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ElypocALYPTUS OBCORDATUS. OpBcORDATE 
HiveocALYPTUus. 
KKK ERE EEE EE 
Class and Order. 
DiapELpHiA DEcANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminos#. ) 
‘Generic Character. 
Calyx breviter 5-lobus, basi intrusa. Stamina mona- 
delpha. Legumen compressum, lanceolatum.—Frutex gla- 
berrimus, foliis trifoliolatis, floribus purpureis. 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
Hypocatyprus* obcordatus. 
Hypocatyrrus obcordatus. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. p. 
570. De Cand. Prodr. 2. p. 135. 
Crorararta cordifolia. Linn. Mant. 266. 
Spartium sophoroides. Berg. Cap. 198. 
An extremely pretty and very desirable Cape plant, of 
which, so far as I know, no figure exists in any publication. 
Yet it was introduced to our gardens by Masson in 1790, 
and requires only the ordinary culture of Cape plants and 
the shelter of a greenhouse to induce its flowering, and then 
continues some time in perfection. It bloomed in May and 
June in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where our figure was 
drawn. Exon and Zeyner give it as an inhabitant of 
Caxepon, and I possess fine specimens from the Prussian 
Botanist, 
* So called from ixo, beneath, and xaAurrw, to veil. Named from a 
covering to the unopened flower, observable in most of the species so 
called by THUNBERG, but which are now referred to Popatyria. The 
— does not seem applicable to the only species that remains in the 
enus. 
