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OXYLOBIUM arborescens. 
Tall Oxylobium. 
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DECANDRIA JJONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminos®. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. IV. Corolla irregu- 
laris papilionacea. Stamina distincta, aut rar6 basi coalita. Legumen 
uniloculare bivalve. Arbores aut frutices ; folia simplicia aut ternata aut im- 
pari-pinnata.=PAPILIONACE®. Brown in app. to Flind. voy. 2. 552. 
OXYLOBIUM. Calyx profundé quinquefidus, subbilabiatus. Corolla 
papilionacea, carina compressa longitudine alarum xquantium vezillum ex- 
planatum. Stylus adscendens. Stigma simplex. Legumen polyspermum, 
ventricosum, ovatum, acutum. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 9. 
O. arborescens, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, bracteis apicis pedicelli persistenti- 
bus, corymbis confertis, leguminibus calyce vix longioribus. Brown in 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 10. 
A tall shrub, first observed by Mr. Brown in Van Die- 
men’s Island. Introduced in 1805. 
The drawing was taken in April last, from a plant in 
the greenhouse at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the 
King’s Road, Chelsea. 
The genus has been defined by Mr. Brown in the last 
edition of the Hortus Kewensis; and is distinguished 
among the decandrous section of its papilionaceous co-ordi- 
nates, by a deeply fivecleft faintly bilabiate calyx; a corolla 
with a compressed carina the length of the ale, which are 
as long as the flatly expanded vewillum ; an ascending style; 
simple stigma; and a polyspermous, ventricose, ovate, 
pointed pod. 
We are not aware of any published representation of the 
species. It is known by its linearly lanceolate leaves, 
the persistence of the bractes at the top of the pedicles, 
closely flowered corymbs, and by pods scarcely longer than 
the calyx. We have not been enabled to add any further 
particulars concerning it; as we missed the opportunity of 
examining the blossom. ‘Three of the genus are recorded 
in the Hortus Kewensis. 
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