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versicolor, etc. etc. ; the flowers are principally yellow, but 

 some are tinged with purple. G. venustum is truly named 

 " the graceful Gompholobium" for it is a most lovely green- 

 house plant, and should be in every collection : it is from 

 the South-west of Australia, and is a small shrub, with 

 long delicate branches, and pinnated leaves, formed of eight 

 or ten very narrow pinnae, the edges turned back almost 

 touching behind ; the flowers are of a rich rose-purple colour, 

 in drooping corymbs. These plants, being found principally 

 in dry, exposed situations, should not have much moisture, 

 or much heat in winter ; they should have a cool airy place 

 in the greenhouse : the soil should be sandy peat, and they 

 may be increased by cuttings, or seed. 



OXYLQBIUM. 



Gen. Char. (Decandria Monogynia.) Calyx deeply five-cleft, 

 rather two-lipped ; keel compressed and the length of the wings, 

 which are equal to the open standard ; style ascending ; stigma 

 simple ; pod many-seeded, ventricose, ovate and acute. 



Named from the pointed pod. Australian plants for the 

 greenhouse, the species being as follows : — 0. arbor escens, 

 ellipticum, Pultencea, and others, have yellow flowers ; retu- 



