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P L A T E CCCCXXVII.
GO M P H O L O B I U M MACULATUM.
Maculated Air-pod.
C L A S S X. O R D E R I.
DECJNDRIA MONOGYNU. Ten Chives. One Pomtal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX campauulalus, simplex, alte 5-fidus.
Corolla papilionacea. Stigma simplex,
acutum. Legumen inflatum, sphericum,
uniloculare, polyspermum.
EMPALEMENT bell-shaped, simple, deeply
five-cleft. Blossom butterfly-shaped.
Summit simple, acute. Pod inflated,
spherical, one-celled, many-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
GOMPHOLOBIUM, foliis ternatis linearibus nudis,
senioribus declinatis, pedunculis
basin versus bibracteatis, ramulis teretibus
nudis.
GOMPHOLOBIUM, with leaves in threes and naked,
the older ones bent downwards, peduncles
with 2 floral leaves near the base,
and naked round branches.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A leaf.
2. The empalement, peduncle, and floral leaves.
3. A front view, of the standard.
4. A back view of the same.
5. One of the wings.
6. The keel.
7- The chives and pointal,
8. The seed-bud and pointal.
THE plant here represented is quite a new species, and is said to be a native of New Holland : it is a
stiff little shrub, and prospers in the green-house j and its yellow flowers, deeply blotched with
brown on die standard, piake a good appearance.
In its habit, and in tlie generic characters, it comes nearer to Gompholobium of Dr. Smith in Exotic
Botany, tab. 5, than to any other genus within our knowledge ; yet the dissections here given, will
be found to swerve from the characters there advanced, in several perhaps not unimportant particulars.
The stamina appear more united. The stigma appears slightly capitated, instead of acute j and
the infant pod somewhat too long. The bracteae also differ in number as wel l as structure.
Our drawing was made from living plants in tlie Hibbertian collection in the year 1803, but the
above description from the drawing only.
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