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GASTROLOBIUM bilobum. 
Two-lobed Gastrolobium. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Lucuminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. I. Paritionacex. 
Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 552. 
GASTROLOBIUM. Cal. 5-fidus, bilabiatus, ebracteatus. Cor. pa- 
ilionacea, petalis longitudine subequalibus. Germen dispermum, pedicel- 
Hii stylus subulatus, adscendens: stzgma simplex. Legumen ventrico- 
sum: semina strophiolata. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 3. 16. 
G. bilobum, foliis (uncialibus) subtis subsericeis retusis: lobulis rotundatis 
mucronulo longioribus, leguminis pedicello tubum calycis aquante. 
Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 16, 
A genus instituted by Mr. Brown in the second edition 
of the Hortus Kewensis; and consisting of a group charac- 
terized by a fivecleft bilabiate bracteless calyx; a papiliona- 
ceous corolla with nearly equal petals; a pedicled twoseeded. 
germen; a subulate ascending style; a simple stigma; a 
ventricose pod; and strophiolate (furnished with ventral 
epiphyses) seeds. 
The present species, the only recorded one, is distin- 
guished by its retuse /eaves (an inch long) with a somewhat 
silky fur on the under side, their end lobes rounded and 
longer than the intervening point; and by a footstalk of 
the pod which is even with the calyx. 
First observed by Mr. Brown on the south-west coast of 
New Holland; and introduced by Mr. Peter Good in 1803.. 
A greenhouse shrub. One however far from common in 
our collections; and never represented by any published 
figure, that we are aware of, before the present. 
We are obliged to Mr. Herbert for the specimen from 
which the drawing has been taken. It flowered in the col- 
lection at Spofforth, last spring. 
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