midal top, ramifying in every direction, the lower branches 
long and reclining (Mackay); both stem and branches of 
a dingy purplish colour, acutely angular, the extremely 
young shoots as well as the underside of young leaves, 
under a microscope, clothed with appressed hairs, among 
which are many thick, black hairs or glands, the falling of 
which, probably, in the old leaves, gives the dotted appear- 
ances mentioned by SprENGEL as one of its specific distine- 
tions. Leaves alternate, four to five inches long, of from 
four to seven nearly equal pinne. Rachis of the young 
leaves with an orange tuft of hairs on the upper side be- 
tween every pair of pinne, and which persist, but turn 
brown in the older ones. Stipules small, subulate. Pinne 
opposite, shortly stalked, elliptical or oblong, sometimes 
approaching to ovate, obtuse, retuse, or not unfrequently 
notched, quite glabrous on the upper side. Racemes in the 
axils of the leaves on the upper branches, sometimes shorter 
than, sometimes as long as the leaves. Flowers numerous, 
of a bright rose colour, inclining to purple. Calyx very 
small, purplish, nearly equally five-toothed. Vexillum re- 
flexed, rounded, emarginate, having a white, orbicular spot 
at its base, included in a horse-shoe-shaped, deep purple 
line, slightly downy at the back. Ale and keel deflexed: 
the white claws of the petals of the latter in the fully 
expanded blossom have escaped from the calyx, and are 
reflexed upon the back of the keel. 
Communicated by J. T. Mackay, Esq. from the College 
Botanic Garden, Dublin, where it was sent as well as to 
many other collections by Mr. Fraser, in 1808, from New 
Holland, under the name of speciosa, and as such, it is still 
generally known in our gardens. Mr. Sreser published it 
under the name of I. sylvatica, and well distinguished it 
from I. australis, though Professor Dr Canpotxe has united 
it with that species, and made a variety of Sreper’s true 
I. australis. The leaves are liable to vary in width. As 
cultivated by Mr. Mackay in the conservatory, it is an 
extremely showy plant and deserving a place in every 
collection. 
_ Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Back view of ditto, 3, One of the 
Petals of the Keel— Magnified. 
