LEGUMINOSiE. XV. Oxylobium. XVI. Callistachys. XVII. Brachysema. 



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pedicels having perinanent bracteas at their apex ; corymbs of XVI. CALLI'STACHYS (from K-aXXoc, callosy beauty, 



flowers crowded ; legume hardly longer than the calyx. 

 Native of Van Diemen's Land. Ker. bot. reg*. 392, 



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and (rraxvCf stachys, a spike ; in allusion to the fine spikes of 



reg. 

 Flowers yellow. 

 -^r6ore5cew< Oxylobium. Fl. April, June. Clt. 1805. Shrub 



bot. cab. 163. Sims, bot. mag. 2442. 



Lodd. yellow flowers). Vent. malm. 115. D. C. prod. 2. p. 104. 



3 to 6 feet. 



(R 



Callistachya, Smith, in Lin. trans. 9. p. 266. 



Lin. syst. Decdndria^ Monogynia. Calyx bilabiate; upper 

 lip bifid, lower one 3-parted. Vexillum erect, longer than the 

 keel and wings, which are about equal in length. Stamens in- 



nate ; pedicels having caducous bracteoles beneath their apex ; serted in the disk. Style incurved. Stigma simple, acute. 

 corymbs crowded ; legume twice the length of the calyx on a Legume stipitate, woody, dehiscent at the apex, young ones 

 short stipe. ^ . G. Native of Van Diemen's Land. Gom- 



pholobium ellipticum, Labill. nov. boll. spec. 1. p. 166. t. 135. 

 Callistachys elliptica, Vent. malm. 115. Flowers yellow. Le- 

 gume villous. 



Elliptic-haved Oxylobium. Fl. May, Sept. Clt. 1805. 

 Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



many-celled, but with the transverse dissepiments at length va- 



Elegant Australian shrubs, with entire leaves, which 



nishing. 



3 O. 



are either scattered or disposed in whorls, silky on the under 

 surface, and w^ith long terminal racemes of yellow flowers. 

 Calyxes and fruit very villous. 



1 C. lanceola'ta (Vent. malm. t. 115.) leaves lanceolate, 



'sum (R. Br. in bot. reg. 913.) leaves oblong, re- acuminated, scattered, opposite, or 3 or 4 disposed in a whorl, 



tuse, coriaceous, reticulated, glabrous ; corymbs axillary, stalked, Ij . G. Native of New Holland, on the eastern coast. Ker. 

 crowded, shorter than the leaves. Tj . G. Native of New 



Holland. Flowers orange-coloured. Chorozema cori^ceHm, Lanceolale-\ea.ved Callistachys. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1815. 



bot. reg. 216. 



Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 



Smith. Podolobium, D. C. ? 



/?e^w5e-leaved Oxylobium, Fl. April, May. Clt. 1823. Sh. 2 C. ova'ta (Sims, bot. mag. 1925.) leaves obovate, mucro- 



1 to 3 feet. 



4 O. coRDiFOLiUM (Andr. bot. rep. 492.) leaves ovate, cor- 

 date, rather pilose ; umbels terminal, sessile, f} . G. Native 

 of New South Wales. Sims, bot. mag. 1544. Lodd. bot. cab. 3 to 6 feet. 



nulate, usually disposed 3 in a whorl. ^2 • G^. Native of New 

 Holland. 



Ora/e-leaved Callistachys. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1815. Shrub 



937. Flowers of a coppery-red colour. 



Cordate-leaved Oxylobium. Fl. April, Sept. 

 Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



3 C. LixARi^FOLiA (Hortulau.) leaves linear-lanceolate, scat- 

 Clt. 1807. tered, or disposed in whorls. ^. G. Native of New Holland. 



5 O. OBTUSIFOLIUM (SwCCt, fl. 



austr. 5.) leaves oblong-linear, 

 obtuse, smooth above, but clothed 

 with silky tomentum beneath, with 

 revolute edges; corymbs loose, 

 verticillately racemose ; pedicels 

 with permanent bracteoles at the 

 apex; calyx clothed with 

 tomentum ; 

 flexed. Tj 



Holland, at King George's Sound. 

 Flowers with 

 crimson, and 



FIG. 23. 



Aug. 



Clt. 1824. 



silky 



wings of corolla re- 

 G. Native of New 



and 



carina 



with the vexillum 



wmgs 



Toad'Jlat-leaved Callistachys. Fl. June, 



Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 



4 C. cuNEA^TA (Smith, in Lin. trans. 9. p, 267.) leaves wedge- 

 shaped, emarginate ; peduncles axillary, solitary, longer than 

 the leaves. %, G. Native of New Holland. An herbaceous 

 dwarf plant. Calyx pilose. Flowers large, yellow, but with 

 the keel purple. This species, according to Mr. R. Brown, 

 should be removed from this genus, but its real situation in the 



order is uncertain. 



ffec/^c-leaved Callistachys. Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1824. PI. 1 ft. 



Cult. See Podolobium for culture and propagation, p. 116. 



deep orange-coloured, and yellow 

 ^t the base. 



Obtuse-leaved Oxylobium. Fl. 

 April, May. Clt. 1825. Shrub 

 1 to 3 feet. 



•6 0. spiNosuM (D. C. prod. 2. p. 104.) leaves broadly-ovate, 

 with the middle 



spiny, short. Tj . 

 a whorl, glabrous. 



5-cleft calyx. Keel, wings, and vexillum about equal in length. 

 %n^ Oxylobium. Fl. April, July. Clt. 1825. Sh. 1 to 2 ft. 



nerve termmatmcr m a 



G. 



long 



spme 

 Native of New Holland. Leaves 3 in 



XVII. BRACHYSFMA (from ftpaxvQ, hrachys, short, and 



<T7]fiay sema, a standard ; the standard of the flower is very 

 short). R. Br. in hort. kew. vol. 3. p. 10. D. C. prod 2. p. 105. 

 Lin. syst. Decdndria, Monogynia. Calyx 5-cleft, a little 

 unequal, with a ventricose tube. Vexillum shorter than the 

 wings and keel, which are compressed and about equal in length. 

 Ovary with its ])edicel girded by a little sheath at the base. 

 stipulas Style filiform, elongated. Legume ventricose, many-seeded. 



Elegant Australian, procumbent, or climbing shrubs, with alter- 



Bracteoles 2, pressed to the base of the nate, oval, or ovate, entire, mucronate leaves, which are silky 



" " " on the under surface, and axillary and terminal few-flowered 



racemes. 



1 B. LATiFOLiuM (R. Br. 1. c.) leaves ovate, flat, silky be- 

 neath ; calyx bractless at the base, 4-times shorter than the 



7 O. Pultene'^ (D. C. leg. mem. 5. prod. 2. p. 104.) leaves 



3 or 4 in a whorl, or alternate, linear, rather obtuse, with revo- , - ^ 



lute margins, glabrous, but with the middle nerve as well as petals ; vexillum oblong-obovate. 

 branches pubescent ; flowers pedicellate, umbellate ; pedicels 

 lurnished with deciduous bracteoles in the middle. f2 • G. 



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Native of New 



Holland, on the south-west coast. Ker. bot. reg. 118. Sims, 

 bot. mag. 2008. Flowers large, scarlet. 



^ative of New Holland. Pultense'a sylvatica, Sieb. pi. exsic. Broad-leaved Brachysema. Fl. April, July. Clt. 1803. 



Shrub procumbent or climbing. 



2 B. undula'tum (Ker. bot. reg. 642.) leaves elliptic, undu- 



^ ^ lated; calyx bracteolate under the base, 3-times shorter than 



Perhaps a proper genus. the petals ; vexillum oblong, cordate, convolute, and bluntish 



above, h . G. Native of New South Wales, in the interior of 



Stamens and petals 



ovula. 



nov. holl. no. 403. Calyx 5-cIeft, permanent 



tube girding the fruit, the lobes reflexed. 



ueciduous, hypogynous. Ovary sessile, containing 8 



^unicle dilated into a strophiola. 



i^ lowers dark-orange. 



Pulteney's Oxylobium. Fl. Mar. Clt. 1824. Sh. 1 to 2 ft. 

 Cult. 



Elegant shrubs, requiring the same treatment as that greenish-yellow, inconspicuous. 



the country. Lodd. bot. cab. 778. Ker. bot. reg. 642. Flowers 



recommended for Podolobium^ see p. IIG. 



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