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BRACHYSEMA undulatum. 
Wavy-leaved Brachysema. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOs;E. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. IV.—PAPILIONA: 
CEA. Brown in gen. rem. in flind. voy. 2. 552. 
BRACHYSEMA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 118. 
B. undulatum, foliis ellipticis undulatis mucronatis, vexillo oblongo, cordato, 
suprà convoluto, obtusato. 
Frutex erectus, flexuosus, alterne divaricatéque ramosus supernè ramique 
recurvato-flexiles, cortice è colore imo brunneo pube cand sericeá cinerascente. 
Fol. sparsa, laxa, secunda, erecta, ovata v. rotundo-ovata, undulata, re- 
panda, subtüs sericea, albo-nitentia, suprà glabra, opaco-virentia, reticulato- 
venulosa, mucronata, nunc basi subcordata, majora biuncialia v. ultrà 
latitudine subsesquiunciali: petioli breves, teretes, sericei: stipule 2, 
fusce, setaceæ, sericeæ, recurvate, petiolo longiores. Pedunculi azillares, 
teretes, sericei, subtriflori (flore ultimo sepé abortiente) laxi, folio aliquo- 
tiès longiores: bracteæ 3, parvule, subulate, calyci appresse plurimùmque 
breviores, una media brevior obtusior concava. lores penduli, lutescentes. 
Cal. membranaceus, melinus, fusco-puncticulatus, sericeus, corollá plus duplo 
brevior, oblato-campanulatus, bilabiato-fissus, basi posticè gibbosus; labium 
superius emarginatum dentibus 2 acutis, inferius trifidum segmentis ovato- 
acuminatis erectis subequalibus. Cor. $ uncie v. eirciter longa, oblonga, 
alis adductis: vexillum oblongo-cordatum, reflexum, cariná brevius; un- 
guis linearis, fornicatus, calycem æquans; lamina infernè orbiculato- 
dilatata, superné intensiüs colorata et ob latera inflexa angustato-con- 
cava, sæpè intus rubedine tincta: ale lineari-ligulate, parallele, à 
lateralibus interioribus conniventes, ab exterioribus carinam triplo la- 
tiorem imbricantes: carina oblonga, obtusissima, compresse ventricosa, por- 
recta, subtüs connata, suprà aperta, utrinque ad basin lobo rotundo de- 
pressiore extrorsüm flexo auriculata. Filam. alterne breviora, summum 
medium ad basin arcú alto fornicatum, reliqua basi gibboso-incrassata, 
exteriorum verd gibbositas crassior latiorque, 2 ad latera medii summi 
posita curvo imo postico secüs receptaculum commune appresse assurgen- 
tia: anthe. flaviuscule, parve, incumbentes, polline albido granuloso. 
Germ. ovato-oblongum, sericeo-hirsutum, stylo aliquotiés brevius, polysper- 
mum, disco glanduloso obliquo prominente insertum: stylus staminibus 
longior, continuus, albus, elongato-filiformis glaber assurgens acutus; stig. 
punctum pruinosum. 
Of this genus we know of only one other recorded spe- 
cies, and that is published in the second volume of this 
Register (fol. 118). The present was lately raised by Messrs. 
Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, from seed said to have been 
collected in the recently explored interior of New South 
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