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Chorizeina ."] XL. leguminos^. 37 



Leaves mostly narroWj rarely all ovate. Flowers several, small. 

 Stigma small, terminal. 

 Leaves distant. Racemes loose, glabrous ; pedicels slender 8. C. angustifoUum. 

 Leaves crowded. Eacemes on long peduncles, hoary or 



silky-pubescent ; pedicels short i 9, C reiiciiJaiiim, 



Shrub, with slender, climbing, terete branches, Leaves nar- 

 rowed at the base. Style nearly straight 7- C". diver sifolium. 



Stems rigid, stout, suberect, very angular. Leaves few, oblong- 

 linear, very thick.' Style incurved 10. C. t7igonum. 



Stems slender, ascending,' angular-striate. Flowers small. 



Leaves obovate or cuneate. Keel acuminate 31. C, humile. 



Leaves lanceolate, acute. Keel shortly acuminate » ... 9. (7. reiiculniinn. 



Leaves linear or oblong. Keel obtuse 12. C, parviflorum. 



Keel erect, acutely acuminate. Leaves narrow-linear, with much- 

 revolutc margins (Ori/wtropis). 

 Leaves obtuse. Racemes tcnuinal, dense, and spike-like . . .18. C, ct/iisoide^. 

 Leaves pungent-pointed. Racemes or clusters short, axillary • • 14. C. Henchmanm, 

 Keel erect, obtuse or with a short recurved point. Stem erect. 



Leaves small, linear, with rcvolute margins 15. C'. ericifoHtm, 



[Cvylohium carinatum and 0. spaihulatum have nearly the habit of Chorizema, but the 

 petals are nearly equal iu length.) 



1. C. Dicksonii, GraJi, in Ifaund. Botanist, t. 106. An erect shrub of 

 1 to 3 ft., with numerous branches, pubescent when young. Leaves rather 

 crowded, oblonj^-lanceolate or almost linear, tapering to a puugcut pomt, 

 often under |- in. and rarely f in. long, thick, rigid, glabrous and often 

 shining, with a prominent midrib and transverse veins. Flowersred, rather 

 Large, in loose terminal racemes. Pedicels rather short. Calyx silky -villous, 

 4 lines long or rather more, the lobes all acuminate, the 2 upper ones broader, 

 falcate, and united above the middle. Standard nearly twice as long as the 

 calyx ; wings scarcely exceeding the calyx, obliquely obovate ; keel shorter, 



■very much curved and rostrate. Ovary stipitate, with 8 to 10 ovules; style 

 inflexed, with a very oblique stigma, fringed at the base on the upper side. 

 Pod acuminate, 4 to 5 lines long. Seeds not seen.— Paxt. Mag. vni. 173, 

 with a fig. ; C, costatim, Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 33. 



W. Australia. *S^yan River, Bnimmond, \d Coll, and n, 183 j Darling Range, 

 Preiss, n, 103G, also n. 1039 and 1040 j Hampden, IK Clarke, 



2. C. nervosum, T. Moore.in Gard. Comp.\%^%.withaJlg. copied into 

 Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. ^.383. An erect rigid shrub with pubescent branches. 

 Leaves broadly orbicular-cordate, with a pungent point, very much undulate, 

 but not toothed, about i in. long, and often broader than long, very coria- 

 ceous, coarsely reticulate, usually glabrous. Kacemes loose, lew-flowered. 

 Pedicels often as long as the calyx. Calyx 2 to 2i lines long, nearly glabrous 

 the lobes rather acute, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Standard 

 about 3 lines long, but much broader; wings nearly as loiig ; keel much 

 shorter, broad with a short obtuse point. Ovary sessde, with 12 or more 

 ovules; style glabrous, with a distinct capitate 'stigma, lod about « m, 

 long,, resembling that of C. ilicifoUum. Seeds shmmg.— C. parvfjolium. 



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