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1474 
GOMPHOLOBIUM* tomentósum. 
Downy Gompholobium. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Lesumınosz Juss. $ Papilionacee. (Introduction to the 
natural system of Botany, p. 87.) 
GOMPHOLOBIUM.—Supra, vol. 6. fol. 484. 
G. tomentosum ; foliis impari-pinnatis 2-4-jugis, foliolis subulato-linearibus 
mucronatis suprà scabris, pedunculis subsolitariis, calycibus hirsutis legu- 
mine brevioribus, carina sericeo-ciliatá (?)—De Cand. prodr. 2. 106. 
G. tomentosum. Labill. nov. Holl. 1. p. 106. t. 134. Brown in hort. Kew. 
3. p. 12. 
Cabe erecti, graciles, pallide virides, pilosi. Folia impari-pinnata, 
foliolis 2-5-jugis, subulato-linearibus, pubescentibus, sepé divaricatis, petiolo 
villoso, stipulis tenuissimis, erectis, setaceis. « Flores parvi, terminales, sessiles, 
bi-ternati. Calyx atro-olivaceo-brunneus, 5-partitus, subequalis, pubescens. 
Corolla vexillo intús luteo, extus atro-olivaceo; ale lutee ; carina lutea, 
glaberrima. Legumen pisi majoris magnitudine, inflatum, calyce duplo 
longius. 
A native of Van Dieman's Land, and of the south-west 
coast of New Holland. In the latter country its seeds were 
gathered by Mr. William Baxter, and formed part of the 
valuable collection now in the possession of Mr. Knight. 
A little Greenhouse plant, flowering as soon as fifteen 
months from seed, which it produces in abundance, and by 
which it may be Baci increased. Mr. Knight thinks it 
probably short-lived. It is found to require a good elevated 
shelf in the Greenhouse during winter; light soil, and not 
to be overwatered. 
Our drawing was made in the Nursery of Mr. Knight, 
in the King's Road, in August last. 
* See fol. 1468. 
