’s 
plant, I should scarcely have separated them.” 
Descr. “ Whole plant silky, excepting only the corolla, 
stamens, and style. Stem suffruticose, erect, branched. 
Leaves (about six inches across) digitate, leafets about nine, 
linear-lanceolate, silky on both sides, carinate below, entire, 
very acute. Petiole nearly twice the length of the leafets, 
compressed vertically. Stipules (an inch and a quarter 
long,) adhering for about half their length, subulate. Ra- 
ceme (a foot anda half long) terminal, elongated. Pedicels 
scattered equally over the rachis to within a little way of its 
base, which is naked, spreading when in flower, when in 
fruit erect, springing from the axil of a subulate, caducous 
bractea. Calyx bilabiate, the upper lip two-, the lowest 
three-toothed, bibracteate towards the base, bractea small, 
subulate, adpressed, inconspicuous. Corolla pale lilac; 
vexillum reflected upwards and at the sides, subrotund, 
emarginate, cordate at the base, orange, and slightly spot- 
ted in the middle, keeled behind ; claw short and rigid; ale 
rather longer than the vexillum, straight in the upper edge, 
curved in the lower, and there cohering towards the apex, 
slightly turned up at the point, claws short ; keel half the 
length of the ale, more rigid and shining than the other 
parts of the flower, and of deeper purple colour at its point, 
which is raised above the upper edge of the ale, dipetalous, 
petals cohering only near their apices. Stamens monadel- 
hous, included, the five with rounded anthers only a little 
onger than the others ; anthers orange-coloured ; pollen- 
granules very small and nearly spherical. Pistil longer 
than the stamens ; stigma very small, capitate ; style subu- 
late, glabrous, shining ; germen silky ; ovules several. Un- 
ripe Legumes erect, silky-woolly, subcylindrical, tapering 
and connivent at their apices.” Graham. 
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Fig. 1. Calyx, includin ari : : 
me ; g the Carina. 2. Flower, 3. Stamens including 
the Pistil 4. Young Legume: magnified. 
