OXYLOBIUM obtusifolium.
Blunt-leaved Oxylobium.
Linnean Class and Order. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSAJ. DC. prodr. 2. p. 93.
Subordo I. PAPILIONACEM. DC. loe. cit. p. 94.
Tribus I. SOPHORE.E. Corolla papilionacea. Stamina libera. Legumen continuum
nec articulatum. Cotyledones plan® foliace®.—Tribus satis naturalis, accedens ad Lo-
teas mediantibus et Ammodendro et Astragalis chronopodiis, ad Hedysareas, median
te Adesmia, quibus sunt stamina libera et Sophor® sectio 5 ecu ml a qu® staminibus
gaudet OXsYubLcOoaBliItUis.M D. CC. alloycx. cpirt.o pfu. n9d4e. 5-fidus subbilabiatus. Corolla caring compress!!
iongitudine alarum vexillum explanatum ®quantium. Stamina toro aut imo calyci in-
serta. Stylus adscendens. Stigma simplex. Legumen sessile aut subsessile, polysper-
mum, ventricosum, ovatum, acutum.—Frutices snffrnticesve Australasici. Folia ter-
natim quaternimre verticillata Integra. Flores corymbosi,flam. DC. prodr. 2. p. 104.
O. obtusifolium, foliis oblongo-linearibus obtusis ; supra glabris reticulatis subtus to-
mentoso-sericeis: marginibus revolutis, corymbis laxiusculis, bracteolis ad apieem
pedicelli persistentibus, calycibus tomentoso-sericeis, alis coroll® reflexis.
A pretty dwarf branching upright Shrub, in the plants that
we have seen, scarcely 18 inches in height: branches thinly
clothed with a silky pubescence. Leaves generally verticillate,
3 in each whorl, sometimes only 2, which are opposite or rarely
alternate, with very short footstalks, oblongly linear, obtuse,
very stiff or rigid, upper side channelled, reticulately veined,
smooth on the old leaves, the young ones silky, underneath
clothed with a dense silky tomentum, the margins more or less
rolled back, particularly on the young leaves. Petioles short
and thick, downy. Flowers terminal, in a loosish corymb or
raceme, which is also verticillate, generally 3 in a whorl: the
peduncle thickly clothed with a silky pubescence, as are the pedicles,
bractes, and calyx. Pedicles short, each surrounded at the
base by a deciduous bracte, which is longer than the pedicle. Bractes 2, at the base of the calyx, persistent, broadly lanceolate,
acute, not half the length of the calyx. Calyx slightly
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