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* BOSSLEA disticha. 



Double-rowed Bossicea. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 

 Nat. Ol'd. LeGUMINOS.E Or FABACE.E, § PapILIONACEjE. 



BOSSIJEJ. Botanical Register, vol. A.fol. 306. 



B. disticha ; ramis junioribu9 teretibus, foliis distichis ovatis obtusis muticis, 

 stipulis petiolo longioribus, floribus solitariis axillaribus, pedicellis folio 

 longioribus Supra misc. no. 6/. p. 38. 



Frutex debilis, erectus, jyubescens, ramis fliformibus. Folia disticha, 

 ovata, obtusa, plana, fere avenia, lavia, pilis raris aptpressis sericea, nullo modo 

 coriacea, subsessilia ; stipulse setacece, scariosce, petiolo longiores. Pedunculi 

 solitarii, axillares, capillar es, paten thu pilosi, apice bihracteolati, foliis fere 

 duplb longiores. Calyx sericeus, subctqualiter 5-dentatus, dentibus triangula- 

 ribus margine tomentosis. Vexillura fi avian, bilobum, basi Inteum sanguineo- 

 fusco limbatum. Ovarium stipitatum, basi glabrum, cceterhn parce pilosum ; 

 ovula 4-5. 



A pretty little shrub, raised in the garden of the Horti- 

 cultural Society from Swan River seed, presented by Capt. 

 James Mangles, R.N. and flowering in March. 



It has an erect habit, but its branches are slender and 

 weak, and covered with leaves in a two-ranked manner ; the 

 latter are ovate, obtuse, not at all hard, and scarcely half the 

 length of the capillary flower-stalks. The flowers are rather 

 large for the size of the plant, and showy ; the standard is 

 pale yellow, with a darker spot at the base of the same colour, 

 bordered first with crimson and then with dusky red. The 

 wings are stained with the same colour at the base ; other- 

 wise they are pale yellow. 



Fig. 1. represents the stamens of this plant; fig. 2. the 

 pistil, with the ovary laid open to shew the number of ovules 

 it contains. 



* See folio 300. 



