64 THE OVAL OXYLOBE. 
and by the pod being ovate and sharp-pointed. In the characters of the flower, the subject of this 
‘article agrees better with Oxylobium than with Chorizema, and Mr. Brown has been so kind as to 
inform us, that the pod is that of Oxylobium, to which genus he has referred it under the name we 
have adopted. A handsome greenhouse shrub, native of King George’s Sound in New Holland, 
whence seeds were brought by Mr. J. Richardson. The specimens from which our drawing was 
made were communicated from Mr. Colvill’s nursery, under the name of Callistachys capitata. 
"Wild specimens, collected in King George's Sound by Archibald Menzies, Esq., and preserved in 
the Banksian Herbarium, present two forms of leaves, one ovate and the other oblong; but they 
are obviously only different states of the same species. 
* Branches somewhat angular, furrowed, densely velvety, and ash-coloured. Stipules subulate, 
erect, downy. Leaves stalked, with a short, downy footstalk, oblong or ovate, retuse, with a little 
point, their surface elegantly reticulated with prominent veins. Racemes capitate-corymbose, stalked, 
axillary or terminal, much shorter than the leaves. Calyx campanulate, five-toothed, very villous, 
with a bractea at base, in wild specimens ferruginous, in the garden specimens silvery. Corolla 
orange-coloured, with purple veins. Vexillum transverse, erect, flat, emarginate. Wings and keel 
projecting, purple, the length of vexillum." 
To this Ozylobium retusum the present plant is so closely allied that it is not improbable that it 
may be one of the forms above alluded to as existing in the Banksian Herbarium. Professor 
Meisner calls it O. ovalifolium; and states that it was found by Preiss among close thickets 
near Mount Manypeak, and on rocks at the foot of the Baldhead Mountain in King George’s Sound. 
The main distinctions between it and O. refuswm are that the former has the stipules much 
longer than the leafstalks, and the leaves as broad at one end as the other. The hairs on the 
shaggy calyxes are white on the stalks and tube, but rich brown on the edges and lobes, which, 
moreover, are very generally petaloid inside. 
À very beautiful shrub, requiring the treatment applied to other New Holland leguminous 
plants of a similar nature. Our drawing was made from a plant belonging to Messrs. Henderson 
and Co., of Pine Apple Place. 
