The technical character of the genus is deduced by Mr. 
Brown from the five-parted nearly equal calyz, flatly ex- 
tended verillum and subglobular pointless smooth many- 
seeded pod. 
The drawing of the present species was made from a 
plant raised in Mr. Griffin’s conservatory at South Lambeth 
from New Holland seed, and is the first taken in this coun- 
try. It is not recorded in the last edition of the Hortus 
Kewensis; and is still exceedingly scarce. We have adopted 
the following account from Sir James Smith’s work, having 
missed the opportunity of seeing the blossom. 
* GompHoLosiuM grandiflorum, remarkable for its showy 
yellow flowers, is ashrub three feet in height, found in a sandy 
soil and flowering in October. The branches are angular, 
smooth, leafy. Leaves alternate, 3 on a footstalk, linear, 
narrow, revolute, entire, smooth, very stiff and straight, 
tipped with a sharp straight point. S¢ipules small. Flowers 
2 or 3 at the end of each lateral branch on simple smooth 
footstalks, with a small concave scaly bractea at the base of 
each stalk. Calyx large, coriaceous, smooth, except a fine 
woolly fringe at its edge. Standard very large. Wings 
and keel very much smaller, of two petals each. Stamens 
all distinct, simple, and smooth, somewhat unequal in 
length. Germen on a short stalk, oblong, smooth. Style 
awl-shaped, simple, with a sharp stigma, permanent. Pod 
globose rigid, of 2 inflated valves, and one cell. Seeds se- 
veral, ranged along the upper suture of short stalks.” 
Smith exot. bot. 1. 7. 
The Gompxuo.osium grandiflorum of Andrews’s Reposi- 
tory is the G. polymorphum of Mr. Brown in the Hortus 
Kewensis. 
All the species are shrubby greenhouse plants. 
