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OXYLOBIUM arborescens. 

 Tall Omjlohium. 



DECANDRIA MONOQYN1A. 



Nat. ord. Leoum i nosje. Jussieu gen. 345. Bh. IV. Corolla irregu- 

 laris papilionacea. Stamina distincta, aut rard basi coalita. Legumen 

 uniloculare bivalve. Arbores aut frutkes ; folia simplicia aut ternata aut im- 

 pari-pinnata^=PApiLio-nACEJB. Brown in app. to Flind. vou. 2, 552. 



OXYLOBIUM. Calyx profundi quinquefidus, subbilabiatus. Corolla 

 papilionacea, carina compresga longitudine alarum aequantium vexillum ex- 

 planatura. Stylus adscendens. Stigma simplex. Legumen polygpermum, 

 ventricosum, o vat urn, acutum. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 9. 



O. arborescens, foliis Hneari-lanceolatk, bracteis apicis pedicelli persistentt- 

 bus, corymbis confertis, leguminibus calyce vix longioribus. Brown in 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 10. 



A tall shrub, first observed by Mr. Brown in Van Die- 

 men's Island. Introduced in 1805. 



The drawing was taken in April last, from a plant in 

 the greenhouse at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the 

 King's Road, Chelsea. 



The genus has been defined by Mr. Brown in the last 

 edition of the Hortus Kewensis; and is distinguished 

 among the decandrous section of its papilionaceous co-ordi- 

 nates, by a deeply fivecleft faintly bilabiate calyx; a. corolla 

 with a compressed carina the length of the ales, which are 

 as long as the flatly expanded vexillum ; an ascending style; 

 simple stigma; and a polyspermous, ventricose, ovate, 



pointed pod. 



We are not aware of any published representation of the 

 species. It is known by its linearly lanceolate leaves, 

 the persistence of the bractes at the top of the pedicles, 

 closely flowered corymbs, and by pods scarcely longer than 

 the calyx. We have not been enabled to add any further 

 particulars concerning it; as we missed the opportunity of 

 examining the blossom. Three of the genus are recorded 

 in the Hortus Kewensis. 



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