<250 Dr. Smith's Specific Characters of 



G. fimbriatum. Exot. Bot. t. 58. 



G. psoraleae folium. Satisb. Farad, t. 6. 



The flowers of this are even more large and handsome than 

 those of the preceding, and their strongly fringed keel affords 

 an excellent specific character. The leaflets also are much 

 broader, truly obovato-oblonga though varying in bluntness, and 

 veiny on both sides. They are tipped with a minute straight 

 point. I gladly accede to the decision of Mr. Dryander, who 

 has adopted my original name latifolium, in preference to Jim- 

 briatum, given on the report of a much broader-leaved species 

 in Kew garden, which perhaps is erroneous. 



*3. G. scabrum, foliis ternatis linearibus scabris subaduncis mu- 

 ticis, ramulis teretibus pubescentibus. 



Found by Mr. Menzies near King George's Sound on the west 

 coast of New Holland, Its leaflets are rough with minute cal- 

 lous points, and not above half an inch long. Flowers axillary, 

 situated towards the summits of the branches, about half the 

 size of the first species, with a somewhat downy-edged, but not 

 fringed, keeL Their colour in the dried specimen is purplish, 

 the wings and keel being of a darker redder hue than the stan- 

 dard ; but I dare not from thence judge of their colour when 

 living, as some flowers of this tribe are subject to very extraor- 

 dinary changes in drying. The Daviesia in general lose all the 

 yellow of their petals by that process, retaining only a rich pur- 

 ple hue, which is crimson in the fresh plant. The same thing 

 may happen in this Gompholobium. w 



The G. maculatum of Andrews's Repository, U 427, seems most 

 akin to this species, though apparently sufficiently distinct. Not 

 having seen a specimen, I decline attempting a definition of it 

 from the drawing only, 



4. G. mi- 



