OXYLO’BIUM SCAN’DENS., 
™ CLIMBING OXYLOBIUM. 
this Plant belongs. 
Artificial divisions. DECANDRIA, 
to which bo tinaeen. 
this Plant af OF LINN 
CALYCIFLOR#, 
OF 
DECANDOLLE. 
No, 114. 
N OxyLosium. AnDREws. Caxyx semi. gamer dus, ae 
labio superiore bifido, inferiore tei pai Coroti« vexillum alis ius, 
rotundatum, breviter unguiculatum; ale ines,’ cddlins Vas aden sub- 
re ae obtusa, alas equans. Stamina libera, glabra. Ovarrum sub-sessile, 
se pluriovulatum. Sryivus filiformis, i incurvus. LeGuMEN ovatum, acutum, 
seitdiaget eoriaceum ve turgidum , uniloculare, valvulis intus 
levibus. Sema estrophiolata. FRotices suffruticesve Australasici. Fora 
verticillata aut sparsa, simplicia, integra,subtus seri cea. Sripuc# setacex vel 
nulle. InFLORESCENTIA racemosa, terminalis vel axillaris. Corott& lutee 
velcrocee. Ovarium villosissimum. Bentham: Annales des Wiener Museums 
v. 2;p. 
IES. OxyiopiumM scanpens, Benru. Cav te debili prostrato vel 
scandente, foliis oppositis Planis: coriacels viridibus subtus leviter sericeis, 
racemis cap 
Geen: OF THE GENUS, OxYLOBIUM. Sides cleft to the 
middle in five divisions, arranged in two lips, the upper one —— 
of two, the <i one of three divisions. CoroLia with a um 
longer than the roundish, on a short claw; ag oblong, keel 
eo nest straight, blunt, equal in len e wings. 
STaMENS free, smooth. Ovary nearly sessile, c many ovules 
plaid tie fe Sryxe filiform, curved or hooked. Pop oval, 
pointed, sessile, coriaceous or slightly membranaceous, swollen, one- 
celled, the valves smooth inside. Sgeps without any strophiola. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, OxYLOBIUM SCANDENS. STEM 
perennial, and woody at the base, long, slender, trailing or climbing, 
but not twining like the Phaseolee; smooth, except the younger 
branches, which are clothed with a soft silky pubescence. STiPuLes 
setaceous. LEAvEs opposite, borne on st shoes footstalks, oblong, 
sharp or blunt at the extremity, but the midrib always terminated in — 
a sharp point, usually hooked, coriaceous, reticulate, the younger ones 
white and silky underneath, the adult ones nearly smooth. FLOweErs 
in short capitate racemes, which are borne on peduncles usually about 
an inch long, and spring from the summits of the branches, or from 
the upper axillz, each flower supported ona short pedicel at the axilla 
