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subject of a separate genus, under the name of Gatacrra, 
suggested by the milky juice said to pervade every part of 
the plant. The genus was reduced by Linnzeus to Crrrorra; 
has been since revived by Michaux; and we find our species 
restored to its original place by Persoon, in his Synopsis 
Plantarum. : 
The drawing was made from a plant raised by Mr. Her- 
bert at Spofforth, from imported seed. It flowered in Octo- 
ber, when specimens were obligingly forwarded to us. In- 
troduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1794. 
Branches slender, round, woody, tawny green, covered 
by a short close-pressed fur. Leaves alternate, distant, 
ternate, often reflectent, villous underneath and at the 
petiole, quite smooth above and deep green; leaflets ovately 
oblong, firm and thickish, nettedly veined, end-one about 
an inch long or more, and about } of an inch broad, point- 
less, side-ones a little smaller and mucronate; petiole about 
4an inch long; general stipules 2, opposite, subulate, par- 
tial ones awnshaped. Racemes spiked, axillary, solitary, 
upright, loosely many-flowered, undivided, 3 or 4 times 
longer than the leaves, composed of distinct 3-or more- 
flowered pendulous fascicles tending to a same front; pe- 
duncle straight and upright, filiform, villous, scarcely di- 
verging from the branch, furnished at the base by 3? 
brown villous bractes subulately narrowed from a broad 
base; pedicles capillary, shorter than the calyx, aggregated, 
villous, flexile, bowed downwards, each with a short subu- 
late bractelet at the base. lowers reversed, nearly an 
inch long, straight, oblong, pendulous, in the bud of a 
vivid pinkish red, fading as they expand from paler to dirty 
white. Calyx membranous, pale, villous, 3 or 4 lines 
long, tubularly campanulate, bilabiate, 4-cleft, upper lip of 
one ovately lanceolate lobe larger than the rest, dower of 3 
distinct lanceolate lobes, middle one recurved and larger than 
its side-ones: traversed at the base by two lanceolate minute 
villous close-pressed deciduous bractes. Petals of one 
length, tender: vexillum cuneately oblong, nearly 3 times 
broader than the wings, accumbent: ale straight, elong- 
atedly oblong, narrow, obtuse, confining the keel between 
them; carina bifid, straight, obtuse, of 2 petals exactly like 
the wings: ungues all short. Filaments diadelphous, straight, 
reddish at top Pistil straight: germen many-seeded, silky, 
linear: style capillary, smooth: stigmaa minute head. Pod 
about 2 inches long, narrow, with several seeds, 
