LABICHEA BIPUNCTATA. 
(Two-pointed-leaved Labichea.) 
Class. Order. 
DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Generic Character.— Calyx of five sepals, nearly 
regular, deciduous. Petals five, roundish-obovate, rather 
orbicular, nearly equal, spreading, exceeding the calyx. 
Stamens two, hypogynous ; filaments very short ; an- 
thers two-celled, thick, arched, unequal, opening by a 
suboperculate pore, Ovary on a short stipe, obliquely 
ovate, oblong, compressed, ending in a subulate style, 
containing two ovula. Stigma simple. — Don's Gard> 
and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shrub. 
Leaves simple, alternate, narrowly oblong, some of them 
having two stiff sharp points, others only one. Flowers 
in short racemes, axillary, yellow, with a brown blotch 
at the base of the petals. 
A neat and rather showy greenhouse shrub, the flowers of which remind us, in 
their size, form, and colour, of Euthales rnacrophylla, a handsome Swan River 
herbaceous plant, of recent introduction ; but, being a shrub, and less straggling in 
its character, the present object is of more value, while, when grown favourably, it 
will possibly be quite as profuse as the Euthales in its production of bloom. 
Seeds of it were imported by Mr. Low, of Clapton, from the Swan River 
Colony, two or three years ago, and the plants have flowered repeatedly in the 
Clapton nursery. From a specimen which was blooming there in the month of 
April last, we had the accompanying figure taken. Judging by the specimen in 
question, we should describe it as a plant disposed to grow erectly, and not to 
ramble, but to attain the height of three or four feet when left unchecked. Indeed, 
it has much of the upright tall habit of Hovea Celsii, when that species is unpruned, 
and subjected to no peculiar treatment ; though L. bipunctata has a freer develop- 
ment of branches. 
The flowers are borne in a kind of short raceme from the axils of the leaves, 
and are not at all inclined to be terminal. They abound most, however, towards the 
top of the plant ; which is perhaps a necessary circumstance in all tall specimens, 
We have little doubt that, when differently managed, this plant would as 
readily yield to culture as many other well-known greenhouse shrubs, and become 
as dwarf, bushy, and free-flowering. To bring about these conditions, it should be 
