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Tas. 4652. 
BRACHYSEMA LancroLatTuM. 
Lance-leaved Brachysema. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminos#.—DeEcanvpria MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4451.) 
Bracuysema Janceolatum ; foliis oppositis (rarissime alternis) ovatis ovato- 
lanceolatis lanceolatisve mucronatis integerrimis supra siccitate minute 
reticulatis subtus ramisque argenteo-sericeis, petiolis brevissimis, stipulis 
minutis subulatis coloratis, racemis subcompositis axillaribus folio breviori- 
bus, calyce sericeo, alis vexilloque carina dimidio brevioribus. 
BracuysEMa lanceolatum. Meisn. in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. v. 1. p. 24. v. 2. 
p. 206. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 5. p. 422. 
Our last representation of a Brachysema from Swan River 
(Tab. 4481) was of a very handsome species, and a very singular 
one, destitute of foliage. Our present is also a handsome one, and 
its beauty is enhanced by the good-sized almost polished leaves, 
dark green above, beautifully silky beneath. It is, equally with 
the former kind, a native of Swan River, and was raised from 
seeds sent home by Mr. Drummond, in the Exeter Nursery of 
Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., where it flowered for the first 
time in February, 1852. It is one great charm of the Australian 
plants that they so generally flower when there 1s little else to 
enliven the conservatory, and this cannot fail, on that account, 
_ to be very acceptable to cultivators. Dr. Meisner had evidently 
very imperfect specimens to describe from, for he was ignorant 
of the colour of the corolla, which in the living and in the dried 
Specimens of Mr. Drummond is of the richest scarlet; and he - 
describes the flowers as solitary. Yet he has contrived to form 
three varieties. ‘The leaves are certainly variable in form, even 
on the same individual branch. ied 
Descr. A handsome though somewhat straggling shrud, with : 2 
terete, silky dranches, and usually opposite Jeaves, from two and 
JUNE Ist, 1852, 
