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Gastrolobium acutum. Sharp-leaved 

 Gastrolobium. 



Class and Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Leguminos^:. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx 5-fidus bilabiatus ebracteolatus. Pel. longitudine 

 subaequalia. Ovarium dispermum pedicellatum. Stylus 

 subulatus adscendens. Stigma simplex. Legumen ventri- 

 cosum. Semina strophiolata.— Frutex Australasicus. Folia 

 simplicia, quaternatim verlicillata. Stipulae subulata? dis- 

 tinctce. Flores flavi in racemum ovatum terminalem dispo- 

 siti. De Cand. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 



Gastrolobium acutum; ramis villosis, foliis ternis oyatis 

 acutis mucronato-pungentibus integerrimis, junioribus 

 subsericeis adultis glabris, racemis abbreviatis axillari- 

 bus paucifloris, calyce villoso subbilabiato, ovario ses- 

 sili villosissimo. t 



Gastrolobium acutum. Benth. in Lindl. Sw. Riv. Bot. 

 p. xiv. 



A handsome greenhouse shrub, flowering in the green- 

 house in the month of March. It was raised from seeds 

 sent from the Swan River by Mr. James Drummond to the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, in 1842. Its red and deep 

 yellow flowers and its glossy, ternate leaves, make a very 

 pretty appearance at that early season of the year. 



Descr. A shrub, about a foot and a half or two feet high 



with numerous, erect, rather twiggy, and somewhat angled 



branches, the younger ones downy, or hairy, as are the 



young leaves : the older ones glabrous, but bristly with the 



" remain:* 



