[Prate 85.] 
THE OVAL OXYLOBE 
(OXYLOBIUM OVALIFOLIUM.) 
A very handsome Greenhouse Shrub, from Swan River, belonging to the Lecuminous Order. 
Specific Character. 
THE OVAL OXYLOBE. Stipules setaceous, queis OATLOBIUM ifan UA ; stipulis setaceis petiolum 
longer than the petiole. Leaves in whorls of three cillati 
four or opposite, oval, obtuse, or emarginate, mucronu- : positisque ovalibus obtusis v. emarginatis HG 
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late, silky on the under side as well as the branchlets. subtus ramulisque sericeis, capitulis axillari ermi- 
Heads of flowers axillary and terminal, on short stalks, nalibusque breve peduneulatis densé multifloris, calycibus 
densely many-flowered. Calyxes and pods shaggy. leguminibusque villosis.— Meisner. 
Oxylobium ovalifolium : Meisner, in Plant. Preiss., i. 28 ; alias Gastrolobium pyramidale: 7. Moore, in Garden Companion, 
vol. i., p. 81, with a figure. 
1 is now between twenty and din; years since an Ozylobium retusum, from King George's Sound, 
was published i in the Botanical Register, t. 913. The same plant had been previously described 
by Smith in the Linnean Transactions, vol. ix., p. 254, under the name of Chorizema coriacea. 
Nevertheless, the systematic writers who have followed, seem in every instance to have overlooked 
the plant, although it is by no means uncommon in gardens. We, therefore, reproduce the passage 
in which Ozy/obium retusum was established :— 
“The genus Oxylobium, as defined by Mr. Brown in the second edition of Hortus Kewensis, is 
distinguished from Chorizema of Labillrdiére by its calyx being nearly regular, not distinctly 
bilabiate; by the carina being compressed, and as long as the alie, not inflated and shorter than alee ; 
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