A handsome free-flowering climbing shrub. Leaves 
unequally and loosely pinnate, from nine inches to a foot 
in length; Jeaflets eleven, silky-furred, ovately lanceolate, 
taper-pointed and cuspidate, shortly petioled, 2-3 inches 
long, slightly undulate. Stipules setaceous, villous, spread- 
ing, caducous. Racemes at the ends of the branches, nod- 
ding, numerously and scatteredly flowered; (before expan- 
sion) imbricately gathered into the form of an amentum 
(catkin), and entirely scaled over by largish green hairy 
membranous bractes, which fall off as soon as the flowers 
begin to show themselves; (after expansion) extending 
themselves to the length of a foot or more: flowers hand- 
some, palish violet-colour, scentless, and about 3 of an inch 
long. Calyx greatly shorter than the corolla, campanulate, 
oblong, somewhat coloured, bilabiate; upper lip. ovate, 
emarginately truncate, lower lip trifid, pointed. Vexillum 
orbicular, reflex, cordate at the base: alae and carina of 
one shape, pointing forwards, parallel, a little shorter than 
the vexillum and deeper coloured, obtuse; the two petals 
of the carina separate and a little narrower than the ale. 
Stamens diadelphous, with a small secreting hollow below 
the insertion of the single filament. -dnthers short, ovate ; 
alternate ones shedding their pollen before the rest. Ger-. 
men. pedicled, inserted at the open slanting summit of a 
deep green smooth conically projected disk, linear, some- 
what compressed, villous, many-seeded, tapered towards 
the base: sty/e smooth subulate, 3 or 4 times shorter than 
the germen: stigma a round depressed knob. 
The outline in the annexed plate exhibits the raceme in 
its unexpanded state, before the casting of the bractes, 
which cover it. 
