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BRACHYSEMA latifolium. 
Broad-leaved Brachysema. 
. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Lecuminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. 
Div. IV. Cor. irregularis papilionacea. Stam. distincta, aut rard 
basi coalita. Legumen uniloculare bivalve. - Arbores aut frutices ; folia 
simplicia aut ternata aut impari-pinnata. Id.1.¢. 351. 
BRACHYSEMA., Cal. 5-fidus, parim inzqualis, tubo ventricoso. 
Cor. papilionacea, vexillum brevius carina compressA alas wquante. 
Germen pedicello basi vaginula cincto,’ Stylus filiformis, elongatus. Le- 
gumen polyspermum, ventricosum, Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 3. 10. 
B. latifolium, foliis ovatis planis, vexillo oblongo obovato. 
Hort. Kew, ed. 2. 3, 10. 
Frutex procumbens, cano-pubescens, ramosus. Folia coriacea, ovata 
». cordata, mucronata, venulosa, supra glauco-virentia, infra pube brevi 
appressa albicantia, rachide subtus prominente et mare 
Brown in 
‘gine rubentia, brevissime 
petiolata : stipule 2, subulate. Inflor. axillaris, foliis brevior ; pedunculi 
1-3-flori, viz calyct aequales, curvati ; pedicelli etiam his breviores, ageregati, 
bracteol& minuta ad basin. Cal. cano-fuscescens, oblongo-campanulatus, sub- 
semuncialis, bilabiato-partitus, equalis, labio summo porrecto, divaricaté 
emarginato, infimo depressiore, trifido, segmentis subulato-lanceolatis. Cor. 
elongato-papilionacea alis adductis, punicea, unciam ‘cum und tertid parte 
ulterius circitér longa ; vexillum ag petalis inter se isometris duplo brevius, 
spathulatum, lamina reflexa ovali-ob onga, disco peti Cais : ale trans- 
versim opposite, presse secundiim marginem caring, lineari-oblonge, ‘subfal- 
cate, acumine obliquo brevi: carina detecta, porrecta, retusa, petalis alarum 
subsimilibus at feré duplo latioribus, inferné nigricantibus et solutis dein confer= 
ruminatis. Stam. equantia corollam, exsurgentia é carina ; fil. rubicunde ; 
anth. incumbentes, flave. Germ. oblongiusculum, sericeo-hirsutum, insidens 
brevi pedicello @ centro circult carnost crasst prominuli sub\Otorulosi ori- 
undi fundo calycis intra jilamenta ; stylus filiformis, ruber,. supra adyncus s 
stigma obtusunt. 
A rare greenhouse plant, native of the south-west coast 
of New Holland. First found by Mr. Brown, by whom 
the genus in which it ranks was instituted in the last edition 
of the Hortus Kewensis. The inflorescence reminds us of 
that of Kennepia rubicunda, long known in our collections ; 
but our plant stands in another class and order of the Lin- 
nean system, owing to the filaments being separate, and not 
connected, as in the great majority of its natural co-or- 
dinates with a papilionaceous bloom and leguminous fruit. 
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