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DlLLWYNIA GLABERRIMA. SMOOTH- 



Leaved Dillwynia. 

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Clafs and Order. 



Decandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character* 



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



reflexus. Stigma obtufum, pubefcens. Leg. ventricofum, i- 



locularc, 2-fpermum. Smith. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 

 DILLWYNIA gl uberrima ; foliis lasvibus, floribus terrainalibus 

 fubcapitatis. Smith in Ann. of Bot. v. l. p. 51O. 



D scr. Stem fhrubby, erect, branched, hairy, rough, and 

 as it were fluted with the permanent woody part of the old 

 petioles. Leaves fimple, linear, rigid, fmooth, terminated in 

 an oblique fubpungent mucro, thick-fet, patent, on fhort ad- 

 prelled petioles inferted by a joint into a permanent woody 

 theca, extending a little down the {tern. Inflorefcence a terminal 

 capitulum of about fix flowers on very fhort peduncles with one 

 minute bra&e. Calyx fomewhat coloured, perhftent, nearly 

 bell-ihaped, five-cleft : fegments nearly equal, fubbilabiately 

 arranged, the two upper ones being fomewhat largelt and 

 nearer together, the three lower more diltant. Corolla papi- 

 lionaceous, bright yellow with a red ftariy fpot in the centre : 

 vexillum two lobed, with a claw narrow, channelled, and con- 

 traRcd at the upper part. AU ftraight, half the length of the 

 vexillum, and twice as long as the carina which is very final!, 

 adhering at the point, where it is of a red colour, difVinft to- 

 wards the claws. Stamens ten : filaments conneBed at the bale, 

 but for the moft part free : anthers yellow, fimple. Ovary ob- 

 long, villous: ftyie bent back : ftigma truncated, appearing to 

 us moiftened with a fine dew, but not villous. 



This genus, of which two other fpecies have been figured 

 in the Exotic Botany, was named by Dr. Smith in honour of 

 Mr. Lewis Westom Dillwyn, author of a very accurate 

 work on Englifh Conferva:. 



Our drawing was made from a plant communicated by Mr. 

 Loddiges of Hackney. Is a native of New-Holland. Re- 

 quires to be prote6kd from froft b v a greenhoufc and a treat- 

 ment fimilar to that fuitable to Pultencea, Platylobium, &c. 



Propagated by feeds, which we have not as vet feen pro- 

 duced with us, 



