PLATE DCXLII. 



GOMPHOLOBIUM GRANDIFLORUM. 



Large^flowered Air Pod. 



CLASS X. ORDER I, 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



CAfi'X catnpanulatus, simplex, ahe 5-fidus, Co- 

 rolla papilionacea. Stigma simplex, acu- 

 tum. Legumen inflatum, sphsericum, uni- 

 loculare^ polyspermura. 



Empalement bell-shaped, simple, deeply five- 

 cleft. Blossom butterfly-sbaped. Summit 

 simple, acute. Pod inflated, spherical, one- 

 celled, many-seeded, ■ 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



GsMPHaLBiuM foliis ternis vel quinis^ lineari- 

 biis, apice toucionatis : corollis coccineis : 

 j)iedtlnculis basin versus bibracteatis : caule 

 tdlubilh 



GoMPHOLOBiuM With leavcs lo threes and fives, 

 linear, and mucronated at the end: blossoms 

 of a scarlet colour: peduncles with two floral 

 leaves near the baSe : stem climbing. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



i . The empalement and flor£(l leaves. 



2. The standard. 



3. One of the wings. 



4. The keel. 



5. The chives and pointal. 

 0. Seed-bud and pointaJi 

 z'. A ripe seed-vessel. 



§; The! same split open. 



^ilH horidese'ript SpgfikS ef Oeitiplldob'ium is, when in flcv.-cr, the nicst elegant of the genus, buL when 

 fcHt of bloom few plafits have legs attraction.- 



it was first raised in the tloyal gardens at Ke.v, about the year I80(), and is as yet in very few collec* 

 fions; Our iigare i'epfesents an entire plant from the conservatory of the Countess de Vandes, which 

 {lowered iri the' tiioiith of June 1811, and perfeeled its seed about the middle of September, at which 

 iieriod its slender branches had grown nearly six inches longer (than they were when in bloom), and, 

 ivvining iotttid S srtiall siiek placed for their support^ had every appearance of becoming a graceful climb- 



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