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EUCHILUS obcordatus. 



Heart- leaved Euchilw. 



DECANDRIA MONOQYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Ledum mosiE. Jussieu gen. 315. Div. IV. Corolla irregu- 

 laris papilionacea. Stamina distincta, aut rar<5 basi coalita. Legumen 

 uniloculars bivalve. Arbores aut Jrutices ; folia simplicia aut ternata aut 

 impari.pinnata^=PAPiLi(ysACBJE. Brotvn in app. to Flind. voy. 2. 552. 



EUCHILUS. Calyx profundi quinquendus, bilabiatus, labio supe- 

 rior e maxim o ; basi bibracteatus. Corolla papilionacea, carina loDgitudine 

 alarum. Germen dispermum, pedicellatum. Stylus subulatus, adscendens. 

 Stigma simplex. Legumen compressum. Strophiola seminis lobis posticis 

 integris. Brotvn in Hort. Kew. ed, 2. 3. 17. 



Euchilus obcordatus. Brovon in Hort. Km. ed. 2. 3. 17. 



A genus of which we have but one recorded species. 

 It was instituted by Mr. Brown, who first observed the 

 shrub on the south-west coast of New Holland. 



Introduced in 1803 by Mr. Peter Good. The drawing 



was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and 

 Milne, Fulham ; where the plant flowers in the greenhouse, 



in the spring and summer. By no means common in our 

 collections; nor has it been represented by any figure pre- 

 vious to the present. 



Comes near to Pulten^a, from which its chief technical 

 differences consist in having a calyx with a disproportion- 

 ately large upper lip, instead of two proportionate lips; a 

 pedicled, instead of a sessile germen ; and the hinder lobes 

 of the seminal strophiola (a ventral accretion peculiar to 

 certain seeds) entire, not carved as there. 



