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CHOROZEMA VARIUM. 



(Various -leaved Chorozema.) 



NATURAL ORDER. 



FABACEiB OR LEGUMINOS^ 

 § PAPILIONACEOUS. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Chorozema. (Labill.) Calyx semi-5-fidus bilabiatus, labio superiore bifido, inferiore 

 3-partito. Corolla carina ventricosa alis breviore. Stylus brevis tmcinatus. Stigma obliquum 

 obtusum. Legumen ventricosum 1-loculare polyspermum sessile aut subsessile. — Suffrutices 

 Australasici. Folia alterna simplicia sinuato-dentata aut integra. — (De Cand. Prod. vol. 

 2. p. 102.) 



Calyx half-o-cleft, 2-lipped, upper lip bifid, lower lip 3-parted. Corolla with a ventricose 

 keel shorter than the wings. Style short, hooked. Stigma oblique, obtuse. Legume ventricose, 



1 - celled, many-seeded, sessile or subsessile. — Shrubby Australasian plants. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, sinuato- dentate or entire. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



C. varium ; foliis subsessilibus oblongo-ovatis cordatis undulatis spinoso-dentatis pubescen- 

 tibus, racemis axillaribus terminalibusque gracilibus cernuis multifloris, pedicellis ad apicem 

 bracteolatis, calycibus ovarioque pubescentibus. 



Leaves subsessile, oblong-ovate, cordate, undulate, spinoso-dentate, pubescent ; racemes 

 axillary and terminal, slender, nodding, many-flowered; pedicels with bracteae at the apex; 

 calyxes and ovary pubescent. 



Chorozema varium. Bot. Reg. N. S. p. 49. 



Dbscb. — -Shrub, moderately branched, branches slender ascending. Leaves rigid, copiously 

 reticulated, with spinous teeth. Racemes nodding at the apex ; the lateral ones 2 or 3 times 

 longer than the leaves, the terminal ones from 4 to 6 inches long. Bracteas subulate, hairy. 

 Upper lip of the calyx 2-parted, lower 3-parted, densely covered with short hairs. Standard 



2- lobed, of an orange-yellow richly shaded at the base with red ; wings of a rich red. 



An elegant, free-growing, greenhouse shrub, raised from seeds imported by- 

 Robert Mangles, Esq., of Sunning Hill, Berks, by whom cuttings were kindly 

 sent to the Birmingham Botanic Garden in 1837, and from which our plant was 

 raised. 



Chorozema varium was figured by Dr. Lindley in the Botanical Register, No. 

 9, of the present year, pi. 49 ; and we would gladly have availed ourselves of the 



LINNEAN SYSTEM. AT nn 



No. 132. 



DECANDB.IA M0N0GYNIA. 



