Leyuminosa.] FLORA OF TASMANIA H 
twenty-eight species are known, "f which the m t . i; . - ri t _\ m na1 
to that country aad to New South \\ alee >< v. tral are described m being i /^aw whorled 
or alternate, simple, entire, silky beneath, without stipules. FJotcer* racemose, yellow. fWyr two-lipped ; ujiprr 
lip two-, lower threc-lobed. Corolla with an orbicular standard, which is longer than the oblong « 
Stamens ten, free, glabrous. Owy villous, with four or more ■ b . OUCH* lied, with tWQ n 
more seeds. (Name from o£vs, sharp, and \oj3os, a pot/ ; in allusion t«« the diarp-pointed pods.) 
1. Oxylobium arborescens (Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iii. 9) ; ramis ranmlisqm- i 
foliis subternis verticillatisve anguste linearibus lineari-oblongisve f 
recurvis superne glabris reticulatis subtus dense albo- v. fusco-tomentosis, costa valid*, I 
subcapitatis axillaribus, pedunculis calycibusque sericeo-villosis, legomine ovafa 
dense villoso, ovulis 6-10, seminibus 3-6 reniformibus atris. — Ker. Bot. Reg. t. 392 
Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 244.2 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 104. (Gunn, 464.) 
Hab. On dry sandy soil in the northern parts of the Island. Hampshire Hills, 
Gunn.—(FL Nov. Dec.) 
Distrib. New South Wales, Frater, W Arthur. (Cultivated in Kngland.) 
A low or tall shrub, sometimes G-10 feet high, much branched, and handsome. 
densely covered with appressed while lomcntum. I.<uirr* whorled in thn 
diining. reticulated: under densely downy with fulum-white, opa<pic or silvery, apprcs: 
long, l~^ inch broad. Floirt-rs in deuse-llowercd axillary raceme- which are much sin 
li'iielex and pedicels short, covered (as is the calyx) w it li lung - 
attenuated, almost rostrate at the top. J'nh;.* very c<>n\c\. >'w.\ss\ «n! - 
2. Oxylobium ellipticum (Brown, 1. c.) ; foliis lineari- v. clliptico-oblon 
racemis capitatis terminalibus. — Gompholobium ellipticum, Lab. A 
elliptic^ Fent. Malm. t. 115; DC. Prodr. ii. 104. (Gtom, 234, 1060.) 
Hab. Abundant in heathy places in the southern parts of the Island, and in 
to 4000 feet.— (Fl. Oct, Nov.) (Cultivated in England.) [v. v.) 
This plant very much resembles the last in most characters, b 
often elliptical or oblong, mueronate leaves, and terminal can 
inches to seven feet, in the colour and amount of the pubescence 
surface of the leave-, varying from silvery-white to yellow-brow 
villous ; the capsules as in O. arborescens, but smaller. The U 
Calyx sub:e.'jiialis, 
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has much broader, 
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Australia, but none arc common to both : a very tew are tropn ; 
foliolate section, and is a very pretty and common plant throug 
impari-pinnate or trifoliolate leaves, and axillary one-flowered | 
equal, quinquefid. Standard broad, longer than the oblong 
