BOSSIvEA rhombifolia.
Rhomb-leaved Bossicea.
Linnean Class and Order. DIADELPHIA DECANDRÏA.
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSJE. DC. prodr. 2. p.93.
Subordo I. PAPILIONACEM. Embryo homotropus pleurorhizeus nempê radi-
culA super loborum commissuram prona. Sepala per aestivationem imbricata aut sub-
valvata. Petala iu corollam papilionaceam disposita, semper ideS irregularia, stamina-
que imo calyci inserta seu perigyna.—Folia simplicia aut simpliciter composita, nunqudm
hi nec tripinnata. DC. 1. c. p.94.
Tribus II. Lo te.-e Supra fol. 2.—Subtribus I. G enisteje. Legumen unilocnlare.
Stamina saepissime monadelpha. Folia simplicia aut palmatim trifoliata rariüs pinnata.
Cautes saepissimè fruticosi.
BOSSIJEA. Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore majore semibifido obtuso. Stamina
omnia connexa. Legumen plano-compressum pedicellatum polyspermum, margins ntro-
que incrassatum. Semina strophiolata.—Frutices Australasici. Rami stepi compressi.
Folia nulla aut simplicia alterna. Flores fiavi, caring stepè purpurea aut fused. DC. prodr.
a. p. lie.
B. rhombifolia, ramulis compressis foliosis, ramis teretibus, foliis rhombeo-orbiculatis
submucronatis, leguminibus longe stipitatis falcatis. DC. prodr. 2. p. 117.
Bossiaaa rhombifolia. Sieb. pi. exs. nov. holt. n. 354. Swt. hort. brit. add. p. 475. Spreng,
syst. veg. 3. p. 231.
A dwarf branching evergreen Shrub, with slender pendant
branches, old branches cylindrical: young ones flat, leafy,
smooth, glaucous. Leaves rhomboidally orbicular, with a short
horny mucro, and a cartilaginous margin, broader than long,
slightly concave, smooth and glaucous, pinnately nerved, rigid. Petioles short, jointed a little below the leaf. Stipules very
small, like little scales, cordate, acute, membranaceous. Flowers
axillary, solitary, yellow, with a purple keel. Bractes ovate,
concave, blunt, fringed, 2 or 3 near the base of the peduncle
very small, and 2 larger about the middle. Peduncle short,
smooth. Calyx smooth, 2-lipped; the upper lip truncately
rounded with a notch in the centre on the upper edge, bluntly
keeled on the back: lower lip 3-cleft, the laciniae ovate, bluntish,
the margins slightly pubescent, when in bloom spreading or
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