house, where it must be kept in the winter. Known to 
have been cultivated here in 1656. 
A tall upright shrub, when left to its full growth. 
Branches and foliage furred by a white villous nap, the 
former striately cornered and upright. Leaves numerous, 
scattered on all sides, ternate; leaflets about of an inch 
long, obovately oblong, mucronate, rather firm, furred on 
both sides. Sowers fragrant, yellow, in several, or even 
many racemes, forming a panicle or corymb at the ends of 
the branches: peduncles axillary, upright, filiform, white, 
cornered, leafy below the flower, their leaves smaller than 
those on the branches and occasionally simple; pedicles 
shorter than the calyx, with two furred linear bractelets 
near to the flower. Calyx small, furred, tubular, bilabiate; 
upper lip bifid, segments subulate, wide apart; lower lip 
trifid, segments linear contiguous. Vewillum of the corolla 
oblong, reflectent; ale equal in length to that as well as 
the carina, linear, narrow: carina furred, paler, 2-petalled, 
pointing forwards, petals linearly oblong, a little broader 
than in the als, rounded at the point and slanting upwards, 
. gibbous at the base above the unguis. Stamens monadel- 
phous. Sfyle setaceous, ascendent above, smooth: stigma 
an obtuse point: germen linear, silky, green. 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Col- 
villes, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
oe 
a The calyx. 6 The vexillum. c One of the ala, d The carina. e¢ The 
stamens. f The pistil. 
