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3. OXYLOBIUM, Andr. 

 1. Oxylobium? hamulosum, Benth. ined. 



0. foliis confertis acerosis apice hamato-recurvis minute hispididis; ramis 

 apice paucifloris ; leguminibus calycibusque hirsutis. 



Hab. Hunter's River, New South Wales. 



The specimen, in fruit only, is that of a Heath-like, sufFruticose 

 plant, a span or two in height ; the branches clothed with a fine and 

 appressed pubescence. Leaves crowded, alternate, or often imperfectly 

 verticillate or opposite, acerose, with revolute margins, the acute apex 

 hooked, the surface minutely hispid under a lens, or at length glabrate : 

 they vary from 4 to 6 lines in length. The corymb is simple and few- 

 jhwered at the end of the branches. Lobes of the fructiferous calyx 

 lanceolate from a broad base, acuminate, hirsute. Legume hirsute, 

 ovoid-oblong, pointed, half an inch long, including the persistent style, 

 without any partitions. The flowers are unknown ; but the fruit is 

 that of an Oxylobium. — It has not been identified in any other collection. 



4. PODOLOBIUM, R.Br. 



1. PODOLOBIUM TRILOBATUM, B. Br. 



Hab. Near Sydney, and Cook's River, New South Wales. 



2. PODOLOBIUM OBOVATUM, Sp. Nov. 



P. foliis obovatis subrotundisve retusis integerrimis subtus ramulisque 

 hirtello-puberis ; ovario hirsutissimo breviter stipitato. 



Hab. Near Sydney, New South Wales. 



Apparently a procumbent or climbing plant, and most resembling 



