flowers. Calyx somewhat two-lipped, five-cleft, green, 
eet Standard of the corolla bent back, its sides in- 
ected, greenish-white, streaked with pale blue within ; 
wings obovate, yellowish-white at the base, the rest deep 
purple: keel whitish, yellow at the point. Stam. mona- 
delphous ; five of the anthers oblong, five roundish : all 
yellow. Germen oblong, hairy. Style linear. 
This plant, although not frequently seen in our collec- 
tions, is by no means unornamental, the flowers resembling 
in their colour some species of Lupine. The great objection 
to it, as an inhabitant of the stove, is its being annual. We 
have received seeds from various of our correspondents, 
both in the East and West Indies: and it is probably a 
general native of tropical countries. 
Fig. 1. Keel of the Corolla. 2. Stamens and Pistil._—Magnified. 
