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G O M P H O L O B1U M G RA N D I F L O RU M.
Large-Lowered Air Pod.
CLASS X. ORDER I.
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives, One Pointai.
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E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
C A L Y X carapanulatus, simplex, alte 5-fidus. Corolla
papilionacea. Stigma simplex, acutum.
Legumen iiiflatum, sphaericum, uniloculare,
polyspermura.
E M P A L E M E N T bell-shaped, simple, deeply fivecleft.
Blossom butterfly-shaped. Summit
simple, acute. Pod inflated, spherical, onecelled,
many-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
GOMPHOLBIÜM foliis ternis vel quiñis, linearibus,
apice mucronatis : corollis coccineis :
pedunculis basin versus bibracteatis : caule
Tolubili.
GOMPHOLOBIUM with leaves in threes and fives,
linear, and mucronated at the end: blossoms
of a scarlet colour: peduncles with two floral
leaves near the base : stem climbing.
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves.
2. The standard.
3. One of the wings.
4. The keel.
5. The chives and pointal.
6. Seed-bud and pointal.
7. A ripe seed-vessel.
6. The same split open.
T H I S nondescript species of Gompholobium is, when in flower, the most elegant of the genus, but when
out of bloom few plants have less attraction.
It was first raised in the Royal gardens at Kew, about the year I 8 O 9 , and is as yet in very few collections.
Our figure represents an entire plant from the conservatory of the Countess de Vandes, which
flowered in the month of June 1811, and perfected its seed about the middle of September, at which
period its slender branches had grown nearly six inches longer (than they were when in bloom), and,
twining round a small stick placed for their support, had every appearance of becoming a graceful climbing
plant.
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