ing close to the vexillum: lower one three-parted, the segments
ovate, or ovately lanceolate, acute, spreading. Vexillum, very
broad, obcordate, dark blue, tinged with purple, with a white
spot at the base. Alee or wings roundly spathulate, unequal sided,
auriculate on one side, with a very slender unguis. Carina
scarcely half the length of the wings, obtuse. Stamens 10, dia-
delphous, 9 joined together about half their length, the points distinct,
the 10th distinct to the base. Ovarium smooth. Style
quite smooth, ascending. Stigma slightly capitate. Pod coriaceous,
inflated, broader than long, smooth inside and out, the
persistent style fixed on one side, and at one end. the two seeds, both fixed
This very handsome plant has been very lately raised from
seed at the Nursery of Mr. Mackay, at Clapton; the seeds were
sent from New South Wales by Mr. Henchman’s Collector,
Mr. Baxter, and the plant has now flowered, we believe, for the
first time in this country; in the extensive Herbarium of A. B.
Lambert, Esq., we were so fortunate as to find it with seed-
pods, as also another species, both of which were collected by
Captain King in King George’s Sound; from those specimens
was procured the pod given in the plate, and also the leaf and
pod of the other new species, which Mr. Lambert was so kind
as to favour us with, and by that means enabled us to establish
them as a distinct genus.
Our drawing was made the latter end of February, at the
Clapton Nursery, where Mr. Mackay has now established his
fine collection of new plants, having entirely removed from the
Belgrave Nursery, in the King’s-road, to the purer air and more
elevated situation of Clapton, where the plants thrive better, and
will be more likely to show themselves to advantage. The present
plant is a hardy Greenhouse Shrub, and would probably
succeed well by the side of a wall in a southern aspect, so as to
be covered with a mat in severe frost. It thrives well in an equal
mixture of light turfy loam, peat, and sand; and young cuttings,
planted under bell-glasses in sand, will strike root, but the best
plants will be those raised from seeds. The generic name is composed
of TrXayiog, transverse, and Ao6oe, a pod.
9 StaIm. eCnasl ycoxn. n2e. cVteedx, ilbluumt d. is3ti.n Actl aaet, tohre w pionignst.s . 4. The blunt Carina, or Keel. 6. The terminated by the Style and small capitate Stigm6a. . The distinct Stamen. 7. Ovarium show the insertion of the seeds, which are imperfect. 8. Pod. 9. The same laid open to of ditto. 10. Leaf of P. ilicifolium. II. Pod