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BRACHYSEMA undulatum. 
Wawy-leaved Brachysema. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
_ Nat. ord. LEGuMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. I V.—PAPILIONA- 
nif, ;, cE&. Brown in gen. rem. in flind. voy. 2. 552. 
BRACHYSEMA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 118. 
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B. undulatum, foliis ellipticis undulatis mucronatis, vexillo oblongo, cordato, 
supra conyoluto, obtusato. ; 
Frutex erectus, fiecuosus, alterné divaricatéque ramosus superné ramique 
yecurvato-flexiles, cortice é colore imo brunneo pube cand sericed cinerascente. 
Fol. sparsa, laxa, secunda, erecta, ovata v. rotundo-ovata, undulata, re- 
panda, subtus sericea, albo-nitentia, supra glabra, opaco-virentia, reticulato- 
venulosa, mucronata, nunc basi subcordata, majora biuncialia v. ultra 
latitudine subsesquiunciali: petioli breves, teretes, sericei: stipule 2, 
fusce, sctacee, sericee, recurvate, petiolo longiores. Pedunculi azillares, 
teretes, sericet, subtriflort (flore ultimo sepeé abortiente) laxi, folio aliquo- 
ties longiores: bractez 8, parvule, subulate, calyci appresse plurimumque 
breviores, una media brevior obtusior concava. Flores penduli,. lutescentes. 
Cal. membranaceus, melinus, fusco-puncticulatus, sericeus, corolld plus duplo 
brevior, oblato-campanulatus, bilabiato-fissus, basi postice gibbosus; Yabium 
superius emarginatum dentibus 2 acutis, inferius trifidum segmentis ovafto- 
acuminatis erectis subequalibus. Cor. } uncie v. circitér longa, oblonga, 
alis adductis: vexillum oblongo-cordatum, reflexum, carind brevius ; un- 
guis linearis, fornicatus, calycem cequans; lamina inferné orbiculato- 
dilatata, superne intensivs colorata et ob latera inflexa angustato-con- 
cava, sepe intus rubedine tincta: ale lineari-ligulate, parallele, @ 
lateralibus interioribus conniventes, ab exterioribus carinam triplo. la- 
tiorem imbricantes: carina oblonga, obtusissima, compressée ventricosa, por- 
recta, subtis connata, supra aperta, utrinque ad basin lobo rotundo de- 
pressiore eatrorsim flexo auriculata. Filam. alterné breviora, summum 
medium ad basin aret alto fornicatum, reliqua basi gibboso-incrassata, 
exteriorum verd gibbositas crasstor lattorque, 2 ad latera medit summi 
posita curvo imo postico sects receptaculum commune appresse assurgen- 
tia: anthe. flaviuscule, paroe, incumbentes, polline albido granuloso. 
Germ. ovato-oblongum, sericeo-hirsutum, stylo aliquoties brevius, polysper- 
mum, disco glanduloso obliquo prominente insertum: stylus staminibus 
longior, continuus, albus, elongato-jiliformis glaber assurgens acutus; stig. 
punctum pruimosum,. j t 
Of this genus we know of only one other recorded spe- 
cies, and that is published in the second volume of this 
Register (fol. 118). The present was lately raised by Messrs. 
Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, from seed said to have been 
collected in the recently erred interior of New South 
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