Tas. 4258. 
GOMPHOLOBIUM venusrum. 
Graceful Gompholobium. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminos™.—Dercanpria Monoaynra. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus subeequalis. Corolla petalis 2 carinalibus concretis, 
vexillo explanato. Stigma simplex. Legumen polyspermum subsphericum ob- 
tusissimum.—Frutices Australasici rigiduli. Folia alterna composita breviter 
petiolata. Fructus intus extusque glabri. Pedicelli forum medio aut basi bibrac- 
teolati. Calyces sepe lana subtili ciliati. Corolle flave (v. purpuree,). 
GoMPHOLOBIUM venustum; glabrum, ramis elongatis flexuosis laxis, foliis 
impari-pinnatis multijugis, foliolis anguste linearibus mucronatis (siccitate 
rugosis) marginibus revolutis, corymbo pedunculato multifloro, calycibus 
glabris ciliatis. 
GoMPHOLOBIUM venustum. Br. in De Candolle Prodr. v.2. p.106. Lehm. Pl. 
Preiss. p. 40. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 550. 
A lovely greenhouse plant, from South-west Australia ; first 
detected by Mr. Brown; Mr. Fraser gathered it in King George's 
Sound, and Mr. Drummond sends specimens and seeds from the 
Swan River settlement. From the latter, Messrs. Lucombe and 
Pince of Exeter have raised plants; which produced their copious 
corymbs of rich purple flowers in July, 1845. In the dried 
state the leaflets have a singularly rugose and almost beaded 
appearance, from the shrinking of the parenchyme between the 
transverse veins. 
Descr. A shrub a foot or more high, with terete, long, flexuous, 
lax dranches, glabrous, as is almost every part of the plant. 
Leaves remote, alternate, sessile or nearly so, pinnate ; pinne 
numerous (eight to ten pair), opposite, spreading, the lower ones 
reflexed, all of them articulated on the rachis, narrow-linear, 
almost filiform, mucronulate; the margins or sides singularly 
revolute, so as to leave only a narrow furrow on the back = Yea 
dry, the leaves become rugose or submoniliform, from the shrinking 
of the parenchyme between the transverse veins. Flowers in 
i i / lour. 
terminal pedunculated corymds, of a rich rose-purple co 
Pedicels hace (drooping in bud), —— a: base, and 
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OCTOBER Ist, 1846. 
