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‘as the wings, of two heart-fhaped petals sag at their 
fummits, with two fhort, linear, diftin® i- 
laments ten, eae afcending, all eat d in ie keel 5 
anthers roundi Pift. Germen ovate; ftyle awl-fhaped, 
cag permanent and coups a fives fimple. 
Per egume ovate, turgi e, of one cell. Seeds 
fan, roundi(h-kidney-Shaped, ee into the margin of 
each es at ‘the dorfal future 
Eff. Ch. Calyx deeply fvecelefe, foméwhat two-lipped. 
Corolla papilionaceous ; ; keel compreffed, nearly as long as 
the fpreading ftandard. Style afcending. Stigma fimple. 
Legume ovate, inflated, pointed, of one cell eit feveral 
feeds. 
1. O. arborefcens. Tall Oxylobium. Ait. n. 1.-—Leaves 
rien etna Bracteas permanent, at the top of the 
r-ftalk. Corymbs denfe. Legume {carcely longer 
fan the calyx.—Found by Mr. Brown, in Van Diemen’s 
land; brought to Kew garden in 1805, where it flowers 
from lto June, and is kept in the greenhoufe. The 
« elliptic m Oval-leav ed Oxylobium. Ait.n.2. Bese 
pholobium ellipti cum; Labillard. Nov. Holl. v. 1. 107. 
Calliftachys elliptica ; a eae oe b. Cal- 
.§ 66.) —Leaves 
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flowers moft part of the fummer. Ventenat, 
feen the ae aehe the plant by its habit to his 
o be miftaken. We kno 
Callifachys, but pro \ w it only 
r. Brown’s pecifi ee and the pate soa de 
ra of Labillardiere, according to who is 
— 
in ort, filky corymbs 
prefume the corolla is yellow, but Labillardiere, having 
defcribed from his dried fpecimens back generally omits 
i with _ twifted, 
ifcovered in New South 
rarely oppofite or folitary, nearly site, “earcely half an 
ach long, bro ad-ova fo aped, acute, 
orange, ‘verging towards fcarlet, from three to fix in each 
clofe tone umbel. Standard marked with a yellow fpot, 
an eep red curved line, at its ae Seeds about five, 
black, clouded. 
Ox EL, ofvpeas, formed fa ofus, four, and jtrsy 
mel, honey, in Phzrmacy, a mixture of honey and vinegar 
boiled to poe confiftence of a fyrup. 
OXY 
OxyM re is compofed of two pounds of clarified 
honey, ar a pint (lb.) of acetic acid (diftilled vinegar), 
boiled in a alas veffel by a gentle heat into the confiftence 
fa 
Gaol oxymel in dofes of £3}, or more, ene in 
barley water, forms a pleafant ee coolin n fevers 
ar ia ian 
OXYMEL Scille pane of {quills, 13 prepared by boiling 
three pounds of clarified honey in two pints (pounds 
dofes it is 
given to excite vomiting, and at the roa ta: to clear the 
cheft, in hooping-co 
OxyMEL A ruginis | of verdigris, confilts, accord- 
ing to the Dublin pa ne of the following i ingredients, viz. 
prepared verdigris, one ounce; wine vinegar, feven fluid 
ounces; and clarified honey, fourteen ounces. Diflolve the 
verdigris in the vinegar, and {train it through a linen cloth ; 
add the honey, and boil the mixture to a proper thicknefs. 
his preparation is detergent and efcharotic. In the above 
ftate it is ufed for takin fungo 
in found confiftent i in fenfe. 
ver. 475 co of Althea, pins pia eft. 
OXYMURIATI Gas, French nomenelature ; 
Dephlogi later muriatic aid gas of Scheele; Chlorine, or 
Ch oric gas, of fir 
e fubflance which ha received thefe various names was 
difcovered in the year 1774, by the illuftrious Scheele, and 
rogen, he gave 
In the year 1785, Berthollet abled a feries of experi- 
ments upon the fame fubjeQ@, from the refults of which he 
drew inferences very oppofite to thofe of Scheele ; for inftead 
muriatic acid a ian e form of matter, and to c 
aie sou the dephlogiicated muriatic acid gas of en 
confifted of muriatic acid in combination with oxygen, 
a oe — term oxymuriatic acid gas. 
Berthollet’s experiments appeared fo fatisfaCtory, and his 
refults fo conclufive, as to lead to the general adoption of 
a paper, entitled ‘* Refearches o 
its Nature and Combinations, &c.’’ (fee Phil. Tranf. 1810, 
page 231.) in which, after quoting the opinions of the 
calor alluded to, aad of other experimentalifts, he details 
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