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GOMPHOLOBIUM POLYMORPHUM. VARIABLE 

 GOMPHOLOBIUM. 



Clqfs and Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Col. 5 -partitus, fubaequalis. Cor. papilionacea, vexillo cx- 

 planato. Stigma fimplex. Legumen polyfpermum fubfphaericura 

 obtufifTimum (glabrumj. Brown. 



Specific Character and Synonym, 



GOMPHOLOBIUM polymorphum ,- foliis ternatis quinatifve : 

 foliolis Iinearibus margine recurvis : apice quandoque dila- 

 tato, caule procumbente v. volubili. Brown MJf. Hort. 

 Kew. ed. alt. v. 3. p. 11. 



GOMPHOLOBIUM grandiflorum. Bot. Repof. 642. nee Smithiu 



The variable Gompholobium is, when in blofTom, a 

 very beautiful little climbing fhrub. We learn from Mr. 

 £&own's defcription that the items are occafionally procum- 

 bent, and the leaves we obferve vary confiderably in form upon 

 [he fame plant. It occafionally ripens feeds with us, by which 

 " is readily propagated, but with more difficulty by cuttings. 

 Requires the protection of a greenhoufe, and may be confidered 

 as a m y plant, demanding more than ordinary care to preferve it. 



The genus Gompholobium was firft eftablifhed by our 

 mend Dr. Smith, in the fourth volume of the Tranfaftions of 

 th e Linnean Society ; who, in the ninth volume of the fame 

 work, has characterized all the fpecies known to him. One of 

 ^ efe , Q.fcabrnm, having only a two-feeded germen, Mr. 

 ROw n has feparated under the name of Burton i a. Gom- 

 P8 olobium grandiflorum of Dr. Smith is altogether a diftinft 

 P e cies from our plant, vet that name is applied to it. in the 

 ^anift's Repofitory. 



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