of a minute bractea, and bearing two small bracteole a little below the 
calyx. CaLyx somewhat silky, divided to the middle into five broadly 
lanceolate acute lacinie, which are reflexed during the flowering, 
and of which the two upper ones are rather less deeply separated. 
Corouta yellow, the vexillum marked at the base with a crimson 
spot. Ovary and seed-pod, as in the whole of the genus, densely 
clothed with long silky hairs. 
PopuLarR aND GEoGRAPHiIcAL Notice. The genus Oxylobium 
contains, as far as hitherto known, six or seven species from the South 
Eastern districts of Australia and from Van Dieman’s Land, and two 
_— » South Western colonies. ed are = readily distinguished 
oF ) : 
aa are always sitky “underneath: "They are not, however, so easily 
known from Callistachys, the chief distinction. consisting in the seeds, 
which have a strophiola in Callistachys and not in any species of 
Oxylobium in which they have been examined. The present species, 
which comes from the neighbourhood of Port Jackson, differs slightly 
in appearance from those which are most known, chiefly on account 
of its trailing habit, and it has consequently been its ‘fate to wander 
through various genera, with none of which it could be made to agree 
in character. Referred successively to Chorozema, Podolobium, Davie- 
sia, and even Mirbelia, and rejected from each of them, it is to be 
hoped that it has now permanently fixed itself in Oxylobium. 6G. B. 
IntropucTioN; Wuere crown; Cutture. The Oxylobium 
scandens was first introduced ten or twelve years ago, and is not 
unfrequently to be met with in Australian collections under the false 
name of Mirbelia Baxteri. Our drawing was made in July last, 
in the Birmingham Horticultural Society's Garden. It is a very 
showy plant, requiring an airy situation in the greenhouse, near the 
glass. Its soil should be sandy peat with a little loam; and at each 
repotting its old ball of soil should be raised a littte higher above the 
top of the pot, to keep the stem from receiving too much moisture. 
It may be propagated from layers or Satna but the best plants are 
those raised from seeds. 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. 
Oxytosicm from o&ve, sharp or pointed, and AoBoca pod. ScanDENns climbing. 
SynonyMEs. 
CHoROZEMA SCANDENS. Smith: Linnean Transactions ar 253. 
PopoLopiuM scanDENs, Decandolle: om v. -2, p 103 103 
DaviESIa UMBELLATA and HUMIFUSA. 
Popo.osivm HUMIFUsUM. G. Don: Garten’ ease v. 2, p. 116. 
Mirseuia Baxtert. Botanical Register 
Cuorozema Baxterr. Graham: eaiabaeh Be Philosophical Journal, 1831. 
_ Oxyxopivum scanpens, Bentham: Annales des Wiener Museums, v. 2, p. 70. 
