Platylobium .] 
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sutures only, with about 8 ovules. Pod 1 to lMn. long, on a stipes of from 
one-fourth as long as to longer than the calyx, loosely hairy or at length 
glabrous. — Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 31; Bot. Mag. t. 469; DC. Prod. ii. 116; 
Paxt. Mag. xiii. 195, with a fig. 
Hab.: North Coast Railway Line. Flowering in July. 
The synonym of Cheilococca apocynifolia, Salisb. Prod. 412, given by Smith under Platylobium 
formosum, in Bot. Nov. Holl. 17, and copied from him by De Candolle, Endlicher, and many 
others, appears to be entirely a mistake. There is no such name in Salisbury’s work, and the 
page quoted is one of those of the index. — Benth. 
18. BOSSI/EA, Yent. 
(After M. Boissier-Lamartiniere, a companion of La Perouse.) 
(Scottea, R. Br.; Lalage, Lindl.) 
Calyx, 2 upper lobes or teeth broader and usually much larger than the 
others, distinct or united in an upper lip, 3 lower ones equal. Petals clawed ; 
standard orbicular or reniform, usually reflexed ; wings narrow ; keel broader 
and usually shorter than the wings, rarely longer or exceeding the standard. 
Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side ; anthers uniform, ovate 
or oblong, versatile. Ovary stipitate or nearly sessile, with several ovules ; style 
subulate, incurved ; stigma small, terminal. Pod sessile or stipitate, flat, not 
winged ; valves completely separating, thin, with the edges nervitorm or thickened. 
Seeds strophiolate. — Shrubs or rarely undershrubs, occasionally leafless; branches 
terete or flattened, very rarely angular and not sulcate. Leaves alternate or 
opposite, simple, entire or rarely toothed, often articulate on a very short petiole. 
Stipules small, brown, lanceolate or setaceous. Flowers axillary, solitary or in 
clusters of 2 or 3, yellow orange or red. Bracts at the base of the pedicel, 2, 3, 
or more, imbricate, the outermost very small and persistent, the inner ones often 
much longer and very deciduous ; bracteoles on the pedicel very small and 
persistent, or longer and deciduous. 
The genus is limited to Australia, and, with Platylobium, is distinguished from other Genistece 
by the anthers all perfectly uniform, attached by the middle, with a more perceptible cou- 
nectivum. — Benth. 
Series I. Normales. — Leaves alternate. Calyx upper lobes rounded or truncate. Ovary 
glabrous or ciliate on the edge. Pod sessile or stipitate, glabrous. 
Branches terete or slightly compressed. Leaves distichous, usually small 
and rigid. 
Keel much longer than the standard. 
Leaves ovate-cordate or cordate-lanceolate 1. B. carinalis. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, rounded or narrowed at the base 2. B. rupicola. 
Keel shorter than the standard. 
Leaves mostly above Jin. long, ovate or oblong, very obtuse, not 
coriaceous. Stems prostrate, pubescent, rarely above 1ft long . . 3. B. prostrata. 
Leaves mostly under Jin. long, rigid. 
No thorns. 
Branches not compressed, almost silky. Leaves ovate-oblong. 
Petals glabrous 4. B. Scortecliinii. 
Branches pubescent. Leaves ovate or cordate. 
Pedicels longer than the leaves. Pod sessile, thin, with nerve- 
like margins. Ovules 6 or move 5. B. buxifolia. 
Pedicels short. Pod on a long stipes, with much thickened 
margins. Ovules 2 or 3 6. B. Brownii. 
Plant quite glabrous. Pedicels very short. Pod on a long stipes. 
Ovules 2 or 3. Leaves obovate or rhomboidal. Pod with thick 
margins . . . . 7. B. rhombifolia. 
Branches much flattened or winged. Leaves distichous or none. 
Branches leafy. Keel glabrous. Pod coriaceous, the stipes much longer 
than the calyx 8 . B. lieterophylla. 
