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GOMPHOLOBIUM versicolor. 
Changeable Gompholobium. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. LEcuMINosz; PAPILIONACER, 
GOMPHOLOBIUM. Supra vol. 6. fol. 484. 
G. versicolor ; caule erecto, foliis breviter petiolatis trifoliolatis : foliolis linearibus 
mucronatis glabris margine revolutis, racemo laxo paucifloro, calycis laciniis 
oblongo-linearibus cuspidatis extüs glabris intüs pubescentibus, carina 
glabrá. Supra miscell. no. 62. : 
Suffrutex debilis, glaber, ramis subangulatis flexuosis. Folia trifolio- 
lata, petiolo stipulis setaceis æquali vel breviore; foliolis linearibus, mucro- 
natis, margine revolutis, omninò aveniis et uniformibus. Racemi terminales, 
2-3-flori, pedunculis capillaribus flexuosis subangulatis clavatis ; bracteole 
setacee, distantes. Calyx extus glaber, intüs lined tomentosá intramarginali 
circumdatus ; laciniis oblongis mucronatis subequalibus. Flores fusco-san- 
guinei, etate pallescentes ; vexillo reniformi, undulato, alis dupló longiore, 
valdé transverso, bilobo: lobis imbricatis. Stamina equalia, glabra. 
This little Swan-river, and therefore Greenhouse, shrub, 
with pretty brownish crimson flowers, becoming paler after a 
short expansion, was introduced by Robert Mangles, Esq. of 
Sunning Hill, to whom I am obliged for the accompanying 
figure. | : 
There are three species of Gompholobium, with this 
habit, very much like each other, and difficult to distinguish, 
if indeed they are distinct. One of them is the G. tenue of this 
work, fol. 1615, with yellow flowers; it has in a wild state 
the petioles longer than the stipules, and the peduncles seem 
to be usually one-flowered. The second is G. sparsum of 
Mr. Allan Cunningham, found by that zealous botanist at 
King George’s Sound ; it has the dark flowers of G. versicolor, 
and its short petioles; but its branches are more angular, 
the leaves are distinctly veiny on the upper side, and those 
near the bottom of the branches are much shorter and broader 
than the others. The third isthe G. versicolor, which differs 
