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O X Y L O B I U M CORDIFOLÎUM.
Heart-leaved Oxylobium,.
C L A S S X. ORDER L
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.. Ten Chives. One Pointât
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX simplex, quinquepartitus.
COROLLA papUioiiacea.
STYLUS subulatus. Stigma obtusum.
LEGUMEN ovato-acuniinatum, apice compressum^
polyspermum.-
EMPALEMENT simple, five-parted,.
BLOSSOM butterfly-shaped.
SHAFT awl-shaped. Summit blunt.
POD pointedly egg-shaped, compressed at the
end, and many-seeded.-
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE»
r . A leaf magnified.
2. The empalement.
3. The standard.
4. A back view of the same.'
5. One of the wings.
6. The keel.
7. The chives.
8. The same spread open, one tip magnified,.
g. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
10. A ripe seed-vessel.
11. The same spread open.
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PLANTS of a Papillonaeeous character furnish the most frequent opportunity for generic divisions.
Nine Genera have already been made by Dr. Smith and others to contain the Butterfly flowers of New
Holland. Our little novelty agrees with neither, From Pultensea, Aotus, Mirbelia,. and Dillwynia,,
it diflfers'in the pod not being two-seeded. The two last genera have also the cups two-lipped, and
the first with appendages attached to it. Gompholobium has a globular pod, and Chonzema an oblong,
one and a bilabiate calyx. Daviesia, Viminaria, and Sphferolobium have pods one-seeded. Thus situated,
we are under the necessity of adding one more to the number of genera, perhaps already too.
much extended. We have never seen it exceed a foot in height. The foliage is mostly in whorls :
and the stem, leaves, cups, and fruits are hairy.
Our figure represents one of the plants from the nursery of Messrs. Loddige, who first raised it from
«eed and where we observed its brilliant liule flowers in successive bloom for at least six montlis.
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