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OXYRAMPHIS macrostyla. 
Long-styled Oxyramph. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
fat, ord. FABACEX. © (LEGUMINOUS PLANTS, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 544.) 
Suborder I. PAPILIONACEZE. 
Tribe 4. HEDYSARE =, Benth. 
OXYRAMPHIS, Wallich.— Calyz profundè bilabiatus, labio superiore 
bidentato, inferiore tripartito, laciniis omnibus acutis. Corolle papilionacese 
petala subzequilonga, vexillum apice attenuato-acuminatum, plicatum, carina 
rostrata. Stamina 10, filamento vexillari libero diadelpha. Ovarium bre- 
vissime stipitatum, compressum, elliptico-rhomboideum, utrinque angustatum, 
uniovulatum (?). Stylus longus, basi hirsutus ; stigma minute capitatum. 
Legumen ovatum, compressum, villosissimum, monospermum. Frutex 
nepalensis ; foliis obovatis, retusis, coriaceis, mucronulatis, subtus ramulisque 
sericeo-villosis, racemis axillaribus, brevibus.—Endlicher Genera Plantarum, 
no. 6531. 
O. macrostyla ; foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis obovatis retusis coriaceis mucronu- 
latis subtus ramulisque sericeo-villosis, racemis axillaribus, leguminibus 
ovatis compressis monospermis villosissimis.—DeCand. Prodr. 2.135. sub 
Crotalaria macrostyla. i 
Oxyramphis macrostyla, Wall. Cat. 5348. Walpers’ Repert. 1. 672. 
Among the doubtful Crotalarias of DeCandolle's pro- 
dromus was one, taken up from Don, which was called C. 
macrostyla, and described with diadelphous stamens, and a long 
feathery style. That plant Dr. Wallich afterwards separated 
under the name of Oxyramphis, so called from o£vs sharp- 
pointed, and pauços a beak. Itis one of the species of which 
we have seen no specimens, but the description so much 
resembles the shrub before us, that we presume them to be 
the same, although we are unacquainted with the fruit. It 
may, however, possibly belong to the genus Campylotropis, 
which is equally unknown to us. 
Fig. 1 represents the more essential parts of the flower 
after the corolla is removed. 
It is a very pretty greenhouse shrub, which flowers in 
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