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GOMPHOLOBIUM versicolor. 



Changeable Gompholobium. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. Ord. LEGUMiNosiE; Papilionace^. 

 GOMPHOLOBIUM. Supra vol. Q.fol. 484. 



G. versicolor ; caule erecto, foliis breviter petiolatis trifoliolatis : foliolis Hnearibus 

 mucronatis glabris margine revolutis, racemo laxo paucifloro, calycis laciniis 

 oblongo-linearibus cuspidatis extils glabris intiJs pubescentibus, carina 

 glabr^. Supra miscelL no. 62. 



SufFrutex debilis, glaber, ramis subangulatis fiexuosis. Folia trifolio- 

 lata, petiolo stipulis setaceis cequali vel breviore; foliolis Hnearibus, mucro- 

 natis, margine revolutis, omnino aveniis et uniformihus. Racemi terminales, 

 2-3-Jlori, pedunculis capillaribus fiexuosis subangulatis clavatis ; bracteolae 

 setacecB, distantes. Calyx extus glaber, intils lined tomentosd intramarginali 

 circumdatus ; laciniis oblongis mucronatis subcequalibus. Flores fusco-san- 

 guinei, (state pallescentes ; vexillo reniformi, undulato, alls duplo longiore, 

 vald^ transversa, bilobo : lobis imbricatis. Stamina cequalia, glabra. 



This little Swan-river, and therefore Greenhouse, shrub, 

 with pretty brownish crimson flowers, becoming paler after a 

 short expansion, was introduced by Robert Mangles, Esq. of 

 Sunning Hill, to whom I am obliged for the accompanying 

 figure. 



There are three species of Gompholobium, with this 

 habit, very much like each other, and difficult to distinguish, 

 if indeed they are distinct. One of them is the G. tenue of this 

 work, fol. 1615, with yellow flowers; it has in a wild state 

 the petioles longer than the stipules, and the peduncles seem 

 to be usually one-flowered. The second is G. sparsum of 

 Mr. Allan Cunningham, found by that zealous botanist at 

 King George's Sound ; it has the dark flowers of G. versicolor, 

 and its short petioles ; but its branches are more angular, 

 the leaves are distinctly veiny on the upper side, and those 

 near the bottom of the branches are much shorter and broader 

 than the others. The third is the G. versicolor, which differs 



