SUPPOSED POISONOUS PLANTS—WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 913 
range from broadly ovate or almost orbicular to narrow oblong or 
almost linear. Flowers yellowish-green, or almost black, rarely 
red, axillary. Pod ovoid and very hairy. 
Oxylobium retusum, R. Br.—*< Bloom Poison Plant.” 
A many-branched, rigid shrub, the young branches of which 
are angular and sometimes hairy. The leaves are mostly opposite, 
stalked, ovate or oblong, obtuse, truncate or notched at the end, 
usually 1 inch to 2 inches long, leathery, net-veined above and 
silky hairy underneath. Flowers reddish-yellow in dense, almost 
stalkless, terminal clusters, or rarely also in the upper leaf axils. 
Pod ovoid, about one-third of an inch long, and very hairy. 
Oxylobium parviflorum, Benth.—‘ Box Poison.” 
A tall, spreading shrub, with alternate, opposite, or in threes, 
narrow-oblong, slightly cuneate or linear leaves. The flowers are 
small, orange-yellow and purple, in slender racemes, terminal, or 
in the upper axils, often 2 to 3 inches long. Pod from a quarter 
to half an inch Jong. This is said to be one of the worst poison 
plants in the Colony. 
Tsotropis juncea, Turez.— Rush Poison.” 
This plant produces numerous, slender, wiry, slightly angular 
or compressed stems from a perennial stock. The leaves are 
very few, chiefly in the lower part of the stem. Flowers yellow _ 
with purple streaks, arranged in loose, terminal racemes. Pods 
long, containing about thirty seeds. 
Gompholobium tomentosum, Labill.— Poison Bush.” 
An erect shrub of about 3 feet high; the young branches 
villous. Leaves usually consisting of five to seven, but varying 
from three to eleven, narrow-linear leaflets. Flowers yellow, few, 
and terminal. Pod scarcely half-an-inch long, containing numerous 
seeds. 
Gastrolobium obovatum, Benth.— Poison Bush.” 
The branches of this shrub are rather slender and tomentose. 
The leaves are mostly obovate, under 1 inch long, coriaceous and 
reticulate. Flowers small, in axillary, rather loose clusters. 
Gastrolobium trilobum, Benth.—‘ Poison Bush.” 
This is a many-branched, slender-growing shrub. The leaves 
are usually three lobed, about 1 inch long, and tapering into a 
pungent point. Flowers few, in loose, axillary racemes, not 
usually exceeding the leaves. 
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