short side-ones: the whole concealed by two partial 
bractes that press closely on each of the sides, and .are 
more than twice its length, herbaceous, subcartilaginous, 
smooth, ovately oblong, obtuse, with a villous edge and 
small villous point. Standard nearly round, emarginately 
recurved, an inch and an half across or more, streaked, re- 
flexly upright; weguis or petal-stalk fleshy, narrow and 
cuneate, concave, as long as the bractes, curved at the 
base; lamina or blade spurred below the middle of the plait 
at the back by a short sharply conic deflectent spur, a 
broad whitely radiated purple spot spreading over the disk 
within, white at the circumference: wings cuneately oblong, 
bending towards the standard but rather shorter than that, 
embracing the keel lengthways, white, meeting altogether 
at the ends, where they are purple and obliquely rounded: 
keel bowed towards the standard, at the under side round- 
ly faleate compressed, the curve protruding miich below 
_ the lower edges of the wings, of two petals cohering under 
neath, open above, the length of the wings, white, purple 
at the top and obtuse. Sfamens diadelphous, reflexly as- 
cendent; filaments: one compressedly tubular 9-cleft for 
about one fourth of its length, reddish, the other simple 
and revolute: anthers short, incumbent or balanced, 
brownish, with deep yellow pollen. Germen linear, squarish 
with rounded corners, and a deeply engraven line along 
each side, twice longer than the calyx or more: style about 
the length of the germen or longer, round, ending in a 
narrowly cuneate transversely flattened stigma with a 
downy edged truncated top, rather concave at the under 
side. Pod about half a foot long, smooth, brown, - linearly 
elongated, compressedly squared, not much broader at the 
sides that at the upper and under parts, with corners fining 
off to an even shallowly projecting undulated coriaceo-car- 
tilaginous edge, the sides fiat and eyen, end acuminated 
and pointed by a part of the persistent style, many-celled 
and. entirely smooth on the inside, divided into one- 
seeded compartments by partitions of a membrano-cellular 
substance.- Seeds 13, according to Plumier and Mr. Her- 
bert, not much bigger than a common pea, and of a 
brownish yellow or tawny hue. e 
: eae 
a The standard or vexillum.. 4 One of the two wings or ale. c The 
simple stamen. d The 9-cleft stamen. e The two partial bractes which 
enclose and conceal the calyx. _f The calyx. g The germen and part of 
the style. h The stigma. j i 
