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’ OXYLOBIUM CORDIFOLIU M. 
Heart-leaved Oxylobium. 
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CLASS X. ORDER If. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER.. 
Caryx simplex, quinquepartitus. P EmPALEMENT simple, five- sige 
Conoxta papilionacea. 7 Brossom butterfly-shaped.. 
Sryzus subulatus, Stigma obtusum.. Suart awl-shaped. _ Summit blunt. 
LzcumEN ovato-acuminatum, apice compres~ Pop pointedly egg-shaped, compressed at the 
sum,, polyspeemum.. end, and many-seeded.. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATEs 
A leaf magnified, 
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A back view of the same, 
One of the wings. - 
The keel 
The chives,. 
The same spread eo one tip magnified, 
. Seed-bud i a . ileal manele 
. A ripe seed-vesse. 
. The same ms open. 
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‘Pranrs of a a Papilionaceous character furnish the most frequent rtunity for generic divisions. 
Nine Genera have already cas made by Dr. Smith wikasthers to <n the Batt oti flowers of New: 
Holland. Our little nowt agrees with water, a Pultenza, Aotus, Mirbeliz, and Dillwynia,, 
it differs in the pod not being two-seeded. The two last genera have also. the cups two-lipped, and. 
me a with ene cals. Davis to it. _Gompholobiam = a races pod, and Chorizema an oblong. 
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aie to eh number “of enera, perhaps already too» 
much extended. We have never seen. it exceed afoot in height. The foliage is mostly in whorls :. 
and the stem, leaves, cups, and fruits are hairy, 
Our figure represents one of the plants from the nursery of Messrs. Loddige, who first raised it from, 
= and where we obseryed its brilliant little flowers in successiye bloom for at least six montbs.. 
