BOSSILZEA rhombifolia. 
Rhomb-leaved Bossiea. 

Linnean Class and Order, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSEE. DC, prodr. 2, p.93. 
Subordo I. PAPILIONACE, Embryo homotropus pleurorhizeus nempé radi- 
eulaé super Joborum commissuram pron. Sepala per zstivationem imbricata aut sub- 
valvata. Petala in corollam papilionaceam disposita, semper ided irregularia, stamina- 
que imo calyci inserta seu perigyna.—Folia simplicia aut simpliciter composita, nunquam 
bi nec tripinnata. DC. lc. p. 94. 
Tribus II. Lore Supra fol. 2.—Subtribus 1. GENistea. Legumen uniloculare. 
Stamina sepissime monadelpha. Folia simplicia aut palmatim trifoliata rarits pinnata. 
Caules sepissimeé fruticosi. 
BOSSIEA, Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore majore semibifido obtuso. Stanina 
omnia connexa. Legumen plano-compressum pedicellatum polyspermum, margine utro- 
que incrassatum, Semina strophiolata.—Frutices Australasici. Rami sepe compresst. 
Folia nulla aut simplicia alterna, Flores flavi, carina sepée purpured aut fuscé. DC. prodr. 
2. p. 116, 

B. rhombifolia, ramulis compressis foliosis, ramis teretibus, foliis rhombeo-orbiculatis 
submucronatis, leguminibus longe stipitatis faleatis. DC. prodr, 2. p. 117. 
Bossiza rhombifolia. Sieb. pl. exs. nov. holl. n. 354, Swt. hort. brit. add. p. 475. Spreng. 
syst. veg. 3. p. 231. 

A dwarf branching evergreen Shrub, with slender pendant 
branches, old branches cylindrical: young ones flat, leafy, 
smooth, glaucous. Leaves rhomboidally orbicular, with a short 
horny mucro, and a cartilaginous margin, broader than long, 
slightly concave, smooth and glaucous, pinnately nerved, rigid. 
Petioles short, jointed a little below the leaf. Stipules very 
small, like little scales, cordate, acute, membranaceous. Flow- 
ers axillary, solitary, yellow, witha purple keel. Bractes ovate, 
concave, blunt, fringed, 2 or 3 near the base of the peduncle 
very small, and 2 larger about the middle. Pedunele short, 
smooth. Calyx smooth, 2-lipped; the upper lip truncately 
rounded with a notch in the centre on the upper edge, bluntly 
keeled on the back: lower lip 3-cleft, the lacinize ovate, bluntish, 
the margins slightly pubescent, when in bloom spreading or 
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