4^0 A DESCRIPTION OF 



Raceme terminal, axillary, and, from tuberofi ties over the naked woody 

 branchlets, {landing in every direction, rigid, covered with a foft greenifb 



purple down* 



Flowers Papilionaceous, pendulous, pedicelled, fafcicled, large, their ground 

 of a beautiful deep red, (haded with orange and filver coloured down* 

 which gives them a mofl elegant appearance. 



Pedicels round, about an inch long, articulated near the apex, and co- 

 vered with the fame greenifh velvetlike down. 



Bracts, one below the infertion of each pedicel, lanced, falling, two iimilar 

 but fmaller, premng on the Calyx, falling alfo. 



Calyx : Perianth belled, leathery, two lipped, tipper lip large, fcarce emargir 

 nated j under three toothed, covered with the fame dark green down, that 

 the raceme and pedicels are covered with, withering. 



Corol i 



Banner reflected, egged, pointed, very little longer than the wings. 

 Wings afcending, lanced, the length of the keel. 



Keel below two parted, afcending, large, mooned, the length of the wings 

 and banner. 



Stamens : filaments one and nine, afcending in a regular femicircle, about 

 as long as the corol. 

 Anthers equal, linear, erect. 



