exceeding a yard in height; branches flexuose, 4-ridged ; 
the small bristles that form the fur are decumbent and fixed — 
down at their middle with the two ends pointed and de- 
tached, as we see them on a larger scale in Maxpicuia. 
Leaves alternate, wideset, widespread, with a thicker fur 
underneath; leaflets oblongly oval, scarcely an inch long, 
neatly equal, with a small recurved point, nerves, excepting 
the main one, very faintly marked: petiole usually shorter 
than the leaflets, fixed to the branch by a joint, as the 
leaflets are to that: stipules 2, herbaceous, subulate, awned, 
caducous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, upright,. several 
times longer than the leaves; flowers numerous, in a spike- 
like raceme, scattered, near together, widespread, about 
half an inch long, purplish red; pedicles very short; bractes 
caducous, about equal to the calyx, coloured in part, spot- 
ted, formed of a compressedly vaulted awned lamina and a 
short green unguis. Calyx hispid, coloured, oblately cam-_ 
panulate, about 3 times shorter than the corolla, halfdcleft; 
limb bilabiate, segments unequal, linearly subulate, ciliate, 
in the upper lip divaricate and slanted downwards, in the 
lower placed parallelly like the teeth of a comb, the middle 
one largest. Petals all of the same colour, veined, nearly 
of one length: vewillum oblong, rhomboidally ovate, slightly 
acuminate, refracted from below the middle, unguis red, 
broad, concave, gibbous at the back, not covered by the 
calyx, lamina with a double white and violet streaked spot 
at the base: wings falcately lanceolate, divaricate, downy 
at the point, wnguis simple: keel deflected, lanceolately 
navicular, with a short-pointed spur at each side: wanoves 
simple, oblong, divergent, red. Stamens diadelphous the 
tube of the filaments very shallowly 9-cleft, reddish and 
incurved at the top: anthers upright, ovate, with a small 
crested point at the back, tomentosely bearded at the base. 
Germen round, villous, straight: style as short again as — 
that, subulate, reddish, incurved: stigma a white compress- 
ed glandular head. . 
The drawing was taken at Messrs. Whitley and Co.’s, 
Fulham. 
