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DILLWYNIA* glycinifolia. 



Gly cine-leaved Dillwynia. 



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DECANDRIA monogynia. 



Nat. ord. Leguminos^ Juss. §. Sophoreoe De C. (Introduction to 

 the natural system of Botany, p. 86.) 



DILLWYNIA Smith. — Calyx 5-fidus, bilabiatus, basi attenuates. 

 Petala medio tubi calycis inserta ; vexilli lamina dupl6 et ultr& latior qu&m 

 longa, divaricato-biloba. Ovarium 2-spermum. Stylus uncinatus. Stigma 



capitatum. Legumen ventricosum. Semina strophiolata. Suffrutices 



Australasici. Folia simplicia. f lores Jlavi, breviter pedicellati. Stipulae 

 0, aut minutissimce . — De Cand. prodr. 2. 108. 



D. glycinifolia ; floribus racemosis, foliis ovatis linearibusque revolutis re- 

 ticularis. — De Cand. prodr. 2. 109. 

 D. glycinifolia. Smith in trans. Linn. soc. 9. p. 264. 



Caulis fruticosus ; ramis filiformibus debilibus prostratis v. subscan- 

 dentibus. Folia alterna, simplicia, lineana, acuminata, breviter petiolata, 

 subths subpilosa, venis transversis parallelis subsimplicibus notata, mar* 

 ginibus revoluta. Stipulse setacece. Racemi axillares et terminates, laxi, 

 2-6-fori; pedunculis capillaribus dependentibus. Calyx pilosus, basi bi- 

 oracteolatus, subcampanulatus, bilabiatus : labiis ferh cequalibus, superiore 

 2-, inferiore 3-fido. Vexillum bilobum, transversum, aurantiacum, erectum; 

 alee rosece, parallels, obtusissimce ; carina alba, alis brevior. Stamina 10, 

 libera. Ovarium villosum ; stylus incurvus, teres, glaber ; stigma sub- 

 capitatum. 



A beautiful greenhouse plant, native of the south-west 

 coast of New Holland, where it was originally found in 

 King George's Sound by Mr. Menzies ; and more recently 

 by the collector Baxter. 



Our drawing was made last April in Mr. Knight's 

 Nursery. 



We have carefully compared it with the specimens in 

 Smith's Herbarium, and we perceive no difference what- 



Named in compliment to Lewis Weston Dillwyn, Esq., a learned 

 British Botanist, and illustrator of the tribe of Confervse. 



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