C H93 3 



bossi^a prostrata. procumbent 

 Bossi^a. 



Clafs and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Chamber. 



Cat. 2-labiatus : labia fuperiore majore, femi bifido, obtufo. 

 St am. omnia connexa. Legum. plano-compreffum, marginc 

 utroque incraffatum. Semina ilrophiolata. Brown inHort. Kew. 



Specific Character. 



BOSSIiEA projlrata ; vamis foliofis filiformibus, caule pro- 

 cumbente, foliis ovalibus glabris, ftipulis petiolo breviori- 

 bus, legumine uniloculari. Brown I. c. 4. p. 268. inedit. 



Meflrs. Lod dices and Sons furnifhed us with the plant 

 from which our drawing was taken. It is a native of New 

 South-Wales. Requires the protection of a greenhoufe, and 

 the fame treatment as the other papilionaceous ihrubs of that 

 country. 



No figure has been before given of it, in any publication 

 that we know of. 



Our Platylobium microphyttum (No. 863) belongs to this 

 genus. Bossivea lancealata is, in the new edition of Hortus 

 Kewenfis, more properly called heteropbyUa, which was the name 

 Ventenat gave it, the principal reafon for our adopting the 

 name by which it is diftinguifhed in the Botanift's Repofitory, 

 being done away, by its having been now decided that ovatutn 

 and lanceolatum are mere varieties of the fame fpecies, as we 

 fufpe&ed they might be. 



