PLA TE &CCCCXXVII. 
GOMPHOLOBIUM MACULATUM. 
»* Maculated Air-pod. 
Crasa X.: ORD-ER I. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caiyx campanulatus, simplex, alte 5-fidus. EMPALEMENT hellshaped, simple, deepiy 
* Corolla papilionacea, Stigma simplex, five-cleft. Blossom _ butterfly-shaped. 
~acutum. Legumen inflatum, sphericum, Summit simple, acute. Pod inflated, 
uniloculare, polyspermum. ~ spherical, one-celled, many-seeded. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ms ahha ssterie foliis ternatis linearibus nu- GomPHotosivum, with leaves in threes and na- 
ie dis, senioribus declinatis, pedunculis ked, the older ones bent downwards, pe- 
basin versus bibracteatis, ramulis tereti- duncles with 2 floral leaves near the base, 
bus nudis, and naked round branches. 
m REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A leaf. 
2. The empalement, peduncle, and floral leaves. 
3. A front view of the standard. 
4. A back view of the same. 
5. One of the wings. 
6, The keel. 
7. The chives and pointal. 
8. The seed-bud and pointal. 
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om Tue plant here represented is quite a new species, and is said to be a native of New Holland: it is a 
° stiff little shrub, and prospers in the green-house; and its yellow flowers, deeply blotched with 
brown on the standard, make a good appearance. 
In its habit, and in the generic characters, it comes nearer to Gompholobium of Dr. Smith in Exotic 
Botany, tab. 5, than to any other genus within our knowledge; yet the dissections here given, will 
be found to swerve from the characters there advanced, in several perhaps not unimportant particu- 
lars. ” _ The stamina appear more united. The stigma appears slightly capitated, instead of acute; and 
: n t pod somewhat too long. The bractez also differ in number as well as structure. 
Our drawing was made from living plants in the Hibbertian collection in the year 1803, but the 
above description from the drawing only. 
