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TExWLETONIA retusa. 

 / Wedged- leaved Templetonia, 



DIADELPHIA DEC4NBRIJ. 



Nat.ord. Legumikosje. Jussieu gen. $&5* Biv. VI. Papimonaceje. 

 Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 552, 



TEMPLETONIA. CaL ebracteatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus parfim 

 inaequalibus. Carina oblonga* Stem, omnia connexa, anthem uniformibus* 

 Legumen pedicellatum, plano-compressum, polyspermura* Semina strophi- 

 olata. Brown in Hort. Ketv. ed. 2. 4. 269. 



Templetonia retusa* Broxon in Hort. Km* ed. 2. 4. 269. 

 Itafnia retusa. Vent en. malmais. 53. 



Frutex erecttis, rantosus; rami anguhsi, Jbliosi t cinereo-vtrentes, glabri. 

 Fol. alterna, pattda, petiolata, stipulate ctmeata, iniegerrima, levtter emar- 

 ginata cum apiculo brevi inconspicuo, glabra, coriacea, plana 9 per$tsteniia f 

 xuprb profundi: viridia, infrh paUidiora: petioli articulati, decurrentet, w- 

 rugati, brevissimi, albicantes; stipulae parti inferiori petioli adnaUz, erecbz, 

 ovules, acuta, membranosa, subrufis, brevissima, cito dectducE. Pedicelli 

 axillares, solitarily uni&ori, erecti, glabri, virentes, tongitudine dimidiumjolii 

 subcequantes, medio tibracteatu Fiores erecli, puntcei, magnitudine Jeri 

 Kenned im rubicundae; bracteas opposite ovales, obtus&, subciliatte, brevis* 

 simce. Cal* campanulalus, glaber, virens, limbo bilabiate £ labium superius 

 ovale, obtusnm 9 emarginatum; inferius e segmenlis 3 parurn profundis, imi- 

 quolibus, medio longiore acnto. Pet* brcvi~unguiculata : vex.parum reflexum, 

 ovali-oblongum, obtusum cum apiculo inconspicuo, planum, striatum; alas 

 vexillo subcequilongee, rectce, oblong&, oblusa: car. atis obtecta non/tihilumque 

 brevior, e petalis duobus oblongis superrih incuroescentibus, obtusis. FiL 

 monadelpha: anth. parvm, sulphurete, Gerra. lineare, glabrum, virens, brevi* 

 pedicellatum ; stylus Jiliformis, per sis tens, stigmate capitate* Sem. 8-10. 



A handsome species, first observed by Mr. Brown on 

 the south-west coast of New Holland. Introduced by 

 Mr. Peter Good in 1803. 



The drawing was taken at Mr. Lee's nursery, Hammer- 

 smith ; where it is cultivated in the greenhouse, and flowers 

 about April and May. 



A tallish branching upright shrub: branches angular, 

 leafy, cinereously green, smooth. Leaves scattered, not 

 spreading much, petioled, stipulate, cuneate, quite entire, 

 slightly notched at the end where there is a small short in- 

 conspicuous point, smooth, coriaceous, flat, evergreen, deep 

 green above, paler underneath: petioles jointed, dccurrent, 

 wrinkled, very short, whitish; stipules adherent to the lower 



