1839, and was raised by him from seeds received from Mr. 
Drummonp at Swan River * settlement, Australia. 
Descr. Shrub erect; branches long and slender, gla- 
brous, excepting towards the extremities, where there are a 
few appressed hairs. Leaves (four to six inches long) scat- 
tered, ovato-linear, the lowest by much the broadest, en- 
tire and revolute in the sides, glabrous above, with ap- 
pressed somewhat silky hairs below, having a strong middle 
rib channelled in front, and numerous oblique veins. Petz- 
oles short, round. Stipules subulate, erect, persisting. 
Racemes solitary, terminal : rachis slightly hairy, somewhat 
angled, and like the branches thickly covered with small, 
dark green spots. Flowers numerous, pedicellate ; pedicels 
solitary, scattered, short, spreading, silky, rising from the 
axil of an obovato-acuminate, caducous bract. Calyx nearly 
thrice as long as the pedicel, silky, bilabiate ; ips nearly 
equal in length, the upper having two blunt, short, slightly 
divaricated teeth, the lower cut to its base, with three 
ovato-acuminate, inflected segments. Corolla about one- 
third longer than the calyx, of a dirty purple colour; vexdl- 
lum subrotund, auricled at the base, without any callosity ; 
claw greenish-yellow ; ale rather shorter than the vexillum, 
and of darker colour, falcato-oblong, with an incurved 
auricle as long as the claw on the upper edge, and a short, 
straight tooth, farther from the claw on the lower ; keel 
equal in length to the ale, blunt, its petals cohering only 
in the middle, its claws distinct. Stamens included, some- 
what unequal, nearly as long as the keel, free, glabrous ; 
Jilaments colourless ; anthers yellow ; pollen pale. Pistil as 
long as the stamens ; stigma terminal, minute ; style subu- 
late, glabrous; germen silky, stipitate, surrounded by a 
callous ring, into which the calyx and corolla are inserted, 
unilocular in every stage examined. Graham. 
* It was first found by Mr. Fraser in the Swan River colony, and sub- 
sequently by Mr. CoLiz, at Freemantle.—Ep. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx with Stamens and Pistil. 3. Pistil: mag- 
nified, 
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