‘no close to the vexillum: lower one three-parted, the segments 
ovate, or ovately lanceolate, acute, spreading. Vewillum very 
broad, obcordate, dark blue, tinged with purple, with a white 
spot at the base. Ale or wings roundly spathulate, unequal si- 
ded, auriculate on one side, with a very slender unguis. Carina 
scarcely half the length of the wings, obtuse. Stamens 10, dia- 
delphous, 9 joined together about half their length, the points dis- 
tinct, the 10th distinct to the base. Ovarium smooth, Style 
quite smooth, ascending. Stigma slightly capitate. Pod coria- 
ceous, inflated, broader than long, smooth inside and out, the 
persistent style fixed on one side, and the two seeds, both fixed 
at one end. 
This very handsome plant has been very lately raised from 
seed at the Nursery of Mr. Mackay, at Clapton; the seeds were 
sent from New South Wales by Mr. Henchman’s Collector, 
Mr. Baxter, and the plant has now flowered, we believe, for the 
first time in this country; in the extensive Herbarium of A. B. 
Lambert, Esq., we were so fortunate as to find it with seed- 
pods, as also another species, both of which were collected by 
Captain King in King George’s Sound ; from those specimens 
was procured the pod given in the plate, and also the leaf and 
pod of the other new species, which Mr. Lambert was so kind 
as to favour us with, and by that means enabled us to establish 
them as a distinct genus. 
Our drawing was made the latter end of February, at the 
Clapton Nursery, where Mr. Mackay has now established his 
fine collection of new plants, having entirely removed from the 
Belgrave Nursery, in the King’s-road, to the purer air and more 
elevated situation of Clapton, where the plants thrive better, and 
will be more likely to show themselves to advantage. The pre- 
sent plant is a hardy Greenhouse Shrub, and would probably 
succeed well by the side of a wall in a southern aspect, so as to 
be covered with a mat in severe frost. It thrives well in an equal 
mixture of light turfy loam, peat, and sand; and young cuttings, 
planted under bell-glasses in sand, will strike root, but the best 
plants will be those raised from seeds. The generic name is com- 
posed of mAéyioe, transverse, and Aofoc, a pod. 
1. Calyx. 2, Vexillum. 3. Ala. or wines 4. ; . 
ee + ows , or wings. 4. The blunt Carina, or Keel. 5, The 
fb esis thie but distinct at the points. 6. The distinct Stamen. 7. Ovarium 
ee Sy the Style and small capitate Stigma. 8, Pod. 9. The same laid open to 
show the inserti ‘ 3 
of ditto. ‘nsertion of the seeds, which areimperfect. 10, Leaf of P. ilicifolium. 11. Pod 
