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PiatyLosium Murrayanum. Mr. Murray’s 
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Class and Order. 
DiapetpHiA Decanpris. 
( Nat. Ord.— Leeuminosz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx bracteatus, bilabiatus: labio superiore bifido ro- 
tundato maximo, Stamina omnia connexa. Legumen 
pedicellatum, compresso-planum, dorso alatum, polysper- 
mum. Br. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Pratytozium Murrayanum ; caule ramosissimo, ramis erec- 
tiusculis flexuosis rigidis, foliis deltoideis acute mucro- 
natis, pedunculis filiformibus folio longioribus basi 
apiceque solummodo bracteatis. 
Descr. This plant forms a rather dense bush, about a 
foot high, dividing from the base into numerous suberect, _ 
flexuose branches, bearing other lateral, rather short and _ 
patent ones, all of them filiform, somewhat rigid or wiry, _ 
and rather woody. Leaves opposite, almost exactly deltoid, 
sometimes slightly acuminated, the angles acute and mu-— 
cronate. From beneath the axils of these leaves, conse- — 
quently in pairs, arises the peduncle, which is filiform, 
longer than the leaf itself, more or less curved, having at 
the base about six small, distichous bracteas, and at the 
extremity, or immediately at the base of the calyx, two 
minute brown bracteas. Calyx considerably smaller than 
in P. obtusangulum, but the same in form. The corolla 
likewise is similar, only smaller in all its parts. Young 
fruit considerably longer than the calyx, linear, sickle- 
shaped, stipitate, margined ; the upper margin the — ae 
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