OXYLOBIUM obtusifolium. 
Blunt-leaved Oxylobium. 
Linnean Class and Order. DECANDRIA MONOGYNITA. 
Natural Order, LEGUMINOSE., DC. prodr, 2. p. 93, 
Subordo I, PAPILIONACEZ. DC. loc. cit. p, 94. 
Tribus I. SopHore#, Corolla papilionacea. Stamina libera. Legumen continuum 
nec articulatum. Cotyledones plane foliacee.—tTribus satis naturalis, accedens ad Lo- 
teas mediantibus et Ammodendro et Astragalis chronopodiis, ad Hedysareas, medi- 
ante Adesmia, quibus sunt stamina libera et Sophore sectio secund4 que staminibus 
gaudet subcoalitis. DC. loc. cit. p. 94. 
OXYLOBIUM. Calyx profunde 5-fidus subbilabiatus, Corolla carini compress 
Jongitudine alarum vexillum explanatum zquantium. Stamina toro aut imo calyci in- 
serta. Stylus adscendens, Stigma simplex. Legumen sessile aut subsessile, polysper- 
mum, ventricosum, ovatum, acutum.—Frutices suffruticesve Australasici. Folia ter- 
natim quaternimve verticillata integra, Flores corymbosi, flavi. DC. prodr. 2. p. 104. 

O, obtusifolium, foliis oblongo-linearibus obtusis ; supra glabris reticulatis subtus to- 
mentoso-sericeis : marginibus revolutis, corymbis laxiusculis, bracteolis ad apicem 
pedicelli persistentibus, calycibus tomentoso-sericeis, alis corollz reflexis. 

A pretty dwarf branching upright Shrub, in the plants that 
we have seen, scarcely 18 inches in height: dsanches thinly 
clothed with a silky pubescence. eaves generally verticillate, 
3 in each whorl, sometimes only 2, which are opposite or rarely 
alternate, with very short footstalks, oblongly linear, obtuse, 
very stiff or rigid, upper side channelled, reticulately veined, 
smooth on the old leaves, the young ones silky, underneath 
clothed with a dense silky tomentum, the margins more or less 
rolled back, particularly on the young leaves. Petzoles short 
and thick, downy. lowers terminal, in a loosish corymb or 
raceme, which is also verticillate, generally 3 in a whorl: the 
peduncle thickly clothed with a silky pubescence, as are the pedi- 
cles, bractes, and calyx. Pedicles short, each surrounded at the 
base by a deciduous bracte, which is longer than the pedicle. 
Bractes 2, at the base of the calyx, persistent, broadly lanceo- 
late, acute, not half the length of the calyx. Calyz slightly 
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