Tan. 4481. 
BRACHYSEMA apuHuytuuvum. 
Leaftess Brachysema. 
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Nat. Ord. LegumInos®.—DrEcaNnpDRIA MonoGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus inequalis tubo ventricoso. Cor, vexillo_petalis 
ceteris breviore, alis carinee compress equalibus. Ovarium pedicello basi 
- vaginulo fisso. Stylus filiformis elongatus. Legumen ventricosum  polysper- 
¥ mum. De Cand. 
Bracnysema aphyllum; ramis ancipiti-compressis alte alatis aphyllis, loco 
foliorum bracteis ovato-subulatis coloratis, floribus solitariis brevi-peduncu- 
latis, calyce profunde subsequaliter 5-lobo, lobis linearibus carinam 3 eequan- 
tibus., 
We depart here from our ordinary course, in representing a 
plant not yet actually in cultivation, and figured from dried 
specimens aided by a coloured drawing made from the recent 
plant at the Swan River settlement, in the imterior of which 
colony it is a native ; and whence seeds as well as dried speci- 
mens have been sent by Mr. Drummond. We do not under- 
stand that any have yet germinated: but we are desirous to 
make known so interesting a plant, which we cannot doubt will 
ere long adorn our greenhouses with its beautiful winter or early 
spring flowers. We were, at first, disposed to consider it a 
new genus, but we adopt Mr. Bentham’s views of its forming 
a group of Brachysema, of which another species, B. premor- 
sum, Meisn., from the same country, has an exactly similar calyx 
and corolla. Cryplosema of Meisner (Jansonia, Kippist) is a 
nearly allied plant, but with the two superior lobes of the calyx 
_ extremely short. : 
_ Drscr. Apparently a small shrub, quite destitute of leaves, 
with the dranches singularly compressed and winged with broad 
wings margined with red on the two opposite sides, dark green, 
the wings here and there with alternate teeth, upon which is a 
stipule, but no leaf: or this stipule becomes a bractea, when 
from the same point within a short single-flowered peduncle 
DECEMBER Isr, 1849. Ae 
