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DlLLWYNIA OBOVATA. CrOSS-LEAVED 

 DlLLWYNIA, 



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Clafs and Order. 



Decandria Monogynia. 

 Generic Chara&er. 

 Cal. 5-fidus, 2-labiatus. Cor. papilionacea. Stylus recurvus 

 germine brevior. Stigma obtufum pubefcens. Leg, ventrico- 

 fum, uniloculare, difpermura. Smith. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 

 DlLLWYNIA obovata ; foliis decuffatim oppofitis cunei- 



formibus mucronatis laevibus, floribus axil- 



laribus fubgeminis. 

 DlLLWYNIA obovata ; foliis obovato oblongis, acutis, op^ 



pofitis ; floribus axillaribus. Labillard. Nov. 



Holl. p. no. /. 140. 

 DlLLWYNIA myrtifolia, foliis decufTatis obovatis concaviuf- 



culis fubquinquenervibus laevlbus, floribus 



axillaribus. Smith, in Aft Soc. Linn. v. 9. 



p. 263. 



Desc. Stem fhrubby, branched, a foot high. Leaves op- 

 pofite, decuflate or crofting each other in pairs, entire, fmooth, 

 wedge-fhaped, terminated in a ftraight pungent mucro, at- 

 tached by a joint to a very fhort flat footftalk, which is alfo 

 articulated, with a flipular projection, running down to the 

 next leaf, and making the ftem angular : in the younger leaves 

 thefe projeclions or buttreffes (projeclura jlipulares, vid. n. 

 1 ?59) terminate in a pair of minute villous ftipules hardly 

 vifible to the naked eye. Flowers papilionaceous, axillary, 

 generally by pairs, on footjialks fhorter than the calyx, fur- 

 nifhed with two fmall lanceolate bracles near to the calyx, but 

 not attached to it, as in Pultenaea. Calyx fomewhat angular, 

 gibbofe, bilabiate: upper lip two-toothed, very obtufe : lower 

 lip three-toothed, fharpifh. Cor. papilionaceous, vexillum round- 

 ish, deeply emarginate, reflexed, of a golden yellow colour, 

 with a greeniih fpot at the bafe furrounded with bright red 

 Tays : a l<e fhorter by half than the vexillum, yellow with red 

 bafes : carina very fmall, red, with united petals. Stamens ten, 

 diftincl:. Germen linear-oblong, villous, one-celled with two 

 ovula : jiyle recurved at the point : jligma truncate, fomewhat 

 %elling at the point, naked. Legumen not feen by us, 



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