cous ; pedicels two to three inches lon^, slender. Flowers 

 one to one and a half inches broad. Cahix-tuhe one-fourth 

 to one-third of an inch long, cylindric, terete ; limb bipar- 

 tite ; segments orbicular, concave, green, the anticous three- 

 toothed. Pttals three-fourths of an inch long, spathulate, 

 pale pink, three upper with three streaks of carmine from the 

 base to the middle, two lower with one median streak. Per- 

 fect stamens three, declinate ; filaments carmine ; anthers 

 oblong, cells with ciliate margins ; staminodes seven, 

 very short ; anthers imperfect, globose. Ovary stipitate, 

 glabrous, linear, narrow, contracted into a stout incurved 

 style ; stigma small, capitate. Legume six inches long, 

 linear, many-seeded ; valves flat, rough. — J. D. IL 



Tig. 1, calyx, stamens, and ovary, with style reraoTed ; 2 and 3, anthers ; 

 4, imperfect atauieus : — all enlarged. 



