Empalement bell-shaped, simple, deeply five-cleft. Blossom butterfly-shaped. Summit simple, acute. Pod inflated, spherical, one-celled, many-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gompholobium, foliis ternatis linearibus nudis, senioribus declinatis, pedunculis basin versus bibracteatis, ramulis teretibus nudis.
Gompholobium, with leaves in threes and naked, the older ones bent downwards, peduncles with 2 floral leaves near the base, and naked round branches.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A leaf.
2.The empalement, peduncle, and floral leaves.
3.A front view of the standard.
4.A back view of the same.
5.One of the wings.
6.The keel.
7.The chives and pointal.
8. The seed-bud and pointal
The plant here represented is quite a new species, and is said to be a native of New Holland: it is a stiff little shrub, and prospers in the green-house; and its yellow flowers, deeply blotched with brown on the standard, make a good appearance.
In its habit, and in the generic characters, it comes nearer to Gompholobium of Dr. Smith in Exotic Botany, tab. 5, than to any other genus within our knowledge; yet the dissections here given, will be found to swerve from the characters there advanced, in several perhaps not unimportant particulars. The stamina appear more united. The stigma appears slightly capitated, instead of acute; and the infant pod somewhat too long. The bracteæ also differ in number as well as structure.
Our drawing was made from living plants in the Hibbertian collection in the year 1803, but the above description from the drawing only.[Pg 135]
