1827, and it flowered in 1828. Our drawing was made in 

 the Chiswick Garden, in the autumn of that year. 



*' Cespitose, 6 to 10 inches high, densely clothed with 

 rigid, long, silvery, scabrous, or slightly barbed hairs. 

 Leaves covered with short and less copious hairs than the 

 stem. Leafiets 5-9, linear-lanceolate, equally hairy with 

 the stem, almost pungent in a dry state, and rusty brown 

 colour. Raceme terminal, dense, whorled, many-flowered. 

 Pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx hirsute, with two 

 minute, subulate bracteolae ; the upper lip bifid, the lower 

 entire, and falcate. Flower purple-blue. Vex'illum rounded, 

 dark purple. Wing falcate, purple-blue ; keel falcate, 

 ciliated at the apex, obtuse, pallid. Pod rigidly hirsute, 

 2-3-seeded. Seeds small, long, white." — Douglas. 



J. L. 



