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CHORIZEMA rhombea. 
Variable-leaved Chorizema. 
Linnean Class and Order. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSA:. DC. prodr. 2. p. 93. 
Subordo I. PAPILIONACEZ.—Trilus I. SopHores&. Supra fol.5. 
CHORIZEMA. Calyx semi-5-fidus bilabiatus, labio superiore bifido, inferiore 
3-partito. Corolla carina ventricosé alis breviore. Stylus brevis uncinatus. Stigma 
obliquum obtusum. Legumen ventricosum 1-loculare polyspermum sessile aut subses- 
sile.x—Suffrutices <Australasicit. Folia alterna simplicia sinuato-dentata aut integra. 
DC, prodr, 2. p. 102.. 

C. rhombea, ramis elongatis virgatis diffuso-procumbentibus sericeo-pilosis, foliis in- 
tegerrimis planis mucronatis: inferioribus rhombeo-orbiculatis : summis elliptico- 
lanceolatis, racemis paucifloris, leguminibus magnis oblongis reticulatis. 
Chorizema rhombea. Brown Hort. Kew. ed.2. v. 3. p.9. DC. prodr. 2. p.103. Spreng. 
syst.2. p.349. Swt. hort. brit. p. 108. 

A small suffruticose plant, very much branched: branches 
trailing, the points ascending, spreading round in all directions 
to a great length if allowed, very slender, cylindrical, thinly 
clothed with prostrate white hairs, which are close pressed to 
the stem. Leaves very variable, flat or sometimes very slightly 
revolute at the margin, underneath reticulately veined, and 
thinly clothed with close pressed white hairs, most plentiful on 
the nerves; lower ones broadly ovate, obtuse, rhomboidally-or- 
bicular or oblong, others obovate, elliptic, elliptically lanceolate, 
or lanceolately linear, scarcely acute. Petzoles very short, pu- 
bescent. , Stepules subulate, broader at the base. Racemes 
terminal and axillary, few-flowered. lowers orange-coloured, 
the wings darker. Peduneles thinly clothed with close pressed 
hairs. Pedzcles smooth and glossy. Bractes subulate, two a 
little below the calyx, and one at the base of the pedicle. Caly¢ 
smooth, 2-lipped: upper lip slightly bifid, the laciniee rounded : 
lower lip 3-parted, the laciniee broadly lanceolate, scarcely acute. 
Vextllum very broad and flat, notched in the centre, the lobes 
