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OXYLOBIUM ELLIPTICUM. ELUIPTIC-LEAVED 
OXYLOBIUM. 
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Class and Order. 
DecanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosa. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. profunde 5-fidus, bilabiatus. Cor. carina compressa, 
longitudine alarum vexillum explanatum equantium. Sta- 
mina toto aut imo calyci inserta. Stylus adscendens. 
Stigma simplex. Legumen aut subsessile, polyspermum, ven- 
tricosum, ovatum, acutum.—Frutices suffruticesve. Folia 
3im Aim verticillata, integra. Flores corymbosi, flavi. D C. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Oxy ogivum ellipticum; foliis ovali-oblongis mucronatis sub- 
verticillatis, bracteis infra apicem pedicelli caducis, 
capitulis terminalibus racemosis (leguminibus calyce 
duplo longioribus. Br.). : 
Oxytozium ellipticum. Br. in Hort. Kew. v. 3. p. 10. De 
Copa. Prodr. v. 2. p. 104. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. 
Gourcounnts ellipticum. Labillard. Nov. Holl. v. 1. p. 
106. t. 135. 
Cauuistacnys elliptica. Vent. Malmais. t. 115. 
Descr. Shrub erect; bark on the stem brown, greenish 
and somewhat silky on the branches. Leaves (one inch long 
four lines and a half broad) elliptical, mucronate, coriaceous, 
shortly petioled, dark-green, reticulate and glabrous above, 
somewhat silky below, reflected in the edges, subverticillate, 
four in each whorl. Flowers yellow; in terminal, capitate 
spikes. Bractee single below the TR of each pedicel, 
and opposite a little above the middle, linear-subulate, 
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