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rently annual, with somewhat of the habit of a Lotus. The 

 leaves are alternate, on long footstalks, wedge-shaped, slightly 

 hairy, entire, except at the summit, where they are emarginate, 

 with a minute intermediate point, and rounded. Stipulas in pairs 

 attached to the base of the footstalk, lanceolate, pointed, membra- 

 nous, recurved, exactly agreeing with those figured and described 

 by M. Ventenat in the above species. The inflorescence however is 

 different, but that leads in this tribe not even to a suspicion of a 

 generic distinction; witness Pultenaa and Daviesia. The flower- 

 stalks in the plant before us are axillary, solitary, very lon<r, 

 much exceeding their correspondent leaves, hairy and single- 

 lowered, with a pair of lanceolate hairy bracteas near the calyx. 

 Flowers large and handsome. Calyx hairy, its upper lip cloven, 

 not half way down, into 2 rounded lobes ; its lower deeply di- 

 vided into 3 lanceolate acute segments. Standard rounded, 

 large, apparently yellow like the wings, streaked with red or 

 purple ; the keel seems to be entirely purple, slightly fringed 

 with white. Germen long and very hairy. Style ascending like 

 the stamens, and all together filling the cavity of the keel. Stig- 

 ma obtuse, rather more inclined to be capitate than M. Ventenat 

 represents it in his plant. I have seen nothing of the fruit, and 

 therefore should never have ventured to describe this plant as a 

 new genus, though unable to reduce it to any known one, had 

 not M. Ventenat elucidated the subject by his publication of 

 the other species. 



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