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PODOLOBIUM STAUROPHYLLUM, 
(CROSS-LEAVED PODOLOBIUM.) 
ORDKR. 
MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-cleft, bilabiate, upper lip bifid, lower tbree-parted. Carina com- 
pressed, length of wings, and about equal to the wide vexillum. Ovary four-seeded. Style ascend- 
ing. Stigma simple. Legume pedicellate, linear, oblong, rather ventricose, smooth inside. 
Specific Character. — Leaves coriaceous, smooth, opposite, trifid, lobes about equal, entire, spiny at 
the apex. Ovary smooth. — Don's System of Gard. and Botany. 
Synonyme. — Podolobium acquifolium. — Lodd. Catalogue. 
This elegant greenhouse shrub, under good management, attains the height 
of four feet ; but as in general grown in our collections it rarely or never exceeds 
three feet, in consequence of its roots being confined in a pot instead of being planted 
out in the open border of the conservatory, where it grows quite free and luxuriantly. 
It is at all times a free flowerer, especially when planted out ; still, when grown in a 
pot, it makes a bright ornament in the greenhouse with its surprisingly dense clusters 
of pretty yellow flowers, which appear about March. 
It is a native of New Holland, whence it was introduced in 1822. 
We are obliged to our friend Mr. Bowe, of Broughton, for the opportunity of 
figuring it, with whom it flowered profusely this spring. 
All the species succeed well in equal parts of peat and loam freely mixed with 
white sand. Cuttings take root readily in sand under a glass. These do better 
taken from the young wood, as they make the finest plants produce roots in less 
time and with more certainty. 
The generic name alludes to the seed-pod, which is elevated on a stalk within 
the calyx, and is derived from podos, a foot, and lobos, a pod. 
class. 
DECANDRIA. 
