Tab. 4146 



AOTUS GRACILLIMA. 



Slender Aotus. 



Nat. Ord. Leguminosje. — Decandbia Monogynia. 



AOTUS. Sm. — Char. Gen. Calyx 5-fidus bilabiatus basi ebracteo- 

 latus. Pet. starainaque decidua. Ovarium dispermum. Stylus filiformis. 

 Legumen bivalve. Seminis strophiola nulla. — Frutices Australasici. Folia 

 simplicia, linear i-subulata, margine revoluta, alterna, subopposita aut ter- 

 natim verticillata. Flores axillares flavi. De Cand. 



Aotus * gracillima; ramis gracilibus lsevibus glabris apice minute pube- 

 rulis, foliis sparsis v. suboppositis erectis patulisve anguste linearibus 

 obtusis v. mucronulo exiguo innocuo recurvo apiculatis la^vibus glabris 

 margine revolutis supra convexis v. obsolete 1-sulcis, axillis 1 — 3-floris, 

 pedicellis brevissimis calycibusque adpresse pilosis, calycis labio supe- 

 riore truncato laevissime emarginato. Meisn. 



Aotus gracillima. Meisn. in PL Preiss. p. 59. 



A very elegant Swan River species of Aotus, introduced 

 to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr. James Drummond. 

 We have also received it from Baron Hugel, imported from 

 the same country, to which it seems peculiar. Mr. Preiss 

 and Mr. Drummond have both sent dried specimens. Besides 

 its glabrous branches and foliage, it may at once be known 

 from the old A. villosa (v. Bot. Mag. t. 949) by the very 

 copious flowers, so abundant on the branches as to conceal 

 the leaves of a great portion of the branches : thus its beauty 

 will recommend it to every greenhouse. Only two species of 

 the Genus were known to Professor De Candolle, and both 

 natives of Eastern Australia; now, six others are described 

 in the " Plantae Preissianae," as inhabitants of the Swan River 

 settlement. 



Descr. A rather tall - growing, slender shrub, with 

 twiggy branches, often fasciculate at the apex of the mam 



* So named by Sir James Smith, from the absence of the two little 

 bracteas, or ear-like appendages to the base of the calyx, possessed by 

 some allied Genera. 



