Native of New Holland, and, as Mr. Brown believes, of 
the neighbourhood of Port Jackson. Introduced some years 
back by Lady Northampton. The drawing was taken from 
a specimen kindly sent to us by Mr. Herbert, from his col- 
lection at Spofforth, near Wetherby. The plant is one that 
does not flower freely tili of some years standing; when it is 
very ornamental. It does best planted in the border of a 
conservatory, and climbs to a considerable height. 
A smooth woody twining branched shrub, branches 
brownish green, round, shallowly 4-cornered. Leaves ter- 
nate, distant, dark green, nettedly veined, about 3 inches 
long, leaflets obiongly ovate rounded at the top and mucro- 
nate, lateral ones fixed to the petiole by a thick flexile joint, 
the middle one a little the largest, about 14 inch long; petiole 
stiff, striated, channelled, with a thick fleshy joint at the 
base. Common stipules two, semioyate, awnedly acu- 
minated, reddish, partial ones minute linearly subulate, red. 
Racemes simple, axillary, manyfiowered, longer than the 
petiole, upright, two inches or more in length, peduncle 
flexuose, striated, green, with 2 bractes at the base, pedicles 
in alternate pairs, rather shorter than the corolla, about 
equal to the intervals between the pairs, angular, connected 
by a joint with the calyx. Flowers violet purple, about half 
an inch long. Calyx coloured, more than twice shorter 
than the corolla, tubularly campanulate, 2-lipped, gibbous 
at the back, slightly villous at the edge, upper lip shortly 
2-cleft, with acute straight lobules, lower one 3-cleft, with 
stellately spread equal acuminated mucronate segments. Vex- 
illum obcordately orbicular, reflectent, with a white double 
green-figured spot in the middle, obsoletely unguiculate: 
wings equal in length to this, of one colour, pointing for- 
wards, pressed to the keel by their inner flat surface, 
hatchet-shaped, with a short bifurcated unguis: keel diverging 
from the vexillum, pale, twice smaller than the wings, of 
two falcate obtuse petals, with white unequally two-pronged 
ungues. Filaments diadelphous, not much longer than the 
calyx, turned up with a sharpish angle: anthers greenish 
yellow, ovately round; pollen granular and clotted. Germen 
smooth, compressedly linear, sessile, the length of the 
calyx, terminated by a short continuous style of nearly the 
same thickness; stigma an obtuse slightly pubescent point.’ 
