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men of science to give the world. The species is remark- 
able in its genus for the fine purple-rose-colour of the 
blossom, which in the others is commonly yellow. It re- 
minds us rather of an Ononis or Rest-harrow, than of what 
we have been accustomed to regard as a Crorararta; 
and is one of the many ornamental vegetables we owe to 
the late Mr. Masson, who sent the seed from the Cape of 
Good Hope in 1790. 
_ A woody upright shrub, sometimes, we are told, acquir- 
ing the height of six or seven feet; stem naked downwards, 
with a brown smooth bark, upwards contractedly branched, 
pubescent, grey, leafy. Leaves irregularly and loosely 
scattered, ternate, appressedly villous underneath and on the 
petiole, above, especially when young, strewed over by a 
subtle down and reticulately veined ; '/eaflets obovate, retuse, 
reflectent, middle one largest, from three parts of an inch to 
one and a half. long, and then nearly three times the length 
of the common petiole: stipules 2, minute, villous, decidu- 
ous. Racemes terminal, upright, many-flowered, sometimes 
extended to near a foot in length, with a round villous 
peduncle ; pedicles shorter than the corolla, with two minute 
decurrent bractelets placed one on each side, a little below 
the calyx. Calyx villous, deeply bifid, upper segment 
truncate and bidentately scooped, lower trifid, with lanceo- 
late lobes, of which the middle one is pointed and stands 
apart from the other two. Corolla about the size of that of 
Ononis rotundifolia: vwexillum or upper petal ascendent, 
round, emarginate, 3 or 4 times higher than the. calyx, 
with a white spot yellow in the disk at its base: a/@ or 
side petals of the length of the vexillum, 2 or $ times nar- 
rower, converging over the carina or two lower petals whicli 
are rather shorter, disjoined, meeting by their edges above, 
and bowed upwards with a small earlet or lobe on their lower 
edge at the bend.  Silaments monadelphously connate. 
Germen sessile, nearly cylindrical, straight, smooth, and 
many-seeded; style about a third shorter, white, setiform, 
nearly upright: s¢igma an obtuse obsoletely bifid point. 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 
ley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Fulham. 
a Calyx. 6 Vexillum. c One of tlie two ale. d Side view of the 
‘carina. ¢ Stamens. f Pistil or germen style and stigma. g A pod. 
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