acuminate, glabrous. Inflorescence a many-flowered dense 

 raceme, 4-6 cm. long ; flowers pendulous : peduncle dark 

 brown, 7*5—15 cm. long, terete, velvety. Calyx up to 1 cm. 

 long, more or less tubular campanulate, 2-Hpped, velvety- 

 brown outside. Vexillum up to 5 cm. long, 25 cm. broad 

 when expanded, conduplicate, falcate ; alae yellow-green, 

 4—8 mm. long, oblong, curved ; carina equalling the alae. 

 Stamens 10, exserted ; the vexillary filament free to the base. 

 Ovary stalked, villous ; stigma simple. Legume few-seeded, 

 constricted between the seeds. Seeds scarlet, with a black 

 hilum. 



Plate 59. — Fig. 1, vexillum ; Fig. 2, carina ; Fig. 3, wing ; Fig. 4, calyx ; 

 Fig. 5, stamens ; Fig. 6, gynaeeium ; Fig. 7, fruit, showing one seed. 



F.P.S.A., 1922. 



