= HYPOCALYP'TUS. OBCORDA’ TUS, 
~OBCORDATE- LEAVED HYPOCALYPTUS. 
EXOGEN A, ee DICOTYLEDONE A. 
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CALYCIFLORE, F MONADELPHIa 
OF x DECANDRIA, 4 
DECANDOLLE. a OF LINNEUS, 
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~ GENU Hy 
basi ent brey. 
UNBERG) frutex, foliis pal- 
e floribus Tacemosis terminali- 
PECIES. 
matim trifoliolatis, 
et bracteis bracteo. lis ue subul ot 
: LYPTUS. Catyx loosely bell- 
shaped, at length projecting ‘inwards at the base, with five short teeth 
arranged in two lips. CoroLia papilionaceous, the petals on very 
short claws; the standard rounded, ‘Spreading; the wings obliquely 
obovate-oblong, sare ek to the standard i in n length, free from 
aked, shale than the wings, its two 
petals joined ye TAMENS ‘connected high up into an entire 
ube. ANTHERS ge Be th and‘ oblong. Ovary with many 
ovules, ear sessile. StyLe filiform. Svrigma oblique, small, capi- 
p linear, flat, | coriaceous; the upper suture a little thickened, 
a one-celled, many-seeded. S£EpDs reniform, with a small 
strophiola. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, HypocaLypTuS OBCORDATUS. 
Sueus six or eight feet high, erect, much branched. Brancnes 
thickly covered with leaves, striate, smooth or slightly hairy is 
young. STIPuLEs small, setaceous, deciduous. Leaves of th 
leaflets, palmately arranged at the top of a stiff petiole from one 53 
five lines long, and often hairy when young. Lear.ers from half an 
inch to an inch long, and often nearly as. broad, obcordate or obovate, 
the midrib ending in a small point, entire, narrowed at the base into. 
a very short partial stalk, rather rigid, veined, usually more or less 
folded along the midrib, smooth when full grown, but often hairy when 
young. FLowers numerous, crowded into a short simple raceme at 
REFERENCE TO THE DissEcTions. 
1, Calyx and Stamens. 2, Stan: ings. 4,Keel, 5, Ovary. 
