reticulated, bright yellow-green and nearly glabrous above, 
aler, almost glaucous and downy when seen through a 
Teen beneath. Rachis angular, terminated by a branched 
tendril. The stipules may be said to be half arrow-shaped, — 
with the lobe deflexed, and equal in size to the stipule, in 
other words, to be composed of two equal, acuminated, — 
divaricating lobes: the length about three-fourths of an — 
inch. Peduncles about as long as the leaves, angular — 
and striated, slightly downy, terminated by an unilaterally 
and very bowutifal many-flowered raceme. Pedicels curva 
downy. Calyx reddish-purple, very downy, obscurely 
ribbed, the two upper teeth very short, the lowermost one | 
the longest. Vexillum bright red-purple, becoming paler 
and more blue in age; above the claw are two obtuse 
teeth, and the border is minutely, but delicately reticulated 
with red. Ale oblong, the upper margin complicated, and 
folding into some depressions of the carina so as to adhere — 
rather firmly to it, pale purplish ; carina obtuse, almost 
white. Filaments in two sets. Style linear, a little dilated — 
upwards, and there downy above. | 
In the “ Flora Boreali-Americana” I have described this 
plant, which is found, both by Dr. Ricnarpson and Mr. 
Drummonp, on the banks of the Saskatchawan river, in N. 
lat. 52°—53°, and by Mr. Dovetas, in North-West America, 
as the L. decaphyllus of Mr. Pursu, a native of the Missouri, 
and from whose description it only differs in the greater 
number of flowers in a raceme. These flowers are rather 
large, forming a dense, almost capitate raceme, before ex- 
pansion of a bright red colour, gradually becoming purple 
as they open, and fading away in age to a rather dingy 
blue. Our plant was raised from seeds brought home by 
ie Droummonp and Dr. Ricnarpson, in the garden of P. 
EILL, Esq. and it flowered for the first time in June, 1831. 
It is a highly ornamental speci : 
in every haste: der pecies, and well merits a place — 
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