Vilmorinia
(named after Pierre Louis Vilmorin, a French cultivator, who wrote on leguminous plants in 1825). ORD. Leguminosae. A genus containing three species of erect, stove shrubs, natives of San Domingo, requiring similar culture to that recommended for Clitoria. The only species introduced is described below; it is probably no longer in cultivation. V. multiflora (many-flowered). Vilmorin's Purple Pea-flower. fl. purple, in axillary racemes; calyx cylindrical, obtusely four-toothed, sub-bilabiate; petals narrow-oblong, the wings shorter than the keel. May. l. imparipinnate; leaflets five or six-jugate, oval, pubescent beneath; stipules rather broad at base, long-subulate. h. 6ft. 1826. SYN. Clitoria multiflora.