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GASTROLOBIUM bilobum, 



Two-lobed Gastivlobium. 



DECANDRIA M0N0GYN1A. 



Nat. ord. Lecdminosje. Jussieu gen. 34-5. Dh. II. Fatilxohacrm. 

 Br&wn gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 552. 



GASTROLOBIUM. Cal. 5-fidus, bilabiattfs, ebracteatus. Cor. pa- 



{)ilionacea, petalis longitudine subaequalibus. Germen diBpermum, pedicel- 

 atura: stylus subulatus, adscendens : stigma simplex. Legumen vontrico- 

 »ura: semina *trophiolata. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 16. 



G. bilobunt, foliis (uncialibus) subtils subsericeis retusis : lobulis rotundatis 

 mucronulo longioribus, leguniinis pedicello tubum caiycis aequaote. 

 Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. J 6. 



A genus instituted by Mr. Brown in the second edition 

 of the Hortus Kewensis; and consisting of a group charac- 

 terized by a fivecleft bilabiate bracteless calyx; a papiliona^ 

 ceous corolla with nearly equal petals; a pedicled twoseeded 

 germen; a subulate ascending style; a simple stigma; a 

 ventricose pod; and strophiolate (furnished with ventral 

 epiphyses) seeds. 



The present species, the only recorded one, is distin- 

 guished by its retuse leaves (an inch long) with a 6omewhat 

 silky fur on the under side, their end lobes rounded and 

 longer than the intervening point; and by a footstalk of 

 the pod which is even with the calyx. 



First observed by Mr. Brown on the south-west coast of 

 New Holland; and introduced by Mr. Peter Good in 1803. 



A greenhouse shrub. One however far from common in 

 Our collections; and never represented by any published 

 figure, that we are aware of, before the present. 



We are obliged to Mr. Herbert for the specimen from 

 which the drawing has been taken. It flowered in the col- 

 lection at Spoffbrth, last spring. 



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