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growing 3 or 4 together in slender loose axillary clusters, on silky 

 stalks, each cluster not longer than its corresponding leaf* The 

 calyx is large, campanulate, and beautifully silky with innume- 

 rable close-pressed hairs. The shape of the petals can but im- 

 perfectly be determined by my specimen, and their proper co- 

 lour not at all, they being at present of an uniform brown ; but 

 the standard seems unusually small and narrow, and the keel 

 proportionably large, which may in this case assist the specific 

 distinction, but not interfere with the generic character, so clear- 

 ly stamped in every other part. I have not seen the fruit either 

 of this or of Chorozema scandens; but their germens are clothed 

 with dense bristles, longer than the silky hairs observable in the 

 two first species. 



*5. C. coriaceum, foliis elliptico-subrotundis retusis coriaceis 

 sparsis, umbellis axillaribus pedunculitis, calyce hirsute 



Found also by -Mr. Menzies at King George's Sound. This is 

 a stout, upright, firm and rigid shrub, whose branches appear 

 to be ternate, and whose leaves are peculiarly thick and coria- 

 ceous. Their apex is deeply emarginate, with a scarcely per- 

 ceptible blunt point ; their margin cartilaginous, somewhat in- 

 clined to be revolute; their under side finely silky; their upper 

 smooth, beautifully reticulated with innumerable interbranching 

 veins, more prominent than in the two last species. The flowers 

 grow in dense axillary umbels, on silky stalks, much shorter than 

 the leaves. The calyx is densely clothed with long loose hairs. 

 The style is somewhat dilated and flattened, which circumstance 

 is, though less conspicuously, observable in the last. The stig- 

 ma however is not at all dilated, but of the simple form proper 

 to the genus. A reconsideration of this part in all the species 

 has iuduced me to leave out the word acutum in the generic cha- 

 racters 



