It isa small trailing pubescent branching shrub. Leaves 
ovate or cordate, coriaceous, firm, veined, mucronate, of © 
a glaucous green above, white below, from being covered 
by a minute silky pubescence, midrib prominent beneath, 
red as is the margin of the leaf: stipules subulate: petiole 
short. Inflorescence axillary, shorter than the foliage ; 
peduncles 1-3-flowered, about the length of the calyx, curved, 
pedicles still shorter, aggregate, with a small bracte at the 
base. Calyx oblong-campanulate, scarcely half an inch 
long, bilabiately divided, upper lip broadly emarginate, 
lower trifid- with lanceolate divisions, Corolla elongatedly 
papilionaceous with the wings drawn in, crimson, about an 
inch. and one third of one in length; vevillum or standard 
twice shorter than the rest of the petals which are all of 
one length, spatulate, blade oval-oblong reflected with a 
streaked yellow disk; wings opposed to each other broad- 
ways, converging along the sides of the keel, which is 
‘open above and appears as of a piece with these, linear- 
oblong, subfalcate, with a short slanting point; seed or 
bout straight, retuse, of two petals similar to those of the 
wings, but nearly twice as broad, separated below, cemented. 
to each by the inner edges above. Stamens equal tothe | 
corolla, rising at the summit from out the keel. Germen— 
somewhat oblong, covered with a shaggy soft pubescence, ~ 
supported by a very short thick pedicle, placed in the 
centre of a low obtuse fleshy circular excrescence, situated 
within the filaments at the bottom of the calyx. Style 
filiform, red, crooked at. the top; stigma obtuse. 
The drawing was made from a specimen which flowered 
in the conservatory of Mr. Creswell, in. Battersea Square, 
in. April last. ss 
