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Spofforth ; where it grows in the bark-bed of the stove, and 
flowers principally in the winter-season. 
A twining shrub; stems woody, ash-coloured, about the 
thickness of a pen and smooth; all the rest of the plant 
covered with a viscous fur: branches green, shaggily villous, 
round. Leaves wide apart, alternate, scarcely exceeding 
two inches, of a lively green, thinly haired, each hair 
Standing on a small glandular base, spotted underneath 
by a resinous efflorescence; leaflets roundishly rhomboidal, 
angularly and longishly acuminated with a blunt. tip, 
branchingly nerved, reticulately veined, the terminal one 
about an inch long, lateral ones nearly twice smaller, in- 
equilateral, very shortly petioled: common petiole longer 
than the terminal leaflet, stiffish, roughly villous, chan- 
nelled above, jointed at the base and with all its leaflets: 
stipules 2, opposite, ovately lanceolate, short, green, up- 
rightly patent, glandularly haired on the outside and 
streaked; partial ones, none. Racemes axillary, solitary, 
generally undivided, longer than the leaves, upright, from 
several to many(4-20-)flowered, 3-5 inches long; peduncle 
slender, villous, flexuose; flowers about half an inch long, 
deep yellow, very shortly pedicied; pedicles furnished at the 
base with a small ovate pointed herbaceous pubescent cadu- 
cous bracte. Calyx 4-parted, pale-green, glandularly pubes- 
cent, twice shorter than the corolla, bilabiate, slightly com- 
pressed; wpper lip shortest, ovately tapered deeply convex: 
at the back, bifid at the tip, the lobules acute; lower lip 
straight, trifid with lanceolately subulate segments, the — 
middle one of which is twice as long as the side ones. 
Petals of the corolla equal in length: vevillum streaked, 
reflex, obcordately round, villous on the outside and marked 
with incomplete purple streaks, furred at the base of the 
front of the blade with a green semicircular fleshy ridge, 
and conyolutely eared on each side: ungues of the length 
of the calyx, convex: wings oblong, doubly unguiculated, 
3 times as narrow as the vexillum, enclosing the keel, taw- 
nyish, obtuse: keel pointing straight forwards, slightly fal- 
cate, veined, pale, somewhat ventricose, very obtuse, each 
petal stained with purple at the top. Filaments equal: 
anthers oblong, short, yellow, upright. Germen two-seeded, 
oblong, slightly falcate, shorter than the style, furred: style 
white, smooth, swollen in the middle: stigma a slantingly 
depressed simple point. beh 
