Tas. 7308. 
SPHAROLOBIUM GRANDIFLORUM, 
Native of Western. Australia, 
Nat. Ord. Lecuminosx, Tribe Popatyrizs. 
Genus Spo#Rotosium, Sm.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 469.) 
Srxz#Rotopium (Euspherolobium) grandiflorum; ramulis gracillimis pendulis 
floriferis aphyllis, foliis parvis linearibus obtusis, floribus geminis 
racemosis, bracteis minutis, pedicellis calycem subequantibus, bracteolis 
minutis linearibus, calycis nigro-punctati tuboobconico limbo subequilongo, 
vexillo oblato emarginato aureo fascia lunari rubra notato, alis vexillo 
brevioribus acinaciformibus obtusis, carine petalis alis fere duplo 
latioribus dolabriformibus, stylo elongato incurvo infra apicem alato, 
legumine latiore quam longo. 
8. grandiflorum, R. Br. ew Benth. in Pl. Hueg. Enum. 32; in Ann. Wien, 
Mus, vol. ii. p. 76, et in Fl, Austral. vol. ii. p. 66. Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, 
vol. 1, p. 57, 
This beautiful greenhouse plant belongs to a genus of 
thirteen species, confined with a single exception to South- 
Western Australia. That exception is the S. vimineum, 
Sm., figured at t. 969 of this work, which has a very wide 
range in Australia, from Port Jackson to Tasmania and 
westward to S8. Australia, and which is so insignificant as 
compared with the present species, that but for the abun- 
dance of its flowers and graceful habits, it would not in 
these days be thought worthy of cultivation. It is the most 
closely allied of all to S. grandiflorum, which, as far as can 
be judged from herbarium specimens of the other species 
(none of which except viminewm have been figured), is the 
handsomest of the genus. 
S. grandiflorwm was discovered by Menzies, the natu- 
ralist of Vancouver’s voyage, at King George’s Sound, 
where it has been since collected near Albany, by Preiss 
and Drummond, and further West in bogs of the Vasse 
river in Geographe Bay by Oldfield, and at Phillip’s river 
by Maxwell. 
Aveust lst, 1893, 
