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BRACHYSEMA latifolium. 
` Broad-leaved Brachysema. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. LEGvMINOS)B, Jussieu gen. 345. 
Dip. IV. Cor. irregularis papilionacea, Stam. distincte, aut rarb 
basi coalita. Legumen uniloculare bivalve. Arbores aut frutices ; Jolig 
simplicia aut ternata aut impari-pinnata. Íd.l. c. 351. 
BRACHYSEMA. Cal. 5-fidus, parùm inequalis, tubo ventricoso. 
Cor. papilionacea, vexillum brevius carind compress’ alas eguantd. 
Germen pedicello basi vaginulá cincto. Stylus 6liformis, elongatus. Le- 
gunìen polyspermum, ventricosum. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 3. 10. 
B. latifolium, foliis ovatis planis, vexillo oblongo obovato. Brown ip 
Hort. Kew.'ed, 9. 3. 10. i 
Frutex procumbens, cano-pubescens, ramosus, Folia coriacea, ovata 
v., cordata, muéronala, venulosa, suprà glatico-virentia, ‘infra pube bredi 
apprers8 albicastiay: rachide subtus inente et margine rubentia, brevissime 
iolata : stipule 2, subulata. Inflor. axillaris, foliis brevior; pedunculi 
-8;flori, viz calyçi ezquales, curpati ; pedicelli etiam his breviores, aggregati, 
bracteolá minutd ad pro Cal. cano-fuscescens, oblongo-campanulatus, sub- 
semuncialis, bilabiato-partitús, «equalis, labio” summo porrecto; divarical2 
emarginato, infimo depressiore, trifida, segmentis subulatotancevlatis. Cot. 
clongato-papilionacea alis adductis, punicea, unciam cum und tertid porig 
glterius circitêr longa ; vexillum reliquis petalis inter se isometris duplo brevius, 
ipothalatum, Jenind refezá oval-oblongdy dico striate favicmte “ale trand- 
versiin opposite,” ke secundùm marginem caring, lineari-oblongas, subfal- 
cate, acumine obliguo brevi: carina detecta, porrecta, retusa, petalis alarum 
subsimilibus at ferà duplo latioribus, infernê nigricantibus et solutis dein confer- 
fuminatié; Stan: equentía corollam; exsurgeatia è caria y fil. rubicunda 
anth, incumbentes, flava. Germ. ollongiusculum, sericeo-hircutum, insideng 
brevi pedicello è centro circuli carmosi crassi promïnuli sublOtorulosi: ori- 
undi fundo calycis intra filamenta; stylus “aliformis, ruber, supra aduncus j 
stigma obtusum. 
A rare greenhouse plant, native of the south-west coast 
of New Holland. Firct found by Mr. Brown, by whom 
the genus in which it ranks was instituted in the last edition 
of the Hortus Kewensis. The inflorescence reminds us of 
that of KENNEDIA rubicunda, long known in our collections ; 
but our plant stands in another class and order of the Lin- 
nean system, owing to the filaments being separate, and not 
connected, as in the great majority of its natural co-or- 
dinates with a papilionaceous bloom and leguminous fruit, 
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