FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS. QKHS) Bn 186+) Va FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS: A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN TERRITORY. BY GEORGE BENTHAM, F.R.S., P.L.S., A ii ASSISTED BY FERDINAND MUELLER, M.D., F.R.S. & L.S., GOVERNMENT BOTANIST, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA. VOL. II. LEGUMINOSE TO COMBRETACEZ. PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE SEVERAL GOVERNMENTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. LONDON : LOVELL REEVE 4 CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1864. Mo.Bot. Garden, 1902. CONTENTS. ” m o e A e O E ido ca a Mn Me OS E ES ag E dan WR A a es es SON Salles aca OA ee feto ¿ENE a, Poe aris CEO MEn deme an CM NO OA, Ja TON ra OR O, Us PA, E A E RA A, O o e EA, O A y A E EM PON a O oa o VES at O DO O a aaah a, “Matawan A e ol A ai E E O wel ee ee II, Nee lata e Ud Uli a has, la a, IA dos. E O, MELO eis. A AO el a ls O O e a e A o Us AE A a ae o Cee er OR al a, o A, a OR eRe eS ie CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS CONTAINED IN THE SECOND VOLUME. Crass I. DICOTYLEDONS. SubcLass I. POLYPETALA. (Continued from Vol. I. p. 4.) Series II. CatycrrLorm.—Stamens and petals usually inserted on the margin of a thin disk lining the base or the whole of the calyx-tube, and free from the ovary unless the calyx-tube is also adnate to it. Stamens definite or indefinite. Ovary either free and superior, or enclosed in the calyx-tube, or inferior and adnate to the calyx-tube. (In Mimosee and a few genera of Papilionacee and Cesalpiniee, as well as in isolated genera of Sazifrage@ and some other Orders, the stamen-bearing disk is reduced to a*nar- row ring or disappears altogether. The distinction between Calyciflore and Thalamiflore is therefore general only, not absolute.) (The whole of the Calyciflore not having yet been gone through, either for the present work or for our ‘Genera Plantarum,’ the subdivision of the Series into Alliances is, for the present, deferred.) : XL. Lecumixosa. Trees, shrubs, or herbs. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, often compound. Stipules rarely wanting. Gynecium free, consisting of a single excentrical carpel with a terminal style, the ovules inserted along the upper or inner angle of the cavity. Albumen usually scanty or none. : SUBORDER 1. PAPILIONACE®.— Flowers irregular. Petals usually 5, imbricate, the upper one or standard outside. Stamens 10, rarely fewer by abortion. Radicle curved and accumbent, rarely straight. SUBORDER 2. CASALPINIEA. Flowers irregular or nearly regular. Petals 5 or fewer, imbricate, the upper one inside. Stamens (in Australian genera) 10 or fewer. Radicle straight. pam 3. Mimoskx. Flowers regular, small, in spikes or heads. Petals 5, 4, or rarely 3, valvate or rarely slightly imbricate. Stamens definite or indefinite. Radicle straight. XLI. Rosacex. Shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate, with stipules. Flowers regular. Stamens usually indefinite. Carpels of the gynecium 1 or several, free and distinct, or, if adnate to the calyx-tube, either distinct or combined into a single ovary. Styles distinct. Albumen usually none. : XLII. Saxirrace®, Shrubs or herbs. Leaves various, with or without stipules, Flowers regular or nearly so. Stamens definite or rarely indefinite. Carpels of the gynæ- cium usually united into a 1- or several-celled ovary, at least at the base, free or more or less adnate or inferior. Styles usually distinct or readily separable. Albumen usually copious. viii CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS, XLIII. Crassunacra. Herbs with succulent leaves, without stipules. Flowers regular and perfectly isomerous. Stamens in 1 or 2 series, Gynecium superior, with distinct car- pels. Seeds albuminous, XLIV, Drosrracem. Herbs. Leaves fringed with glandular cilia. Stipules scarious or none. Flowers regular. Stamens definite. Ovary free, 1-celled, with parietal placentas. Styles distinct (except Byblis). Seeds albuminous. a XLV. Hatoraces. Herbs, aquatic or terrestrial. Leaves opposite or alternate, without stipules. Flowers small, regular, often much reduced. Stamens definite. Ovary inferior, with as many cells and ovules as styles or rarely fewer, the ovule pendulous from the apex of the cell. Styles or sessile stigmas 1 to 4, distinct. Seeds albuminous, = XLVI. RHIZOPHORE®. Trees or shrubs, often maritime, with opposite leaves. Stipules deciduous. Flowers regular. Calyx-lobes valvate. Petals usually notched or jagged. Sta- mens twice as many as petals or more. Ovary usually inferior, several-celled, with 2 or _ more ovules pendulous from the apex of each cell. Style undivided. Seeds usually solitary, with or without albumen. XLVII. ComBRETACEA. Trees, shrubs, or woody climbers. Leaves opposite or alter- nate, without stipules. Flowers regular or nearly so. Stamens definite or rarely indefinite. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, with 2 or more (1 in Gyrocarpus) ovules pendulous from the apex of the cavity. Style undivided. Seed solitary, without albumen. Cotyledons convolute. Be A =. FLURA AUSTRALIENSIS. E CE Orver XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. Calyx of 5 or rarely fewer, usually united sepals, campanulate or tubular, more or less divided into 5 or fewer teeth or lobes, or rarely the sepals entirely distinct. Corolla of 5 or rarely fewer petals, perigynous or rarely hypogynous, very irregular in the first suborder, less so in the second, small regular and the petals often united in the third. Stamens twice the number of petals, rarely fewer or sometimes indefinite, inserted with the petals. Ovary single (consisting of a single carpel), with 1, 2, or more ovules arranged along the inner or upper angle of the cavity; style simple. Fruit a pod, usually flattish and: opening round the margin in 2 valves, but some- times follicular or indehiscent, or variously shaped. Seeds with 2 large cotyledons, a short radicle, and, with few exceptions, little or no albumen.— Herbs shrubs trees or climbers. Leaves alternate or (chiefly in some Austra- lian genera) opposite, usually furnished with stipules, compound or reduced to a single leaflet or to a dilated petiole, or in a few cases really simple, the leaflets or leaves entire or rarely toothed or lobed. Flowers in axillary or terminal racemes spikes or clusters, when terminal often becoming leaf- Opposed by the growth of a lateral shoot, rarely solitary and axillary. The largest Natural Order of Phenogamous plants next to Composite, and widely dis. tributed over the whole surface of the globe. Out of 92 Anstralian genera, 33 are dispersed over the warmer, chiefly tropical regions of both the New and the Old World; of 20 other tropical genera, 13 are in Africa and Asia but not in America, 2 in America and Asia but not in Africa, 4 in Asia alone, 1 (Zrythrophleum) only in Africa; 4 more of the Australian genera belong to the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, 1 (Clianthus) exteuds only to New Zealand, and 34 are endemic in Australia, . e genera marked with an asterisk in the following table are those which are mentioned only as introduced, not described as indigenous. SUBORDER I. Papilionaceze.— Flowers 5-merous. Corolla very irre- gular, papilionaceous, or very rarely (in a few Sophorew) nearly regular, the petals imbricate, the upper one (or standard) always outside in the bud. Sla- mens 10, or very rarely 9 or 5. oo : Tass I, Podalyrieze.— Shrubs, rarely herbs or small trees. Leaves simple or digi» lately compound (except in a few Gompholobiums and Burtonias), without stipelle. Stamens all free or scarcely united at the base. Pod not articulate. VOL. 11, B 2 XL. LEGUMINOSE. Standard small or narrow. Ovules 4 or more. : Flowers in heads of 4, surrounded by an involucre. Upper lobes - of the calyx very small. Leaves simple, opposite è Flowers not in heads. Upper lobes of the calyx as large as or larger than the others. Leaves simple, opposite alternate or A E E AN A A ee ewe Standard orbicular or reniform, large. Ovules 4 or more (except in a few Mirbelias). Calyx-lobes shorter or scarcely longer than the tube. Leaves simple or none : Ovary and pod divided by a longitudinal partition . . . . 5. MIRBELIA. Ovary not divided longitudinally. Keel about as long as the wings. Leaves usually more or less opposite or verticillate . . . . +. =. +. +. . +. 8. OXYLOBIUM. Keel shorter than the wings or beaked. Leaves alternate. 4. CHORIZEMA. Calyx-lobes much longer than the tube. Calyx-lobes imbricate. Ovary sessile. Funicles short or slender. Pod oblong-linear. Leaves simple or unifoliolate 6. Isorroris. Calyx-lobes valvate. Ovary stipitate. Funicles long and thick, all folded or curved downwards. Pod globular. 1. JANSONTA. 2. BRACHYSEMA. Leaves pinnate, digitately 3- to 5-foliolate, or simple . . 7. GOMPHOLOBIUM. : Standard orbicular or reniform, large. Ovules 2 (4 to 6 in Jack- Calyx-lobes much longer than the tube, valvate. Funicles long and thick, one folded or curved upwards, the other downwards. Pod globular or nearly so. Leaves pinnate, digitately 3- to 5-foliolate or simple. . . . . 8, BURTONIA. Funicles short and slender. Pod flattened or oblong. Leaves none or very rarely 1-foliolate . . . . . an « . « 9. JACKSONIA. Calyx-lobes shorter than the tube, or, if longer, imbricate or open in the bud. Pod nearly globular, usually stipitate. Strophiole none. Calyx upper lip very large. Petals nearly sessile. Leaves simple and narrow or none... . se. ee Pod sessile, ovoid, small, and indehiscent. Calyx shortly 5-. toothed. Leaves reduced to a long petiole, with or without Tor 8 digitate leaflets < i n Oo LAMA Pod triangular, 2-valved. Seeds strophiolate. Calyx shortly 5-toothed. Leaves simple, alternate or none. . . . . 12, DAVIESIA, Pod ovate or oblong, 2-valved. Calyx 5-lobed or toothed or 2-lipped. Leaves simple, sessile or shortly petiolate. Leaves flat or folded lengthwise, or with revolute margins, or, if-terete, channelled underneath. Bracteoles none or very deciduous. No strophiole. No stipules. Flowers 1 to 3 in each A tee ee NSS AO Seeds strophiolate. Stipules often present. Flowers in racemes or dense axillary clusters . . . 15. GasTROLOBIUM. = persistent close under the calyx, or adnate o it. No strophiole. No stipules. Filaments some or all united with the petals at the base . . . . . . 14, PHYLLOTA. Seeds strophiolate: Stipules usually (not always) pre- _ sent. Filaments free. . +... Ue ee, PUTINA Leaves concave or with ineurved or involute margins, or, if terete, channelled above. Seeds strophiolate. Bracteoles persistent close under the calyx or adnate to it. Stipules usually present... °°... , , 16, PULTENZA. +. 10, SPHAROLOBIUM. o A ee ee aa XL. LEGUMINOSA. 3 Bracteoles none or at a distance from the calyx, and usually very small. Stipules none or minute. Calyx-teeth or lobes equal. Pod flat, usually oblong . 17. LAaTROBEA. Calyx more or less 2-lipped, or the upper lobes broad. Pod ovate, flat or turgid. Leaves all opposite eS eee 4.1 1 ee OTA SAS Leaves alternate or crowded. Standard usually very ee Uae eee - 19. DILLWYNIA. (73, Barklya, has simple, or rather 1-foliolate, leaves, and the stamens free; but it is a * large tree, with small nearly regular flowers.) Trise IT. Genisteze.—Shruds or herbs, very rarely small trees. Leaves simple or with 1 or 3 or more digitate leaflets (except Goodia). Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side in all the Australian genera (except in one species of Hovea). Leaves all simple or none. Flowers axillary, solitary or clustered. Seeds strophiolate. Anthers uniform. Pod very flat. 3 Upper suture of the pod bordered by a narrow wing and not splitting, the valves rolling back upon it elastically. Leaves . E oppomte s . s soc es +... e Pod not winged, opening at both sutures. Leaves opposite or o E A AAA RA Anthers alternately longer and shorter. Leaves alternate or none. Pod at least twice as long as broad, with coriaceous convex valves. Flowers red, yellow, or reddish-purple . . . . 22, TEMPLETONIA. Pod turgid, scarcely longer than broad. Flowers blue or UU =. e as ue s,s os « Bh HOVE Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. Seeds strophiolate. . . . 24, Goopta. Leaves digitate or simple. Flowers or racemes terminal or leaf- opposed. Seeds not strophiolate. Anthers alternately longer and shorter. Style (often very minutely) bearded under the stigma. Keel acute or beaked. Pod turgid. . . . . . + . . 25. CROTALÁRIA. Keel obtuse. Podia . . .... . . . + « +26, PENTADYNAMIS. Anthers uniform. Style beardless. Pod linear, follicular. Flowers minute, solitary or in short racemes . . . . . 27. RorHia. (32, Ptychosema, has the flowers of Genistee, but the pinnate leaves of Galegea.) (65, Flemingia, and a very few species of other genera of Phascolea, have 3 digitate leaflets, but may readily be distinguished from Genistea, either by their upper stamen free or by the twining herbaceous stems. Some species of 30, Psoralea, and 31, Indigofera, with digitate leaves, may be known, the former by their ovary and pod, the latter by the Stamens and anthers.) * Tree III. Trifoliexe.— Herbs, very rarely shrubs. Leaflets usually 3, pinnate or rarely digitate, the veinlets extending to the edge and often produced into minute teeth. Peduncles racemes or Jlower-heads axillary (or apparently terminal by the reduction of the upper floral leaves), never leaf-opposed. Upper stamen free (except Ononis), the others united in a sheath. Pod not articulate. Keel beaked. Stamens all UM e a ee lo Keel obtuse. Upper stamen free. Petals free from the staminal tube. +. Pod straight, or falcate, or undulate, linear, or flat, or beaked 28. TrIGONELLA. Pod spiral (rarely small, curved and 1-seeded) . . . + + *MEDICAGO. - Pod small, thick, straight, “and indehiscent . . +. +. +. + *MELILOTUS. ll the petals, or the 4 lower ones, with their claws adnate to th > included in the mpc irene > oa B 2 . 4 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. TRIBE IV. Euloteve.— Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves pinnate, leaflets entire. Flowers capitate or umbellaie on axillary peduncles. Upper stamen usually free, at least at “ base, the others united in a sheath ; filaments either all or 5 only dilated towards the ena, Pod not articulate. . Leaflets 5, the 2 lowest taking the place of stipules. Keel beaked 29, Lorus. TRIBE V. Galegeæ.— Herbs not twining, shrubs, or rarely trees or tall woody climbers. aves pinnate, rarely reduced to 3 or 1 leaflets. Stipelle none, or setaceous in a few pinnate genera. Upper stamen usually free, at least at the base, the others united in a sheath, very rarely all united ; filaments filiform. Ovules 2 or more (except in Indigo- fera linifolia and im Psoralea), Pod not articulate, 2-valved (except Psoralea). Ovule 1. Fruit small, the pericarp adhering to the seed. Herbs or shrubs with black glandular dots. Leaflets (in Australia) 1 a or 8, sometimes toothed +... pE RESE 80, PSORALEA. Ovules 2 or more (1 in Z. Zinifolia), Anthers tipped with a small gland. Pod 2-valved. Herbs or shrubs, sometimes glandular. Leaflets entire. Hairs often appressed and attached by the ORES PIO PA A NE ae. Ovules 2 or more. Anthers without glands. Racemes or flowers terminal or leaf-opposed. Herbs or shrubs. Stamens all united in a sheath, open on the upper side. Leaflets 3. Flowers.in racemes. Seeds strophiolate . . 24. Goopta. Leaflets several, small. Flowers solitary, on long: peduncles 32. PrYCHOSEMA. Leaflets few. Petals not exceeding the deeply lobed calyx. Seeds strophiolate, with a straight radicle . . . . . 33. LAMPROLOBUM. Upper stamen usually free, or all united in a closed tube .. .-34. 'TEPHROSIA. Racemes in a terminal panicle. Tall woody climbers. Pod hard wae . 35. MILLETTIA. Racemes or flowers axillary. Herbs or shrubs. Style not bearded (rarely a small tuft of hairs on the stigma - in Tephrosia). Pod linear, rarely short and oblong ; valves thin or coria- ceous, flat or convex when ripe. A A Pod long, narrow and thick, the endocarp continuous with the transverse partitions between the seeds. . . . . 36. SESBANTA, Pod 1-seeded (ovules 2), muricate. Plant glandular, An- thers with confluent cells opening in unequal valves. . 39. GLYCYRRHIZA. Style bearded under the stigma, Pod turgid, membranous or coriaceous; Petals acuminate . . Petals obtuse. . 34. TEPHROSIA. A SV CES Se ao CE gee ee ey Sgr es . 38. SwAINSONA, * (66, Abrus, and a very few pinnate-leaved Phaseolee, may have the technical characters _ of Galegeæ, but are distinguished by their herbaceous more or less twining stems.) Tribe VI. Hedysarese.—Pod separating into l-seeded articles, or the whole pod 1- seeded and indehiscent (except Pycnospora, and rarely Desmodium). Foliage and inflo- rescence, in the Australian genera, either of Galegeæ or of Phaseoleæ. Leaves pinnate with several leaflets, as in Galegea. united in a sheath, or in 2 bundles of 5 each. Tall shrubs. Articles of the pod oblong, stfiate . . . . 40. ORMocARPUM. Herbs. Articles of the pod square or semi-orbicular, flat ts Articles of the pod folded over each other within the calyx . Leaves with 2 leaflets, ` Bracteoles large, enclosing the flowers, Stamens all united. Anthers alternately long and short . + 43. Zornta, Stamens 42. SMITHIA. + + 4l. ÆSCHYNOMENE. * — t S f ; * XL. LEGUMINOSA. 5 Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or 1-foliolate, with stipelle as in Pha- seolee. Stipules usually dry. eee Bat Rot folded. -cr eed oS eer . 44, DESMODIUM, Pod turgid, not articulate, but with transverse lines . . . . 45. PYCNOSPORA. Pod-articles folded over each other within the calyx. Calyx-tube small, lobes subulate . . ... + +. +. « +. 46. URARIA. Calyx campanulate, enlarged after flowering, with short broad A E es ts Bees Pod-articles globular, oblong-terete, or slightly flattened but thick. Calyx narrow, dry, deeply lobed. Leaves 1-foliolate. 48. ALYSICARPUS. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, rarely 1-foliolate* without stipelle. Ovule 1. Pod 1-seeded, flat, indehiscent . . . . . +. . 49, LESPEDEZA. _ Trips *Viciexe.—Herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, the common petiole usually end- pe. a tendril or fine point. Flowers and fruit of Phaseoles. Peduncles or racemes axillary. Style with a tuft of hairs at the top on the outside or all round (not bearded longitudinally inside) .........,.....-,+, *Vicia. Style not bearded. Upper stamen wanting . +. : . + . . 66, ABRUS. Terst VII. Phaseoleve.—Herbs usually twining or prostrate, rarely erect or shrubby at the base, very rarely trees. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or 1 foliolate, rarely 5- or q- Joliolate, with stipelle (digitate in Flemingia and a very few species of other genera, sti- pelle minute or none in Rhynchosia and its allies). Upper stamen usually Sree, at least at the base or all but the base. Anthers uniform or nearly so (except in Mucuna). Pod not articulate, 2-valved. Flowers in axillary short clusters with persistent striate bracts and bracteoles. Seeds not strophiolate. _ OI sak oS asis di.” 30 CORE Oulys companniate. . 4. + +. :+ ++ 5 secta © OU, DOLICHOS, Flowers pedunculate umbellate or racemose, the rhachis not nodose. Bracts persistent or deciduous. Seeds strophiolate. i Flowers red, in 1 or 2 pairs or in umbels or in short raeemes . 53, KENNEDYA. Flowers small, blue or purple, in loose racemes. Keel usually : small te . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52. HARDENBERGIA. Flowers small, single, scattered in a loose raceme, the rhachis not nodose. Bracts small, deciduous. (Lower flowers often soli in the axils.) Seeds not strophiolate. . . . + + + + © 51. GLYCINE. or tall erect herbs with conical prickles. Flowers large, red... Wieser sit .-. ee ee . 54. ERYTHRINA, Anthers alternately long and short. Flowers large, purple yellow or white. Standard short. Keel acuminate + + + + 55, Mucuna. ining or erect at the base, not glandular. Flowers in pairs or clusters along or at the top of a common peduncle, the rhachis of the cluster gland-like or forming a protruding node, Bracts deciduous or none. Anthers uniform. Style beardless, Seabee 4 (the upper one of 2 united), san oi 56. GALACTIA. — ited i upper e 9 low ae eee Style bearded under the stigma. . . . . . Stigma oblique or lateral. : Keel spirally twisted . +. +... + + + + + + +58, PHASEOLUS, Keel straight, or with a eurved beak not forming a com- y ate 6s ss 8, ee re Stigma small, terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . 60. DoLICcHOSs. . 6 ; XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. Twining or erect. Flowers racemose umbellate or solitary, the rhachis not nodose. Bracts usually membranous and decidu- ous. Stipellæ usually minute or none. Style beardless. Up- per stamen free, á Ovules 4 or more, Pod very flat, obliquely acuminate .- . . 61. DUNBARIA. Pod flattened, very obtuse, with transverse lines or depressions AA RS Oe ATYIOBIA Ovules 2 or rarely 1. Pod flattened. Hilum of the seed parallel to the suture with a central funicle . . . . 63. RHYNCHOSIA. Pod flattened. Seed obliquely transverse, the funicle attached to one end of the hilum. Standard usually very silky . . 64. ERIOSEMA. Pod turgid. Leaflets digitate . . +. . . . 65. FLEMINGIA. Erect. Flowers small, in terminal racemes or panicles, Stipules dry, and habit of Desmodium . . . 45, PYCNOSPORA. Twiners. Leaves abruptly pinnate with small leaflets. Upper sta- men wanting, the other 9 united in a sheath 2. on the upper Wild oir AT: ee ee es 00:00: ABMS TrrpE VIII. Dalbergies.—7rees or woody climbers. Leaves pinnate with 5 or more leaflets or sometimes l leaflet, very rarely 3. Stipelle none or small and subulate. Sta- mens all united in a sheath or tube or into two parcels of 5, very rarely the upper one Sree. Pod indehiscent. Anthers small, erect, didymous, opening at the top. Flowers small, in cymes or ‘short panicles. Pod flat and thin. . . . 67. DALBERGIA. Anthers opening longitudinally. Flowers racemose. Pod flat and thin, not winged . . . 68. LONCHOCARPUS. * Pod flat, thin or coriaceous, one or both sutures ‘edged. with a narrow wing. . «ee So) OO DER, Pod flattened but thick, with obtuse sutures . e... et .:70. PoNGAMIA. (35, Millettia, is closely allied to Lonchocarpus, but has a Schiscent 2-valved pod.) TRIBE IX. Sophoreze.—Trees, woody climbers, or rarely tall shrubs or almost herba- ceous. Leaves pinnate, with several leaflets, without stipelle, or reduced to a large i leaflet. Stamens all free or scarcely united at the base. Leaves pinnate. Corolla papilionaceous. Pod terete or 4-angled, ‘tine SOP jiii a Corolla papilionaceous or nearly so. Pod large, hard, almost : woody, spongy inside . . . 72. CASTANOSPERMUM. Leaves 1-foliolate. Corolla small, nearly regular, the upper petal outside, Pod flat and thin . . , . +: .78, BAREDYA: (A few species of 7, Gompholobium, nd 8, da ih pinnate leaves, but with the habit and small leaflets of Podalyrieæ.) SUBORDER II, Cæsalpinieæ.— Flowers usually 5-merous. Corolla ir- regular or nearly regular, imbricate in the bud, the upper petal inside. Sta- mens e the Australian genera) 10 or fewer and all free. Radicle usually straig Leaves twice pinnate, often with hooked prickles. Stamens 10, all bearing anthers. Ovules 2 or more. Stigma small. Pod ovate, compressed, covered with prickles A 74. GUILANDINA Pod ovate-oblong or linear-falcate, — without prickles : or wings, 2-valved . . Pr Pod flat, thin or coriaceous, the: upper ‘suture winged . -n . CASALPINIA. . MEZONEURUM. XL, LEGUMINOSA. == Ovule 1. Pod samara-like, with a terminal wing. . +. . . 77. PIEROLOBIUM, | Ovules 2 or more. Stigma large, peltate. Pod oblong-lanceo- late, flat and thin, indehiscent. . + . +. =. . +. +. +. «. 78. PELTOPHORUM. Leaves simply pinnate. Sepals and petals 5. Stamens 10; anthers all perfect, opening in terminal pores or short slits, or some minute aud empty. Leaves abruptly pinnate . . +... + se + +. +. +» 79. Cassia. Sepals and petals 5. Stamens 3 with perfect anthers opening in longitudinal slits, 2 small staminodia. Leaves unequally pin- A EN Se E PR Sepals and petals 4 or 5. Stamens 2, opening in terminal pores. Leaves unequally pinnate or with sessile, digitate leaflets pad o ma Tier Sepals 4. Petals 3. Stamens 3 or 2 perfect, 4 or 5 minute ‘staminodia. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Pod thick . . . . 82. TAMARINDUS. Sepals 4. Petals 5. Stamens 10, regular, with small anthers. Leaflets 1 or 2 pairs. Pod semiorbicular, turgid . . . . 84, CYNOMETRA. Leaves of 2 leaflets or 2-lobed. Stamens 10 or fewer. Calyx-lobes or sepals valvate . . . . + +. + . . + 83. BAUHINIA. Calyx-lobes or sepals imbricate. . +... s + + + + + 84 CYNOMETRA. (73, Barklya, with 1-foliolate leaves, has the flowers nearly regular, but the upper petal is outside.) ee (85, Erythrophlaum, with bipinnate leaves, has the petals slightly imbricate, but the — flowers small, in dense spikes, as in the other Mimosez.) Susorper 111. -Mimoseze.—J lowers 5-merous, 4-merous, rarely 3- merous or 6-merous, small, regular, sessile in spikes or,heads, or very rarely shortly pedicellate. Sepals valvate, often united. Petals valvate (except in — Erythrophleum), often united. Stamens equal to or double the number of petals or indefinite. Radicle straight. Stamens twice as many as petals. Petals slightly imbricate . . <<... +... . ts 85. ERYTHROPILEUM. Petals strictly valeate. Anthers tipped with a gland. ; Pod large, coriaceous or woody, the sutures forming a per- sistent replum, the valves falling away in 1-sceded arti- è ae Tall woody climbers. . + j bas d ra 86. ENTADA. i a ; ick. wers par ¡sisas savas: mas s Es ‘ ee . . 87. ADENANTHERA. Pod linear, twisted. Lower flowers of the spike with long, linear, coloured staminodia. Shrubs . +. + + + + 88. DICHROSTACHYS. Anthers without any gland. Pod short, flat, falcate or oblique. Lower flowers of the spike often with long, linear, coloured staminodia. Herbs or undershrubs . . + + +» Stamens indefinite. s Stamens, at least in the hermaphrodite flowers, all free . . - 90. ACACIA. Stamens monadelphous. Pod flat and thin, straight or scarcely falcate. . + + +. > 91. ALBIZZIA. Pod curved or twisted, 2-valved aud often reddish or pulpy ee inside, or separating into indehiscent articles . . + + + 92. PITHECOLOBIVA: (Achyronia villosa, Wendl., and Galega tricolor, Hook. (Callotropis, Don ; Accorombona, Endl.) are not Australian; the former is a Priestleya, the latter Galega persica.) e SUBORDER I. PAPILIONACEÆ®. — Sepals united in a campanulate or tubular calyx, 5-toothed or cleft, or 81. LABICHEA. Y 89. NEPTUNIA. 8 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 4-toothed by the complete union of the 2 upper sepals, or 2-lobed, the upper lobe or lip entire or 2-toothed, the lower entire or 3-toothed, rarely irregu- larly split. - Corolla very irregular, usually papilionaceous, that is of 5 petals, the upper one or standard (vexillum) outside in the bud, the 2 lateral ones or wings (ale) intermediate, the 2 lowest ones more or less united along the lower edge or approximate, face to face, into a boat-shaped heel (carina), more or less enclosing the stamens and style. Stamens usually 10, either all free or all united in a tube or sheath enclosing the style, ciosed or open along the upper edge, or the upper stamen more or less free from the others, the filaments all free for some distance under the anthers. Ovules usually am- phitropous, and the radicle of the embryo more or less curved over the edge of the cotyledons, rarely short and straight. : The subdivision of this large suborder into tribes is attended with very great difficulties, nor has any one character by which it has as yet been attempted proved constant. Those here adopted are such as have appeared the least, objectionable, but there are connecting genera between all of them, * TRIBE I. PODALYRIE®.—Shrubs, rarely herbs or small trees. Leaves simple or digitately compound (except in a few species of Gompholobium and : Burtonia). Stipelle none. Stamens all free or scarcely united at the base. Pod not articulate. 4 This tribe was formerly united with Sophorea, and technically characterized as Papi- Hionacee with free stamens; but the affinity has always appeared to me much greater with Genistez with which it ig connected by some S. African genera. The Sophoree seem rather to represent the Galegee and Dalbergiez, connecting them by small gradations with Cesalpiniee, The connecting links between Podalyriee and Sophoree are supplied by the pinnate Gompholobiums, which, however, are very unlike Sophoree, and by a few almost herbaceous northern speciés of Sophora itself, which are certainly allied to the Podalyriee of the northern hemisphere. 1. JANSONTIA, Kipp. (Cryptosema, Meissn.) $ Flowers 4 together, enclosed in the bud within an involucre of 4 bracts in 2 rows. Calyx very oblique, split on the upper side, with 2 upper minute teeth and 3 lower elongated lobes: Standard very small, recurved; wings oblong; keel longer than the wings. Stamens free. Ovary sessile, with several ovules ; style filiform, with a small terminal stigma. ‘Pod unknown. —Shrubby. Leaves opposite, simple, with stipules. The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia, ` 1. J, formosa, Kipp. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 384. t. 16. A shrub, apparently of several feet, the young branches silky-pubescent. Leaves from ovate to lanceolate, obtuse and usually shortly mucronate, 1 to 2 in. long, rounded or cordate at the base on a short petiole, coriaceous, finely reticulate, glabrous above, silky-hairy or at length glabrous underneath. Stipules lan- | ceolate-subulate, deciduous, or the upper ones shortly connate and persistent. Flower-heads 1 or 2, nearly sessile between the last leaves, recurved. Invo- lucre at first globular, the 2 outer bracts nearly orbicular, about 5 lines long, thick, valvate, and closed over the inner rather thinner and smaller ones, all shorter than the open flowers, villous outside, glabrous within. Calyx about 9 lines long, densely hairy outside. Petals glabrous; standard cordate, lan- ceolate, 1 to 1} lines long, on a claw of nearly 2 lines ; lower petals on claws Jansonta.j XL. LEGUMINOSA: E y of about 4 lines, the lamina -of the keel about 6 lines. Ovary very villous. Ovules about 5.— Cryptosema pimelevides, Meissn, in Pl. Preiss. ii. 207. W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 100; Scott's River, Gilbert. hs 2. BRACHYSEMA, R. Br. (Leptosema, Benth. ; Kaleniczenkia, Turcz.; Burgesia, F. Muell.) Calyx-lobes nearly of equal length, the 2 upper ones often united higher up. Standard shorter and narrower than the wings, usually recurved ; wings narrow; keel usually broader and longer than the wings, incurved.. Stamens free, Ovary' sessile or stipitate, with several ovules; style filiform, with a small terminal stigma. Pod ovoid or elongated, turgid, the valves usually coriaceous.—Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate and simple, or all reduced to small scales. Flowers red or rarely yellow- green or almost black, terminal or axillary, solitary or several together, or crowded on short radical scapes, the pedicels usually recurved so that the keel is turned uppetmost. Bracteoles none, except in B. bracteolosum. ; The genus is limited to Australia. Secr. 1. Bubrachysema.—Stems leafy. Ovary surrounded, within the stamens, by an inner cup-shaped or shortly sheathing disk. Leaves usually opposite, broad, truncate, Calyx deeply divided into lanceolate lobes ALO BE Be BER Se ew Leaves mostly opposite, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate. Calyx tubular- campanulate, the lobes shorter than the tube . . . . +. +. Leaves various. Calyx shortly and broadly campanulate, the lobes shorter than the tube. : - Keel 3 times as long as the calyx. Bracteoles none . . . . . 8. B. latifolium. Keel not twice as long as the calyx. Bracteoles none. Leaves mostly alternate. Ovules about 20... . . . + 4 B. undulatum. Leaves mostly opposite or whorled. Ovules4. . . . . . 5. B.subcordatum. Keel not twice as long as the calyx. Bracteoles 2, orbicular . . 6. B. bracteolosum. Sect. 2. Leptosema.—Sems leafless, except small scales. No inner disk round the ovary. Stems winged, bearing the flowers at their notch-like nodes. l scarcely exceeding the calyx or shorter. Pod ovoid. Flowers mostly clustered. Bracts imbricate. Pod not exceed- mg lotealys Gi. g's 1 Roy . Flowers solitary. Bracts minute or none. as long as the calyx. Wings of the stem 2 to 8 lines broad on each side, striate. Sc dae! eed gd.» Sacer are da a Wings of the stem not 1 line broad on each side. Calyx al- most and pod quite glabrous . . . . 2... ee Keel twice as long as the calyx. Pod long and cylindrical. Pedicels at the upper nodes of the branches . «6 + «10. B. aphyllum. Pedicels 1 or 2 at the base of the stem . . . . + + + + 11. B. macrocarpum, Owers crowded on short radical scapes. Barren stems erect, dicho- a ie tomous and leafless. i Si n stems flat, softly silky, not spinous. Flowers scarcely Ste ee l in. long i a r z. ee ous oo REI TARO: stems nearly terete, silky-pubescent, often spinescent. =, Flowers 13 in. sa Fe «q i si ia 3 aA is A O Chambersit. en st i a dy 1 ss long . = pdas Eao ETA Fa ea: 7 . . 14, B. daviesioides. 1. B. premorsum. 2. B. lanceolatum. 7. B. bossiæoides. Pod more than twice 8. B. oxylobioides. 9. B. uniflorum. 10 XL. LEGUMINOS£, [Brachysema. Ssotion I. Evpracnysema.—Stems leafy. Ovary surrounded, within the stamens, by an inner cup-shaped or shortly sheathing disk. 1. B. preemorsum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss.i.25. A shrub of 2 or 3 ft., the young shoots pubescent or villous, glabrous with age. Leaves mostly - Opposite, shortly petiolate, obversely triangular, truncate or broadly sinuate— ` 8-lobed at the top, mostly 1 to 1} in. long and often as broad at the top, rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, reticulate and glabrous when old, rarely a few smaller ones are obovate. Stipules setaceous, recurved, deci- duous. Flowers red, usually 2, on short axillary leafy branches, or on pe- duncles bearing a pair of small leafy bracts. Calyx villous, } to nearly 4 in. long, deeply divided into lanceolate segments, the 2 upper ones broader and more or less united. Standard on a rather slender claw, lanceolate, concave, reflexed, rather longer than the calyx if straightened ; wings nearly as long as the keel, which is fully 1 in. long, broadly falcate. Inner disk short and cupular. Ovary short, densely villous, with 15 to 20 ovules. Pod ovoid, as long as the calyx. Seeds strophiolate. ? W. A ia, Drummond ; Preston river, Preiss, n. 824; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy ; Kalgan, Gordon, and Tweed rivers, Oldfield; Hay river, Maxwell; Hampden, Clarke. 2. B. lanceolatum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i.24. A shrub-of 2 or 3 ft., the young branches silvery-white with a silky pubescence, at length glabrous. Leaves usually opposite, from broadly ovate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, acute and often mucronate, 14 to 3 or even 4 in. long; occasionally, however, they are all alternate, or some of them small and ovate, almost as in B. lati- Solium ; all coriaceous, glabrous, and finely reticulate above, silvery-pubescent or at length glabrous underneath ; stipules setaceous. Flowers red, axillary, solitary or clustered on short pedicels. Bracts very small. Calyx narrow campanulate, rather above } in. long, silvery-white with silky hairs, the lobes broad, acuminate, shorter than the tube. Standard lanceolate, about as long as the calyx ; wings longer, with a broad basal auricle; keel broadly falcate, about 1 in. long. Ovary shortly stipitate, with 15 to 20 ovules, surrounded by a short inner disk. Pod oblong, loosely villous, as long as the calyx. Seeds rather large, strophiolate,—Bot. Mag. t. 4652, copied into Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 301; B. celsianum, Lemaire? ; Walp. Rep. v. 423. W. Australia. From near Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 20 ; Preiss, n. 815, 822, 823; to Point Henry, Salt river, and Vasse river, Oldfield. 3. B. latifolium, R. Br. in Ait. Hort, Kew. ed. 2. iii. 10. A diffuse, procumbent or half-climbing shrub, the young branches often silky-tomentose. Leaves alternate or very rarely opposite, shortly petiolate, ovate or almost orbicular, obtuse with a short often recurved point, 1 to 2 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous above, silky-tomentose or at length glabrous underneath. Flowers red, axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 together, and then often on an elongated, sometimes leafy peduncle. Calyx broadly campanulate, not above 4 lines long, silky-pubescent with short acute lobes. Standard obovate-oblong, nearly twice the length of the calyx; wings narrow, nearly as long as the keel ; keel fully 1 in. long. Ovary stipitate, with about 10 or 12 ovules, surrounded by a cup-shaped inner disk. Pod nearly globular or shortly Brachysema.) XL. LEGUMINOSA. 11 oblong, about as long as the calyx or rather longer.—DC. Prod. ii. 105; Bot. Reg. t. 118; Bot. Mag. t. 2008; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 411. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Oldfield; Hay district, Preiss, n. 807; S. coast ?, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 86 ; and eastward to Cape Arid and Cape Knob, Maxwell. 4. B. undulatum, Ker, in Bot. Reg, t. 642. An erect shrub, with weak diffuse or pendulous branches, silky-pubescent when young. Leaves usually alternate, from broadly ovate or almost orbicular to narrow oblong or almost linear, obtuse, with or without a small point, # to 14 or rarely 2 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous above, minutely silky-white underneath or at length gla- brous, the margins generally undulate when the leaf is broad, recurved when it is narrow. Flowers yellowish-green or almost black, rarely red, axillary, solitary and pedicellate, or 2 or 3 together on a common, sometimes leafy pe- duncle. Calyx very broadly campanulate, silky-pubescent, about 4 lines long, divided to about the middle into broad obtuse or scarcely acute lobes. ` Standard ovate-lanceolate, rather longer than the calyx; wings nearly as long as the keel; keel broad, not twice as long as the calyx. Ovary 15- to 20- - ovulate, surrounded by a short inner disk. Pod ovoid, very hairy, usually exceeding the calyx.—DC. Prod. ii. 105 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 178; Choro- zema sericeum, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 253; Podolobium (2) sericeum, DC. Prod. ii. 103; Ozylobium (?) sericeum, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus, ii. 10; Brachysema melanopetalum, F. Muell, Fragm. iv. 11. W. Australia. King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, Menzies, R. Brown, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 87, Preiss, n. 808, 809, and others. Var. angustifolium. Leaves mostly narrow-oblong.—Gordon, Tone, and Blackwood _ rivers, Oldfield. Dark-flowered and pale yellow-flowered specimens occur in both varieties. 5. B. subcordatum, Benth. A rigid shrub, apparently erect, with the habit of an Ozylobium, the young branches minutely silky-pubescent. Leaves rather crowded, opposite or in whorls of 3, very shortly petiolate, broadly cordate-ovate or almost orbicular, obtuse with a minute point, coriaceous with undulate margins, glabrous above, silky-pubescent underneath, or glabrous with age. Flowers apparently red, axillary, solitary or several on a short common peduncle, like those of B. undulatum, but much smaller. Calyx about 3 lines loug, silky-tomentose, broadly campanulate, the lobes broad and shorter than the tube. Standard rather exceeding the calyx, broadly ob- ng, truncate, reflexed, on a broad ereet claw; wings as long as the keel; keel broad, curved, half as long again as the calyx. Ovary very hirsute, with 4 to 6 ovules, Pod not seen. w. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n, 21. 6. B, bracteolosum, F. Muell. Fragm.iv.10. Leaves alternate, oblong, linear or lanceolate, obtuse, 2 to 4 in. long, glabrous and coriaceous when full grown, with revolute margins, silky-hairy underneath when very young. Flowers red, axillary, solitary or 2 together on short slender pedicels, with 2 broadly orbicular bracteoles, nearly 3 lines long, close under the calyx. Calyx broadly campanulate, silky-villous, 2 in. long, the lobes broad, obtuse, and shorter than the tube, Standard on a long claw, shortly ovate, concave, reflexed, shortly exceeding the calyx ; wings exceeding the standard, but 12 XL. LEGUMINOS®. [ Brachysema. shorter and narrower than the keel ; keel falcate, not twice the length of the calyx. Ovary very silky-hairy, with 6 ovules in the flower examined. “Y. Australia. Cape Riche, Herb. Mugller ; Kojonerup, Herb. Oldfield. Section II. Lerrosema.—Stems without any leaves, except ‘small scales at the nodes. No prominent disk round the ovary within that which bears the stamens and lines the base of the calyx. 7. B. bossizoides, Benth. Stems apparently erect, slightly branched, flat, with rather broad coriaceous wings descending from the nodes, and tapering both upwards and to the next lowest node on the same side, gla- brous or silky-pubescent when young. Flowers clustered or rarely solitary, and mostly at the lower nodes, with several imbricate bracts on the very short peduncles. Calyx about 4 lines long, silky-hairy, deeply lobed, the 2 upper lobes connate to near the top. Standard lanceolate, about two-thirds the length of the calyx ; wings narrow, from two-thirds to nearly the length of the keel ; keel about as long as the calyx, broader and of a firmer consis- 4 tence than the wings. Ovary villous, with 4 ovules, Pod broadly ovate, acuminate, rarely exceeding the calyx, hairy, turgid, especially towards the carinal suture, so that. a transverse section is almost heart-shaped. Seeds not seen ripe.— Leptolobium bossiæoides, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 84. N. Australia. N. coast, R. Brown; Sims Island, A. Cunningham. 8. B. oxylobioides, Benih. Stems apparently several from the same stock, diffuse or suberect, 1 or more ft. long, flat, with coriaceous striate wings descending from the rather distant nodes, and about 2 or rarely 3 lines - broad, pubescent when young but soon glabrous. Pedicels short, recurved, solitary at the upper nodes or 2 or 3 together in a short raceme. Calyx — pubescent or villous, about 4 lines long, deeply lobed, the 2 upper segments united to the middle, Standard shorter than the calyx, the lamina oblong, — concave, reflexed ; wings scarcely exceeding the calyx ; keel rather longer and broader. Ovary sessile, very villous, with about 20 crowded ovules ; style rather short. Pod ovoid, inflated, acuminate, 3 to 1 in. long, hirsute with F. Muell. Rep. Burdek. Exped. 8. k. Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R, Brown; Repulse Bay, 4. Cunningham ; Port Sin- clair, Fitzalan ; Newcastle range, F. Mueller. There are also specimens in the Hookerian ium, marked Victoria river, Bynoe ; but there may be possibly some mistake, The Foe poorer rman ge chosen, as there is no leafless species of Oxylobium known, and wings rarely exceeding 2 lines, and scarcely striate. Flowers solitary at the nodes, on reflexed pedicels of 3 to 6 lines, rather smaller than in B, ogylo- | bioides, but otherwise similar, Calyx only very slightly silky-pubescent. | Ovary sessile, slightly villous, Pod ovoid, inflated, nearly 1 in, long, quite | glabrous. Seeds, according to R. Brown’s notes, about 15. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown (Herb. R. Br.) 10. B. aphyllum, Hook. Bot. May. t. 4481. a, Ho Stems erect or diffuse, 1 or $ several ft. long, flat, with rigid, coriaceous, and stri ate broad wings descending | ] Brachysema.] XL, LEGUMINOSA. 13 from the nodes, truncate and forming an obtuse notch at the upper end, tapering downwards to the next node of the same side, glabrous and often somewhat glaucous. Flowers red, pedicellate and solitary in the upper notches. Calyx $ to nearly 1 in. long, glabrous or slightly silky-pubescent, deeply divided into narrow lanceolate segments, the 2 upper ones usually free or slightly connate. Standard ovate, very shortly clawed, scarcely half the . length of the calyx, recurved between the upper lobes; wings nearly as long as the calyx ; keel oblong-falcate, nearly twice the length of the calyx. Ovary silky-villous, with numerous crowded ovules. Pod nearly cylindric, turgid, furrowed at the sutures, 14 to 2 in. long. Seeds small, without any stro- phiole ; testa with an outer membranous coating, the inner coating thick and cartilaginous, especially at the back of the embryo, but not truly albuminous. —Burgesia homaloclada, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 222, W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 37 ; White Peak, Murchison river, Oldfield and Walcott. : Cunningham’s Herbarium contains specimens from York Sound, ou the N.W. -coast, of what, from the remains of a pedicel and calyx, I should suspect to be a Brachysema near B. aphyllum and B. bossiæoides, but distinct from both. There being, however, neither flowers nor fruit, it is useless to name or describe them. 11. B. macrocarpum, Benth. Stems numerous, from a woody, tufted stock, slightly branched, 1 ft. long or more, flat, with narrow, coriaceous, striate wings, more or less silky-hairy, or becoming glabrous with age, the nodes distant and the scales very minute. Flowers not seen. Fruiting pedicels — solitary or very few near the base of the stems, although not on separate scapes. Pod 2 to 4 in. long, nearly cylindrical but tapering into a long point. Seeds not seen, but the persistent funicles show them to have been as least as numerous as in B. aphyllum. : W. Australia. Dirk Hartog's Island, plentiful, Mé/ne ; sand plains, Murchison river, Oldfield (the latter specimens too young to determine with certainty). 12. B. tomentosum, Benth. Barren stems erect and dichotomous, as - in the following two species, but stouter, flattened to the breadth of 2 or 3 lines, densely and softly silky-pubescent, the ultimate branches flat and di- vergent, and not spinescent. Flowering scapes short and tufted, and flowers of B. daviesioides. Pod, also, as in that species, ovoid, turgid, acuminate, but larger, almost exceeding thé calyx, and more silky. W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond. 13. B. Chambersii, F. Muell. Herb. Barren stems erect, dichoto- mous and spinescent as in B. daviesioides, but silky-pubescent, terete or slightly compressed, Flowering scapes short and tufted, but rather looser than in B. daviesioides, the flowers rather larger, attaining 13 in., in one- sided racemes. Calyx softly villous, deeply divided into narrow lobes, the two upper ones united nearly to the top. Standard lanceolate, about two- thirds the length of the calyx ; keel rather longer than the calyx ; wings not quite so long. Ovary very densely villous, with numerous crowded ovules. Pod not seen.—Leplosema Chambersii, F. Muell. Rep. Burdek. Exped. 8. N. Australia. Between the rivers Binke and Stephenson, M'Dowall Stuart. 14. B. daviesioides, Benth. Rhizome thick and woody, emitting several 14 ` XL. LEGUMINOSA. _[ Brachysema. erect, rigid, leafless, barren stems, 4 to ¿ ft. high, glabrous, nearly terete, striate, with numerous dichotomous corymbose branches, the ultimate branch- lets subulate and spinescent, Scales very minute at the base of the principal ramifications, and a few larger ones at the base of the stem. Flowers red, nearly sessile, in short unilateral or dichotomous racemes on very short scapes, forming very dense radical tufts, 2 or 3 in. high and often 3 to 4 in. diameter, with ovate or lanceolate, villous scales under the branches and very short pedicels. Calyx $ to nearly 1 in. long, reddish and villous, very deeply divided, the lobes narrow, the 2 upper ones united to near the top. Standard cordate-lanceolate, about two-thirds the length of the calyx ; wings narrow, nearly or quite as long as the calyx ; keel rather longer and broader, the petals shortly connate above the middle. Ovary sessile, short, villous, tapering into a long style; ovules very numerous and crowded, on slender funicles. Pod ovoid, turgid, acuminate, shorter than the calyx. Seeds not seen.—Kaleniczenkia daviesioides, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 25 2. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 26. 3. OXYLOBIUM, Andr. (Callistachys, Vent. ; Podolobium, R. Br.) < Calyx-lobes nearly of equal length, the 2 upper ones usually broader and united higher up. Petals clawed. Standard orbicular or reniform, emargi- nate, longer than the lower petals; wings oblong; keel broader than the wings and about the same length, straight or slightly curved, obtuse. Sta- mens free. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with several (4 to above 30) ovules, on straight, filiform funicles ;. style incnrved, filiform or thickened towards the base, with a small terminal stigma. Pod sessile or stalked, ovoid or ob- long, turgid, continuous inside or rarely with a cellular tissue forming irregular transverse half-dissepiments, or slightly lining the cavity ; valves usually co- riaceous. Seeds with or without a strophiole.—Shrubs or rarely undershrubs. Leaves on very short petioles, more or less distinetly verticillate or opposite, oc- casionally scattered or rarely all alternate, simple, entire or rarely with pungent lobes. Stipules setaceous, sometimes minute or none. Flowers yellow, or the keel and base of the standard, or rarely entirely, purple-red, in terminal or axillary racemes, either loose or contracted into corymbs or whorl-like elus- ters. Bracts and bracteoles very deciduous. Staminal disk usually very short. Ovary very villous, except in O. staurophyllum. The genus is limited to Australia. It differs from Chorizema, chiefly in habit and in the proportions of the lower petals ; from Gastrolobium ouly in the number of ovules, 4 or more, not 2 only. Several species of this genus, a8 well as of Gastrolobium, are sent as the poison plant of W. Australia, especially O. lineare, capitatum, and parviflorum. _Sexies I. Callistachyee.—Leaves mostly irregularly verticillate. Inflorescence terminal, very dense. Ovules about 8. Strophiole none or minute. ge ay oblong or elongated. Pod very hard, opening at the top OY ee Ee ee Racemes short, corymbose. Pod opening to thesbase. Stipules inconspicuous. Pod smooth inside . » s» « » 2.0, ellipticum, Stipules conspicuous at the upper leaves. Pod silky inside . . 3. O, alpestre. 1. O. Callistachys. Ozxylobium.] "XL. LEGUMINOSA. 15 Series II. Racemosze.—Leaves mostly alternate (except in O. obtusifolium). Ra- cemes terminal, loose. Ovules 10 to 30. Strophiole none. Leaves alternate, linear, 2'to 6 in. long. Ovules about 20. ~ . 4. O. lineare. Leaves alternate or whorled, linear, ¿ to 14 in. long, hooked at the end, the margins revolute. Ovules above 20. LA Leaves mostly alternate, under 1 in. long, flat or nearly so. Ovules about 10. : - Leaves oblong or lanceolate. +. e +... + + ee +. . 50, carinatum. A eaaa A A oe 4 ee Oe A O Serius III. Ericoidese.—Slender heath-like shrubs. Lea es small, mostly verticil- late. Flowers axillary, or in short, terminal, umbel-like racemes. Ovules 8 to 10. Strophiole none (except in O, Pultenee ?). Flowers axillary, solitary. Leaves ovate, about 1 line long. . . 9. O. microphyllum. Flowers in short, terminal, umbel-like racemes. a) Leaves cordate-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 13 to 3 lines long . . 8. O. cordifolium. Leaves lanceolate to linear, 2 to 4 lines long. . + + + + 10. O. Pultenee. Leaves linear-subulate, with hooked points, 2 to 4 lines long . 11. O. hamulosum. Series IV, Laxifloree.—Sirubs or procumbent or trailing undershrubs. Leaves mostly opposite. Flowers in loose racemes, or few, axillary. Calyx glabrous or slightly pubescent. Ovules usually 8. Strophiole none. 7. O. obtusifolium: Stems diffuse procumbent or trailing. Leaves obovate, oval, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or mucronulate 12. O. scandens. Leaves ovate, rigid, pungent-pointed . . . + s e tono! 13. O. procumbens, Leaves crowded, rather small, truncate, 3-pointed. Flowers few, a solitary or scarcely racemose . (ise de - + » « 27. O. staurophyllum. Callistachys linariefolia, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 117, is not recognizable from the very short diagnosis given, but is most probably the narrow-leaved variety of O. ellipticum. Series I. CALLISTACHYÆ.—Leaves mostly irregularly verticillate. In- florescence terminal, very dense. Ovules about 8. Seeds without any or with a very minute strophiole. The -Gastrolobioideæ differ chiefly in their 4 ovules and strophiolate seed. : 1. O, Callistachys, Benth. A tall shrub, the young branches often angular, more or less clothed with appressed silky hairs. Leaves mostly in irregular whorls of 3, from ovate-oblong and 14 to 2 in. long, to lanceolate and 4 or 5 in. long, obtuse with a small callous point, coriaceous, glabrous and reticulate above, silky-pubescent underneath when young. Flowers yellow, — in dense terminal racemes of 2 to 6 in. Pedicels short. Bracts and brac- | teoles setaceous, deciduous. Calyx about 4 lines long, hirsute with long silky hairs. Ovary very shortly stipitate with 6 to 8 ovules. Pod at least 2 in. long, acute, rigidly coriaceous, opening at the top only, more or less lined with cellular tissue which often dries up into partial transverse dissepiments. Seeds without any or with a scarcely perceptible strophiole.—Callistachys lanceolata, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 115; DC. Prod. ii. 104; Bot. Reg. ts 216; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 26; C. ovata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1925 (short broad- leaved specimens) ; DC. Prod. ii. 104; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 26; C. retusa, — Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1983 ? (from the fig., leaves very obtuse and marginate) ; C. longifolia, Paxt. Mag. viii. 31, with a fig. (long narrow-leaved specimens) ; Chorizema Callistachys, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 18. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, chiefly in the sands by the sea, Fraser and others; King’s river and Albany, Preiss, n, 849, 850; and eastward to Stokes Inlet, Mar- well ; Gordon river, Oldfield ; Champion Bay, Bowes. The genus Callistachys, originally founded on this plant, has been subsequently distinguished from Oxylobium chiefly by the cellular tissue within the pod, which is usually abundant in this species, but occurs in several others, sometimes in the form of transverse raised lines, sometimes drying into hair-like pa- pillee or scarcely perceptible, and rarely furnishes even good specific characters. The incom- plete dehiscence of the pod does however distinguish this species from all others. 2. O. ellipticum, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. ii. 10. An erect shrub, low and compact in mountain situations, tall, often straggling, some- times above 10 ft. high when luxuriant, the branches silky-pubescent or to- mentose. Leaves mostly in irregular whorls of 3, from oval-oblong or ellip- tical and under 1 in. long to oblong-linear or lanceolate and 2 or 3 in. long, mucronate, the margins recurved or revolute, coriaceous, glabrous ‘and reticu- late above, silky-pubescent or villous underneath. Stipules quite inconspicu- ous. _ Racemes densely corymbose, terminal or in the upper axils, Pedicels 1 to 4 lines long. Practeoles linear, deciduous. Calyx softly villous, 3 lines long or rather more; lobes as long as the tube, acuminate, the upper ones united much higher wp. Standard much longer than the calyx; wings and — _ keel shorter. Ovary nearly sessile, with 8 to 10 ovules. Pod 4 to 6 lines «long, acuminate, very villous, opening to the base, glabrous inside. Seeds without any strophiole.—DC. Prod. ii. 104; Hook. f FL T asm. i. 81; Bot. Ozylobium.] XL. LEGUMINOSE. . 17 Mag. t. 3249; Gompholobium ellipticum, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 106. t. 135; Callistachys elliptica, Vent. Jard. Malm. under n. 115 ; Chorizema ellipticum, F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 39; Pleurandra (?) reticulata, Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 245; Ozylobium argenteum, Kunze, in Linnea, xx. 61; O. Pultenea, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1947, not of DC. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown s Hastings river, Fraser; Clarence river, Beckler ; Argyle county, A. Cunningham ; Vlawarra, Backhouse. Victoria. Sources of the Avon and Macalister rivers, F. Mueller, Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown ; abundant in heathy places in the southern - part of the island, ascending in the mountains to 4000 ft., J. D.- Hooker. W. Australia. East River Flat, Stokes Inlet, Maxwell. This specimen (a small young one), and a few mountain ones, both from Victoria and from Tasinania, are silky- pubescent only on the young shoots and inflorescence, and come very near to O. alpestre, but the stipules are very small or quite inconspicuous, and the pod appears to be always quite glabrous and smooth inside. : é Var. angustifolium. Leaves long and narrow. 1 find no other character ; the distance of the bracteoles from the calyx is very variable.—0. arborescens, R. Br. ia Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iii. 10; DC. Prod. ii. 104; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 163; Bot. Reg. t. 392; Bot. Mag. t. 2442; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 81 ; 0. Pultenee, Paxt. Mag. ix. 149, with a fig., not of DC.; O. angustifolium, A. Cunn. Herb., erroneously referred in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 70, to O. obtusifolium, Sweet, a species, which I had then mistaken. N. S. Wales and northern parts of Tasmania, Port Dalrymple, R. Brown. .3. O. alpestre, F. Muell. Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. i. 38. A bushy or diffuse shrub, attaining sometimes 3 or 4 ft., the young shoots silky-pubes- cent, at length nearly glabrous, much resembling the more glabrous varieties of O. ellipticum. Leaves mostly opposite, occasionally in whorls of 3, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or mucronate, ¿ to 1} in. long, the margins recurved, coriaceous, reticulate. Stipules narrow-lanceolate or linear-subulate, recurved, small but conspicuous at the upper leaves, at length deciduous. Racemes shortly corymbose, terminal or in the upper axils. Pedicels 1 to 3 lines long. Bracteoles linear, deciduous. Calyx silky-pubescent, about 3 lines long, the lobes acute, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Standard half as long again as the calyx ; wings and keel rather shorter. Ovary nearly sessile with about 6 ovules. Pod ovoid-oblong, acuminate, very villous, opening to the a lined with a loose pithy substance or scale-like hairs. Seeds not stro- Phiolate. i ' vi i h q ister river, Mount Butler, Timbertop, ete., F. M: alero Y Sipe > srs AE a variety of O. ellipticum, but, as observed by F. Mueller, the stipules are much more conspicuous, and in all the specimens 1 have seen the pods are slightly pithy inside. The whole plant is also usually much more glabrous. . SERIES IT. Racemosa:.—Leaves mostly alternate (more frequently verti- cillate in O, obtusifolium). Racemes terminal, loose. Ovules about 10 to 30. Seeds not strophiolate. 4.0. lineare, Benth. An erect: shrub of 6 to 10 ft., with long and slender branches, minutely silky-pubescent when young. Leaves mostly alter- nate, linear or linear-lanceolate, 2 to 6 in. long, obtuse or mucronate, flat or with the margins recurved, reticulate, glabrous or silky underneath when very young. Flowers yellow or of a dull red, in rather loose terminal racemes or Sometimes in the upper axils. Pedicels very short. Bracts narrow, very de- ciduous, Calyx 34 to 4 lines long, silky-villous. Petals of O. a gana VOL. 11. . 18 . * XL, LEGUMINOSZ. [Ozylobium, or rather smaller. Ovary stipitate, with about 20 closely-packed ovules. Pod ovoid, acute, rarely above 5 lines long. Seeds minutely strophiolate.— Calli- stachys linearis, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 27; Bot. Mag. t. 3882; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 27; C. parviflora, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 26; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 26; C. linariefolia, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 117; Chorizema lineare, — F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 17. E W. Australia. Swan River, Fraser, Huegel, Preiss, n. 853, and others; northward to Murchison river, Oldfield; southward to Preston river, Toby’s Inlet, ete., Preiss, n. 851, 852, 854; Vasse, Gordon and Tone rivers, Oldfield. The breadth of the leaves, the size | and colour of the flowers vary in almost all stations, without having any relation to each other, The short-leaved specimens sometimes much resemble Gastrolobium Callistachys. 5. O. carinatum, Benth. A low shrub, with ascending or erect simple or _ branched stems, often under 1 ft., but attaining 3 or 4 ft., more or less hirsute. — Leaves scattered, oblong or lanceolate with a small rigid recurved point, often under 3 in. and rarely nearly 1 in. long, coriaceous, often undulate, glabrous or _ slightly hirsute, with a prominent midrib and transverse reticulations. Flowers — bright yellow, in terminal racemes of 1 to 2 in. Pedicels short. Calyx 3 to — 4 lines long, silky-hairy, the lobes narrow and acute, the 2 upper ones scarcely _ connate. Petals often scarcely exceeding the calyx-lobes. Ovary shortly sti- a pitate, with about 10 ovules ; style rather thick with an oblique stigma. Pod — ovoid, acuminate, 3 to 4 lines long without the stipes. Seeds shining black, — without any strophiole.—Callistachys carinata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 27; Chorizema pubescens; Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 256. 4 W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 33; south side of Konkoberup hills, Preiss, — a. 1068; Kalgan river, Oldfield. The species bears some resemblance to Gastrolobium parvifolium. i 6. O. spathulatum, Benth. A shrub allied in appearance to O. cari- natum, but evidently taller and more branched, the branches hirsute. Leaves alternate, linear-cuneate or almost oblong, with recurved points, mostly 4 to- 2 in. long, rigid, with a prominent midrib, recurved margins and a few trans- verse reticulations. Racemes terminal, rather dense, 1 to 2 in, long. Pedi- cels short. Bracts linear-subulate, very deciduous. Calyx 4 lines long, silky- villous, the lobes lanceolate-subulate, the 2 upper ones rather broader and ‘more connate, Petals larger than in O. carinatum, although scarcely exceed- ing the calyx. Ovary shortly stipitate, with about 10 ovules; style rather thick, stigma oblique. Pod almost sessile, ovoid-oblong, acuminate. Seeds — without any strophiole.— Callistachys spathulata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii, 208. _ W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 89. a : 7. O. obtusifolium, Sweet, Fl. Austral. t. 5. Stems 1 to 14 ft. long, = diffuse or procumbent, little branched, minutely silky-pubescent or at length E glabrous. Leaves alternate or irregularly whorled in threes, linear, obtuse and recurved at the end, 2 to 1 in. or rarely 14 in. long, the margins much revolute, coriaceous and transversely reticulate above, the under side silky- hairy but usually almost concealed. Flowers orange-red, in terminal often 1-sided racemes of 1 to 2 in. on very short pedicels. Bracts and bracteoles linear, very deciduous. Calyx silky-pubescent, 4 to 5 lines long, not so broad as in other species and scarcely divided below the middle, the 2 upper ` Daylobium.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 19 lobes united nearly to the top. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals much shorter; keel obtuse, rather shorter than the wings. Ovary on a rather long stipes with above 20 ovules. Pod not seen. W. Australia.- King George’s Sound, Baxter ; towards the Great Bight, Maxwell. This species is in many respects allied to Chorizema cytisoides, but the keel is quite that of . Oxylobium, Serres II. Errcornr.—Slender heath-like shrubs. Leaves small (to 3 or rarely 4 lines long), mostly verticillate. Flowers axillary or few in short terminal umbel-like racemes. Ovules 8 to 10. Seeds not strophiolate (ex- cept perhaps in O. Pultenea). Z 8. O. cordifolium, 4adr. Bot. Reg. t. 492. Branches slender, diffuse, pubescent or hirsute when young. Leaves irregularly verticillate in threes, ovate-cordate, 1} to 2 lines or the upper ones 3 or rarely 4 lines long, the margins revolute, often hirsute when young, nearly glabrous when full-grown. Owers orange-red, usually 3 or 4 together in little terminal heads or umbels, l the pedicels short and hirsute. Calyx villous, about 3 lines long, the lobes longer than the tube, lanceolate, acuminate, the 2 upper ones shortly united. Standard about 4 lines long and broad; keel equal to or rather longer than the wings. Ovary almost sessile, with about 8 ovules. Pod ovoid, acuminate, 4 or 5 lines long, scarcely coriaceous. Seeds without any stro- phiole.—DC. Prod. ii. 104 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1544; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 937; Chorizema cordifolium, F. Muell. Fragm., iv. 17. pe be Wales. Botany Bay, Banks and Solander; Port Jackson, R. Brown, Fraser, and others, 9. O. microphyllum, Bent». A much-branched diffuse or divaricate shrub, the branches minutely tomentose-pubescent. Leaves scattered, about 1 line long, ovate, obtuse, with recurved margins. | Flowers small, apparently dark-coloured, axillary and solitary, shortly pedicellate. Calyx about 1} lines long, deeply divided ‘into broad acute lobes, the 2 upper ones rather more united, Petals nearly of equal length, shortly exceeding the calyx. Standard very broad; keel broad, obtuse. Ovary on a rather long stipes, with about 8 ovules. Pod not seen, : i | E W. A n, Maxwell. This has much the aspect o Mirbelia rd slds em ir the flowers all axillary, and T see no trace of any dissepiment in the ovary slightly enlarged after flowering ; there are, however, _ none much advanced in the specimens I have seen. 10. O. Pulteneze, DC. Prod. ii. 104. A heath-like shrub, with slender branches, glabrous or minutely pubescent when young. Leaves alternate or regularly verticillateín threes, from ovate-lanceolate to linear, 2 to 4 lines long, the margins much revolute, glabrous or scabrous above, minutely pubes- cent underneath. Flowers few, in short terminal racemes usually contracted into umbels. Bracts very deciduous. Calyx 3 lines long or rather more, Pubescent with appressed hairs, divided to below the middle into lanceolate acuminate lobes, the 2 upper ones shortly connate. Standard longer PER calyx; wings and keel scarcely exceeding it. Ovary shortly stipitate, with 8 to 10 ovules. Pod nearly sessile, acuminate, 3 to 5 lines long. Seeds stro- Phiolate according to De Candolle; I have not seen = AE 20 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [ Oxylobium. Sieb. Pl. Exs.; Callistachys sparsa, A. Cum. ; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. * ©. 59, > N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, Sieber, n. 403; Hunters River, 4. Cunningham ; near * Wollomby, Blue Mountains, C. Moore. The plant figured in * Paxton’s Magazine” as O. Pul- tenee appears to be the narrow-leaved var. of O. ellipticum. 11. O. hamulosum, Benth. in A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Ezped. i. 379. A heath-like shrub evidently very nearly allied to O. Pultenee, but the leaves are all narrow-linear, almost subulate, 3 to 6 lines long, hooked and pointed at the end, the margins much revolute as in the allied species. Flowers .not seen. Fruiting racemes short, like those of O. Pultenee, and pod the same. Seeds not seen. N.S. Wales. Hunters River, American Exploring Expedition’; also in Herb. A. Cunningham, from Herb. Lambert. This will probably prove to be a variety of O. Pultenea, but the leaves are too distinct to unite it without having seen the flowers. Series IV. Laxrrtorz.—Shrubs or procumbent or trailing undershrubs. Leaves mostly opposite. Flowers in loose racemes or few and axillary. Calyx glabrous or slightly pubescent. Ovules usually 8. Seeds not strophiolate.— This series differs from the Podolobiee chiefly in the more numerous ovules. 12. O. scandens, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 70. A shrub or under- shrub with weak procumbent or half climbing branches, pubescent when young. Leaves mostly opposite, from obovate or ovate-elliptical to ovate-lanceolate or narrow-oblong, obtuse or mucronulate, 14 to 2 in. long or rarely more, the margins flat, narrowed at the base, reticulate, glabrous when full grown. Ra- cemes terminal or in the upper axils, loose, with few yellow flowers. Pedicels sometimes as long as the calyx, with two small lanceolate-subulate bracteoles at a distance from the calyx. Calyx under 3 lines long, slightly pubescent with appressed hairs, the lobes broad, acute, about as long as the tube, and nearly equal. Standard about 5 lines diameter; wings shorter, obovate- oblong ; keel rather smaller, the petals scarcely cohering. Ovary stipitate, with about 8 ovules. Pod very shortly stipitate, about 2 in. long, somewhat — curved, acuminate, turgid, the valves transversely veined as in O. Callistachys, but the cellular tissue very scanty or scarcely any.—Chorizema scandens, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 253; P. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 40; Podolobium scan- — dens, DC. Prod. ii. 103 ; Daviesia umbellata and D. humifusa, Sieb. Pl. Exs. _Podolobium humifusum, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 116; Mirbelia (?) Baxteri, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1434; Chorizema Baxteri, Grah. in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 1830. Queensland. Wide Bay, Bidwill; Moreton Bay, W. Hill. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R, Brown, Sieber, n. 391, 392; Paramatta, Woolls; — Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson ; Hastings river, Bechler. ; Var. obovatum. Leaves all or almost all broadly obovate or orbicular. Podolobium obovatum, A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 379.—Hunter's River, R. Brown and others. I had long considered this as a distinct species, and had described it from the Paris Herba- rium under the name of O. difusum, but having now seen a considerable ‘number of spee cimens from various sources, both in flower and fruit, I find that it only differs from — O. scandens in the breadth of the leaves, and in this respect I have seen several interme- diate specimens. E 13. O. procumbens, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. i. 37. Rhi- ee ee en Ozylobium.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 21 zome very thick and woody, emitting procumbent or ascending rigid stems.of 2 to 1 ft., pubescent when young. Leaves irregularly opposite or in threes, ovate, with a fine pungent point, under 1 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, reticu- late and glabrous when full grown, Flowers few, in short, loose, terminal, pedunculate racemes, or in the upper axils. Bracts and bracteoles setaceous, deciduous. Calyx about 4 lines long, slightly pubescent with appressed hairs, the lobes about as long as the tube, all acuminate, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Standard + in. diameter; wings and keel shorter. Ovary nearly sessile, with 6 to 10, usually 8, ovules. Pod very shortly stipi- tate, oblong, obtuse, about 4 in. long. N. S. Wales. Maneroo, S. Mossman. Victoria. Delatite river, Mount Macedon, ranges on the Upper Genoa river, ete., F. Mueller ; ranges at Lexton, etc., Whan. F. Mueller now proposes to unite this with O. scandens, but it appears to me constantly distinct in habit and foliage, in its longer deeper- coloured flowers, and, in the only fruiting specimen séen, the pod is differently shaped. 14. O. tricuspidatum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 30. A low diffuse or procumbent glabrous shrub. Leaves mostly opposite, often crowded, obovate or oblong-cuneate, truncate with 1 to 3 fine bristle-like or almost pungent points, rarely above + in. long, thin but rigid, reticulate. Flowers small and few together in the upper axils or at the ends of the branches. Calyx 2 to 25 lines long, glabrous or nearly so, the lower lobes narrow-lanceolate longer than the tube, the upper ones broader, falcate, and united above the middle, all usually with fine bristle-like points. Petals scarcely half as long again as the calyx. Ovary nearly sessile, with 6 to 10 ovules. Pod sessile, ovoid, ob- tuse, slightly pubescent. Seeds not strophiolate. W. Australia. Gravelly places, Hay district, Preiss, n: 1064, also Drummond, n. 266, J. S. Roe. 15. O, spectabile, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 2. Rigid, glabrous and glaucous, or the young shoots slightly silky-pubescent. Leaves opposite, deeply cordate, ovate or orbicular, mucronate, 1 to 1} in. long, rigid, coria- ceous, reticulate. Racemes terminal, loose, 1 to2in. long. Bracts lanceo- late, the lower ones trifid, but all falling off before flowering; bracteoles none. Calyx broadly campanulate, 3 to 4 lines long, glabrous or nearly so, the lobes rather shorter than the tube, the lower ones broad and rather obtuse, the 2 upper ones broader, very obtuse, and united above the middle. Stan- dard above 4 in. diameter ; wings and keel rather shorter. Ovary stipitate, with about 8 ovules. Pod not seen.—Gastrolobium cordatum, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 13, t. 5 B. W. Australia. Swan River, Mangles ; in the interior, J. S. Roe. SERIES V. Gasrrotosrorpex.—Rigid shrubs. Leaves mostly oppo- site or in whorls of 3, coriaceous. Flowers in axillary clusters or short be tymbose racemes, Calyx villous. Ovules 4 or very rarely 6. Seeds s phiolate, . M 0. > These have the 4 ovules of the Podolobiee, but differ from pedro ies le lobiums (except haps O. Pult. in their strophiolate seeds. rd into ‘es stinky with ls st of several po of which they have the habit, dif- fering only in the ovules, 4 instead of 2. 22 XL. LEGUMINOSE, [Oxylobium. _16. O. atropurpureum, Zurcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 250. A tall, stout shrub, the young branches angular and hoary or softly pubescent. Leaves mostly opposite, distinctly petiolate, ovate or elliptical-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, 2 to 4 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, penniveined and finely re- ticulate. Flowers much larger than in the following species, and apparently of a deep red, in dense axillary clusters or corymbose racemes. Bracts _ broadly orbicular, very deciduous. Calyx rather narrow, densely villous with long silky hairs, about + in. long, the broad lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones very shortly connate. Petals, including the claws, 9 to 10 lines long. Ovary shortly stipitate, with 4 ovules. Pod not seen. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n..53, Maxwell ; Champion Bay, Bowen; B. Mount Barren, Maxwell ? (specimen in leaf only). This species bears much general resem- blance to Gastrolobium pyramidale. 17. O, retusum, R. Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 913. A much-branched, rigid shrub, the young branches angular and hoary or pubescent. Leaves mostly opposite, petiolate, ovate or oblong-elliptical, obtuse, truncate or emarginate, usually 1 to 2 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous and reticulate above, silky-pubescent or rarely glabrous underneath. Flowers reddish-yellow, in dense, almost sessile, terminal clusters or corymbose racemes, or rarely also in the upper axils. Bracts ovate or oblong, very deciduous. Calyx very vil- lous, about 3 or rarely nearly 4 lines long, divided to about the middle into broad-lanceolate lobes. Petals about half as long again as the calyx. Ovary `| very shortly stipitate, with 4 ovules. Pod ovoid, scarcely acuminate, about 4 lines long, very hairy. Seeds strophiolate.—Chorizema coriaceum, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 254; Podolobium (2) coriaceum, DC. Prod. ii. 103; Ozylobium ovalifolium, Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 28; Callistachys telragona, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 249. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, and others; — southern districts ?, Drummond, n. 52, 8rd Coll. n.83, 5th Coll. n. 56 ; stony places, Mount Manypeak and King George’s Sound, Preiss, n. 813, 820; E. Mount Barren, Maxwell. The species often much resembles Gastrolobium pyramidale, but is more silky, and the ovary — has always 4 ovules. Var. minus, Leaves smaller. Flowers mostly terminal. Calyx less villous.—Drum- mond, n. 95, and 4th Coll. n. 20.—This passes almost into O. reticulatum. The differences indeed which separate O. retusum, reticulatum, capitatum, aud cuneatum, are very slight, although the extreme forms are very different. 18. O. virgatum, Hort. Kew, An erect shrub, nearly allied to O. re- — tusum and possibly a variety only, but the very much narrower leaves and — smaller flowers give it a very different aspect. Leaves in threes or opposite, — narrow-oblong or almost linear, rarely ovate-oblong, very obtuse and emargi- — nate, ¢ to 13 in. long, silky-pubescent underneath, much less rigid than in O. retusum, with the margins often recurved, Flowers in terminal, sessile, — corymbose racemes or clusters, and occasionally also in the uppermost axils. Calyx nearly 3 lines long. Petals about half as long again. Ovary and pod of -O. retusum.—Gastrolobium retusum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1647 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3328. W. Australia. Only known in cultivation. The original specimens preserved from the Kew Garden correspond well with the figures iyen ; one 1 haye seen from the Edinburgh garden has the leaves rather broader. a ; . > Oxylobium.| XL. LEGUMINOSE. 23 19. O. reticulatum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 29. Very nearly allied to O. capitatum, with the same indumentum and inflorescence. Leaves mostly opposite, obovate or broadly ovate-oblong, very obtuse or emarginate, with or without a minute recurved point, rarely above 1 in. long, very coriaceous, strongly reticulate and glabrous when full-grown. Flowers and pods rather smaller than in O. capitatum, but otherwise the same. W. Australia. Sand-hills on the seashore and in the interior, Preiss, n, 840 and 831, Drummond, n. 95 and 205 (or 215 ?). > Var. gracile. Branches slender. Leaves rather smaller, often undulate on the edges, the reticulations not quite so coarse. Flowers and pods rather smaller.— Gastrolobium axillare, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 29.—Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 22.—These specimens agree per- fectly with the diagnosis of Meissner, who refers to the same number of Drummond's, except that I have found in all the flowers that I have examined 4 ovules instead of 2. 20. O. capitatum, Benth. in Huey. Enum. 28. A shrub or undershrub of 2 to 3 ft., with rigid, but not thick branches, minutely hoary or silky- pubescent when young. Lowest leaves sometimes obovate, all the others oblong, lanceolate or linear, 1 to 2 in. long, obtuse, with a short, usually re- curved point, rigid, glabrous and reticulate above, minutely silky-pubescent or glabrous underneath, with a stout, prominent midrib. Stipules usually recurved. Flowers in axillary clusters or sometimes forming a terminal, compact, corymbose raceme or head. Bracts very deciduous. Calyx silky- villous, 3 or rarely nearly 4 lines long, rather broad, divided to about the middle into acuminate lobes, the 2 upper ones united at the base. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx; wings and keel much shorter. Ovary shortly stipitate, with 4 or rarely 6 ovules. Pod ovoid, scarcely acuminate, about 4 lines long, villous, often more or less lined with cellular tissue. Seeds with a rather large strophiole.—Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 16; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 30; O. nervosum, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 12; Callistachys ozylobioides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 27. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll., Preiss, n. 841, 842, 843, 8445 - stony places, foot of Mount Manypeak, Preiss, n. 805, 814; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy ; Bunbury, Canning river, and Cape Leschenault, Oldfield ; between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 21. _21, O. cuneatum, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 12. An erect, rigid shrub, attaining several ft., the specimens usually assuming a yellowish or a glaucous tint when dry, young branches angular, minutely tomentose- pubescent or almost silky. Leaves mostly opposite or in whorls of 3 or 4, from broadly obovate-triangular or spathulate to almost linear-cuneate, rounded, truncate or emarginate at the end, mostly 1 to 2 im. long, narrowed to the base, usually folded lengthwise, coriaceous, glabrous or slightly silky- pubescent underneath, the reticulate veins scarcely prominent except when the leaf is thin. Flowers yellow or the lower petals purple, in dense corym- bose racemes or clusters, either all axillary or also terminal. Bracts narrow, very deciduous. Calyx about 3 lines long, silky-pubescent or villous, the lobes lanceolate, the upper ones slightly united and somewhat faleate. Stan- ard nearly twice as long as the calyx. Ovary almost sessile, with 4 ovules. Pod ovoid, acuminate, rigid, 4 to 5 lines long. m W. Australia. From King George’s Sound to Swan River and Murchison river, mmond and others. 24 XL. LEGUMINOS#. [Ozylobium. — | The following forms have been described by myself and others as distinct species, but dif- ferent as some of them appear at first sight, we now find that they all pass into each other , by insensible gradations, the only difference consisting really in the relative breadth of the a leaves. All are closely allied to O. reticulatum and O. capitatum, but have the leaves more or less cuneate, not so coarsely reticulate, and a more dense inflorescence. : a. emarginatum. Leaves oblong-cuneate, mostly emarginate, rather small; axillary pe- — duncles often growing out into leafy branches with terminal inflorescences.— O. Drummondi, — Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, i. 30.—Swan River, Drummond, n. 72 and 210, Preiss, n. 800, in my set. This variety almost passes into O. capitatum. s b. cuneifolium. Leaves linear-cuneatË, rounded at the end, mostly about 13 to 2 in. long. —Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll., also n. 71 and 207 (partly). i c. obovatum. Leaves very broadly cuneate, truncate, mostly about 14 in. long.—0. obovatum, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 12; Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 36; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i.29; Paxt. Mag. x. 243, with a fig.—Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll., also n. 70 d and 207 (partly). : d. dilatatum. Leaves very much dilated at the end, so as to be almost 2-lobed when truncate, or 3-lobed when also acuminate, and abruptly narrowed below the dilatation.—0. dilatatum, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 12; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i, 29.—Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll., also n. 71. 22. O. acutum, Benth. Apparently a small shrub, our specimens, all with the root, from 1 to 13 ft. high; branches few, erect, softly pubescent or — villous. Leaves in whorls of 3 or scattered, ovate-elliptical or almost oblong, tapering into a pungent point, 4 to 4 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, reticulate, — silky-villous when young, glabrous when full-grown. Flowers all axillary, in — loose clusters, shorter than the leaves. Calyx about 3 lines long, silky- villous, the 2 upper lobes shortly united. Standard about twice as long as the calyx; keel much curved, deeply coloured. Ovary nearly sessile, with 4 — ovules. Pod acute, rather coriaceous, shortly exceeding the calyx.—Gastro- — lobium acutum, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 14; Bot. Mag. t. 4040. E W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll., also n. 67 and 213. At first A sight this much resembles Gastrolobium epacridioides, but the ovary is more sessile and always with 4 ovules. Series VI. PoDOLOBIE®.—Leaves mostly opposite. Flowers in loose | or slender axillary or terminal racemes. Calyx nearly glabrous. Ovules 4 | or very rarely 6. Seeds (where known) not strophiolate, : d The first two species of this series have the habit of the racemose species of Gastrolo- bium, but the ovules are 4 and the seeds have no strophiole. The remaining three species | are allied to the Laziflore, but with only 4 ovules and a narrow pod, which, with a some- — what peculiar habit, had induced the establishment of Podolobium as a distinct genus. But | I find no character sufficiently distinct or consonant with habit to maintain it as such. | 23. O. parviflorum, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 12. A tall | spreading shrub, the young shoots hoary with a minute silky pubescence. Leaves | alternate, opposite or in threes, narrow-oblong, slightly cuneate or linear, ob- tuse or emarginate, mostly about 1 in.. long, coriaceous, glabrous above, | minutely silky-pubescent underneath, the margins usually recurved. Flowers | small, orange-yellow and purple, in slender racemes, terminal or in the upper axils, often 2 to 3 in. long. Calyx about 2 lines long, minutely pubescent, - the lobes scarcely so long as the tube, acute, the 2 upper ones broader, falcate, — and united nearly to the top into a truncate upper lip. Standard nearly 4 — lines diameter, the lower petals rather shorter, Ovary on a rather long stipes, | with 4 ovules. Pod stipitate, acuminate, 4 to 6 lines long, pubescent or | Ozxylobium.] .. XL. LEGUMINOSM. - 25 villous. Seeds often only 1 or 2, not strophiolate, embedded in a pithy sub- - stance lining the cell. —Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 31. ; W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll., J. S. Roe, Preiss, n. T98 and - 801, where it is said to be one of the worst of the poison plants; S. coast, at various points, from Phillips river to the Great Bight, Maxwell. Very nearly allied to Gastrolobium crassifolium, but I always find 4 ovules, besides that in that species the leaves are somewhat folded lengthwise, the margins never recurved. 24. O. (?) heterophyllum, Benth. Branches apparently diffuse, slen- der, minutely pubescent. Leaves mostly opposite, oblong-linear or lanceo- late, or the lower ones obovate-oblong, obtuse, with a small point, # to 13 in. long, the margins recurved, glabrous and reticulate above, loosely pubescent or villous underneath. Flowers not seen. Fruiting-racemes slender, 1 to 3 ‘in. long. Pedicels 1 to 2 lines long. Calyx about 2 lines long, pubescent or hirsute, the lobes short, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Standard about 3 lines diameter; keel nearly as long; wings rather shorter and nar- row. Ovary stipitate, with 8 ovules. Pod shortly stipitate, oblong, 3 to 4 lines long, scarcely acute, hairy. Seeds not strophiolate.—Chorizema hetero- phyllum, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 255. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 27;-gravelly soil, Oldfield river and mouth of Young river, Maxwell. | 25. O. aciculiferum, Benth. Apparently a slender shrub; branches pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, with a fine pungent point, about 1 in. long; rounded or truncate at the base, quite entire, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, with transverse reticulate veins, minutely pubescent and at length glabrous underneath. Stipules long and bristle-like. Racemes slender, axillary or terminating short leafy branches, the flowers few and distant. . Calyx slightly silky-pubescent, about 2 lines long. Petals fully twice as long. Ovary stipitate, with 4 ovules. Pod not seen.—Podolobium aciculiferum, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 75. Queensland. Brisbane river, W. Hill, a single specimen. 26. O. trilobatum, Benth. A shrub of several ft., sometimes almost glabrous, more frequently with pubescent branches. * Leaves mostly opposite, from broadly ovate to lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. long, with pungent points and bor- dered by a few, distant, pungent teeth or lobes, of which 1 or 2 on each side near the base are usually larger than the others, coriaceous, glabrous, shining and reticulate above, pale and sometimes minutely pubescent underneath. wers yellow, in loose axillary or terminal racemes, often exceeding the leaves, Calyx slightly pubescent, about 2 lines long, the lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones united nearly to the top. Petals fully twice as long as the calyx. Ovary stipitate, silky-pubescent, with 4 or rarely 6 ovules. od stipitate, oblong, 3 to 4 lines long, straight or incurved, pubescent and - turgid as in other Ozylobiums, but much narrower. Seeds not strophiolate. —Pultenea ilicifolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 320; Chorizema trilobum, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 253; F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 19 ; Podolobium trilobatum, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 9; DC. Prod. ii. 103; Bot. Mag. t. 1477; Bot. Reg. t. 1333. Queensland. Cabbage-trec Hills, Moreton Bay, W. Hill. 26 . XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Ozylobium. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 395, and Fl. Mixt. 2. 571, and others; and northward to Clarence and Hastings rivers, Beckler; Hunter’s River, Old- field; New England, C. Stuart; southward to Tilawarra, Shepherd ; Twofold Bay, F. - Mueller. . 27. O. staurophyllum, Benth. A divaricately branched, glabrous | shrub, closely resembling O. trilobatum, and much better deserving that name. Leaves alternate or opposite, 4 to 14 in. long, with pungent points and a. - cuneate base, and deeply divided into 3 lanceolate, pungent lobes, the lateral ones divaricate and sometimes again 2-lobed, all coriaceous, shining, and | strongly reticulate. Flowers yellow, in loose axillary racemes, rarely exceed- ing the leaves. Calyx glabrous, about 2 lines long, the lobes shorter than — the tube, the 2 upper ones united, but not so high as in O. trilobatum. — Petals fully twice as long as the calyx. Ovary on a long stipes, nearly gla- — brous, with 4 ovules. Pod narrow, like that of O. trilobatum, but glabrous. | —Podolobium staurophyllum, DC. Prod. ii. 103; Bot. Reg. t. 959; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1177; Paxt. Mag. iv. 171, with a fig. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 393, and — others ; between Emu Plains and Lachlan Depot, 4. Cunningham. : 4, CHORIZEMA, Labill. (Orthotropis, Benth.) Calyx-lobes nearly of equal length, the 2 upper ones usually broader and — united higher up. Petals clawed; standard orbicular or reniform, emargi- — nate, rather longer than the wings; wings oblong; keel much shorter than | the wings, straight and obtuse or with an erect point, or rarely incurved. — Stamens free. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with numerous or rarely 8 to 10 — - ovules ; style usually short, incurved ; stigma terminal, frequently oblique. — Pod ovoid, turgid or compressed, continuous inside. Seeds not strophiolate, —Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves all alternate (except in C. ericifolium), simple, entire or prickly-toothed. Stipules small, setaceous, sometimes want- ing. Flowers usually orange or red, in terminal racemes or rarely axillary. — Pedicels short, with 2 small bracteoles, usually deciduous. Ovary villous. The genus is exclusively Australian. It differs from Oxylobium chiefly in habit and in — the short or acuminate keel; the pod is also usually less turgid. A Keel much curved, rostrate, Stigma fringed, very oblique. Erect rigid shrub, Leaves rigid, with pungent points . . . . . LC Dickson, Keel erect, obtuse or shortly pointed. Stigma not fringed. Leaves flat or the margins recurved. Leaves orbicular-cordate, rigid, pungent-pointed, quite entire, much undulate. Erect shrub . . . 3 . C. nervosum. . . . Leaves cordate, all or almost all prickly-toothed. Tall erect shrub, Branches and under side of the leaves pubescent 3. C. varium. Brauches and leaves glabrous, Tall shrub, with weak, slender branches. Leaves prickly-toothed 4 Low or diffuse shrub or undershrub. Leaves prickly-lobed . 5 Leaves quite entire or a few very loosely prickly-toothed. Low diffuse or ascending shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves rounded or almost cordate at the base, the lower ovate, the upper narrow. Style much curved. Leaves mostly or all ovate. Flowers few, large. Stigma very oblique . ote OS a Seay Gs Gerais . C. cordatum. . C. ilicifolium. 6. De rikombentí Chorizema.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. A. Leaves mostly narrow, rarely all ovate. Flowers several, small, Stigma small, terminal. Leaves distant. Racemes loose, glabrous; pedicels slender 8. C. angustifolium. -Leaves crowded. Racemes on long peduncles, hoary or i silky-pubescent ; pedicels short . E O O penieulatam. Shrub, with slender, climbing, terete branches, Leaves nar- rowed at the base. Style nearly straight <.> . « 7. C. diversifolium. Stems rigid, stout, suberect, very angular. Leaves few, oblong- linear, very thick.” Style incurved . . . . . . +» +. 10. C. trigonum. Stems slender, ascending, angular-striate. Flowers small. Leaves obovate or cuneate. Keelacuminate . . . . . 11. C. humile. Leaves lanceolate, acute. Keel shortly acuminate . . +. . 9. C. reticulntum. ves linear or oblong. Keel obtuse. - . « + . 12. OC. parviflorum. Keel erect, acutely acuminate. Leaves narrow-linear, with much- revolute margins (Orthotropis). feed Leaves obtuse. Racemes terminal, dense, and spike-like . . . 13. C. cytisoides. Leaves pungent-pointed. Racemes or clusters short, axillary . . 14. C. Henchmanna. Keel erect, obtuse or with a short recurved point. Stem erect. Share Leaves small, linear, with revolute margins. . +. + + + +15. C. ericifolium. (Oxylobium carinatum and O. spathulatum have nearly the habit of Chorizema, but the petals are nearly equal in length.) ; 1. C. Dicksonii, Grah. in Maund. Botanist, t. 106. An erect shrub of 1 to 3 ft., with numerous branches, pubescent when young. Leaves rather crowded, oblong-lanceolate or almost linear, tapering to a pungent point, often under } in. and rarely 2 in. long, thick, rigid, glabrous and often shining, with a prominent midrib and transverse veins. Flowers red, rather large, in loose terminal racemes. Pedicels rather short. Calyx silky-villous, . 4 lines long or rather more, the lobes all acuminate, the 2 upper ones broader, falcate, and united above the middle. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx ; wings scarcely exceeding the calyx, obliquely obovate ; keel shorter, “very much curved and rostrate. Ovary stipitate, with 8 to 10 ovules; style inflexed, with a very oblique stigma, fringed at the base on the upper side. Pod acuminate, 4 to 5 lines long. Seeds not seen.—Paxt. Mag. viii. 173, with a fig.; ©. costatum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 33. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 183; Darling Range, Preiss, n. 1036, also n. 1039 and 1040; Hampden, W. Clarke. 2. C. nervosum, 7. Moore, in Gard. Comp. 1852, with a Jig. copied into Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 383. Awerect rigid shrub with pubescent branches. Leaves broadly orbicular-cordate, with a pungent point, very much undulate, but not toothed, about 2 in. long, and often broader than long, very coria- ceous, coarsely reticulate, usually glabrous. Racemes loose, peta Pedicels often as long as the calyx. Calyx 2 to 24 lines long, nearly glabrous, the lobes rather acute, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. = about 3 lines long, but much broader; wings nearly as long ; keel muc shorter, broad with a short obtuse point. Ovary sessile, with 12 or more ovules ; style glabrous, with a distinct capitate stigma. Pod about H in. long,, resembling that of O. ilicifolium. Seeds shining.—C. parvifolium, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 253. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 25; gravelly plains of the range from E. to W. MounBarren, Mazwell. several ft., with pubescent branches. Leaves cordate-ovate, more or less 28 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [ Chorizema, 3. C. varium, Benth. in Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 49. An erect shrub of prickly-toothed and undulate, 1 to 2 in. long, glabrous or slightly pubescent above and coarsely reticulate, pubescent or tomentose underneath: Racemes usually numerous, pubescent, the flowers not so distant as in C. cordatum. Pedicels short. Calyx about 3 lines long, like that of C. cordatum, but pu- bescent. Petals of O. ilicifolium. Ovary shortly stipitate, with numerous | ovules. Pod stipitate, 6 to 8 lines long, often obtuse, Seeds smooth and shining.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 32; Paxt. Mag. vi. 175, with a fig. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 184, Preiss. n. 1046, Oldfield. 3 4, C. cordatum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 10. A glabrous shrub, with slender weak branches, very nearly allied to O. ilicifolium, but much larger, attaining several feet. Leaves cordate-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1 to ` 2 in. long, bordered by small prickly teeth or lobes, which are neither so deep nor so much undulate as in C. ilicifolium, and often very small. Flowers more numerous and larger than in that species, but otherwise similar. - Pod also larger. Ovules 20 to 30.—Maund. Botanist, t. 89; Meissn. in Pl. | Preiss. i. 32; Paxt. Mag. v. 97, with a fig.; C. flavum, Henfr. in Gard. Mag. i. 73, with a fig. ; C. superbum, Lemaire, Illustr. Hortic. t. 29. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll., also n. 185, and 2nd Coll. n. 91, Preiss. n. 1042, : 5. C. ilicifolium, LZabill. Voy. i. 405, t. 21, and Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 120. A small weak shrub, flowering often the first year so as to appear | annual, with slender branches, sometimes erect and rigid, more frequently | diffuse or almost filiform, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs when young. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, $ to 1 in. long, undulate and bordered with prickly teeth or lobes, often cordate at the base, glabrous, coriaceous and coarsely re- ticulate. Flowers orange-red, few and distant in axillary or terminal loose racemes. Calyx varying from under 2 to about 3 lines long, the lobes all acute, the 2 upper ones falcate and united to the middle.- Standard broadly reniform, twice as long as the calyx ; wings shorter than the standard ; keel shorter than the calyx. Ovary nearly sessile, with 20 to 30 closely packed ovules; style short. Pod oblong, } in. long or shorter.—Bonpl. Jard. Malm. t. 35; DC. Prod. ii. 102; Pultenea nana, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 434; Chori- zema nanum, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1032; DC. Prod. ii. 102; C. triangulare, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1513; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, i. 32, and ii. 208; Paxt. Mag. xiii. 73, with a fig. W. Australia. King George’s Sound and neighbourhood, Ladillarditre, R. Brown, Preiss. n. 1041, and others, and thence to the Great Bight, Maxwell ; Swan River, Drum- mond ; Flinders Bay, Collie; Blackwood river, Oldfield. P 6. C. rhombeum, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 9. An under- shrub (or herb ?), with several ascending, simple or slightly branched stems, from 3 to 13 ft. long, more or less angular or compressed, or at length terete and often pubescent.’ Lower leaves obovate or rhomboidal, passing into ovate or ovate-lanceolate, and under 1 in. long; upper ones often lanceolate and longer, flat or the margins slightly recurved, veined, glabrous or sprinkled j - ` Chorizema.| XL, LEGUMINOSAE. 29 with a few hairs underneath. Flowers few and distant, on long terminal pe- duncles, forming loose racemes. Calyx 4 lines long or rather more, usually pubescent with appressed hairs, the upper lobes rather broader, united above the middle. Standard rather more than half as long again as the calyx ; keel about the length of the calyx, erect and obtuse, but narrowed towards the top. Ovary shortly stipitate, with 20 or more ovules ; style short, incurved, with a very oblique stigma. Pod more or less compressed, above 4 in. long, acuminate.—DC. Prod. ii. 103; C. ovatum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1528; Paxt. — Mag. iv. 153, with a fig.; Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 219 (an inusual garden form); Meissn, in Pl. Preiss. i. 32. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, and others, Drummond, 2nd Coll. . n. 125; Cape Naturaliste, Gordon river, etc., Oldfield ; Mount Manypeak river, Marwell. 7. C. diversifolium, 4. DC. Pl. Rar. Jard. Gen. Te Not. (1836), 44, - t. 8. A tall shrub, with weak, slender, often climbing branches, slightly pu- bescent or at length glabrous. Leaves from ovate to narrow-lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. long or rather more, obtuse acute or mucronate, narrowed at the base, flat and not so rigid as in C. rhombeum, glabrous or slightly pubescent under- neath. Flowers often numerous, in loose racemes. Calyx 4 lines long, gla- brous or nearly so, the lobes acute, the 2 upper ones much falcate and united above the middle. Standard half as long again as the calyx; keel very ob- tuse, not exceeding the calyx. Ovary nearly sessile, with above 30 ovules ; style slightly curved, with.a capitate slightly oblique stigma. Pod much flattened, about 2 in. long, acuminate, transversely veined. Seeds numerous. —C. spectabile, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 45; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 209; Bot. Mag. t. 3903 ; C. rhombeum, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1619 (from the figure), not of R. Br. W. Australia. Flinders Bay, Collie; Swan River, Drummond, Coll. 2, n. 126; Cape Naturaliste, Oldfield. 8. C. angustifolium, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 28, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 71. A low slender shrub or undershrub, with ascending branches of from 3 to 14 ft., slightly pubescent when young. Lower leaves often ovate or lanceolate, acute, and almost pungent, like those of C. rhombeum, but more rigid, and sometimes bordered with a few small prickly teeth; upper leaves, and sometimes all linear or linear-lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. long, mucro- nate, the margins recurved, glabrous and reticulate above, usually silky-pu- Scent underneath. Flowers usually smaller than in C. rhombeum, in slender , Tacemes. Calyx 22 to nearly 3 lines long, glabrous or minutely pubescent, the lobes acute, the upper ones broader, but straight and separated below the middle. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx; keel scarcely as long as the calyx, obtuse or with a short erect point. Ovary shortly stipitate, with N to 20 ovules; style much incurved, with a aai a piem. sos to nearly 2 in. long, slightly compressed.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. 1. 335 Dillwynia Seninki Sm. fn ‘Trans. Gan. Soc. ix. 264 ; DC. Prod. ii. 109; Bot. Reg. t. 1514; Chorizema capillipes, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1858, i. 255; C. denticulatum, Turez. l. c. 253 (specimens with nearly all the leaves broad and rigid). ` Oe ae W. Australia. Ki ’s Sound, Menzies, Baxter, an ers; mmona, 5th Coll. n. 25 and 26 s Bling! Terrace, Preiss. n. 1047, 1127, Maxwell ; Mount Clarence, Oldfield ; Bremer Bay and Cape Riche, Mazwell. . i 30 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. : [ Chorizema. 9. ©. reticulatum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 84. Stock woody, with erect or ascending slightly branched stems, of } to 1 ft., slightly silky-pubes- cent. Leaves rather crowded, lanceolate, acute, + to 1 in. long, rigid, reticu- — late, keeled underneath, the margin flat or slightly recurved. Flowers several, — rather small, in terminal erect racemes, often 6 in. long, including the long peduncle ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx about 22 lines long, silky- pubescent ; lobes acute or acuminate, nearly as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones broader and more united. Standard about twice as long as the calyx; _ wings nearly as long ; keel scarcely exceeding the calyx, flattened towards the 4 end with a short obtuse point. Ovary very shortly stipitate, with about 20 — . ovules ; stigma capitate. Pod somewhat compressed, acuminate, 4 to 5 lines long. . W. Australia, Drummond; dense bushy places at the foot of Mount Wuljenup, Preiss. n. 1045 ; Vasse river, Oldfield ; Mount Manypeak river and Cape Riche, Maxwell. The Vasse river specimens have the leaves rather more oblong or almost linear, with the — margins slightly recurved, but I can see no difference between them and the southern ones. _ The short pedicels and long pedunculate racemes distinguish the species from all forms of C. angustifolium, independently of the foliage, 10. ©. trigonum, Zurcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 254. A very rigid | undershrub or shrub, the stems erect or ascending, not much branched, 14 to © above 2 ft. high, glabrous, very angular, the upper flowering branches often — leafless. Leaves few, distant, erect, linear-oblong, 14 to 2 in. long, with a short recurved point, narrowed at the base, thickly coriaceous, slightly folded lengthwise, glabrous, coarsely reticulate. Flowers on short pedicels, in ter- — minal or lateral racemes. Calyx slightly pubescent, about 3 lines long, the — lobes rather broad, the 2 upper ones more falcate and united above the middle. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel somewhat exceeding the _ calyx, shortly and obtusely acuminate. Ovary nearly sessile, with above 20. ovules; style short, incurved, with a capitate terminal stigma. Pod turgid, | about 4 in. long. j q W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 22 ; Phillips river and towards the Great E Bight, Maxwell. q 11. C. humile, Zurcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 254. A small diffuse | branching shrub, more or less silky-pubescent, with erect or ascending an- — gular branches, of 4 to 1 ft. Leaves from obovate or cuneate, and 2 to 4 lines long, to cuneate-oblong, and above 4 in., obtuse truncate or emarginate, with a small recurved point, pubescent on both sides. Flowers small, on short pedicels in terminal racemes. Calyx 2 to 23 lines long, the lobes : rather shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones more obtuse, united above the — middle. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx ; keel slightly exceeding | the calyx, flattened towards the end and shortly acuminate. Ovary shortly | stipitate, with 15 to 20 or more ovules; styles slightly curved, with a small | capitate stigma. Pod turgid, acuminate, 4 to 5 lines long.—Oxylobiuin ge- | nistordes, Meissn. in Bot, Zeit. 1855, 12, A a cox Ot Ce 4th Coll. n. 36, and between Moore and Murchison rivers, : 12. c. parviflorum, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 71. An under- shrub, with a thick rhizome, and numerous ascending, rather slender, angular, Chorizema.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 31 striate stems, of about 1 ft., glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves not nu- merous, linear, and above 1 in. long, or shorter and oblong, obtuse or mucro- nate, the margins recurved. Flowers small, on very short pedicels, in rather long, slender, terminal racemes. Calyx 14 lines long, slightly pubescent, the lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, truncate and united ` nearly to the top. Standard very broad, twice as long as the calyx; wings shorter ; keel much shorter, broad and obtuse. Ovary very shortly stipitate, with about 10 ovules ; style slightly incurved, with a capitate stigma. Pod oblique, often broader than long, very turgid, 3 to 4 lines diameter.—C. Pul- _ tene, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 19, but not the synonyms adduced. . ‘Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown ; E. coast, A. Cunningham; Wide Bay, Bid- will, Leichhardt ; Stradbrooke Island, Fraser ; S. tributaries of Burnett river and Brisbane, river, F. Mueller. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, on the Paramatta road, R. Brown, Woolls ; Hunters’ river, American Exploring Expedition ; Hastings river, Beckler ; foot of Wacamurrum, Leichhardt. _13. ©. cytisoides, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 256. Our specimens, with the root attached, all under 1 ft. high, nearly simple, slightly silky-pu- bescent towards the top. Leaves scattered, linear, obtuse, with a small point, 3 to ¿ in. long, the margins much revolute, glabrous above, silky pubescent underneath. Racemes terminal, oblong, dense and spike-like, 1 to 13 in. long. Pedicels very short. Bracts and bracteoles larger and more per- sistent than in the other species, lanceolate, acuminate, silky-hairy. Calyx about 4 lines long, silky-hairy, deeply divided into lanceolate acuminate lobes, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Standard about 6 lines long, inclu- ding the claw, not emarginate, the sides reflexed ; wings rather shorter ; keel terminating in an erect recurved point, nearly as long as the wings. - Ovary shortly stipitate, with about 15 ovules ; style short, curved, with a capitate | stigma. Pod not seen. , W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 77; from King George’s Sound to Bremer l Inlet and Cape Riche, Maxwell. 3 | | 14. ©. Henchmanni, R. Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 986. An erect shrub or undershrub, 1 to 2 or 8 ft. high, with virgate branches, pubescent when young. Leaves linear, pungent, + to 3 in. long, with smaller ones usually clustered in the axils, the margins revolute, glabrous above, the under side often pubescent, but usually concealed. Flowers red, in short racemes or clusters in the upper axils, often forming long terminal leafy raceme-like Panicles. Pedicels 1 to 3 lines long. Calyx hirsute or silky-villous, about 3 lines long, the lobes narrow, longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones broader _ d united to the middle. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; wings Shorter; keel tapering into an erect point, nearly as long as the wings. Ovary = stipitate, with about 12 to 15 ovules; ne! o ro he pitate stigma. Pod very turgid, rather obtuse, 4 nes am ag. t. 3607; Meissn. in tL Preiss, i: 34, ii. 209; Lodd. Bot. Cab. pete ; axt. Mag. ii. 171, with a fig.; Podolobium (?) aciculare, DC. Prod. ii. 103; Chorizema Baueri, Meissn, in Pl. Preiss. i. 34, ii. 209, not of Benth. ; ©. e chotropis, Meissn. 1. e. ii. 209; Orthotropis pungens, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 16. 32 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Chorizema. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Bazter ; Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. and 2nd Coll. n. 92, 93, 94; Harvey river and Mount Barker, Oldfield ; S. coast, from King George’s Sound to Cape Riche, Maxwell. “15. C. ericifolium, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 209. Erect and much branched, 1 to 14 ft. high, the branches rather slender, but rigid, striate, gla- brous, often irregularly verticillate, the smaller ones sometimes spinescent. Leaves few and small, alternate or irregularly opposite or verticillate, linear, with revolute margins, 2 to 3 lines long. Flowers small, rather numerous, often verticillate, in terminal loose racemes, of 1 to 2in. Pedicels very short. -Calyx silky-pubescent, from 2 to nearly 3 lines long, the lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, obtuse, and united nearly to the top. Standard scarcely twice as long as the calyx; wings shorter; keel much shorter, obtuse or with a very short recurved point. Ovary nearly sessile, with about 10 ovules ; style incurved or hooked, with a capitate stigma. Pod ovoid or almost globular, about 24 lines long, with a short flat point. Seeds Usually few, not strophiolate.— Dichosema racemosum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss.i. 78. W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 96; Murchison river and Champion Bay, Oldfield; near Albany, Preiss. n. 861. This species differs in habit from all others, ap- proaching that of Mirbelia daviesioides, but there is no trace of any intrusion of the endo- carp into the cavity of the pod. Some specimens from Bowes river, O/dfield, are remarkable for the size of the flowers, with the calyx-lobes narrower and more acute. 5. MIRBELIA, Sm. (Dichosema, Benth., Oxycladium, F. Muell.) - Calyx-lobes nearly of equal length, the 2 upper ones often broader and united higher up. Petals clawed; standard orbicular or reniform, emarginate or entire, longer than the lower petals ; wings oblong; keel broader than the wings, and shorter or rarely of the same length. Stamens free. Ovary ses- | sile or stipitate with 2 or several ovules ; style usually short, incurved, with | a terminal capitate stigma. Pod ovoid or oblong, turgid, divided longitudi- | nally into 2 cells, by a false dissepiment projecting into the cavity from the | lower suture and overlapped by or connate with the projecting placentas. | Seeds without any strophiole.—Shrubs with the habit nearly of Oxylobium or | . of Chorizema. Leaves opposite verticillate or alternate, simple entire or - prickly-toothed. Stipules small, setaceous or none, Flowers yellow, purple- red or blue, solitary or clustered in the axils of the leaves, or in axillary or | terminal racemes. Bracts and bracteoles small or none. Ovary glabrous or | villous. Endocarp of the pod separating from the epicarp in some species; f but not in all. The genus is limited to Australia. It is very nearly allied to Ozylobium, Gastrolobium, | and Chorizema, differing chiefly in the remarkable 2-celled pod, the false dissepiment being | already more or less apparent in the ovary at the time of flowering. a “Plant not thorny. Leaves obtuse or pungent. Leayes dilated at the end into 3 to 7 prickly lobes or teeth. . . 1: M. dilatata. Leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate or broadly oblong entire. Keel much shorter than the wings. Leaves about 1 to 13 in. long, quite glabrous. Flowers race- mose. Ovary stipitata o a n ho. 4 Leaves silky underneath. Flowers axillary or in terminal clus- dera. Ovary sessile . > o yo Eor ra 2. M. racemosa. 3. M. grandiflora. Mirbelia.] XL. LEGUMINOSE. 0 Keel about as long as the wings. Leaves usually 4 in. long or less, Calyx deeply lobed. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, pointed . . . . . . . . . . 4 M. subcordata. Leaves ovate, very obtuse, } to 4 in. e e A ovata. — Leaves ovate, very obtuse, 1 to 2 lines long . . . . . . 6, M.ozylobioides, Leaves linear-oblong or narrow-linear, the margins recurved or re- volute, entire. A Ovules 2. i Leaves oblong, linear with recurved margins, mostly verticillate 7. M. reticulata, Leaves narrow-linear, with revolute margins, all alternate . . 8. M. aotoides. ` Ovules 8 to 12. Leaves narrow-linear, with revolute mergins. i Leaves pungent. Calyx-teeth very short, the upper lip broad and truncate TOR oA ee 9. M, pungens. Leaves obtuse. Calyx-lobes acute i as long as the tube, Ovules about 12.° Pod broadly ovoid . . «+ . 10, M. speciosa. Ovules about 8. Pod oblong. . . . . . . +. . «11. M. floribunda, Plant thorny. . Thorns lateral, subulate, rather longer than the small leaves, A Leaves linear with revolute margins. Ovary sessile . . . . 12. M. spinosa, Leaves flat or folded lengthwise. Ovary stipitate. ; Leaves 1 to 14 lines long. Ovary glabrous with 6 to 8 ovules 14. M. microphylla. Leaves 2 to 3 lines long. Ovary pubescent with 12 to 15 ovules 13. M. multicaulis. Branches leafless, spinescent at the end. y -osioide Ovules above 12. Pod oblong, deeply furrowed. . . . + + 15, M.daviesioides. Ovules 2? Pod ovoid or almost globular, with prominent sutures 16. M. ozyclados. l. M. dilatata, R. Br. in Ait Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii, 21. An erect bushy shrub, with angular pubescent branches, or quite glabrous. Leaves numerous, Scattered or irregularly verticillate, cuneate, much dilated and undulate at the end with 3, 5 or 7 pungent-pointed lobes or teeth, ~ to 13 in. long, much narrowed below the middle and sometimes petiolate, rigidly coriaceous, strongly reticulate. Flowers of a bluish-purple, shortly pedicellate, soli- tary in the axils or forming terminal leafy racemes. - Calyx slightly pubes- cent, 2 to 21 lines long, the teeth or lobes short acute and nearly equal in length, the 2 upper ones rather broader and more or less united. Standard twice as long as the calyx; wings nearly as long as the standard ; keel rather shorter, obtuse. Ovary stipitate, villous in the originally described form, with 6 to 8 ovules. Pod oblong, about 4 in. long.—DC. Prod. ii. 115; Lindl, Bot. Reg. t. 1041 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1367.. W. Australi i 7 - Brown, Baxter, and others. - Var, A as eee Seay had thee bt de rT form. Oray DE -—M. Meissneri, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4419; M. dilatata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 76. San River, Drummond, 1st Coll. Preiss, n. 1049. Stirling range, Marwell ; Vasse river, Oldfield. In some specimens the foliage of one form passes into that of the other, but I ve only observed the villous ovary in the King George’s Sound form. 2. M. racemosa, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 282. A pote! es loosely branched, perfectly glabrous. Leaves mostly opposite, petiolate, oval- oolong, very obtuse, 1 to 14 in. long, flat, coriaceous and shining, strony reticulate, Stipules persistent. Racemes: loose, terminal, Sauk ane edicels 2 to 3 lines long. Calyx quite glabrous, 23 to nearly 3 lines Ti lobes short and broad, the 2 upper ones very obtuse or piee “9 nearly to the top. Standard 1 in. long, not emarginate, on a slender claw ; ers nearly as long, keel short, shortly rostrate. Ovary stipitate, - OL. 11. . 34 XL. LEGUMINOS&. [Mirdelia. with 8 to 10 ovules. Pod about 4 in. long, oblong-elliptical, ‘glabrous, cori- aceous, the longitudinal dissepiment splitting as in other species but more — pithy, the endocarp not separating.— Chorizema magnifolium, Y. Muell. Fragm. — iv. 18. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 59; Bremer Bay and Middle Mount Barren, Maxwell. z 3. M. grandiflora, 4it. in Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2771. A shrub or un- dershrub with diffuse or ascending branches of 1 to 2 ft., more or less silky- pubescent. Leaves alternate or opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or almost obtuse, 4 to 1} in. long, coriaceous, glabrous shining and strongly re- — ticulate above, silky-pubescent or villous underneath, the margins recurved. Flowers bright yellow and red, nearly sessile in axillary or terminal clusters, — or rarely solitary. Calyx silky-villous, about 4 lines long, the lobes acute, as — long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Standard large, — deeply emarginate ; wings nearly as long; keel much shorter, obtuse. Ovary sessile, very villous, with 10 to 15 ovules. Pod thickly oblong, hoary with appressed hairs, about 2 in. long, very obtuse.— Platylobinm reticulatum, Sieb. Pl. Exs.; Chorizema (?) platylobioides, DC. Prod. ii. 103. i N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, Sieber, n, 371,373, and Fl. Mirt. n. 607; Blue Moun- — tains, A. Cunningham ; Illawarra, Backhouse, M Arthur. : 4. M: subcordata, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1859, i. 282. A much- branched apparently small shrub, the branches terete, pubescent with very — short spreading or reflexed hairs. Leaves mostly verticillate in threes, ovate- lanceolate with a small almost pungent point, rarely above 4 in. long, glabrous shining and reticulate above, pubescent underneath. Flowers very shortly — pedicellate in the upper axils or in terminal clusters or short racemes, Calyx — pubescent, 24 to nearly 3 lines long, deeply divided into lanceolate acuminate lobes, the wpper ones scarcely more united than the others, Standard rather 4 longer than the calyx, emarginate; wings and keel nearly as long, the latter somewhat curved, obtuse. Ovary nearly sessile, very villous, with 4 to 6 — ovules. Pod oblong, villous, not seen full grown, a W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 60. 5. M. ovata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss.i. 77. A diffuse or divaricate much- _ branched shrub, the young branches terete and tomentose or shortly villous. Leaves opposite or in threes, ovate, obtuse, under 3 in. long, with recurved or revolute margins, coriaceous, reticulate, glabrous above or scabrous-pubescent when young, more or less pubescent underneath. Flowers nearly sessile; 2 or — 3 together at the ends of the branches, or in 2 or 3 distant pairs or threes in a terminal raceme. Calyx silky-pubescent, about 22 lines long, deeply divided | ` into lanceolate acuminate lobes as in M. subcordata, and petals nearly equal — as in that species. Ovary nearly sessile, villous, with 6 to 8 ovules. Pod villous, thickly oblong, very obtuse, about 5 lines long.—M. aspera, Turez. | in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 281. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 28; Gordon river and Princess Royal Har- bour, Preiss, n. 803 and-1202. ee 6. M. oxylobioides, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 154, and iv. 12. A rigid di- 4 varicate shrub of several ft., with rather slender branches, the short branchlets _ . AA A ee OTS Mirbelia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 35 terete, tomentose-pubescent. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3 or scattered, ovate, 1 to 12 or rarely 2 lines long, obtuse or with a minute recurved point, the margins recurved, scabrous above, silky-pubescent underneath. Flowers few together at the ends of the short branchlets, on pedicels of about 1 line. Bracteoles small, narrow, deciduous. Calyx silky-pubescent, about 24 lines long. Standard very broad; keel broad, deeply coloured. Ovary nearly ses- sile, with about 12 to 14 ovules. Pod ovoid, turgid, shortly acute, about 4 in. long, deeply furrowed on the upper side, divided by a dissepiment pro- ceeding from the lower suture, but the endocarp not separating from the epicarp. E N. S. Wales. Bushy rocks on the boundary of the marshy plains, Argyle county, A. Cunningham. Victoria. Deep rocky valleys, Haidinger range, Dandenong ranges, Snowy river, Mount Ligar, and adjoining ranges, generally at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 ft., F. Mueller. 7. M. reticulata, Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 511, and in Trans. Linn, Soc. ix. 265. A low shrub with slender but rigid angular branches quite glabrous or very minutely pubescent. Leaves mostly verticillate in threes, oblong-linear with short pungent points, 4 to ? in. long, the margins recurved, glabrous, Shining above with raised transverse reticulations, occasionally bordered by small tooth-like glands. Flowers small, bluish-purple, shortly pedicellate in axillary clusters or short terminal corymbose racemes. Calyx minutely pu- bescent, about 13 lines long, the teeth much shorter than the tube, the 2 Upper ones broad truncate and united nearly to the top. Standard about 4 hes long, slightly emarginate; wings nearly as long; keel very short, obtuse. vary shortly stipitate, glabrous, with 2 ovules. Pod ovoid, acute rarely above 2 lines long.—Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 119; DC. Prod. ii. 114; Bot. | Mag. t. 1211; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1371; Pultenea rubiafolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 351; Mirbelia rubiafolia, G. Don. Gen. Syst. ii. 1263 M. angustifolia, irah. in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. 1838 (from the deser.). > N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 368, and others. . 8. M. aotoides, P. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. iii. 53, and Fragm. W. 11. A rigid shrub with divaricate terete pubescent branches. Leaves Mostly alternate, narrow-linear, obtuse or with a small recurved or straight ost pungent point, the margins closely revolute, rarely above 3 = long, n aS or pubescent when young, and often silky underneath. Flowers (yellow ?) nearly sessile, axillary and almost solitary or in short terminal corymbs, Calyx about 2 lines long, pubescent with minute appressed hairs, the teeth very short, the upper ones truncate and united. Standard very » hot twice as long as the calyx, the claw short; wings nearly as long, Narrow; keel rather shorter, obtuse. Ovary sessile, glabrous, with 2 ovules. roadly ovoid, very obtuse, shortly exceeding the calyx, separating into 2 . a hemicarpels, the endocarp remaining attached to the epicarp. Seeds Rrgensland. Burnitt ranges, F. Mueller. Wales. Jer. In one flower 1 found the Mount Mitchell, Clarence river, Beck m3 monstrous, with 3 carpels more or less developed. „o M. pungens, 4. Cunn. in @. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 126. A small shrub or undershrub, with ascending stems, often under 1 ft. high, the eyy rather 36 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ, [Mirbelia, slender, pubescent. Leaves alternate, narrow-linear, with pungent points and closely revolute margins, under 4 in. long, glabrous. Flowers (bluish-pur- ple?) clustered in the upper axils on very short pedicels. Calyx slightly pubescent, rarely exceeding 2 lines and usually shorter, the lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones united in a truncate or shortly 2-lobed upper lip. | Standard twice as long as the calyx; keel shorter than the wings but exceed- ing the calyx, obtuse or with a short erect point. , Ovary glabrous or slightly hirsute, with 6 to 10 ovules. Pod ovoid, about 3 lines long, but not seen in a perfect state.— Chorizema Baueri, Benth. in Aun. Wien. Mus. ii. 71. N.S. Wales. Paramatta and Richmond, R. Brown; rocky hills, Cox’s river, 4. aten: Illawarra, Backhouse; New England, C. Stuart ; also in Leichhardt’s col- 10. M. speciosa, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 115. An erect shrub of 2 to — 3 ft.; with numerous virgate angular branches, slightly hoary-pubescent or glabrous. Leaves scattered or verticillate in threes, narrow-linear, obtuse with a small straight sometimes almost pungent point, 4 to 3 in. long, the margins closely revolute, glabrous, scarcely reticulate. Flowers bluish-purple, - almost sessile in the upper axils, the upper ones forming a terminal interrupted spike leafy at the base. Calyx fully 3 lines long, hoary-pubescent, the lobes — acute, as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Standard — twice as long as the calyx, emarginate ; wings nearly as long; keel very short, — obtuse. Ovary sessile, glabrous, with about 12 ovules. Pod thickly ovoid, about 4 or 5 lines long.—Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 58; Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 191. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, Sieber, n. 367; and FI. Mirt.n.570; abundant in arid rocky tracts of the Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham ; New England, C. Stuart; Mlawarra, — Fraser, Backhouse, Shepherd. The figure of M. floribunda, Paxt. Mag. viii. 103, gives — much more the idea of this plavut than of the true western M. floribunda. a 11, M. floribunda, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 12. A low, much- branched, divaricate or diffuse shrub or undershrub, the young branches hoary- — pubescent. Leaves scattered. or irregularly opposite or in threes, narrow- linear with a recurved point and closely revolute margins, usually under 3 in. — long, glabrous and not reticulate above, slightly pubescent underneath. — Flowers bluish-purple, numerous although solitary in each axil, scattered along the branches and not forming a terminal raceme as in M. speciosa, which this species closely resembles. Calyx under 3 lines long, silky-pubescent, the | lobes equal to the tube, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Standard | fully twice as long as the calyx ; wings shorter; keel shorter than the wings, | but not so short nor so broad as in M. speciosa. Ovary sessile, glabrous; | ovules usually 8. Pod oblong, 4 to 5 lines long, much narrower than in M. | spectosa.— M. speciosa, Sweet, Fl. Austral. t. 34, not of Sieb,; M. pulchella, | Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii, 221. | W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and 2nd Coll. n. 92, Burges; | Mount Yulagan, Oldfield. The flowers usnally dry blue, but in Burges’s specimens they | look yellowish. : 4 12. M. spinosa, Benth. A shrub of 2 or 3 ft., with ascending or vit- gate branches, glabrous or pubescent when young. Leaves narrow-linear, obtuse with revolute margins, under } in. Jong, usually clustered round a slender but rigid spreading thorn (an abortive branch), as long as or rather Mirbelia.] ` XL. LEGUMINOSA. 37 longer than themselves, but in young shoots the leaves are solitary and alter- nate, without thorns. Flowers pink or purple (yellowish when dry), axillary, sessile. Calyx pubescent with appressed hairs, about 3 lines long, the lobes narrow, acuminate, nearly as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united at least to the middle. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx, emarginate ; wings shorter; keel still shorter, obtuse. Ovary sessile, glabrous, with 6 to 8 ovules. Pod not seen.— Dichosema spinosum, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 35; Meissn. in Pl .Preiss. i. 77 ; D. subinerme, Meissn. 1. c.i. 78; Moore, in Gard. Comp. i. 129, with a fig. copied into Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 350. W. Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, 1st Coll. and n. 191, Preiss, n. 862; northward to Murchison river, and southward to Kalgan river, Oldfield, towards the Great Bight, Mazwell. The spines in this species appear to be abortive branches proceeding from the centre of the tufts of leaves. In M. microphylla they are mostly supra-axillary. In M. multicaulis they are lateral or quite away from the nodes yet they have no appearance of being epidermal productions. 13. M. multicaulis, Benth. Our specimens show a thick rootstock, with numerous, erect, simple or slightly-branched stems of 3 to 1 ft., glabrous or slightly hoary. Leaves alternate, mostly solitary, ovate or oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long, the margins flat, coriaceous and reticulate. Spines subu- late, often recurved, longer than the leaves, not usually arising from the nodes. Owers axillary or clustered at the base of the spines, very shortly pedicel- late, apparently purple. Calyx minutely pubescent, about 2 lines long, the „lobes shorter than tke tube, the 2 upper ones truncate and united. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; wings nearly as long ; keel much shorter, although exceeding the calyx, broad, incurved, obtuse. Ovary on a long stipes, pu- cent or villous, with 12 to 15 ovules. Pod not seen.—Dichosema multi- caule, Turez. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 283. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 34. 14. M. microphylla, Benth. A diffuse or divaricate shrub, with slender glabrous or slightly hoary brauches. Leaves usually verticillate and clustered round or a little below subulate thorns, oblong or linear-cuneate, ob- tuse, not 2 lines long, flat or folded lengthwise. Flowers small (yellow and purple ?), axillary and very shortly pedicellate. Calyx minutely pubescent, to nearly 13 lines long, the teeth much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, truncate, and united. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; wings nearly as long; keel short, obtuse. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with 6 8 ovules. Pod not seen.—Dichosema microphyllum, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 283. i W: Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 85. 15. M. daviesioides, Benth. An erect rigid leafless shrub, glabrous or the y oung shoots slightly pubescent, the branches numerous, terete, striate or sulcate, the smaller ones divaricate and almost all spinescent, sometimes small, fine, and phyllodineous. Leaves replaced by minute scales. Aeka small, shortly pedicellate, in racemes either terminal or close under t 4 Smaller Phyllodineous branchlets. Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes much. Shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones truncate and united. Standard twice as long as the calyx; wings rather shorter ; keel much shorter, broad, obtuse. Vary stipitate, villous, with about 15 ovules (in Drummond’s specimens). 38 XL. LEGUMINOSE. : [Mirbelia. Pod ovate, acuminate, about 4 lines long, the ventral or axillary face much flattened, the back more or less furrowed, divided longitudinally as in other Mirbelias, but the endocarp scarcely separating.—Daviesia ramulosa, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 14; Chorizema daviesioides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 34; Mirbelia aphylla, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 11. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 190; Gardner’s River, Maxwell ; Murchison river, Oldfield. Var. (?) rigida. Specimens in fruit, with few stout but frequently spinescent branches. Pod oblong, scarcely furrowed on the back.—Dirk Hartog's Island, Milne. 16. M. (?) oxyclada, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 12. A rigid leafless shrub, resembling M. daviesioides, but more slender, the branchlets usually spines- cent. Leaves replaced by minute scales. Flowers unknown. Fruiting pe- dicels short, solitary or in pairs along the branches. Pod shortly stipitate, ovoid, turgid, but with prominent sutures and acuminate with the rigid persis- tent base of the style, 2 to 3 lines long, imperfectly divided into 2 cells by an incomplete dissepiment, the sutures persisting as a replum after the valves have fallen. Seed 1 in each cell, not strophiolate.—Jacksonia viminalis, A. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 75; Oxycladium semiseptatum, Y. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 20, and Fragm. i. 168. N. Australia, 4. Cunningham ; sandstone table-land at the head of Victoria river, and in Arnhem’s Land, F, Mueller. Ea $ 6. ISOTROPIS, Benth. e? Calyx deeply lobed, the 2 upper lobes united nearly to the top. Petals clawed. Standard orbicular, emarginate, longer than the wings; wings obo- vate, somewhat falcate ; keel incurved, nearly as long as the wings. Stamens free. Ovary sessile, with numerous ovules; style incurved, filiform, with a minute terminal stigma. Pod oblong linear or lanceolate, acute, more or less turgid. Seeds not strophiolate.—Herbs or undershrubs, with diffuse or ascending stems. Leaves alternate, simple or unifoliolate, herbaceous. Sti- pules linear-falcate or minute. Flowers solitary, on axillary peduncles, or forming a loose terminal raceme. Ovary villous. The genus is exclusively Australian. It is closely allied to Oxy/obium and Chorizema, differing chiefly in habit, in the deeper-cleft calyx, and in the longer pod. Leaves simple, sessile, continuous with the petiole. Leaves obtuse, truncate or dilated and 2-lobed. Pedicels much mien (ae Wie SOLVE es e yA Leaves few, cuneate acute or none. Flowers loosely racemose, the pedicels shorter or scarcely longer than the calyx . . . . 2. I. Drummondii. Leaves of 1 leaflet, articulate on the petiole. Calyx glabrous, 4 to 5 lines long. Racemes terminal, leafless. Stem-leaves cuneate-oblong or linear-obtuse . +. ..3 Ljúncea. Calyx tomentose, 4 lines long. Racemes terminal, leafless. Leaves ` ovate or obio? PON oe a Calyx pubescent, 3 lines long. Racemes mostly leaf-opposed, leaf- less. Stem-leaves lanceolate, acute . . =... ww, . Calyx pubescent, 2 lines long. Pediccls short, axillary or leaf- opposed. Stem-leaves Pre; Sabor iio o 8S EN parviflora. Calyx tomentose, 3 lines long. Pedicels short, in a short terminal raceme or solitary. Stem-leaves terete, channelled above - 71.1 Wheeleri. 1. 1. striata. 4. I. atropurpurea. 5. I. filicaulis. Isotropis.] XL. LEGUMINOS. 39 1. 1. striata, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 28, and in Ann. Wien. Mus, ii. 71. A perennial or undershrub, more or less clothed with long hairs, silky and appressed on the upper branches, under side of the leaves, and calyxes, spreading on the lower part of the plant. Stems diffuse or ascending, 3 to 12 ft. high. Leaves not numerous, the lower ones obovate or cuneate, very obtuse, truncate or broadly 2-lobed, sometimes exceeding 1 in., narrowed below the middle, either nearly sessile or tapering into a rather long petiole, but not articulate upon it, green on both sides, the upper ones narrower and sometimes acute, and some branches quite leafless and dichotomous. Stipules mostly falcate. Pedicels solitary in the upper axils, often 2 in. long or more, bearing a single large flower with a pair of linear bracteoles close under it. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long. Standard large, yellow with purple streaks ; wings and keel purple. Ovary nearly sessile, with above 30 ovules. Pod #4 to 1 in. long, much contracted towards the hase, pubescent.—Meissn. in PL Preiss. 1.31; F. Muel. Fragm. iii. 16 ; Callistachys cuneifolia, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 267; DC. Prod. ii. 104; Chorizema spartioides, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1953; Paxt. Mag. x. 127, with a fig. ; Zsotropis biloba, Benth, in Hueg. Enum. 29, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 71. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown and others, and thence to Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, and others ; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy. The leaves vary much in shape, from very much dilated and 2-lobed to narrow and scarcely obtuse, but we now find that all the different forms occur sometimes on the same specimen. ; Var. (?) parviflora. Leaves narrow and flowers small, but the specimens insufficient for. accurate determination.—Murchison river, Oldfield. 2. I Drummondii, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 31. Stems several, from a perennial rootstock, ascending or erect, $ to 1 ft. high, glabrous or hirsute towards the base and silky-hairy upwards, sometimes entirely leafless, some- times with a few oblong-cuneate sessile leaves towards the base, rarely above 2 in. long. Stipules setaceous. Flowers like those of J. striata, but. ar- ranged in a loose terminal raceme, the pedicels rarely much longer than the . calyx and usually shorter, each in the axil of a minute bract. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long. Standard veined, as in J. striata. Ovary stipitate, with 30 to ovules or even more. Pod not seen. : ! us Australia, Drummond, n. 277, and 2nd Mata, but I have not seen any specimens whic 8. L juncen, Tiros. in Bull. Moc. 1858, i. 251. Stems numeron® _ ‘Tom a perennial stock, ascending or erect, 2 to lft. long, slender, wiry, slightly angular or compressed, glabrous. Leaves few, chiefly in the lower part of the stem, consisting of a single leaflet, always articulate on a rather ng petiole, the lower ones very small, obovate or obcordate, the next cu- neate-oblong, obtuse, mostly under $ in., and often a few upper ones linear, and $ to nearly 1'in. long. Flowers as in J. Drummondii, in loose terminal Tacemes, but smaller. - Pedicels almost filiform, shorter or rather longer than e calyx, each in the axil of a minute bract. Calyx glabrous, about 3 lines - Ong, the lobes narrow, usually reflexed. Standard very broad, > in. nag : ae or less veined; wings and keel rather shorter. Ovary nearly sessile, ith about 30 ovules. Young pod like that of Z. striata. se Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 22. Coll. n. 95. P: Mueller unites this with h appear to confirm the union. : 40 XL. LEGUMINOSZ, [Isotropis. 4. I. atropurpurea, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 16. A bushy shrub or undershrub of 1 to 2 ft., densely clothed with a short, velvety rusty or whitish tomentum. Leaves of a single leaflet, nearly orbicular, ovate or ob- long, very obtuse, 3 to 1 in. long, always articulate on a petiole of 2 to 3 lines. Flowers in loose terminal racemes, on pedicels of 1 to 3 lines. Sti- pules, bracts, and bracteoles small and narrow. Calyx tomentose, nearly 4 lines long, the lobes not reflexed. Petals deep purple, the broad somewhat striate standard not much exceeding the others, all rather longer than the calyx. Ovary nearly sessile, with about 20 ovules; style usually short, but occasionally much longer and filiform. Young pod oblong, softly tomen- tose. N. Australia. Hammersley Range, F. Gregory’s Expedition; Attack Creek and between Mount Morphett and Bonney river, M'Douall Stuart. 5. I. filicaulis, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 71. Stems erect or ascending from a perennial base, often above 1 ft. high, slender as in Z. juncea, but more branched and terete, glabrous or pubescent with appressed hairs. Leaves consisting of a single leaflet, articulate on a rather short petiole, linear or lanceolate, acute, 1 to nearly 2 in. long, or rarely small and linear-cuneate. Flowers smaller than in J. juncea, in loose slender racemes, mostly leaf- opposed. Pedicels rather longer than the calyx. Bracteoles minute or none. Calyx nearly 3 lines long, pubescent, the lobes lanceolate, broader than in J. juncea. Standard very broad, shortly exceeding the calyx, slightly streaked ; wings and keel nearly as long. Ovary nearly sessile, with about 20 ovules. Pod linear, pubescent, often exceeding 1 in —Chorizema Leichhardtii, F. Muell. Fragm, iy. 20. Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R, Brown 3 Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Wide Bay, Bidwill, Leichhardt. 6. I, parviflora, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 71. Very near Z. fili- caulis, and perhaps a variety. Stems slender, decumbent, branched, pubes- cent. Leaves of a single leaflet, articulate on a rather short petiole. Flowers smaller than in Z. filicaulis, in all the specimens seen on short axillary or leaf- opposed pedicels. Calyx pubescent, about 2 lines long. Petals of Z. filicaulis, but smaller. Pod linear, pubescent, about 1 in. long. N. Australia, Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 1. 1. Wheeleri, F. Muell. Herb. A small bushy broom-like shrub, clothed with a soft but very short, close, hoary tomentum. Leaves few, nearly terete, channelled above, 2 to z in. long or rarely longer, more or less distinetly articulate on a very short petiole. Flowers rather small and very few, in short terminal racemes, sometimes reduced to a single flower, Pedi- cels shorter than the calyx. Calyx tomentose, about 3 lines long. Petals rather longer and nearly equal in length, the standard broad and striate. S. Australia. Between Stokes Range and Cooper’s Creek, Wheeler. f GOMPHOLOBIUM, Sm. Calyx deeply cleft, the tube very short, the lobes lanceolate, valvate, the 2 upper ones sometimes more falcate or slightly cohering, but not connate. Petals very shortly clawed. Standard orbicular or reniform, longer than the Gompholobium. | XL. LEGUMINOS#, 41 lower petals; wings oblong, more or less falcate ; keel usually broader than the wings, obtuse. Stamens free. Ovary usually shortly stipitate or nearly sessile ; style incurved, filiform or slightly thickened from the middle upwards ; ovules several, usually 8 or more, rarely 4 or 6, the funicles long and thick, all curved or folded downwards. Pod broadly ovoid or nearly globular, usually oblique, inflated. Seeds small, without any strophiole.—Shrubs or rarely undershrubs, glabrous pubescent or hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves simple or more frequently compound, the leaflets usually narrow, digitate or pinnate with the terminal leaflet sessile between the last pair. Stipules small, lanceolate or subulate, or none. Flowers yellow or red, ter- minal or rarely in the upper axils, solitary or 2 or 3 together or in short racemes, Bracts and bracteoles small, sometimes minute or none. Ovary glabrous in all except G. Baxteri, where the style is also exceptionally thickened at the base. The genus is limited to Australia. It is readily distinguished from all except Burtonia the calyx and pod, and is separated from that genus by the more numerous ovules, with the regularly-packed funicles all turned downwards. The ovules in both genera are usually scarcely larger than the breadth of the funicle. Pedicels longer than the calyx, solitary or 2 or 3 together in a very loose raceme. Plant glabrous: - Leaves all simple, sessile, coriaceous. Leaves broadly ovate or orbicular , so ae LO, nalih ves cordate-lanceolate .. . . . . . + « + « + + 2 G. amplezicaule. Leaflets 3, very rarely 5 or more, digitate, the common petiole usually very short, Keel not ciliate (western species). flets linear, or, if broad, truncate, mucronate, and veined above. Flowers lage +0. 0 aia tetas E 5. G. polymorphum. small, obco: , the veins very ol Scure 4 7 ee me aper eo eee a, . 6. G. obcordatum. Leaflets obovate or cuneate-oblong, mucronate with thickened : . margins, the veins obscure, Flowers small . . . . 7. Q. marginatum. Keel ciliate or fringed at the edge (eastern species). Tall erect shrub. Leaflets 1 to 2 in. long. Standard above lin. diameter, Keel densely fringed + . . 7. . or much branched. Leaflets under 4 in. Standard Ea 3 to 3 in. Keel (often very shortly) ciliate . . +. . 4 G. Huegelii. ` Leaves pinnate, with several leaflets . . . . . . + « + 21. G. pinnatum. icels very Short or not longer than the calyx, solitary or 2 or 3 together in dense leafy corymbs or heads. Leaflets 3, digitate. t quite glabrous, Leaflets above + in. long. ets with revolute margins. Calyx 4 in. long. Stan- PERERA ey pa ea ee Leaflets usually flat or recurved. Calyx 4 to 5 lines. i Standard 6 or 7 lines long A A ranches pubescent or villous. Leaflets under } in. long. ae glabrous. pules inconspicuous (eastern species). 5 Flowers ollo rá large. > vals 1240 90 10.6, eee i er red, small. Ovyules about 6. . +. . + + y > Tas. s Y . 2 a . a Persistent (western species) = = 1g, aria. Leaves pinnate. Leaflets more than 3 (the petiole someti 5 z 80 short that they appear digitate). 3. G. latifolium. 8. G. grandiflorum. 42. XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Gompholobium. - Calyx pubescent or villous. Common petiole none. Leaves linear, terete, with revolute LU RRS SS SOAS Sie gece er E O one Common petiole very short. Leaflets linear, with recurved margins. Flowers in dense leafy corymbs or heads . . 14. G. burtonioides. Common petiole elongated. Flowers in dense leafy corymbs or heads. Leaflets linear, terete, revolute, usually fewer than 11. Ovules8 . 15. G. capitatum. Flowers few. Leaflets linear-terete, revolute, usually fewer than 11. Ovules 16 to 20 e Flowers few. Leaflets numerous, often dilated at the 13. G. aristatum. 16. G. tomentosum. mi OE suo a slid: o gih 17. G. Preissii. Calyx glabrous. Viscid erect shrub (western species). . . + + 18. G. viscidulum. ` Shrubs, usually diffuse, not viscid (eastern species). Leaflets narrow-linear. Common petiole very short. . 19. G. glabratum. Leaflets cuneate. Common petiole elongated . . . . 20. G. nitidum. - Leaflets narrow-linear. Common petiole elongated . . 21. G. pinnatum. Flowers in short corymbose racemes, pedunculate above the last + leaves. Leaves all or mostly pinnate. Bracts persistent. Leaflets linear-terete, with revolute margins, Leaflets 3 to 7, under 4 in. long, with a very short common petiole . te he Seer es te lS: 09:0. Shudtleworthi. - Leaflets numerous, 4 to 2 in. long, on an elongated common NE ee a ee Hilal e BL O cristo. Leaflets flat or nearly so, linear-lanceolate or oblong . . . . 24. Q. Knightianum. i S pinnate-leaved species with only 2 ovules to the ovary, are now transferred to Bur- onia. ; 1. G. ovatum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 35. A glabrous undershrub, with simple or slightly branched ascending or erect stems, more or less com- pressed and prominently angular. Leaves simple, broadly ovate or orbicular, # to 1 in. long, very obtuse or slightly pointed, coriaceous, penniveined. Flowers rather large, on long pedicels, solitary or 2 to 4 together in an irre- gular terminal raceme. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long, the 2 upper lobes slightly faleate. Standard 8 to 9 lines long, very broad, emarginate ; wings and keel about 6 lines. Ovary almost sessile, with about 20 ovules; style rather attenuate at the base. Pod oblong, nearly twice as long as the calyx. _ W. Australia, Drummond ; near Albany, Preiss, n. 1105 ; Ironstone hills, Blackwood river, Oldfield. 2. G. amplexicaule, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 36, and ii. 210. Closely allied to G. ovatum, and perhaps a variety. Stems decumbent or branched at the base, 1 to 2 ft. high, usually flattened, with prominent angles, Leaves simple, from ovate to lanceolate, acute, 4 to 12 in. long, always cordate at the base, but not truly stem-clasping, coriaceous, obscurely veined.* Flowers rather smaller than in G. ovatum, the pedicels not quite so long, and the lower ones occasionally axillary. Calyx about 4 lines long. Standard nearly = long. Ovules 15 to 20. Pod nearly globular, much longer than e calyx. W. Australia Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 124. A j ; ston cie » hae ; near Albany, Preiss, n. 1106; stony 3. G. latifolium, Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 505, and ii. 519, and in Trans. . Gompholobium.] XL. LEGUMINOS&. 43 Linn. Soc. ix. 249, not of Labill. A glabrous shrub, with erect virgate. branches. Leaflets 3, on a very short common petiole, linear linear-lanceolate or linear-cuneate, acute or truncate and: mucronate, 1 to 2 in. long, the margins flat or slightly recurved, the veins fine and almost longitudinal ; stipules inconspicuous. Flowers large, yellow. Peduncles (or leafless flower- ing branches) solitary in the upper axils, nearly as long as or longer than the leaves, with a pair of small 3-foliolate bracts about the middle, or some- times growing out into leafy branches with a terminal flower. Calyx 3 to 2 - in. long. Standard broad, usually above 1 in. long; lower petals nearly as long; keel incurved, very obtuse, densely fringed on the inner edge with short white woolly hairs. Ovary with about 20 ovules. Pod ovoid, + to + in. long. —G. fimbriatum, Sra. Exot. Bot. t. 58; G. psoraleefolium, Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 6; G, barbigerum, DC. Prod. ii. 105; Bot. Mag. t. 4171; Paxt. Mag. xiv. 221, with a fig. Queensland. Glasshouse mountains, F. Mueller (from a specimen in leaf only). _ N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 861, and Fl. Mizt. n. 577, and others; Port Stevens, Fraser, M‘ Arthur. : Misled by Labillardiére, most modern botanists have transferred the name of G. latifolium to the following species. ' : 4. G. Huegelii, Bent). in Hueg. Enum. 29, and in Ann. Wien, Mus. ii. 72. A low, diffuse or much branched, glabrous shrub, rarely above 1 ft. high. Leaflets usually 3, on a very short common petiole, linear or the lower ones oblong-cuneate, or rarely almost obovate, mostly about 4 in. long, but occasionally very narrow, and 3 or even 1 in. long, obtuse or mucronate, the margins flat, recurved or rarely revolute. Flowers yellow, solitary or 2 or 3 together; pedicels always longer than the calyx, attaining sometimes 13 or 2 in. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long. Standard 6 or 7 lines long; wings rather shorter; keel as long as the wings and rather broader, very obtuse, usually ordered on the inner edge with minute white hairs, which sometimes almost Sappear, Ovary with 15 to 20 ovules. Pod ovoid, longer than the calyx. TC. latifolium, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 105, t. 133; DC. Prod. ii. 105; Hook. f. FL. Tam. i. 82, not of Sm.; G. pedunculare, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1639? (from the figure). : dy oe ce to cs ea NS E A, Cunningham ; > L. Stuart, and to the southward, Huege/, e Eae King’s Island, Port Phillip, R. Brida Gipps Land, Dandenong ranges, > E. Mueller : . «“Asmania. Port Dalrymple and Derwent river, R. Brown; abundant in heathy Places throughout the colony, J. D. Hooker. Ht) e ar. leptophyllum. Leatlets very fine, often Ẹ in. long or more. Mountains pers, ma in New England, also apparently Mount Mitchell, Clarence river, Beckler, but the latter ns are past flower. . i Sage of the decumbent loose-flowered specimens of this species come very near to some of the western G, polymorphum, 5. G. polymorphum, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 11. A gla- brous shrub or thdenshiuh, trdle polymorphous in aspect and leaflets. a y humerous, slender, either decumbent and 4 to 1} ft. long, or iS twining, or more or less erect and virgate. Leaflets 3, rarely 5 or Le °F 9, digitate on a common petiole, usually short, but sometimes 3 or 4 lines * 44 XL. LEGUMINOSE, [Gompholobium. „long, mostly linear, with recurved margins and short straight points, and } to 1 in. long, but sometimes the lower ones, or in luxuriant shoots, nearly all are broadly cuueate, spathulate or almost obovate, and then marked on the upper surface with raised oblique veins. Stipules setaceous. Pedicels long, terminal or leaf-opposed, solitary or 2 or 3 ina loose raceme. Bracteoles minute, at a distance from the calyx. Flowers varying from orange-yellow to a bright crimson. Calyx glabrous, about 4 lines long. Standard often twice _ as long as the calyx; wings considerably shorter; keel glabrous on the edge, rather shorter than the wings. Ovules 15 to 20. Pod ovoid-globular, much inflated, to 4 in. long.—Bot. Mag. t. 1533 ; DC. Prod. ii. 106; Meissn. in. Pl. Preiss. i. 37; Paxt. Mag. vi. 151, with a fig.; G. grandifiorum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 642, not of Sm.; G. pedunculare, DC. Prod. ii. 105 ; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 36; G. venulosum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1574; G. tenue, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1615; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 37; G. versicolor, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 43; Paxt. Mag. xii. 219, with a fig.; Bot. Mag. t. 4179 (the latter a luxuriant form with long leaflets and large flowers). W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Baxter, and others, to Vasse and Swan rivers, Drummond, Preiss, n. 1108 (?), 1109, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1114, Oldfield and others, and extending eastward towards the Great Bight, Maxwell, . The station, È. Austra- lia, given by De Candolle for his G. pedunculare, was a mistake. The specimen in Sonder’s herbarium, marked Preiss, n. 1108, is evidently G. Huegelii, with a strongly fringed keel, probably some mistake has occurred; if it be really West Australian, and a form only of G. polymorphum, the distinction between the two species disappears. 6. G. obcordatum, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 258. An erect, much branched, glabrous shrub, with slender, angular, flexuose branches. Leaflets 3, on a very short common petiole, obovate or obcordate, very obtuse and not mucronate, 2 to 4 lines long, the margins usually reflexed, smooth or obscurely reticulate. Stipules minute or none. Pedicels terminal, solitary or 2 or 3 ina loose raceme, longer than the calyx. Flowers much smaller than in G. polymorphum. Calyx about 3 lines long, glabrous. Standard not twice as long as the calyx ; wings shorter, narrow ; keel about as long as the wings, much broader and incurved. Ovules about 8. Pod broader than long. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 42. : 7. G. marginatum, X. Br. in dit. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iii. 11. A low, — glabrous, and somewhat glaucous shrub, with slender, but rigid decumbent - or ascending stems, under 1 ft. long. Leaflets 3 or rarely solitary, on a com- mon petiole of 4 to 14 lines, from obovate to linear oblong, 4 to 2 in. long, with a short sharp point, coriaceous, bordered by a thickened nerve-like edge, the veins obscure. Stipules lanceolate-subulate or setaceous. Flowers small, yellow, few, in irregular loose terminal racemes or rarely solitary. Pedicels much longer than the calyx, bearing minute bracteoles below the middle. Calyx 24 to 3 lines long. Standard about 4 lines long, deeply notched ; lower petals scarcely exceeding the calyx. Ovules 10 to 12. Pod much in- aed, i o diameter.—DC. Prod. ii. 105; Bot. Reg. t. 1490; Meissn. in Pl. reiss. i. 36, W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Barter; Swan Ri er, Dru d, n: 219; Darling range, Collie; Kalgan, Gordon, and Harvey rivers, Oldfield: Les . 8, G. grandiflorum, Sm. Erot. Bot. t. 5, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. . Gompholobium.] XL. LEGUMINOSR. 45 249. A glabrous, erect, branching shrub. Leaflets 3, on a very short com- mon petiole, narrow-linear, with a short almost pungent point, $ to 1 in. long or rather more, the margins revolute, the veins inconspicuous. Flowers large, solitary or 2 or 3 together, shortly pedicellate, terminal or on very short axillary leafy branches. Calyx about 4 in. long, glabrous, except minute hairs at the edge of the lobes. Standard broad, fully + in. long ; wings shorter ; keel as long as the wings, broad, not fringed. Ovules varying from 8 to 14. Pod scarcely exceeding the calyx.—DC. Prod. ii. 105; Bot. Reg. t. 484? (the pedicels figured much longer than I have ever seen them); G. maculatum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 427. i =- S. Wales. Port Jackson, to the Blue Mountains. R. Brown, Sieber, n, 858, and others. j Victoria. A specimen from Latrobe river, F. Mueller, appears to be this species, but being in fruit only, it is doubtful, 5 Var. setifolium, DC. Leaflets narrower. Flowers rather smaller.—G. setifolium, Sieb. Pl. Exs.; G. glaucescens, A. Cunn, in Field. N. S. Wales, 346, Blue Mountains, 2, Brown, Sieber, n. 363, A. Cunningham, and others. 9. G. virgatum, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 105. An erect glabrous shrub, closely allied to G. grandiflorum, and differing chiefly in the shorter and less revolute leaflets and smaller flowers. Leaflets 3, the common petiole very short or scarcely any, linear, the margins always recurved, although rarely ab- solutely revolute, $ to 3 in. long or rarely none. Flowers yellow, terminal, solitary or 2 or 3 together, the pedicels rarely so long as the calyx, Calyx 4to 5 lines long. Standard 6 to 7 lines; keel shorter, not fringed. Ovary ot about 8 ovules, Pod about as long as the calyx.—Reichb. Teon, Exot. Queensland. Sandy Ca , R. Brown ; islands of Moreton Bay, F. Mueller. _N. S. Wales, Port Senso; R. Brown, Sieber, n. 360, and Fl. Mixt. n. 578, and others; Port Stephens, M' Arthur. x G Var, aspalathoides. Teaflets narrower and more revolute, not above 3 in. long.—G. as- palathoides, A. Cunn. ; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii.72. Wellington valley.—This comes near to some forms of G. minus, bnt is quite glabrous, the leaves are longer and the ovules much fewer, 10. G. minus, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 251. A much-branched shrub, sometimes low and decumbent, sometimes attaining 2 or 3 ft., t nches more or less pubescent, at least when young. Leaflets 3, on a nae short common petiole, linear or almost subulate, obtuse, with a small re or recurved point, under 4 in. long, the margins revolute, glabrous. nee (yellow ?) usually 2 or 3 together, the pedicels rarely exceeding the calyx w 6 Usually much shorter. Calyx 34 to 4 lines long. Standard 5 or rare LIN tes long ; wings and keel rather shorter, the keel not fringed., Orar DC 12 to 20 ovules. Pod shortly exceeding the caly- Bro Mone : : 1.106; Gompholobium tetrathecoides, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 106. S S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, P ce ome ctoria. Mount Abrupt, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy- id Aliit Sakae Lofty age F. Mueller ; Penola, J. Woods; mouth of the Glenelg, “3 Kangaroo Island, Waterhouse. : ith Saa grandiflora. Flowers rather larger, pedicels rather longer; ed e coo of ‘the mute edging of white hairs, Ovules often above 20, To this variety - 46 XL, LEGUMINOS. [ Gompholobium. southern specimens, and some seem almost to pass into G. Huegelii, although they have always shorter pedicels, smaller leaves, and more or less pubesceut branches. 11. G. uncinatum, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 72. An erect, much branched, heath-like shrub, the young branches usually minutely — pubescent. Leaflets 3, on a very short common petiole or almost sessile, linear, obtuse, with a recurved point, rarely above 3 lines long, the margins revolute. Flowers red, much smaller than in the preceding species, solitary or 2 or 3 together, the pedicels shorter or rarely rather longer than the calyx. Calyx scarcely 3 lines long. Petals almost sessile; standard very broad, about 4 lines long; wings and keel rather shorter, the latter not fringed. pe ee with about 6 ovules. Pod nearly globular, rather longer than the yx. | N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains, 4. Cunningham, Fraser ; Paramatta, Woolls; New England, C. Stuart, 12. G. Baxteri, Benth. An erect heath-like shrub, with numerous vir- gate pubescent branches. Leaflets usually 3, sessile or on a very short com- mon petiole, narrow-linear, with revolute margins, mostly hooked at the ends, 3 or rarely 4 lines long. Stipules setaceous, persistent. Flowers terminal, solitary or 2 or 3 together, sessile within the last leaves. Calyx glabrous, apparently viscid, about 3 lines long, very angular in the bud. “Standard 4 lines long or rather more ; wings shorter ; keel almost as long as the standard, straight, very obtuse. Ovary hirsute, almost sessile, with about 8 ovules; style slightly thickened at the base. Pod ovoid-globular, slightly compressed, about as long as the calyx, more or less pubescent. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Baxter 3 Orleans Bay, Stokes Inlet, and Russell Ranges, Mazwell, _13. G. aristatum, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 72. An erect shrub, with the habit and tomentose or villous branches of G. tomentosum, but the petiole of the leaves is never developed. Leaflets 3, 5, or rarely 7, sessile and digitate on a slight callosity of the branch, narrow-linear, with closely revolute margins, so as to be almost terete, with a fine almost pungent point, ' rarely more than 4 in. long, more or less ubescent. Stipules small, setace- * ous. Flowers terminal, nearly sessile, mollis or in compact leafy corymbs, — but not so dense as in G. capitatum. Calyx villous, 3 to 34 lines long, the buds tipped by the awn-like points of the sepals. Standard 5 to 6 lines - keel. nearly as long, somewhat incurved, minutely ciliate on the edge. ary stipitate, with 10 to 12 ovules. Pod compressed-globular, scarcel aes the sepals.—Meissn: in Pl. Preiss, i. 38, and ii. 210. : x Swan River, Huegel, Drumm E SS, N. d Var. (2) laxum. Leaflets Usually 5, Sins de g ere 2, Pita pr nearly as long as the leaves ; calyx glabrous or slightly pubescent. Kalgan river, Oldfield; Plan- Tr Stirling ranges, Maxwell, also one specimen if Herb. Sonder, with Preiss's, Var. muticum. Leaflets usually 3, obtuse or with a short callous point ; keel rather more prominently ciliate ; ovules fewer, 8 according to Meissner, 6 in the flower I examined. G. Drummondii, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 25.—Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 10; Canning river, Mount Barker, and Kalgan river, Oldfield. 14. G. burtonioides, Meissn. in Pl, Preiss, i. 37, and ii, 210, An ` erect shrub, allied to G. aristatum, but at once distinguished by the broader Gompholobium.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 47 leaflets, with a more or less prominent common petiole, sometimes 12 lines long. Young branches usually pubescent. Leaflets 3 or 5, the lateral ones usually inserted lower down than the 3 terminal ones, all linear, obtuse or mucronate, under 3 in. long, the margins recurved or revolute. Flowérs yellow, terminal, solitary or several together, sessile or shortly pedicellate amongst the last leaves. Calyx hirsute or nearly glabrous, fully 4 lines long. Standard about 2 in. long; wings and keel scarcely exceeding the calyx. Ovary with about 8 ovules. Pod rarely exceeding the calyx. Ww. Australia, Drummond, 8rd Coll. n. 74, and 5th Coll.n. 29 and 30; near Albany, Preiss, n. 1100, also 1193 ; heathy ground, Gordon river, Oldfield ; Salt river, Maxwell. 15. G. capitatum, A. Cunn. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1563. Very closely allied to G. tomentosum, and perhaps a variety. It is less tomentose, and sometimes glabrous or hirsute with a few long hairs. Foliage the same or the leaflets rather more slender. Flowers yellow, very shortly pedicellate, in nse, terminal, leafy corymbs, almost contracted into heads. Calyx usually very hirsute, about 4 lines long. Petals sometimes shorter than the calyx, and rarely exceeding it so much as in G. tomentosum. Ovules not more than 8 in any of the flowers I have opened. Pod usually shorter than the calyx. —Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, i. 38. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown and others; Swan River, Drum- mond, n. 129; Sussex district and Stirling Terrace, Preiss, n. 1200 and 1201 ; Blackwood and Canning rivers, Oldfield. 3 16. G, tomentosum, Zaġill. in Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 106, t: 134. An erect shrub of 1 to 3 ft., the young branches tomentose-villous. Leaves pinnate, the common petiole rarely above 2 or 3 lines long. Leaflets usually 5 or i, e varying from 3 to 11, narrow-linear, the margins revolute so as to be ost terete, mucronate, about 4 in. or sometimes nearly $ in. long, more or pubescent. Stipules subulate. Flowers yellow, terminal, few, in com- Pact leafy corymbs or rarely solitary, the pedicels very short. Calyx villous, About 4 lines long, the lobes more or less fine-pointed. Standard about 6 nes long; keel rather shorter, broad, somewhat curved, the edges minutely ciliate, Ovary with 16 to 20 ovules, Pod as long as or rather exceeding _ He calyx.—DC. Prod. ii. 106; Meissn. in Pl. ‘Preiss: i, 40; Bot. Beg. t 4814; G. aciculare, Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 243, (from the fig.) ; G. lanatum, ay naya in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 118. pa e Bik ay i i ' illardibre, R. Brown, and 0; ; Hood, 08, Preia y 1108; Doc Tad Bay, Chapin Biy, md Urchison river, Oldfield, s li. G. Preissii, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 40. Very closely allied to G. tomentosum, and perhaps a variety. Branches and leaves hirsute with ger t but ars. Leaflets more numerous than in G. tomentosum, usually 11 ade ; in isionally more, or on the lower leaves fewer, linear, with revolute margins, -S in the allied species, but most of them more or less dilated at the end, with eg ed points. Flowers few, in leafy terminal corymbs, as in G. tomentosum, ; : than er. Calyx hirsute, 3 to 31 lines long. Standard rather longer the calyx; keel shorter and straight, not ciliate. Ovules 8 in the flowers exa- od short, as in G, capitatum. LAR * Australia, Drummond, n. 60 and 201 ; Stirling Terrace, Preiss, n. y 48 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Gompholobium. 18, G. viscidulum, Weissn. in Pl. Preiss.i.39, and ii. 210. An erect, glabrous, more or less viscid, much branched shrub, of 4 to 13 ft. Leaves pinnate, occasionally opposite, the common petiole rarely 4 in. long; leaflets 5 to 9, narrow-linear, with revolute margins, obtuse or nearly so, rarely 4 in. long, rather rigid. Stipules minute. Flowers terminal, solitary or 2 or 3 together, on very short pedicels within the last leaves. Calyx glabrous, about 3 lines long, the lobes broader and the buds more angular than in most _ species. Standard broad, 4 or 5 lines long; wings and keel shorter, the latter broad, slightly incurved, very minutely ciliate on the edge. Ovules usually 8, wW. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 15; Konkoberup Hills, Preiss, n, 1196; Fitzgerald river, Phillips Ranges, Stokes Inlet, Orleans Bay, etc., Maxwell, 19. G. glabratum, DC. Prod. ii. 106. A low decumbent or diffuse or rarely erect shrub, with the habit of G. minus, but readily known by the leaves really pinnate, although with the common petiole very short, rarely _ attaining 2 lines. Branches slender, virgate, minutely pubescent or rarely — quite glabrous. Leaflets 5 or 7, very rarely 3, narrow-linear, with recurved - or revolute margins, under 4 in. long, obtuse or minutely pointed, usually - glabrous. Flowers terminal, solitary or 2 or 3 together, the pedicels very ' short. Calyx glabrous, 3 to nearly + lines long. Standard 4 to 5 lines; ` keel shorter, broad, somewhat incurved, not ciliate. Ovary with 8 to 10 ' ovules. Pod not seen.—G. polymorphum, Sieb. Pl. Exs. not of R. Br. i ine Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 362, and others; Double Bay, 20. G. nitidum, Soland. in Herb. Banks. A much-branched, glabrous shrub, Leaves pinnate, with a common petiole of about 3 in.; leaflets usually about 7 to 11, oblong-cuneate or almost obovate, emarginate, 4 to 6 lines long, dark and shining above, glaucous underneath. Flowers terminal, solitary, rather large, on very short pedicels. Calyx glabrous, fully 5 lines long, the lobes of a thickish consistence and not separated so low down as in other species. Petals shortly exceeding the calyx, the keel not ciliate. Ovules (from R, Brown’s notes) 4. Pod sessile, shorter than the calyx. ¿e sland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, R. Brown (Herb. Banks and + DF,), 21. G. pinnatum, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 251. A glabrous un- dershrub, with slender, but rigid, ascending or erect stems, of 1 ft. or rather more, simple or little branched, and usually flexuose. Leaves pinnate; lenflets few in the lower leaves, on a short common petiole, often above 30 — in the upper ones, with a common petiole of above 1 in., linear or almost - subulate, 4 to 8 lines long, mucronate or acute, the margins revolute Flowers few, in short, loose, terminal racemes, or rarely solitary, the pedicels longer than the calyx. Calyx about 3 lines long. Standard very broad, rather longer than the calyx, and the lower petals nearly as long. Ovary usually with 8 ovules, Pod ovoid-globular, rather | a DC. Prod. ii. 106. globular, rather longer than the calyx. d. Sandy Cape, R. Brown ; Port Curtis, M‘Gillivray ; Wid Bido will ; Brisbane river and Moreton Bay, F. Mueller. O ¡3 N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, 2. Brown, Woolls, ee : Compholobium.] XL. LEGUMINOSA, 49 22. G. Shuttleworthii, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 39. An erect, heath- like shrub, of 4 to 14 ft., the branches shortly pubescent. Leaves pin- nate, with a very short common petiole; leaflets 5 or 7, rarely 3, narrow- linear, with revolute margins, under 3 in. long, obtuse or with a short re- curved point, glabrous or scabrous-pubescent. Flowers purple-red, in short, corymbose, almost capitate racemes, pedunculate above the last leaves, * Bracts and bracteoles linear-subulate, persistent. Pedicels much shorter than the calyx. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, glabrous. Standard about 5 lines long, not so broad as in some species ; keel shorter, slightly incurved, minutely or scarcely perceptibly ciliate on the edges. Ovules 6 in all the specimens I examined, but Meissner found only 4. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Swan ‘River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 200; Darling Range, Collie, Preiss, n, 1178; Gordon river, Oldjield. 23. G. venustum, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 12. A gla- brous, often glaucous shrub or undershrub, with slender, flexuose stems, of to 2 ft. Leaves pinnate, with a common petiole of 4 to 1 in.; leaflets usually 9 to 21, linear-terete, acute or mucronate, the margins closely revo- lute, $ to 2 in, long, transversely wrinkled when dry. Flowers pink or pur- ple, rather numerous, in a short corymbose raceme, on a long peduncle above the last leaves, Pedicels longer than the calyx, in the axils of subulate bracts, Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, glabrous. Standard very broad, rather suger than the calyx ; wings and- keel rather shorter. Ovules about 8, od very broad, as long as the calyx.—-DC. Prod. ii. 106; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i, 40; Bot. Mag. t. 4258; Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 76. wW. Australia, King George’s Sound, R. Brown and others, Drummond, 3rd Coll. x pes per Albany, Preiss, n, 1102; Mount Barker, Oldfield ; near Cape Paisley, attaining 1 ] E E) eve. Leaflets perfectly smooth, but revolute, as in the common form.—Middle well, . : ae cae ount Barren, M, ax 2. G, Knightianum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1468. A glabrous un- : tub or small shrub, with slender, but rigid, ascending or erect stems, ft. or rather more. Leaves mostly pinnate, with 5 to 11 eens sli ag leaflets, 3 to 1 in. long, obtuse or mucronate, flat or wit lightly recurved margins, rigid and strongly reticulate on the upper side ; - the lower leaves, however, or nearly all those of the lower branches, some- reduced to 3 short, ovate, obovate or oblong, digitate leaflets. Stipules long ped Owers pink or-purple, in a short corymbose raceme, on a nic 3 la uncle above the last leaves. Bracts linear-subulate. Calyx riego y nae oe Standard broad, rather longer than the calyx ; wings and ia Preise shorter, Ovules about 8. Pod about 4 lines long.—Meissn. in Fl. ow RG, heterophyllum, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. bi A Ri » King George’ , Baxter, A. Cunningham, Preiss, m. 5 a River, Drummond, Vat Coli and n. 280 ; York District, Press, n. 1104 ; Gordon and Oldfield; Cape Knobb and Cape Le Grand, Maswell. | : 8. BURTONIA, R. Br. i i ho deeply cleft, the lobes longer than the tube, lanceolate, valvate, the | “vou. nga n broader or more obtuse, but not connate. anal very Mo. Bot. Gardan, * 1902. - 50 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [Burtonia. shortly clawed ; standard orbicular or reniform, longer than the lower petals ; wings oblong or obovate, more or less falcate ; keel usually broader than the wings, obtuse. Stamens free. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate ; style in- curved, more or less dilated towards the base ; ovules 2, the funicles long and thick, one curved or folded upwards, the other downwards. Pod broadly * ovoid or nearly globular, usually oblique, inflated. Seeds small, without any strophiole.—Shrubs or rarely undershrubs, glabrous or hirsute with spread- ing hairs. Leaves simple or compound, digitate, or pinnate with the termi- nal leaflet sessile between the last pair. Stipules minute or none. Flowers yellow, orange-red or bluish-purple, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves or forming terminal racemes. Bracts small; bracteoles also small, usually below the middle of the pedicel. Ovary glabrous or villous. The genus is limited to Australia. It is closely allied to Gompholobium, with the same diversity of foliage, valvate calyx, etc. ; differing chiefly in the ovules, always 2 only, with the funicles very long and thick, as in Gompholobium, but one always curved or folded upwards, the other downwards, not all downwards, as in that genus. ‘The style is also much thicker at the base. Leaves pinnate. Racemes terminal. Plant glabrous. Racemes 1- to 3-flowered. Peahem few. A FP Sees ee Ee ee 1. B. subulata. Leaflets numerous, very small, obovate or obcordate . . . . 2. B. foliolosa. Plant very hirsute. Racemes elongated, many-flowered. Leaflets very numerous, small, ovate. . . . + + ere ngs Leaflets 3, linear-revolute, sessile (the common petiole not produced). Pedicels in the upper axils. Calyx and ovary villous. . +. . Calyx and ovary glabrous, Branches tomentose. Leaflets rigid, often shorter than the in- ternodes. Pedicels long . . . Branches glabrous. Leaflets longer than the internodes and pe- dicels . A WH. combed, Leaves simple, linear or subulate. Racemes umbel-like, terminal. 7. B. conferta. f 1. B. subulata, Benth. An erect, glabrous shrub, of L to 3 ft., with — slender, rigid branches. Leaves pinnate, with a common petiole of 3 or 4 lines; leaflets 5, 7, or rarely 9, linear-subulate, with revolute margins, mū- — -cronulate, 4 to 2 in. long. Flowers few, in very short, terminal, almost — corymbose racemes, or often quite solitary ; pedicels usually longer than the — calyx. Calyx glabrous, about 4 lines long. Petals nearly equal in length, — . 3. B. polyzyga. o n i a dra ed A B. olosa 5. B. Hendersonii. i slightly exceeding the calyx. Style more slender than in most Burtonias, ye somewhat dilated at the base. Pod compressed-globular, scarcely exceeding the calyx.—Gompholobium subulatum, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii, 72; (+ ' stenophyllum, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 30. N. Australia, Regent’s River, Brunswick Bay, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; islands — de ts Gulf of Carpentaria; R. Brown; Port Essington, Armstrong ; Arnhem’s Land, F. ueller. : 2. B. foliolosa, Benth. An elegant little shrub, quite glabrous and somewhat glaucous, with slender terete branches. Leaves pinnate, the com- mon petiole rarely above $ in. long; leaflets 11 to 21 or even more, obovate — or obcordate, very obtuse, 1 to 1} lines long. Flowers small, few together, in loose, terminal, almost corymbose racemes, the pedicels rather longer than Burtonia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 51 the calyx. Calyx nearly 2 lines long, less deeply divided than in most other Species, although the lobes are longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones more obtuse. Standard at least half as long again as the calyx; wings and keel shorter. Ovary sessile, glabrous; style slightly flattened towards the base. Pod not seen.— Gompholobium Joliolosum, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 348. _ Queensland. Sandy forests, Warrego river, Mitchell; Dogwood Creek, Leichhardt. 3. B. polyzyga, Benth. An erect shrub, the branches, leaves, and in- florescence densely clothed with long, spreading, white, almost woolly hairs. Leaves pinnate, with a common petiole, of 1 to 2 in. or rather more; leaflets 29 to 51, oval obovate or oblong, rarely exceeding 2 lines. Flowers yellow, In long, loose, terminal racemes ; the pedicels longer than the calyx. Bracts and bracteoles filiform. Calyx about 4 lines long. Petals rather longer, all of nearly equal length. Ovary almost sessile, hirsute with long white hairs. not seen.—Gompholobium polyzygum, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 29. i N. Australia. Between Mount Morphett and Bonny river, M‘Douall Stuart. Solitary in the upper axils, on pedicels usually shorter than the leaves. Calyx te, 4 to 5 lines long. Standard fully 4 in. long; wings rather shorter ; eel shorter than the wings, incurved. ` Ovary nearly sessile, villous ; style _ “ittened towards the base, ciliate on the inner edge. Pod somewhat com- __ Pressed, shortly exceeding the calyx, as broad as long.— Bot. Mag. t. 4410. i King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Drummond ; sandy woods near Preiss, n, 1172; Mount Barker, Oldfield. et B. Hendersonii, Benth. A stout, rigid, divaricate shrub, the branches “terete and tomentose when young. Leaflets 8, sessile on the ae ear, with revolute margins, obtuse or with a hooked point, 2 to 3 tne 8, and scarcely covering the internodes, rigid, glabrous, but appear- "g minutely glandular under a lens. Flowers orange-red, solitary in the ex axils, the pedicels longer than the leaves. Calyx glabrous outside, tant 4 lines long, the lobes ciliate on the edge, whitish but scarcely tomen- «Inside. Standard very broad, above 3 in. long; wings scarcely exceed- q mg the calyx ; keel rather longer, deeply coloured, much incurved. — Ovary 7 Wd sessile, glabrous. Pod not seen.—Gompholobium Hendersonu, Paxt. | NRG ai. 108, with a fig, Es Australia, From the interior, J. 8. Roe. 6B R pte’ s 39 heath-like scabra, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 12. A hea | shrub, quite glabrous or the young branches minutely hoary. Leaflets 3, 3 hooked the stems, narrow-linear, with revolute margins, obtuse or fe e Flower ae Usually about 4 in. long, but varying from 4 to 8 ints. lares. (132 Purple, solitary in the upper axils; pedicels shorter, oe Descent irs YX nearly 4 lines long, glabrous outside, sometimes sig a Bg side. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; wings and ma age (from the figure and description). 52 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [Burtonia, Ovary shortly stipitate, glabrous or pubescent; style flattened towards the base. Pod glabrous or shortly pubescent, scarcely exceeding the calyx.— DC. Prod. ii. 106; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 41; Bot. Mag. t. 5000; Gom- pholobium scabrum, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 250; B. sessilifolia, DC. Prod. ii. 106 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 61 (with the leaflets rather shorter and slender); B. pulchella, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 41; Bot. Mag. t. 4392. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown and others; near Albany, Preiss, n. 1177: and eastward to Stokes Inlet, Herb. F. Mueller ; Swan River, Drummond, n: 199, Preiss, n. 1173, and others. 7. B. conferta, DC. Prod. ii. 166. A heath-like, glabrous shrub, with erect, virgate branches. Leaves crowded, all simple, narrow-linear or subu- late, with closely reflexed margins, obtuse or shortly mucronate, rarely ex- ceeding }in. in length. Flowers bluish-purple, usually numerous, in a short, dense, umbel-like, terminal raceme, the pedicels rarely longer than the calyx. Bracts small, subulate; bracteoles minute. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, gla- — brous. Petals nearly equal in length and rarely exceeding the calyx; keel straighter than in the other species and shortly acuminate. Ovary shortly stipitate, glabrous; style flattened towards the base. Pod not exceeding the ealyx, as broad as long.—Bot. Reg. t. 1600; Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 42; Paxt. Mag. xii. 54, with a fig. 3 W. Australia. From King George’s Sound, R, Brown, and Cape Riche to Swan River, | Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 197 and 198, Preiss, n. 1174, 1175, 1176, 1179, and others; i eastward to Bremer Bay and East Mount Barren, Maxwell. It varies much in the leaves; in some specimens rather thick, very obtuse, and about 4 in. long; in others slender, attaining sometimes above + in. 9. JACKSONIA, R. Br. (Piptomeris, Zurez.) 3 Calyx deeply cleft, the tube usually very short, lobes valvate, the 2 upper — ones broader, sometimes falcate, rarely connate. Petals shorter than the calyx | or rarely exceeding it, nearly equal in length, the claws very short; stan | orbicular or reniform, usually emarginate; wings oblong; keel nearly straight, obtuse, broader than the wings. Stamens free. Ovary sessile or stipitate; — style subulate, incurved, with a minute terminal stigma ; ovules 2 (except m J. piptomeris) attached by short funicles. Pod sessile or stipitate, ovate OF oblong, flat or turgid. Seeds usually solitary, without any strophiole.—Shrubs or undershrubs, rigid and leafless, or rarely with a very few 1-foliolate leaves; branches rigid, terete, angular or winged, the branchlets often phyllodineous or leaf-like, flat or tereté or angular, very much branched and spinescent. Leaves replaced by very minute scales at the nodes, Flowers yellow or with an ad- mixture of purple, either in terminal or lateral racemes or spikes, or scattered along the branches. Bract small and scale-like. Bracteoles small, decidu- ous or persistent. Ovary villous. ae The genus is limited to Australia. It is allied ‘to Gompholobium and Burtonia in the | deeply lobed valvate calyx, but very different in habit, in the short slender funicles of the ' ovules, in the pod, etc. In the two species (J. vernicosa and J. thesioides) where the calyx- — tube is longer in proportion to the lobes, it is lined, at least halfway up, by the stamiual ] E | . . Jacksonia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA, 53 Series I. Phyllodineve.— Phyllodineous branchlets flat, rigidly corraceous, toothed or lobed, often prickly. © > > > + > . Flowers in racemes or spikes terminating the phyllodia . . . ~ 1. J. dilatata. Flowers in racemes or spikes latéral or terminating the normal AAA ANA EA A “Flowers in heads sessile amongst the phyllodia + 3. J. carduacea. Flowers mostly solitary on the teeth or lobes of the phyllodia nag ad He floribunda. Series II. Ramosissime.—Subphyllodineous branchlets crowded, linear, angular- striate, with projecting tooth-like nodes. Flowers in dense terminal spikes. Calyx very hirsute . . +. . 5. J. odontoclada. Flowers in short terminal racemes, Calyx spariugly silky-pubescent 6. J. ramosissima. Sers II. Pungentes.—Branchlets more or less phyllodineous, spinescent, divari- cate, terete angular or slightly compressed. s Undershrubs, occasionally with a few leaves at the base, panicu- lately branched upwards. Flowers on the pungent branches +. +... . . + es Flowers on virgate unarmed branches ; pungent branches sterile (see below, Scoparia). ing shrubs, Branchlets terete sulcate or slightly angular. Flowers 2 or 3 below the summits of the pungent branchlets, í which are usually divaricately trichotomous . . . + 8. J. spinosa. owers in clusters or very short racemes, terminal or at the base of the pungent branchlets. : Pungent branchlets mostly simple. Calyx minutely pubes- eee A r aa aao ia les Pungent branchlets mostly branched. Calyx silky-pubes- 7. J. foliosa. 9. J. stricta. : cent or villous , ecs A . 10. J. hakeoides. "Flowers in distinct terminal racemes. . Branchlets crowded . 11. J. furcellata. chlets very angular or compressed, usually silky-pubescent. Pungent bratichlets short, crowded and forked or trichotomous. gent branchlets slender. Flowers distinctly racemose. Pod distinetly though shortly stipitate . . . +. + «+ Ll. J. furcellata. *ungent branchlets stout. Flowers in irregular racemes ; mixed with phyllodia, Pod nearly sessile. +. . . » 12, J. horrida, - t branchlets mostly simple and not crowded. Pod ovate, nearly sessile. Flowers shortly or loosely race- ; P mose . . A LA es A RR O S 13. J. sericea, od oblong on a stipes of about 2 lines. Flowers rather To DA fr, aa E RE . 14, J. Sternbergiana, O Lekmanni, racemosa, macrocalyx, and perhaps some others among Scoparia, have y a few pungent barren branchlets near the base of the stem.) “Sy Iv : ‘ h-like without pungent a "RES IV. Seoparise.— Flowering branches virgate or rush-like without pungen branchlets. Barren stems or itandhes sunt similar, although occasionally, in the lower Hart of the stem, much-branched fleruose or pungent, tube half as long as the lobes or louger, turbinate, 10-nerved. Seo Gaz 4 lines long, the tube half as long as the lobes”. + + > 15. J. vernicosa. ery short, without prominent nerves. ay lobes deciduous (or persistent in J. restioides, umbellata, pid capitata). Buds not angular. flat or angular, - Pod sessile, ; + ag. : Pod oblong-lanceolate, flat, 4 in. long. Branches flat. 17. Y. compressa. . Or lines long, the tube nearly as long as the lobes . . + 16. J. thesioides. -tabe y . 54 XL. LEGUMINOSA, | [Jacksonia, Pod broad, turgid, 3 to 4 lines long. Branches usually A ee ee +. 13. J. sericea. Pod on a long stipes, about 4 in. long. 2 Flowers racemose. Calyx 23 to 3 lines long . . . . 18. J. scoparia. | Flowers few. Calyx 5 to 6 lines long . . . . +. + l4. J. Sternbergiana. Branches terete or sulcate. ` Flowers distant or racemose. | Calyx villous. Standard large, exceeding the calyx. Flowers few, distaut. Calyx 5 lines long. Keel much - > shorter than the wings. . . . +... . . » 19, J. restioides. Flowers in lateral clusters. Calyx about 4 lines. Keel as long as the win PERDR Oe EGA! gs OE vella! Calyx silky-pubescent. Standard shorter than the calyx ; keel as long as the standard. Ovules 2. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long. Pod acuminate, on a stipes : of 1 neo Pe aT p pl Wola Sur Ql Bl Se Leda, Calyx 3 lines long. Pod scarcely acute, almost sessile 22. J. racemosa. Ovules4to6 . 6s. 8 va ks ew aer piptomarin Flowers small, in terminal heads or umbels. Calyx-lobes persistent. Flowers distinctly pedicellate. Keellong . . . . . 23. J. umbellata. Flowers almost sessile. Keel short . . . ... . . 24. J. capitata. Calyx-lobes persistent. Buds prominently angled. Branches flat. Calyx 2 to 24 lines long : Branches terete, sulcate. Calyx about 4 lines long. ` Ovules 2. Keel very short. . coe +... BT. I. angulata. Ovules 4 to 6. Keel as long as the standard . . . . 26. J. piptomeris. Calyx about 6 lines long. Keel as long as tlie standard =. 28. J. macrocalyx. SERIES I. PuYLLopInE#,—Branchlets, either barren or flower-bearing, phyllodineous, flat, rigidly coriaceous, toothed or lobed, often pungent. 1. J. dilatata, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii.74. An erect shrub, silky- | pubescent or tomentose, more or less rust-coloured under the inflorescence- A Branchlets leaf-like, flat, lanceolate, 2 to 4 in. long, the nodes forming tooth- like notches on the edges with an arched nerve from the midrib to each node. Flowers sessile in oblong spikes or heads at the ends of some of the Jeaf-like | branchlets, which taper more to the end than the barren ones. Bracts ovate, scale-like, 1 to 14 lines long, bracteoles often longer and lanceolate, all very | deciduous. Calyx villous, about 3 lines long. Standard about as long as | the calyx, lower petals shorter.- Ovary very shortly stipitate. Pod ovate, | shorter than the calyx. d N. Australia. Melville Island, Fraser; Victoria river, Bynoe ; Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Port Essington, Armstrong ; Arnhem's Land, F, Mueller. | 2. J. densiflora, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 13. A stout erect | or procumbent shrub, the young shoots and inflorescence densely rusty-villous, | older branches terete or slightly compressed, glabrous or minutely pubescent. | Barren leaf-like branchlets flat, obovate oblong or lanceolate, 14 to 3 in. long, | usually rounded at the end and narrowed into a kind of petiole at the base, | the margins undulate, sinuate, with pungent teeth or short lobes, Racemes | or flowering branches either terminal or in the axil of a small scale under the | phyllodia, always very villous, 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers dense or distant, | ESA SaaS: alata: Jacksonia.] XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 55 sometimes intermixed with a few small phyllodia either barren or bearing 1 or 2 flowers. Bracts and bracteoles linear-subulate, deciduous. Pedicels very short. Calyx villous, about 3 in. long, the angles very prominent in the bud. Standard nearly as long as the sepals, lower petals shorter. Ovary very shortly stipitate. Pod ovate, included in the calyx.—J. floribunda, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 43, not of Endl. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. Var. laxiflora. Racemes loose and rather less villous, the flowers distant.—Drummond, 4th Coll. n, 24, 3.4, carduacea, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit.1855, 25. An erect shrub with virgate clustered branches, angular or somewhat compressed, silky or softly villous. Barren phyllodineous branchlets numerous, flat, sessile, cuneate- | oblong, + to 1 in. long, prickly-toothed or sometimes forked, thick, usually = S-uerved, glabrous or silky-pubescent. Flowers in terminal heads within the uppermost phyllodineous branchlets and shorter than them. Pedicels very short. Bracts and bracteoles subulate-acuminate. Calyx about } in. long, loosely clothed with long silky hairs, the lobes with long subulate points. Petals nearly equal in length, shorter than the calyx. Ovary very shortly sti- _ pitate. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 14. Ad. floribunda, Endl. Stirp. Decad. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 197 (from ~ ` Ue description). A rigid erect shrub with forked branches, more or less silky- : pu cent, or at length glabrous, more or less flattened or at length terete, l Phyllodineous. branchlets flat, cuneate oblong or linear, irregularly divided + mto deep divaricate rigid teeth or lobes, which are obtuse or terminate 1n a small scale, or the terminal ones almost pungent; most of these branchlets are narrowed as it were into a petiole, and when broad are strongly reticulate, “© upper ones passing sometimes into forked racemes. Flowers mostly soli- "y on some of the tooth-like lobes of the branchlets. Pedicels very short. acts and bracteoles minute. Calyx 5 to 7 lines long, silky-pubescent. . udard and wings much shorter than the calyx ; keel longer than the stand- ard but shorter than the calyx. Pod nearly sessile, ovate, shorter than the J. gr evilleoides, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 259. _ Ae Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 32; between King George's Sound and Cape E > Harvey ; Point Henry and Stirling Range, Oldfield. Endliches describes the flowers -S Tather larger than I find Am in our rere seh with the keel not exceeding the other i Petals; but the characteristic reticulate phyllodia and inflorescence are not found in any other Serres TI, Ramostssrm.m.—Barren branchlets subphyllodineous, ae ea N t nor pungent, crowded, linear, angular-striate, with projecting too nodes, i ee J. odontoclada, F. Muell. Herb. Pubescent or villous el sa ; and densely branched. Barren branchlets short, aora h-like pes E OF somewhat flattened, the minute scales confluent with toot vn e ons at the nodes. Flowers sessile or nearly so in dense a i a 8. Bracteoles lanceolate, adnate to the base of the calyx, son pre -aan its tube, Calyx densely hirsute, 4 to nearly 5 lines long, the tube unc 56 XL. LEGUMINOS&. [Jacksonia. 1 line, the 2 upper lobes often connate to the middle. Petals shorter than the calyx ; keel shortly acuminate, broader than the wings and longer than the standard. Ovary sessile. Young pod densely villous, turgid, but not seen ripe. a Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller, also M‘Douall Stuarts expedition, lat. 17° 60 : 6. J. ramosissima, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 258. Glabrous, very densely branched. Barren branchlets crowded, linear, angular or some- what flattened, the small scales at the nodes often rigid and spreading. Flowers in short terminal racemes, on pedicels scarcely exceeding the sub- tending scales. Bracteoles ovate, adnate to the base of the calyx and often as long as its tube. Calyx sparingly pubescent, about 4 lines long, mem- branous, the 2 upper lobes broader, falcate and often cohering above the mid- dle. Petals shorter than the calyx. Ovary sessile. Pod ovoid-oblong, acu- minate, hirsute, shorter than the calyx. Queensland. Sutton river, F. Mueller ; Belyando river, Mitchell, -~ Series III. Pungenres.—Branchlets either barren or flower-bearing, spi- nescent, subphyllodineous but not flat, divaricate, simple or branched, terete or angular, sometimes resembling short lateral prickles, sometimes terminating all the branches. T. J. foliosa, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 260. Rhizome thick, with several ascending or ereċt rigid stems of 4 to 1 ft., simple in the lower part and usually bearing a few petiolate obovate or orbicular toothed leaves, the upper portion leafless with numerous rigid divaricate paniculate branches, often slightly flattened and striate or angular, the whole plant minutely silky- pubescent, the ultimate branchlets divaricate and often pungent. Flowers few, shortly pedicellate, below the summits of the branchlets, Calyx 3 to 4 lines long. Petals and ovary of J. spinosa. Pod not seen. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 25. The species is nearly allied to J. spinosa, but with a different habit. 8. J. spinosa, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 13. A rigid much- branched shrub of 2 to 4 ft. or sometimes more slender and twice as high, glabrous or very minntely hoary, the branches angular or striate, the smaller ones trichotomous, divaricate rigid and pungent-pointed. Flowers rather small, usually 2 of 3 below the spinous point of some of the smaller branchiets. Pedicels short. Bracteoles minute. Calyx minutely silky-pubescent, about 3 lines long, the buds not angular. Petals about as long as the calyx and all of nearly equal length; keel deeply coloured. Ovary slightly contracted at the base. Pod sessile, oblong, usually falcate, 3 to 4 or even 5 lines long.— DC. Prod. ii: 107; Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 45; Gompholobium spinosum, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 107. t. 136. : W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Labillardière, R. Brown, and others; towards one Riche, Haroey, Drummond, 8rd Coll. n.81 and 108; and eastward to Espórance Hifi | Maxwell; ''wo-peopled Bay and Gordon river, Preiss, n. 1074; Point Henry and Wilson's — Inlet, Oldfield ; Mount Barker, Oldfield. In the latter specimen the flowering branches are Jess spinous and the flowers more abundant, almost paniculate. 9. J. stricta, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 27. Possibly a small-flowered Jacksonia.] . XL. LEGUMINOS. 57 variety of J. hakeoides, with smaller spines. Branches elongated, glabrous, striate and furrowed but without very prominent angles; phyllodineous branchlets terete, rigid, pungent, divaricate, rarely 3 in. long, simple or rarely . with 1 or 2 forks. Flowers clustered under the phyllodineous branchlets as in J. hakeoides, but rather smaller and the calyx less pubescent. W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. 2.12; Murchison river, Oldfield. 10. J. hakeoides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 45. Very nearly allied to some forms of J. furcellata and J. korrida, but less silky and sometimes al- most glabrous. Branches striate, without very prominent angles and scarcely flattened ; phyllodineous branchlets terete or very slightly flattened, simple or once or twice forked, very rigid, striate, usually but not always pungent. Flowers of J. horrida, in short racemes, often reduced to almost sessile clus- ters at the base of the pungent phyllodineous branchlets, rarely terminal. Pedicels short, with small lanceolate bracteoles about the middle. Calyx about 5 lines long, velvety or silky-pubescent with shining bairs often of a golden colour. Petals and ovary of J. horrida. Pod not seen.—J. fascicn- lata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 212 ; J. ulicina, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 26. . _ W. Australia, Drummond, n. 261, 2nd Coll. n. 118, 3rd Coll. n. 88, and 6th Coll. n. 13. This species varies much in the phyllodineous brauchlets, simple or once or twice forked, very stout or slender, in some specimens altogether 2 or 3 lines long, in others the ultimate forks 4 to 2 in., but the several forms described by Meissner often pass insensibly one into the other even on the same specimen. _ 11.3. forcellata, DC. Prod. ii. 107. A tall shrub, more or less silky- Pubescent or sometimes shortly villous, attaining sometimes 15 ft. or more in height, the branches then usually pendulous. Smaller phyllodineous branch- crowded, compressed and narrow-linear or angular, branched or forked, Usually but not always pungent, short and divaricate or long and erect. Owers in terminal racemes of 2 to 4 or even 5 in., without any barren branchlets intermixed except quite at the base. Pedicels short. Bracteoles very small, at a distance from the calyx. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long. Petals Sorter, nearly equal in length. Pod 'stipitate, ovate, turgid, almost acute, 30 ut as long as the calyx.— Gompholobium furcellatum, Bonpl. Jard. Malm. ce 11; J. dumosa, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 44, and ii. 212. s ja : Australia in’. idee 10 "s Sound to Swan River, fraser, Drunmond, etm: 1000, ` parame le Pee or mond, 3rd Coll. n. 80 (branch- = a slender divaricate), 2nd Coll. n. 112 (branchlets softly villous, a Oldfield, aa > seg te and crowded, terminal racemes long and many-flowered), Macs aie hyllode (both forms). The species is very near J. horrida, differing in the mo Yllodia, more racemose flowers, shorter more stipitate pod, etc. 12. J. horri DO. Prod. ii. 107. A tall much-branched shrub, more Dos less esla dan Branches virgate, very angular or flattened when Young; phyllodineous branchlets crowded, often 2 or 3 times forked, ae ul- timate forks linear, pungent, rigid, flat with a raised nerve, usually 3 to 4 es owl and quite entire, sometimes long and slender, or short and cc gra th 1 or 2 notch-like teeth. Flowers either 1, 2 or 3, at the base ol. some „the smaller ph i i ar racemes inter- i ; phyllodineous branchlets, or forming mreguiar with phyllodia. Pedicels shorter than the calyx with minute bracteoles, 58 XL. LEGUMINOSE, . [Jacksonia, Calyx fully 4 lines long, silky-pubescent. Standard nearly as long as the’ calyx, wings and keel shorter. Pod shortly stipitate, oblong, turgid, some- what falcate, shortly acuminate, 3 to 5 lines long.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. — 45; i. 212. W. Australia. King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Fraser, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 79, Preiss, n. 1080, and others; Point Possession, Collie; Tone river. Var. (?) tenuis. Branches much more slender and inflorescence nearly that of J. hakeoides, but the branchlets much more angular.—Gardner and Salt rivers, Maxwell. The habit is „almost that of J. spinosa, but the flowers are larger, the calyx more silky, ete. Var. (?) racemosa. Racemes elongated, many-flowered. Champion Bay, Oldfield, a single small specimen. 13. J. sericea, Benth. in Huey. Enum. 31, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 74. A large shrub, decumbent ascending or tall with pendulous branches, angular striate or flattened, either unarmed or the pungent phyllodineous branchlets linear, spreading, 2 to 4 lines long, simple or rarely with 1 or 2 short forks. Flowers either solitary near the base of some of the smaller branches or in loose terminal irregular racemes. Pedicels shorter than the calyx with very minute bracteoles, Calyx 34 to 42 lines long, silky-p: bes- cent. Petals all shorter than the calyx. Pod nearly sessile, broadly ovate, more or less turgid, very villous, 3 to 4 lines long.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. 1. 44, and ii. 211; J. gracilis, Meissn. 1. e. i. 44, and ii. 211. | W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Huegel, Baxter ; Swan River, Fraser, Drum- — mond, 3rd Coll. n. 92; Preiss, n. 1073 and 1158; southern districts, Oldfield. Var. robusta. Branches thick, with very prominent angles, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 85. The species is very nearly allied to J. horrida. 14. J. Sternbergiana, Huey. Bot. Archiv. t. 3. An erect shrub, at- taining many ft. in height, with pendulous branches prominently angled or flattened, glabrous or rarely minutely pubescent, the smaller branchlets rigid and pungent, but usually rather slender and divaricate. Flowers few, shortly pedicellate along some of the longer branchlets, but scarcely racemose. Calyx nearly glabrous, 5 to 6 lines long. Standard nearly as long : lower petals shorter. Ovary stipitate. Pod oblong, often slightly falcate, fully $ in. long, pubescent, on a stipes of about 2 lines.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 43, and il. 211. ; a W. Australia. Swan River, Fraser, Huegel, Drummond, 1st Coll. and n. 260 (very slender), also 2nd Coll. n. 111, Preiss, n. 1076, Oldfield, and others. The pungent branch- — in this, as in J. sericea, are occasionally wanting. Serips IV. ScorarIæ.—Flowering branches usually virgate or rush- E like, without pungent branchlets. Barren stems or branches usually similar, although occasionally in the lower part of the stem much-branched, flexuose or pungent. : 15. J. vernicosa, 7. Muell. Herb. Branches very numerous, slender, — striate but scarcely angled, usually glabrous, the young shoots apparently some- — what glutinous. Flowers not numerous, in terminal racemes, on very short pe- — dicels. Bracteoles minute, adnate to the base of the calyx. Calyx 4 lines — long, slightly pubescent, the lobes not twice as long as the tube, the 2 upper — oues broader and falcate, the tube campanulate, 10-ribbed, lined nearly to the — Jacksonia.] - XL, LEGUMINOSA. 59 top by the staminal disk. Petals shorter than the calyx. Ovary sessile, short, tapering into the style. Pod sessile, villous, turgid, shorter than the calyx, but exposed, owing to the calyx-lobes being reflexed or deciduous. N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller, 16. J. thesioides, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 74. A tall shrub, with the habit of J. scoparia. Branches numerous, elongated, not spinescent, with 2 or 3 very prominent angles, minutely silky-hoary or quite glabrous. Flowers yellow, smaller than in J. scoparia, sessile or shortly pe- dicellate in terminal one-sided racemes. Bracteoles minute, just below the calyx. Calyx about 2 lines long, minutely silky-hoary, the lobes a little longer than the tube, which is 10-nerved and lined at least halfway up by the staminal disk. Standard and wings about as long as the calyx; keel a little shorter. Ovary sessile, tapering into a short style. Pod oblong, some- what incurved, turgid, 2 to 24 lines long. N. Australia. Prince of Wales’s Islands, ete., R. Brown; Victoria river and Mac- adam range, F. Mueller. . 2 e d. Endeayour river, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham, W. Hill; Cape Flinders, 4. Cunningham ; Lizard Island, MeGillioray. „11. J. compressa, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 260. Stem erect, virgate ; branches very flat, minutely silky-pubescent, without pungent nchlets.. Flowers few, very shortly pedicellate and distant along the Upper branchlets. Bracteoles very small, ovate, under the calyx. Calyx bout 4 to 5 lines long, shortly silky-villous, the lobes deciduous. Petals __ Shorter, the keel at least as long as the standard. Ovary sessile. Pod ses- e, oblong-lanceolate, much flattened, about 4 in. long, minutely glandular and pubescent with very short close hairs. Funicles slender. ; Ww. Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 35 and 36. 18. J. scoparia, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 13. A tall shrub or small tree, usually entirely leafless, but occasionally the young plants or of the branches have a few petiolate, oblong or oval-elliptical, herba- Baers leaves, 4 to 2 in. long. Branches numerous, erect or pendulous, 3 priate, not spinescent, angular, glabrous or minutely hoary-pubescent. . vers yellow, in one-sided racemes, either terminal or from the upper nodes. Sol rarely as long as the calyx, without bracteoles. Calyx membranous, dard, “ik -hoary, 24 to. lines long, divided nearly to the base. Stan- rather longer than the calyx, lower petals rather shorter. Ovary stipi- ate. Pod flat, oblong, usually 4 to 6 lines long, on a stipes of 1 to 2 y J by the persistent style.—DC. Prod. ii. 107 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. g ia: Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 74 (the filaments A y 403 bed as toothed) ; Viminaria lateriflora, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 1. "995 DC, Prod. ii. 107 (from the short description prake: ae O nR Sand d, R. Brown; Port s, M‘Gillivray ; sa apr $, Mucller ; e riven Mitch ; Brisbane river and Moreton Bay FYI - Mueller ; Pine river, Fitzalan ; Rockhampton, Dallachy. P band ? Wales, Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, i land, C. Stua tards to the Hastings and Macleay rivers, Beckler; New England, C. Var, parviflora, Flowers, especially the calyx, much smaller.—-Macleay river, Beckler . 60 XL. LEGUMINOSA, [Jacksonia, and Clarence river, Wilcox ; also in the collection of Sydney woods, of the Paris Exhibition, n. 117. i Var. macrocarpa. Pod rather longer, at length nearly glabrous. I can find no other dif- ference.—J. cupulifera, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 27. 3 3 W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 11; Murchison river, O/dfield. 19. J. restioides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 46, Stems erect, branched, virgate, rush-like, terete or nearly so, sulcate, silky-pubescent when young, at length glabrous, 1 to 2 ft. high, the barren branches rigid but not spines- cent. Flowers few, on very short pedicels along the upper branches or in terminal racemes. Bracteoles small, lanceolate, below the calyx. Calyx silky-villous, about 5 ‘lines long, the tube neayly one-third as long as the lobes but without prominent ribs, the lobes apparently persistent but not seen in fruit. Standard large, shortly exceeding the calyx; wings shorter; keel much shorter. Ovary stipitate. Pod not seen. - W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 263 ; Preiss, n. 1079; Darling range, Collie. c 20. J. velutina, Benth. Branches in our specihens elongated, simple, rather thick, sulcate but scarcely angular, shortly velvety-pubescent, without barren branchlets. Flowers in lateral clusters or very short racemes. Brac- — teoles small, subulate. Calyx pubescent or shortly villous, nearly 4 lines — long, the tube very short, the lobes deciduous. ‘Standard exceeding the » calyx, but not so large as in J. restivides ; wings and keel shorter and nearly equal to each other. Ovary stipitate, densely covered with long hairs. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Swan River, Oldfield. ` The specimens insufficient for a full descrip- tion, but not referable to any other species, È 21. J. Lehmanni, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 46. A shrub or undershrub of 3 to 13 ft., with erect branching stems, silky-pubescent when young, at length glabrous, terete or slightly compressed, striate, sulcate or almost an- gular, all leafless and unarmed, or rarely with one or two short, simple or divaricately-forked, spinescent, barren branchlets near the base. Flowers few, along the upper slender branches. Pedicels as long as the calyx or rather shorter, with very minute bracteoles about the middle. Calyx minutely silky-pubescent, 4 to 5 lines long, the lobes deciduous and the buds not pro- minently angular. Petals shorter than the calyx, the keel about as long as the standard. Ovary stipitate. Pod ovate, acuminate, 5 to 6 lines long, on a stipes of about 1 line, W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R, Brown (with short pedicels) ; Swan River; Drummond, \st Coll. and n. 89; Canning river, Preiss, n. 1077 ; towards the Great Bight, Maxwell. This plant seems to connect J. racemosa with J. angulata, differing from the former in its larger flowers, scattered along the branches rather than truly racemose, and larger pods ; and from J. angulata in the calyx not nearly so angular in the bud, with deci- duous lobes, and in the keel as long as the standard, as in J. racemosa. The southern spe- cimens have the branches slightly striate, in the Swan River ones they are more sulcate or almost angular. 22. J. racemosa, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 212. An undershrub or shrub of } to 1 ft,, with erect virgate branching stems, silky-pubescent when young, at length glabrous, terete or slightly compressed, sometimes scarcely Jacksonia.] * XL, LEGUMINOSA. : . 61 ~ striate; more frequently more or less sulcate, all leafless and unarmed, or with a few simple or branched, spinescent, barren branchlets near the base, Flowers usually numerous on short pedicels, in terminal racemes either short and dense or long and interrupted. Calyx about 3 lines long, silky-pubes- cent, with deciduous lobes, the bud terete. Petals rather shorter than the | calyx, the deeply-coloured keel as long as the yellow standard. Ovary very - shortly stipitate. Pod ovate, less turgid than in many species, though not so | rs as in J. scoparia, scarcely acuminate, 3 to 4 lines long, on a very short stipes, . _W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 78; Stirling range, Phillips river, Cape Arid, and W, Mount Barren, Marwei/ ; Tone river, Oldfield. d Var, pubiflora. Pubescence of the young branches, inflorescence, and calyx less appressed, and more dense, Barren branchlets more spinescent.—Drummond. 23, J. umbellata, Zurcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 261. A shrub or -Uadershrub, with erect or ascending, rush-like stems, in some specimens under I ft. and much branched, in others more simple and 1} to 2 ft. high, silky- pubescent when young, terete or slightly compressed and rarely sulcate. n branchlets sometimes none or few, small, and simple, sometimes short, much branched, bushy, and almost spinescent or much incurved. Flowers several, in terminal umbels, with rarely 1 lower down. Pedicels shorter than the calyx. Bracteoles very small, Calyx silky-pubescent, 23 to nearly 4 lines long, the buds acuminate, scarcely angular, the lobes persistent. Pe- tals rather shorter than the calyx, the keel deeply coloured and at least as g as the standard. Ovary shortly stipitate. Pod nearly sessile, ovate, ; acute, about as long as the calyx.—J. capitata, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. - 1-14, not of Meissn. (with rather shorter pedicels) ; J. juncea, Turez. m ull. Mose, 1853, i. 261 (flowering branches elongated, barren branches often Wanting, m A ii A e A ee ey Coui alia. S, coast, R. Brown, also Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 33 and 34; Cape to Kalgan river, Oldfield ; Stokes Inlet and Cape Legrand, Maxwell. It varies much | ` the Size of the homes. yf ss E p A A 24.3, capitata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 45 and ii. 212, not of sre re erect shrub or undershrub, with virgate rush-like or broom-like stems, "13 ft. high, silky-pubescent when young, the barren branches rigid an oten recurved, but rarely spinescent. Flowers nearly sessile, in very sa ermmal heads- or spikes, with very rarely 1 or 2 lower down. a, cteoles ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sometimes nearly 1 line long. ES E out 3 lines long, pubescent or almost villous, the buds not angular and less “ener tha : i Standard about as long th n in most species, the lobes persistent. a. shorter than os keel shorter. Ovary sessile. Pod sessile, ovol £ : ranges hice Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 88 ; Peel district, Pres ene Gardner erb. P. Mueller; between Eyre ranges and Oldfield ranges, me in Ann. Wien. Mus. 5. J. alata, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 30, and of y to 1 ft., gla- o E An erect much-branched shrub or undershrub with p the ‘Young parts slightly silky-pubescent, t . . . 62 y XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [Jacksonia. branches not spinescent. Flowers small, nearly sessile, in short terminal ra- cemes. Bracteoles minute. Calyx slightly silky-pubescent, about 3 lines ` long, the buds prominently angular, the lobes persistent. Standard and wings nearly as long as the calyx; keel rather shortef. Ovary very shortly stipitate, with a short incurved style. Pod almost sessile, ovate, much com- pressed, shorter than the calyx. W. Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, lst Coll., also n. 193, and 3rd Coll. n. 32, and others; in the interior, Preiss, n. 1119. 26. J. piptomeris, Benth. A rigid erect broom-like shrub, with virgate branches, silky-pubescent when young, usually terete and striate, without spinescent branchlets in any specimens seen. ` Flowers scattered along the upper branches. Pedicels much shorter than the calyx, with minute brac- teoles. Calyx minutely silky-pubescent, 3 to 4 lines long, slightly angular in the bud, the lobes deciduous. Petals nearly as long as the calyx, the deeply- coloured keel as long as the yellow standard. Ovary stipitate, with 4 to 6 ovules ; style slender. Pod on a rather long stipes when young, but not seen fully formed.—Piptomeris aphylla, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i..258. W. Australia. Towards Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 32. This species closely resembles J. racemosa in aspect, but the calyx is rather more angular in the bud, like the smaller forms of J. angulata. The lobes are deciduous and the keel as long as the standard, as in J. racemosa; aud the iucreased number of ovules distinguishes it from all other Jacksonias. 27. J. angulata, Benth. An undershrub, with numerous ascending or erect stems of 3 to 1 ft., silky-pubescent when young, sometimes nearly terete or sulcate, more frequently angular or somewhat flattened, nearly simple or branching, or very flexuose. Flowers few, very shortly pedicellate on some of the lower or intermediate nodes of the more simple and straighter branches. Bracteoles very small. Calyx silky-pubescent, about 4 lines long, — „the buds very prominently angled, the lobes apparently persistent. Petals — shorter than the calyx, the Keel shorter than the others. “Ovary nearly sessile. Pod not seen fully formed.—J. Lehmanni, var., Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 46 (as to Drummond’s specimens), Sy fastra; Drummond, n. 262, and 5th Coll. n. 143 (the latter with smaller — 28, J. macrocalyx, Meissn. in Bot. Zit. 1855, 26. Very near J. an- gulata, but larger in all its dimensions, the rigid ascending stems often above 1 ft. high, the shorter ones divaricately dichotomous, with the ultimate branchlets spinescent, all sulcate or striate but scarcely angular or compressed, the lower part of the stem occasionally bearing a few obovate-oblong leaves of } to l in. Flowers few, lateral. Pedicels very short, with 2 small brac- teoles. Calyx pubescent, 4 in. long, the angles very prominent in the bud, the lobes persistent. Petals not seen perfect, but the standard appears to be at least as long as the calyx. Pod ovate-acuminate, rather turgid, nearly sessile, shorter than the calyx. W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 15. : XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 63 10. SPHAROLOBIUM, Sm. (Roea, Hueg.) Calyx-lobes imbricate, the two upper ones larger, falcate, united into an upper lip. Petals with short claws; standard orbicular or reniform, emarginate ; Wings rather shorter, oblong, usually falcate; keel longer or rather shorter than the wings, straight or curved. Stamens free. Ovary stipitate ; style much incurved, subulate or dilated at the base, usually with a longitudinal membrane or a ring of hairs under the stigma; ovules 2,-with short thick funicles. Pod small, stipitate, oblique, globular or compressed. Seeds 1 or 2, not strophiolate.— Glabrous shrubs or undershrubs, with rush-like stems, often leafless. Leaves, when present, narrow, entire, alternate or irregularly opposite or whorled: Flowers yellow or red, in terminal racemes or in lateral racemes or clusters. Filaments of the outer stamens often somewhat dilated below the middle. Ovary always glabrous. ` The genus is limited to Australia. It is readily known by its habit, by the small stipitate nearly globular pod, and, in all species except S. medium and S. euchilus, by the appe! of the style; S. euchilus has also a somewhat different habit, but is nearer to this than to any other genus, - Sect. I. Roea.—Calyz-tube narrow-turbinate, longer than the lobes. Stigma sur- rounded by a ring of white hairs. Flowering stems more or less leafy, at least at the base. s terminal, Calyx 3 to 4 lines long. eee pa ves narrow-linear. Bracts persistent, at least the lower ones . 1. S. dinophyllum. Leaves lanceolate or cuneate. Bracts nmb ¢ yea. ds eS nudiflorum, a of ele ‘Stor. IL Euspherolobium.— Style with a longitudinal wing under the stigma, or any appendage. Flowering stems leafless.” ane narrow-turbinate, longer than the lobes. Racemes lateral 4. S. racemulosum. : -tube about as long as the upper lip. Flowers lateral, in clusters or solitary, Winged ¥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . + $ terete. . . . Keel broad and obtuse, slightly curved. aa te Calyx not 2 lines long. Keel about as long as the wings - + 6. a od 3 lines long. Keel longer than the wings . + + * E . - Gh “tube acs much curved. Calyx 14 lines long. . + + + + > apr opm not above half as long as the upper lip. ~ longer than the standard. ; daga EE bd curved, more or less acuminate, about 3 lines long. A de road, straight, very obtuse, nearly 6 lines long + + + * | broad and obtuse, not longer than the standard. 4 teral 3 mag late et thum. a Branchlets divaricate or recurved, spinescent sia aro h bis ag MI. Euchiloides.—Calyz-tube very short. Style subulate, without any appen- TRS, stems leafy. euchil Leaves narrow-linear, Flow ers axillary t wise Oe dl eee 13. S. > i e the lobes. Flowering 9, S. medium. 10. S.scabriusculum. es erect, rigid, sometimes spinescent, i I. Rora .—Calyx-tube narrow-turbinate, longer than Surrounded at the base by a membrane or fringe of hairs. 64 : ; XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [Spherolobium. stems leafy or leafless.—Roea, Hueg.; Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 34, and in — Ann. Wien. Maus. ii. 77. 1. S. linophyllum, Benth. Stems numerous, from a thick stock, ascending or erect, ¿to 14 ft. high, not much branched, terete or slightly — angular. Leaves narrow-linear, not numerous and sometimes very few, the larger ones $ to 1 in. long and rather thick, the upper ones passing into the bracts. Flowers (yellow?) in a loose terminal raceme, each one in the axil of — a leafy lanceolate bract of 1 to 3 lines ; pedicels rather shorter than the calyx. Bracteoles small, deciduous. Calyx fully 3 lines long, the narrow turbinate — tube longer than the lobes. Standard half as long again as the calyx ; wings nearly as long, much faleate; keel not exceeding the caiyx, very obtuse, the edges _ fringed with white hairs. Outer filaments flattened. Style subulate, folded inwards near the end, bearded with a ring of white hairs under the stigma. Pod ovoid, inflated, very oblique, nearly 3 lines long.— Roea linophylla, Hueg. Enum. 34; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 77; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 58. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Huegel, Preiss, n. 1115 a, and 1121 ; Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 252, Preiss, n. 880. ; 2. S. nudiflorum, Benth. A glabrous undershrub, with the habit of S. linophyllum. Stems several from a thick stock, 4 to 1 ft. high, simple ey little branched, sulcate or slightly angular. Leaves more numerous than in — S. linophyllum, lanceolate or linear-cuneate, acute or rather obtuse, rarely above 3 in. long. Flowers in a terminal raceme, without bracts or bracteoles. Pedicels very short.. Calyx about 5 lines long, the narrow turbinate tube longer than the lobes. Standard much longer than the calyx ; keel about as — long us the calyx, obtuse, not fringed, the petals soon separating. Outer filaments slightly flattened. Style folded near the end, bearded with a ring of white hairs under the stigma. ` Pod nearly globular, 2 to 3 lines diameter. _ —Roea nudiflora, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 59; Spherolobium foliosum, F. — Muell. Fragm. i. 166. a W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, and thence tọ Cape Riche, Drum- mond, 3rd Coll. n. 82, Preiss, n. 1018, aud to Cape Arid and Cape Legrand, Maxwell. : 3. S. gracile, Benth. Stems from a thick rootstock, numerous, slender, : not above 6 in. high in our specimens, with a very few short linear leaves — near the base, or some quite leafless. Flowers small, distant, in a slender raceme occupying more than half the stem, without any bracts. Pedicels re= _ curved, shorter than the calyx. Calyx scarcely 2 lines long, the lobes much — shorter than the narrow turbinate tube, and less unequal than in the other — species. Standard very broad, half as long again as the calyx; wings — shorter ; keel still shorter, broad and almost truncate. Style folded in at the E end, bearded with.a ring of white. hairs round the stigma. Pod ovoid, in- — flated, not very oblique, scarcely 2 lines long. W. Australia. Sand plains N. of Murchison river, Oldfield. Secr. II. EUSPHÆROLOBIUM.—Calyx-tube short or rarely longer than the — upper lip. Style either with a longitudinal membranous wing or a pendage — below the stigma on the inner edge, or without any appendage. Powering 4 stems leafless. : Spharolobium.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 65 4. S. racemulosum, Benth. Stems apparently herbaceous, slender, . wiry, terete, above 1 ft. long, all quite leafless in our specimens. Racemes lateral, slender, 1 to 2 in. long, with occasionally a few minute bracts near the base. Pedicels short, slender, solitary at each scar or bract. Calyx ra- ther above 2 lines long, the tube, including the narrow turbinate base, longer than the lobes. Standard fully twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals shorter than the standard, about equal in length, the keel much incurved, and very obtuse. Style much incurved, folded in at the end as in Roca, but with a very broad longitudinal appendage under the stigma, as in herolobium. Pod stipitate, ovoid or nearly globular, 2 lines long. ` W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 76; Phillips river, Maxwell. This species seems very closely to connect the „Roeas with the true Spherolobiums, having the calyx rat = of the former with the style nearly of the latter, and an inflorescence different z S. alatum, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 32, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 76. Stems erect, slightly branched, 2 ft. high or more, very angular or winged, wings of the lower portion occasionally 4 or 5 lines broad, the others very nen reduced to prominent angles. Leaves none on any of our speci- mens. Racemes lateral towards the ends of the branches, sometimes very short and 3- or 4-flowered, sometimes 2 in. long, with 8 to 10 flowers. yx rather more than 2 lines long, usually marked with black streaks or es, the tube rather shorter than the upper lip. Standard 3 in. broad ; ocean as long as the wings. Style curved, with a short, broad, mem- ous vertical wing under the stigma. Pod about 2 lines diameter.—S. ste- e um, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 57. Drummon g ia. King George’s Sound Fraser, Huegel, Oldfield ; southern districts, Marwel. > Sth Coll. y prongs abe pera Preiss, a ar ron and Phillips rivers, ha ag my former description the character of the wingless style had by sre e lis 8. tenopterc from S. medium to this species, which misled Meissner in distinguishing erum, E mi z neum, Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 509, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. E ascending or erect, from a few inches to above 2 ft. high, with ky i terete, wiry branches, all leafless or the barren branches bearing a a ar ge linear or narrow-lanceolate leaves, rarely exceeding 4 in. la Smalle Owers numerous, usually clustered 2 or 3 together acc ari $ branches, forming dense or interrupted terminal racemes. Pedicels : oot Calyx 13 ta nearly 2 lines long, the tube about as long as the a. ay P. Petals about twice as long as the calyx; keel somewhat incurved, "ay obtuse, as long as the wings, Style much curved from near the base, ter. Bo harrow wing along the inner edge. Pod scarcely 2 lines diner ok pm as: t. 969; DC. Prod. ii. 108; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1753; N.S. FI. Tasm. i. 84; S. minus, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 108, t. 138. ton and Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown and others; Blue Mountains, Miss Atkin- Victo bard to Hastings river, Beckler. a : Dandenong el : = the — — meee Robertson ; ; y mania > E. Mueller; Wimme Yo ll Me colony, J, R. Brown ; abundant, ae marshy or grassy places, in many parts of t 8. y, J. D, Hooker. VOL, 11 Encounter Bay, Whittaker ; Lofty Ranges, F. Mueller. F 66 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Spherolobium. 7. S. grandiflorum, R. Br. Herb. ; Benth. in Hueg. Enum, 32, and in ` Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 76. Stems 1 to 3 ft. high, terete, rather thick, not striate, all leafless in our specimens. Flowers red, usually in pairs, in the axils of truncate, scale-like bracts, in rather dense, terminal racemes. Calyx 3 lines long, the tube nearly as long as the lobes, which are often bordered with black. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx, very broad and deeply emarginate ; wings much shorter ; keel longer than the wings, broad, very obtuse, not much curved. Style much curved, with a rather short and broad longitudinal wing immediately under the stigma, on the inner edge. Pod rather broader than long.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 57. . W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Menzies, Huegel, and others; near Albany, | Preiss, n. 1116, also Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 116; bogs on the Vasse river, Oldfield; — Phillips river, Maxwell. . - 8. S. fornicatum, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 32, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 76. Stems erect, terete, scarcely striate, usually more slender than in 8. vimineum, and in our specimens all leafless. Flowers rather small, in termi- nal racemes, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3, on very short pedicels. Calyx — 14 lines long, the tube about as long as the upper lip. Petals half as long again as the calyx, the standard rather longer than the others; keel very broad, much incurved, forming a prominent obtuse angle on the back, the front very broad and obtuse. Style abruptly incurved above the base, witha — longitudinal membrane under the stigma on the inner edge, usually rather — short and broad. Pod not seen. —Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 58, * W. Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Mangles, Drummond, \st Coll., Preiss,n. 1115 and — 1124; Mount Melville, Plantagenet district, Preiss, n, 1122; Robertson’s Brook, Mazwell. S. medium, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 58, not of R. Br., appears to be only a slight variety 3 with rather smaller flowers. 9. S. medium, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iii. 14. Stems erect, — 1 to 2 ft. high, usually more striate than in S. vimineum. Leaves on the | barren branches small, subulate, often opposite or in whorls of 3, the flower- — ing stems leafless. Flowers usually numerous, densely clustered, in terminal — racemes. Calyx about 2 lines long, the tube not half so long as the upper — lip. Standard orbicular, rather longer than the calyx; wings at least as _ long; keel rather longer than the wings, slightly curved, more or less acumi- — nate. Style slightly curved, tapering from the dilated base to the end, but — not winged. Pod fully 2 lines diameter. Seeds mottled —DC. Prod. ii. — 108; $. acuminatum, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 32, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. — ii. 76; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 58. z 4 W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Menzies, R. Brown, and others; and thence x to Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, lst Coll., and n. 216 and 218, Preiss, n. 1111,1 120, — 1123, and 1126, and others. a 10, S. scabriusculum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 214. Stems rather firm, terete, striate or slightly sulcate, and often scabrous with minute raised dots, leafless in our specimens. Flowers in rather loose terminal ra- cemes, usually solitary within the minute, scale-like, truncate bracts, pendu- lous, and remarkable for their large keel, usually bordered by a pale colour. — Calyx about 4 lines long, the tube about half as long as the upper lip. Standard and wings rather longer than the calyx ; keel usually about 6 lines - Spherolobium. | XL. -LEGUMINOS&. 67 long, broadly obovate. Style slender at the base, much curved upwards, with avery narrow longitudinal membrane on the inner edge. W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 114. 11, S. macranthum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 213. Stems more rigid and thicker than in S. vimineum, erect, terete, scarcely striate, occasionally spinescent at the end, but without the lateral branchlets of $. daviesioides. #aves on a very few barren branches only, small, subulate, and usually ver- ticillate. Flowers clustered, forming rather dense racemes, and often, but not always, larger than in S. vimineum. Calyx about 2 lines long, the tube scarcely half so long as the upper lip. Standard *broad, rather longer than the other petals; keel brodd and rounded at the top, not so incurved as in 8. fornicatum. Style incurved, with a narrow membranous wing under the a. Pod broader than long.—S. Drummondii, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 267. W. Australia, Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll, 2nd Coll. n. 115, and 5th Coll. re from King George’s Sound to Murchison river, Oldfield. : , rassirameum, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 28,—from hetween Moore and Murchison ir Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 20,—differs slightly in the branches rather thicker than . Var. pulchellum, Of smaller stature, with smaller flowers, appearing more red in the ee State.—8. pulchellum, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 28.—Between Moore and Mur- won rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 19. : pida rviflorum. Flowers smaller, all yellow.—Clay plains, near M'Callum Inlet, | QS, daviesioides, Turco. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 266. A low shrub, with terete, divaricate branches, numerous short, divaricate or recurved, ineseent branchlets, all leafless, and occasionally a few longer barren es, with a few, small, distant, linear-lanceolate leaves. Flowers soli- or 2 or 3 together, along some of the smaller spinescent branchlets ; pe rather slender. Calyx rather more than 2 lines long, the tube about úl as long as the upper lip. Standard nearly 4 lines long, very broad ; ® Petals rather shorter, the keel broad, curved, very obtuse, yellow like : standard, or deeply coloured. Style much curved, with a rather broad lon- Wing under the stigma on the inner edge. E jostea, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 46; Phillips Ranges, Cape Arid, and Cape Le arwell. This may prove to be a variety of S. macranthum. ¡eos TIT. EvcuiLoroes.—Calyx-tube very short. Style subulate, t any appendage. * Flowering-stems leafy. ied euchilus, Benth. Stems from a thick rootstock, erect or as- leafy, `} 1 to 13 ft. high, slender, nearly terete, minutely silky-pubescent, all ea: with ves alternate or rarely irregularly opposite, narrow-linear, obtuse “utely «in callous point, 4 to 14 in. long, the margins closely revolute, mi- in, long e Pubescent or almost silvery. Pedicels axillary, slender, often 4 about 3° with a pair of minute bracteoles above the middle. Calyx glabrous, almost bic, long, the tube very short, the 2 upper lobes broadly sentina long; w cular, very obtuse, the 3 lower lobes very small. Standard 4 lines Villoge eel shorter, broad, incurved, acute, almost rostrate. Ovary stipitate, Style subulate, without any appendage. Pod ovate, vm turgid, F 68 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Spherolobium. villous, about 4 lines long, on a stipes of 1 line. Seeds rather large, with- ont any strophiole.-—Huchilus linearis, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 35, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 80; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. 1. 72. iy y Preiss, n. W. Australia, Huegel ; Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. and. n. 295, > 879 and 1110; Vasse river, Oldfield ; base of Mount Melville, Maxwell. E 11. VIMINARIA, Sm. Calyx-teeth short, equal. Petals on rather long claws. Standard orbi- cular; wings oblong, shorter than the standard; keel slightly curved, about as long as the wings. Stamens free. Ovary nearly sessile ; style filiform, with a small terminal stigma; ovules 2, with short funicles. Pod sessile, ovoid-oblong, usually indehiscent, the pericarp thickly membranous. | Seed usually solitary, filling the cavity, with a very small annular strophiole.— Shrub with rush-like stems. Leaves alternate, mostly reduced to a long fili- form petiole. Flowers small, in terminal racemes. The genus is limited to a single species, with the flowers nearly of a Daviesia, but very distinct in the fruit, which is almost that of a Melilotus. 1. V, denudata, Sm. Exot. But. 51, t. 27, and in Ann. Bot. i. 507, and Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 261. A glabrous shrub, sometimes erect, attaining 10 to 20 ft., with long, wiry, pendulous branches, more rarely low and decum- | bent. Leaves reduced to filiform petioles, of from 3 to 8 or even 9 in., the — . lower“ ones or those of luxuriant branches occasionally bearing at the extre- mity 1 to 3 oval-oblong or lanceolate, herbaceous leaflets, of 4 to 13 im. — Flowers small, orange-yellow, in long terminal racemes. Pedicels rarely as _ long as the calyx, in the axils of small scale-like bracts, without bracteoles. ' Calyx nearly 2 lines long, including the short, turbinate, disk-bearing base. — Petals about twice as long. Pod 2 to 3 lines long. Albumen rather thicker ; than in the other Podalyriee where it has been observed.—DC. Prod. ii. 1075 | Bot. Mag. t. 1190; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 57; Paxt. Mag. xiv. 123, with | a fig; Sophora juncea, Schrad. Sert. Hannov. t. 3; Pultenea juncea, Willd. 7 Spec. ii. 506; Daviesia denudata, Vent. Choix, t. 6; D. juncea, Pers. Syn- : i. 454, not of Sm. 4 N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 369, and Fl. Mixt. n. 553, and — ghera: and northward to Port Macquarrie, Fraser, A. Cunningham; Hastings rive — eckter, : e Port Phillip, R. Brown ; from Gipps’ Land to the Glenelg, F. Mueller and ers. - s Tasmania? Although the station is given by De Candolle, the plant has never been fouud in the island by Gunn or any other of its most zealous explorers. In F. Mueller — herbarium are some fragments marked Tasmania, Fitzalan, but without any precise locality, and there may be some mistake. S. Australia. Torrens river, Whittaker ; Lofty Ranges, F. Mueller. 2 E W. Australia. King Georges Sound, R, Brown; to Cape Leeuwin, Collie; Swat — River, Preiss, n. 1023: and Murchison river, Oldfield. ; E V. (?) Preissit, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 57,—from saudy places, inundated in winter, — on the Canning river, Preiss, n. 1024,—which I have not seen, is not sufficiently descr) to be recognizable. Meissner himself doubts whether it may not be a Spherolobium. 12. DAVIESIA, Sm. a - Calyx-teeth short, either all equal or the 2 upper ones united in a truncate Daviesia.) XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 69° upper lip, the disk-bearing base either shortly turbinate or elongated and stalk-like, Petals on a slender claw; standard orbicular or reniform, emar- ginate ; wings falcate-oblong or obovate, not longer than the standard ; keel more or less incurved, obtuse or almost acute, not exceeding the wings. Stamens free, the 5 outer filaments often flattened and sometimes cohering in a tube, although readily separable. Ovary shortly stipitate, tapering into a subulate style, with a small terminal stigma; ovules 2, with short funicles. Pod nearly sessile or stipitate, more or less flattened, acute, triangular, the upper suture nearly straight, the dorsal or lower suture much curved, form- Ing almost a right angle. Seeds solitary or rarely 2, with a rather large strophiole.—Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, coria- ceous or rigid, either flat and horizontal or vertical, or terete and spinescent, sometimes decurrent along the stem, or reduced to short prickles or teeth, or entirely wanting. Stipules none or very minute. Flowers usually small, yellow orange or red, in axillary or lateral racemes or pedunculate umbels, occasionally reduced to short clusters or rarely solitary or terminal. Bracts at the base of the racemes small, dry and scale-like, those under the pedicels Similar or a few of them, in a few species, much enlarged over the fruit. racteoles none. Ovary glabrous. The genus is limited to Australia. The short calyx-teeth usually distinguish it from almost all Podalyriee except Viminaria aud Latrobea, but cannot be absolutely relied pbon; the pod, however, is quite peculiar. It is also in most cases readily known by the bit, and is indeed so natural that, numerous as are the species, I have been unable to dis- tribute them into distinct sections. The following series are founded chiefly on the foliage and on the degree of development of the inflorescence. In the first five series the leaves are horizontally flat or very rarely terete and then obtuse, and never vertically compressed ; m the last four they are terete or vertically flattened and pungent or altogether wauting. aj Species of this genus, when not in flower, have been occasionally mistaken for phyllo- neous Acacias, SERtEs I. Involucratse.— Powers umbellate, tahe ends of the peduncles. Upper Orbicular, often small at the time of flowering, but much enlarged afterwards, and Cmelosing the fruits, Leaves flat, horizontal. Ves very much reticulate. es 3 to 4 in, long, deeply cordate, with rounded auricles . 1. D. cordata. ed ae about 2 in. long, narrowed at the base . . - k 2. D. ovata. pointed -. + n. long, orbicular, slightly cordate, PTS 3 Diada: ae Leaves thick, the reticulations few or not very prominent, elliptical-oblong, obtuse. Bracts very concave. Calyx J. rous ; teeth very short Se ok is Ss ee ei “Gres oblong-linear, mostly pointed. Bracts flat. Calyx pu- Dre m Webcam . ... 7 A a (Bracts narrow ?) Calyx glabrous; teeth very 4. D. oppositifolia. 5. D. alternifolia. 6. D. elongata. States IL y he peduncles. Bracts s » Umbellatee.—PFlowers umbellate, at the ends of the pe a a con” and not enlarging. Leaves flat, horizontal, usually small, rigid, with pungent i : a etc’ and D. corymbosa, amongst the Racemose, have the flowers occasionally Pedi ns Narrowed at both ends or almost linear. eal p culate, at some distance from the calyx, and not at the articulation . . ds . . 7. D. pedunculata. :70 - XL, LEGUMINOSZ. [Daviesia, Pedicels articulate close to the calyx and there expandedintoaring 8. D. mollis, var. Leaves obovate or orbicular . . . . 1. + + + 8. D. mollis. Leaves broadly ovate-cordate, tapering into a pungent point . . 9. D. concinna. Serres IIT. Racemoszee. Flowers racemose, the common rhachis elongated, either lowering from the base, or the pedicels crowded towards the end. Bracts small. Leaves — flat, horizontal. Leaves (under 1 in.) linear or linear-lanceolate, pungent, not reti- culate. Racemes flowering above the middle. Bracts very small 10. D. umbellulata. Leaves broad, obtuse or acute, young buds very obtuse. Pods- under 4 in. Leaves (under 1 in.) ovate or orbicular, cordate or very obtuse at the base, sessile, not reticulate. Racemes flowering from speared, Belo small eso ota its 3d 1d D. buxifolia. Leaves (1 to 3 in.) ovate or ovate-lanceolate, reticulate. Ra- cemes flowering from the base. Bracts ovate or oblong, nearly as long as the pedicels cee eg 1D. CONE. Leaves narrow, elongated, the lower ones rarely ovate-oblong, not pungent. Branches slightly angular. Flowers numerous. Calyx 1 to 14. line long. Flowering branches all leafy, never spinescent (Eastern species) 13. D. corymbosa. Upper flowering branches often spinescent and leafless (Western nd esta. decia bode sa? alles si gD. Aorvéda: Branches very angular. Flowers few, distant. Calyx above 2 lines 15. D. reclinata. Leaves rounded at the end or emarginate. Young buds shortly acuminate. Pod nearly 1 in. (Western species), Leaves oblong. Calyx-teeth obtuse, the 2 upper united and rounded 16. D. obtusifolia. Leaves obovate. Calyx-teeth all acuminate and distinct . . . 17. D. obovata. Series IV. Calamiform lous or hooked points. Racemes loose. Leaves striate. 5 Leave Mba eN So cee iD. longifolia. Leaves terete . . . - 19. D. chordophylla. Racemes or clusters very short. Leaves not striate, mostly terete 20. D. nematophylla. 7 Series V. Fasciculate.—Plo. fat, horizontal, pungent-pointed. lanceolate or almost ovate, nar- rowed at the base (Western species). l obtuse . 21. D. daphnoides. s Keel rostrate 22, D. nudiflora. Leaves under 1 in. long-(except D. rhombifolia), obovoid, rhomboid . Calyx with a trun- Leaves rhomboidal-acuminate, much mone. 8S D. pionii Leaves broadly cordate, shortly acuminate, not reticulate . . 24. D. arar Leaves obovate, with recurved points, not reticulate . - . 25. D. Drummondi. Branches hirsute. Leaves oval or oval-oblong, not reticulate ey. vtraight-pornt Gt A filipes. Leaves under 1 in. long, cordate-ovate, lanceolate or linear. Calyx 5-toothed (Eastern species). Branches not spinescent. Leaves cordate or ovate, much acuminate, usually under 4 in. Jong. Pedicels filiform + +... . 27. D. squarrosa. es.—Leaves long, very narrow or terete, obtuse or with cal- 3 wers in axillary clusters or very short racemes. Leaves Daviesia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 71 Leaves linear, with revolute margins, about 1 in. long. Pe- Mary short >. ccoo O DD acioulares, Branches spinescent. Leaves ovate, lanceolate or linear, pun- z gent-pointed, but scarcely acuminate . . . . +. + : . 28. D. ulicina. . Serres VI. Teretifoliæ..—Leaves terete or slightly compressed or rarely wet dilated towards the top, at length articulate on the stem, usually short or pungent-pointed. Flowers solitary, clustered or rarely racemose. (See also Calamiformes.) Leaves crowded, glaucous, thickly conical, pithy, divaricate . . 30. D. pachyphylla. Leaves cylindrical, erect, the pungent point very short . . . . 81. D. teretifolia. Leaves divaricate, very pungent. Upper calyx-teeth truncate. Filaments slender. Bracts imbricate, longer than the pedicels . . . +. + +38. D. hakeoides. Bracts very small. : Keel not much curved, obtuse (Eastern species) . . . 82. D. genistifolia. Keel much curved, almost rostrate (Western or Southern ni species). k Calyx nearly 2 lines long, with a narrow base. , + Branches straight or scarcely flexuose. Leaves in- = curved or spreading . . 0. yni e. . 34. D. colletioides. Branches very flexuose. Leaves short, reflexed . - 35. D. reversifolia. Calyx about 14 line long, the base very short. Leaves mostly 4 in. long or more, often dilated up- alge at length articulate on the stem . . aa ives few, rarely above 4 in. long, appearing like E eu prickles, ititas with the seus See te BT. D. bremfola. Upper calyx-teeth small, distinct. Filaments much dilated and cohering, Bears Leaves not crowded, mostly 3 to 1 in. long, slender or flat. 38. D. Preissti. Leaves crowded, about } in. long, thick and scarcely flattened 39. D. spinosissima. pper calyx-tecth acuminate. Filaments free. Racemes loose 40. D. pachylina. Series VII. Verticales.—Leaves vertically flattened, often attached by a broad base, but not decurrent, usually pungent-pointed. Flowers solitary or clustered or um- o “racemose. a . 2 = Branchlets not spinescent. _ “towers in a pedunculate umbel or short raceme. Leaves iii almost rhomboidal. . . . . . . . . + + +. + + 4. D. guadrilatera. his In sessile clusters or very short racemes. ves crowded, at least half as broad as long, attached by a mats Oeil: . ka i be ee ves narrow, dilated upwards. Filaments free + . 36. rs i coa e sag compressed. Filaments cohering + h s 38. D. Fressi nceolate, or, if ovate, contracted at the wa D soiynlati«. o Branches angular s E eee i nchlets spinescent. Flowers solitary. Leaves small . + -.44 D. microphylla. 36. D. incrassata. _ Serres VIII, Decurrentes.—Leaves terete or vertically compressed or with aser- cal dorsal projection, usually pungent, decurrent at the base into raised angles on the a oe Flowers clustered or shortly racemose. | = es Slightly decurrent. bli e few, terete or conical, not above 4 in. long, resembling 37. D. brevifolia. m . . . E l a videà Se te a y E ee 39 Da inosissima. e , nearly terete, almost 4 in. long + ote : very decurrent. : y es terete or slightly compressed. Branchlets very flexuose . much compressed, lanceolate. Branchlets straight. - 45. D. fleruosae 46. D. pectinata. . 72 _ XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Daviesia. Leaves horizontally dilated or channelled on the upper edge, the dorsal midrib or wing decurrent eo... ww . . 47, D. trigonophylla. ~ Leaves resembling pinnate lobes of very glaucous flat phyllodine- ons branchlets. Inflorescence on the face of the branchlets . 48. D. epiphylla. Series IX. Aphyllæ.— Leaves none (except sometimes in D. divaricata), Flowers 4 solitary clustered or rarely racemose. Branches terete. Bracts very small. Branches very thick, cylindrical and pithy . . . . . . . 49. D. euphorbioides. Branches rigid, but scarcely pungent. Pedicels very short . . 37. D. brevifolia, var. i Branches elongated, not pungent. Pedicels slender, short . . 52. D. aphylla. E Branchlets divaricate, pungent. Pedicels longer than the calyx 50. D. divaricata. Branchlets divaricate, slender, 2-3-chotomous, the lower ones spinescent. Flowers terminal... . . . . . 4.51. D, paniculata. Branches terete, elongated. Bracts imbricate, covering the rhachis 53. D. juncea. Branches flat. Calyx-teeth long, acute. Branches winged. Racemes short, dense, with ovate bracts. . 54. D. alata. Branches flat, bnt not winged. Racemes loose, few-flowered. Bracts minute or none . . sedaya hide wpa! sud DoD. anceps. Series I. INvoLucrat#.—Flowers umbellate at the ends of the pedun- cles. Upper bracts orbicular, often small at the time of flowering, but much enlarged afterwards, and exceeding or enclosing the fruits. Leaves flat, hori- zontal. 3 1. D. cordata, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc.ix.259. A glabrous erect shrub, of 2 to 3 ft., the branches elongated, with 2 or 3 prominent angles. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3 to 4 in. long, deeply cordate and embracing _ the stem by their large rounded auricles, rigidly coriaceous, strongly reticu- late on both sides. Peduncles from 1 to 4 or 3 in each axil, usually shorter — than the leaves, bearing each an umbel of *8 to 12 flowers on short slender pedicels. Bracts under the umbel 2 to 4, orbicular, small when the flowers first open, but soon enlarging, and when the fruit is ripe, 1 to 14 in. dia- meter, thin, scarious and elegantly veined. Calyx about 2 lines long, the 2 upper teeth broad, truncate and connate. Standard yellow, about 4 lines — diameter; lower petals shorter, falcate, purple. Pod above 4 in. long. —DC. Prod. ii. 114; Bot. Reg. t. 1005; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 56. q W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Menzies, A. Cunningham ; Swan River, Drum- — mond, n: 223; Darling Range and Mount Wuljenup, Prez, . 1187 and 1136; Vasse and Blackwood rivers, Oldfield. e Jenap, 4 rerss, n Tan ; 2. D. ovata, Benth. A glabrous shrub, with the habit, angular stems, — and large bracts of D. cordata. Leaves ovate or elliptical, with a small — callous point, mostly about 2 in. long, narrowed at the base, rigidly coriace- | ous and strongly reticulate as in D. cordata. Peduncles axillary, but often — growing out into leafy branches, with a terminal umbel, surrounded when in — fruit by 2 or'3 large orbicular bracts, rigidly scarious and elegantly veined as — in D. cordata, and of about the same size. Calyx and pod of D. cordata. — Flowers not seen. i W. Australia, Drummond, n. 23. 3. D- crenulata, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 265. A rigid shrub, E the branches more slender than in the two preceding species, and usually pu- — Daviesia.] XL. LEGUMINOSE. 73 bescent with short stiff hairs, the rest of the plant glabrous. Leaves often opposite, orbicular-cordate, with a short pungent point, 4 to 2 in. diameter, the margin undulate and slightly crenulate, rigid, shining and strongly reticu- late. Peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves, bearing an umbel of 8 tu 5 or rarely 6 rather small flowers, subtended by 2 or rarely 3 or 4 orbicular bracts, small at the time of flowering, but afterwards much enlarged, scarious and much veined, attaining often 1 in. diameter, and closing over the fruit ; mner bracts small and narrow. Calyx not 2 lines long, the upper teeth broad and truncate. Standard nearly 5 lines diameter; keel much shorter. Fila- ments as in several allied species, folded inwards above the middle. Pod about 3 in. long and nearly as broad.—D. calystegia, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 264; D. parifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 16. 2 W. Australia. Between Swan River and Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 40 (in flower), and 424 Coll. n. 30 (in fruit); Kojonerup hills, Maxwell. ; 4. D. oppositifolia, ndl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 199. A glabrous shub of several feet, the branches stout; very prominently 3- or 4-angled. ves often irregularly opposite or in whorls of 3, oblong-elliptical, obtuse or rarely with a minute callous point, in most specimens 1 to 2 in. long, but occasionally attaining 3 or even 4 in., thickly coriaceous, with a thickened margin, the veins few and only conspicuous on the young leaf. Peduncles _ about as long as the leaves, bearing an umbel of 3 to 6 flowers, subtended by 2 or 3 orbicular very concave rigidly membranous slightly veined bracts, which are at first as long as the flowers and enlarge often to above 1 in. dia- meter, completely enclosing the fruits. Calyx under 2 lines long, the teeth Very short, the 2 upper ones broad and truncate. Standard about 4 lines aineter ; wings and keel rather shorter. Five outer filaments much broader than the others. Pod 4 in. long.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 55. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, Huegel, Drum- > and others; Mount Wuljenup, Preiss, n. 856. 5. D, alternifolia, Endl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 199. A shrub or undershrub, with decumbent or ascending stems of 1 to 2 ft., slightly angular often minutely pubescent. Leaves glabrous, alternate or rarely opposite in, q threes, linear-oblong or oblong-cuneate, rarely obovate-oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, with a short rigid point or rarely obtuse, much narrowed below the middle, with a pair of minute teeth (stipules?) near the base, thickly coriace- ous, the veins not numerous nor very prominent. Peduncles rather longer leaves, beariug an umbel usually of 3 flowers. Bracts usually 3, or- moi]? attaining at length nearly 1 in. diameter, flat or scarcely concave, Fa and more reticulate than in D. oppositifolia. Calyx pubescent, coil es long, the teeth acuminate, the 2 upper ones broad, truncate and united. << la (according to Preiss) flame-coloured ; wings and keel rather shorter, _ tater purple. Pod about 2 in. long.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 55. others . King George’s Sound, Huegel, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 31, and n 5 ing ri 'dfield. The lower leaves picar Albany, Preiss, n, 855 ; Kalgan and King rivers, o celo rta a of the Main b . oe ranches are sometimes reduced to small scales, which a We te eaves, designating the others as phyllodia; they all however ap =. UE 2 E lo D. ternata, Endl. l. c., from the same locality, appears to me, from his description, to be 74 XL. LEGUMINOSA. o [Daviesia. the same species, in which the leaves of the side branches are occasionally ternately verti- cillate. 6. D. elongata, Benth. A glabrous shrub or undershrub, with ascend- . cuneate bracts, not so long as the flower, but probably enlarging afterwards. Flowers apparently like those of D. oppositifolia, the calyx quite glabrous, with very short teeth. Fruit not seen. . W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 136. The species is evidently allied to, but ; distinct from D. oppositifolia, although the specimens are not good enough fora full descrip- tion. : Serres II. UmBELLATÆ.—Flowers umbellate at the ends of the pedun- cles. Bracts all small and not enlarging. Leaves flat, horizontal, usually small and rigid with pungent points, . 7. D. pedunculata, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 14. A low — shrub, the short slender terete branches occasionally pubescent. Leaves gla- — brous, oblong or almost linear, narrowed at both ends with a fine pungent : point, 4 to 4 in. long, rather thick, rigid, scarcely veined besides the midrib. ` Peduncles slender, glabrous, much longer than the leaves or rarely about their length, bearing a terminal umbel of 3 to 6 flowers, and rarely a single flower , lower down. Bracts very small. Pedicels longer than the calyx, articulate at some distance from it, and thickened above the articulation. Calyx 13 lines long, without the narrow-turbinate stipitiform base, the teeth short and — obtuse, the 2 upper ones truncate and united. Standard twice as long as the calyx, lower petals rather shorter. Pod only seen young.—Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 53. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. and n. 229 ; Darling Range, a Preiss, n. 1043. Var. minor. Leaves linear, not pungent, Konkoberup hills, Preiss, n. 1154 (I have not 2 seen the specimens). 8. D. mollis, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 263. A shrub, apparently decumbent, the branches leaves and peduncles in their original form hirsute, — with soft spreading hairs. Leaves rather crowded, obovate, obtuse, with a — short often pungent point, 4 to 2 in. long, thick, coriaceous, not much vein besides the midrib. Peduncles usually exceeding the leaves, bearing an umbe of 3 or rarely 4 or 5 flowers. Bracts minute. Pedicels about 2 lines long, | articulate a little below the calyx and there dilated into a ring. Calyx 2 lines — long, pubescent, the teeth nearly as long as the tube, acuminate, the 2 upper — ones broad, truncate and united. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx ; keel shorter, much incurved, almost rostrate. Filaments less uneq than in the preceding species. Pod about 2 in. long and broad. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n, 39; Rocky Hills, inland from Cape Legrand, : Maxwell. — Var. minor. Softly pube:cant or glabrous. Leaves under $ in. long, from broadly ob- : ing angular stems, of 2 ft. or more. Leaves alternate, the lowest sometimes — oblong-cuneate, the others linear or linear-oblong, obtuse or with a short callous point, 2 to 4 or even 5 in. long, thickly coriaceous, obscurely veined, narrowed at the base, but without stipular teeth. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, bearing an umbel of 2 or 3 flowers, with 2 narrow-oblong or linear- Daviesia.] XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 75 ovate or orbicular to narrow-obovate or oblong, or in some specimens all oblong ; narrowed at both ends, or almost lanceolate. Flowers smaller, with the calyx-teeth less acuminate than in the ordinary form.—D. lancifolia, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 268. Drummond, Sth Coll. n. 28, and suppl. n. 23; W. Mount Barren, Maxwell. Besides the shorter leaves, this may be always distinguished from D. pedunculata by the very short base of the calyx and by the truncate dilatation of the pedicel. 9. D. concinna, R. Br. Herb. Branches elongated, slender, slightly angular-pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate-cordate, tapering into a pungent point, not exceeding + in., almost veinless except the midrib. Flowers small, inumbels of 3 or 4, on a common peduncle about as long as the leaves. Bracts very small. Pedicels slender, 2 to 4 lines long. Calyx about 1 line long. Petals and pod of D. umbellulata, from which the species differs chiefly in the broad, less coriaceous leaves, and more umbellate inflorescence. Queensland. Rock hills, Pine Port, R. Brown. N. S. Wales. Hastings river, Beckler (Herb. R. Br. and F. Muell.). Series IIT. Racemos.m.—Flowers racemose, the common. rhachis elon- gated, either flowering from the base, or the pedicels crowded towards the end, but not so distinctly umbellate as in the 1st and 2nd series. Bracts small, under the pedicels, or the lower ones at the base of the peduncle with- out flowers. Leaves flat, horizontal, obtuse or more or less pointed in the first 2 or 8 species. 10. D. umbellulata, Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 507, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. 1x. 258. A slender much-branched shrub, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, the branches sulcate. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 3 to + In, long, rigid with a pungent point, l-nerved, flat, not reticulate. Racemes in some *pecimens shorter than the leaves, in others twice as long, flowering from the middle upwards or at the end only. Pedicels usually 2 to 3 lines. Bracts about 4 line long. Calyx about 1 line long, the teeth short and obtuse, the ° upper ones broad, truncate and united nearly to the top. Petals twice as long as the calyx. Pod about 5 lines long.—D. racemulosa, DC. Prod. ii. * 114 (from the character given). Bidwitt land. Peele’s Island, Moreton Bay, Fraser, 4. Cunningham; Wide Bay, N. » | deri S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Sandstone Ranges around Biroa, Leich- This Species has consi i ith the western D. pedunculata, nsiderable affinity on the one hand wit y euno em de Other with those a of D. ulicina in which the inflorescence 18 slightly Var. pubigera. Branches virgate. Leaves small, mostly 3 to age ee 75. “flowered, the rhachis short.—D. pubigera, A. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. ne Cunning- y forest lands and grassy banks of the Cugeegong river, N. of ss { the upper his form has the habit of D. squarrosa, with the leaves of D. ne ai Ss ai hof the calyx are more united and truncate, and the inflorescence 1$ evidently a of that of D, umbellulata. 11. D buxifoli b. with numerous angular branches olia, Benth. A glabrous shrub, wi marel es. Leaves broadly ovate or orbicular and cordate at geen “y Oval-oblong, obtuse or with a minute point, } to + in. long, q . Ee i an the Jean’ Coriaceous, shining, not reticulate. Racemes usually longer * mana, flowering from above the middle. Bracts minute. Pedicels about 2 76 XL. LEGUMINOS#: [Daviesia. lines long. Calyx about 1 line long, with short teeth, the 2 upper ones — broad, truncate and united. Standard fully twice as long as the calyx. ` Lower petals rather shorter. Pod about 5 lines long. N.S. Wales. Between Wombim river and False Bay, Mossman. Victoria. Avon Ranges, Macalister and Genoa rivers, F, Mueller. W. Australia. “ King George’s Sound” (probably to the eastward), Baxter. : F. Mueller had formerly proposed this as a species, under the name of D. cordifolia, — which I have not adopted, on account of the older D. cordata, Sm. He now considers itas py of D. latifolia, If so, the specimens show it to be a very well-marked and distinct orm. 3 12. D. latifolia, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 20. A glabrous — shrub, of 2 to 5 ft. Leaves ovate-elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, usually termi- — nating in a callous point, rarely almost pungent or quite obtuse, mostly 2 to — 3 in. long, or smaller only on elongated side-branches, narrowed into a petiole, — rigid, but strongly reticulate. Flowers small, orange-yellow, numerous, in racemes of 1 to 2 in. flowering often from near the base. Bracts ovate ot oblong, 1 to 2 lines long, densely imbricate before the flowers are full-grown. a Pedicels rarely exceeding the bracts till after flowering. Calyx 1 line long, the — teeth very short, the two upper ones broad, truncate and united. Standard - fully twice as long as the calyx, the lower petals nearly as long. Pod about — 5 lines long.— Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 638; Bot. Mag. t. 1757; DC. Prod. ii. 113; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 83; Paxt. Mag. iv. 223, with a fig. ` E N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Fraser, A. Cunningham, Sieber, n. 349, and others, and northward to New England, C. Stuart ; Clarence river, Beckler. E Victoria. Port Phillip, R. Brown ; common in the wet forest valleys, often forming an impenetrable jungle, F. Mueller, and called “ native Hop,” Mossman and others. Tasmania. Derwent river and Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; common throughout the — colony, J. D. Hooker. a Var. parvifolia. Leaves oval-oblong, often under 1 in. long, more rounded at the base and less veined. To this variety belong some of the most northern as well as of the southern specimens; they may be only lateral branches of large-leaved shrubs. They may at first sight appear to connect the species with D. buxifolia, but in the latter, the leaves on the main stems are always orbicular-cordate, and quite sessile, whilst the larger leaves D. latifolia ave always narrowed at the base into a petiole. 13. D. corymbosa, Sm. in Aun. Bot. i. 507, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 258. A glabrous shrub, of 2 to 4 or 5 ft., the branches slightly angular. - Leaves usually lanceolate or linear, rarely broader and oblong, with a short callous point or rarely quite obtuse, 14 to 3 in. long or sometimes almost 4 in., rigid, 1-nerved, and when broad more or less reticulate. Racemes usually shorter than the leaves, and flowering from above the middle or from the end — only, with long slender pedicels, the bracts small, obovate, spreading under | the pedicels, with numerous others crowded at the base of the peduncle | without flowers, but occasionally the racemes flower more regularly from be i low the middle. Calyx about 1 line long, the teeth short, the 2 upper ones | broad, truncate and united. Standard 3 times as long as the calyx; keel rather shorter. Pod nearly 3 in. long.—DC. Prod. ii. 113 ; Andr. Bot. | Rep. t. 611; D. mimosoides, Bot. Mag. t. 1957 ; D. glauca, Lodd. Bot. Cab. — t. 43 (from the figure); D. macrophylla, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 15 (a luxu- riant garden specimen with the lower leaves broad, above 4 in. long). N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 350, and Duciesia.] XL. LEGUMINOSE, 77 others; northward to New England. C. Stuart ; Macleay, Hastings, and Clarence rivers, Beckler, and southward to Illawarra, Shepherd. Victoria. Port Phillip, 2. Brown and others: frequent from Gipps Land to Mel- bourne and the Grampians, F. Mueller and others. S. Australia. Lofty, Flinders, and Bugle ranges, F. Mueller and others. Var. mimosoides. Leaves usually narrow, with more pinnate and less reticulate veins. Flowers smaller, the racemes flowering from below the middle; bracts smaller and less spreading. —D. mimosoides, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 20; DC. Prod. ii. 114. D. virgata, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. t. 3196. D. linearis, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1615. D. lep- tophylla, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 125.—This appears to bé the most common form over the whole range, from the Blue Mountains to Victoria and S. Australia. The original D, corymbosa is probably limited to Port Jackson and the Blue Mountains. D. vir- gata, linearis, and leptophylla represent a remarkably narrow-leaved form, from the barren parts of the Blue Mountains, which appears, however, in our numerous specimens to pass Very gradually into the common mimosoides variety. 14, D. horrida, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 54. An erect, glabrous, often Icous, rigid shrub of several feet, the smaller branches usually leafless, paniculate, divaricate and spinescent, as in D. divaricata, but scarcely striate. Leaves chiefly on the main branches, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or y pointed, rarely pungent, 14 to 4 or even 5 in. long, very rigid and phyllodia-like, the midrib scarcely prominent, and the lateral veins inconspl- fous, Racemes almost always on leafless spinescent branchlets, rarely axil- » Usually loose, the rhachis often nearly 1 in. long, but sometimes very: ort. Bracts small. Pedicels slender, as long as the calyx or longer. Calyx about 2 lines long, including the stalk-like narrow-turbinate base, the teeth tt, but all acute and distinct. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel small, obtuse. Pod only seen young. ony: Australia, Swan River, Drummond, n. 230, Preiss, n. 1142 and 1171, and ; Geographe Bay, Gordon, and Kalgan rivers, etc., Oldfield. When leafless or nearly so, this species closely resembles D. divaricata, but it may be readily'known by the acute calyx-tecth, o RD reclinata, 4. Cunn. Herb. Quite glabrous. Branches elon- 3 acutely angular. Leaves linear, obtuse or mucronate, 2 to 3 or rarely ry Lin. long. Racemes not so long as the leaves, but with few distant E of 2 or 3 lines, each in the axil of a minute bract. Calyx nearly 3 i. long, including the stalk-like turbinate base, the teeth acuminate, nearly PS ong as the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, truncate and united. Standard wice as long as the calyx ; wings and keel shorter. Filaments alternately much dilated. Pod not seen. * Australia, Arnhem N. Bay, R. Brown ; Sims Island, A, Cunningham. E 16. D. obtusifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 104. A glabrous shrub, with qye, Somewhat angular branches. Leaves broadly or narrow-oblong, ‘the en pay and rounded or emarginate at the end, narrowed into a pen as ct bess 1 to 3 in. long, thickly coriaceous, veinless or with a very faintly pro- oi midrib, Racemes axillary, very short and few-flowered. XL, LEGUMINOSÆ., 19 the 2 upper ones truncate and united. Petals twice as long ‘as the calyx ; keel obtuse, not much curved. Pod only seen young. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 27; Phillips Ranges, Maxwell. Serres V. FascicuLaræ.—Flowers in axillary clusters or very short compact racemes. Leaves flat, horizontal, pungent-pointed. 21. D. daphnoides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 54. A rigid, glabrous, somewhat glaucous shrub, of 2 or 3 ft., the branches prominently angled. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, pungent-pointed, 1 to 3 in. long, narrowed into a petiole, very thick and rigid, obscurely veined. Flowers few, small, in axil- clusters or exceedingly short racemes. Bracts very small. Pedicels very short, besides the narrow, stalk-like, turbinate base of the calyx. Broad tube of the calyx scarcely 1 line long, the teeth very short, the 2 upper ones broad, truncate and united. Standard about twice the length of the calyx; keel rather shorter, obtuse, and little curved. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Swan River-and to the northward, Drummond, n. 225, and 6th Coll. "17; sandy plains of Quangen, Preiss, n. 1144. Allied on the one hand to D. obtusifolia and on the other to D. nudiflora, it has the stalk-like base of the calyx of the former, with pungent leaves and truncate upper calyx-teeth of the latter. , ??. D. nudiflora, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 53. An erect glabrous shrub, of 2 to 3 ft., the branches sulcate, but scarcely augular. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or sometimes almost ovate, tapering into a long pungent ES T O Sin: long, narrowed at the base, rigidly coriaceous, with a pro- n ment midrib and pinnate veins. Flowers clustered or very shortly racemose at the leafless lower nodes of the upper branches or rarely axillary. Bracts tu... Pedicels 2 lines long or more, conspicuously thickened below the ar- a Calyx 1} lines long, the turbinate base exceedingly short, the fll att somewhat acute, the 2 upper ones truncate and united. Standar lly twice as long as the calyx; keel rather shorter; much incurved, dis- otly rostrate, Ovary longer than in most species. Pod 6 to 7 lines long. Ve ¡sr «© Swan River, Preiss, n. 1143, Drummond, n. 226, a : Floweri eolata, Branches elongated. Leaves narrow-Janceolate, ering nodes less destitute of leaves. — Drummond, n. 133. 23. D. rhombifolia, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 66. A glabrous shrub, of 1} to 2 ft., with long, rigid, apparently divaricate or ascending branches, aa OF less angular and suleate. Leaves broadly ovate or ania ng Into a pungent point and narrowed at the base, about + in. long on = flowering branches, but occasionally twice that on the main stems, rigid, d reticulate veins. Flowers to Whack Calyx about 14 lower teeth very small, Petals about twice as thers and very obtuse. bol nerve-like margin, prominent midri SÉ k axillary clusters, on slender pedicels o E ng, Including the narrow turbinate base, the ah upper ones larger, broad, truncate and united. 3 as the calyx, the keel not much shorter than the o : od not seen. y. Australia, Swan River, Drummond, n. 224 ; Sussex district and Darling Range, D n, 1145 and 1146; Mount Yulagan, Oldfield. P ae t. D. cardi ii 105. Apparently a low, rd ophylia, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 105. 7 divaricate, ach a hey el quite glabrous, the branches scarcely angu 80 XL. LEGUMINOSE. -—— [Daviesia. lar. Leaves sessile, broadly cordate, tapering into a pungent point, under $ in. long, thick, with a prominent midrib, but otherwise veinless. Flowers l to 3 in the axils, on slender pedicels of 1 to 3 lines. Bracts very small, Calyx nearly 2 lines long, the turbinate base short; teeth very short, the 2 upper ones broad, truncate, and united. Petals twice as long as the calyx, the keel nearly as long as the others, much incurved, obtuse. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Between Swan River and Cape Riche, Harvey ; sandy plains near Belgarup, Oldfield. Allied to the eastern D. squarrosa, but much more rigid, with larger, broader, less acuminate leaves, and the flowers twice the size, with a much more distinct upper lip to the calyx. E 25. D. Drummondii, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 53. A rigid, glabrous — shrub, the young branches prominently angled. Leaves numerous, rarely exceeding 3 in., obovate or obovate-oblong, tapering into a recurved pungent point, narrowed at the base, but sessile, very rigid, with nerve-like margins — and a prominent midrib, but otherwise veinless, often folded lengthwise. — Flowers few together in axillary clusters, on pedicels of 2 to 3 lines, slightly’ thickened at the top. Calyx nearly 14 lines long, the turbinate base very — short, the teeth rather short, the 2 upper ones truncate and united. Petals _ twice as long as the calyx, the keel nearly as long as the others, much curved, — rather acute, but not beaked. Pod not seen. 7 W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, n. 227; near Kojonerup, Oldfield. 26. D. filipes, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 363. Branches slender, — terete, virgate, softly hirsute in our specimens as well as the leaves. Leaves _ oblong or oval-oblong, shortly pungent-pointed, under 4 in. long, veinless. _ except the midrib. Flowers solitary or 2 together, on filiform pedicels about — as long as the leaves. Bracts very small. Calyx 14 to 14 lines long, the turbinate base rather short, the teeth short, the 2 upper ones broad, truncale, E and united. Standard twice as long as the calyx; keel rather shorter, in- — curved, obtuse. Pod only seen young. a Queensland. On the Maranoa river, Mitchell. _ 27. D. squarrosa, Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 507, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 257. A glabrous or pubescent shrub, with slender terete or slightly an- gular branches. Leaves numerous, sessile, spreading or reflexed, cordate oF — ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a pungent point, mostly 3 to 4 lines long, veinless except the prominent midrib. Flowers small, solitary or 2 together, — on pedicels of 2 to 3 lines, with a few minute bracts at their base. Calyx about 1 line long, the turbinate base very short, the teeth rather short, the 2 upper ones broader and shortly united, but not forming a truncate upper lip. Standard twice as long as the calyx; keel rather shorter, much incurved, obtuse. Pod about 5 lines long.—DC. Prod. ii. 114. : N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to i 7 and others. The calyx is that of D. Piston’ thea viia an aie ay DN ; the very acuminate leaves, the slender pedicels, and the absence of thorny branches. Var. villifera. Branches and younger lea í Mi. Bn} Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 76. ger leaves pubescent or villous.—D. villifera, A. Cu E garela. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser, F. Mueller, and. : Hooker, E Hog S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 347, Daviesia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 81 28. D. ulicina, Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 506, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 256. A rigid, bushy shrub, attaining sometimes several feet, the branches more or less angular, the smaller ones generally ending in short thorns, gla- brous or hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves from broadly ovate to lanceo- late or linear, ending in a pungent point, usually under 3 in., but occasionally attaining 1 in. when narrow and luxuriant, very rigid, veinless, except the midrib. Flowers solitary or clustered or rarely in umbels of 3 or 4, on a short common peduncle. Bracts very small. Pedicels short. Calyx 1 to 14 lines long, the turbinate base very short, the 2 upper teeth rather broader than the others, but scarcely united at the base. Standard very broad, more than twice as long as the calyx; keel shorter, much incurved, obtuse. Pod 4 to 5 lines long.—DC. Prod. ii. 114; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 44; Paxt. Mag. W. 29, with a fig.; D. ulicifolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 304; D. umbellulata, DC. Prod. ii. 114 (partly); Hook. f. Fl, Tasm. i. 82, not of Sm.; D. genis- foides, Lodd. Bot. Cab, t. 1552. Queensland. Moreton Bay and Burnett river, F. Mueller. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 353, and others; northward to New England, C. Stuart ; and southward to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. i Vi From Gipps’ Land and Watson’s Promontory to the Murray and the Glenelg, F. Mueller, Robertson, and others. a ia. Derwent river, R. Brown ; most abundant throughout the island, J. D. S. Australia. Iynedoch Valley and Crystal Brook, F. Mueller; Encounter Bay, Whittaker 3 Mount Serle, Warburton. The following forms appear in their extremes very distinct, but are connected by many ns :— y Subumbellata, Glabrous and luxuriant. Leaves narrow, } to 1 in. long. Common mele often 1 or even 2 lines long.—D. umbellata, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 107, t. 137. —Victoria and Tasmania, è git : communis, Glabrous or hirsute. Leaves lanceolate, mostly under 4 in. Pedi Yey short, clustered.— From N. S. Wales to Tasmania, witii thy ruscifolia. Glabrous or hirsute, with the inflorescence of the common form, = p a broader, mostly ovate, always pungent and under } in. long.—D. ruscifolia, ! El ; sah in Ann. Wien, Mus. ii. 75 ; Schlecht, Linneea, xx. 665,—Victoria, Tasmania, » AU ia. d. angustifolia Glabrons. Leaves linear, but flat, not terete nor laterally compressed, i h > Pagó 2 Wala genistifolia, and the ealyx quite that of D. wlicina.—Queensland and N.S . 9. D, acicularis, Sm. in Ann. Bot, i. 506, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix, 255. An erect shrub, ar ETa branches, glabrous or poe „aves crowded, linear, pungent-pointed, mostly about 1 in. long, pa m if dl revolute, the midrib conspicuous at the base only. Flowers so aja bene the pedicels very short. Calyx 13 to nearly 2 lines e he shorter sre Very Short, the 5- teeth nearly equal, lanceolate, an al tter than the tube, Standard twice as long as the SA uA Mie, t. 2679 Pod 4 to 5 lines long, acuminate.—DC. Prod. ii. 11 T LAA 679; Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 1234 (leaves much less crowded, but probably Same species), and others; arid bushy iverpoo i the lowest ea l Plains, 4. Cunningham. In young specimens, or 2 of the VOL. 11 ionally oblong-lanceolate, 1} to 2 in. long, and not pungent. 82 «XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Daviesia, Series VI. TERETIFOLIÆ.—Leaves terete or slightly compressed or rarely vertically dilated towards the top, at length articulate on the stem and not decurrent, usually short or pungent-pointed, and never horizontally flattened. Flowers solitary, clustered, or shortly racemose. 30. D. pachypkylla, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 15. Very rigid, glabrous, and often becoming very glaucous, the branches thick and terete. Leaves numerous, divaricate, thickly oblong-conical, tapering into a pungent point, — = to $ in. long, nearly three lines diameter at the base, terete or slightly a compressed laterally, quite smooth, without *ribs or veins, of a dense pithy consistence. Flowers several, in loose racemes, shorter than the leaves. Pe dicels nearly as long as the calyx. Bracts minute. Calyx 13 lines long, in- | cluding the narrow turbinate base, the teeth minute. Standard half as long again as the calyx; keel very obtuse. Pod about 4 in. long, of the samé _ blue-glaucous colour as the rest of the fruiting specimens. A W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 45; mountains ‘near Gardner and Phillips 4 rivers, Marvell. 31. D. teretifolia, 2. Br. Herb.. A glabrous shrub, of 2 to 3 ft., with — numerous, erect, terete brauches. Leaves erect, cylindrical, $ to 13 in. long, | about 1 line diameter, with a short pungent point, smooth or obscurely ciliate. | Racemes loose, few-flowered, not exceeding the leaves. Pedicels longer than — the calyx. Bracts very small. Calyx above 2 lines long, including the nar- | row turbinate base, the teeth short, the 2 upper ones connate, Standard | nearly twice as long as the calyx; lower petals shorter, the keel much iu- curved, almost rostrate. Pod å in. long or rather more, very coriaceous. l W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Baxter ; Phillips Ranges and Cape Arid, | Maxwell. The species is evidently allied to the eastern D. genistifolia, but readily di tinguished as well by the foliage as by the loose inflorescence, larger flowers, and large — thick pod. ES 32. D. genistifolia, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 15. A : glabrous shrub, with slender, slightly sulcate branches. Leaves linear-terete or very slightly laterally compressed, divaricate, pungent-pointed, mostly $ to 1 in. long, smooth or sulcate. Pedicels slender, 1 to 2 lines long, it clusters or exceedingly short racemes. Bracts small, obovate. Calyx. 14 lines long, including the narrow, almost stalk-like, turbinate base ; the teeth — very short, the 2 upper ones broad, truncate, and united. Petals twice as wie as the calyx, of nearly equal length, the keel obtuse. Pod about 4 lines ng. y i : 7 à AS Moreton Bay, Fraser. ‘ +S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Paramatta, Wools; Williams river, Back house ; Hunter's River to the south-west of Mount Cunningham and open forest Jllawarra, A. Cunningham ; New England, C. Stuart. Victoria. Wimmera, Dallachy. > sS. Australia. Crystal Brook and towards Mount Remarkable, F. Mueller. {j Var. colletioides. Leaves rather shorter, terete.—D. colletioides, A. Cunn.; Benth. it Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 76.—Forest land near Bathurst, 4. Cunningham. Both forms of this species may be readily distinguished from D. ulicina by the calyx, as well as by the leaves ever flattened horizontally ; the keel is much more obtuse and the pod much smaller than in the western D. colletioides, Meissn. : . 83. D. hakeoides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 47. A glabrous, erect, E Several | gradually narrowing to the base. Pedicels Daviesia, ] XL. LEGUMINOSZA, 83 rigid shrub, with terete or slightly compressed sulcate branches, allied in foliage to D. genistifolia and D. incrassata, but with the inflorescence and bracts of D. juncea. Leaves terete or very slightly compressed, rigid and pungent, in some specimens the lower ones 4 to 8 in. long and almost érect, the upper ones 1 to 13 in., slender and divergent, in others all stout, 1 to 13 in. long, or in one variety very few, short, and divaricate or tecurved, almost asin D. brevifolia, Flowers usually small, in very short, sessile racemes. Bracts imbricate, concave, the outer ones short, the inner ones 13 in. long, concealing the rhachis and pedicels at the time of flowering, often fallen off the fruiting raceme. Calyx 1 line long, with a very short turbinate and small teeth, the 2 upper ones truncate and united. Petals twice as as the calyx, nearly equal in length, the keel much curved, rather acute or almost acuminate. Pod 4 to 5 lines long. a. Australia. Swan River and to the northward, Drummond, n. 238, 4th Coll. n. ia Coll. n. 16, Preiss, n. 1156 and 1157 ; Murchison river, Oldfield. deine re Leaves few, under 4 in. long, very divaricate or recurved, the lower ones Var ranch reduced to small scales.—Drummond, n. 42. 3 it. major. Bracts and flowers considerably larger, but I fiud no other difference.—. hills north from Cape Paisley, Maxwell, 34. D. colletioides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 48, not of A. Cunn. sey allied to the terete-leaved forms of D. incrassata and to the var. col- ues of D. genistifolia, having the narrow base to the calyx of the latter Species, but the flowers and pods are much larger than in either. The calyx, uding the base, is 2 lines long when fully out, the keel twice as long as Tii much incurved, and almost rostrate, as in D. incrassata, Pod w. Australia. Swan Ri - sonth districts ?, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 104; near Albany, Preiss, n. 1180, E pa King George’s Sound, Maxwell ; Geo- ppa Bay, Oldfield. 1t is doubtful whether this may not be a large-flowered variety e. > ene In some of Drummond's specimens the base of the calyx is much broader în others, Under n. 1180 of Preiss, 1 have generally found this and the terete-leaved form of D, incrassata mixed. 35. D. reversifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 145. A bushy rigid intri- - Cately-branched shrub, glabrous and somewhat glaucous, very nearly allied tioides, Meissn., with the same inflorescence flowers and fruit, but poe the branches are very flexuose, and the leaves numerous, scarcely 3 in. long, ware and pungent and remarkably reflexed. ge aspect, ia. Fitzgerald ranges, Maxwell. This plant, notwithstanding its singular . » May very probably be only an accidental form of D. colletioides. e incrassata, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 255. A rigid much diva glabrous shrub, with terete or slightly compressed branches. Leaves always very rigid and pungent-pointed, often appearing continuous i Po the stem, but at length articulate and not really decurrent, usually $ to 'n. long, either te t i int or vertically dilated towards rete and tapering to a poin pub ice We aol r on a very short common peduncle. Bracts very small. Calyx ey erg 13 lines long with a very short turbinate base, the teeth very long as hs upper ones broad, truncate and united. Petals fully twice as calyx, the keel much incurved, almost rostrate. Siment free . avery few small spine-like leaves. . 84 -XL. LEGUMINOS#, [Daviesia, as in most Daviesias. Pod 6 to 7 lines long, rather turgid.—DC. Prod. ii. 114; Acacia dolabriformis, Wendl. Comm. Acac. 55; D. physodes, A. Cunn, in G. Don, Gard. Dict. ii. 125; Bot. Mag. t. 4244 (a cultivated form with remarkably dilated leaves); Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 49; D. Benthamii, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 48 (a slender-leaved form with small flowers); D. drachy- phylla, Meissn. 1. c. i. 49 (a short-leaved form). í S. Australia. Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi ; Kangaroo Island, Waterhouse. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Menzies, and others; and thenceto — Vasse and Swan rivers, Huegel, Drummond, n. 236, 241, 242, etc., Preiss, n. 1161, 1162, 1164, 1165, 1168, 1169, 1170, and eastward to the Great Bight, Maxwell. nri _The species is exceedingly variable in its leaves, sometimes all terete and either mostly — under 3 in. and recurved, or those of the principal branches 1 in. long, straight or almost incurved ; sometimes on the same specimen a few more or less dilated upwards, very rarely — all dilated and scarcely ever so much so as represented in the plate above quoted, but all thé forms are so frequently intermixed as to prevent the characterizing any distinct varieties. The slender-leaved forms come very near in appearance to D. genistifolia, but the turbinate base of the calyx is much shorter and the pod much larger and more turgid. In Drum- — moud’s specimens, 5th Coll. n. 37, the leaves are very few, from 4 to 3 in. long, almost cons necting the species with D. érevifolia. ue 37. D. brevifolia, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 201. An erect | shrub with broom-like, rigid, terete, somewhat flexuose branches. Leaves few, distant, linear-conical, rigid and pungent, 1 to 3 lines long, the thick — base continuous with the stem but not decurrent. Flowers usually several together on very short pedicels, the common peduncle rarely 1 line long. — Bracts very small. Calyx about 14 lines long, the turbinate base very short, | the teeth very short, especially the 2 upper ones, which are very obtuse, trun- | cate or scarcely prominent. Keel twice as long as the calyx, rostrate. Pod 3 in. long, turgid. : - Victoria. Glenelg river, Mitchell, Robertson ; Scrub of Coneorooa, Sehulzer ; Wim- mera, Dallachy ; Grampians, F, Mueller. pe . S. Australia. Encounter Bay, F, Mueller; Mount Lofty, Whittaker. The species is nearly allied to D. incrassata, but the leaves, reduced to short spines, are more continuou} with the stem. : i A Var. (?) ephedroides. Branches often clustered, sometimes quite leafless, but usually with W. Australia, Drummond, n. 137. i - possibly riada e 2. ca n. 137. The specimens are very bad, and may po _38. D. Preissii, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss.i.50. A glabrous much branched rigid shrub, resembling D. incrassata and D. colletioides, but readily distin: guished by the calyx and stamens. Leaves linear-falcate, vertically com pressed especially towards the base or rarely terete, straight or falcate, taper- Ing into a pungent point, 3 to 1 in. long, attached by a broad base and, whei flat, usually striate. Flowers 2 or 3 together, on pedicels of 2 or 3 lines 0% a short common peduncle. Bracts minute. Calyx rigid, turbinate-campant” late, about 14 lines long, the teeth erect, short, somewhat acute, the 2 upp ones distinct, rather smaller and not truncate. Keel more than twice as 1™ as the calyx, much incurved but scarcely rostrate. Filaments much dilate especially the outer ones, and cohering in a tube but readily separable. - probably large, but only seen young. g - W. Australia. King George’s Sound, A, Cunningham, Baxter ?, Drummond, 5 A o a Australia, a chison viver, Oldfield, UAND striata, : : Glabrous, with long ere Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 264. Gla , A Mick "igid branches, terete and striate or slightly angular. Leaves crowded, Daciesia:] XL. LEGUMINOSA. . 85 Coll. n. 38; near Hassell, Hay district, Preiss, n. 1153; Vasse river and Gordon ranges, Oldfield. In Cunningham’s specimens the leaves are vertically 1 to 2 lines broad; in others ‘(from Baxter ?) they are thick and almost terete ; in Drummond’s the lower ones are flat- tened and striate, the upper ones terete,as in D. incrassata. ...39. D. spinosissima, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 51. A rigid glabrous shrub, with thick terete sulcate branches, Leaves crowded, linear, almost terete or laterally compressed, thick and rigid with pungent points, mostly hearly 3 in. long, divergent and often somewhat recurved, the base broad, apparently almost decurrent when young, but at length articulate. Flowers solitary or rarely 2 together, the pedicels 2 or 3 lines long. Calyx with a striate turbinate base, nearly 2 lines long, the teeth broad, obtuse or almost acute, the 2 upper ones shorter but not truncate. Standard fully 5 lines dia- meter; keel twice as long as the calyx, incurved but scarcely rostrate. Fi- laments much dilated, cohering in a tube, but readily separable. Pod about 3 in. long, thickly turgid. ' W., Australia. King George’s Sound, Baxter, Harvey ; near Mount Wuljenup, Preiss, n. 1152; Kalgan river, Oldfield. The species differs chiefly from D. Preissii in its short crowded leaves, í 40. D. pachylina, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 263. A low glabrous or minutely pubescent shrub, with numerous slender somewhat angular and exuose branches. Leaves vertically compressed, narrow-linear, pun- gent-pointed, mostly 2 to 1 in. long, the edges much thickened. Flowers few together in loose pedunculate racemes or almost solitary. Bracts few, very small. Pedicels short. Calyx 14 lines long, the teeth all narrow-acuminate nearly as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Standard as long as the calyx and’ not so broad as in some species ; lower petals - long, keel incurved. Stamens free. Pod only seen young. yw Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 43. This species bears much resemblance to ¿0 neeps in its flowers and peculiar calyx, but the habit and foliage are quite different. C Sinuts VII. Verricates,—Leaves vertically flattened, often attached by a broad base but scarcely decurrent, usually pungent-pointed. Flowers soli- ‘ : tary, clustered, or umbellate-racemose. 4l. D, quadrilatera, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 14. A glabrous E Blaueous shrub, with rigid branches, terete or nearly so. Leaves TR EP oblong-rhomboidal, from about 4 lines to nearly 1 in. long, and about las broad, rounded at the upper end towards the stem with an erect point E outer angle, truncate at the base with a reflexed point at the outer > either sessile or slightly decurrent, thickly coriaceous, obscurely several- Peduncles about as long as the leaves, bearing an umbel of 3 to 6 Calva Which rarely breaks out into a very short raceme. Bracts minute. e La lines long, including the narrow turbinate base, the teeth very short E s early equal. -Petals nearly equal, twice as long as the calyx, the keel a Mach curved. Pod above 3 in. long.—Meissn, in Pl. Preiss. i. 52. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 228, Preiss, n. 1139; Mur- 86 . XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Daviesia, rigid, vertically flat, faleate ovate or almost rhomboidal, pungent-pointed, at- tached by their broad base, mostly about 4 in. long and 4 in. broad, but sometimes nearly as broad as long, more or less striate. Flowers usually _ several, clustered on a very short common peduncle with minute bracts. Calyx about 13 lines long including the turbinate base, the teeth very short, the 2 up- per ones united and almost truncate. Keel much incurved, almost rostrate, : Outer filaments dilated but scarcely cohering. Pod not seen.—D. adnata, ? F. Muell. Fragm, ii. 105. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 29; South-West Bay, Marwell. 43. D. polyphylla, Benth. in Lindi. Swan Riv. App. 14. Glabrous and much-branched, the young branches angular or sulcate. Leaves vertically flattened but thick and rigid, linear or lanceolate, usually falcate, with pun- gent or rarely almost callous points, 4 to 1 in. long, the edges thickened, — usually narrowed towards the base. Flowers small, usually clustered ona very short peduncle, with minute bracts. Pedicels slender, 1 to 2 in. long. Calyx scarcely 1 line long, the turbinate base very short, the teeth small, the 2 upper ones very obtuse or truncate. Petals more than twice as long as the calyx, the keel much incurved, almost rostrate. Filaments slender, Pod 5 to 6 lines long, turgid.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 50, W. Australia, S. coast, R. Brown; Swan River, Fraser, Drummond, 1st Coll. and . n. 231, 232, 233; Preiss, n. 1149. : D. angulata, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 14; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 50, proves to be only a luxuriaut state of D, polyphylla passing sometimes into the common form on the same specimen. 44. D. microphylla, Benth. Glabrous. Branches striate with raised | lines, the smaller branchlets ending in stout thorns. Leaves vertically flat, thick and rigid, ovate or lanceolate, pungent-pointed, 1 to 2 or rarely 3 lines | long, the edges thickened, the base broad, but usually narrower than the middle of the leaf. Pedicels in our specimens always solitary, slender, 1 to- 2 lines long, with minute bracts at the base. Calyx about 1 line long, the E turbinate base very short, the teeth small, the 2 upper ones very obtuse or truncate. Petals and pod of D. polyphylla.—D. incrassata, Meissm. in Pl. Preiss. i. 49, not of Sm. i a o W. Australia. Swan River and Darling range, Preiss, n. 1150 and 1155; Drum mond, n. 32. The spinescent branchlets as well as the broad vertical base of the leaves readily distinguish this from all the forms 1 have seen of the true D. incrassata, besides the | solitary flowers, which may not prove constant, Series VIII. Decurrentes.—Leaves terete, or vertically compressed ot with a prominent wing-like dorsal midrib, usually pungent-pointed, d | at the base into raised angles along the branches. Flowers clustered of shortly racemose. | 45. D. flexuosa, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 32, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. : ii. 75. Glabrous and very rigid ; branches very angular with the decurrent — bases of the leaves, the lower portion straight, with linear, vertically flati a leaves of 1 to 2 in. or more, the flowering branches very flexuose, with smal shorter leaves often nearly terete, all tapering into a pungent point. Flowers | small, clustered on a very short common peduncle with very small bracts. Daviesia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 87 Pedicels rarely as long as the calyx. Calyx about 13 lines long, shortly tur- binate at the base, the teeth short, the upper ones truncate and united. ` Fila- ments rather flat, but free. Keel much incurved but obtuse. Pod about 2 in, long.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 51. * W. Australia, King George’s Sound, Huegel and others; Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 43: Sterling Terrace, Preiss, n. 1180 (in part). - 46, D. pectinata, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 151. Glabrous and very rigid. Branches all very prominently angled with the decurrent bases of the leaves and not flexuose. Leaves vertically flat, lanceolate or linear- iceolate, tapering from the broad decurrent continuous base to the pungent point, the lower ones often above 1 in. long, the upper ones under 3 in., ho- nzontally divaricate and straight or falcate and recurved, more farely incurved, varying in breadth at the base from 1 to nearly 3 lines. Flowers very small, Mm dense axillary clusters or very short racemes. Bracts ovate, concave, longer than in the preceding species but not imbricate. Pedicels exceedingly short. Calyx about 1 line long, obtuse at the base, the teeth very short, the 2 upper Snes truncate. Keel scarcely twice as long as the calyx, incurved, obtuse. Pod 5 to 6 lines long.—D. decurrens and D. prionoides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. - 152; D. latipes, Y. Muell. in Linnéea, xxv. 390. i _ Victoria. Near Mount Hope, Mitchell ; Wimmera, Dallachy. 8. Australia. Dombey Bay, Withelmi. 3 d W. A ia. From King George's Sound to Swan River, Drummond, n. 234 an 235, P reiss, n, 1141, 1147, and 1148, and others; northward to Murchison river, Oldfield; and eastward to Cape Knobb and Cape Le Grand, Maswell. : In the Majority of specimens the leaves are recurved-falcate, but in some they are all or mostly straight or incurved. In a few of Baxter 's, from King George’s Sound, they are oc- “asionally dilated upwards or oblong-falcate. 47, D. tri nophylla. Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 213. A rigid shrub, glabrous or aii densely pubescent, the branches broadly winged by _ the decurrent bases of the leaves. Leaves: under 3 in. long, continuously de- Current, divaricate, recurved and tapering into a pungent point as m q «tsa ta, but the upper edge dilated into a horizontal concave or channelle we the midrib on the back forming the prominent decurrent wing. Flowers few, in little axillary clusters or very short racemes, with very = a Calyx 1 1 lines long, the upper teeth truncate and united. ee. Much curved. Pod fully 4 in. long, very turgid. | 48 ia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 77, and 5th Coll. n. ts lab ol D. epiphylla, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 27. A glabrous, very glaucous chu són ree d thick flat phyllodineous branchlets, ae «et, the lobes (or decurrent vertical leaves) triangular or lanceolate, r ri » tapering to a pungent point, and occasionally branchlets p 2M one of the faces instead of the edges of the branches. Flowers not = Ting pedicels 3 to 4 lines long, solitary or 2 or 3 together m very : ka : O phe Peduncle, usually inserted in the centre of one of the faces F it- - Phyllodineous branch. Bracts several, small, the lower ones image b sot Ge yx broad and oblique, about 4 lines long, including a cb se. lites the teeth short and broad, the 2 upper ones distinct but very "+ ¿Pod conaceous, more than 1 in. long. 88 i XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ Daviesia, -~ W. Australia. Gardener’s Range, between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 18. - Serres IX. ApuyiLa.—Leaves none. Flowers solitary, clustered or rarely racemose. * 49. D. euphorbioides, Bent). Erect, glabrous and glaucous. Branches cylindrical, not sulcate, very thick, of a pithy texture inside, the small branch- lets erect, several inches long, 3 to 5 lines diameter, contracted at the base. Leaves replaced by minute scattered prickly conical scales, rarely 1 line long. Flowers several in very short racemes or clusters. Pedicels about as long as the calyx. Bracts minute. Calyx broad, 1 line long or rather more, the teeth very short, the 2 upper ones truncate. Petals and pod only seen very | imperfect, yet evidently showing the genus. W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 16. 50. D. divaricata, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 31, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 75. A glabrous tall erect shrub, quite leafless, paniculately branched, with divaricate sulcate spinescent branchlets, the leaves replaced by minute obtuse or mucronate scales. Racemes short and few-flowered, inserted on the smaller spinescent branchlets. Bracts very minute. Pedicels slender, usually longer — than the calyx. Calyx about 2 lines long, including the narrow turbinate stalk-like base, the teeth very short broad and obtuse, the 2 upper ones almost ; truncate. Standard about twice as long as the calyx; keel rather shorter, — obtuse. Pod only seen young.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 47. W. Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 110; Preiss, ñ. 1166 and 1167; Vasse river, Point Gregory, and Murchison river, Oldfield. Some almost q pone specimens of D. horrida much resemble this species, but may always be known by 3 yx. 51. D. paniculata, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 31, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. : li. 75. A glabrous erect leafless shrub, the branches slender, terete, panicl- — late, the lower barren ones often spinescent, the flowering ones unarm A Leaves replaced by minute scales. Flowers on slender pedicels, irregularly — racemose, forming a loose terminal dichotomous or trichotomous panicle. ; Bracts minute. Calyx about 1 line long, besides a narrow stalk-like base — scarcely distinguishable from the pedicel, but at length articulate upon it, the broad tube truncate or obscurely toothed. Standard twice as long as t calyx.; keel rather shorter, obtuse. Pod only seen young. W. Australia. Swan River, Huegel. This species, which I have seen in no other collection, differs widely from the rest of the genus in inflorescence. : 52. D. aphylla, F. Muell. Herb. A glabrous shrub of 2 to 3 ft. with — leafless terete broom-like branches, neither furrowed nor spinescent. Leaves replaced by minute, often scarcely perceptible scales. Racemes lateral, very short. Bracts very small: Pedicels slender, shorter than the calyx. Calyx ly lines long, with a short turbinate base, the teeth short, the 2 upper — ones broad, more or less united, Standard about twice as long as the calyx; a keel shorter, broad, curved, very obtuse. Pod only seen young. de W. Australia. Oldfield river, Maxwell. Allied to some forms of D. brevifolia, bat there are no leaves whatever, the calyx is much smaller, and the keel not at all rostrate. : 53. D. juncea, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 260. A glabrous shrub of a Daviesia.] XL. LEGUMINOSE. 89 - undershrub, with long erect leafless rush-like slightly branched stems, terete and smooth or slightly sulcate and not spinescent. Leaves replaced by minute scales, very rarely forming short pungent points. Racemes lateral, distant, very short and few-flowered, the rhachis and pedicels concealed at the time of flowering by rigid chaffy imbricate bracts, the outer ones broad and short, the mner ones narrower and often 2 lines long, all very obtuse and striate. Calyx 1 to 1} lines long, with short teeth, the 2 upper ones truncate, united or dis- tinct. Standard about twice as long as the calyx; keel shorter, curved and almost acute. Pod 3 in. long, very acute.—DC. Prod. ii. 114; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 47. - W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Menzies, R. Brown, and others, and thence to Swan River, Drummond, Preiss, 1.1159, 1160, and 1181, and others. I do not feel cer- tain that there are not two species here confounded. In the King George’s Sound specimens 1 find the calyx usually 5-toothed, as described by Smith; those from Swan River are nume- Tous, all in flower, and one also in fruit; they belong to two varieties, both with the 2 upper teeth of the calyx united in a truncate upper lip. In one of these forms the flowers are very small and the calyx-teeth very short, and they only differ from D. hakeoides in the absence the ves, except very rarely a few very small ones on barren branches ; in the other form flowers are rather larger and the upper lip of the calyx is very prominent. 3 54. D. alata, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 259.. Branches from a short woody base, long and virgate, leafless, flat or 3-angled, with the angles more or less winged and quite glabrous. Leaves replaced by minute scales. Ra- eemes very short, almost capitate, the pedicels very short. Bracts almost im- ricate, the inner ones often 2 lines long, but not so rigid as in D. juncea and D. hakeoides, and often fringed at the edge. Calyx about 2 lines long, the teeth lanceolate, as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones broader but distinct. i dard not twice as long as the calyx, lower petals shorter. Pod 4 to 5 ¿nes long.— Bot. Reg. t. 728; DC; Prod. ii. 114. ° 0 ` N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 356, and others. 55. D. anceps, Zurcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 266. A glabrous shrub, about 2 ft. high, with slender leafless branches, flat but not winged. Leaves teplaced by minute scales. Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together in a short ra- “eme at the ends of small axillary branches, the pedicels each in the axil of an acute scale-like bract. Calyx about 2 lines long, the tecth subulate-acu- ‘Mate, as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Standard Mee as long as the calyx ; keel nearly as long, incurved, obtuse. Pod only Seen young, _W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 86; Phillips river, Maxwell. 13. AOTUS, Sm. Calyx 2 u ited in an upper lip. , pper lobes broader and more or less united in an upper lip. Petals rather long-clawed ; standard nearly orbicular, longer than the lower. pia 3 Wings oblong; keel incurved. Stamens free. Ovary sessile or -a te, with 2 ovules on short straight funicles ; style filiform, with a 5 E inal stigma. Pod ovate, flat or turgid, 2-valved. Seed reniform, without UY strophiole (except in 4. gracillima).—Shrubs, with branches wes a . ves simple, scattered or ternately whorled, the margins recurve A Tevolute, Stipules none. Flowers in axillary clusters, often in threes, on 90 : XL. LEGUMINOSZ, `. [4otus, short pedicels, or rarely in short terminal racemes. Bracts small and very deciduous ; bracteoles none. Ovary villous. T : The genus is limited to Australia. It diflers from Pultenea chiefly in the want of sti- — pules and bracteoles, and in most cases in the want of any strophiole to the seeds. It is, in most cases, readily distinguished from Di//wynia and Latrobea by the recurved, not incurved, margins of the leaves, independently of the seeds. Leaves scattered or imperfectly whorled, narrow, with much revolute margins. Calyx usually above 14 lines long. Leaves linear, obtuse or with recurved points. Keel purple. Calyx under 2 lines, the upper lobes falcate or truncate, united above the middle. Plant tomentose, hoary or nearly gla- brous. Seeds strophiolate (western species) . . . . . . +. +. L A. gracillima, Seeds not strophiolate (eastern species) . . . + . . . 2, A. villosa. Calyx nearly 2 lines, the lobes nearly equal. Leaves softly to- WEP si O A A A ee Calyx above 2 lines, the upper lobes united above the middle. Blowers atillary: ra ote sins walle iss. ra aman A Prats Flowers crowded, in short, terminal, leafless racemes . 5. A. phylicoides. Leaves mostly lanceolate and almost acute. Branches villous. Flowers large. Keel yellow. Ovary sti- o A O IS ae ea Branches minutely hoary. Keel le. Ovary sessile . . Leaves all or almost all in whorls of '3, folded oes ad or broad with recurved margins. Calyx small, membranous. Pedicels recurved. Leaves lanceolate, folded lengthwise and prominently keeled . . 8. A. carinata. Leaves oval-oblong or broadly lanceolate, not reticulate, silky- villous when young. Ovarysessile . . . ...... Leaves cordate-ovate, sharp pointed. Stipules none. Ovary sti- pitate Sy ek ee Bet ea AS 20, A corde Spherolobium euchilus has almost the technical characters of Aotus, but the lax foliage — and long-pediceliate flowers give it a different habit, and the calyx is quite distinct. E Aotus Würthii, Regel, in Bot. Zeit. 1851, 596, is described with the leaves channelled an and convex underneath, and is therefore probably a Dillwynia, perhaps D. a unda. 1. A. gracillima, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 59. A tall shrub, with — elongated branches, closely resembling the more slender forms of 4. villosa, the branches hoary or slightly tomentose. Leaves narrow-linear, obtuse, 3 to 6 lines long, with closely revolute margins, nearly glabrous above, hoary or tomentose underneath. Flowers rather smaller than in 4, villosa, bright- coloured and very numerous, forming long dense leafy racemes below the ends of the branches. Calyx tomentose, scarcely 14 lines long, the lobes ra- ther shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broader and more united. Petals fully twice as long as the calyx. Pod rather smaller than in 4. villosa. Seeds (only seen in A. Cunningham's specimens) like those of 4. villosa, -except that they have a deeply-lobed membranous strophiole.—Bot. Mag. t. 4146 ; 4. intermedia, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 60. ; W. Australia. King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, 4. Cunningham, Bar ter, and others, Preiss, n, 863, 864, and 871 ; Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. n. 246, Were it not for the strophiole of the seeds, which remains to be verified on other specimens I should have considered this as a slender variety of A. villosa. L 2. A. villosa, Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 504, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 24% . . A, lanigera. . A, genistoides. © ND 9. A. passerinoides, Aotus.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 91 A bushy heath-like shrub, the branches terete, often long and virgate, usually densely tomentose or softly villous, rarely hoary or almost glabrous. Leaves Aatrow-linear or rarely oblong, obtuse or with recurved points, 3 to 6 lines long, the margins closely revolute, glabrous or pubescent above when young, the under surface pubescent, but usually concealed. Flowers yellow, with a purple or dark-coloured keel, axillary, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 8, often forming long leafy spikes or racemes below the. ends of the branches. Pedi- eels short, without bracts or bracteoles, Calyx pubescent or villous, 1} lines long or rather more, the lobes as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones broader, faleate and united to the middle. Standard twice as long as the calyx, emarginate ; lower petals nearly as long, the keel incurved, very obtuse, Ovary stipitate. Pod 2 to 23 lines long, somewhat turgid. Seeds not stro- phiolate.—Bot. Mag. t. 949; DC. Prod. ii. 108; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1353; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 83; Pultenea villosa, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 309; Pul- tenga ericoides, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 35; Daviesia ericoides, Pers. Syn. i. $54; Aotus ferruginea, Labill, Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 104, t. 132; Aotus ericoides, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 120; Pultenea rosmarinifolia and P. virgata, Sieb. l. Exs. ; Aotus virgata, DC. Prod. ii; 108. : d. Moreton Island, F. Mueller. W. 8. Wales. Port Jackson, 2. Brown, Sieber, n: 381, 389 ; Fl. Mirt. n. 581, and others; Port Stephens and Illawarra, M‘Arthur. uE ` yan Common in wooded valleys and heath ground, Gipps’ Land, near Brighton, ¿Le eliter, asmania. Most abundant throughout the island, occasionally covering many acres of ra J. D. Hooker, ; : é In a few (im Tiet) y cimens the leaves are all short and broad, almost ovate, in others they are fully in sedge and day glabrous, but obtuse, as in other forms of 4. vil- aud with the calyx of the species. Minute truncate bracts may occasionally be seen, uds are as yet only 4 line long. $ : : io subspinescens, Closely tomentose. Branches short, divaricate and often spinescent. E i short and narrow.—In the Murray Desert, on the Wimmera, ete., F. Mueller, Dal- 3 and others, 2 A, mollis, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr, 236. Nearly allied to 4. Ee Branches densely velvety-tomentose. Leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, Sto 8 lines long, the margins revolute, softly pubescent above, densely rusty- underneath. Flowers clustered in the axils, often arranged in ir- ut distinct whorls, nearly sessile. Bracts about 1 line long, truncate, pt iduous, Calyx villous, nearly 2 lines long, the lobes nearly equal. oe etals not twice as long as the calyx, the keel dark and very much incurved, : shortly stipitate. Pod rather larger than in 4. villosa. Seeds not strophiolate, r ee i Queensland, From the Mantuan Downs to the Maranoa, Mitchell, 3 a S. Wales. New England, C. Stuart ; Clarence river, Beckler. It is possible that carey Prove to be a variety of 4. vi/losa, but, besides the indumentum and other minor $ the more regular calyx appears to be constant. aha, ose E io in: shied, wik a ; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 214. A low shrub, Leave S oF erect stems, apparently not exceeding 1 ft., pubescent or hirsute. ves linear, obtuse rarely ab in. lone. th much revolute, i > > y above } in. long, the margins mu € or hirsute, Flowers axillary, solitary or clustered, as in 4. villosa. 92 ; XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ Aotus.. Bracts 1 line long, very obtuse, very deciduous. Calyx very villous, above 2 lines long, the lobes longer than the tube, all acute, the 2 upper ones falcate and united to the middle. Standard nearly 4 in. long ; lower petals shorter, the keel broad, much incurved, purple. Ovary distinctly stipitate. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 2nd (and 3rd ?) Coll. n. 95. - Var. leiophylla, Meissu. in Pl.-Preiss. ii. 215. Leaves rather broader, glabrous and shining above; 4. procumbens, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 60.—Swan River and southern inte- rior, Preiss, n, 845 and 882 ; Robertson’s Brook, Maxwell. ie species is very near 4. villosa, differing chiefly in the longer and more deeply-cleft calyx. ‘ 5. A. phylicoides, F. Muell. Herb. Apparently a straggling shrub, the — branches clothed with a whitish tomentum, usually close and dense, but some- times loose and woolly. Leaves linear or slightly lanceolate-linear, obtuse or with recurved points, 4 to 4 in. long, with recurved or revolute margins, nearly ~ glabrous and shining above when full-grown, tomentose underneath. Flowers in short, dense, terminal, leafless racemes. Pedicels rather shorter than the calyx. Bracts, as in other species, very deciduous. Calyx about 3 lines long, the lobes as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones much broader, very touch falcate, and usually united to the middle. Standard about half as long again, wings and very broad keel not much shorter. Ovary nearly sessile. Pod broadly ovate, almost orbicular, about 3 lines diameter, the valves slightly convex. Seeds reniform, very strongly pitted, not strophiolate. W. Australia. Murchison river and Port Gregory, Oldfield. The inflorescence is quite exceptional in the genus, and the calyx shows an approach to that of Spherolobium, — but the other characters, as well as the foliage, are quite those of Aotus. dl 6. A. lanigera, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 18. A stouter shrub than 4. villosa, the branches tomentose and villous, with soft spreading hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, mostly acute, 4 to 4 in. long, the margins revolute, hairy when young, at length glabrous, smooth : and shining above, hoary underneath. ‘Flowers axillary, as in 4. villosa, — but much longer, and all yellow. Bracts above 1 line long, very deciduous, © though not so very early as in 4. villosa. Calyx. villous, 24 lines long, the — lobes acuminate, the 2 upper ones rather broader and slightly faleate. Standard : 3 in. long ; lower petals rather shorter. Ovary stipitate. Pod very villous, — much flattened, very obtuse, above 3 lines long. Seeds not strophiolate. a . Queensland. Islands of Moreton Bay, 4. Cunningham, Fraser, F. Mueller ; Wide — Bay, Bidwill; also Leichhardt. ee N. S. Wales. Port Macquarrie, Backhouse. 3 TA genistoides, Zurcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 268. Branches dl erect, virgate, minutely hoary-pubescent. Leaves mostly irregularly verticil- | late in threes, lanceolate and almost acute, 4 to 8 lines long, the margins rè _ volute, coriaceous, glabrous or scabrous above, hoary-tomentose underneath. a Flowers axillary, as in 4. villosa, but larger. Bracts exceedingly deciduous. — Calyx silky-pubescent, 2 lines long, the lobes shorter than the tube, all acute, — the 2 upper ones broader, very faleate, and united to the middle. Standard : fully twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals shorter, the keel purple. Ovary — sessile or scarcely contracted at the base, and much shorter than in the other — . dotis] ` XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 93 species. Style long and very slender. Pod ovate, very obtuse, turgid, about 2 lines long. Seeds. not strophiolate. l W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 61 and 63. S R. carinata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 215. An elegant shrub, the branches and foliage densely clothed with long, soft, silky hairs. Leaves regularly verticillate in threes, and crowded into 6 rows, spreading, lanceo- late, acute, under 4 in. long, folded lengthwise and prominently keeled under- neath. Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together in each axil, on exceedingly short pedicels. Bracts minute, ovate. Calyx not 1 line long, membranous, the lobes much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones rather broader and more united. Standard fully 4 lines long; wings shorter; keel still shorter, purple, in- curved. Ovary small and sessile; style very slender, Pod not seen. W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 102, also (3rd Coll. ?) n. 86. | 9. A. passerinoides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 61. Stems erect, simple or slightly branched, 1 to 13 ft. high, densely and softly villous. ves almost all im whorls of 3, -oval-oblong -or lanceolate, obtuse or almost acute, under 2 in. long, the margins recurved or slightly revolute, softly silky-villous on both sides, or at length glabrous above. Flowers axil- clustered, the pedicels very villous, about 3 line long. Calyx membra- nous, about 1 line long, the lobes somewhat obtuse, the 2 upper ones broad, faleate and united above the middle. Standard about 3 lines long; keel shorter, purple. Ovary sessile ; style filiform, hirsute. Pod not seen. E : W. Australia, Near Albany, Preiss, n. 868. ays 10. A, cordifolia, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 33, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. e "de An erect shrub of several ft., the branches terete, loosely pubescent, and villous with fine spreading hairs, Leaves in whorls of 3, ovate-cordate, acute aud sometimes almost pungent, 4 to 8 lines long, herbaceous, the margins tly recurved, undulate and almost denticulate, finely reticulate, hirsute or at length glabrous. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 together, the pedi- “8 Very short. Bracts small, ovate, concave. Calyx slightly pubescent, membranous, 1 to 12 lines long, the lobes rather shorter than the tube, the “pper ones truncate and united above the middle. Standard 3 to 83 lines ¿lower petals rather shorter, the keel incurved, obtuse. Ovary stipi- od small.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 61. s w: Australia, Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 251, Preiss, . 14, PHYLLOTA, DC. ., Calyx, 2 uppe imes. united into an upper lip: tals cl pper lobes broader, and sometimes. un sit Pet clawed ; standard nearly orbicular, longer than the lower priet wing? ng; keel much incurved. Stamens either all, or at least the 5 outer . up’ pcre or less adnate to the petals at the base, and sometimes all united mith them in a ring or short tube. Ovary sessile, with 2 ovules on short à : ¿ : ulate up- ; Style dilated or thickened at the base, incurved and sub “at 3 Stigma small, terminal. Pod ovate, somewhat nie a Teniform, without any strophiole.—Shrubs, usually heath-like. » linear, with revolute margins. Stipules none, or very minute mm . 94 XL. LEGUMINOS#. [Phyllota, P. humifusa. Flowers axillary or terminal. Bracteoles often leaf-like, in- serted under the calyx and usually closely pressed to it. Ovary small, very villous. _ The genus is limited to Australia. It differs from’ Dillwynia, which it resembles in habit, in the revolute. not involute, margins of the leaves, and in the absence of any stro- phiole; from Aotus in the presence of bracteoles ; and from both, as well as from all other allied genera, in the tendency to a union of the filaments with the petals. Flowers axillary, either along the branches or forming apparently terminal leafy heads or spikes. Keel acute. Style bearded upwards on the inner side. Flowers 3 in. long. Pedicels very short . Pte as Flowers 4 in. long. Pedicels filiform, 2 or 3 times as long as the sinuate leaves CR ie A A Keel rather obtuse, as long as the standard ; wings much smaller. Style slender, not bearded, but hairy to the middle, . , . 3. P. Sturtiz. Keel obtuse, not longer than the wings. Style glabrous, much dilated below the middle, i Erect shrub. Flowers usually crowded towards or at the ends kee WH A PE « . 4. P. phylicoides. Slender procumbent shrub. Flowers few espe ni By BP, hamifurás Flowers sessile, in clusters of leaves, terminating the branches or 1. P. barbata. 2. P. gracilis. ~ very short axillary branchlets . . eT ‘ . . 6. P. pleurandroides.. l. P, barbata, Benth. in Hucg. Enum. 33, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 78. A heath-like shrub of several ft., with pubescent or villous branches. Leaves linear, obtuse, rarely exceeding 2 in., the margins closely revolute, glabrous, scabrous or ‘sparingly hairy. Flowers axillary, solitary, nearly sessile, usually longer than the leaves. Bracteoles leafy, dilated at the base, as long as or longer than the calyx. Calyx about 3 lines long, the lobes acu- minate, rather longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Petal-claws rather short; standard more than 4 in. long, acuminate; keel — nearly as long, deeply coloured, rather narrow, incurved and acute or acumi- nate; wings shorter and narrower. Five at least of the filaments adnate to the petal-claws at the base. Style dilated downwards, longitudinally fringed from the middle upwards, and on the inner side with dense white woolly hairs. fet ovoid-oblong, turgid, 2 to 3 lines long. Seeds not seen.—Meissn. in Pl. iss, i, 59. i W. Australia. King George’s Sound to Cape Riche, Huegel, A. Cunningham, Preiss, n. 846, and others; Wilson's Inlet, Oldfield. P, villosa, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 267, from the same district, Gilbert, n. 255, > which a seen, would appear from the character given, to be a rather more hairy 2. P. gracilis, Zurez. in. Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 267. Branches long | and very slender, hoary with a close pubescence. Leaves linear, obtuse, rarely above 1 line long, the margins closely revolute, hoary-pubescent. . Flowers few, on filiform axillary pedicels, 2 to 3 times as long as the leaves: Bracteoles ovate, obtuse, concave, keeled, close under the calyx and shorter than its tube. Calyx minutely hoary, about 1} lines long, the lobes rather longer than the tube, acute, the 2 upper ones united into a truncate upper lip. Standard 24 lines long; wings shorter; keel nearly as long as the standard, incurved and acute. Five of the filaments adnate to the petals at- their base. Style thickened downwards, incurved attenuate and pubescent Phyllota.] XL. LEGUMINOSA, 95 or ciliate along the inner side above the middle. Pod ovate, obtuse, about 2 lines long, minutely pubescent. Seed without any strophiole. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 91. į} 38 P. Sturtii, Benth. A shrub, with the habit apparently of P. barbata and P. phylicoides, the branches usually minutely tomentose-pubescent, Leaves 3 to 4 lines long, obtuse or mucronulate, the margins closely revolute, more or less tuberculate and sprinkled with rigid hairs when young. Flowers _ crowded in short leafy spikes at the ends of the branchlets. Bracteoles leafy, keeled, very acute, almost pungent, as long as the calyx. Calyx about 3 lines long, the lobes acuminate, almost pungent, the 2 upper ones rather vroader, the lowest one very narrow. Standard ovate, complicate ; keel much incurved, almost acute, but scarcely rostrate, nearly as long as the standard ; wings shorter and narrower. Stamens adnate to the petals at the base. Style slender, hairy to the middle, but not bearded. Ovary sessile, slightly hairy. t S. Australia, C. Sturt. The shape of the flowers is as it were intermediate between that of P, barbata and P. phylicoides, the style is rather different from either. 4. P. phylicoides, Benth. in Ann, Wien. Mus. ii. 77. An erect heath-like shrub, of several ft., the branches terete, glabrous pubescent or tsute, Leaves numerous, narrow-linear, mostly about 3 in. long, but in Some specimens nearly $ in., in others not above 4 lines, obtuse or with callous usually recurved points, the margins revolute, more or less tuberculate, scabrous, and’ sometimes sprinkled with erect hairs, rarely quite smooth and Tous. Flowers almost sessile in the upper axils, forming terminal leafy or spikes, or becoming lateral by the elongation of the terminal shoot. racteoles leafy, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the calyx-tube, and often exceeding the lobes. Calyx 23 to 33 lines long, glabrous or villous, the about as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones broad and shortly united, the lowest rather longer than the lateral ones. Standard 4 to. 6 lines long; Wer petals rather shorter, the keel broader than the wings, much incurved, Bb obtuse, Filaments and petal-claws all united at the base in a ring or do, Ovary tapering into the style, which is much dilated below the y and quite glabrous. Pod ovate or shortly oblong, included in the » Seeds without any strophiole.—Pultenea phylicoides, P. aspera, P. mits and P. squarrosa, Sieb, in DC. Prod. ii. 113; Plyllota pilasa, P: Bari P. comosa, P, Billardieri, P. grandiflora, P. squarrosa, and P. Baueri, 040.1 Ann, Wien. Mus. ii. 77. eyed : Sandy Cape, R. Brown ; Moreton Island, M'Gillivray, F. Mueller. 2 Fh Wales, Port rie aie to the. Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. E 406, ee: th 8, and Fl, Mizt.n. 583, and others, Illawarra, Shepherd ; near Goulburn, | 4 ern Species. ent; ers upon which, after De Candolle, I had endeavoured to cog cy was i brea y break down when applied to the large number of specimens 3 weit rada «e E in the sine Tam unable to distribute them even into marked varieties, ae to pre ad se sre of the flowers, the erect spreading or recurved leaves, ete. sup SM inflorescence depend often on the period of development. e P, humifusa, A. Cunn. Herb. (under Dilluynia). Stems prostrate, neg, onder ascending branches, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves “narrows ‘ute, > Obtuse or with a recurved point, 2 to 3 lines long, the margins revo- 96 : XL. LEGUMINOS. [ Phyllota, Flowers few, axillary, below the ends of the branches, on very short pedicels. Bracteoles leafy, linear, longer than the calyx-tube. Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes short, with subulate points, the 2 upper ones broader at the | base. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter, © the keel purple and much incurved, but obtuse. Filaments mostly adnate to _ the petals at the base. Ovary tapering into a thickish style, attenuate and — curved upwards. Pod not seen. N.S. Wales. Wombal Brush, Argyle county, A. Cunningham. 6. P. pleurandroides, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. i. 38. Branches virgate or diffuse, pubescent or villous. Leaves scattered, few along the branches, but often crowded at the ends, narrow-linear, obtuse or with a short recurved point, under + in. long, the margins closely revolute, glabrous — scabrous or hirsute when young, the broad midrib alone appearing under- — neath. Flowers small terminal or on very short axillary shoots, sessile ina — dense tuft of floral leaves, ciliate and imbricate at the base. Bracteoles broad, — obtuse, shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx pubescent, 12 to nearly 2 lines long, the lobes short, the 2 upper ones truncate and more united. Petal- claws nearly as long as the calyx-tube, more or less adnate to the stamens a their base; standard fully twice as long as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter, the keel much incurved, but obtuse. Ovary tapering into the style, which is dilated downwards and slightly pubescent, but without any longitu- dinal row of hairs. Pod broadly ovate, shorter than the calyx. Victoria. Inthe Grampians, F. Mueller. i S. Australia. Mount Barker, Whittaker; Kangaroo Island, F. Mueller; Spencers Gulf, Wilhelmi, 15. GASTROLOBIUM, R. Br. el Calyx 5-lobed, the 2 upper lobes usually broader and united higher up. Petals clawed. Standard orbicular or reniform, emarginate, longer than the — lower petals ; wings oblong ; keel broader than the wings and usually shorter. — Stamens free. Ovary stipitate or rarely sessile, with 2 ovules on straight and filiform funicles. Style incurved, filiform, with a small terminal stigma. — Pod ovoid or nearly globular, turgid, continuous inside, the valves coriaceous: — Seeds (where known) strophiolate.—Shrubs. Leaves on very short petioles, more or less distinctly verticillate or opposite, or occasionally scattered, si* ple and. entire, usually rigid. Stipules setaceous, rarely wanting. Flowers , yellow or the keel and base of the standard purple-red, in terminal or axillary ‘racemes, either loose or contracted into corymbs or whorl-like clusters. Bracts _ and bracteoles usually very deciduous, in a few species the brown rigid bracts persist nearly till the flowers open. Staminal disk usually very short. Ova very villous. = The genus is limited to West Australia. It is closely allied on the one hand to the stro phiolate species of O.rylobium, only differing from them in the number of ovules constant). 2, and on the other to Pultenea, from which it is distinguished by the habit, the coriaceous leaves, the bracteoles either deciduous or inconspicuous and the more coriaceous t i pod Several of the species are sent as the Poison-plant of W. Australi ially G. bilobum aud G. Callistachys. n-plant of W. Australia, especially G. bilobu» fram I. Axillares.—Racemes contracted into clusters or heads, all or mostly r ary. i id. Gastrolobium.]' XL. LEGUMINOSA. 97 Leaves ovate or oblong, obtuse truncate or equally rounded at both ends, coriaceous. » . Leaves mostly above 1 in. long. Calyx-lobes nearly equal. Leaves ovate or oblong, glabrous. “Flowers large. Calyx very eee es we SS O Y ees Leaves oblong, tomentose underneath. Flowers rather small. Calyx silky . BSA See sew AN Leaves mostly under 1 in. long. Calyx silky, the 2 upper lobes connate above the middle. Flowers small. Branchlets very angular, minutely silky-hairy. Leaves } to 1 1. G. pyramidale. 2. G. Lehmanni. in. long. . ete ii «ee Np e AI Branchlets terete, loosely pubescent. Leaves mostly under ; A E eee Leaves under 4 in, long. Calyx villous, the lobes nearly equal . 6. G. reticulatum. es thin, cordate-orbicular or broadly obovate, truncate, much undulate. Flowers and fruits small . < won O82 LA E OIC eS cuneate or spathulate, obtuse or truncate, or with a very short point. : silky, about 2 lines long. a ves oblong, slightly cuneate, mostly under 3 in. long +. G. Brownii. 5. Leaves spathulate, 4 to 1 in. long, or obovate under ġ in. . . 8. yx loosely villous, 3 to 4 lines long. og ves obovate, truncate, with a small point. Ovary stipitate 8 Cab Ley 4. 5. Leaves cuneate 3-pointed. Ovar il T ; eate, y bonae 2 se es Leaves harrow-linear. Stipules very long. Leaves harrow-oblong or cuneate, with a short pungent point . tapering into a pungent point. Leaves abonate-rhorcbosia. ee Ree a er Be _ “aves ovate-acuminate . . Ss cig « 4 + 18 Gy eS, od ech Pangent lobes or teeth. dadia -lobed, t ; $ ry i ai ; = ` Short and ee FAN weg: Sarge . . «13. G. trilobum. es with pungent teeth or lobes above the middle. Flowers palta y clustered in the axils . . . . s . 2s + . +14 6. ilicifolium. ¿ABRES IL Racemosee.—Racemes terminal or axillary, elongated, eylindrical qae: y 0r with a few distant pairs of flowers or rarely short and dense. x broad, obtuse truncate or emarginate, with or without a , Small deciduous point. : . Lewes much undulate. Ovary-stipes rather long. DN es long, pedunculate, * Calyx 3 lines or more. Standard p Arge. Style thick. Pod as broad as long. . +. + + - ; Racemes sessile, 1 in, long. Flowers small. Calyx barely 2 ~ iya; | o Style slender. Pod longer than broad +; = 16. @ poly l - ner ag aaah rey nearly mon Sy sa dla AA eaves flat, oval or oblong. "Racemes loose. Ovary on a long ¿ Leaves ek large. Calyx 4 or 5 lines long... + + 18. Q. grandiflorum. - 15. G. villosum. rdate, - Ovary stipi- ne o T pycnostachyum. E latte flat, cuneate . i Spe a o... +80, G. velutinum. Tony oring to a pungent point. spinosum Leaves roadly cordate or triangular, entire or prickly- = é otundifolium. Leaves ovate or orbicular, entire . . . +. . + +26 = oblong-elliptical, entire. 5 22. G. microcarpum. A silky scarcely 2 lines long. Bracts brown scarious . %4. Y. mu i r > ben y “pubescent, fully 3 lines long. Bracts pate mee 93, G. ozylobivides. a OL, Ir. . . . . . . é * . . Ve H 98 XL, LEGUMINOSZ. [Gastrolobium. Calyx glabrous, fully'5 lines long. Bracts large membranous . 24. G. calycinum. Leaves with lateral pungent lobes or angles . . . + + + + 13. GQ, trilobum. Leaves narrow or cuneate, obtuse or emarginate. Leaves linear, 1 to 2 in. long, scarcely verticillate. Leaves flat or the margins recurved. Racemeslong . » . 25. G. Callistachys. Leaves folded lengthwise or involute. Racemes short and ee a as ce eg S 26. G. stenophyllum. | Leaves oblong. a ae Leaves opposite or verticillate, strongly keeled, about 1 in. long 27. G. crassifolium. Leaves under } in. long, the midrib scarcely prominent. a Leaves crowded, scarcely verticillate. Calyx glabrous . . 28. G. parvifolium. Leaves verticillate, Calyx villous. Racemes very short . 29. G. hamulosum. Leaves, emarginate. Racemes cylindrical. ‘ Leaves mostly } in. long, the margins slightly recurved . . 30. G. velutinum. Leaves mostly 1 in. long, the margins revolute . . . . 8l. G. bidens. Racemes contracted almost into an umbel . . . . . + + 32. G. bilobum. SERIES I. AXILLAREs.—Racemes contracted into clusters or heads, all or mostly axillary, assuming the appearance of whorls. 1. G. pyramidale, T. Moore, in Gard. Comp. i. 81, with a fig. A tall stout handsome shrub, the young branches softly pubescent or loosely villous. Leaves mostly*verticillate in threes, ovate or rarely broadly obovate-oblong, — very obtuse truncate or emarginate, with or without a small point, 1 to 1301 — in cultivation 2 in. long, rounded or broadly cordate at the base, rigidly coria- ceous, reticulate, glabrous, the margins often thickened and nerve-like. Sti- pules usually long. Flowers bright yellow with a red keel, in dense short umbels or heads, on short peduncles, axillary or terminal. Calyx 3 to 4 lines — long, very villous, the lobes nearly equal. Ovary very shortly stipitate. Pod — not seen.—Oxylobium ovalifolium, Lindl. and Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii. 63, t. 8% not of Meissn.; Gastrolobium polycephalum, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, L 274; G. crenulatum, |. c: 273 (with rather narrower leaves and smaller flowers). a W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 84 and 55; Cheynes beach, S. coast, Mar — well, The species very closely resembles some specimens of Oxylobium retusum, but a indumentum is not silky, and the ovary 2-ovulate. ca 2. G. Lehmanni, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 70, and ii. 217. An erect shrub, probably of several ft., the branches softly tomentose-pubescent. — Leaves oblong, very obtuse or emarginate, mostly 1 to 2 in. long, or smaller on the side-branches, rounded at the base, very coriaceous, the thickened nerve — like margins often minutely crenulate, glabrous above, the reticulations — scarcely visible there, and quite concealed underneath by a soft whitish tomet- — tum. Flowers rather small, in axillary clusters. Calyx silky-tomentose, 1” lobes rather narrow, about equal to the tube, the 2 upper ones a little more connate than the others. Ovary shortly stipitate. Pod acuminate, longer than the calyx. W. Australia. In the interior, Preiss, n. 806, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 95. 3. G. pulchellum, Zurez. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 274. Branches silky- pubescent, much more slender than in G. Lehkmanni, which this species whe sembles in some respects. Leaves oblong, obtuse or emarginate, with a minute recurved point, under 1 in. long, rounded at the base, coriaceous, culate, glabrous. Flowers rather small, clustered in the upper axils or in # Gastrolobium] XL. LEGUMINOSE. 99 terminal head, not usually exceeding the leaves. Calyx silky-pubescent, about 27 lines long, the lobes rather shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Keel deeply coloured. Ovary on a rather long stipes. Pod not seen. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 57. 4.G. stipulare, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 218. Branches erect, densely villous as well as the young leaves with long soft hairs. Leaves crowded, scarcely or irregularly whorled, narrow-linear, mucronate, 1 to 14 in. long, rigid, at length nearly glabrous, the margins revolute, the midrib and transverse veins very prominent underneath. Stipules setaceous, remarkably long, often attaining + in. Flowers not seen. Fruiting pedicels short, axillary. Calyx silky-villous, about 24 lines long, the 2 upper lobes rather broader than the others. Pod ovoid, turgid, acùte, about 3 lines long. Seeds 2, strophiolate. „W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 93. This species has no immediate affinity with any other one of the genus, and has more the aspect of some Ozy/odiums, but the young pods show that there are only 2 ovules. 5. G. Brownii, Meissn. in, Pl. Preiss. i. 11. A shrub, attaining several feet, the branches softly pubescent or villous. Leaves obovate or oblong, but y broader above than below the middle, and sometimes’ almost linear- “uneate, rounded or truncate, with a short rigid or pungent point, in some specimens not exceeding 3 in., in others $ to 1 in. long, obtuse at the base, eorlaceous, reticulate, glabrous, often slightly undulate. Flowers in axillary clusters, often crowded in the upper part of the branches, but rarely exceed- Ing the leaves, Calyx softly villous or nearly glabrous, 2 to 24 lines long, the viy lobes united above the middle. Ovary on a long stipes. Pod not seen 007 Australia. Rocky summit of Mount Wuljenup, Plantagenet district, Preiss, 1 802 (Herb, Sonder) G. Hookeri, Meissn, in . Preiss. i from Drummond, n. 73, and, according to 4 » n. 209, does not tna ee from G. Brownii, except in its shorter, less mucronate leaves. i > gay, reticulatum, Benth. A low shrub, with erect, rather thick, vir- | Bate, loosely tomentose branches. Leaves in irregular whorls of 3, ss Edad oblong, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long, obtuse, erect and often alme + oncate “at the base, spreading or recurved upwards, thickly coriace- > glabrous and densely reticulate. Stipules none. Flowers a smith y forming irregular whorls below the ends of the branches. bt fe E pawe, but falling off long before flowering. Pedicels short, Tuil Tacteoles none, Calyx very villous, nearly 3 lines long, the lobes br m the y equal, about as long as the tube. Petals about half as bo od YX; keel deeply coloured, broad, obtuse. Ovary nearly sessile. Pt Sed globular, often slightly acute, coriaceous, villous, about 3 a sg te Strophiolate.— Hutazxia reticulata, Meissn. in. Pl. Preiss. i. 65 ; Æ. pun y 0z in. Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 272. ek lars : . i si interior, Preiss, n. O19. 24M kaa as ad han tn hat Saran ene no doubt of the identity with 8 plant, 1G, truncatum, Benth. Branches numerous, but short ps 100 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [ Gastrolobium. hirsute with long spreading hairs. Leaves nearly orbicular, mostly about } in. long, truncate at the end, the midrib produced into a long fine point, broad and often cordate at the base, the margins much undulate, scarcely coriaceous, glabrous and reticulate above, pale underneath and sprinkled with a few long hairs. Stipules setaceous, deciduous. Flowers small, in axillary clusters of 3, sometimes borne on a short common peduncle, the pedicels about 1 line long, recurved, each in the axil of a small ovate or lanceolate very deci- duous bract. Calyx membranous, slightly hairy, about 13 lines long, the lobes about as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones rather more united than the others. Standard twice as long as the calyx. Ovary shortly stipitate. Pod nearly 3 lines long, shortly acuminate. W. Australia, Drummond (5th Coll. ?), n. 30. The leaves of this species are much thinner than usual in the genus, and recall in some measure the foliage of Aotus cora The seeds of the first pod I opened also had no stropbiole, but I found the strophiole per- fect in the seeds of several other pods, and the general habit and stipules are those of Gas- trolobium. 8. G. spathulatum, Benth. in. Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 14. A small shrub, with erect virgate nearly simple stems, often under 1 ft. high, slightly hoary or silky-tomentose. Leaves spathulate, + to 1 in. long, 3 or 4 lines broad, rounded truncate or emarginate at the end, with a minute point, taper- ing at first rapidly, and afterwards gradually to the base, folded lengthwise, coriaceous, much reticulate and glabrous. Flowers small, in axillary clusters or short racemes, never exceeding the leaves. Calyx silky-pubescent, about 2 lines long, the two upper lobes united above the middle. Keel deeply coloured. Ovary on a long stipes. Pod not seen ripe.—Meissn. in Pl Preiss. i. 71. W. Australia, lst Coll. and n. 72, also (according to Meissner) x. 208; Mout Bakewell, Preiss, n. 800, mixed with Ozylobium cuneatum, which this species much Te — sembles, but may be distinguished by the more spathulate and much more reticulate leaves, besides the constant difference in the number of ovules. A _ Var. (2) latifolium. Stems loosely villous. Leaves broader and not above }‘n. long, loosely tomentose underneath when young. Calyx more villous —W. Australia, Drummond; — Phillips Ranges, Maxwell. The specimens are scarcely sufficient to determine whether — they may not rather be a variety of G. Brownii. 9. G. plicatum, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 274. A stout, rigid shrub, the young branches tomentose-villous. Leaves obovate-cuneate, trun- _ cate, with a small recurved point, the angles rounded, mostly about 1 in. long, — folded lengthwise, very coriaceous, glabrous and often somewhat glaucous, the reticulations fine and not very conspicuous. Stipules long. Flowers axi- — lary, loosely clustered. Calyx very villous, about 3 lines long, the lobet nearly equal. Standard twice as long as the calyx; keel deeply col Ovary on a long stipes. Pod stipitate, very hirsute, exceeding the calyx. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 50. 10. G. tricuspidatum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 66. A stout, rigid shrub, the branches scarcely angular, softly villous. Leaves rather cro ded, cuneate, truncate, or shortly 3-lobed, with 3 short rigid points, 4 to 14 ™. — long, very coriaceous, more or less folded lengthwise, villous when young, e length glabrous, reticulate underneath, and drying usually of a yellowish ting’ — Flowers axillary, clustered. Calyx loosely villous, about 3 lines long, ™? — lobes rather broad, acuminate, the 2 upper ones shortly united, Ovary $5 — a Gastrolobium.] XL. LEGUMINOS4. 101 sile, with the 2 ovules at the base of the cavity. Style nearly straight. Pod sessile, acute, enclosed in the calyx. Seeds strophiolate. W. Australia, Drummond, n. 212; in the interior, Preiss, n. 839. 11. G. obovatum, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 14. Branches rather slender, tomentose-pubescent. Leaves more scattered than in most - Species, from obovate to rhomboidal, under 1 in. long, tapering more or less mto a pungent point, narrowed below the middle, folded lengthwise, coriace- ous, reticulate, glabrous. Flowers axillary, in rather loose clusters, like those of G. spathulatum. Calyx about 2 lines long, silky-villous, the 2 upper lobes united above the middle. Standard twice as long as the calyx; keel-petals often free. Ovary on a rather long stipes. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll., also n. 74 and 206; Mount Bakewell, Preiss, n. 874 and (according to Meissner) 2. 800 in part. 12. G. epacridioides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss.i. 72. A tall shrub, with slender, virgate, loosely villous branches. Leaves numerous, very spreading, ovate, acuminate, with a pungent point, 4 to 8 lines long, coriaceous, very ngid, shining above, glabrous, coarsely reticulate. Stipules none. Flowers axillary, loosely clustered, Calyx silky-villous, nearly 3 lines long, the lobes „acute or acuminate, the 2 upper ones slightly united at the base. Standard about twice as long as the calyx ; keel deeply coloured. Ovary shortly, but distinetly stipitate. Pod ovoid, acute, about 3 lines long, transversely veined, y hairy. Seeds not seen, W. Australia, Drummond, n. 196; Darling Range,’ Fraser, Preiss, n. 837 ; King George’s Sound, Maclean, The species is in many respects allied to Oxylobium acutum. _ 13. G: trilobum, Benth. in Lindl, Swan Riv. App. 13. Much-branched, hot very stout, and quite glabrous. Leaves rhomboidal or 3-lobed, + to 1 in. “ong, tapering into a pungent point, the lateral lobes or angles very divari- cate, sometimes lanceolate, almost as in Oxylobium staurophyllum, sometimes Very broad and short, always ending in pungent points, the leaf usually folded lengthwise, Very coriaceous, often glaucous, the fine reticulations scarcely minent. Flowers few, in loose axillary racemes, not usually exceeding the | ves. Calyx quite glabrous or minutely pubescent, 2 to 23 lines long, the ower lobes acute, the 2 upper ones broad, united above the middle into a truncate upper lip. Standard about twice as long as the calyx; the lower Ova, nearly as long, the keel not so deeply coloured as in some species. ("Y stipitate. Pod not seen.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 66. a Ww. Australia, Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 87 (or 187 ?); sterile Places near Williams, Preiss, n. 825. The inflorescence is sometimes almost that of the ae but the racemes are short and rarely more than 4-flowered. 4. G. ilicifoli Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 67. A tall, rather stout shrub, the young Westhead softly pubescent or villous. Leaves from narrow- o to broadly elliptical, 14 to 22 in. long, obtuse acute or truncate, meted, especially above the middle, by a few pungent teeth, es pred bro y eminent and undulate, the leaf entire and tapering at the base, cof Sting coriaceous, smooth above, penniveined and finely reticulate underneath. tipules rather long. Flowers axillary, densely clustered. Calyx silky . Us, -2 to 22 lines long, the 2 upper lobes slightly united at the base. 102 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [ Gastrolobium. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel deeply coloured. Ovary stipitate. Pod broadly ovoid, rather longer than the calyx. W. Australia, Drummond, n. 76 and 211; Mount Bakewell, Preiss, n. 821. The species approaches sometimes in foliage Oxylobium tricuspidatum, but the leaves are more toothed and the ovary different. di Var. lobatum. Leaves narrow, with revolute margins, divided above the middle into 1, 2 or 3 pairs of opposite, divaricate, short, broad, divaricate lobes, all ending in pungent points, and there are often small pungent teeth in the undulate sinuses.— G. verticillatum, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 28.—Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 61h Coll. n. 24. Different as this appears at first sight, there are specimens in which the leaves pass from the one form to the other, and the inflorescence and flowers are the same in all. Series I. Racemosa.—Racemes terminal or occasionally axillary, elon- gated, cylindrical or 1-sided, or reduced to a few distant pairs of flowers. 15. G. villosum, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 13. A decumbent shrub, with ascending stems, the branches in our specimens above 1 ft. long, softly tomentose, and hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate, broadly oblong or almost ovate-lanceolate, very obtuse, truncate or emargi- nate, with or without a small point, 1 to 2 in. long, the margins undulate, the base broad, truncate or slightly cordate, coriaceous, glabrous or slightly hirsute underneath. Racemes terminal, pedunculate, often 3 or 4 in. long, Bracts brown and rigid, lanceolate-subulate, often persisting till the flowers’ expand. Calyx about 3 lines long, villous, the 2 upper lobes connate about to the middle. Standard twice as long as the calyx, orange-red, lower petals shorter, purple-red, the keel shorter than the wings. Ovary stipitate. Style short, incurved. Pod broadly ovoid, stipitate, about 4 lines long.—Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 45; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 68. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. and n. 194; Darling Range, Preiss, n. 810. ; 16. G. polystachyum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 217. An erect or spreading shrub, the branches tomentose-villous. Leaves mostly opposite. broadly oblong, often more or less cuneate, truncate at the end, 4 to 1 m. : long or rarely more, the margins undulate, the base rounded, coriaceous, gla- a brous above, softly pubescent or villous or rarely at length glabrous under- e neath. Racemes axillary or terminal, scarcely pedunculate, and rarely above — l in. long. Bracts brown and rigid, ovate, concave, rather acute. Flowers — much smaller than in G. villosum. Calyx villous, about 2 lines long, the upper lobes scarcely united at the base. Standard twice as long as the calyx; wings as in G. villosum, shorter than the standard and longer than the keel. E Pod shortly stipitate, ovoid, acute, scarcely 3 lines long.— Oxylobium batillum, — Hook, Tc. Pl. t. 612. š W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 97 and Suppl. n. 32. $ 17. G. ovalifolium, Hen/r. in Gard. Comp. i. 41, with a fig., copied in — Lemaire, Jard. Fl. t. 247. Apparently a low, diffuse or procumbent shrub, the young branches villous. Leaves mostly opposite, ovate, orbicular 0f broadly oblong, rounded at both ends, and often emarginate, 4 to 1 in. long, the margins thickened and nerve-like, not undulate, coriaceous, glabrous above, reticulate and villous or at length glabrous underneath. Racemes — nearly sessile, rather slender, 1 to 3 in. long. Bracts brown, rigid, acum — Gastrolobium.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. : 103 nate. Flowers nearly sessile, smaller than in G. villosum. Calyx villous, 24 to nearly 3 lines long. Petals less unequal in size than in G. villosum, the lower ones deeply coloured. Ovary very shortly stipitate; style filiform, rather long. Pod ovoid, acute, about 3 lines long. W. Australia, Drummond, n. 31, 39, and Suppl. n: 27. The description and figure agree in every respect with our plant, except that the racemes are usually longer in the wild specimens, 18. G. grandiflorum, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 17. Apparently a tall shrub, with something of the aspect of Oxylobium Callistachys, the young branches and inflorescence softly silky-pubescent, the full-grown foliage nearly glabrous and glaucous. Leaves opposite or the upper ones alternate, from ovate to oblong, obtuse or emarginate, 13 to 3 in. long, flat, coriaceous. Racemes short, loose, axillary and terminal, with few, large, pedicellate flowers, Calyx softly pubescent, 4 to 5 lines long, the lobes much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, falcate, and united nearly to the mid- ¢ Standard fully 2 in. diameter, lower petals rather shorter, the keel much meurved and deeply coloured. Ovary very hairy, on a long glabrous stipes. Pod short, but not seen ripe. : N. Australia. Whittington Range, M'Douall Stuart; Purdie’s Ponds, Waterhouse. 19. G. Pycnostachyum, Benth. A rigid shrub, apparently with the habit of G. ovalifolium, but nearly glabrous or with a close hoary or almost silvery : tomentum on the branches and under side of the leaves. Leaves mostly op- postte, broadly cordate-ovate or orbicular, 1 to 14 in. long, very obtuse, flat, rigidly coriaceous, of a pale silvery or yellowish colour. Racemes terminal, long, very dense, about 1 in. long. ‘Flowers crowded, the pedicels short. alyx softly villous, about 3 lines long, the lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper scarcely broader than the others, but rather more united. Standard 5 to 6 lines diameter; lower petals shorter; keel broad and much incurved. Ovary very hairy, on a rather long glabrous stipes. Pod not seen. — W. Australia. East Mount Barren, Maxwell, 20. Q. spinosum, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 13. A shrub, of 2 to 4 ft., usually quite glabrous, but sometimes the young shoots clothe a very evanescent wool, and the calyx and pedicels with a more persis- on down, Leaves mostly opposite, broadly ovate-cordate, ending in a pun- gent point and bordered with pungent teeth, or rarely almost or quite sty l3 in. long, often as broad as long, rigidly coriaceous, and often rhe cemes loose, pedunculate, 1 to 1} in. long. Calyx broad, abou | long, the lobes much shorter than the tube, the 2 ‘upper ones unite nearly to the top. Standard striate, } in. diameter; wings rather shorter : Scarcely exceeding the keel, which is broad and deeply coloured. Ovary ~ Ma rather long stipes; style rigid. Pod glabrous, ovoid-falcate, quan =. si 5 lines long.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 68; Paxt. Mag. xi. 171, wit 285 G. Preissii, Meissn. in PL. Preiss. i. 68. ae E ustralia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 48 and hal one 180 * a Naturaliste and Freemantle, Oldfield. Drummond's s folium. “Vg. erred here in Pl. Preiss, ii, 216, belong in our sels to Bossiæa ada Ko aiia ar. triangulare, Leaves triangular-cordate, quite entire, with pungent pol cous, 104 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ Gastrolobium. “ angles. Flowers smaller, the racemes looser and more pedunculate.—Stony places, Port Gregory, Oldfield. 21. G. rotundifolium, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss.ii. 216. An erect, rigid shrub, of about 1 ft., the young branches loosely villous or woolly, at length glabrous. Leaves mostly opposite, broadly ovate or orbicular, tapering into a pungent point, 4 to 1 in. long or rarely more, the margins somewhat undu- late in our specimens, the base rounded, coriaceous, glabrous or loosely vil- lous underneath. Racemes short and sessile. Bracts brown and rigid, broad, concave, rather obtuse, imbricate and persistent till the flower opens. Calyx ` softly villous, under 3 lines long, the lobes all acute, the 2 upper ones rather broader, but not more united. Standard not twice the length of the calyx; keel as long as the wings. Ovary almost sessile; style rather dilated. Pod not seen. : W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 99. 22. G. microcarpum, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 10 (as a var. of @. oxylobioides). A rigid shrub, the branches minutely silky-hoary when young. Leaves mostly in whorls of 3 or 4, elliptical-oblong, tapering into a pungent point and narrowed at the base, 2 to 1} in. long, very rigid, coriaceous, and reticulate, glaucous or hoary underneath. Racemes loose, 1 to 3 in. long, pubescent or villous. Bracts brown and rigid, but very deciduous. Calyx slightly villous, about 2 lines long, the upper lobes broad, truncate, and united nearly to the top. Keel shorter than the wings. Ovary on a long stipes. Pod (according to Meissner) scarcely 2 lines long, on a stipes as long as the calyx. ; W. Australia, Drummond, n. 205, Preiss, n. 816, 817. This may be, as suggested by Meissner, a variety of G. orylobioides, but the flowers are much smaller and more nu- merous, and the stipes of the pod and ovary much longer. _ 28. G. oxylobioides, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Ric. App. 13. An erect shrub, of 1 to 2 ft., not much branched, glabrous or the young shoots and racemes slightly silky-hoary. - Leaves opposite or in threes, elliptical-oblong, broad or narrow, tapering to a pungent point, 1 to 1} or rarely 2 in. long, — coriaceous, rigid, reticulate, and often folded lengthwise. Racemes term or in the upper axils, consisting of few flowers in distant pairs or whorls 3. Bracts ovate, acuminate, brown and rigid, but very deciduous. Pedicels : short. Calyx about 3 lines long, silky-pubescent, the lobes broad, the 2 up- a per ones united above the middle. ` Standard about twice as long as the calyx; keel rather shorter than the wings. Ovary rather shortly stipitate. Pod about 3 lines long, on a stipes very much shorter than the calyx. w. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll., Oldfield ; S. Hutt river and Mur- chison river, Oldfield. One of the poison-plants. G. Drummondii, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 69, appears to me to be referable to the form originally described of G. orylobioides, and the var. microcarpum, Meissn. 1. c. 70, to be a ay narrow-leaved form, sufficiently constant to be considered as a distinct species, as far as can be judged from our specimens, - n 24. G. calycinum, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 13. An eret — shrub, nearly allied to G. ozylobivides, but quite glabrous. Leaves opposite or in threes, oblong-elliptical or more frequently from ovate-lanceolate to lan- ceolute, with a pungent point, 1 to 2 in, long, coriaceous, rigid, reticulate, Gastrolobium.] XL. LEGUMINOS&. 105 and often glaucous. Racemes terminal or in the upper axils, with few large flowers, in distant pairs or whorls of 3. Bracts larger and more membra- nous than in any other species, ovate, concave, often 4 or 5 lines long, be- sides a long point. Calyx 5 to nearly 6 lines long, the lobes rather longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, rounded at the end, and united above the middle. Standard about 3 in. diameter; keel deeply coloured, rather shorter than the wings. Ovary ona very short stipes.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 69. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. and n. 203; Mount Bakewell and Goderich district, Preiss, n. 885 and 836; Blackwood river, Oldfield, where it is known as the York-Road Poison. 25. G. Callistachys, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 216. An erect shrub, of 2 or 3 ft, with virgate branches, minutely and closely silky-pubescent. Leaves like those of Oxylobium lineare, alternate or irregularly verticillate, linear, obtuse or sometimes retuse, and minutely mucronulate, 1 to 2 in. long, flat or with recurved margins, glabrous or silky-pubescent underneath. Flowers rather large, in terminal racemes of 3 to 4 in. Bracts not seen. Calyx silky-pubescent, fully 3 lines long, the 2 upper lobes broadly falcate, ut scarcely connate. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx; wings and keel scarcely shorter. Ovary stipitate, with a rather thick style. Pod about 4 lines long, broadly ovoid, scarcely acute, on a stipes of 13 lines.— G. lineare, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 30 (leaves scarcely narrower, calyx rather less pubescent). w. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 90, Cook; between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 25; Kalgan woods, Oldfield. This is sent as one of the Swan River poison-plants. i 70: G. stenophyllum, Taroz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 275. An erect, leafy shrub, less Piata than G. Callistachys, the branches [silky-pubescent. ves alternate or irregularly verticillate, linear, obtuse, with a minute point. l to 14 in. long, folded lengthwise or the margins involute, silky-pubescent ven young, at length glabrous, transversely reticulate. Racemes cylindrical, Te About Lin. long. — Bracts small, narrow. Calyx silky-pubescent, 2 to lines long, the upper lobes broader, obtuse, united to the middle. Stan- not twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals not much shorter than the Standard, Ovary shortly stipitate. Pod not seen. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 52. nl ca ifolium, Benth. An erect, rigid shrub, very much re- Bra Ozylobium parviflorum, but ‘with thicker and more rigid leaves. ranches angular, very minutely silky-pubescent. Leaves opposite or in pid, UTOW-oblong, obtuse, with a minute point, 4 to 13 in. long, very Tong omewhat folded lengthwise, glabrous or minutely silky-pubescent when & the veins often scarcely conspicuous. Flowers small, in terminal x3 Dinti. Caiyx sparingly pubescent, about 2 lines long, the iya, Ieee United nearly to the top. Standard about twice as long as = E sek lower petals shorter, the keel deeply coloured. — ra veri L line Pod broadly ovoid, obtuse, 2 to of lines long, on a stipes of a A Australia, Drummond, n. 32, 106 XL. LEGUMINOSE, [ Gastrolobium. 28. G. parvifolium, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 13. A. rigid, spreading, Epacris-like shrub, the branches pubescent. Leaves crowded, irregu- larly verticillate, narrow-oblong, obtuse, with a minute point, under 4 in. long, thickly coriaceous, convex underneath, glabrous and reticulate, the midrib scarcely conspicuous. Racemes terminal, rather dense, rarely exceeding 1 in. when in flower, often 2 in. in fruit, the rhachis and short pedicels softly and densely pubescent. Calyx glabrous and veinless, broadly campanulate, about 2 lines long, the 2 upper lobes almost completely united into a truncate up- per lip, the 3 lower ones much shorter. Standard twice as long as the calyx; wings shorter, oblong; keel still shorter, almost as broad as long, all on — rather long claws. Ovary-stipes long; style short. Pod compressed-globu- a lar, oblique, very obtuse, glabrous.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 69. i W. Australia. Swan. River, Drummond, 1st Coll. ; Mount Bakewell, Preiss, n. 017. : 29. G. hamulosum, Meissn.in Pl. Preiss. ii. 218. Branches numerous, rather slender, hoary-tomentose. Leaves mostly verticillate in threes, obtuse, with a small often recurved point, about 3 or 4 lines long, rigid, glabrous — when full-grown, strongly reticulate, the midrib scarcely prominent. Racemes terminal, short, consisting of 2 or 3 pairs of flowers or whorls of 3 each. Bracts lanceolate. Pedicels very short. Calyx villous with spreading hairs, about 3 lines long, the lobes acuminate, the 2 upper ones shortly united. Standard not twice as long as the calyx, the lower petals not much shorter; keel deeply coloured. Ovary very shortly stipitate ; style rather thick. W. Australia, Drummond,.2nd Coll. n. 106. 30. G. velutinum, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. iii. 76, with a woodcut. . An elegant shrub, the branches rather stout, angular, minutely silky-pubes- — cent. Leaves verticillate in threes or fours, from obovate or obcordate to — linear-cuneate, very obtuse or truncate, emarginate, about 3 in. or rarely $i long, the margins recurved, coriaceous, reticulate, glabrous above, usually — pubescent underneath. Flowers orange-red, in terminal rather dense 1a- a cemes, of 1 to 12 in., the rhachis and pedicels softly villous. Bracts ovate, a very deciduous. Calyx pubescent or nearly glabrous, broad, fully 2 lines — long, the 2 upper lobes broad and united nearly to the top. Standard twice — as long as the calyx ; wings shorter but considerably exceeding the deeply- — coloured keel. Ovary stipitate; style short. Pod ovoid, scarcely acute, about — 3 lines long, on a very short stipes.—G. emarginatum, Turcz. in Bull. Mose _ 1853, 1. 273. : os _W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 51, and Suppl. n. 27, Mazwell; Kaga — river, Oldfield. Turezaninow’s name is much the most appropriate, but Lindley’s has t oe right of priority. G. cuneatum, Henfr. in Gard. Comp. i. 49, with a fig. copied iato Lemaire, Jard. Fl. t. 258, may be the same species, although the raceme is figured as much longer. 31. G. bidens, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 29. A much stouter shrub 2 than G. velutinum, the branches terete or slightly compressed, softly tomen- _ tose or villous when young. Leaves mostly opposite, linear-cuneate, truncate E and often emarginate with a minute point, or sometimes 3-pointed, about 1 a in. long, the margins much revolute, coriaceous, glabrous, and scarcely reticu” late above, softly villous, almost woolly underneath. Racemes slender, ses- | Gastrolobium.] XL. LEGUMINOS#, 107 sile, villous, 1 to 1} in. long, many-flowered. Bracts concave, acuminate, persisting almost to the opening of the flowers. Calyx not 2 lines long, vil- lous, the lobes all acute, the 2 upper ones rather broader and shortly united at the base. Ovary on a long stipes ; style short. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 23. 32. G. bilobum, 2. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 16. A tall shrub, he young branches angular and usually silky-pubescent. Leaves mostly ver- ticillate in threes or fours, from obovate to narrow-oblong, always more or less cuneate, truncate or emarginate with 2 short rounded lobes, and minutely mucronate, 4 to 1} in. long or rarely smaller, thinly coriaceous, glabrous and veined above, pale and often minutely silky-pubescent underneath. Flowers numerous, in very short, almost umbel-like, terminal racemes rarely exceeding the leaves. Pedicels much longer than in the preceding species. Calyx silky- de pubescent, 2 to 4 lines long, the 2 upper lobes broader, more obtuse, and united to about the middle. Standard about twice as long as the calyx ; _ ‘Wings and keel rather shorter, the latter deeply coloured. Ovary on a long ‘Stipes; style slender. Pod stipitate, ovoid or oblong, rather acute, 2, 3, and even 4 lines long.— DC. Prod. ii. 110; Bot. Reg. t.411; Bot. Mag. t. 2212; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 70; Meissn, in Pl. Preiss. i. 66, ii. 216. | W. Australia. Ki + jacent districts, R. Brown, Preiss, n. 799, Drummond, 2nd ed mer pe gp APS ae from i to Blackwood and uray rivers, Oldfield; and eastward to Cape Le Grand, Maxwell. Said to be the worst of polson-plants. at. angustifolium. Leaves linear-cuneate, but not otherwise differing from the common — 6. corymbosum, Turez, in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 272.—Drummond, 5th Coll: n. 58. 16. PULTENZA, Sm. (Euchilus, R. Br. ; Spadostyles, Benth. ; Urodon, Turcz.) A Calyx: 2 upper lobes more or less united into an upper lip, and sometimes Much larger than the lower ones, rarely all nearly equal. Petals on rather E claws ; standard nearly orbicular, longer than the lower petals ; wings long; keel incurved. Stamens free. Ovary sessile or rarely shortly sti- - Pitate, with 2 ovules on short funicles ; style subulate, often more or less : downwards; stigma small, terminal. Pod ovate, flat or turgid, 2- valved, Seed reniform, strophiolate.—Shrubs. Leaves alternate or rarely oS PPPosite or in verticils of 3, simple. Stipules linear-lanceolate or setaceous, brown and scarious, closely pressed on the branch, and more or less united M the axil of the leaf, the points or sometimes nearly the whole stipule free -= ad Spreading, or the stipules minute and free, rarely quite deficient, those of , floral leaves often much enlarged whilst the lamina is reduced. Flowers yellow Orange or mixed with purple, rarely pink, either axillary and solitary e es frequently collected in leafy heads or tufts near the ends of the by » hes, or crowded in terminal heads and surrounded within the floral leaves da ticate, scarious, brown bracts or enlarged stipules without any lamina. pice der each flower usually small. Bracteoles persistent (except in P. Prufolia), either close under the calyx or adnate with its tube. Ovary villous rarély glabrous, ; : i 108 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Pultenaa. The genus is limited to Australia, presenting considerable diversity in foliage, infloress cence, al calyx, and closely allied a character to the other Podalyriee with 2 ovules : and strophiolate seeds, yet not generally difficult to distinguish. From Gastro eta differs chiefly iu habit, in the persistent bracteoles, and the more sessile, less turgi pod; : from Latrobea, Eutaxia, and Dillwynia, which are even closer connected with it, the brae- _ teoles close to or upon the calyx afford the most prominent distinction, although F, G, and H, and in P. adunca and P. neurocalyz under D. das A. Leaves concave or n Stipules none or minute Sites early flat, obtuse or nearly so. Stipu le free. Plowers in pk E heads or umbels. Bracteoles close under the calyz. E ern species except P, urodon.) is ne los i 'n small terminal umbels or umbel-like racemes, quite gla- E . 29, P. altissima. í . 30. r. . obovata. . . Leaves linear-euneate . . Eo “Yoh “anh + oe Re es eee ea “is in dense terminal heads. Calyx villous. — ves meurved at the end. - Stipules minute, setaceous . . + 31. P. incurvata. =. 110 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [Pultenea. A Bn A ame e - Leaves not or scarcely incurved. Stipules none. Calyx shortly villous, the 2 upper lobes rather large. . . . 32. P. subumbellata, Calyx plumose with long hairs, the 2 upper lobes very large . 33. P. wrodon. B. Leaves concave or nearly flat, obtuse acute or mucronate but not pungent, often a narrow-linear but not terete. Stipules conspicuous, united at the base within the leaf, at least on the young shoots. Flowers in dense terminal heads. (Lastern species.) Bracteoles inserted on or adnate to the calyx-tube. Leaves linear, acute, almost flat. Stipules long, imbricate. Leaves 1 to 14 in. long. Calyx 3 WO ee o P. stipularis, Stipules not imbricate. Leaves under 3 in. Calyx and whole pee pe eee ESPA | P. glabra, Leaves very concave, linear-obtuse, mucronate or scarcely acute, ; rarely above } in. long. Leaves not aristate. Bracts broad, imbricate. Calyx hirsute With short hara OS A POET aaa ree Upper leaves and calyx-lobes aristate. Biacts few. Calyx í villous with long hairs . . . . . ., . . +37. P. aristata. Bracteoles close under the calyx-tube, but free from it. Leaves narrow-oblong or almost linear, obtuse. Flowers nearly i aga a a a a e O te Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, acute. Flowers shortly pedicel- : bicim tht head o e Te ¿ ioe o +. 39, P. viscosa, : C. Leaves terete or trigonous, not pungent, channelled above. Stipules united at the base within the leaf, at least on the young shoots. Flowers in dense terminal heads. (Eastern species.) Bracteoles close under the calyx, but free from it. Leaves crowded, incurved, with fine points “= iy Leaves obtuse acute or shortly mucronate. = Bracts broad. Flowers yellow . . . . . , - + « «41, P. hibbertioides. | Bracts narrow. Flowers ME. Eon tb A n Bracteoles inserted on or adnate to the calyx-tube . . . . . . 48. P. mollis. D. Leaves terete or trig , channelled above. Stipules small and distinct or minute . . . . cs 00 P echemala. or none. Flowers in terminal, leafless, or rarely leafy heads, or (in P. neurocalyx) atil- lary. Bracteoles close under the calyx, but Sree from it. (Western species.) ee dense. Bracts imbricate, completely covering the calyx. Heads ovoid-globular. Bracts appressed, shortly toothed. . . 44. P. strobilifera. Heads broadly globular, Bracts spreading at the top, deeply lobed 45, P. ericifolia. Flower-heads dense. Bracts imbricate but few and small, or much shorter than the calyx, Heads many-flowered. Leaves straight or incurved. Stipules de ‘minute, setaceous. Bracts entire or 2-lobed . . . . . . 46. P. verruculost. Heads small. Leaves small, mostly recurved. Stipules minute de Flowers few, in a head or cluster, becoming lateral by the growing out of the shoot. Bracts none besides the floral leaves. Calyx silky-villous, the 2 upper lobes much larger than the others 48. P. adunca. Calyx glabrous, rigid, strongly striate as well as the bracteoles, the lobes nearlyequal . . 2... , +... a 49. P. nenoai. | E. Leaves rigid, pungent, nearly flat, concave or terete and channelled above. | Stipules Leaves lanceolate, concave or conduplicate. Flowers distinctly pe- dicellate cs - +. 50, P. rigida. . . . . . . . . . . . . Pultenea.] XL. LEGUMINOSH. - . 11 Leaves cordate-lanceolate or linear, nearly flat, concave or with invo- 3 lute margins, Flowers almost or quite sessile + +e + ÕL P, juniperina, - Teaves linear-terete or trigonous, channelled above. Flowers almost _or quite sessile ae © « . .« « 52. P. acerosa. F. Leaves concave or nearly flat, rarely terete and then rigid, but not pungent. Flowers azillary, or, if terminal, solitary or in small leafy heads growing out into leafy shoots, Bracteoles inserted on or adnate to the calyx-tube, (Eastern species.) Flowers sessile or nearly so, all axillary, Calyx 2 upper lobes much longer than the others, broad, faleate and united to the middle. Leaves elliptical-oblong or linear, usually open above . . . 53. P. humilis. ves linear-terete or trigonous, channelled above a . . . 55. P. setulosa. Calyx 2 upper lobes but little longer than the others. Leaves small, oblong-cuneate, obtuse o... « . 54. P. parviflora. Leaves narrow-linear, mucronate. Stipules imbricate . . . 56. P; vestita. Leaves small, obovate or lanceolate, mucronate and recurved . 57. P. procumbens. wers in small, terminal, leafy heads, or solitary and terminal. Stipules small. - Descence rust-colonred, loose. Leaves linear, obtuse. . . . 58, P. hispidula. Pubescence silky or hoary. Leaves from obovate tonarrow-linear, i Flowers sessile or nearly so. E © e ee +... 60. P. largiflorens. lowers distinctly pedicellate ti 0... A -3 . 59, P, laxiflora. ers all axillary, pecicellate. Stipules small. nt more or less villous. Pedicels short. Leaves small. ves small, mucronate or fine-pointed and recurved at the end 57. P. procumbens. Leaves mostly obtuse, 2 to 4 lines long or rather more, broad o a eee O PA res numeros, about 1 line long, broad, obtuse, and recurved gee O Mi ee Plant glabrous. Leaves $ to lin, long . . . . ss . 63 P. flexilis. G. Leaves concave or nearly flat, not pungent. Flowers arillary, or, if terminal, soli- : racteoles inserted close under the calyx, but free from it. (Eastern species.) Plant quite glabrous. Flowers all axillary. Leaves H in. long or more. Flowers pedicellate, Calyx upper arge. . E A ES A O “faves small, almost imbricate. Flowers usually nearly sessile. pa a il if ni, Beranda ió emmaennalel Branches pubescent or vi ilary. ` ed at ns sat > or villous, Flowers all axillary: ote ee A all, rigid, sqnartose a. s sg . nik st elliptical, oblong or obovate, obtuse. Bracteoles narrow . 67. P. elliptica. — = aan linear or linear-oblong. Bracteoles broad ... . +. . 68. P: subspicata. „uft of floral 1 " i Plant Wie Ks — acute, mostly TEE E A Se A a vii A OEE . . HL Leaves linear-terete, channelled above, slender or small, not pungent, and rarely a owers solitary sessile axillary or terminal. Plows terminal, surrounded by broad imbricate bracts, . > . . 72. P. prostrata, ~ "GS axillary or surrounded by a tuft of floral leaves. Bracts , Small and Man or none. . Leaves most about 4 in. long. der the calyx. re L yx red lines ci ss = aaea pe pi LE 8 . 73. P. canaliculata. ves not exceeding 4 lines or very slender, 112 y XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [Pultenea. i ! Calyx about 2 lines. Bracteoles inserted on the tube at its . 74. P. fasciculata. Calyx under 14 lines long. Bracteoles close under the calyx . 75. P. tenuifolia. (P. lara, Kunze, in Linneea, xvi. 319, from a specimen raised by Lehmann from Austra- lian seed, is insufficiently described to be recognizable. It is said to be near P. flexilis, but the characters given are very different.) ` (P. crassifolia, Lodd., P. eriophora, Lodd., and P. incarnata, Mackay, enumerated in Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, are unpublished garden names, referring probably to some of the above species.) Secr. I. EUPULTENÆA.—Leaves alternate, with recurved or revolute mar- gins. Ovary quite sessile, except in P. conferta. This section may be compared in foliage to Aotus and others of the preceding genera, in which the tendency of the margin is always to be recurved, instead of incurved as in the fourth and fifth sections and in the three succeeding genera. Where the leaf is nearly flat, the difference is more observable in the withered leaf; but even when fresh or pressed quite flat it is generally indicated by the under surface being paler or more hoary, iustead of being deeper coloured than the upper one. When the leaf is terete, it is grooved on the under instead of the upper side. The summit of the lcaf is sometimes incurved although the mar- gins may be recurved. 1. P, daphnoides, Wendl. Bot. Beob. (1798), 49, and in Hort. Her- renh. t. 17. An erect shrub of 3 to 6 ft., the branches .virgate, slightly an- gular, minutely silky-pubescent or hoary. Leaves cuneate-oblong, rounded or rarely truncate at the end, with a minute point, 2 to 13 in. long, or in the southern varieties shorter and broader, flat, glabrous or with a few hairs along the midrib above, pale or silvery underneath. Stipules minute. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in dense terminal sessile heads, usually shorter than the last leaves, which form an involucre round it. Bracts ovate, imbricate, the outer ones short and persistent, the inner ones often 3 lines long and deci- — duous. Bracteoles small, linear, inserted about the middle of the calyx-tube. Calyx silky-hairy, 2} to nearly 3 lines long, the lobes lanceolate, shorter than _ the tube, the 2 upper ones broader. Petals deciduous; standard nearly — twice as long as the calyx; lower petals shorter, the keel obtuse. Ovary — villous. Style slightly thickened towards the base. Pod obliquely ovate, acuminate or mucronate, flat, about 3 lines long.—Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 985 Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 247; DC. Prod. ij. 110; Bot. Mag. t. 1394; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1143; Hook. f. El. Tasm. i. 86. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. i ixt. n. 557, and others; mola Br Maan , R. Brown, Sieber, n. 419, Fl. Mixt. n. 557, an Victoria. ree barre ae ce F. Mueller. a oe i parta SEINE Sils pre E piae and Kent's Island, R. Brown; not uncommon in vari j S. Australia. Along river banks, Whittaker. rs : Var. obcordata. Leaves shorter (mostly 4 to 2 in, long) and broader, more truncate, with a more prominent point. P. obcordata, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 574; DC. Prod. ii. 110. To this form belong the majority of the Tasmanian specimens. 2. P. stricta, Sims, in Bot. Mag. t. 1588. An erect or decumbent shrub of 1 to 2 ft., with slender scarcely angular branches more or less silky- pubescent. Leaves obovate oblong or cuneate, obtuse with a small usually recurved point, 3 to 4 lines or rarely 4 in. long, flat or nearly so, glabrous above, pale and often silky-pubescent underneath, especially when young: Pultenea.] XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 113 Stipules minute. Flowers not numerous, nearly sessile in small dense heads within the last leaves. Bracts imbricate, usually deciduous, the inner ones often at least 2 lines long. Bracteoles linear or oblong, concave, inserted on the middle of the calyx-tube. Calyx about 2 lines long, silky-villous ; lobes - lanceolate, shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broader and united to the middle, Petals deciduous ; standard nearly twice as long as the calyx ; lower + petals shorter, the keel obtuse. Ovary villous; style slightly thickened to- wards the base. Pod triangular-ovate, acute, about 3 lines long, silky- - pubescent.—DC. Prod. ii. 111; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 974; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 86; P. capitellata, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 112. - N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, Sieb. n. 413; Bargo Brush, Backhouse. d Creswick Creek and Dandenong ranges, and Grampian Hills, F. Mueller ; mouth of the Glenelg, A Zitt. 3 ia. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant in various localities, on moist peaty S. Australia. S. E. interior, F. Mueller. 3. P, retusa, Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 502, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 247. A shrub with the slender virgate branches of P. stricta, often angular and _ Usually silky-pubescent. Leaves linear or linear-cuneate, very obtuse or more frequently emarginate, and sometimes dilated at the end, 2 to 4 lines or rarely + in. long in the normal form, flat, pale underneath, but usually glabrous on l sides. Stipules very small. Flowers few, in small terminal heads sessile within the last leaves. Bracts imbricate, the inner ones often 13 lines Jong, but very deciduous, the outer ones smaller. Bracteoles broadly linear, inserted on the calyx-tube. Calyx about 2 lines long, silky-hairy, the 2 Upper lobes broader, but scarcely more united. Standard not twice as long #8 the calyx. Ovary villous; style filiform almost from the base. de broadly ovate, almost triangular, about 3 lines long, rather flat.—DO. Prod. “112; Bot. Mag. t. 2081; Bot. Reg. t. 378. uell, Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Glasshouse mountains and Brisbane river, er. _N.S. Wales. p a Sieber, n. 415, and if + Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, > , qe Mist. n, 558; northward to Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beck/er ; and southward to Bay, A Mueller. a ae s nowy and Broadribb rivers, F. Mueller. E Fg linophylla. Branches more pubescent, and scarcely angular or quite amope long, longer, usually about $ in., rarely nearly 1 in., flowers larger, the calyx o the plate) Se and rather more numerous in larger heads.—P. linophylla (P. bracteata on the plate), - Sert. Hannov. t. 18; Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soe. ix. 247; of P, DC. Prod. ii. 112; P. glau- » Sieb. Pl. Exs. n and Fl. Mixt. n. 561.—Port Jackson. Sieber’s specimens ep ang PL Exs. n. 414, and Fl. Mixt. n. 559, appear to be intermediate between 0 forms, —— Specimens without flowers, from Burnett river, Queensland, F. Mueller, appear to ae y «ay to P. retusa, but with very narrow leaves, almost terete, with closely revo- j A. P. Benthamii, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. ìi. 88. A rigid mba the young ‘branches slightly angular and en omens reee i or oblong-linear, rigid, acute or pungent-pointed, mostly glabrous above and rarely exceeding 8 lines, flat or with recurved margins, void > Pale or silky-pubescent underneath. Stipules small. Flowers rather large, in terminal heads, sessile within the last leaves. Bracts II, I T, VOL, 114 XL, LEGUMINOSZ. [Pultenea, imbricate, the inner deciduous ones 2 lines long, 2-lobed, but otherwise entire, ciliate. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube, oblong, very concave or keeled, Calyx silky-villous, 3 lines long ; lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones much broader and united above the middle. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals shorter. Ovary villous, tapering into the style. Pod only seen young. - Victoria. Along springs and rivulets in the Grampians, and amongst rocks on Mount ` Abrupt, F. Mueller. | _ Var. elatior, F. Muell. Tall, with elongated slender branches. Leaves narrow,—Yowaka | river, and foot of Mount William, F. Mueller, * E 5. P. pycnocephala, F. Muell. Herb. Branches and under side of the leaves silvery-white with a soft dense silky-pubescence. Leaves broadly obovate, obtuse or with a short recurved point, 3 to 4 lines long, coriaceous, glabrous smooth and shining above, the margins slightly recurved. Stipules ap- pressed, nearly 1 line long. Flowers in dense globular heads, sessile above the last leaves. Bracts imbricate, broad, densely covered with silky hairs, except @ narrow margin. Calyx sessile, nearly 4 lines long, very silky, the lobes narrow, acute. Bracteoles narrow-cuneate, shortly 3-toothed, very silky out- — side, inserted at the very base of the calyx or close under it and nearly as — long. Petals not half as long again as the calyx, mostly persistent after — flowering. Pod sessile, acuminate, oblique, much flattened, very silky, about as long as the calyx. N. S. Wales. Bluf Mountain, New England, €. Stuart. An elegant species allied to P. myrtoides, but distinct in indumentum, as well as in the shape of the leaf. 6. P. myrtoides, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 81. Atal shrub, with virgate terete branches, usually silky-pubescent. Leaves narrow- oblong; often more or less cuneate, obtuse, with a very minute point, 3 to ¿mo long, flat or the margins recurved, glabrous above, pale and sometimes silky- pubescent underneath. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, closely pressed, aboutl line long. Flowers numerous, nearly sessile in dense globular terminal heads, sessile within the last leaves, which are however rarely so long as the flowers. Bracts imbricate, ovate or lanceolate, silky-hairy at the edges. Bracteoles m- — serted on the calyx-tube, broadly oblong or ovate, very concave and keeled, — almost boat-shaped, 1 to 14 lines long. Calyx silky-pubescent, 25 lines — long, the lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones united above the i middle. Petals persistent till the fruit is ripe. Standard nearly twice 38 — long as the calyx ; lower petals nearly as long, the keel obtuse. Ovary vb lous; style flattened at the base. Pod ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, about 4 Jines long. i. Queensland. Islands of Moreton Bay, A, Cunningham, Fraser; in the CE Pine country, Leichhardt. i 7. P. mucronata, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 8. An erect or diffuse shrub, of E 2 to 6 ft., loosely villous with few spreading hairs. Leaves oblong or narrow elliptical, mucronate, mostly about 4 in. long, flat or with recurved margins, — not coriaceous, greer but loosely hairy above, hoary-pubescent and loosely villous underneath. Stipules rather long and appressed. Flower-nea™ — dense and sessile above the last leaves, but all past flower in our specimens — Pultenea.] | XL. LEGUMINOSA, 115 Bracts imbricate, broad, silky-villous, 2-lobed. Bracteoles linear-setaceous, inserted on the calyx-tube. Calyx about 23 lines long, the lobes fine-pointed, the 2 upper ones rather broader and more united. Petals not seen. Pod acuminate, rather longer the calyx. Victoria. Granite hills, Futter’s Range, and May-Day Hills, F. Mueller. = S. Australia. Lofty Range, Wurth, the specimen small, and in leaf only, and there- fore doubtful. d The species may possibly prove to be a broad-leaved variety of P. polifolia. 8. P. polifolia, 4. Cunn. in Field. N, 8. Wales, 846. A shrub with terete virgate branches, more or less villous when young, with soft spreading airs. Leaves linear, obtuse, with a fine straight or recurved point, the margins recurved or revolute, in some specimens all under 4 in., in others 13 in. long, glabrous or rarely hairy above, hoary underneath, and often hirsute with long hairs, especially on” the midrib. Stipules rather long, appressed. Flowers numerous, in dense terminal heads, sessile within the last leaves. s broad, imbricate, softly villous, the inner ones 2 lines long and bifid. Bracteoles very concave, keeled, inserted on the ealyx-tube. Calyx 3 lines 8, Softly villous ; lobes finely acuminate, shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad and united at the base. Standard not twice as long as the calyx ; er petals shorter. Ovary hirsute, tapering into the style. Pod very ue, acuminate, longer than the calyx.—P. rosmarinifolia, Lindl. Bot. +1. 1584 (the West Australian origin a mistake) ; P, mucronata, Lodd. t. Cab. t. 1711? (from the figure) ; P. rosmarinifolia, Endl. Nov. Stirp. - 4 (with the pubescence rather more silky). ¿$ S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls; brushy hills, Blue Mountains, » Cunningham ; Dividing Range, between Nangatta and Bondi, £. B. Sharpe. 9. P, petiolaris, 4. Cunn. ; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus, ii, 8%, A pro- - “mbent or straggling shrub, with ha, roait: ascending branches, hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves on remarkably long petioles, those of the floral ones often attaining 3 or 4 lines, linear, obtuse, with a short recurved ‘Point, 3 to 2 in, long, the margins revolute, often sprinkled with a few hairs above, the under side hirsute, especially the midrib. Stipules with spreading adda fine points, Flowers in dense terminal heads, sessile within o ‘ast leaves, Bracts few, besides the stipules of the floral leaves. Bracteoles Mserted above the middle of the calyx-tube, linear-subulate, ciliate. Calyx E t3 lines long, hirsute; lobes acuminate, rather longer than the tube, the jay pPer ones united to the middle. Petals not much longer than the calyx- Os; the keel dark-coloured. Ovary very silky-villous, tapering into the a ‘Subulate style. Pod not seen. i d. Brisbane river, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller ; Burnett river, F. Mueller, _ 0. P. paleace Willd. Spec. Pl. ii. 506, A shrub, with slender diffuse a Pri snag branches? lagaina when young. Leaves linear, vue fine ae t or recurved points and revolute margins, $ to + in. a pons ints Pale and usually silky-hairy underneath. Stipules appress me =$ dk long. Flowers in dense, but not large, terminal heads, sessile within 4 last leaves, Bracts imbricate, glabrous, scarcely ciliate, completely cover- 8 the calyxes, the inner ones 3 to 4 lines long. Bracteoles ane on the 116 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Pultenea. calyx-tube, concave, carinate. Calyx silky-hairy, about 3 lines long, the lobes lanceolate, much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx; lower petals shorter. Ovary villous, gradually tapering into a long style. Pod compressed, silky, longer than the calyx, and tapering into the long persistent silky base of the style.—-Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 246; DC. Prod. ii. 112; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 291. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 416, Fl. Mixt. n. 560, Fraser, R. Cunningham, Woolls, and others; New England, C. Stuart. Victoria. Upper Genoa river, F. Mueller, the specimen in young bud only, and there- fore in some measure doubtful. Var. obtusata. Leaves rather broader and less acute.—Hunter's River, R. Brown; be- tween Suggerah and Lake Macquoy, Leichhardt. Var. sericea. Branches, under side of the leaves, and bracts, closely silky, but leaves acute and bracts covering the calyxes, as in the normal form.-—Marshy places, near Brighton, Victoria, F. Mueller ; near Melbourne, Adamson. : - 11. P. Gunnii, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 82. An erect diffuse or spreading shrub, of 1 to 3 ft., the numerous slender branches pubescent or hirsute with spreading hairs or at length glabrous. Leaves varying from . ovate and 1 to 2 lines long, to oblong or almost linear and 3 to 5 lines long, obtuse, always convex or with recurved margins, often shining above, pale and sometimes hairy underneath. Stipules small, usually spreading. Flowers from 2 or 3 to about 8, in small terminal heads. Bracts imbricate, but usually shorter than the very short pedicels. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube, small, lanceolate or linear. Calyx pubescent or villous, about 2 lines long or rather more, the lobes lanceolate, not acuminate, as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones more falcate and united to the middle. Stan i twice as long as the calyx; lower petals shorter, the keel deeply coloured. : Ovary villous ; style subulate. Pod obliquely ovate, acute, flat, about 3 lines — long, the fruiting pedicels often nearly as long as the calyx.—Hook. f. Fl. 4 Tasm. i. 88, t. 13; P. beckecides, A. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. a 83 (described from a very imperfect fragment). Mo Victoria. Port Phillip, 2. Brown, and thence to Gipps’ Land and Australia Felix; a common in the Stringy-Bark and other ranges, F. Mueller. the ia. Port Dalrymple and Derwent river, R. Brown; abundant throughout th a colony, ascending to from 2000 to 3000 ft., J. D. Hooker. wa The re forms can always be distinguished from P. striata by the very : 12. P. scabra, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iii. 18. A shrub of 3 | to 4.ft., with divaricate branches, terete and softly pubescent or villous, the | | down often rust-coloured. Leaves from obovate to narrow-cuneate, under 3 i - in. long, truncate, emarginate or shortly 2-lobed, and often mucronate, | margins revolute, scabrous above, tomentose or hirsute underneath. Stipules | spreading or recurved. Flowers sessile in the upper axils or 3 or 4 toge at the ends of the branches. Bracts very smail or none besides the sti of the floral leaves. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube, linear or eres late. Calyx broad, about 2 lines long, the lobes as long as the tube, the * upper ones broader and united to the middle. Standard about twice as 10% as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter, the keel deeply coloured. de Pultenea.] XL, LEGUMINOSE. E 117 villous, tapering into a subulate style. Pod ovate, pubescent, nearly 3 lines long. Seeds ovate, the hilum at the broad end with a fringed strophiole, N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 386, Fl. Mizt. 563, 564, and 592, and others. - ia. In the Grampians, Mitchell; Mount Disappointment, the Grampians, etc., F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy. Var. montana. More tomentose. Leaves frequently obovate, very retuse, scarcely mu- cronate.—P. montana, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 178.—To this form belong the Vietorian specimens. Var. diloba. 'Tomentum short and often hoary or even silvery ou the under side of the leaves, Leaves narrow-cuneate, dilated and 2-lobed at the end, with a short recurved point. —P. biloba, R. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 2091 (a starved specimen) ; DC. Prod. ii. 110; Lodd. ay Cab. t. 550; P. deltoidea, Sieb. Pl. Exs.—Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 388, 13. P. microphylla, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 112. A dwarf, diffuse, much branched shrub, the branches slender, hoary silky-pubescent or villous. ves linear-cuneate, usually narrow and 8 to 4 lines long, truncate or re- tuse, with a recurved point and revolute margins ; sometimes longer and flatter, rounded at the end, with a recurved point, but never exceeding żin, usually glabrous above and hoary- tomentose underneath, rarely softly villous when young. Stipules very small, spreading or recurved. Flowers in the upper on very short pedicels, or 2 or 3 together at the ends of the short branch- racts very small or none besides the stipules of the floral leaves. Brac- teoles inserted on the calyx-tube, small, linear. Calyx scarcely 2 lines long, hoary or silky-villous, the lobes nearly as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones d and united above middle. Standard about twice as long as the calyx ; er petals shorter. Ovary villous. Pod broadly and obliquely ovate, not quminate, about 3 lines long.—P. stenophylla, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. ti. 124; P, uncinata, A. Cunn, ; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. 1. 88. Queensland. Brisbane river, Fraser. ua S- Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 418, Fl. tat. n. 562, and others; Goulburn, Backhouse ; Lachlan river, Fraser. Benth E Mes cuneata. Leaves broadly cuneate-truncate, 3 to 4 lines long.—P. ee Saar Tn ele it, AE S oa belong - O h sneered qu o largi- 7.2. . e e leaves are nea a di dint which, however, besides the usually mico margins of the leaves, may be readily guished by the large upper lip of the calyx. y 1. P. Drummondii, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 219. Branches slender, elongated, pubescent when young with rather rigid appressed hairs. , peta “ar, with revolute margins, obtuse or with recurved points, under _ Bara very scabrous above, pale and more or less hairy underneath. Stipules ap- - Flowers 3 to 6 together, sessile in heads either terminal or on Dif short lateral shoots, so as to appear axillary, surrounded by a few broad, d - Bracteoles ovate, concave, inserted immediately under the n eb as long as the tube. Calyx pubescent, 3 lines long, the 2 upper lo h Tounded and united into a broad emarginate upper lip, the 3 lower ee er, acute, Standard twice as long as the calyx; keel much à A «e t. Ovary villous ; style scarcely thickened at the base, hooked at the W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 127; Vasse and Murchison rivers, Oldfield. 118 : XL. LEGUMINOS #, [Pultenea. 15. P. pinifolia, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 220. An erect shrub, with virgate loosely pubescent or villous branches. Leaves narrow-linear, with very short callous or recurved points and revolute margins, 1 to 13 in. long, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs above, pale or hoary underneath. Sti- pules spreading. Flowers rather large and numerous, in terminal umbels or heads, sessile within the last leaves, although each flower is distinctly pedicel- late. Bracts apparently imbricate, rather narrow and bifid, but mostly fallen off from our specimens. Bracteoles linear, inserted under the calyx and very deciduous. Calyx silky-pubescent, broad, 3 lines long; lobes broad, acute, about as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones slightly larger and more united. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel much incurved, but very obtuse Ovary villous, shortly tapering into the style. Pod very villous, obliquely and broadly ovate, turgid, 4 to 5 lines long. _ W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 109. This species differs from the rest of the genns in the very deciduous bracts, but the habit, inflorescence, strophiolate seeds, and other characters, are quite those of Pultenea. 16. P. pedunculata, Hook. Bot. May. t. 2859. A prostrate much- branched shrub, often forming large patches, the branchlets slender, but rigid, terete, loosely pubescent or villous. Leaves linear or oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, the margins recurved or revolute, 2 to 3 lines or rarely 3 in. long, rigid, with fine almost pungent points, which at length wear off, glabrous or scabrous above, pale and often hairy underneath. Stipules erect. Flowers small, solitary or 2 together at the ends of the branchlets, on filiform pedicels, longer than the leaves. Bracteoles linear, inserted at the base of the calyx, free or scarcely adnate. Calyx 1} lines long, very open; lobes acuminate, spreading, the 2 upper ones broader and shortly united. Stan twice as long as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter, the keel incurve( dark coloured. Ovary villous ; style scarcely thickened at the base. obliquely ovate, obtuse or with a recurved point, turgid, about 3 lines long. —Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 91; P. diemenica, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, % 277. _ N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown. : cae _ Victoria, Port Phillip, R. Brown ; Glenelg river, Mitchell ; Windu Valley, Robertson Forest Creek, F. Mueller ; Wimmera, Dallachy. : a Tasmania. Derwent river, R, Brown ; common in sandy plains, near Hoberton, 12 E probably throughout the island, J, D. Hooker. Bugle : _ 5. Australia. Mount Lofty, Whittaker ; Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi; Lofty and 2 ranges, F. Mueller, 17. P. conferta, Benth. Much branched and apparently diffuse, the F short ascending branchlets glabrous or nearly so. Leaves crowded, pane | opposite, linear, obtuse or with recurved points, 2, 3 or rarely 4 lines long | rather thick, the margins closely revolute, glabrous or the upper ones slig Ae hairy. Stipules lanceolate-subulate, imbricate on the branchlets. Por axillary on short pedicels: Bracteoles lanceolate-subulate, inserted pe” diately under the calyx and free from it. Calyx pubescent, with appres“ hairs, about 3 lines long, the 2 upper lobes large, oblong, scarcely acute, m the lower ones shorter, narrow-lanceolate, falcate. Petals all reddish when : dry; standard not half as long again as the calyx; lower petals en Pultenea.] XL. LEGUMINOS#, 119 shorter. Ovary villous, slightly contracted at the base, as in most species of the section Huchilus ; style subulate. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 70. From the number quoted this should be Euchilus purpureus, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 276, but there may be some mistake as the character given does not agree with our specimens. i 18. P. diffusa, Hook. f. Fi. Tasm. i. 91. t. 14. A low diffuse or pro- cumbent shrub, with short ascending or erect branches, somewhat angular, minutely hoary or glabrous. Leaves linear, 2 to 3 lines long, obtuse or shortly mucronate, flat or convex and glabrous above, the margins folded back and adnate to the lower surface leaving exposed only the broad midrib, often sprinkled with a few short hairs. Stipules minute or none. Flowers small, in the upper axils, resembling those of P. pedunculata, usually 2 op- posite to each other, each in the axil of a small bract at the base of a young axillary shoot, and often 2 such axillary shoots each with 2 flowers are oppo- site to each other. Pedicels slender, about 1 line long. Bracteoles imme- diately under the calyx and shorter than its tube, ovate-lanceolate, slightly glandular-toothed. Calyx slightly strigose-pubescent, 13 lines long or rather more; lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones rounded or truncate, united above the middle into a broad upper lip. Standard about twice as long as the calyx; lower petals shorter; the keel much curved. Ovary silky- pubescent ; style much dilated at the base, Pod not seen.—Phyllota difusa, - Muell. Fragm. i. 8. Tasmania. Sandy plains in various localities, J. D. Hooker. The seeds not being as known, the genus of this species cannot be determined with certainty. It was removed F. Mueller to P%yllota on account of the want of stipules, but that occurs in a few other bted Pulteneas, and the free filaments and other characters are much more those of Pultenea than of Phyllota. Tt appears to be nearly allied to P. pedunculata. Section IT, ACIPHYLLUM.—Leaves alternate, rigid, concave and keeled t the margins flat, transversely reticulate. Flowers terminal, solitary or 2 or 3 together. Ovary quite sessile. * The rigid coriaceous leaves recall those of Gastrolobium and of the multi-ovulate genera toit; but the inflorescence and flowers are quite those of Pudtenea. : 19. P. reticulata, Benih. An erect rigid shrub of several feet ; branches Virgate, minutely a e vate when young. Leaves from ovate-lanceolate “most linear, rigid, tapering into a pungent point 3 to ¢ in. long, concave €, glabrous and strongly reticulate on both sides, the midrib prominent underneath, Stipules small. Flowers terminal or in the upper axils, solitary Or rarely 2 or 3 together, surrounded by 2 or 3 broad almost orbicular bracts early 2 lines long, often very deciduous. Bracteoles immediately under the YX, short and broad. Calyx silky-pubescent or nearly glabrous, broad, 3 2 lines long ; lobes lanceolate, almost pungent, much longer than the tube, 20 2 upper ones shortly united. Standard twice as long as the calyx ae rm much shorter, the keel slightly curved, deeply coloured. Ovary v oe ; . le filiform. Pod villous, about 3 lines long, broadly ovate, obtuse, aar m E Ja Nalves hard.—Daviesia reticulata, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ne ; ponia reticulata, DC. Prod. ii. 107; Pultenea aciphylla, Benth. in Hueg, : ee 35, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. i. 81; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 74, and 120 XL. LEGUMINOS&. [ Pultenea. . W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Menzies, R. Brown, Huegel, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 108; Sussex district, Stirling Terrace and near Albany, Preiss, n. 833, 847, and 848; Kalgan and Vasse rivers, Oldfield. 3 20. P. ochreata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. 1.75, and ii. 219. A tall erect — shrub allied to P. reticulata, the branches much more slender, glabrous or _ minutely pubescent. Leaves obovate oblong or almost linear, very obtuse, — rarely above 3 in. long, rigid, concave with flat margins, glabrous and strongly — reticulate on both sides, the midrib prominent underneath. Stipules rather | broad. Flowers of P, reticulata, but rather smaller, solitary and terminal. | Bracts not 1 line long. Bracteoles immediately under the calyx, short, nearly orbicular. Calyx broad not above 2 lines long, the lobes very acute but not pungent. Ovary villous; style filiform. Pod villous, broadly ovate, obtuse, — 3 to 4 lines long, the valves coriaceous and turgid. W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 107; Wellington district, Preiss, n. 1038. 21. P. aspalathoides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss.i.73, and ii. 219. A shrub — of 2 or 3 ft., the branches terete, silky-pubescent when young. Leaves dis- tant along the branches, crowded on the smaller branchlets and round the — flowers, narrow-linear, 3 to 2 in. long, rigid, tapering to a fine point, but scarcely pungent, concave, glabrous or hirsute with soft fine hairs, strongly — reticulate on both sides, the midrib prominent underneath. Stipules narrow. — Flowers terminal, solitary or 2 or 3 together, almost sessile within a dense — tuft of floral leaves, with a very few ovate concave bracts. Bracteoles imme diately under the calyx, oblong, concave. Calyx silky-villous, nearly 2 lines — long; lobes acute, nearly equal, about as long as the tube. Standard more than twice as long as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter, the keel much — incurved. Ovary villous; style filiform. Pod broadly ovate, almost acute, — about 2 lines long, much flatter than in P. reticulata. a W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, and others, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 96; near Albany, Preiss, n. 838, and 1195; Maxwell; Wilsou’s | Inlet, Oldfield. an ; near Mount Barker, Maxwe d Secrron III. EucHILUs.—Leaves all or mostly opposite or in whorls ol three, flat or concave, or In some species the margins slightly recurved, often — l- or 3-nerved or penniveined, somewhat reticulate in a few species. Flowers — axillary or crowded at the ends of the branches. Two upper lobes of the a calyx much larger than the others. Ovary often contracted at the base into A a very short stipes. Style often broad at the base. a The opposite or verticillate leaves, the remarkable development of the upper lobes of the — ; pper lo pri calyx, the much dilated base of the style and shortly stipitate ere all characters more prom- — nent in this than in any other section, might have justified the retaining it as a distinct genus, did they all generally accompany each other in the same species, but each one is most Pr — minent in a different species, and each one may be traced in almost as great a degree in one or more species belonging to other sections, 22. P.obcordata, Benth. An erect much-branched shrub, the young branches tomentose-pubescent. Leaves opposite or in whorls of three % scattered, broadly obovate or obcordate, 2 to 4 or rarely 5 lines long, YY obtuse truncate or emarginate, coriaceous, rigid, softly pubescent when young at length nearly glabrous and obscurely reticulate above, tomentose-pubescel™ underneath with the margins slightly recurved. Stipules minute. Pultenea.] XL. LEGUMINOS&. 121 in the upper axils or forming a short terminal leafy head. Bracteoles imme- diately under the calyx, small, linear. Calyx pubescent, 2 to 24 lines long, the tube very short, the 2 upper lobes large, obovate, obtuse, the lower ones much shorter, linear-lanceolate, ciliate. Standard half as long again as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter, the keel deeply coloured. Ovary villous, contracted at the base but scarcely stipitate. Pod ovate, flattened, as long as the calyx.—Euchilus obcordatus, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iii. 17; Lodd. Bot. Bab. t. 60; Bot. Reg. t. 403; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 72. w. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Baxter, Drummond, aud others, Preiss, n. 804; and from thence along the coast eastward to the Great Bight, Maxwell, 23. P. rotundifolia, Benth. A diffuse shrub, with slender terete pu- bescent branches. Leaves small but not crowded, opposite, broadly obovate or orbicular, very obtuse, 1 or rarely 14 lines long, the margins recurved, glabrous above when full-grown, strigose or hirsute underneath with a pro- minent midrib. Stipules small. Flowers small, on filiform pedicels often 3 in. long. Bracteoles immediately under the calyx, linear-subulate. Calyx abuut 2 lines long, slightly pubescent, the tube very short, 2 upper lobes » obovate or oblong, somewhat falcate, the lower ones much shorter, nar- tow-lanceolate. Standard not twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals shorter, the keel deeply coloured. Ovary shortly stipitate. Pod rather. longer than the calyx, obliquely ovate, the valves thin.—Luchilus rotundifolius, Turcz. in l. Mose. 1853, i. 277; Euchilus crinipodus, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 145. wW. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n.18; E. Mount Barren, Phillips and Fitz- gerald ranges, Marwell. 24. P. calycina, Benth. Branches minutely hoary-pubescent. Leaves irregularly Opposite or in whorls of three, oblong-linear or slightly cuneate, use, 4 to 6 lines long, rigid, slightly concave, the midrib prominent and the veins more or less reticulate underneath, glabrous or with a few silky when young. Stipules small. Flowers in the upper axils or in a short terminal leafy head, on pedicels of about 1 line, with small stipular bracts. Tacteoles immediately under the calyx, narrow, concave. Calyx hairy, 3 to 34 lines long, the 2 upper lobes large, obovate-oblong, very obtuse, the lower ones much shorter, lanceolate-subulate, ciliate. Standard broad, rather longer van the calyx ; lower petals nearly as long, the keel deeply coloured. Tey 'S, narrowed into a short stipes, and tapering into a subulate style. hot seen, —Euchilus calycinus, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 276. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 75. 25. P. spinulosa, Beni}. Much branched and apparently diffuse, the branchlets Soni hairy. Leaves opposite, crowded, lanceolate, with a fine n most pungent point, 3 to 4 lines long, rigid, concave, keeled and trans- ely reticulate, glabrous or with a few long hairs. Stipules often 2 lines ag. Flowers in the upper axils on very short pedicels. Bracteoles close Ra the calyx, long, linear-subulate, ciliate. Calyx nearly 3 lines long, pons) hairy, the tube very short; 2 upper lobes large, oblong, with ~~ : . Ower ones much shorter, lanceolate-subulate, ciliate. Petals scarcely “ceeding the calyx ; the keel dark-coloured. Ovary villous, contracted into 122 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Pullenea, a very short stipes. Young pod oblong-falcate, acuminate, but not seen ripe, — —Euchilus spinulosus, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 275. | W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 71. 26. P. tenella, Benth. Stems slender, much-branched, diffuse or pro- cumbent, the smaller branches silky-pubescent. Leaves in whorls of 3, oblong- _ linear, obtuse, narrowed at the base, 2 or rarely 3 lines long, coriaceous, the margins involute, glabrous above, convex and sprinkled with a few silky hairs — underneath, Stipules very small. Pedicels axillary, often longer than the — leaves. Bracts minute. Bracteoles small, linear, inserted close under the — calyx but scarcely adnate to it. Calyx about 3 lines long, slightly silky-pu- — bescent or glabrous, the 2 upper lobes broad and falcate, the lower ones nar- — row, but nearly as long. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx, lower petals shorter, all apparently yellow. Pod sessile, flat, nearly orbicular, about — -3 lines long. mo Victoria. Haidinger range at an elevation of 5000 ft., F. Mueller. 27. P. ternata, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 8, and iv. 21. An erect, usually — glabrous, often glaucous shrub, the branches terete. Leaves all in whorls of ‘three, in the original form broadly rhomboidal, truncate, or shortly tapering, — the midrib produced into a more or less pungent point, from 2 or 3 lines to 4 in. long, and usually rather broader than long, flat or concave, often 3-0r — 5-nerved at the base. Stipules small. Flowers in the upper axils on pedi — cels of 1 to 2 lines. Bracteoles subulate, inserted on the base of the ealyx. e Calyx above 3 lines long,:the lobes longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, falcate, acute, united above the middle, the lower ones lanceolate-subt- late. - Petals nearly of equal length, twice as long as the calyx; keel large, almost hood-shaped, very obtuse. Ovary sessile, glabrous, tapering into the flattened style. Pod ovate, turgid, about 3 lines long.—Spadostyles Cunning- hamii, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 81; Gastrolobium Huegelit, Henfr. Po Gard. Mag. i. with a fig.; 4otus cordifolius, Lindl. and Paxt. Fl. Gard. i. 16, not of Benth. ; Spadostyles ternata, F. Muell. First Gen. Rep. 12; Pultenes oxalidifolia, A. Cunn. in Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2. l N. S. Wales. Williams river, R. Brown; Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham; Nae | gas, M' Arthur. A Victoria. Stony scrubby hills, Buffalo ranges, F. Mueller. a Var. pubescens. Branches more or less pubescent. Leaves broad but with long pungent points. Pedicels very short.—Neweastle and Ruined-Castle Creek, Leichhardt; Hunters — river ?, Vicary ; Clarence river, Beckler. a Var. cuspidata, Branches slender, pubescent. Leaves small, tapering into pungent points. Pedicels slender, as long as or sometimes Tonger than the calyx.— Oxylobiat de E _nosum, DC. Prod. ii. 104; Euchilus cuspidatus, F. Much. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Viet. ii 9% — Burnett and Brisbane rivers, F. Mueller ; Wide Bay, Bidwill; Ipswich | ` Nernst. 28. P. styphelioides (misspelt staphyleoides), 4. Cunn. in @. Doh — Gen. Syst. ii. 124. A tall much-branched shrub, softly pubescent or hin with spreading hairs. Leaves often irregularly opposite or in threes, or a «alternate, ovate or lanceolate, tapering into a rigid almost pungent point, at -8 or rarely 4 lines long, concave or with involute margins, sometimes recurved at the end, the midrib aud sometimes also oblique lateral veins prom” ‘Stipules small. Flowers axillary on slender pedicels of 1 to 2 lines. a ae Pultenea.] XL. LEGUMINOSA, 123 teoles inserted on the calyx-tube, linear or subulate, shorter than the lobes. = Calyx villous, 3 to 34 lines long, the lobes subulate-acuminate all longer than | the tube, the 2 upper ones broad falcate and united at the base, the lower _ oes narrow. Petals rather longer than the calyx. Ovary sessile, villous with a few long hairs, tapering into a subulate style. Pod ovate, rather ob- tuse, turgid, shorter than the calyx.—P. epacridea, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 21. N. S. Wales, High ranges of the interior, Fraser; Argyle county, M‘Arthur ; Murray river, A. Cunningham. f Victoria, Scrubby and stony ridges between the Broken and Ovens rivers, Moun: Pleasant and Mount Hunter, F. Mueller. This species is one of those which connect Euchilus with Coelophyllum, some specimens of P. procumbens closely resemble it in habit, but the calyx is very different. It is also nearly allied to P. humilis, Section IV. CŒLOPRYLLUM.—Leaves all alternate, either flattened but more or less concave in withering, or with involute margins, or darker-coloured underneath than above, or linear-terete and channelled on the upper side, the margins never recurved, although the end of the leaf may be so, 1- or 3-nerved or quite nerveless, without transverse veins or reticulations. Calyx-lobes nearly equal or the 2 upper ones large. Ovary sessile. Some species of this section (especially P. urodon, P. euchila, P. humilis, ete.) have the calyx of Euchilus, but the leaves are all alternate. A few species are nearly allied in habit and character to Latrobea diosmifolia, but have the calyx less regular, and the bracteoles se under the calyx. Those with linear-terete or subulate leaves approach Dillwynia in » but differ in the presence of stipules, and in the bracteoles close under or adnate to calyx, besides that the standard is not so broad as it usually is in that genus. » aft. P. altissima, F. Muell. Herb. A tall glabrous shrub, almost grow- wg into a small tree, Leaves linear-cuneate, obtuse, rarely above } in. long, Much narrowed at the base, concave above, faintly 1-nerved and often darker coloured underneath. Flowers small, several’ together in little terminal um- € racemes, rarely exceeding the last leaves. Bracts minute. Pedicels E er shorter than the calyx. Bracteoles very small, ovate, close under the Ayx, but scarcely adnate to it. Calyx about 2 lines long, glabrous, the lobes E ae as the tube, rather obtuse, the 2 upper ones a little broader. ‘Standard poo twice as long. Ovary glabrous: ees iy eee N.S. Wales. Twofold Bay and Upper Genoa river, F. Mueller. or 3 Pe P. obovata, Benth. A glabrous, much-branched, rather a] : AUD, the young branches slightly angular. Leaves on rather long petioles, OUovate or broadly cuneate, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long, concave, darker-coloured in eath, without any prominent midrib. Stipules very small. Ebc ki B terminal heads or umbels. Bracts very small. Pedicels rarely 1 ee l racteoles under the calyx or rather below it, small, ovate, obtuse. ye jet lines long, glabrous or minutely ciliate ; lobes all obtuse, rather longer ian the tube, the 2 upper ones rather broader and united at the base. Ovary = rons, tapering into a subulate style. Pod not seen. a i de ales, Bargo Brush, Argyle county, Backhouse. rpels, but that a e flowers I examined 1 uniformly found 2 ovaries or distinct ca wh uot be constant in the species. The bristede in this as in P. urodon are not so close i . . . d Dillon as In other Pultenzas, yet not so distant eee it nor so smell at in Eutaria an 124 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [ Pultenca, 31. P. incurvata, 4. Cunn. in Field, N. 8. Wales, 346. A low shib with elongated slender branches, terete and softly pubescent or villous when young. Leaves lanceolate, obtuse or acute, incurved, otherwise flat or cone cave, mostly 3 to 4 lines long, rather thick, darker coloured on the under side, — without any midrib. Stipules minute or none. Flowers in terminal heads, sessile within the last leaves. Bracts few, rather narrow, 3-fid. Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, linear, villous with long hairs. Calyx silky-villous, about 3 lines long; lobes lanceolate, longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx; keel — scarcely exceeding the calyx-lobes. Ovary villous; style erect, hooked at the ead. Pod obtuse, not 2 lines long, the valves very convex. N.S. Wales. Marshes near Sydney, R. Brown ; margins of peaty bogs, King’s Table- land, Blue Mountains, 4. Cunningham. The species is very nearly allied to P. subum- — bellata, aud perhaps a variety, but the stipules are more couspicuous, the flowers smaller, and the bracts and bracteoles different, at least in R. Brown’s specimens. 32. P. subumbellata, Hook. Bot. May. t. 3254. A shrub either low and erect or taller and straggling, the branches virgate, rather slender, terete, pubescent when young. Leaves narrow-oblong or almost linear, obtuse, under 4 in. and usually 3 to 4 lines long, rather incurved than recurved at 7 the end, otherwise flat or concave, darker-coloured underneath, without any e midrib, usually glabrous. Stipules none. Flowers all yellow, in dense ter- minal heads, sessile within the last leaves. Bracts few, short, broad, ciliate. Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, linear or oblong. Calyx softly villous, l about 2 lines long ; lobes lanceolate, scarcely so long as the tube, the 2 up- — per ones united to the middle. Standard more than twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals shorter. Ovary villous, tapering into an erect, rather thick style, hooked at the top. Pod about 2 lines long, obliquely and l: 87. N. S. Wales. Near Mount Imlay, F. Mueller. Victoria. Australian Alps, at an elevation of 5000 ft., F. Mueller. Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; abundant in moist situations, ascending lo 4000 ft., J. D. Hooker. The alpine specimens are small and slender, with small leaves and flowers; but they pas gradually into the larger forms. In the absence of stipules, as well as in general habit, species connects Pultenea with Latrobea diosmifolia. The name subumbellata was unfor a tunately chosen, for the flower-heads are as compact as in most capitate species. + in. long, flat or concave, rather glaucous on both sides or darker-col underneath, the midrib slender or inconspicuous, glabrous or villous W long spreading hairs. Stipules none. Flowers in rather large dense Vey villous heads, sessile within the last leaves, which are larger, broader, thinner, and more acute than the others. Bracteoles inserted a little below the linear-subulate, plumose-hairy, Calyx membranous, about 3 in. long, densely n clothed with very long soft hairs; lobes all much longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones broadly oblong with short fine points, the lower ones Ta! broadly ovate, obtuse, turgid.—Bot. Reg. t. 1632; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. j _, 33. P, urodon, Benth. A low shrub, with erect or ascending stems e -m Our specimens simple or not much branched, 1 to 14 ft. high, glabrous a and glaucous or more or less villous with long loose hairs. Leaves NUM” — rous, narrow-oblong, obtuse or scarcely acute, 2 to 4 lines or rarely pr A Pultenea.} XL. LEGUMINOS&. 125 shorter, very narrow, tapering into long fine plumose points. Standard ra- ther longer than the calyx, emarginate; lower petals rather shorter; keel purple, obtuse. Ovary very villous, sessile or slightly contracted at the base; style subulate. Pod not seen ripe.—Urodon capitatus, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1849, ii. 17; U. dasyphyllus, Turcz. l. c. 1853, i. 268. W. Australia, Drummond, n. 21, 23, 24, 98, 267, and 5th Coll. Suppl. n. 47. The larger hairy and more acute leaves by which U. dasyphyllus was distinguished may be sometimes found on the same specimen as the smaller obtuse glabrous ones of U. capitatus. The species has the foliage and inflorescence of P. subumbellata, differing in the large very hairy flower-heads, and especially in the calyx, which is that of some species of the section Euchilus. ‘ 34. P. stipularis, Sm. Bot. N. Holl. 35, t. 12, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 245. A tall shrub with erect virgate terete branches, usually gla- brous, but the surface almost concealed by the crowded leaves and appressed stipules. Leaves linear, acute, with a short fine but scarcely pungent point, lto 13 in. long, flat above, with slightly prominent margins, usually darker- coloured underneath with a scarcely prominent midrib, ciliate with a few airs, but otherwise glabrous. Stipules narrow, often above 3 lines long. owers numerous in dense heads, sessile within the last leaves. Bracts im- bricate, but not numerous, narrow, bifid, acuminate. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube and as long as its lobes, linear, ciliate. Calyx fully 4 lines » Ciliate or hirsute with long hairs ; lobes lanceolate, subulate, much longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones broader, and united at the base. Standard scarcely half as long again as the calyx; lower petals shorter. ary with a few long hairs, tapering into the style. Pod not seen.—Bot. Mag. t. 475; DO. Prod. ii, 112; Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 192; P. proteoides and P, psoralevides, Sieb. Pl. Exs. ong Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 382, and 35. P. glabra, Benth. Allied in habit to P. stipularis and to P. aris- tala, but readily iaw by the peculiar calyx and the absence of all hairs. ranches terete, virgate: Leaves linear, acute, rigid, 4 to + in. long, flat or concave or the margins slightly involute, the midrib slightly prominent, under surface usually darker-coloured. Stipules subulate, Pe Pe spreading. Flowers rather smaller than in P. s¢épudarvs, n dense e 5 sessile within the last leaves. Bracts few besides the stipules of the R je? es and these usually with a few setz in their axils. Bracteoles insert : “ding calyx-tube and as long as its lobes, broadly lanceolate, with 2 E Wn sete or acuminate scales in their axils. Calyx quite glabrous, 23 als » the broad lanceolate very acute lobes nearly equal and spreading, as long site tube. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals nearly as S; keel nearly straight, obtuse. Ovary glabrous, tapering into a flattened od not seen. "S. Wales. Blue Mountains, R. Cunningham. 36. P dentata., Labi : 131. A rigid heath- * bill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 103, t. vi g like shrub of 1 a oa ; bianehie rigid, virgate, minutely oy A or ‘S When young, rarely quite glabrous. Leaves linear, linear-ob = _ Mtrow-lanceolate, usually narrowed at both ends, but scarcely acute, under 126 | XL. LEGUMINOS£, [Pultenea, 3 in. and sometimes only + in. long, flat or concave, rigid, glabrous, darker- coloured or somewhat silvery underneath, the midrib rarely visible. Stipules _ small. Flowers in dense terminal heads, sessile within the last leaves. Bracts very broad, imbricate, the inner ones 14 lines long. Bracteoles in- serted on the calyx-tube, ovate or oblong, bifid with a third central subulate lobe. Calyx silky-villous, 2 to 2} lines long, the lobes rather shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Standard about twice as long as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter, Ovary villous, tapering into — a slender style. Pod 2 lines long or rather more, ovate, acute or rarely ob- tuse.—DC. Prod. ii. 112; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 88 ; P., argentea, A. Cum, | in Field. N. S. Wales, 347; P. pimeleoides, Hook. f, Fl. Tasm. i. 88. - N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; barren rocky hills, Cox’s river, 4. Cun- ningham ; Illawarra, M‘Arthur, Victoria. Moist grassy places, Australia Felix, F. Mueller. ds Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; northern parts of the island, Rocky Ca Woolnorth, Hampshire Hills, etc., Gunn, J. D. Hooker. : This species varies much in the size of the flowers, those of Cunningham’s specimens are the smallest, those described as P, pimeleoides the largest, but I have been unable to mark out distinct varieties. In M‘Arthur’s specimens they are as large as in the common Tas manian ones. 37. P. aristata, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 112. Branches erect, virgale, glabrous. Leaves crowded, linear, rarely above 3 in. long, obtuse or acute — with a long bristle-like point, which wears off on the lower leaves, concave — or with involute margins, darker-coloured underneath, the midrib inconsp- — cuous, glabrous or ciliate with a few long hairs. Stipules narrow, rather — long, appressed or with spreading points. Flowers in dense terminal heads, : sessile within the last leaves and usually not exceeding them. Bracts few, — narrow, bifid. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube and as long as its lobes, — linear, ciliate with long hairs and occasionally with a brown seta in the axil. 7 Calyx about 4 lines long; lobes nearly equal, subulate-acuminate, longe — than the tube, ciliate or hirsute with long hairs. Standard not half q long a again as the calyx; keel rather shorter, incurved. Ovary hirsute with long | hairs; style slightly dilated downwards, Pod not seen.—Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 195. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, Sieber, n, 383, Fl. Mizt. n. 555 ; Illawarra, Marthe 38. P. plumosa, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 11). Branches erect, virgale glabrous or silky-hairy. Leaves crowded, narrow-oblong or slightly cuneate, under ¿ in. long, obtuse or scarcely mucronate, concave and glabrous above, > darker-coloured underneath, the midrib scarcely conspicuous, usually, 68: pecially the upper ones, hirsute with long silky hairs. Stipules long amt da often ciliate. Flowers in dense terminal heads, sessile within the last leave _ without any or with very few bracts besides the stipules of the floral leaves Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, linear, ciliate, with 2 broad stipules Calyx hirsute or ciliate with soft hairs, 3 lines long or rather more; : acuminate, longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones much broader and more — united. Standard about half as long again as the calyx ; keel shorter. Ovary with a few long hairs, tapering into a subulate style. Pod not seen.— ] Icon. Exot. t. 193; P. canescens, A. Cunn., in Field, N. S. Wales, 346. — N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountaius, Sieber, A. Cunningham. Pultenea.] XL, LEGUMINOSE: a _89. P. viscosa, R. Br. Herb. An erect shrub of 3 to 4 ft-; branches: virgate, terete, pubescent or villous. Leaves linear, acute or nearly so, to - +in. long, concave, glabrous or silky-pubescent underneath, the midrib ob- - tuseor slightly prominent. Stipules subulate, with recurved points. Flowers in terminal heads, sessile within the last leaves, though each flower is shortly pedicellate. Bracts scarcely longer than the pedicels. Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, ovate-lanceolate, rather large. Calyx villous, nearly 3 lines long, lobes lanceolate, nearly as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Standard half as long again as the calyx ; lower petals rather nace Ovary villous; style subulate. Pod ovate, acuminate, about 3 lines ng, N. S. Wales. Paramatta, R, Brown, Woolls; southern districts ?, Mossman; Wom- baya Ranges, F. Mueller. ; Victoria. Mount Stargeon, Robertson. : From R. Brown’s name, it would appear that the plant is more or less viscid when fresh. This character does not show in the dried specimens seen either in his or other herbaria. species is closely allied to P. hibbertioides, but the leaves appear to be constantly open. on the upper side, not slender and terete as in the latter species. 40. P. echinula, Sicó. in DC. Prod. ii, 112 (spelt echinata in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 173). Apparently a straggling shrub, the older branches i denuded of leaves and tuberculate or echinate with the remains of their pe- tioles, Leaves crowded on the younger branches, often incurved, linear-terete, almost subulate, mucronate, rarely exceeding 4 in., channelled above by the nvolute Margins, often tuberculate outside and sometimes hirsute with soft hairs. Stipules rather long. Flowers in dense heads, sessile within the last wives, with few bracts besides the stipules of the floral leaves. Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, oblong or lanceolate. Calyx 23 lines long, glabrous or hirsute; lobes lanceolate, nearly equal, about as long as the tube. Stan- not twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals rather shorter. Ovary vil- 3 style subulate, Pod not seen.—Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 196. land. Brisbane river, Fraser ? ae a S. Wales, Port Jackson > the Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 384, R. cn Ear a PP sae $ Specimens have the upper leaves more hairy than R, Cunningham e tow an € e calyx is villous, which in Sieber’s is glabrous. Fraser’s specimen past E T vesare nearly smooth, but all appear to belong to the same species. d hc, P, hibbertioides, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 89. A much-branched fuse shrub, forming large bushes of 1 to 2 ft., more or less engr ste g soft spreading hairs. S Leaves linear-terete, obtuse or shortly acute, mostly C F in. long, channelled above by the involute margins, glabrous, E Ut or softly villous. Stipules with long subulate points. Flowers go Mierous, in dense heads, sessile amongst the last leaves, but each flower o . 2 Délicel of 1 line or rather more. - Bracts imbricate, bifid, the inner ones ¡Dove 2 lines long, usually striate. Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, = fa ae : 2 lines long ; lave and keeled, at least as long as the calyx. Calyx 2 to 23 Standard Acute or acuminate, the 2 upper ones rather broader. rá ; y twice as long as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter. de 9; e Pering into a subulate style. Pod rather narrow, acute or acuminate, ‘Anes long, Buffalo ranges, F, Mueller. 128 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Pultenea, "Tasmania. Between Launceston and George Town, Gunz. Var. conferta. Pedicels short. Bracts and bracteoles smaller.— Australia Felix, F. Mueller. The species is nearly allied to P, mollis, but the bracteoles are quite distinct from the calyx. It differs from P. viscosa in its much narrower terete leaves, larger bracts, ete. 42. P. rosea, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 15. An erect heath-like shrub, the branches virgate, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs. Leaves linear- terete, obtuse or with short callous points, under 3 in. long, channelled above by the involute margins, slightly scabrous. Stipules subulate-pointed. Flowers pink, in terminal heads, sessile within the last leaves. Bracts few, — narrow, trifid. Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, linear-lanceolate. Calyx silky-pubescent, 24 lines long ; lobes lanceolate, as long as the tube, the2 upper ones more united. Petals nearly of equal length, not twice as long a the calyx. Ovary villous; style subulate. Pod 2 lines long, acuminate.— Burtonia subalpina, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. i. 39. Victoria. In the Grampians, Mount William, at an elevation of 5000 ft., F. Mueller. The species is chiefly distinguished from the preceding by the unusual colour of the flowers. 43. P. mollis, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 260. A bushy shrub, the branches clothed with soft spreading hairs. Leaves narrow-linear, almost terete, acute or obtuse, mostly about + in. long, concave or channelled above, — usually incurved, softly pubescent or villous. Stipules spreading. Flowers ~ in dense terminal heads, sessile amongst the last leaves. Bracts short, fev — besides the broad bract-like stipules of the floral leaves. Bracteoles inserted — on the calyx-tube near its base, narrow, keeled. Calyx about 3 lines long, villous; lobes broad, scarcely so long as the tube and all nearly equal. Stan- _ dard not twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals rather shorter. Ovary E. lous, tapering into a subulate style. Pod not seen. nes Victoria. Wannon river, at the foot of the Grampians, Mitchell; in the Grampians — and Mount Macedon, F. Mueller. Var. (?) canescens. Bracts small. Calyx hoary-pubescent, the bracteoles small and narrow. : S. Australia, Marble range, Wilhelmi; near Spencer’s Gulf, F. Mueller. 44. P. strobilifera, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 15, and ii. 220. An eret heath-like shrub of 4 to 14 ft., closely resembling P. ericifolia, except in the shape of the flower-heads and bracts. Branches virgate, terete, minutely hoary. Leaves linear-terete, obtuse, rarely above 3 lines long and often much” shorter, channelled above, rather thick, glabrous, smooth or slightly wrinkle — Stipules small. Flowers in dense terminal ovoid or scarcely globose heads. Bracts numerous and closely imbricate, broad, shortly toothed, pubescent 0f ciliate, the inner ones about 3 lines long. Bracteoles inserted close und@ — the calyx, linear or subulate, hirsute with long hairs. Calyx under 4 hoe long, the lobes narrow, acuminate, longer than the tube, the 2 upper nn. united above the middle. Standard not half as long again as the cayó keel not exceeding the calyx-lobes. Ovary villous, tapering into an et style, hooked at the top. Pod ovoid, turgid, about 3 lines long.—P. peel nioides, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 280. ho W. Australia. In the interior, Drummond, n. 247, and bth Coll. m. 62 (or 61%) bea n, 1185; Minto district, Preiss, n. 1190; Stirling and Plantageuet rauges, well, i i + Pultenea.] XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 129 45. P. ericifolia, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 13. An erect heath-like shrub, with terete minutely pubescent branches. Leaves linear- terete, spreading, obtuse or mucronate, under 4 in. long, channelled on the upper side, glabrous, usually tuberculate or irregularly wrinkled. Stipules small. Flowers in dense terminal broadly globose heads, sessile within the last leaves. Bracts numerous, imbricate in several rows, but spreading at the top, deeply trifid, with a subulate central, and broad lateral lobes, the Immer ones 8 to 4 lines long, all fringed with long hairs. Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, linear or subulate, hirsute with long hairs. Calyx fully 4 lines long, the lobes narrow, acuminate, longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Standard not half as long again as the calyx ; keel not exceeding the calyx-lobes. Ovary villous, tapering into an erect = em at the top. Pod not seen. —Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 75, and 21g, W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown; Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. mag 248, Preiss, n. 1189; Konkoberup Hills and near Albany, Preiss, 2. 1186 and 46. P. verruculosa, Zurcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 278. An erect heath-like shrub, the young branches loosely pubescent. Leaves linear-terete or trigonous, obtuse or scarcely pointed, mostly 3 to 4 lines or rarely 5 lines long, channelled above, glabrous, smooth or tuberculate, incurved, spreading or rarely recurved. Stipules subulate. Flowers in terminal heads, sessile amongst the last leaves, occasionally proliferous ; buds acute. Bracts few, proadly ovate, not above 2 lines long, entire or shortly 2-lobed. Bracteoles under the calyx, short, lanceolate. Calyx pubescent, or villous at the top with long soft hairs, about 3 lines long ; lobes shorter than the tube, acuminate, the 2 upper ones broader and united nearly to the middle. Standard half as long again as the calyx, dark with a yellow edge; keel » almost acuminate. Ovary villous, tapering into an erect rather thick E po hooked at the end. Pod not seen. o arc . W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Collie, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 655 Kalgan E T Oldfield ; Stirling Rings a eastward to the Great Bight, Maxwell. as eee Sprinkled with spreading hairs. no ae and more numerous, e 18 species with P. ericifolia.—Cheynes , . P tb brachyphylla. Leaves rios de thicker, id often very shortly do ig tam in ie aar, the heads often proliferous with few Jeaf-like bracts.—P. brac. , Turez. Var’ Mose. 1853, i. 279.—Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 68, Mazwell. p entria teva, Leaves more spreading, mostly recurved at the end, as af . Ey. gh EA bracteoles, ete., of P. verruculosa. Flowers asin the var. brachyphytia. 8 $ Sound, Collie. aft. P, empetrifolia, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss.i. 76... A diffuse or divari- le shrub, an oe a high, with numerous slender hoary puc : finches Leaves numerous, linear-terete, obtuse or shortly perma sat — recurved at the end, in some specimens all under 2 lines. ct = a: Scarcely 1 line and thick, in others more slender and 2 to 3 aer -> te on nelled above, glabrous and smooth or tubercular-scabrous. ienally E pr lif te, rather broad. Flowers in small dense terminal widji sorn nd : alyx, us; buds acute. Bracts (or floral leaves) few, apo like lobe ce $9 2 broad stipular lobes, and usually a central green k : 130 ; XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Pultenes. - Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, oblong, acute. Calyx 23 lines long, gla- brous or with a few long hairs; lobes lanceolate, acute, rigid but not striate, as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones broader and slightly connate, the lower ones usually with a dark spot in each sinus. Standard about ‘half as long again as the calyx; keel shorter, deeply coloured. Ovary villous ; style su bulate. Pod shorter than the calyx in our specimens.—P. verticillata, Ture. — in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 279. . : W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll.n. 62 and 64. In inflorescence, this species con- nects the preceding with the following two species, the bracts are peculiar, and in a young : state the acutely acuminate buds are very prominent. . 48. P. adunca, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 279. A slender heath- like erect shrub, the young branches silky-pubescent. Leaves linear-terete, , obtuse or with a hooked point, under + in. long, channelled above, glabrous ; or scabrous-pubescent. Stipules small. Flowers at first in terminal heads, which soon grow out into leafy branches, leaving the flowers axillary near their base, without any other bracts than small floral leaves. Bracteoles in- serted under the calyx, linear. Calyx nearly 3 lines long, silky-villous; lobes longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, falcate, united to above : the middle ; the lower ones short and narrow. Standard half as long agan — as the calyx, dark-coloured with a yellow edge; lower petals shorter, dark- coloured. Ovary villous, tapering into a thick erect style, hooked at the top. — Pod not seen. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 66. The calyx-lobes are more unequal in this i species than in any other one of the section ; 49. P. neurocalyx, Turcz. in Bull. Mose: 1853, i. 281. A slende but rigid, heath-like, diffuse or divaricate shrub, with the habit, infloresceno — and rigid io of P. empetrifolia, but at once known by the striate bracteoles and calyx. Leaves linear or lanceolate, 1 or rarely 2 lines long, obtuse, concave or channelled above, 1- or 3-nerved underneath, usually By brous. Stipules none or very small. Flowers at first in small, termini 2 sessile, leafy heads, which soon grow out into leafy branches. Bracts 0% floral leaves ovate, striate, with scarious ciliate margins. Bracteoles rm under the calyx, ovate or oblong, 3-nerved. Calyx glabrous or slightly p" bescent, about 24 lines long ; lobes all broadly lanceolate, scarcely acute E rigid, 3- or 5-nerved. Standard half as long again as the calyx oF pre more; keel much shorter. Ovary villous, tapering into a thick erect s% hooked at the top. Pod not seen. _ W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 63. lis f Var. major. Leaves 2 to 3 lines long. one larger, the calyx 3 lines long.— Phili | ranges, Mount Bland, Robertson’s Brook, etc., Maxwell. dE 50. P. rigida, R. Br. Herb. A much-branched, rigid shrub, the you branches terete, hoary-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, very rigid, ta into pungent points, concave or conduplicate, glabrous or obscurely pent veined. Stipules with long subulate points. Flowers not seen. a pedicels axillary, solitary, 1 to 2 lines long. Bracteoles inserted € jine the calyx, and as long as its tube, ovate-lanceolate. Calyx nearly 2 Pultenea,] _ XL. LEGUMINOSA. 131 bong, the lobes subulate-acuminate. Pod very turgid, ovoid, 2 to 3 lines ng. S. Australia. Memory Cove, R. Brown (Hb. Br.). 51. P. juniperina, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 102, t. 130. A much- branched prickly shrub, attaining several feet, the young branches terete and usually villous. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, spreading, rigid and pun- gent-pointed, under 3 in. long, concave or with involute margins, darker- coloured underneath, usually glabrous. Stipules subulate or those of the floral leaves broader. Flowers in the uppermost axils, usually 2 or 3 to- gether at the ends of the smaller branches, with occasionally 1 or 2 leafless stipular bracts, shorter than the very short pedicels. - Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, lanceolate. Calyx glabrous or pubescent, about 2 lines long or rather more ; lobes lanceolate, rather shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broader, falcate, and united to the middle, Standard fully twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals rather shorter. Ovary pubescent, tapering Into a subulate style. Pod obliquely ovate, shortly acuminate, often above 3 - lines long — DC, Prod. li, 112; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 90. yeictoria. Frequent in rocky places in the Australian Alps, also in the Grampians, F. eller, , Tasmania. Port Dalrymple and Derwent river, R. Brown ; abundant throughout the ascending to 4000 ft., J. D. Hooker. Var. latifolia. Leaves lanceolate, rounded or sometimes almost cordate at the base, ta- Nas’, tt? a rigid pungent point.— P. cordata, Grah. in Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1836 ; Bot. Mag, t. 3443; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 90 ; by a clerical error, P. cordifolia, Benth. in Ann. len. Mus, ii, 82.—Tasmania, R. Brown and others. ites > me Tasmanian specimens, as well as others from the Grampians, are quite intermediate abe the two forms; and in the true P. juniperina the breadth of the leaves is very e. 9 52. P, acerosa, R. Br. Herb. A rigid much-branched shrub of 13 to ft, the branches divaricate or spreading, loosely pubescent or tomentose. Ves linear-subulate or trigonous, channelled above, rigid with more or less Pungent points, crowded on the smaller branches and 3 tò 5 lines long, diva- Neate on the longer branches, and nearly 4 in. Stipules appressed, subulate- Pointed. Flowers sessile or nearly so, crowded in short leafy heads growing - t into leafy shoots, Bracteoles inserted close under the calyx, oblong with te points, Calyx about 22 lines long, glabrous or ciliate, the lobes broad with rigid subulate points, the 2 upper ones rather broader and more United Subulate Standard half as long again as the calyx. Ovary villous; style Pod ovoid, very turgid, about as long as the calyx. con tustralia. Memory Cove, R. Brown ; Lofty Range, Whittaker, F. Mueller ; En- Bay, C, Stuart ; Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi. or E humilis, Benth. in. Hook. f Fl. Tasm. i. 91. Either a low diggs a thick stock and decumbent ascending or scarcely erect branches Deg 2 to 1 ft., or erect with spreading branches and several feet high, pu- : kono or hirsute with ii ee Leaves linear- or elliptical-oblong, or rather acute, rarely exceeding + in., rather thick, concave or with a Avoluto margi ide, the midrib scarcely conspi- oe _vargins, often darker coloured outside, the midrib ' > a ous, hirsute with long soft hairs when young, at length glabrous. Stipules Y, except those of the floral leaves. Flowers axillary, but ** into 132 f XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [ Pultenaa. short leafy spikes at or near the ends of the branches, often with a few broad stipular leafless bracts. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx near its base, linear- subulate, ciliate, often 2-stipulate. Calyx villous or ciliate with long hairs, 3 to 4 or even 5 lines long ; lobes acuminate, much longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad and united to the middle, the lower ones very narrow. Petals not- much longer than the calyx-lobes ; keel dark-coloured. Ovary with a few long hairs; style much dilated downwards. Pod not seen.—Spadostyles Huegelii and S. Benthamii, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 3. N. S. Wales. On the Murrumbidgee, M‘Arthur. Victoria. In the Grampians, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy ; mouth of the Glenelg, Allitt. : : Tasmania. Epping Forest, Launceston and Hobarton road, Gunn. The aspect 18 sometimes nearly that of P. eddiptica, but differs in the calyx, the insertion of the bracteoles, etc., characters which bring it nearer to P. villosa. 54. P. parviflora, Sich. in DC. Prod. ii. 111. Branches numerous, slender, pubescent with greyish appressed hairs. Leaves oblong-cuneate, obtuse, 1 to 2 or rarely 3 lines long, concave or with incurved margins, darker- coloured underneath with a slender midrib, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs when young. Stipules appressed. Flowers few, small, in the uppet axils. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube near its base, linear-subulate, ciliate, 2-stipulate. Calyx about 2 lines long; lobes acuminate, longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, falcate and united at the base. Ovary hairy at the top; style dilated downwards. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 399; Fl. Mizt. n. 589; near Penrith, Backhouse. Var. angustifolia. Leaves narrower and more acute or mucronate, sometimes almost terete and channelled above. Bracteoles usually shorter.—To this belong the Maram uya specimens, and some from Stringy Bark Forest, F, Mueller; Creswick diggi . D. N. s > The aspect of the broader-leaved forms is sometimes nearly that of P. elliptica, but they a always differ in the calyx, the insertion of the bracteoles, ete. As the leaves become mer. rower they are at the same time more rigid, acute, and spreading ; but in some spec? : we see a passage from the one form to the other. = 55. P.setulosa, Benth. Apparently procumbent, with silky-pubescent branchlets, Leaves linear, terete or trigonous, channelled above, mucronato — 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long, glabrous or silky-pubescent. Stipules appressed, Ed] with long, fine, erect or spreading points. Flowers axillary, nearly E forming leafy heads or clusters at or below the ends of the branches. Bracts none besides the floral leaves. Bracteoles linear, inserted on the base of the El et often 2-stipulate. Calyx 3 to 34 lines long, slightly silky pubescent, the lobes all tapering to fine points, the 2 upper ones broad, fal- 7 cate and united above the middle, the lower ones shorter and much narrows — Standard scarcely twice as long as the calyx. Ovary very villous. Sty’ glabrous, flattened at the base. Pod ovate, shorter than the calyx. a eensland. Broad Sound, Bowman. Certainly allied to P. humilis, with nearly the same calyx; but the small leaves not at all opened out, and the fine points to the stipules, : leaves, and calyx-lobes give it a peculiar aspect. ae 56. P. vestita, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2,111.19. A shrub of 140 2 ft., with spreading diffuse or virgate branches, completely covered whe? young by the long closely-imbricate stipules, each pair united almost to the . Pultenea.] o XL. LEGUMINOSA. 133 top. Leaves narrow-linear or rarely lanceolate, shortly mucronate, under + in. long, concave or with involute margins, rigid, glabrous or minutely silky- pubescent, quite nerveless. Flowers in dense leafy terminal heads, occasionally growing out into short leafy proliferous spikes. Floral leaves or bracts with large broad stipules and a small lamina. Bracteoles inserted close under the calyx, stipular, scarious, lanceolate, usually with 2 pointed lobes and a central long ciliate point. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, the tube glabrous or silky-hairy ; lobes lanceolate, with rigid subulate points, hirsute or ciliate, the 2 upper ones broader at the base. Petals scarcely exceeding the calyx-lobes ; keel almost as long as the standard. Ovary silky-villous ; style subulate. Pod flattened, enclosed in the calyx.—DC. Prod. ii. 112; P. fuscata, F. Muell. m Trans. Vict. Inst. 119. S. Australia. Port Lincoln, R. Brown; Salt’s Creek, F. Mueller, W. Australia. Point Sherratt, Esperance Bay, Maxwell. 57. P. procumbens, 4. Cunn. in Field, N.S. Wales, 347. A diffuse or prostrate much-branched rigid shrub, the young branches pubescent. ves obovate-oblong or lanceolate, 1 to 2 or rarely 3 lines long, mucronate or fine-pointed, recurved at the end, but concave or with involute margins, darker-coloured and glabrous or slightly hairy outside, the midrib scarcely Prominent, Stipules rather broad. Flowers solitary in the upper axils, forming sometimes short, leafy, terminal spikes. Bracteoles inserted on the middle of the calyx-tube, small, acute. Calyx glabrous or ciliate, about 2 lines long ; lobes lanceolate, fine-pointed, about as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones broader and rather more united. Petals about twice as long as the calyx, the keel deeply coloured. Ovary bearing a few long hairs ; style dilated ownwards.— P. setigera, A. Cunn. ; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. 1. ue A N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Cox’s river, and N. of Bathurst, A. Cunningham ; tgyle county, M'Arthur; rocky ridges near Mundoora, Herb. F. Mueller. 58. P. hispidula, X. Br. Herb. An erect much-branched shrub of 3 to 4 ft. ; blah slender, terete, hirsute with rust-coloured hairs. Leaves linear, obtuse or with a minute recurved point, about 3 lines long, concave above, scabrous or hirsute underneath, the midrib scarcely perar aN -Stipules small. Flowers small, in small terminal sessile heads. — _ Sareely exceeding the short pedicels. .Bracteoles inserted on the base o: k calyx, oval-oblong. Calyx scarcely more than 1 line long, the lobes or oa Short, the 2 upper ones rather broader. Standard more than twice as oad chs calyx, lower petals rather shorter. Ovary villous; style filiform. seen. > E S. Wales. St. George’s river, R. Brown. In habit this ad villosa, but the flowers are much smaller, and the inflorescence aÙ at (Herb. R. Br.) erbi laxiflora, Benth. A prostrate “seca silky-pubescent when young. Lea Un cely acute, mostly 3 to 4 lines long, concave O ti heath, without any prominent 1 r e Narrow, appressed. Flowers in terminal clusters, @ a oi imbricate bracts, which soon fall off, and, the cluster ly shoot, with 3 to 6 flowers at its base, on silky-pubescen grows out into t pedicels of 2 134 XL. LEGUMINOSA. oa [Pultenea. to 3 lines. Bracteoles close under the calyx, linear-lanceolate, with 2 stipu- lar lobes. Calyx slightly silky-pubescent, about 2 to 24 lines long; lobes all acute or acuminate, the 2 upper ones broader and united at the base. Stan- dard half as long again as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter, the keel deeply coloured. Ovary villous, tapering into a subulate style. Pod not seen. Victoria. Near the Western frontier, Robertson ; Grampians, F. Mueller. S. Australia. Onkaparinga river and Encounter Bay, F. Mueller. 60. P. largiflorens, F. Muell. Herb. A rigid apparently divaricate shrub, the young branches minutely hoary or almost silky-pubescent. Leaves _ from broadly obovate and 2 or 3 lines long, to linear-cuneate and 3 m. long, obtuse or truncate, more or less concave and glabrous above, silky- pubescent or at length glabrous underneath, with a prominent midrib. Sti- pules very small. Flowers nearly sessile, in axillary or terminal clusters, surrounded when young by a few short broad imbricate bracts, which usually fall off before the flowers expand. Bracteoles inserted near the top of the calyx- _ tube, small, lanceolate. Calyx silky-pubescent, 2 lines long or rather more; — lobes scarcely so long as the tube, the 2 upper ones broad and united nearly to the middle. Standard twice as long as the calyx; lower petals nearly as long, the keel almost acuminate, Ovary villous; style filiform. Pod ob- — sray ovate, acute, silky, scarcely exceeding the calyx, more or less flat- ed. Victoria. Forest Creek and Mount M‘Ivor, F. Mueller, Ss. Australia. Encounter Bay, Whittaker ; Lofty Range, F. Mueller. a The Victorian specimens have generally much narrower leaves than the S. Australian pu —_ some branches of the latter have also sometimes the narrow leaves of the a ormer, 61. P. villosa, Willd. Spec. Pl. ii. 507. A low or spreading much- — branched shrub, pubescent or villous, rust-coloured when dry. Leaves us oblong or somewhat cuneate, but varying from linear to obovate, obtuse ® scarcely pointed, 2 to 3 or rarely when narrow nearly 4 lines long, concave or with incurved margins, tubercular or hirsute underneath, the midns slender. Stipules small, narrow or broad. Flowers usually entirely yellow, solitary in each axil, but sometimes forming short terminal leafy racemes. Fe- cels short, but slender. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube, but sometimes very near its base, linear, with occasionally 1 or 2 sete in their axil. Calys _ from 13 to above 2 lines long; lobes acuminate, longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, falcate and united to the middle, the lower ones naitow: Petals nearly equal in length, twice as long as the calyx. Ovary more oF ke hairy ; style subulate. Pod scarcely exceeding the calyx.—Sm. in Ann. Bot. A i. 503, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 248; Bot. Mag. t. 967; DO. Prod. 113; P . polygalifolia, Rudge, in Trans. Linn. Sos; xi. 303, t. 25; E Prod. ii. 111; P. lanata, A. Cumn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 8% 6 small-leayed form). - Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Ba | . Mueller. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the aap eet gt tos (ir n. 421, A y Mizt, n. 588, and others; northward to Hastings a i " 88, rs; no nd Clarence rivers, Beck/er. Victoria. Australia Felix, near Mount Zero, F, Mueller. Pelo - latifolia, Leaves small, very pubescent, from narrow-cuneate to broadly at owers rather large.—P. ferruginea, Rudge, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 300, t. 235 2% Pultenaa.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 135 7 Prod. i. 111; P. Zanata, Sieb. Pl. Exs.; Spadostyles ramulosa, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 21 (from the description, no specimen having been preserved).—Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 420, etc. Var. glabrescens. Leaves linear or narrow-oblong, 2 to 4 lines long, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Flowers of the common variety.—Port Jackson, R. Brown. Spadostyles concolor, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 20, of which no specimen has been preserved, is probably, from the description, this variety. E. racemulosa, Sieb. Pl. Exs. n. 594; DC. Prod. ii. 111, is not in any of the sets of Sieber's plants which I have seen ; from the character given it is probably one of the nume- tous forms of P. villosa. 62. P. foliolosa, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 83. A spreading shrub, with elongated branches and very numerous short slen- der branchlets, rusty-pubescent or villous. Leaves numerous and very small, rarely 1 line long, ovate or oblong, obtuse, recurved at the end but concave above or with involute margins, darker-coloured and hirsute or scabrous underneath, the midrib not conspicuous. Stipules small. Flowers nearly sessile in the upper axils. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx, small, leafy with hair-like stipules. Calyx pubescent or villous, 2 lines long or rather more ; lobes broad, not longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones much falcate and united to the middle. - Standard fully twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals rather shorter, apparently of the same colour. Ovary with a few long hairs ; style somewhat dilated downwards. Pod turgid, obtuse, shorter than the calyx, which is somewhat enlarged after flowering. ag S. Wales. Westward of Wellington valley, 4. Cunningham; Lachlan river, er, Victoria. Barren hills between Meadow Creek and King river, F. Mueller. s 63. P. flexilis, Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 502, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 248. A shrub cither quite glabrous or with a few appressed hairs on the young shoots and backs of the leaves. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, often slightly cuneate, obtuse or mucronate, $4 to 1 in. long, flat or concave, t under side darker-coloured, with a prominent midrib. Stipules very $ Flowers solitary in the upper axils, shortly pedicellate. Bracteoles inserte OM the calyx near its base, small, lanceolate. Calyx glabrous or slightly ~ “liate, about 2 lines long ; lobes rather broad, acute, shorter than the tube, 2 upper ones broader and falcate. Standard fully twice as long y co YX; lower petals not much shorter. Ovary with a few long hairs at the top; style dilated downwards. Pod obliquely ovate or ovate-oblong, turgid, : í quely ovate. a a about 3 lines long.—DC. Prod. ii. 111; Bot. Reg. +. 1694; Dillmynia teu- crioides, Sieb, Pl. Exs.; P. Sweetii, Don, in Steud. Nomenel. ed. 2. N.S. Wales. P “us. R. Brown, Sieber, n. 423, and . Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, L OF ? ti E a Allied in habit to P. euchila, but the calyx-lobes are less disproportioned, the brac es are not under the calyx, the style less dilated at the base, eto. a ar. mucronata. Leaves narrow, with a fine pungent point.—Claren 64, P euchila, DC. P ii labrous shrub, with rather $ ' Prod. ii. 112. A glebrous N pu er, slender branches, nearly resembling at first sight P. flexilis, ji g pA coles, calyx, and style. Leaves linear-cuneate, obtuse, 5 to 67 aE A ar Slightly concave, of a darker or a more silvery colour un — | a above, the midrib slender. Stipules minute. Flowers axillary, on pedi es of 2 to 3 lines. Bracteoles linear-subulate, inserted close under the 136 XL, LEGUMINOSZ. [Pultenea, 2 j calyx and shorter than its tube. Calyx 3 to 33 lines long, the lobes much longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones large, falcate and united above the middle, the lower ones narrow-lanceolate. Petals nearly equal, half as long again as the calyx, the keel slightly incurved. Ovary glabrous, tapering into the much dilated style. Pod longer than the calyx, coriaceous, turgid when ripe, with a flat point.—Dillwynia cuneata, Sieb. Pl. Exs. ; Spadostyles Sie- éeri, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 81. Queensland. Near the Brisbane, Leichhardt ; Ipswich, Nernst. E N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, Sieber, n. 422, and others ; Hunters River, R. Brown; e Clarence river, Beckler. 65. P. selaginoides, Hook. f. Fl. Tusm. i. 87. An erect glabrous shrub, with the habit of a Diosma. Leaves numerous, obovate- or oblong- cuneate, almost imbricate, obtuse or with a short thick point, rarely above? — lines long, thick, concave above, very convex and almost nerveless under- neath. Stipules reduced to minute tubercles. Flowers axillary, forming 4 leafy head or tuft, at or below the ends of the branchlets. Bracts small, ob- long. Pedicels short. Bracteoles lanceolate, concave, immediately under the calyx, but free from it. Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes as long as the tube, obtuse, the 2 upper ones rather broader and united to the middle. — Standard fully twice as long as the calyx. Ovary sessile, silky-villous. Style — slender. Pod not seen. | x ia. Eastern parts of the island, St. Paul's River, Avoca, Gunn, O. Stuart. In foliage this is certainly allied to P. subumbellata, obovata, ete., but the inflorescence 15 quite different. Although the flowers are sometimes apparently in terminal heads, the heads are always interspersed with leaves, and the new shoots continue the axis, instead of growmg out from under the heads, as in P. subumbellata. 66. P. densifolia, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst.119. A rigid shrub, — the branches diffuse or divaricate, tomentose-pubescent, but long concealed by — the closely-appressed imbricate stipules, Leaves numerous, broadly obovate: — obtuse or scarcely acute, rarely above 2 lines long, rigidly coriaceous, concave — or conduplicate, but with recurved squarrose ends, glabrous on both sides, — faintly penniveined underneath. Flowers axillary, sessile, forming leafy tufts below the summits of the branches, the stipules of the floral leaves large imbricate, and with the broad scarious bracts and bracteoles concealing calyx, the bracteoles inserted close under the calyx, but free from it. oe 2 to 23 lines long, slightly-pubescent or ciliate, the lobes broad with short pu gent points, the 2 upper ones rather more united. Petals not much long than the calyx. Style villous and slightly thickened below the middle. Pod ob liquely ovate, shortly acute, silky-pubescent, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Victoria. In the Murray desert, F, Mueller, S. Australia. Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi ; Encounter Bay, C. Stuart. 67. P. elliptica, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 246. Branches virgato, > terete, pubescent, softly villous or at length glabrous. Leaves crowded, @ liptical-oblong or when small often oblong-cuneate or almost obovate, z above 3 in. long except when very luxuriant, and in some specimens not $ in., obtuse or minutely mucronate, concave and elabrous above, darker C0- loured underneath, the slender midrib sometimes quite inconspicuous, "Y upper ones often ciliate with long hairs. Stipules closely appressed, often ? : Pultenea.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 137 lines long. Flowers axillary towards the ends of the branches, forming at firstan oblong leafy head, the floral leaves distinctly petiolate with broad bract-like stipules. Bracteoles inserted close under the calyx, linear or lanceo- late. Calyx broad and membranous, about 24 lines long, lobes all lanceo- late, rather shorter than the tube, ciliate with long hairs. Standard above > in. long, lower petals rather shorter. Ovary mixed with a few long hairs, tapering into a subulate style. Pod ovate, rather turgid, scareely exceeding the calyx.—Rudge, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 302, t. 24; DC. Prod. ii. 111; P. tuberculata, Pers. Syn. i. 434 (from the short diagnosis); P. kypolampra, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 111; Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 194. N.S. Wales. . Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 394,396, and 397, and FI. Mirt. n, 591, and others, Var. thymifolia. ` Leaves and flowers smaller, but not otherwise differing from the com- mon form.—P. thymifolia, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 111.—Port Jackson, Sieder, n. 398, and Fl. Mixt. n. 590, and others. 68. P. subspicata, Benth. A low procumbent or diffuse much-branched shrub, the branches glabrous or hirsute with long hairs. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, obtuse or with a minute point, mostly 3 to 4 lines long, rather ngid, concave, glabrous or ciliate with a few long hairs. Stipules app or slightly spreading, those of the floral leaves large and broad. Flowers al- most sessile in the upper axils, often forming ovoid leafy heads or short spikes. Bracteoles inserted close under the calyx, broad, 2-lobed, with or without a central point or lobe. Calyx about 24 lines long, the lobes longer than the tube, lanceolate-subulate, the 2 upper ones broad at the base. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals shorter. Ovary with a few hairs ; style dilated downwards.’ Pod not seen. N.S. Wales, Vica ; Backho This species is allied ve ry, Clowes, Bynoe ; near Yass, Backhouse. c sl 4 villifera and P. elliptica, with the habit of P. humilis, and bracteoles different from 69. P. villifera, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii, 111. A large erect shrub, the branches loosely villous, Leaves often crowded or clustered on the smaller ches, oval-elliptical or lanceolate, 4 to 4 in. long, acute or tapering into a almost pungent point, rather rigid, flat or concave, more or less hirsute or ciliate with long hairs, usually 3-nerved underneath, the petioles more distinct "an In most species, often above 1 line long. Stipules lanceolate, ae ~ ose of the floral leaves much longer and bract-like. Flowers nearly sessile € upper axils or clustered on the short branches, sometimes with one or 0 leafless stipular bracts. Bracteoles inserted close under the calyx, ere? Calyx 2 lines long; lobes acuminate, rather longer than the prom : Upper ones rather broader at the base and often shortly united. ser ar 0 as long as the calyx, lower petals rather shorter, all of the same co Gii ~ „vary villous ; style filiform. Pod ovate or oval-oblong, shortly acuminate, About 3 lines long. ? eg ie Wales, Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Sieber, #. 390, and E » 4. Cunningham, and others. aa > ta” australis. Leaves usually.under } in., broadly ovate in oie re » el obs, te in others, Calyx shorter than in the northern specimens, with shorte S. Australia, Port Lincoln, R. Brown, F. Mueller ; Encounter Bay, Wilhelmi. Fl. Mixt.n. 138 XL, LEGUMINOSZ. [Pultenea, 10. P. involucrata, Bent. A much-branched shrub, loosely villous with spreading hairs. Leaves linear or lanceolate, mostly acute, rarely ex- ceeding 5 in. long, narrowed at the base but the petioles very much shorter than in P. villifera, or scarcely any, concave and glabrous above, very convex loosely hairy and 1-nerved underneath, usually clustered on the smaller branchlets. Stipules rather long, with recurved points. Flowers solitary on very short lateral leafy branchlets, sessile in a tuft of leaves and closely sur- rounded within the floral leaves by a few short imbricate bracts. Bracteoles broad, concave, as long as the calyx and inserted close under it. Calyx not 2 lines long, the lobes broad and obtuse or the lower ones scarcely acute. Standard more than twice as long as the calyx. Pod not seen. S. Australia. Lofty Ranges, F. Mueller. The species seems to be allied on the one hand to P. villifera, differing in inflorescence, in the almost sessile leaves, etc., on the other hand to P. Muelleri, differing in indumentum, shorter calyx, broader leaves, ete. 71. P. Muelleri, Benth. An erect much-branched shrub of several feet, the young shoots loosely silky-pubescent. Leaves linear or lanceolate, tapering into a short almost pungent point, narrowed at the base, mostly un- der 3 in. long, concave and glabrous above, more or less silky-hairy under- neath, more or less prominently l- or 3-nerved. Stipules rather long, ap- — pressed. Flowers terminal solitary, almost sessile above the last leaves, and > surrounded by short broad imbricate bracts. Bracteoles ovate-oblong, con cave, nearly as long as the calyx and inserted close under it. Calyx 23 lines long, slightly silky or nearly glabrous, the lobes acute or mucronate, the? upper ones rather broader and more united. Standard nearly twice as long 3 as the calyx, keel deeply-coloured. Pod sessile, ovate, about 3 lines long, — somewhat turgid. Victoria. Abundant in some of the Australian Alps at an elevation of 4000 or 5000 ft Mount Useful, Baw Baw, Bunieye Creek, etc., F, Mueller ; near Shipton, W. S. Wham. le the latter specimens the stipules and bracts have fine setaceous points. . 12. P. prostrata, Benth. in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 89. A prostrate ot diffuse shrub, forming depressed patches of 1 ft. or more, of a silvery-gry from the short appressed silky pubescence of the young shoots and inflores- cence. Leaves linear-terete, obtuse, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long, channelic¢ above by the involute margins, becoming glabrous with age. Stipules smal Flowers. terminal, but often appearing axillary from the shortness of thè flowering branchlets, solitary and sessile within 4 to 6 broad closely imbri- cated bracts covering the calyx-tube, the inner ones often 2 lines long, obtuse or jagged. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube at its base, oval-oblong — scarious. Calyx silky-pubescent, 23 or nearly 3 lines long; lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broader and more united. Standard twice as long o as the calyx; keel considerably shorter. Ovary villous; style subulate. p ovoid, obtuse, about as long as the calyx. : Victoria. Heaths on t ; itt ; in the Mur scrub, F. Mueller ; Wen Tens mens Portland, Alli pini ae some Pui se ae Gi | . a. in the Tattiara count EN The species is readily distinguished from all bes tach P. Muelleri and P. involucralts by the flowers singly surrounded by imbricate bracts, ) |. Pultenea.] XL. LEGUMINOS&. 139 13. P. canaliculata, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 119. A much- branched shrub, with the habit nearly of P. mollis, but the pubescence closer and more hoary or almost silky, and the flowers not capitate. Leaves about 3 in. long, narrow-linear, terete or slightly dilated upwards, obtuse, concave or channelled above by the involute margins, softly hoary-pubescent or almost | siky-pubescent on both sides. Stipules narrow, pubescent. Flowers sessile | in the upper axils, forming short leafy spikes or heads, without any bracts ex- cept the stipules of the floral leaves. ` Bracteoles inserted close under the calyx, linear or filiform. Calyx villous, about 3 lines long ; lobes all rather broad, subulate-acuminate, rather longer than the tube. Petals dark-coloured ; stan- ard not twice as long as the calyx; wings and keel rather shorter. Ovary a tapering into a subulate style. Pod ovate-oblong, shorter than the yx. Victoria. Cape Otway, F. Mueller ; Cape Nelson, Allitt ; Corner Inlet, Wilhelmi. S. Australia. Mount Lofty, Whittaker ; Encounter Bay, F. Mueller. ine species differs from P. tenuifolia in its longer and thicker leaves and much larger . 14, P. fasciculata, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 82. A prostrate or use much-branched shrub, with the silvery-grey appressed pubescence of ' prostrata, but a very different inflorescence. Leaves linear-terete with ort fine points, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long, channelled above with the in- volute margins, usually sprinkled with short silky hairs, but sometimes gla- ous or nearly so. Stipules subulate-acuminate. Flowers axillary, solitary, early sessile, with a single small broad lobed bract at their base. Bracteoles ‘Inserted on the calyx at its base, subulate-acuminate. Calyx silky-pubescent, About 2 lines long; lobes subulate-acuminate, as long as the tube, the 2 up- -Pr ones broader and more united. Standard fully twice as long as the calyx ; 7 lower petals shorter. Ovary villous; style subulate. Pod ovate, acute, E Tather flat, not longer than the calyx.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 92. Victoria. Cobberas mountains, at an elevation of 5000 ft., F. Mueller. — : Scope Summit boi the Western Mountains and Arthur’s Lake, at an elevation of » Lawrence, Gunn, o Pig species is very nearly allied to P. tenuifolia, but the bracteoles appear to be con- tly adnate to the base of the calyx. d: o ¿5 P. tenuifolia,’ 2. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 2086. A small prostrate _ “tb, the slender branches and foliage softly pubescent or villous. Leaves - Wrrow-linear or terete, obtuse or scarcely acute, 2 to 4 lines long, concave or unelled above by the involute margins. Stipules acuminate. Flowers th or 2 together, sessile on the smaller branchlets and often shorter than - surrounding leaves, Bracts broad, bifid, acute, twice as long as the calyx. les inserted under the calyx, ovate or oblong, or sometimes there are no bracts besides the floral leaves and then the bracteoles are leafy and 2-sti- Calyx pubescent, 11 lines long; lobes nearly equal, OR Malo, longer than the tube. Standard about 2 lines long ; keel short, reta ate. Ovary villous, very short; style slender. Pod very oe he not 2 lines long, the valves thin.—DC. Prod. ii. 113; Meissn. y; x 105 i 76, ii. 200; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 92; P. candida, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1236? from the figure. 140 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Pultenan, - Victoria. Port Phillip, R. Brown ; Wilson's Promontory and Murray river, F. Mueller, — Tasmania. Sandy lands near the sea, J. D. Hooker. 2 S. Australia. All along the coast, R. Brown, F. Mueller, and others. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Preiss, n. 1203, and others. ee Var. glabra. Almost entirely glabrous, leaves small. Wimmera river, Dallachy ; Vems — Bay, Warburton. ; Var. recurvifolia. Leaves crowded, short, linear or almost linear-cuneate, recurved, chan- = nelled above. Calyx-lobes short and broad.—-Near Portland, A//itt. P. filifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 9, from Kangaroo Island, Bannier, appears to me to bea E luxuriant form of P. tenuifolia with remarkably long slender leaves, but F. Mueller’s her- barium only contains a single specimen past flower, scarcely sufficient for identification. 17. LATROBEA, Meissn. (Leptocytisus, Meissn.) Calyx 5-lobed, the lobes nearly equal, ribbed, or very short. Petals shortly — clawed ; standard ovate or nearly orbicular, obtuse or acuminate, longer than — the lower petals; wings narrow, keel straight or slightly incurved, as long as _ the wings or rather longer. Stamens free. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with 2 ovules on short funicles ; style filiform or slightly thickened at the base with a a small terminal stigma. Pod flattened, ovate or lanceolate. Seeds reniform, 3 strophiolate.— Heath-like shrubs with usually virgate branches. Leaves al- | ternate or scattered, simple, linear, concave or channelled above. Stipules | none. Flowers yellow (or purplish ?) terminal, or rarely apparently axillary | from the shortness of the flowering branch, solitary or in corymbs or heads | Bracts and bracteoles none or small and inserted at a distance from the calyx. 3 The genus is entirely Australian. It is nearly allied to Aotus, differing in the strophio- d late seeds and the leaves concave or with involute not revolute margins; and to the latter g sections of Pultenea, from which it is only distinguished by the more regular calyx and the usual absence of bracteoles. Z. diosmifolia closely connects Latrobea with Pultenaa sub- umbellata and P. urodon. Secr. I. Eulatrobea.—Calya-teeth shorter than the ribless tube. Flowers solitary or two together, Plant pubescent. Leaves rigid, pungent-pointed . . . . , . . 1. Z. pungent. Plant glabrous. Leaves obtuse. fan Flowers 5 to 6 lines long. Ovary on a Tong Wipe eS oe a ee genistoides, Flowers 3 to 4 lines long. Ovary almost sessile . . . . . . 3. L. Brunoms Secr. II. Leptocytisus.— Calyx-lobes longer than the ribbed tube. Flowers solitary Or few or many in terminal corymbs or heads. w ; e's glabrous. Flowers solitary or few, almost racemose. pe od lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate . . . . . . . . . . . 4& DL peat Calyx silky-pubescent. Corymbs few-flowered . | | | | |) ] 5. LL ee Calyx villous. Corymbs dense, many-flowered. Pod ovate. . . . 6. Z. diosmife ge Section I. EULATROBEA.—Calyx-teeth shorter than the tube which E : campanulate, membranous, without prominent ribs. Flowers solitary %* together.—Shrubs, glabrous in every part. os hy Eo. pungens, Benth. Branches rigid, apparently procumbent he spreading, very softly pubescent or shortly villous. Leaves sessile, lance’ pungent-pointed, mostly about in. long or rather more, concave, rigid, nerved, softly pubescent. Stipules none, but a small scarious stipule-litt . scale on each side at the base of each branchlet. Flowers axillary, solita); e a IES Latrobea.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 141 much shorter than the leaves. Pedicels much shorter than the calyx, with a very small ovate obtuse bract at their base, and 2 rather larger bracteoles a little higher up. Calyx scarcely 13 lines long, thin, glabrous, the teeth short and equal. Petals twice as long as the calyx ; standard obovate-oblong ; keel slightly incurved; wings scarcely so long as the other petals. Ovary elon- gated, glabrous, with 2 ovules ; style subulate, incurved, with a small stigma. Pod not seen.—Daviesia abnormis, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 106. W. Australia. South-west Bay, Maxwell. 2. L, genistoides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 219. An erect, glabrous often glaucous shrub, closely allied to Z. Brunonis, but with larger flowers and broader leaves. Leaves cuneate-oblong or elliptical, sometimes almost oval, 4 to 8 lines long, obtuse or with a small callous point, concave, rather thick and nerveless. Flowers on short axillary leafy shoots, with the lower leaves reduced to scales. Calyx thin and membranous, not larger than in Z. Brunonis, the teeth very short. Standard 4 in. long; keel nearly as long. Ovary slightly hairy, on a rather long stipes. Pod not seen.-—Pultenea ge- 8, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 73. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Collie, Preiss, n. 1021 and 1101, Harvey, Oldfield, and others. 3. L. Brunonis, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 219. A glabrous shrub of 2 to3 ft., the young branches angular. Leaves linear or linear-cuneate, obtuse, under 4 in, long, rather thick, concave above, nerveless underneath. Stipules none. Flowers apparently axillary, but really terminating very short axillary shoots bearing a few small leaves of which the lower ones or sometimes all are reduced to short scales. Bracteoles none. Calyx broadly campanulate, ut 1 line long, very obtuse at the base, thin and membranous, the teeth and broad. Petals on very short claws ; standard nearly 4 lines dia- meter; keel nearly as long. Ovary elongated, almost sessile, villous; the ovules distant on’ slender funicles ; style subulate. Pod ovate, acuminate, much longer than the calyx.— Pultenea Brunonis, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus, ll 81; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 73. E Day, Australia, King George’s Sound, R. Brown ; near Albany, Preiss, n. 876, also SECTION TI. LeprocYtTISUS, Meissn. (as a genus). —Calyx-tube 10-ribbed, + lo rigid, as long as or longer than the tube, each with a prominent e lowers solitary, few or many in a dense corymb or head. » Brown, in his MS., had alread indicated „L. Brunonis and L. diosmifolia as congeners La) me of Acarpha, and E ble is too closely connected with the latter — we generically separated from it. The imbricate sestivation of the calyx-lobes, 4 short e etc., remove them far from Burtonia, to which I had formerly referred ' diosmifolia, i L. tenella, Benth. A heath-like shrub, with long slender virgate quite glabrous or slightly pubescent when young. Leaves narrow- inca subulate, obtuse or acute, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long. Flowers small, » Solitary or 2 or 3 together in short racemes, on slender pedicels, Calo or scarcely longer than the calyx. Bracts and bracteoles none. YX 1 to nearly 2 lines long, glabrous; tube exceedingly short ; lobes 142 XL. LEGUMINOSE, [Latrobea, rigid, narrow-linear, acute with a prominent midrib. Petals rather longer than the calyx-lobes. Ovary shortly stipitate, pubescent; style filiform. - Pod flattened, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3 to 4 lines long. Seeds usually 2, — on very short funicles.— Burtonia (?) tenella, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 42; Leptocytisus tenellus, Meissn. l. c. ii. 211. l a e Australia. Swan River, Preiss, n. 178, also Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 133, Srd . n. 94, ; : Var. platycarpa. More rigid. Leaves broader and more obtuse. Flowers rather larger. Pod obliquely ovate-lanceolate, about twice as long as broad.—King George’s Sound, Harvey, _ Drummond. z ; Var. grandiflora. Foliage of the preceding variety. Flowers still larger, deeply w loured. Calyx-lobes often not much longer than the tube, sometimes slightly ciliate. Stan- dard about 4 lines long. Pod not seen.—Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 79, 5th Coll. n. 14 Rocky Ranges, Middle Mount Barren, and towards Cape Riche, Mazwell. T 5. L. hirtella, Benth. An erect shrub of 1 to 2 ft., very closely allied a to L. diosmifolia, but with fewer less villous flowers and much less conspicu- ous bracteoles. Branches virgate, shortly pubescent when young. Leaves — oblong-linear or slightly cuneate, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long, thick, but flatter E and rather broader than in L. diosmifolia, glandular-papillose and sprinkle” with a few hairs, which soon wear off. Flowers few, in dense terminal co- 4 rymbs, similar to those of Z. diosmifolia in structure and proportions, bul | rather smaller. Bracts and bracteoles very small and deciduous. Calyx n= | ther under 2 lines long, silky-pubescent. Standard not above 3 lines long: | Pod only seen young, when it is not so broad as in Z. diosmifolia.—Lep- | cytisus hirtellus, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 258. 3 W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 72. 6. L. diosmifolia, Benth. Stems or branches virgate, glabrous % | clothed with rather long silky hairs. Leaves numerous, linear or linet lanceolate, obtuse or with a short callous point, about 3 or rarely nearly 4 lines long, glabrous, rather thick, Flowers in dense terminal corymbs or hea very short villous pedicels. Bracteoles rather small, linear. Calyx about + lines long or rather more, hirsute, the tube prominently 10-nerved; lobes lanceolate, rather longer than the tube, each with a prominent midrib. SW dard about 4 lines diameter ; wings considerably shorter; keel almost as 101 as the standard. Ovary nearly sessile or very shortly stipitate, de he lous with long hairs; style subulate. Pod broadly ovate, longer than | calyx, very hirsute. Seeds shining, on very short funicles —Burtonia ditt mifolia, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 73; Meisst. 1 Pl. Preiss. i. 42, ii. 211. : foe W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Huegel, and others; near Alban Preiss, 1.857; Avon river, Preiss, n, 858, al. d Coll. n. 18 and Kalgan and Gordon rivers, Oldfield. , also Drummond, 2nd Co Var. glabrescens. Calyx and icels —King George’s Sound Preiss, n. 883 (Mei = pedicels glabrous or nearly so.—King d — 18. EUTAXIA, R. Br. (Sclerothamnus, R, Br.) Calyx 5-lobed, the 2 upper lobes more or less united into an Upp Petals on rather long claws ; standard orbicular, longer than the lower Eutaxia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 143 entire or nearly so; wings oblong; keel nearly straight, obtuse, shorter than the wings. Stamens free. Ovary narrowed at the base or stipitate, with 2 ovules on short or slender funicles ; style filiform and incurved or thicker and hooked at the end ; stigma small, terminal. Pod ovate, flattened or turgid, - 2-valved. Seeds reniform, strophiolate.—Shrubs, usually glabrous or nearly 50. Leaves small, opposite, decussate, entire, concave or with involute mar- gins, 1- or 3-nerved underneath, not reticulate. Stipules minute or none. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2 to 4 together, sometimes crowded at the ends of the branches. Bracteoles on the short pedicel not close to the calyx, often very small. Ovary villous. Strophiole usually 2-lobed. The genus is entirely Australian. It is closely allied to Pultenea, differing only in the ussate leaves and in the bracteoles neither close to nor adnate to the calyx, although sometimes very near it. F, Mueller unites it with Dildwynia, but the peculiar habit seems to justify the retaining both these natural groups as distinct genera, although not very strictly limited by floral characters. Secr. I. Eutaxia.— Ovary sessile or nearly so. Style rather thick, abruptly curved or hooked at the end. Pod Hat or the valves conver, usually very oblique. Calyx upper lip truncate or emarginate, ves obtuse. Flowers solitary . . fo ee gw o oe cuneata.. Leaves (4 to 4 in. long) acuminate, often pungent. Flowers2to4 2. E. myrtifolia. be erect, acuminate, the 2 upper ones united to the mid- e. Flowers solitary. ian Cay 10-nerved, Leaves dtofinlong . . . . 1 ss +. 3.2. epacridicides. yx 5- or 6.nerved. Leaves under 4 in. long. ves flat or concave, narrow-linear or slightly cuneate. s Leaves distant TESS . oe es a 4. E. virgata. : Leaves crowded, acute y ada 2 gia sAr pi TER densifolia. Leaves linear -terete, channelled above, rather obtuse, crowded . 6. £. Su a ves obovate or oblong, 2 to 3 lines long, obtuse . . +. + 7. E. parvifi y Seer. IT. Sclerothamnus.— Ovary stipitate. Style subulate, elongated, incurved. Leaves small . PII Sic. oy sol nd an ba oa E Strangeana, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 270, said to come from New Zealand, in- Some mistake. No such plant is known in New Zealand. The description app SA E - Many respects, but not in all, to the Tasmanian Pultenea prostrata. i 573, is un- - Baxteri, Knowl. and Weste., attributed by mistake to me in hisa ga or some n to me. From the description, it is probably either ce TRSY = enea of the section Euchilus. Section I, Evraxra.—Pod flat or the valves convex. Style rather thick, “eet, abruptly incurved or hooked at the end. LE cuneata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 65. A glabrous shrub of samd 3 ft. Leaves obovate-oblong, cuneate, rounded at the end or rather o -r * lines long, concave above, convex underneath, with the sar slig y prominent, Flowers axillary, solitary, pendulous, rather larger t a Eo : myrtifolia, Calyx smooth or faintly ribbed, the 2 upper lobes unt nad broad truncate emarginate upper lip, the lower lobes lanceolate, rra a a range or red, the keel dark-purple, nearly straight. Pod sessile, lanceolate, | sen turgid, slightly hairy. : a a tee T vr wi ea this Species, od Pao A age lore Md “ oe from Meissner. It appears to have e 144 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Zutaria, Zz calyx of E. myrtifolia, but rather larger solitary flowers, and the foliage of E. parvi- olía. e 2. E. myrtifolia, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 16. A glabrous shrub of 2 to 3 ft., with rather slender branchlets, angular when young. Leaves from obovate-oblong or elliptical to linear, mostly 4 to 4 in. long, tapering into a sharp usually pungent point, more or less concave above, darker-coloured underneath, with a prominent midrib and sometimes also 2 lateral nerves. Flowers yellow with a dark-orange keel, axillary, 2 to 4 toge- ther or rarely solitary. Pedicels short, with very small bracteoles above the middle. Calyx 2 to 2} lines long, the tube 6-ribbed, the sixth rib between the 2 upper lobes; lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broadly fal- cate and united into a truncate emarginate upper lip. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx; keel much shorter. Ovary villous, slightly contracted at the base, tapering into a rather thick erect style, hooked near the end. — Pod ovate, 2 to 3 lines long, the valves convex.—Bot. Mag. t. 1274; DO. — Prod. ii. 109; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 66, ii. 216; Dillwynia myrtifolia, SM. jn Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 263; D. obovata, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. i. 110, t. 140. W. Australia. King Georges Sound, Menzies, R. Brown, Preiss, n. 1019, Drum- mond, 2nd Coll. n. 110, and others; and eastward towards the Great Bight, Maxwell. > A specimen, without flowers, with larger almost obovate leaves, from Rottenest Island, A. Cunningham, may possibly belong to this species. e 3. E. epacridioides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 64, ii. 215. A glabrous — shrub, with the habit and foliage nearly of Æ. myrtifolia, but in our specimens the branches are more rigid and virgate. Leaves from narrow-oblong to linear, to $ in. long, tapering into a short sometimes pungent point, con- cave above, dark-coloured or very glaucous underneath, the midrib less con- spicuous than in Z. myrtifolia. Flowers usually 2 together in each axil, ap- parently of the size of those of E. myrtifolia, but only seen faded. Calyx 3 lines long or rather more, the tube 10-ribbed ; lobes all acuminate, the s upper ones broader and united to the middle. Petals, according to Preiss — et Pod almost sessile, flat, obliquely ovate, slightly hairy, about 3 lines — ong. i w. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 128 ; near Mounts Melville and Elphinstone, — Preiss, n. 412 and 867. as 4. E. virgata, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 34, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. 80. A glabrous shrub of 2 to 3 ft., with long slender virgate or rarely de varicate branches. Leaves oblong-linear or linear-cuneate and about 3 M- long on the principal branches, narrow-linear and much smaller on the smaller ones, obtuse or acute, but not pungent, concave above, the midrib slightly _prominent underneath or inconspicuous. Flowers solitary in each axil, but sometimes crowded near the ends of the branches or in pairs terminatng short axillary shoots, rather larger than in Æ, myrtifolia. Pedicels short, with linear-lanceolate bracteoles about the middle. Calyx 2 to 23 lines long, — 6-ribbed, the sixth rib between the 2 upper lobes; lobes all acute, the 2 UP’ per ones united to about the middle. Standard fully twice as long as the | calyx ; keel short and narrow, Ovary very shortly stipitate, villous, tapering into a rather thick style, hooked at the top. Pod flat, about 3 lines long— E. ericoides, Meissn. in PL. Preiss. i. 63. : Lutaxia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 145 W. Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 245, Preiss, n. 877, Oldfield; King George’s Sound and Mount Manypeak, Maxwell. ‘The southern spe- cimens have the calyx-lobes rather less acuminate, but do not otherwise differ. 5. E. densifolia, Zurcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 271. Closely allied on the one hand to Æ. parvifolia and on the other to Z. dillwynioides. Leaves crowded, narrow-linear oblong-linear or linear-cuneate, acute, mostly 3 to 4 _ lines long, concave above, the midrib prominent underneath. Flowers soli- tary in the upper axils, but often crowded at or near the ends of the branches, rather larger than in E. parvifolia, the calyx-lobes much more acuminate, and the linear bracteoles often nearly as long as the calyx and more or less herba- ceous. Pod not seen. sa Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n.76; Russell Range and Mount Bland, Mar- 6. E. dillwynioides, Mcissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 63. A much-branched heath-like glabrous shrub, with the habit of E. parvifolia, but differing from all others of the genus in the narrow-linear leaves with the margins involute, So as to be usually terete and only channelled above, obtuse or with a short callous point, 2 to 4 lines or rarely nearly + in. long. Flowers so- litary in the upper axils, but often crowded towards the ends of the branches. edicels about 1 line long, recurved after flowering, with linear bracteoles above the middle. Calyx about 8 lines long, obscurely 5-nerved and more or less reticulate; lobes all acuminate, longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Standard not twice as long as the calyx; keel con- siderably shorter, Ovary nearly sessile, villous; style short, erect, hooked at the top. Pod nearly flat, obliquely oval-oblong, about 3 lines long. . W. Australia, Drummond ; in the interior, Preiss, n. 1191. 1 E parvifolia, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 34, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. 1-80. A much-branched shrub with the habit of many £pacridee, glabrous or the young shoots very slightly pubescent. Leaves crowded, obovate or long, mostly obtuse and 1 to 2 lines long, rarely on luxuriant branches nar- “ower almost acute and 3 lines long, concave above, either nerveless or 1- or Served underneath. Flowers solitary in the upper axils, but often crowded Mor near the ends of the branches. Pedicels short or rather long, with ; oblong or linear bracts above the middle. Calyx about 2 lines long, finely or g cwrely 5-nerved ; lobes all acute or acuminate, longer than the tube, the "Per ones united to about the middle. Standard not twice as long as the calyx; keel not exceeding the calyx-lobes. Ovary villous, nearly sessile ; Male short, much-curved or hooked above the middle. Pod flat, obliquely E ovak-oblong, almost faleate, about 3 lines long.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, i. 65 ; “agra Turez. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 271. baer Howes Australi i Ñ . Brown, A. Cunningham, Hueget, » And others, ada Seea A 3. pa Poe n. 46, Preiss, n. 1020. . SECTION II, Scieroruamnus.—Pod turgid. Style subulate, elongated, pe Leaves small, rarely above 3 lines long. qa bio aa €mpetrifoli echt. Linnea, xx. 667. A glabrous 4 = diffuse shrub cra oe sometimes short ending in slender spines, vor > elongated slender and erect. Leaves usually ere oblong or : OL. Ir, 146 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Eulasia a linear, 1 to 3 lines long, rigid, concave, obtuse or almost acute, without any — dorsal midrib, rarely broadly oblong or almost ovate or obovate. Flowers small, on axillary pedicels of 1 to 2 lines, with a pair of leafy linear obtuse a bracteoles a little below the calyx. Calyx glabrous, 14 to nearly 2 lines : long; lobes acute or acuminate, rather longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones more or less united. Standard about 3 lines long or rather more; lower — petals shorter, the keel deeply coloured. Ovary stipitate, silky-villous; style t - subulate, incurved. Pod ovoid or nearly globular, very turgid, varying from 13 to nearly 3 lines long, and the stipes from + to 1 line. Seeds black.— > Selerothamnus microphyllus, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 16; Z. lepe tophylla, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 268; £. diffusa, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 1. a Victoria. Sandy, stony or rocky hills in Australia Felix and the Grampians, and - abundant in the Murray scrub, F. Mueller and others. S. Australia. Islands off the coast, R. Brown ; from the Murray to the westem : limits, F. Mueller and others. ; ES W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Baxter; Swan River to King Gcorge's Sound, Drummond, lst Coll., also 4th Coll. n. 142 and Suppl. n. 35; Kalgan river, Gardner — Ranges and eastward to the Great Bight, Maxwell. sae The extreme forms of this plant are so different in aspect that it is difficult, at first sight, a to consider them all as varieties of one species. Most of those from the mountain districts a of Victoria are unarmed, with broadly cuneate-oblong leaves of 2 or 8 lines or even longer; — many from the Murray serub and South Australia are stunted, spinescent, with very mume- a rous narrow leaves, from 3 to 1 line long; Drummond's W. Australian ones are heal de unarmed, with fine slender leaves of 1 to 2 or even 3 lines; others again, from near t6 Great Bight or from the scrub of S. Australia and Victoria, have short broad leaves E z some instances two or three of the above forms are on the same specimen. The size of the pod and the length of the stipes also vary much and not in any relation to the differences” a the foliage. n 19. DILLWYNIA, Sm. Calyx-lobes short or as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones more or 4185 united in an upper lip. Petals clawed ; standard broader than long; wings narrow; keel shorter, straight or scarcely incurved. Stamens free. UY shortly stipitate, with 2 ovules on short funicles ; style erect, rather thick, hooked below the top, with a truncate or thick stigma. Pod nearly sess! ovate or rounded, turgid, 2-valved. Seeds reniform, strophiolate,—H y like shrubs. Leaves alternate or scattered, simple, narrow-linear or terete, channelled above. Stipules none. Flowers yellow or orange-red, few ve ther in axillary or terminal racemes or corymbs, rarely solitary. small, brown, very deciduous; bracteoles small on the short pedicels. The genus is entirely Australian. It differs from Aotus in the strophiolate seeds and the leaves channelled above and not uuderneath, from Pultenea in the bracteoles ata disian from the calyx and usually deciduous, from Latrobea in the calyx style and pod, but 1s C0 connected with the two latter genera through D. brunioides. Sect. I. Dillwyniastrum, DC.— Calyx distinctly turbinate at the base, the 2 yt lobes broad, falcate, and united to the middle. Petals deciduous; standard on 4* claw, the lamina above twice as brad as long. Keel acuminate, nearly as long as the wings. Racemes on long termi- tal pedos is o co 1. D Keel obtuse, much shorter than the wings, ifolia. Racemes terminal, sessile, corymbose or pedunculate . . . . . 2. D. p Flowers all axillary, solitary or in short racemes or clusters s. DMA Dillwynia,} XL. LEGUMINOSA. 147 Secr. IL Xeropetalum, R. Br.—Calyz obtuse or very shortly turbinate at the base. Petals persistent ; standard-claw shorter than the calyx, the lamina rather broader than long or rarely twice as broad as long. Calyx-lobes nearly as long as the tube, all acute, the 2 upper ones united to the middle only or a little above it. CS llar a ao e Flowers in terminal sessile heads or e A e ee 2 Calyx-lobes short, the 2 upper ones united in a broad upper lip, scarcely emarginate (except in D. uncinata), and longer than the lower ones, Leaves rigid and pungent, Leaves keeled. Flowers mostly corymbose (Eastern species). . 6. D. juniperina. Leaves not keeled. Flowers in the upper axils (Western species) . 7. D. pungens. ves not pungent, mostly 4 to 4 in. long, and rather slender. brous or ashy-pubescent. Flowers in small terminal corymbs, exceeding the last leaves or in the upper axils -soii ee Branches and calyx tomentose-villous. Flowers solitary or few in E terminal heads, shorter than the last leaves: “¿HA A ves mostly under 4 in. long, rather thick, obtuse, and often re- curved. Flowers few, terminal, longer than the last leaves. Calyx ` upper lip often shortly 2-lobed . —. ¿PRA E AS, ae patula. D. subaphylla, Colla, Hort. Ripul. App. ii. 347, is so imperfectly described, without ers or fruit, as to be absolutely unrecognizable, but is probably no Dil/lwynia. >" « « 4& D. Preiss. 5. D. brunioides. 8. D.cinerascens. SECTION 1. DILLWYNTASTRUM.—Calyx with a distinct turbinate base be- the insertion of the petals and stamens, and from 4 to $ the length of the whole calyx, the lobes short, the 2 upper ones broad, rounded-falcate, and united to about the middle. Petals deciduous; standard on a claw nearly as long as the calyx, the lamina above twice as broad as long. ¿1 D. hispida, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Eaped. ii. 251. A shrub, attain- Ing several feet, but showing in several specimens erect stems of 6 in. clustered 0 a thick rootstock ; branches and foliage scabrous-pubescent or hirsute, Tarely quite glabrous. Leaves 4 to in. long, obtuse or scarcely pointed, not 4 and without any prominent keel. Flowers rather large, of a deep “ange mixed with purple-red, in clusters or short racemes, on terminal pe- duneles much longer than the leaves. Bracteoles very small or none. Calyx - ¿Usute or rarely glabrous, 3 to 34 lines long, the turbinate base rather long, A the 2 Upper lobes broadly falcate acute and shortly united, Petals Secidnous ; ádard with a long claw, the lamina more than twice as broad as long; s much shorter ; keel tapering into a recurved point, nearly as long as - he Wings. Pod nearly globular.—D. scabra, Schlecht. Linnea, xx. 666; 7 a da Gard. Comp. i. 25, with a fig. copied into Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. E lag ia. Near Mount Napier, Mitchell ; in the Murray scrub, and on the Murrum- k >. Mueller ; Wendu Valley, Robertson ; Wimmera, Dallachy. gap Port Li ia. Encounter Bay, Whittaker ; Barossa Range, Behr; Bugle Range, m coln, Guichen Bay, F. Mueller. z a flow «More glabrous specimens often resemble D. ericifolia, var. peduncularis, = am are rather larger, and always readily known by the peculiar keel. g D. ericifolia, Sm. Ann. Bot. i. 510; Erot. Bot. t, 25, and in Trans. pu + Soc. ix, 262, An erect heath-like shrub, usually attaining several feet, 4 SOME times dwarf and stunted ; the branches erect and virgate, sd short L A 148 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Dillwynia. a and divaricate, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves numerous, rather slender, : usually + to 3 in. long, but sometimes nearly + in. or under 2 lines, terete or scarcely keeled, straight or spirally twisted when dry, obtuse, with ei cs short recurved or straight, but scarcely pungent point, rarely quite o ne E Flowers yellow, in very short racemes or clusters, sometimes several togeth = 5 almost sessile in a terminal leafy corymb, sometimes each one on a termi E or rarely axillary long or short peduncle Calyx glabrous, silky pe a or shortly scabrous-hirsute, 2 to 31 lines long, distinctly turbinate rs E base, the lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broadly rounded a falcate, united to the middle. Petals deciduous ; standard with a claw usually E as long as the calyx, the lamina more than twice as broad as long; = = much shorter; keel still shorter, obtuse. Pod ovate or nearly glob : i slightly exceeding the calyx.—Pultenea retorta, Wendl. Hort. Herrenh. t. 9. E Queensland. Moreton Island, F. Mueller. eae N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and others; a = northward to Hastings and Clarence ee a me Victoria. Low stony scrubby hills, Buffalo ange. Ei Tasmania. C în poor wet sandy soils, especially in the northern parts of the o island, J. D. Hooker. nl “oc but the Various forms assumed by this plant have been geuerally recognized as agers e differences are so slight, depeuding chiefiy on indumentum, length, and degree o > the leaves, or length of peduncles, and the passages from the one to the other so E E that it is often very difficult to seperate them even as varieties. The following are eo prominent :— ; ding, twisted — a. normalis. Branches pubescent. Leaves mostly 4 to 6 lines long, spreadi ome a with straight or slightly recurved points. Flowers rather large, usually rather ere a sessile terminal leafy corymbs.—D. ericifolia, Sm., as above; DC. Prod. ii. 4g an Bot. Cab. t. 1277; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 78. The commonest Port Jackf y form, including D. ericoides, Sieb. Pl. Exs. n. 412, and Fl. Mixt. u. 585, D. Past. Sieb. n. 424, D. seriphioides, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 14, and probably Aotus ericoides,) Mag. v. 51, with a fig. i + id bai b. phylicoides. Branches foliage and calyx scabrous, pubescent with short ries Leaves mostly 2 to 3 lines long, spreading, twisted, with straight or slightly nana and less sleuder than in other forms. Flowers nearly sessile, but not so giere = i normal form.—D. phylicoides, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 347; Benth. in A Mitchell, Mus. ii. 78. Rocky hills in the Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham, Fraser ; nte seeds, Beckler.—D. speciosa, Paxt. Mag. vii. 27, with a fig., raised from Baron Huegel’s se probably this variety or very near it. der, spreadio e. parvifolia. Glabrous or nearly so. Leaves mostly 2 lines long or ae aol f often twisted, with straight or slightly recurved points. Flowers rather sm Hak 1527 the clusters sessile or shortly pedunculate.—D. parvifolia, R. Br. in Bot. o “ihe Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 559; DC. Prod. ii. 108; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 7 e phylla, Sieb. Pl. Exs. u. 410, and 553, and Fl. Mixt. n. 586. Port Jackson, Blue Mountains and southward to the M urray river and Victoria. ‘ rely m0" d. tenuifolia. Branches slightly pubescent. Leaves 2 to 4 lines long or slender thao spreading or erect, usually straight with straight or recurved points, and mee E: glabio® in other forms. Flowers few, middle-sized, the clusters sessile or nearly so. Wick M or silky-pubeseent.— D. tenuifolia, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 109 ; Benth. in Am. ii. 79; D. ramosissima, Benth. l.c. Chiefly in the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, 9 409, and Fl. Mirt. n. 587, and others. 6 lines Jong e. peduncularis. Branches glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves 3 T e usually slender. Flowers middle-sized, in loose clusters of 2 or 3, on pedune me vp vest ceeding the leaves and sometimes several times as long. Calyx usually ara tir s0.—D. peduncularis, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 78; D. filifolia, pe? to Moret! Dec. 13.—Port Jackson, Sieber, n. 558, in part, and others, aud northwat Dillwynia.] XL. LEGUMINOS2. 149 Island. This variety usually appears very distinct in inflorescence, assuming the aspect of D. hispida, but with the flowers of D. ericifolia, and when the peduncles are shorter, it passes gradually into the vars. tenuifolia or glaberrima. f. glaberrima. Quite glabrous. Leaves usually crowded, rarely very spreading, 4 to 4 in, long or often more, rather slender, not twisted, the point recurved or rarely straight. wers rather large, in dense terminal corymbs, sessile or shortly pedunculate.—D. glaber- rima, Sm. iu Ana. Bot. i. 510, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 263; Bot. Mag. t. 944; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 582; Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 109, t. 139; DC. Prod. ii. 108; Benth. in Ann, Wien, Mus. ii. 79; Hook. £. Fl. Tasm. i. 85.—Tasmania and southern districts of Victoria, also Port J ackson, R. Brown, a form passing into the vars. peduncularis or tenuifolia. 3. D. floribunda, Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 510 ; Exot. Bot. t. 26, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 262. A tall erect heath-like shrub, either quite gla- brous or more or less pubescent, or the branches, foliage and calyxes densely hirsute, Leaves usually crowded, + to + in. long or rather more, obtuse or with a minute point, not keeled, straight, sometimes as slender as in D. eriei- folia, but usually thicker. Flowers on very short pedicels, solitary or 2 or 3 together, all axillary, but often crowded into leafy racemes below or very near the ends of the branches. Bracts often broad and above 1 line long, but so deciduous as to be rarely seen. Calyx 22 to 3 lines long, with a distinct turbinate base, the lobes short, often tipped with a small gland, the 2 upper Ones broad falcate and united to the middle. Petals deciduous ; standard with the broad claw as long as the calyx, the lamina more than twice as broad as long; wings much shorter ; keel still shorter, obtuse. Pod scarcely exceeding the calyx.—DC. Prod. ii. 108; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 305; Benth. m Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 79; Hook. f. FL Tasm. i, 85; D. ericifolia, Sims, Bot Mag. t. 1545, rot of Sm.; D. rudis, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 109; D. his- ~ Pidula and D, teretifolia, Sieb. Pl. Exs. ; D. elegans, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. yal D. clavata, Paxt. Mag. vii. 117. eensland. Wi . . 5 “ph + Wales. q e Blue Monntaini, R. Brown; solis n. 400, 402, Others; Macquarrie riv . Cunningham; Hastings river, a as ria. esa, e en re ses the Broken River, F. Mueller ; in the Gram- as ane Wilhelmi, Dallachy, and others; Glenelg river, Robertson. Pr ; Common in dry stony places in various parts of the colony, J. D. Te. 5 Australia, Mount Lofty, Whittaker ; Forest Creck, F. Mueller ; Kangaroo i land, Waterhouse. i y iia wet the de a of this species are not to be distingnished from those of D. ericifolia, qu seria. "Branches foliage and calyxes hoary-pubeseent or hirsute—D. sericea, A- ene ns N. S. Wales, 347; D. adenophora, Endl. Nov. Stirp- Dee. 24. Chiefly in 2 Pe Mountains. eae tus Murthi, Regel, in Bot. Zeit. 1851, 596, raised from seeds a oat Adelaide, rs from the description to be a form of D. floribunda. No Aotus has the leaves c above and convex underneath, Section TI, Xeropetatum, R. Br.—Calyx obtuse or very hoy ma g cutely turbinate at the base. Petals persistent ; standard-claw shorter lo he calyx, the lamina rather broader than long or rarely twice as broad ng, . e a SD Preissii, Benth. A shrub of 4 or 5 ft., with > - "tnches, glabrous or hoary-pubescent. Leaves rigid, san re En tra ved point, mostly 4 to 3 in, long, not keeled, usually glabrous. 150 XL, LEGUMINOSE. [Dillwynia. l to 3 in each axil along the branches. Pedicels short. Calyx villous, above 3 lines long, obtuse at the base; lobes lanceolate, all acute, as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Petals persistent ; standard not twice as broad as long, not above half as long again as the calyx ; wings nearly as long; keel much shorter, obtuse or scarcely acuminate. Pad not seen.— dotus (?) dillwynioides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 60, and ii. 215. W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 103 ; Canning river, Preiss, n. 872; Harvey river, Oldfield. The bracts, foliage, petals and style are those of Dillwynia, and the seeds may well have a strophiole, for in other species it cannot be seen at the time of flowering. 5. D. brunioides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 62. A heath-like shrub, | with much of the aspect of Pultenea subumbellata or of Latrobea diosmifolia, but with the foliage and style of Dillwynia. Branches slightly hoary-pubes- cent. Leaves rather crowded, mostly about 2 in. long, spreading or recurved, thicker than in most Di/lwynias, obseurely keeled, obtuse or very shortly : pointed, glabrous, tubercular-scabrous, or the upper ones slightly hirsute. — Flowers 3 to 10 or 12 together, in dense terminal heads or corymbs, Bracteoles occasionally rather long, but mostly small and deciduous.. Calyx villous, — about 3 lines long, scarcely turbinate at the base, the lobes all acute, nearly as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Petals apparently persistent; standard reniform, the lamina nearly twice as broad as long; wings almost as long; keel shorter and obtusely acuminate. Pod not seen. N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, R. Cunningham. 6. D. juniperina, Sieb.; Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 33. A rigid shrub | with divaricate pubescent or loosely villous branches. “Leaves }to+in.long, | very straight, strongly keeled, rigid, with strong pungent points. Flowers _ nearly sessile, several together in terminal clusters, or rarely 2 or 3 appe- rently axillary. Calyx pubescent, 2 to 22 lines long, scarcely turbinate at the base; lobes short, the 2 upper ones united into a broad upper lip, either quite entire or minutely emarginate. Petals persistent ; standard A twice as broad as long; wings nearly as long ; keel much shorter and obtuse. Pod about as long as the calyx.—Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 401; D. cinerascens, DC. Prod. ii. 109, not of R. Br. Queensland. Moreton Bay, C. Stuart ; near Dalby, E. G. Moberly. pe N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 411, Woolls, and others; Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson ; Campden Range brushes, 4. Cunningham; Glen M‘ Arthur ; New England, O. Stuart, Beckler. Victoria. Rocky Mountains on Macalister river and Futter’s Range, F. Mueller. — Loddiges says that he received his seeds from Tasmania in 1818, but I have seen n0 spe cimens from thence. 7. D. pungens, Mackay ; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 79. A gla- brous or slightly pubescent shrub, the branches often divaricate or elongate” and pendulous. Leaves rather crowded, mostly above 4 in. long, rigid, Wl a strong pungent point, asin D. juniperina, but not keeled. Flowers in sho axillary racemes or clusters crowded at the ends of the branches into an 0% : long legfy raceme-like panicle, or almost corymbose, Calyx glabrous or Uk” pubescent, about 2 lines long, the base obtuse or scarcely turbinate ; 10% short and broad, the 2 upper ones united into a broad truncate entire ' slightly emarginate upper lip. Petals persistent ; standard not twice as Dillwynia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 151 as long, the claw shorter than the calyx; wings nearly as long as the stan- ; keel much shorter, obtuse. Pod ovoid-oblong, exceeding the calyx. —Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1502 ; Lutaxia pungens, Sweet, Fl, Austral. t. 28; Daviesia condensata, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 265. W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, Baxter ; southern districts, Drummond, - 5th Coll, n. 50; Phillips Ranges, Maxwell ; Canning river, Oldfield. The upper lip of the calyx is longer than the lower lobes, but not so much so as represented in Sweet’s figure. 8. D. cinerascens, R. Br. in Bot. May. t. 2247. A heath-like shrub, _ slightly hoary or nearly glabrous, resembling some forms of D. ericifolia, but usually more slender, and in some western specimens the branchlets often end in slender thorns. Leaves ¿to 4 in. long or even more, rather slender, not keeled nor twisted, obtuse or with a short point, and usually more or less recurved at the extremity. Flowers in small terminal almost sessile corymbs or short racemes or rarely also in the upper axils. Calyx 2 to 2 lines long, - slightly pubescent, the turbinate base ‘exceedingly short; lobes short, the 2 upper ones united into a broad slightly emarginate upper lip, longer than the ower ones. Petals persistent ; standard not twice as broad as long; wings nearly as long ; keel much shorter, obtuse. Pod ovate, very obtuse, exceed- ing the calyx,—Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 527 ; Benth. in. Ann. Wien. Mus, ii. 79; a f. Fl. Tasm. i. 85; D. acicularis, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 62, not of ieb, l N. S. Wales. Hunter’s River, Oldfield ; Bendinine, M‘Arthur. ictoria. Buffalo Range, Wilson’s Promontory, vicinity of Melbourne, ete., F. Mueller ; Wimmera, Dallach : i "tson, Allitt taste y ; mouth of Glenelg river, Robertson, Allitt. T - Derwent river, R. Brown ; common in grassy and heathy places through- plead J. D. Hooker. ustralia. Forest Creek, F, Mueller. Teek Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, Coll. 1 and n. 243 gean, Plaine s eS 881; Darling Range, Collie, Preiss, n. 873; Blackwood river, Victoria , e C., ldfield, E Var. (?) laxiflora, Lea Racemes rather longer, with . ves crowded, rather long and erect. mes 3 e mo + flowers. — D, Zariflora, Benth. in Hueg. Bot. Arch. t. 9, and in Ann. a pm. k Hunter’s River, Oldfield.—D. acicularis, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 109; Benth. in still ien, Mus. ii, 79, is probably the same variety, but the flowers in Sieber’s specimens are Young, and there is a variety of D. ericifolia, which is near it m foliage. „> D. divaricata, Benih. Branches divaricate, softly tomentose or vllous. Leaves scattered or rather crowded towards the ends of the ci about 3 to g lines long, obtuse or with a minute callous point, not keeled, Sabrous or tomentose. Flowers solitary or few together, almost a inal, and shorter than the last leaves. Calyx 24 lines long, silky-villous, . -` obtuse at the base, lobes as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united into a truncate emarginate upper lip. Petals persistent ; standard not twice whey as long; ad e E long; keel shorter, obtuse. aora ut 3 lines long.—Eutaxia divaricata, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. e W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 23; sandy flats, Phillips river, Marwel. 10. D : hes divaricate, loosely ho » patula, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 16. Branches ss lias ~pubescent, aos loosely scattered, erect, spreading or ee nes long, rather thick, obtuse. Flowers solitary or several toge 3 an at the ends of the branches, Calyx silky-villous, about 3 lines long, 152 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Dillaoynia. the tube very shortly turbinate at the base; lobes short, the 2 upper ones united into a broad truncate emarginate upper lip, longer than the lower ones. Petals ` persistent; standard nearly twice as long as the calyx and rather = broader than long, with a short claw ; wings nearly as long as the standard; keel much shorter, obtuse or very shortly and broadly acuminate. Pod only = seen young.—Lutaxia uncinata, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 185 3, 1.269; E. spar- sifolia, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. i. 118; Æ. patula, F. Muell. in Dietr. Fl. Univ. N. Ser. t. 17. S. Australia. Near the Murray river, F. Mueller. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 49, J. S. Roe ; Vasse river, Oldfield ; Phillips — river and to the eastward, Marwell, TRIBE IL. Gentste®.—Shrubs or- herbs, very rarely small trees. Leaves : simple or with 1, 3 or more digitate leaves (pinnately 3-foliolate in Goodia).. | Stamens all united in a sheath, open on the upper side in all the Australian E genera (except in one species of Horea, where the upper stamen is free), or m a closed tube in several European and African genera. Pod dehiscent, not articulate. This tribe is closely allied to Podalyriee, from which it is technically distinguished by the monadelphous stamens, and in the Australian genera there is no difficulty in oe them, for in those species of Daviesia and Phyllota where the stamens are united ve base, the union is too short to be confounded with the sheath of Genistee. On the vel hand, Goodia, by its foliage, connects Genistee with Galegee, aud may be equally classed in either tribe. 20. PLATYLOBIUM, Sm. Calyx: 2 upper lobes very large, free or shortly united; the lower ones small and narrow. Petals clawed ; standard orbicular or reniform, wings oblong-obovate, much shorter; keel obovate, nearly as long as the wing Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side; anthers uniform Ovary sessile or stipitate, with several ovules ; style subulate, incurved, the a small terminal stigma. Pod sessile or stipitate, very flat, winged along te upper suture, opening elastically in 2 valves, rolled back but not separating from the wing. Seeds strophiolate.—Slender shrubs. Leaves opposite, tire or with pungent angles, reticulate. Flowers yellow, solitary, in oppos T axils. Bracts brown and scarious, imbricate, in 2 or 3 pairs at the ba the pedicels 3 bracteoles similar but longer, under the calyx. * a The genus is limited to Eastern Australia. It is closely allied to the opposite-lea' Bossiaas, differing chiefly in the pod, and generally in the proportion of the petals. Leaves all or mostly triangular, with pungent-pointed angles. Pedicels much longer than the bracts, Pod stipitate, and several times longer than calyx . Pedicels completely concealed b) the bracts, Pod seuaile: ‘not a twice as long as the calyx . 3 DE Woe aoe suro e Bs B obia Leaves all ovate, cordate or lanceolate, the lateral angles or auricles _ A J]. P. triangulare. obtuse. i on Pedicels completely concealed by the bracts. Pod sessile. . . 2. P. obtusangull i Pedicels longer than the bracts. Pod stipitate . . . . . . 3. P. formo l. P. triangulare, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 266, not of | Sims. A straggling or procumbent shrub, with slender glabrous or vilo! Platylobium.) XL. LEGUMINOSA. 158 stems, rarely exceeding 1} ft. Leaves broadly triangul. cordate-hastate, the angles terminating in short pungent points, or the lower leaves rarely broadly cordate, with the lateral angles rounded, mostly ¿ to 1 in. long, veined and glabrous or scabrous above, glabrous or pubescent underneath. Pedicels in the upper axils to 3 in. long, the bracts at the base obtuse, striate, $ to 1 line long, the bracteoles under the calyx rather longer and narrower. Calyx clothed with long appressed hairs, 4 or rarely 5 lines long. - Standard reniform, deeply emarginate, about twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals not exceeding the calyx. Ovary stipitate, villous or ciliate, with 6 to 8 ovules. Pod above 1 in. long, besides a stipes of 1 to 2 lines, usually glabrous or slightly ciliate when ripe.—P. Murrayanum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3259; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 96. Victoria. Forest land near Portland, Robertson ; mouth of the Glenelg, A//itt. | Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; light sandy soil near Rocky Cape and George Town, Gunz. 2. P, obtusangulum, Zook. Bot. Mag. t. 3258. A slender shrub, but straggling and more erect than P. triangulare, the stems and leaves gla- brous or nearly so. Leaves from- broadly triangular to ovate-cordate, hastate or cordate-lanceolate, móstly 3 to 1 in. long, with a small terminal pungent point, the lateral angles either acute and pungent, as in P. triangulare, or Tounded and obtuse, as in P. Jformosum. Pedicels very short and completely concealed by the imbricate bracts at their base, of which the inner ones are fully 2 lines long, overlapping the bracteoles under the calyx, which often attain 3 lines. Calyx about 3 in. long, very hairy. Standard shortly ex- g the calyx, lower petals shorter. Ovary sessile, hairy, with about 4 ovules. Pod sessile, rarely 1 in. long, hairy all over.—P. triangulare, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1508 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 96, but not of R. Br.; P. macro- calyz, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 80. Victoria. Port Phillip, 2 Brown; common about Melbourne and to the Glenelg, Robertson ; not rare in sterile ranges and heath ground, F. Mueller ; ae eee see j ri T nia. Common in many parts of the island, J. D. Hooker. f rs © Hortus anin no Tasmanian specimens of this appien beht rd add rs sis” that it was raised from seeds gathered by him in the island. “Tan - Australia. Encounter Bay and about Adelaide, Whittaker ; Barossa and Lofty 80, E. Mueller ; Kangaroo Island, Waterhouse. . . 3. P, formosum, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 350, and Bot. Nov. Holl. EEEN hidoome shrub, attaining often 4 or 5 ft., the cme more Nobust than in the preceding species, glabrous or slightly pubescent. nte broadly heart-shaped to ovate or rarely ovate-lanceolate, ree teat pull rigid point but without lateral angles, 1 to 2 in. long, se] "PER: late and rather coriaceous, glabrous or slightly pubescent piran e Se ary, often fully 4 in. long, always exserted from the brac ei : base, Which, as well as the bracteoles, are usually as large as In P. eere da > glabrous or more or less hairy. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long, very sed ndard nearly twice as long ; wings and keel shorter. sare + > all over ‘or near the sutures only, with about 8 ovules.. Po 3 ~ long, on a stipes of from one-fourth as long as to longer than the calyx, | 154 XL. LEGUMINOSX. [Platylobiun, loosely hairy or at length glabrous.—Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 31; Bot. Mag.t ' 469; DC. Prod. ii. 116; Paxt. Mag. xiii. 195, with a fig. Queensland. Glasshouses, W. Hi//, F. Mueller. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Banks and Solander, Sieber, n. $73, and others; Bathurst plains, Fraser; northward to Hastings river, Beckler, and southward to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. ’ Victoria. Forest Creek, Dandenong and Disappointment mountains, and generally in wooded hills, Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller. Tasmania. Plentiful about Mount Direction, N. E. of Launceston, Guan. Var. parviflora. Usually distinguished from the larger N. S. Wales form by the narrow leaves, shorter pedicels, smaller flowers, more glabrous bracts, and by the ovary villous near the sutures only and not all over; but I do not find one of these characters constant, aud some of the southern specimens are in all respects intermediate between the extreme Port Jackson forms.—P. parviflorum, Sm. Bot. Nov. Holl. 18; Bot. Mag. t. 1520 ; DC. Prot. oe ii. 116; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1241; Paxt. Mag. xi. 219, with a fig. ; P. ovatum, Sieb. iù DC. Prod. ii. 116.—The best characterized specimens from Port J ackson, R. Brown, Sieber, — n. 874, and others, : ; The synonym of “ Cheilococca apocynifolia, Salisb. Prod. 412,” given by Smith under Platylobium formosum, in Bot. Nov. Holl. 17, and copied from him by De Candolle, Endlicher, and many others, appears to be entirely a mistake. There is no such name ll Salisbury’s work, and the page quoted is one of those of the index. 21. BOSSIAGA, Vent. (Scottea, R. Br. ; Lalage, Lendl.) Calyx: 2 upper lobes or teeth broader and usually much larger than the — others, distinct or united in an upper lip, 3 lower ones equal. Petals clawed; standard orbicular or reniform, usually reflexed ; wings narrow ; keel broader — and usually shorter than the wings, rarely longer or exceeding the stan 4 Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side; anthers uniform, | ovate or oblong, versatile. Ovary stipitate or nearly sessile, with sever ovules ; style subulate, incurved ; stigma small, terminal. Pod sessile or stipitate, flat, not winged ; valves completely separating, thin, with the edges . nerviform or thickened. Seeds strophiolate.—Shrubs or rarely undershru occasionally leafless ; branches terete or flattened, very rarely angular and sulcate. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, entire or rarely toothed, often articulate on a very short petiole. Stipules small, brown, lanceolate or seta- ceous. Flowers axillary, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3, yellow orange a red. Bracts at the base of the pedicel, 2, 3, or more, imbricate, the outer most very small and persistent, the inner ones often much longer and vey deciduous ; bracteoles on the pedicel very small and persistent, or longer al deciduous, pes The genus is limited to Australia, and, with P. jum, is distinguished from 0 | Genistee by the anthers all perfectly ps ot ga with a more perceptible d connectivum, Series I. Oppositifoliæ.—ZLeaves opposite. Calyx upper lobes obtuse. P od gli brous, exserted, on a long stipes. Calyx upper lobes not longer than the lower. Keel and wings much a longer than the standard. Leaves denticulate . , . . . . 1l. B. dentata. — Calyx +3 pag very large. Keel and wings shorter than the _ Leaves reniform, sinuate and prickly-toothed . . +... - 2 B Aquifolinm | Bossiza.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 155 Leaves entire. Leaves 1 to 3 lines long and broad. Pubescence rigid. Leaves broadly obovate. . . . . . 3. B. strigillosa. Glabrous or nearly so. Leaves broadly cordate acute or A e. ee ee eee, Glabrous. Leaves orbicular, very obtuse . . . . . . 5. B. lenticularis. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 4 to fin. long . . . . + . . 6. B. Kiamensis. Series II, Eriocarpee.—Leaves alternate. Calyx upper lobes acuminate acute or mucronate. Ovary very hairy. Pod nearly sessile, hairy. Leaves mostly above } in. long, or, if small, narrow. Pod much longer than broad. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, acute, $ to 13 in. long. Calyx-lobes dad ithe tube... iia bonne Leaves narrow-oblong or linear, obtuse, 4 to 2 in. long. Calyx- 7 lobes longer than the tube. . . . . .. +... . « 8 B.eriocarpa. Leaves narrow cordate-lanceolate, rarely above 3 in. long. Calyx- Se lobes scarcely so long as the tube. Branchlets often spinescent 9. B. divaricata. under 4 in. long and broad. Pod about as broad as long. Leaves ovate, flat, Calyx upper lobes very large, obovate, almost 7 covering the pod. Branches spinescent . . + + + + + 10. B. calycina. Leaves very small, orbicular, with revolute margins. Calyx upper : lobes not much larger than the lower. Pod exserted . . . 11. B. foliosa. Serres II]. Normales.—Leaves alternate. Calyx upper lobes rounded or truncate. Ovary glabrous or ciliate on the edge. Pod sessile or stipitate, glabrous, Branches terete or angular. Leaves not distichons. Branches pubescent or -villous, not spinescent. s ves cordate lanceolate or linear, pungent-pointed. . +. + 13, B. cinerea. ves linear-cuneate, obtuse retuse or 2-lobed . . . +. . 18. B. biloba, Whole plant glabrous. Branchlets spinescent. Calyx 23 to 3 lines long, Keel nearly as long as the standard. Be Pod on a long stipes. -sie adea + + + + + + 14. B. Preiesu, Calyx 2 to 24 lines long. Lower petals much shorter than the i standard. Pod nearly sessile... . . - + + + + 15. B. concinna, Branches terete or slightly compressed. Leaves distichous, usually A and rigid (except B. linophylla). a Keel much longer than the standard. . arhe. ves ovate-cordate or cordate-lanceolate . . . + + + + 16. B. cari aaa ves linear-lanceolate, rounded or narrowed at the base . . 17. B. al shorter g the standard. a ves mostly above 4 in. long. S Leaves secc A crowded, } to 1 in. long. +. + + - 18. B. linophylla. ves ovate or oblong, very obtuse, not coriaceous. hi sti Branches igitai, il and straggling, villous . + +19. 4 Stems pans pubescent, rarely above 1 ft. long . » 20. B. prostrata. ves mostly under 4 in, long, rigid. ac No rs: x lps Branches pubescent. Leaves ovate or cordate. . Pedicels longer than the leaves. Pod sessile, thin with B. buxifolia nerve-like margins. Ovules 6 or more. . - + + 21. B. j Pedicels short. Pod on a long stipes, with — B: B 1 thickened margins. Ovules20r3. . . + pe e lant quite glabrous, Pedicels very short. Pod on a long stipes. Ovules 2 or 3. ay es pt obovate or rhomboidal. Pod piar e pes 93. B. rhombifolia. Leaves cordate, ate al es ee re da AR pulchella. 7. B. ornata. . - 156 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Bossiza. — i Branches spinescent. Glabrous. Leaves broadly obovate or obcordate. . Pedicels short, axillary o REN EGO EEN . 25. B. microphylla. Minutely strigose-pubescent. Pedicels slender, extra- AR A A RE peduncularis, Branches much flattened or winged.. Leaves distichous or none. : Branches leafy. Keel glabrous. Pod coriaceous, the stipes much longer than the calyx . 27. P. heterophylla. Keel edged with a short wool. Pod thin, the stipes not ex ceeding the calyx . RCE A ei gx, ESO BL Branches leafless, winged. Keel not exceeding the standard. ea Keel edged with a short wool (Western species) . +. +. . 28. B. rufa. i Keel glabrous (Eastern or Northern species). E Calyx with 5 nearly equal lobes.. Flowers nearly sessile, with imbricate bracts > . . > . +. . ~ : ~ 29.-B. bracteosa Calyx 2 upper lobes broad and united. Pedicels longer than the bracts. 2 Pod thin, with nerve-like margins . . . . . . . 30. B. riparia. Pod broad with thickened margins. EE Flowers smali. Pod distinctly stipitate . . . + 31. B. ensata Flowers rather large. Pod almost sessile. . . . 32. B. scolopendria. Keel more or less exceeding the standard. Flowers large. Stem-wings usually narrow and slightly indented at the nodes. Keel much longer than the standard Sage E Stem-wings broad, with very projecting lobes or angles under the nodes. Keel rather longer than the standard . . +. 34. B. phylloclada. ; SERIES I. OppositivoL1#.—Leaves opposite, Calyx: 2 upper loa i teeth obtuse, broad, free or united. Pod glabrous, on a long stipes. : L B. dentata, Benth. An erect glabrous shrub, attaining 7 or end although sometimes much smaller, the branches terete and often glandula : scabrous. Leaves opposite, from broadly ovate-cordate or triangular to 1%. tate-lanceolate or almost linear, 4 to 1 in. long, acute or obtuse, irregu" denticulate. Flowers orange-red or yellow, more or less tinged with greet. Pedicels solitary. Bracts abroad, rigid, striate, 1 or 2 inner ones and e. teoles often 2 to 3 lines long, but very deciduous. Calyx 3 to 4 ine - the lobes or teeth short, obtuse, all of equal length but the 2 upper broader. Standard twice as long as the calyx; keel and wings nea a times the calyx. Ovary on a long stipes, glabrous, with about 4 9 e Pod 1 in. long or more and about 4 lines broad, on a stipes exce mid e calyx; valves coriaceous, with thick margins.—Scottea dentata. R. rh Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 269; DC. Prod. ii. 118; Lodd. Bot. val: 1458; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 87. par W. Australia. King George’s Sound to Stirling range, and eastward to the p Australian Bight, R. Brown, Baxter, Drummond, Oldfield, Maxwell, and others. de The leaves vary so much in aspect as to appear at first to characterize distinct into = real difference is only in breadth, and the following varieties pass insensibly one 12. * other :— a. latifolia. Leaves nearly triangular, flat, } in. long and broad.— Drummond, ™ and other collections. } to _ 6. hastata. Leaves ovate-hastate or hastate-lanceolate, 3 to, above 1 in. long, $, in. broad.—Scottea dentata, Bot. Reg. t. 1233; Maund, Botanist, t. 134; S. levis = Bot. Reg. t. 1652.—Preiss, n. 1034, and other collections. 28. P. rufa. 33. B. Walkeri. Bossiea.] XL. LEGUMINOS&. 157 e. angustifolia. Leaves hastate-lanceolate to almost linear, the margins revolute.—Scottea angustifolia, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1266 ; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 87.—Preiss, n. 1035, and other collections. 2. B. Aquifolium, Benth. A glabrous shrub, with slender terete branches. Leaves opposite, broadly cordate, almost reniform, pungent- poiuted, deeply sinuate and prickly-toothed, 4 to in. broad and nearly as long. Flowers solitary, yellow, on pedicels shorter than the calyx. . Inner bracts and bracteoles 2 to 3 lines long, rigid, but very deciduous. Calyx about 21 lines long; lobes short, the 2 upper ones broad, rounded-truncate, lower ones narrow, not much shorter. Standard nearly three times as long as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with about 4 ovules, Pod in our specimen 3 in. long and about half as broad, thickened at the upper suture. oe w. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 130; Harvey river, Clarke. Evidently nearly allied to B. dentata, although the proportion of the petals is so different. 3. B. strigillosa, Benth. Branches divaricate, rigid, rather slender, clothed when young, as well as the under side of the leaves, with short rigid almost appressed hairs. Leaves opposite, broadly obovate-orbicular, with a recurved point, mostly about 2 lines long and broad, very rigid, with recurved margins, obtuse at the base, glabrous and veined above. Stipules subulate, recurved. Pedicels short. Bracteoles Jauceolate-subulate. Calyx pubescent, the upper lobes large and rounded, the lower ones small and narrow. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. ?, n. 81. T have seen neither full-blown flowers nor fruit, but the petals and stamens in the young bud, and the remains of fruiting pedicels, are sufficient to indicate the genus. 3 4. B. cordigera, Benth. in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 95, t. 16. An ele- gant straggling or almost trailing shrub, with numcrous slender terete branches, glabrous or minutely pubescent. Leaves opposite, on short slender petioles, broadly orbicular-cordate, acute or mucronulate, 13 to 3 lines dia- meter, glabrous or minutely pubescent underneath. Pedicels filiform, usually Several times as long as the leaves. Bracteoles small, a little below the calyx. Calyx about 3 lines long, the 2 upper lobes broadly orbicular, a little gel than the tube, lower ones very small. Standard fully twice as long as the calyx; wings and keel rather shorter. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with 6 to 8 ovules, Ped 4 to 2 in. long, about ¿ in. broad, on a stipes longer than the calyx, the margins nerve-like.—F. Muell. Fragm. iii, 100. Victoria, Mount Macedon, F. Mueller. ia. Widely distributed over the northeru parts of the island, from the sea- k asmania. el to 4000 ft. elevation, J. D. Hooker. z . 5. B, lenticularis, Sieb. in DO. Prod. ii. 117, nol of Lodd. . A strag- sling diffuse glabrous shrub, with numerous slender terete branchlets. Leaves YPposite, orbicular, very obtuse, 13 to 3 lines diameter, rather rigid. Sti- pules minute. Pedice!s rarely above twice as long as the calyx, often articu- Me and bearing the usual bracts a little above the base. Bracteoles small, hove the middle. Calyx about 3 lines long, the 2 upper lobes longer than the tube, broadly orbicular ; lower lobes much shorter and narrow. Stan- ard very broad, twice as long as the calyx ; wings and keel rather octet € uy stipitate, glabrous, with about 4 ovules. Pod 4 to + in. long, 158 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Bossiea, — 3 in. broad, on a stipes fully twice as long as the calyx, the margins nerve- like. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 425; Mount Tomah, R. Cun- ningham. 6. B. Kiamensis, Benth. Branches rather slender, divaricate, minutely _ hoary. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate or elliptical, entire, obtuse witha — short rigid point, 3 to 3 in. long, coriaceous, veined, glabrous or minutely y pubescent underneath. Stipules setaceous. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines long, with — minute bracteoles a little below the calyx. Calyx 2 to 24 lines long, glabrous or nearly so, the 2 upper lobes very broadly orbicular-faleate, as long as the ~ tube, the lower ones shorter. Standard not twice as long as the calyx; wings rather shorter; keel as long as the wings, broad and deeply coloured. Ovary — glabrous, on a rather long stipes, with 2 or 3 ovules. Pod not seen. N.S. Wales. Near Kiama, Illawarra, Backhouse. y e O AA, Series II. Ertocarpm.—Leaves alternate. Calyx upper lobes acum nate acute or mucronate. Ovary very hairy. Pod nearly sessile, hairy. a In B. ornata, the upper lobes of the calyx are so much narrower and longer than in the E generality of the genus, that the character was considered sufficient to separate it under the fe name of La/age, they are however broader than the lower lobes, and, through the other spe cies of this series, they pass so gradually into the more usual shape observed in Bossea, that I have felt that La/age could not be maintained even as a section. re 7. B. ornata, Benth. An erect shrub or undershrub of 1 to 2 ft., the branches terete or slightly flattened, pubescent densely villous or rarely neatly glabrous. Leaves varying from broadly ovate almost cordate to narrow-lan- ceolate, acute or scarcely obtuse, in some specimens ¿ to 1 in., in others l A 2 in. long, flat or with recurved almost revolute margins, thinly coriaceous, reticulate, glabrous or scabrous above, loosely pubescent underneath. 3 pules from lanceolate to setaceous, rather long or very small. Pedicels usual 2 or 3 together, 1 to 3 or even 4 lines long, shortly pubescent or villous with long hairs. Inner bracts and bracteoles oblong or linear, often 2 or 3 lines long, but so deciduous as to be rarely seen. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long, Vel hairy, the lobes all acuminate and longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones broader and somewhat falcate, the lower ones narrow, but not shorter. Stat- dard broad, often 3 in. diameter, but variable in size ; keel rather shorter, wings still shorter and much narrower. Ovary sessile, very hairy, with 104 12 ovules. Pod sessile, about 1 in. long and 4 in. broad, clothed or sprink with long hairs. ; W. Australia. From Stirling Range to Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. and " 253 and 254; Preiss, n. 999, 1001, 1002, 1007, 1010, Oldfield, and others. áa There are three principal forms : Lalage ornata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1722, Maund, pe tanist, t. 141, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 85, with ovate flat leaves; L. hoveafolia, Benth. i Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 15, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 86, Paxt. Mag. ix. 171, with a figs W oblong-lanceolate leaves with somewhat recurved margins; and L. angustifolia, Meissn. M Pl. Preiss. i. 86, with lincar or narrow-lanceolate leaves, the margius often almost revor These all appear quite distinct in some specimens, but in others they pass very grad f into the other, or two forms may be observed on the same specimen so as to prevent ar separation. The degree of hairiness is variable in all, as is the breadth of the inner a The bracteoles are usually narrow but often concealed by the inner bracts and falling off ¥ E them so as to be quite overlooked. ES y Bossiea.} XL. LEGUMINOSA. 159 Lalage acuminata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 86, and L. stipularis, Meissn. 1. e. 87, "both described from specimens of Preiss's, without flowers or fruit, n. 1003 and 1006, neither | which I have seen, appear from the descriptions given to come within the limits of . ornata. =` 8. B. eriocarpa, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 36. A rigid shrub of 1 to 2 At, with ash-coloured but scarcely pubescent branches, terete or slightly flat- tened. Leaves narrow-oblong, lauceolate or linear, very obtuse but often with a setaceous recurved point, mostly 4 to ? in. long, the margins recurved, veined and glabrous or scabrous above, glancous underneath or the upper ones slightly hairy. Stipules small, lanceolate or setaceous. Pedicels slender but very variable in length. Inner bracts and bracteoles oblong or linear but very deciduous. Calyx 3 to 5 lines long, glabrous pubescent or silky-villous, the lobes much longer than the tube, all acuminate, the 2 upper ones much broader, slightly falcate and united above the middle. Petals red; standard = twice as long as the calyx ; wings and keel shorter. Ovary shortly stipitate, _ Very villous, with 4 to 6 ovules. Pod rather small, very villous, the valves _ flat with nerve-like margins.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 83; B. ovalifolia, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 21; B. Endlicheri, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 83; B. nervosa, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 31. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Huegel ; Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll., and n, 255 and 256; Preiss, n. 1000, 1004, 1005, 1009; between Moore and Murchison hers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 29. The extreme forms of this variable species may be characterized as follows, but they are connected by many intermediates. a. normalis. Flowers large; calyx glabrous or pubescent, bracteoles usually broad, eriocalyx, Flowers smaller, pedicels shorter; calyx villous, bracteoles narrow.—B. 1 icheri, var. angustifolia, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 83; B. Gilberti, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 853, i. 285, from Gilbert's collection, n. 813, which I have not seen, must, from the cha- Tacter given, be the same variety. 9. B. divaricata, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 285. A rigid shrub With distichous divaricate branches, hoary as in B. eriocarpa; but frequently ending in thorns. Leaves 2 to 3 in. long, lanceolate or almost linear, acute with short straight points, otherwise veined and scabrous above and hoary or Pubescent underneath as in B. eriocarpa. Flowers smaller than in that spe- “es, but otherwise similar. Calyx-lobes all acuminate and longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones much broader than the others. Ovary very villous, with 4 to 6 ovules. Pod not seen.—B. lalagoides, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 12. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 83; Gardner river, Marvell. 10. B. calycina, Benth. A low rigid divaricate shrub with hoary ranches, the o: roy i ending in pepe Leaves ovate or elliptical, - ute or acuminate, 2 to 3 lines long, flat, rigid, transversely veined, glabrous. “dieels solitary, short, with small oblong or linear bracteoles about the mid- > Calyx nearly glabrous, the tube about 1 line long, the 2 upper lobes ovate, mucronate, fully 3 lines long and almost scarious, the lower lobes about half as long, narrow and acute. Petals shorter than the calyx, nearly cual in length. Ovary nearly sessile, villous, with 4 or 5 ovules. isa fla ly exceeding the calyx and almost as broad as long, very hairy ; valves —Platylobium ? spinosum, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 284. * Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 84 or 85. 160 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Bossiea. 11. B. foliosa, 4. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 347. An erect shrub, with numerous often distichous branches, terete and hoary with a minute to- mentum. Leaves broadly orbicular, rarely 2 lines diameter and often only 1 line, with revolute margins, glabrous or scabrous above, hoary underneath. — Stipules small, broad. Pedicels very short, with very small bracts. Calyx pubescent, 13 lines long, the upper lobes falcate, acute, not much larger than a the lower ones. Standard twice as long as the calyx; keel nearly as long. — . Ovary stipitate, very villous, with about 3 ovules. Pod nearly orbicular, — about 3 lines diameter, on a short stipes, rusty-villous, valves slightly convex. — —F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 100; B. distichoclada, Y. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soe. A Vict. i. 39, and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 13. a N.S. Wales. Brushy forest land near Bathurst, 4. Cunningham, Sigs A Victoria. lu the Australian Alps from the Mitta-Mitta to the tributaries of the Snowy River at an elevation of 4 to 5000 ft., as well on rocks as on the peaty margins of rivulels, F. Mueller. ee Series IHI. NormaLes.—Leaves alternate. Calyx 2 upper lobes rounded or truncate, free or united in an upper lip. Ovary glabrous or rarely ciliate on the edge. Pod sessile or stipitate, glabrous. i pi 12. B. cinerea, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 268. . An erect or — rarely straggling much-branched shrub of 2 to 4 or 5 ft., the branches terete te or slightly angular, pubescent or villous. Leaves from broadly ovate-lanceo- late to linear lanceolate, tapering into a pungent point, about 3 in. longo shorter, rarely 2 in., often almost cordate at the base, rigid, with recurved — margins, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs above, more pubescent or WF lous underneath. Pedicels slender with very small bracteoles. Calyx gla brous, 2 to 23 lines long, tlie lobes much shorter than the tube, 2 upper ones very broad and rounded, the lower ones small. Standard broad, fully twice as long as the calyx ; keel about as long, deeply coloured. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with 4 to 6 ovules. Pod 4 to 2 in. long, 4 in. broad, on a stipes about as long as the calyx ; valves thin, with nerve-like margins. —Bot. Reg. t. 306; DC. Prod. ii. 117; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 95; B. coccinea, Bonpl Jard. Malm. 128, t. 52; B. cordifolia, Sweet, Fl. Austral. t. 20; B. tenit- caulis, Grah. iu Edinb, New Phil. Journ. 1840; Bot. Mag. t. 3895. N. S. Wales. Near Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. Victoria. From Brighton to about Melbourne, F. Mueller ; and thence to the Glenelg, Robertson, , i _ Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; abundant in dry situations throughout the island, J. D. Hooker, : Var. (?) rosmarinifolia. Leaves crowded, linear-lanceolate or linear, with short pungent points, $ to l in. long, the margins revolute. Flowers rather small.— B. rosmarin Lindi. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 178.—Mount William in Victoria, Mitchell, P. Mueller. I follow F. Mueller in uniting this as a variety with B. cinerea, but with some besitatio, % its aspect is somewhat different, and I have seen no regular chain of intermediates. | 13. B. biloba, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 36. Stems from a thick stock, erect, little-branched, $ to 13 ft. high, rigid, angular, loosely pubescent ol villous. Leaves linear-cuneate, very obtuse retuse or 2-lobed, sometimes Y under 1 in. and rather broad, sometimes narrow and 1 to 2 in. long, Tigi with revolute margins, glabrous and green, or slightly hairy underneath. ** dicels short, with softly setaceous bracteoles, Calyx silky-villous, 4 to 5 me Bossiea.] XL. LEGUMINOSAE. 161 = long, the lobes longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones united into a broad truncate emarginate upper lip, the lower ones lanceolate, nearly as long, all silky inside. Standard broad, nearly twice as long as the calyx ; wings and keel shorter. Ovary: stipitate, glabrous, with about 6 ovules. Pod + to 2 in. long, rather broad, on a short stipes, but not seen perfect.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 85. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Huegel, Oldfield ; Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 264, Preiss, n. 1061; S. Hutt and Murchison rivers, Oldfield. l4. B. Preissii, Mcissn. in Pl. Preiss.i. 82. A glabrous much-branched shrub, the branches terete or angular, the smaller ones spinescent. Leaves oblong-cuneate or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 3 to 4 or rarely 5 lines long, flat, rigid, prominently or obscurely veined. Pedicels nearly as long as the leaves, with small deciduous bracteoles. Calyx rather thick, 24 to 3 lines long, the lobes or teeth very short, the 2 upper ones united in a broad trun- cate emarginate upper lip. Standard more than twice as long as the calyx, orbicular; wings and keel as long as the standard. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with 12 to 15 ovules. Pod elongated, rather broad, on a stipes longer than Me calyx.—B. rigida, Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 285. SW, Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 79, J. 8. Roe; King George’s Sound, Bar- Yer; rocky sterile places near Cape Riche, Preiss, n. 986; upper Kalgan river, Oldfield ; ponerup and grassy flats on Salt river, and eastward to Cape Arid and Cape Le Grand, arweli. I have not seen Preiss’s original wild specimen, but a cultivated one from the Hamburg garden is certainly conspecific with the wild ones examined from other collectors. 15. B. concinna, Benth. A glabrous spinescent shrub allied to B. Preissii, but with smaller flowers, different in the proportion of the petals and an almost sessile pod. Branches angular, the smaller ones often reduced to short leafless thorns. Leaves oblong or cuneate, obtuse, 13 to 3 lines long, £ margins often slightly recurved. Pedicels about as long as the leaves, — with small deciduous bracteoles. Calyx 2 to 2} lines long, the 2 upper lobes United in a broad emarginate upper lip nearly as long as the tube, the nee lo 5 scarcely shorter. Standard twice as long as the calyx; lower ea Considerably shorter, the keel slightly fringed on the edge. Ovary shortly ‘tipitate, glabrous, with 5 to 7 ovules. Pod $ in. long, narrow, almost ses- % Dut not quite ripe in our specimens. w. Australia, D d, bth Coll. n. 81, and Suppl. n. 41 (very spinescent speci- Mens with dar eel pr Grass-tree plains between M'Callum and Stokes Inlets, ell. (more leafy and less spinescent, with apparently bright y ellow flowers). 16. B. carinalis, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 290. A shrub with the habit almost of B. rhombifolia, but with flowers near those of Peer ranches terete, softly pubescent. Leaves distichous, ovate or eros: y jke A ceolate, mostly cordate, mucronulate or scarcely obtuse, 4 to Piast ae n oblique at the base, coriaceous, prominently veined, Ee pey a abrous, Pedicels short, with small bracteoles. Calyx 4 to 5 ig yt qute glabrous and rather thick, the lobes much shorter than the sd de Tones united in a broad emarginate upper lip, the lower cra gina “iy ther Shorter. Standard very broad, half as long again as the c “A X; E twice as long, and keel incurved, rather narrow, three times y pa YX. Ovary on a long stipes, glabrous, with 8 to 10 ovules. n . E, A VOL, 1 M 162 : XL. LEGUMINOS#. [ Bossiea. Queensland. Sandstone gullies of the Mantuan Downs, Mitchell; also in Leich- hardt’s collection. . 17. B. rupicola, 4. Cunn. Herb. A shrub with the habit and flowers of B. carinalis, but very different leaves. Branches terete, pubescent. Leaves distichous, narrow-lanceolate, acute, 4 to 1 in. long, rarely 2 lines broad, nar- rowed or scarcely obtuse at the base, coriaceous, veinless except the midrib. Pedicels short, the small bracteoles near the base. Calyx 3 to 34 lines long, the large upper lip nearly as long as the tube, the narrow lower lobes scarcely shorter. Standard broad, reflexed, rather longer than the calyx ; wings longer, obovate-faleate ; keel broad incurved, exceeding the calyx by 5 or 6 les. Ovary on a long stipes, glabrous, with 8 to 10 ovules. Pod with broad thick margins when young, not seen ripe. Queensland. Brisbane river, Fraser; Mount Lindsay at an elevation of 5700 ft., A. Cunningham. Pa 18. B. linophylla, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew.ed. 2, iv. 268. An erect much-branched shrub of 2 to 4 ft., the branches rather slender, flattened when young, glabrous or sparingly pubescent. Leaves numerous, narrow-lineat, obtuse or shortly pointed, 4 to 1 in. long or rarely more, the margins Ie curved, glabrous or sprinkled when young with a few short hairs. Pedicels $0- litary or 2 together, filiform, shorter than the leaves, with small narrow brac- teoles near the calyx. Calyx glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs, about 13 lines long, the lobes much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones un! in a broad truncate emarginate upper lip, the lower ones shorter. Stan fully twice as long as the calyx ; wings nearly as long; keel shorter. Anthers - small, almost globular. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with about 6 ovules. 4 2 to 2 in. long, the margins nerviform, the stipes much longer than the calyX —Bot. Mag. t. 2491; DC. Prod. ii. 117; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 174; Meist _ in Pl. Preiss. i. 83; ii. 221; Maund, Botanist, t. 68. W. Australia. King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 121, Preiss, n. 1011, 1012, 1013, and others; to Stirling range and M Gairdner, Maxwell ; Blackwood river, Oldfield ; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy. 19. B. disticha, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 55, A shrub with e | straggling slender terete or slightly flattened branches, softly pubescent = villous. Leaves distichous, ovate or oblong, very obtuse, but often mue, mucronate, mostly under 4 in. long or on luxuriant branches 4 in., not ma aceous, sprinkled with appressed hairs on both sides. Pedicels slender, tary or 2 together, the small narrow bracteoles above the middle. a softly pubescent, 2 to 22 lines long, the lobes rather shorter than the t0% — the 2 upper ones broad rounded-falcate, the lower ones nearly as long, 4" late. Standard twice as long as the calyx; wings and keel shorter. stipitate, usually ciliate on the sutures, with 6 to 8 ovules. Pod gl a untler 1 in. long, rather broad, the stipes shorter than the calyx. — Meisi. - Pl. Preiss. ii. 221. ; s ing 19 W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll., m. 124, in our sets, or n. 122, necording © Meissner. small = 20. B. prostrata, R. Br. in Ait. Hort: Kew. ed. 2, iv. 268. 4 shrub or undershrub with a thick woody stock and slender prostrate E Bossiea.] XL, LEGUMINOSA!, 163 from a few inches to about 1 ft. long, terete or slightly flattened, usually pubescent. Leaves distichous, ovate or oblong, obtuse or scarcely acute, + to 2 in. long or rarely more, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs, the petioles frequently rather long and slender. Pedicels usually much longer than the leaves, pubescent, with small deciduous bracteoles. Calyx about 2 lines long. the 2 upper lobes broadly falcate and united above the middle, the lower ones short and narrow. Standard fully twice as long as the calyx ; wings and keel considerably shorter, Ovary very shortly stipitate, glabrous or ciliate, with 6 to 10 ovules. Pod nearly sessile, glabrous, = to 1 in. long, rarely 22 lines broad.— Bot. Mag. t. 1493; DC. Prod. ii. 117; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 94; b. ovala, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 303; B. linnæoides, G. Don, Gen. Syst. 1. 129; B. nummularia, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 22; B. humilis, Meissn, in Pl. Preiss. i. 85, Queensland. Wide Bay, Bidwill. ‘ : N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 351, and others; northward to New England, C. Stuart ; and southward to Yowaka river, F. Mueller. Victoria. Port Phillip, R. Brown ; Australia Felix and Wimmera river, F. Mueller. Tasmania. Abundant in dry soil throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Onkaparinga, Stringy Bark, Lofty and Bugle ranges, Rivoli Bay; etc., F. Mueller. In the southern speci very slender, almost filiform, in several of the sataa teie pen De ¡acia branched. The size of the vid ls variable, and here and there a few flowers, possibly imperfect ones, may be found normally almost sessile. 21. B. buxifolia, 4. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 348. A procumbent or diffuse shrub with numerous slender terete or scarcely flattened branches, ely but softly pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate or almost cordate, acute, 43 to nearly 3 lines long, nearly flat, coriaceous, transversely wrinkled and *prinkled with a few hairs above, loosely pubescent underneath. Pedicels Much longer than the leaves, with small broad deciduous bracteoles above the middle. Calyx minutely pubescent, scarcely 2 lines long, the upper lobes l truncate as long as the tube and more or less united, the lower ones _ ieeolate and much shorter. Standard broad, twice as long as the calyx ; gs and keel shorter. Ovary nearly sessile, glabrous or with ciliate edges, de about 6 ovules. Pod usually 2 to 1 in. long, 4 in. broad, almost sessile, > aa nerviform.—B. decumbens, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 9. ne | N.S. Wales. ae ; brushy hills in the Blue Moun- tins, 4. ia wine ; vat Daas or, Beckler; and southward gyle County, Lhotsky. 3 os In the higher Australian Alps on the Genoa and Delatite rivers, F. Mueller ; . Mount Macedon, Daliachy, En 22. B, Brownii, Benth. An erect apparently stout much-branched quid of 3 or 4 ft., with the habit of B. rhomóifolia, the branches terete or = tly Compressed, softly pubescent. a a broadly ovate, ne A base, cordate, obtuse or mucronulate, 2 to 4 lines long, mostly Jop z% ad : » Coriaceous, loosely pubescent or hairy. Pedicels most oes _ long; he calyx, with deciduous bracteoles near the base, Calyx abow Sem 4 bate, much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones ame ro sl : iia ae fully twice as long as the calyx, the keel nearly as =s co : Ovary glabrous, on a long stipes, with usually 3 ps j 164 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [ Bossiea, to 1 in. long, about 5 lines broad, the margins broad, the upper one much: thickened ; the stipes longer than the calyx. i ueensland. Port Bowen, R. Brown, also in Leichhardt’s Collection. Allied in foliage to B. burifolía, but the pod is that of B. rhombifolia. 23. B. rhombifolia, Sieb. in DC. Prod.ii.117. A tall much-branched shrub, quite glabrous and often glaucous, the young branches often flattened. Leaves distichous, from obovate to broadly rhomboidal, usually mucronulate, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long and broad, coriaceous, flat, with a prominent midrib. Pedicels shorter than the calyx, with small broad bracteoles below the middle. Calyx about 4 lines long, the lobes much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones very broad and falcate, the lower ones small but nearly as long. Petals twice’as long as the calyx, nearly equal in length. Ovary ona — long stipes, quite glabrous, with 2 or 3 ovules. Pod 4 to nearly 1 in. long, about 4 lines broad, the margins, especially the upper one, broad and thick, the stipes longer than the calyx, the seeds often separated by a cellular sub- stance as in B. heterophylla.—B. lenticularis, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1238, from the fig., not of Sieb. Queensland. In the gullies of the Mantuan Downs, Mitchell; Dogwood Creek, Leichhardt. * N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 354, and Fl, Mizt. n. 568, and others. B. rotundifolia, DC. Prod. ii. 117, from “ eastern New Holland,” must, from the char racter given, be closely allied to the above, perhaps a luxuriant variety, with the leaves 4 to 5 lines long and 5 to 6 lines broad. 24. B. pulchella, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 84. A much-branched shrub of 2 or 3 ft., with rather-slender terete or scarcely compressed branches, E minutely pubescent. Leaves broadly heart-shaped, mostly acute, 2 to su long, coriaceous, glabrous. Pedicels very short, the small broad bracts cona- — ceous and imbricate ; bracteoles 24 to 3 lines long, falling off ‘before the — flower expands. -Calyx 24 lines long, glabrous or nearly so; lobes or tet very short, the 2 upper ones united in a broad emarginate upper lip. Stan- dard broad, more than twice as long as the calyx; keel nearly as long ; wings - very narrow. Ovary on a long stipes, glabrous, with 2 ovules. Young pol with the upper margin much thickened. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 250; Darling Ring — Preiss, n. 1032. po 25. B. microphylla, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 303. A spreading much-branched shrub, attaining several feet, the branches terete OF 55) Le flattened, hoary with a minute tomentum, the smaller ones ending in su00 thorns. Leaves broadly obovate or obcordate, truncate, emarginate, OF Yi a small recurved point, 1 to 3 lines long, coriaceous, glabrous above, sprinkled ; with a few hairs underneath. Pedicels shorter or scarcely longer than ti leaves, usually without bracteoles. Calyx glabrous, 2 to ‘24 lines long, Y lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones very broadly falcate, the 100% ones small but scarcely shorter. Standard and keel twice the length of A calyx; wings narrow and shorter. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with pe ovules. Pod rarely above } in. long, 2 to 3 lines broad, on a stipes as long as the calyx, the margins nerviform.—DC. Prod. ii. 1143 an Bossica.] XL, LEGUMINOSA. 165 "Cab. t. 656; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 99; Platylobium microphyllum, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 863; P. obcordatum, Vent. Jard. Malm. under n. 31. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 355, and Fl. Mixt. n. 569, and others; northward to Clarence river, Beckler; and southward to Illawarra, Shepherd. -` Victoria. Wooded or bushy hills, chiefly granitic, on the Tumbo and at the mouth of Snowy River, F. Mueller. 26. B. peduncularis, 7Zurcz. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 287. A rigid spreading shrub with terete or scarcely flattened branches, the short divaricate branchlets ending in slender thorns, pubescent with appressed hairs. Leaves + oblong, very obtuse, 1} to 3 lines long, coriaceous, with recurved margins, _ sprinkled on both sides with appressed hairs. Pedicels filiform, } to 3 in. long, all inserted at some distance above the axils, with minute bracteoles above the middle. Calyx scarcely 2 lines long, sprinkled with appressed hairs, the 2 upper lobes broadly faleate, as long as the tube, the lower ones narrow and rather shorter. Standard and keel twice as long as the calyx. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with about 4 ovules. Pod not seen. w. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 80. 27. B. heterophylla, Vent. Jard. Cels. t.7. A low glabrous and often glaucous shrub or undershrub ; branches erect or ascending, from under 1 ft. to 2 ft. high, often much flattened. Leaves distichous, often distant, the Wer ones ovate, obtuse or nearly orbicular, the upper ones gradually nar- tower or sometimes nearly all oblong or linear, the larger ones $ to 1 in. long, rather thick and nearly veinless. Pedicels shorter than the leaves, with small bracteoles below the middle. Calyx 24 to nearly 3 lines Icng, the lobes all short, the upper ones very broadly faleate. Standard very broad, twice as long as the calyx ; keel rather shorter, deeply coloured. Ovary stipitate, gla- = brous, with about 6 ovules. Pod ¿ to l-in. long, on a stipes longer than the _ Calyx, the margins much thickened, the seeds separated by cellular tissue.— - C. Prod. ii. 117; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 271; Platylobium lanceolatum, Andr. t. Rep. t. 205; P. ovatum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 266; Bossiæa lanceolata, - Mag. t. 1144; B. ovata, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. n cid land. Wide Bay, Bidwill, in Hook. Herb., but possibly some 12 ee S. Wales. Port Jaion, Banks and Solander, B. Brown, Sieber, n. 352, and ; Mount Imlay, near Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. ictoria. Near Lake Victoria, Gipps’ Land, 7. Mueller. 267. A tall erect "28. B. rufa, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. glabrous shrub A flattened branches, sometimes spinescent, pink ie s el Wings, sometimes disappearing in leafy specimens, gic etd t obovate € leafless ones, with slightly indented nodes. Leaves when pea Pe- Ms oblong, + to 3 in. long, very obtuse, rather thin, on slender oe sak “els solitary or clustered, proceeding from leafless nodes even e e he aA - Fiinens, filiform, with very small bracteoles near the calyx. ne er lip os ey long, the 2 upper lobes united in a broad truncate emargina P as E the lower ones small and acute. Standard broad, more ry close woolly e rd he wings rather shorter; keel much shorter, edged sie 4 1 in. lon 08%. Ovary stipitate, with 8 to 10 ovules. Pod ¿ to above = ail about Y in, broad, the margins nerviform, the stipes yather shorter or scarcely 166 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Bossica, longer than the calyx.—DC. Prod. ii. 117; B. ensata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss.* i. 81, not of Sieb. W. Australia, R. Brown, Drummond, Preiss, and others. The following forms, different as they look, pass much into each other; all have similar flowers and fruit, differing from B. riparia in the comparatively larger standard and in the small fringed keel, and from B. ensata by the same characters and in the narrower pod with- out the thick margins of that species. a. normalis. Branches elongated, leafless or nearly so, not spinescent.—Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1119, appears to represent this form.—King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Drummond, ith Coll. n. 87, and wn another Coll. n. 84; Phillips river, Maxwell. b. ozyclada. Branches numerous, divaricate, narrow or rarely very broad, leafless, Es ¿eS ozyclada, Turcz. in Bull, Mose. 1853, i. 284. —Drummond, dth oll. n. 82, c. virgata. Branches elongated, more or less leafy, not spinescent.—B. virgata, Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 3986; B. paucifolia, Benth. in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 53; Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 81. —Drummond, n. 258 ; Tone, Gordon, and Blackwood rivera, Oldfield. __ d. foliosa. Leaves rather numerous, branches often spineséent.—B. paucifolia, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 63; B. spinescens, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, i. 82.—Swan River, Drum- mond, lst Coll. and n. 259; stony hills, York district, Preiss, n. 1030, 1031; stony places, S. Hutt river, Oldfield. Closely allied to this is a stunted shrub from Dirk Hartog's Island, Mi/ne, with very spinescent flat branehes, and small coriaceous broadly obovate leaves, near those of B. rhom- bifolia or B. microphylla, but without flowers to determine its characters. 29. B. bracteosa, F. Muell. Herb. A glabrous leafless shrub, nearly allied to B. ensata, but more rigid, with flattened branches and broad thickly coriaceous wings, indented at the nodes so as to form prominent obtuse an- gles, with erect brown lanceolate scales, often 1 to 2 lines long, but very de- ciduous. Flowers solitary at the nodes, small and almost sessile. Bracts imbricate, the inner ones and bracteoles above 1 line long, but often very de- ciduous. Calyx about 2 lines long, rather rigid, the lobes shorter than the tube, obtuse, and all 5 nearly equal. Standard twice as long as the calyx; keel scarcely shorter than the standard, deeply coloured, quite glabrous. Ovary stipitate, with about 8 ovules. Pod not seen. Victoria. In the Australian Alps, on the Mitta-Mitta and Macalister rivers, at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 ft., and on Mount Latrobe, P. Mueller, Y. Mueller is disposé to include this among the forms of B. scolopendria, but independently of the more rigid habit, the differences in the bracts and calyx are generally very constant in Bossizas. 30. B. riparia, 4. Cunn, Herb. A glabrous leafless shrub, usually procum- bent or diffuse, resembling some of the small-flowered specimens of B. ensala, but different in the proportion of the petals and inthe pod. It is also us more branched, the wings very narrow and less indented at the nodes. Flowers small, on short pedicels, with very small bracteoles. Calyx under 2 lines long, the lobes very short, the 2 upper ones united in a broad truncate upper lip as in B. ensata, the lower ones narrow, but scarcely shorter. 4 fully twice as long as the calyx, the keel almost as long as the stand wings scarcely so long. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with 4 to 6 ovules. 4 in. long or rather more, scarcely more than 2 lines broad, on a stipes longer than the calyx ; valves thin, with nerve-like margins.—B. ensata, f. Fl. Tasm. i. 94, but scarcely of Sieber, a N. S. Wales. Downs of Mineri, on the upper branches of the Lachlan river, 4. O" vingham (specimens imperfect). Bossiea. - XL. LEGUMINOSA. 167 - Victoria. Maneroa, F. Mueller, and possibly some specimens from other localities, not determinable for want of flowers or fruit, Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown ; abundant throughout the island in various soils and situations, ascending to 4000 ft., J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Port Lincoln, F. Mueller (doubtful specimens, without flowers or fruit). _ $1. B. ensata, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 117. An erect or procumbent glabrous leafless shrub, very variable in aspect, and not always easy to distin- guish from B. scolopendria, with which F. Mueller unites it, and of which it may very likely prove a small-flowered variety, but the fruits of the different forms are as yet insufficiently known. Branches flat and winged as in that species, but usually narrower. Flowers smaller, the pedicels shorter and con- sequently less covered by the small bracts and bracteoles. Calyx rarely above 2 lines long, the keel much shorter than the standard, and glabrous as in B. scolopendria. Ovary distinctly stipitate, glabrous, with about 6 ovules. _ Pod not seen fully ripe, but apparently not so broad and more stipitate than in B. scolopendria, although with much more of the character of that species than of B. riparia.—Sweet, Fl. Austral. t. 51; B. rufa, Maund, Botanist, t. 81, not of R, Br. i Queensland. Moreton Bay, F. Mueller. 5 N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 434, and others; and in the scrub in the interior, Fraser ; Port Macquarrie, Backhouse ; and south- Ward to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. Victoria. Snowy River, F. Mueller. 32. B, scolopendria, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 303. An erect gla- brous often somewhat glaucous leafless shrub, the branches flattened, with coriaceous distichous wings descending from the nodes, the 2 wings with the ranch varying from 1 to 6 lines broad, the nodes scarcely indented. Leaves only on young seedlings and 1 or 2 occasionally at the base of the branches. Owers usually solitary at the nodes on very short pedicels, the bracteoles under 1 line long, but almost covering the pedicel. Calyx about 23 lines Jong or rather more; lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones very broad, united in a broad emarginate upper lip, the lower ones nearly as long, lanceolate, acute, Standard fully } in. broad; wings shorter; keel still shorter. Ovary almost sessile, glabrous, with about 6 ovules. Pod russia sessile, 1 in. long or more, about 5 lines broad, the valves flat but with broa _ Very much thickened margins, more prominent even than in B. heterophylla, - JUE without any cellular matter between the seeds inside. —Bot. Mag. t. 1235; - Prod. ii. 116; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 17473 Platylobium scolopendrium, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 55; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 191. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 357, and Stations usual] x 5 A bove y given belong either to B. ensata, which, as a a Small-fowered variety, or to B. riparia, differing more essentially both i 33. B. Walkeri, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 120, iii. 97, 166. A glabrous leafless shrub with fattened winged aati usually narrow and ag z as in B, ensata, but thickly coriaceous as in B. bracteosa. Pe icels ei solitary, 4 to 4 in. long, the bracteoles all fallen from our - age YX about 5 lines long, very oblique, the lobes shorter than the tube, t A Upper ones rounded and united to the middle, the lower ones narrower an many others. The other stated, may be only a n flowers and fruit. = i 168 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [Bossica. shorter. Standard scarcely twice as long as the calyx, wings about as long as the standard ; keel considerably longer. Ovary stipitate, with about 20 ovules. Pod above 2 in. long, about 4 lines broad, on a stipes shorter than the calyx ; valves apparently flat, with slightly thickened margins, but: not seen quite ripe. N.S. Wales. Peel Range, between the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee rivers, Walker; and thence to the Barrier Range, Victorian Expedition. 34. B. phylloclada, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. iii. 52, Fragm. ii. 120. A tall glabrous glaucous leafless shrub, the branches flat- tened and very broadly winged, the wings forming angles projecting under the nodes from 4 to + in., sometimes acute and pungent-pointed, sometimes shorter and obtuse. Pedicels solitary or more frequently clustered, rather slender, with small narrow bracteoles about the middle. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long, the 2 upper lobes as long as the tube, broadly obovate and distinct, the lower ones very small. Standard not twice as long as the calyx ; wings shorter and narrow ; keel as long as the standard or rather longer, woolly-ciliate on the edge. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with 10 to 12 ovules. Pod above 1 in long, + in. wide, very flat, with slightly thickened margins. Jess N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Fitzmaurice river, a chief component of the scrub between Van Alphen and Nicholson rivers, F. Mueller. 22. TEMPLETONIA, R. Br. (Nematophyllum, F. Muell.) Calyx 2 upper lobes or teeth completely united or rarely distinct, 2 lateral ones often shorter, lowest one the longest. Standard orbicular or obovate, usually reflexed ; wings narrow, usually shorter than the standard ; keel as long as the standard or shorter, the petals slightly united. Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side; anthers alternately long and erect an short and versatile. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with several ovules or rarely only 2 or 3; style incurved, filiform ; stigma small, terminal. Pod sessile or stipitate, much flattened, ovate-oblong or linear, often oblique, completely dehiscent, the valves coriaceous, without thickened sutures. Seeds strophio- late. —Glabrous shrubs or rarely undershrubs, occasionally leafless, the branches angular or suleate-striate. Leaves when present alternate, simple, entire. Stipules minute or spinescent. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 together, red or yellow. Bracts 2 or 3 at the base of the pedicel as in Bossiea, but usually very minute; bracteoles at or above the middle. . ‘ The genus is limited to Australia. It has as much variety in habit as Bossiea, from which it differs in calyx, anthers; and pod, as well as in the striate-sulcate branches. Stems leafy. Stipules minute or inconspicuous. Leaves cuneate or obovate, obtuse or emarginate. Tall shrub with large red flowers o his de dd 1. 7. retusa. Leaves ovate or elliptical, acute. Low undershrub . . . . . 2 Z, Drumm (2 Leaves narrow-linear. gee. Calyx small, the lobes searcely acute, shorter than the tube . 3. T. Mueller. Calyx-lobes acuminate, much longer than the tube . re Hookeri. Stems leafy or leafless. Stipules spinescent, recurved s ES 5. T, aculeata. Stems leafless. Stipules minute, inconspicuous. Flowers small. Stems terete rE i ¿ A e ete | A o - Stems flattened weg 7. T. sulcata. Ge py ne AO Gel BED Sp EE TT ene Se - flock and ascending or erect virgate stems of 1 to 2 b - À i q . 3 in. long or in some specimens attaming 3 1n., Showing a tendence i i i inut y to an articulation. Stipules mmute. Or 2 together, the bracteoles above the middle to 1 line long. Calyx 2 to v rh = p85 much -narrower and shorter. Ovary stipit Templetonia.] XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 169 1. T. retusa, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 269. A tall, glabrous, often somewhat glaucous shrub, the branches angular and more or less sul- cate. Leaves from broadly obovate to narrow cuneate-oblong, sometimes all under 2 in., sometimes all above 1 in. long, obtuse emarginate or minutely mucronate, thickly coriaceous, nearly sessile or articulate on a short thick pe- tile. Pedicels shorter or longer than the calyx, rigid, with obtuse bracteoles near the middle, thickened and sulcate under the calyx after flowering. Calyx 3 to nearly 4 lines long, with 4 very short broad teeth, the lowest rather more prominent. Petals red or rarely white, 1 to 14 in. long, all narrow, on short claws, and of nearly equal length. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with 10 to 15 ovules. Pod 14 to nearly 2 in. long and about 5 lines broad, oblique, witha rigid hooked point, the stipes longer than the calyx ; valves very coria- eeous.— DC. Prod. ii. 118; Bot. Reg. t. 383; Bot. Mag. t. 2334 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 526; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 88; Rafnia retusa, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 53; 7. glauca, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2088; Bot. Reg. t. 859 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 644; DC. Prod. ii. 118. S. Australia. Memory Cove, R. Brown; from Port Lincoln arouud Spencer's Gulf a to Lake Torrens and Flinders Range, F. Mueller, Whittaker, Warburton, and others. W. Australia. From the Great Australian Bight to King George’s Sound and Stirling Range and thence to Geographe Bay and Swan River, Fraser, Collie, Drummond, n. 213, Preiss, n. 1082 and 1083, Oldfield, and others; Dirk Hartog’s Island, Milne. ee The dissimilarity of the anthers is not so striking as in other species, yet on examination $ will always be found longer and attached by the base, and 5 attached near the middle, all are much narrower than in Bossica. 2. T. Drummondii, Benth. Stems in our specimens ascending from a thick rhizome, not 6 in. high, simple or branched, glabrous, angular-striate. ves ovate or elliptical-oblong, mucronate, 3 to 1 in. long, rigid, glabrous, glaucous, articulate on a petiole of 1 to 4 lines. Stipules minute. Pedicels “be 4 lines long, the bracteoles rather below the middle. Calyx about 2 Ines long, the 4 teeth or lobes nearly equal, much shorter than the tube, the -Uppermost broad and obtuse, the lateral ones rather smaller and almost acute, ie lowest rather longer. Flowers not seen. Pod above 1 in. long, 4 to 5 ines broad, on a very short stipes ; valves coriaceous, very convex. W. Australia, Drummond. ay Muelleri, Bent). A glabrous shrub or undershrub, with a thick ft., more or less sulcate- the upper ones linear, 1 obtuse or with short re- or rarely when narrow Pedicels solitary st nate. Leaves few, the lower ones narrow-oblong, eu 3 : z rved points, flat or concave, coriaceous, continuous lines long, tl he tube, the upper- g, the 4 lobes nearly equal and shorter than the tube, mn sty the lowest rather oy Standard peed, "o e 2 as lone 7 A a J ong as the ; g as the calyx ; keel broad and near A y a O pes. oblone, obli were i broad, the stipes longer g, oblique, abdut 2 in. long and 5 lines broad, nie ne X; valves convex, almost turgid.—Bossieea slenopliylla, F. Muell. Y. 170 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Templetonia. Queensland. Wide Bay, Bidwil/, Leichhardt. N.S. Wales. Hawkesbury river, R. Brown; Cugeegong river, A. Cunningham; New England, near Tenterfield, C. Stuart. Victoria. Murray river, Prince Paul Wilhelm ; Wimmera river and Mount Arapiles, near Lake Hindmarsh, Dad/achy ; Milton, near Port Phillip, Weidenbach. È | 4. T. Hookeri, Benth. A tall slender shrub with erect branches, gla- brous or slightly pubescent. Leaves rather crowded, linear-terete or almost fili- form with a short recurved point, 1 to 3 in. long or even more, glabrous, usually articulate near the middle, showing that the lower portion is a petiole, with which the leaflet is occasionally continuous. Stipules minute. Pedicels fili- form, often 1 in. long, with small bracteoles near the top. Calyx 5 to 6 lines long, the 4 lobes acuminate, longer than the tube, the uppermost with an in- flexed point, the lateral ones shorter, the lowest considerably the longest. Petal-claws short; standard broad, 6 to 7 lines long; keel about as long; wings much smaller. Ovary stipitate, with about 6 ovules. Pod ¿ to above l in. long, about 4 lines broad, on a stipes longer than the calyx, oblique when young, but scarcely so when full grown; valves coriaceous, slightly convex.—Nemutophyllum Hookeri, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew. Journ. ix. 20. N. Australia. N.W. coast, Bynoe; Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Hooker’s and Sturt’s Creeks, F. Mueller. __ 5. T. aculeata, Benth. A low rigid shrub or undershrub, with a thick rhizome and numerous simple or branched often flexuose stems, rarely exceed- ing 1 ft. in height, sulcate-striate and glabrous or nearly so. Leaves few ot sometimes none, the lower ones obovate or oblong, the uppermost linear, z to 1 in. long, rigid and glabrous. Stipules rigid, recurved, prickly, and often 2 lines long. Pedicels short, the bracteoles about the middle. Calyx about 3 E lines long, the 4 lobes of nearly equal length, rather shorter than the tube, the uppermost rather broader and the lowest rather longer than the la E ones. Standard broad, reflexed, twice as long as the calyx; keel about as — long as the standard; wings shorter. Ovary stipitate, with about 6 ovules a Pod about ¿ in. long, on a stipes longer than the calyx; valves coriaceous, but nearly flat.—Bossiea aculeata, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 120. W. Australia, Drummond, n. 141, and 2nd Coll. n. 101; Culjong river, Oldfield. 6. T. egena, Benth. A tall glabrous leafless shrub, with numerous erect terete sulcate branches, the nodes bearing only minute protuberances., Pedicels solitary or 2 together, rarely 1 line long, with small orbicular bo teoles close under the calyx. Calyx 13 lines long or rather more, wit nearly equal broad obtuse teeth, much shorter than the tube, the lowest rather the longest. Petals on rather long claws, scarcely twice as long as the cal. the standard rather longer than the others. Ovary shortly stipitate, with 0. - to 8 ovules. Pod nearly sessile, obliquely oblong, 6 to 8 lines long and a 4 broad, the valves very coriaceous and slightly convex.—Daviesia egent, = Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 118; Bossiæa egena, F. Muell. in Hook. Journ. viii. 43; Fragm. iii. 94. i N. Australia. Hooker and Sturt's Creeks, F. Mueller. z ward N. S. Wales. Deserts of the Murray and Darling, Victorian Expedition ; north -to Mount Aiton, A. Cunningham. Y al and sandy, somewbat saline deserts of the Murray and Murra gee, l. Mueller, S. Australia. Barren bushy places along Spencer’s Gulf to Lake Torrens, F. M see E Templelonia.] XL. LEGUMINOSE. 171 ' 7. T., sulcata, Benth. A tall rigid glabrous leafless shrub, with nume- | rous divaricate branches much flattened, sulcate, striate, and often ending in | stif thorns, notched at the nodes. Pedicels very short ; bracteoles under the = calyx, concave, sometimes nearly 1 line long. Calyx 14 lines long, somewhat - tigid, the 4 lobes broad, obtuse, nearly as long as the tube, the lateral ones -Mather smaller than the others. Standard scarcely twice as long as the calyx ; _ lower petals shorter. Ovary almost sessile, with 2 to 4 ovules. Pod sessile, Very obliquely ovate, 4 to 2 in. long, with a hooked point, valves thickly - toriaceous and convex.—Bossiea sulcata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 81; B. . Rossii, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 94, 168. ; Victoria. Mallee scrub, from the junction of the Murrumbidgee and Murray to Lake E Hindmarsh, F. Mueller. = _ W. Australia, Drummond, n. 107, 108, and 144, J. S. Roe; sandy plains of the Ao, Preiss, n. 1028 ; clayey places, Phillips river, Maxwell. ; . 23. HOVEA, R. Br. (Poiretia, Sm. ; Plagiolobium, Sweet; Platychilum, Delaun.) E Calyx upper lobes united into a broad truncate upper lip, entire or slightly _ marginate, the 3 lower ones much smaller, lanceolate. Petals clawed ; standard nearly orbicular, emarginate; wings shorter, obliquely obovate, auriculate on the inner side at the base; keel much shorter, slightly incurved, use, the petals slightly cohering. Stamens all united in a sheath open on € upper side and sometimes split also on the lower side, or rarely the : ost stamens, and very rarely the lowest free ; anthers alternately long Mud erect and short and versatile. Ovary sessile or stipitate with 2 or _ Tarely more ovules ; style incurved, rather thick; stigma terminal. Pod _ Sessile or stipitate, turgid, very obliquely globular or ovoid, the valves at : h entirely separating. Seeds reniform on short funicles, strophiolate.— Leaves alternate, simple, entire or prickly-toothed, glabrous above, often tomentose underneath. Stipules setaceous, minute or none. Flowers "e or purple, in axillary clusters or very short racemes or rarely meca 3 genus is entirely Australian, and easily recognized by the habit, the calyx, t i WE the flower and ah turgid y Arad ‘itis closely connected with Lemplelonia, - longipes. : : Ovary and pod sessile (Eastern species). brous or slightly pubescent. ms decumbent. lanceolate sa Sine ; s Lower leaves ovate, upper ones "9. H. heterophylla. 1 P ems erect. Leaves numerous, long, mostly narrow-linear . 1. H. linearis. od tomentose or villous, oli E Leaves oblong, lanceolate or linear, obtuse at both ends . . 3. H. longifo pray EE Oe terromed at both ends -i pe rs a e id, Benepe. 7 and pod stipitate, always glabrous. + * “aves with numerous oblique parallel veins. Calyx lower lobes a nearly as long as the upper (East tropical species) : “aves smooth or reticulate the primary veins distant (when con- shorten tranaverse or arcuate. Calyx lower lobes much er than the upper (Western species). K e under 4 in. Lond narrow, pe Branches spines- 5. H. longipes. 6. H.-acanthoclada. . > . . . . . . . 172 XL. LEGUMINOS#., -> [Horea — Leaves mostly above 1 in. long. No thorns. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, prickly-toothed. Upper stamen Sa ee a e sie, ds o la o EN Leaves entire or slightly crisped, the margins flat or recurved. Upper stamen united with the rest. Tall shrub. Leaves elliptical to narrow-lanceolate. Calyx lower lobes at least 4 as long as the upper. Ovules 2. 8. H. elliptica. Stems low or not much branched. Leaves ovate to linear. Calyx lower lobes very small. Ovules usually A SE O A Ue e Leaves } to l in. long, narrow, rigid, the margins much re- volute. ; Leaves obtuse with a small scarcely pungent point . . . 10. H. stricta. : Leaves pungent-pointed . . . . . . . . . +. . 11. 2. pungens. ed ` 1, H. linearis, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 275. Apparently a low shrub, with erect not much-branched stems, of 1 to 2 ft., closely tomentose or pubescent or at length nearly glabrous. Leaves nearly all narrow-linear, 13 to 3 in. long, obtuse with a small point, coriaceous with recurved margins, more or less reticulate, quite glabrous or pubescent underneath, the lower ones occasionally lanceolate or oblong-elliptical. Flowers rather small, soli- 4 tary or 2 or 3 in each axil, on very short pedicels. Calyx about 2 lines long, more or less silky-hairy. Staminal sheath open on the upper side only. at glabrous. Pod sessile, glabrous, about 4 lines broad and long.—DC. Pr : ii. 115; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1222?; Poiretia linearis, Sm. in Trans. Lint. Soc. ix. 304. | N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 375, and others; and northward to Clarence river, Beck/er. This very much resembles the long linear-leaved varieties of H. longifolia. It appears to be a smaller plant, the leaves are not so coriaceous, the flowers smaller and the pod shorter — and always quite glabrous. The specimens figured, Bot. Reg.t. 463, and in Paxt. Mag. m 75, seem to connect this also with the following. ' 2. H. heterophylla, 4. Cunn. in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 93, t. 15. bbe closely allied to H. linearis, and perhaps a variety only, although usually vety different in aspect. Stems decumbent or prostrate at the base, with ascent- — ing or erect slender branches, clothed with a short close tomentum. Lowel — leaves ovate, intermediate ones lanceolate, the uppermost narrow, or sometimes “quite linear, and rarely above 14 in. long, obtuse or almost acute, the margins often recurved, reticulate and glabrous or slightly hairy underneath. pom of H. longifolia or rather larger. Calyx 2 to 3 lines long, the lower me sometimes nearly as long as the upper lip, but very narrow. Ovary and por a of H. longifolia, but quite glabrous or shortly pubescent. E Queensland. Stradbrooke Island, Fraser, A. Cunningham ; Sandstone Hills, towards : Brisbane, Leichhardt. ee , N.S. Wales. Paramatta, Woolls; Macquarrie river, 4. : ningham ; Ywofold Bay, F. Mueller. CU ae mings ; F Victoria. Glenelg river, Robertson ; Mounts Dandenong and Disappointment, 2 Mueller; in the Tattiara country, J. E. Woods. Jie a Abundant in dry and stony places in various parts of the island, 2-2 ooker. 3. H. longifolia, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2,iv. 275. A stout erect ; shrub, attaining 8 to 10 ft.; branches usually erect, softly tomentose oF r Hovea. | XL. LEGUMINOS®, 173 ‘smaller varieties bushy and stunted. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, ob- tuse, with or without a small callous point, all under ¿ in. long in some varie- . ties, in others all above 2 in., thickly coriaceous, with flat recurved or revo- lute margins, glabrous above and smooth and shining or densely reticulate, the primary veins when conspicuous transverse or arcuate, more or less rusty- tomentose underneath. Flowers very shortly pedicellate in axillary clusters, which sometimes grow out into interrupted spikes or racemes, or rarely soli- tary. Bracts and bracteoles small, usually obtuse. Calyx tomentose, 2 to 3 lines long; lobes all short, the upper broad truncate lip not much longer than the lower lobes, which are usually more obtuse than in H. linearis. Standard twice as long as the calyx. Staminal tube open on the upper side only. Ovary tomentose. Pod sessile, 4 to 6 lines broad, softly rusty-tomen- tose or almost villous. N. Australia. Port Essington, A. Cunningham (specimens imperfect). y Queensland. Near Mount Owen, Mitchell; Newcastle Range and Suttor river, F. Mueller; Shoalwater Bay passages, R. Brown; Moreton Bay, 4. Cunningham; near Warwick, Beckler ; Ipswich, Nernst. j N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, and others ; Macquarrie and Lachlan rivers, 4. Cunningham ; northward to Clarence river, Beck/er, and New England, C. Stuart, and southward to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. ; poris. Gipps’ Land, Mitta Mitta river, Mount Butler, ete., ascending to 5000 ft., » Mueller. . Tasmania. Port Dalrymple and Bass’s Straits, R. Brown ; abundant throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. : A 5. Australia. Rocky sides of Mount Remarkable and adjaceut hills, F. Mueller. : The following forms, usually considered as distinct species, pass into each other by such insensible gradations, that I am unable to distinguish them otherwise than as varieties. a, normalis. Leaves linear with revolute margins, usually 14 to 3 in. long, but in some specimens shorter. Flower-clusters often shortly racemose.—H. longifolia, Bot. Reg. t. $14; Lodd. Bot, Cab. t. 994; H. racemulosa, Benth. in Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 4 (the supposed Swan River origin probably a garden mistake).—Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 376, ; 24 others, also R. Brown’s Queensland specimens. Some specimens are very difficult to distinguish from H. linearis. oe _, b. rosmarinifolia; Leaves linear, very obtuse and much revolute, but much shorter a Mm the normal form, and very much reticulate, otherwise closely connecting the pyrite c e of a and c.—H. rosmarinifolia, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 348.— Blue ns. _ © lanceolata. Leaves oblong, or lanceolate, or broadly linear, with flat or recurved Margins, Í to 3 in. long, often las thick, closely, but often densely tomentose —— —H. lanceolata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1624; Bot. Reg. t. 1427 (a weak oxy: ging ht 3 A Prod. ii. 115; H. apiculata, A. Cunn., and H. mucronata, À. Cunn. in G. * > 1 ii, 126 ; H. purpurea, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1457; Maund, Botanist, t. 72; Hook f i: asm. i. 93, but scarcely of Sweet; H. Beckeri, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 391.—Exten over the whole range of the species and the most common form. The more northern Toe y sola often elongated interrupted inflorescences, and the tomentum of the erat eo 4 4 ves thin and pale-coloured ; the Tasmanian and Victorian ones, especially those cp les vations, have usually smaller much more revolute leaves, and the tomentum more Ti E * Pannosa. Leaves linear or oblong, rather large and very coriaceous, ur oom e ; ‘oft and dense, often almost woolly. Flowers rather large, in close clusters, the calyx cod A. te, the lower lobes narrow and acute. Pod often rusty-woolly.—H. PAS. e x yg mistral. t, 13; Bot. Reg. t. 1423; H. villosa, Lindl. in Bot. Reg: t- 1512; 4. Par 2980, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. t. 3053; H. lanigera, Lodd. in Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. a: a osa, A. Cunn. in Bot. Reg., under n. 4 (a narrow-leaved form connecting Polea isa $ variety).—Blne Mountains and Queensland. ‘The Port Essington specimen - Matest to this variety, e 174 XL. LEGUMINOSA, [ Hoven. 4. H. acutifolia, 4. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 126, A tall shrub, allied to the var. pannosa of H. longifolia, but with the leaves always nar- rowed at both ends. Branches densely tomentose-villous, Leaves elliptical- oblong or lanceolate, acuminate or acute, narrowed at the base, mostly 2 to 3 in. long, and the larger ones 1 in. broad in the middle, the margins slightly recurved, densely but „minutely reticulate above, loosely tomentose-villous underneath, the primary veins few, nearly transverse or arcuate. Flowers in clusters of 2 or 3, like those of H. longifolia, var. pannosa or rather larger. Ovary sessile, tomentose-villous. Pod not seen. Queensland. Brisbane river, Fraser, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller, and others; Pine river, Fitzalan. 5. H. longipes, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 37. A tall shrub, resembling at first sight some forms of H. longifolia, but readily distinguished by the venation of the leaf as well as by the flower and fruit. Branches, under side of the leaves and calyxes hoary or slightly rusty, with a close or soft tomen- tum. Leaves from oval-elliptical to oblong or lanceolate, obtuse witha minute callous point, ¿ to 1} in. long, coriaceous with slightly recurved margins, glabrous above and marked with numerous oblique parallel slightly reticulate primary veins. Flowers usually 2 or 3 together, each on a pedi longer than the calyx, with 2 minute bracteoles near the end. Calyx very broadly campanulate, scarcely 2 lines long, the lobes or teeth all very short, the upper lip broad and truncate, but scarcely exceeding the lower lobes. Standard very broad, twice as long as the calyx. Ovary quite glabrous. Pod 4 or 5 lines broad and long, very coriaceous, quite glabrous, on a stipes from the length of the calyx to twice as long.—H. leiocarpa, Benth. Mitch. Trop. Austr. 289. o Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown; dry forest and sheltered valleys, Mantuan Downs and Maranoa river, Mitchell ; Burdekin river, F. Mueller; edge of the scrub, near Rockhampton, Thozet ; Fitzroy river, Bowman, N. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler. Be 6. H. acanthoclada, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 15. A rigid spreading de varicately branched shrub, with the habit of some of the spinescent Bossidas; — branches closely rusty-tomentose, the smaller ones ending in slender thorns. — Leaves scattered or clustered, rarely 3 lines long, linear-oblong, obtuse, W! . revolute margins, glabrous above, rusty-tomentose underneath. Flowers — usually solitary, on short pedicels. Bracteoles minute. Calyx minutely ee mentose, turbinate-campanulate, about 2 lines long, the upper lip truncalo with acuminate angles, the lower lobes or teeth much shorter. Petal and ovary not seen. Staminal sheath open on the upper side. Pod obliquely ovoid, glabrous, on a stipes as long as the calyx-tube.—Daviesia acanth Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1853, i. 262. i ee W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 96; Phillips river, Ma.rwell. This species a connects in some measure Hovea with Bossiea, but the pod is entirely that of the genus. E 7. H. chorizemifolia, DC. Prod. ii. 116. Usually a stout branching shrub of several ft., although occasionally the stems are nearly simple froma thick stock; branches rusty-tomentose, villous or nearly glabrous. from ovate to lanceolate, pungent-pointed, sinuate and prickly-toothed, | Hovea.] XL. LEGUMINOS®. 175 undulate, 14 to nearly 3 in. long, coriaceous, reticulate and usually glabrous. Flowers 2 to 6 together, rather small, on short pedicels. Bracteoles subulate. - Calyx silky-villous, 2 to 3 lines long ; upper lip very large and broad, lower | lobes very small. Ovary glabrous, with 2 ovules. Staminal sheath open on the upper side, and sometimes also on the under side, the upper stamens usually quite free. Pod glabrous, about as broad as Jong, on a short stipes. - —Bot. Reg. t. 1524, Maund, Botanist, t. 130; Plagiolobium chorizemifolium, Sweet, Fl. Austral. t. 2; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 80; P. ilicifolium, Sweet, = Leina note; Meissn. l.c.; H. ilicifolia, A. Cunn. in Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 58 (a marrow-leaved branch). : = _W. Australia. Common from King George’s Sound to Swan River, R. Brown, _ Fraser, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 181, Preiss, n. 1052, 1058, 1060, and others. - I have in vain endeavoured to distribute our numerous specimens into appreciable varieties. 8. E. elliptica, DO. Prod. ii. 115. A tall shrub, attaining sometimes 5 to 10 ft., the branches rather slender, rusty with a minute tomentum. _ leaves from ovate-elliptical to narcow-lanceolate, usually narrowed at both T ends, obtuse or emarginate, with a minute point or rarely almost acute, 2 to - Sin. long on the larger branches, 1 to 2 in. on the smaller ones, not very - Cortaceous, reticulate with the primary veins nearly transverse, glabrous above, - pale underneath with an appressed pubescence, the petioles often rather long. Flowers blue, in axillary clusters or short racemes, the pedicels often as long as or longer than the calyx. Calyx 23 or rarely 3 lines long ; upper lip as long as the tube and very broad, lower lobes about half as long. Standard ly twice as long as the calyx. Staminal sheath open on the upper side E and scarcely splitting on the lower side. Ovary glabrous with 2 ovules. Pod _ Mipitate, glabrous, about as long as broad.— Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1450? (a starved specimen ?); Poiretia elliptica, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 1x. 305 ; Platychilum Celsianum, Herb. Amat. t. 187, according to G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. : 127; DC, Prod. ii. 116; Goodia simplicifolia, Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 267; : see Celsi, Bonpl. Jard. Malm. t. 51; DC. Prod. ii. 115 ; Bot. Reg. t. ae Bot. Mag. t. 2005 ; Maund, Botanist, t. 40; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 988; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 79, and ii. 221; Paxt. Mag. iii. 241 with a Î8.; H. latifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 30 (£) (from the figure). W. Australia. Kin » Menzies, Drummond, and others; g George’s Sound, R. Brown, Menzies, 21 2 Sussex and Plantagenet districts, ph n. 1053 and 1055; Vasse river, Oldjield. AN Benth, in Hadj. Taw, 87. An undershrub or _ little-branched SFB, h pee et ir ditt erect stems, of i ie = glibrons or pubescent. Lower leaves ovate or elliptical, + to 15 m. ES Upper ones lanceolate or linear, 1 to 3 in. long, obtuse with a short point or acute, glabrous and reticulate above, slightly tomentose or loosely paeet underneath. Flowers rather large, usually 2 or 3 together on short pedice E cts and bracteoles subulate. Calyx silky-villous, 3 to 4 a = ns {ube very short, the upper lip very large and rounded-truncate, the > bes not 3 as long. Staminal sheath usually open on i . den > Upper side, leaving the lowest stamen free, and rarely the on 7 e also. Ovary glabrous with 2 or more ovules, usually 3 im ee Pod fully as broad as lon z9 & glabrous, on a stipes from half as long to 5: 8 . 176 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Hovea. fully as long as the calyx.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 79; H. Manglesii, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 62 (said to differ in the sessile ovary, but it is figured as stipitate). i W. Australia. King George’s Sound to Swan River, R. Brown, Huegel, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 179 and 180, Preiss, n. 1051, and others. Var. crispa. More slender. Leaves from ovate to lanceolate, often slightly cordate, the margins crisped and sometimes almost crenulate. Calyx rather more hairy. Ovules 2 to4. —H. crispa, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 19; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 79.—-Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. ; Darling range, Preiss, n. 1063. H. splendens, Paxt. Mag. x. 103, from the figure given, must be very near this variety. Var. grandiflora. Larger and nearly glabrous. Leaves more coriaceous, quite entire, strongly reticulate. Flowers large. Calyx often near 5 lines long. Ovules often i H. elliptica, Meissn. in Pl, Preiss. i. 79, not of DC.—Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. and n. 178. 10. H. stricta, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 79, and in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 30. Stems little-branched, erect, rigid, 1 to 14 ft. high, loosely tomentose-villous. Leaves lanceolate or linear, or the lower ones ovate-lanceolate, often erect, $ to 1 in. long, obtuse with a short rigid point, the margins revolute, rounded or cordate at the base, rather rigid, reticulate and glabrous above, hoary-to- mentose or loosely villous underneath. Flowers 2 or 3 together on s pedicels. Bracts and bracteoles subulate. Calyx 2 to 3 lines long, silky of loosely villous, upper lip large and broad, lower lobes much shorter narrow and acute, but not so small as in H. trisperma. Standard ¿ in. diameter. Staminal sheath often splitting on the lower side as well as the upper, but I have never seen any stamen free. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with 2 ovules. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Sandy woods, Sussex district, Preiss, n. 1057 ; Vasse river, Oldfield; Swan River and between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n.27. 11. H, pungens, Benth. in Huey. Enum. 37, and in Huey. Arch. BO. t. 7. An erect rigid not much-branched shrub of 1 to 2 ft., the branches softly pubescent or villous. Leaves linear or lanceolate, $ to 1 in. long, very SPIN ing, rigidly coriaceous with pungent points, the margins much revolute, T culate above, glabrous or the upper ones sprinkled with a few hairs. Stip setaceous, often more conspicuous than in other species, but sometimes minute or deciduous. Flowers 1 to 3 together on short pedicels. Bracteoles subu late. Calyx 2% to 3 lines long, silky-villous or hirsute, the upper lip very broad, the lower lobes rather shorter. Standard about 3 in. diameter. "ri minal sheath open on the upper side only. Ovary glabrous, with 2 of rarely 3 ovules. Pod very oblique, rather longer than broad, the stipes ¥ nearly as long as the calyx.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 78; Maund, Bo nish, t. 164; Paxt. Mag. vi. 101, and x. 51 with figs. — W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 177, Preiss, n. 1054, Old : field and others; Gordon river, Oldfield ; along the coast to East Mount Barren, Mareell _ Var. ulicina. Lower leaves rather broader, calyx rather more hairy.—#. ulicina, 96. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 30.—Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. er Some specimens are, however, scarcely distinguishable from the common H. pungens, © as a variety. f 24. GOODIA, Salisb. Calyx 2 upper lobes united in a 2-toothed upper lip, 3 lower ones - Goodia.] XL. LEGUMINOS#. 177 - Petals clawed ; standard orbicular; wings narrow ; keel broader, incurved, - obtuse. Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side; anthers all f versatile, alternately smaller, Disk annular between the stamens and ovary. | Ovary stipitate, with 2 to 4 ovules; style subulate, incurved ; stigma small, terminal. Pod stipitate, flat, valves thin with a nerviform edge. Seeds stro- phiolate.—-Shrubs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, with entire leaflets. Flowers ellow mixed with purple, in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. Stipules racts and bracteoles membranous, but so deciduous as to be rarely seen but in very young branches or racemes. The genus is limited to Australia, and although nearly allied to Bossiea in its flowers and fruit, has the inflorescence of Crotalaria, and differs from all other Genis/ea in its pinnately e leaves. It would therefore be equally well placed under Ga/egee, next to Pty- ma. Glabrous or the young shoots minutely pubescent... 404 ve, L 0, dono, Softly pubescent all over. . ; . . + .. 2. Q. pubescens. G.(?) polysperma, DC. Prod. ii. 117, is Argyrolobium Andrewsianum, Steud., a South ncan, not an Australian plant. >. E. retusa, Mackay, and G, subpubescens, Sweet, in Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2, are unpub- garden names, probably of some varieties of G. lotiolia. „l. G. lotifolia, Salisb. Parad. Lond. t.41. A tall much-branched shrub, either quite glabrous or the young shoots minutely pubescent and often glau- 7 cous. Leaflets ovate or obovate, very obtuse, 4 to ¿ in. long, the lateral ones usually at a considerable distance from the terminal one, the petiole slender. semes loose, many-flowered, 2 to 4 in. long. Calyx 24 to 3 lines long, į © “ower lobes linear-lanceolate nearly as long as the tube, the upper lip very Broad, more or less 2-toothed at the top. Standard about twice as long as calyx, notched, yellow with a purple base; lower petals rather shorter. od varying from 3 to nearly 1 in. long and 3 to 4 lines broad, on a stipes much longer than the calyx, the upper suture often dilated, the valves thin th transverse reticulations sometimes very prominent, sometimes scarcely 'ptible.—DC, Prod. ii. 117; Bot. Mag. t. 958; Lodd: Bot. Cab. t. 696; Ook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 97; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 88. N. s. Wales. Hastings riv aser. Pe i In the Sea ot ths arte F. Mueller; near Portland, Robertson. qismania. Common in various parts of the island, J. D. Hooker. > Australia, Flinders range, Guichen and Rivoli Bays, Crystal Brook, ete.. F. ueller ; Onkaparinga range, Whittaker. ee a r » Drummond, 5th Coll. n.89; Hay district, Preiss, n. 1014. medicaginea, F, Muell. Fragm. i. 10, the prevailing Continental form, with shorter Smoother pods, passes gradually into the more common Tasmanian form. 2. G, pubescens, Sins, Bot. May. t. 1310. Most probably a variety 6. lotifolia, differing in being softly pubescent all over, the leaflets usually ea vet and more approximate at the end of the shorter petiole, the flower’ . * Smaller.—DC. Prod. ii. 117; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 97. Dandenong mountains, F, Mueller. a. Common throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. It is united with G. loti- rhe Muell. Fragm. i. 10. ; N > 178 XL. LEGUMINOSX. 25. CROTALARIA, Lim. Calyx-lobes nearly equal, or the 2 upper ones and the 3 lower ones more or less united. Standard orbicular or ovate; wings shorter; keel incurved or angled, terminating inwards in a straight or incurved beak. Stamens all united in a sheath, open along the upper side; anthers alternately long and erect and short and versatile. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with 2 or more ovules ; style much incurved or suddenly bent inwards, with a longitudinal line of hairs above the middle on the inner side (sometimes very small); stigma terminal. Pod turgid or inflated, continuous inside. Seeds not strophiolate, on slender funicles.—Herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple or digitately compound with 1, 3 or (in species not Australian) 5 or 7 leaflets often marked with pellucid dots. Stipules free from the petiole, occasionally decurrent along the stem, frequently small or wanting. Flowers yellow or blue, in simple ter- minal racemes, becoming sometimes leaf-opposed, with a bract, often very | small, under each pedicel and minute bracteoles adnate to the calyx-tube or just below it. o well- nus, widely dispersed over the tropical and warm regious | both FE Ae ip the 14 otras» species b are East Indiau, and 2 of these are also abundant in many parts of Africa and America, the remaining 6 are en- demic, 3 of them belonging to a group peculiarly Australian. Sers I. Simplicifolise.—Leaves simple, continuous with the short petiole, the Aus | tralian species all herbs or undershrubs. Ovary and pod pubescent or villous. : Leaves ovate. Stipules leafy, semilunar or falcate. Flowers A ee A ws Leaves oblong, linear, or rarely obovate. Stipules setaceous or as none. Flowers yellow. Ovules 2. Pod usually 1-seeded, not exceeding the calyx. mune Flowers small en dnd © hea ees tb vice ¡A CON Ovules numerous. Pod many-seeded, above 1 in. long. Flowers rather large. ey a o Oe C. juncea. Ovary and pod quite glabrous. Upper leaves usually linear. Petals and pod not exceeding the calyx. : . Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, silky-pubescent or shortly villous, ia the 2 upper lobes united . E la ME A dé . . +. 4& C. linifoha. Calyx 1 in. long, densely hirsute with long spreading hairs, : the upper lobes free a is e e Upper leaves broad, oblong-cuneate or rarely almost linear. Petals and pod much longer than the calyx. _ Leaves oblong cuneate. Flowers large in loose racemes. Calyx 4 to 6 lines; pod 1} in. long . 6. C. retusa. Leaves oval-elliptical or oval-lanceolate. Flowers numerous in dense racemes, Calyx not above 3 li der $ j in, WHR . eu zd Se ire E eeen . 7. C. Mitchelli. »Szcr. II. Unifoliolatee.—Leaves simple, the petiole articulate or geniculate above ‘middle. Stem shrubby. Flowers under ¿ in. long; standard obtuse. jA Leaves pubescent or villous, at least underneath. Stipules none Nandi. or net decarráti: . a) 4adie lc Syahid ad ae o. 8. O: Nove-He Whole plant quite glabrous. Stipules decurrent. . . . . 9 C. erassipe pr ie Flowers 1} in. long or more; standard acute or acuminate . . 10. C. Cunning! a Crotalaria.] XL, LEGUMINOSA. 179 Series TI. Digitatoe.—Leaves all or mostly compound with 3 rarely 5 digitate leaf: lets. Herbs or shrubs. Ovules 2. Pod small, as broad as long. Herb with small flowers 11. C. trifoliastrum. Ovules many. Pod oblong, much longer than the calyx, Ovary and pod sessile or nearly so. Calyx deeply lobed. Standard almost acute, slighily exceed- ing the calyx. Pod hirsute with spreading hairs . . . 12. C. incana. Calyx divided to the middle. Standard broad and obtuse, much longer than the calyx. Pod pubescent, tomentose or almost glabrous, wile gel aes . 13. C. dissitiflora. y and pod on a long stipes. Flowers large, Leaflets 3. Standard acute tose e e'e a 14, C laburnifolia, Leaflets usually 5. Standard very obtuse =, 0 ERA quinquefolia. Seres I. SIMPLICIFOLIÆ£.—Leaves simple, continuous with the short' petiole, the Australian species all herbaceous or undershrubs. l. ©. verrucosa, Zinn. ; DC. Prod. ii, 125. A stout erect minutely pubescent annual of 13 to 3 ft.; branches divaricate with prominent angles most winged. Leaves usually ovate-rhomboidal 2 to 4 in. long, but passing = “metimes into ovate-acuminate or almost lanceolate and 5 or 6 in. long, al- Ways very obtuse. Stipules semilunar or falcate, horizontally spreading. p overs pale-blue, in loose terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. Calyx about 4 tines long, the lobes acuminate, longer than the tube, all free, the lowest rather © narrowest. Standard broad, above 4 in. diameter. Ovary sessile, very ous all over or on the inner side, with above 20 ovules. Pod oblong, vil- 4 na 17 to 2 in. long.—Wight, Ic. t. 200; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 54. ; E R pi pstralia, Victoria river and stony hills and grassy banks on the Wickham river, 4 Queensland. Endeavour river, R. Brown ; Cape Upstart, M'Gillivray ; Bowen river, ey Then Rockhampton, Thozet ; Edgecombe Bay, Da/lachy. pec ies is common in East India, and is now spread over many parts of tropical Africa — tnd America, O, crispata, F. Muell. Herb. A low much-branched softly villous » the stems diffuse or ascending and not exceeding 1 ft. Leaves from ovate-oblong to narrow oblong-cuneate, or broadly linear, very obtuse, $ E In. long, villous on both sides. Flowers small, few, in short loose = 3 tacts and bracteoles minute, ovate-acute or lanceolate, creas r - “ide, glabrous inside. Calyx about 3 lines long, deeply cleft, the 3 lower lo E shortly united, the 2 upper ones broader, all lanceolate, very m e ‘Sometimes Viscous inside, villous outside, the margins often gen : ae ped after flowering. Petals scarcely exceeding the calyx. € gl mo , bat Late with 2 ovules. Pod ovoid, villous, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Usually solitary, black and shining. uO! A ad ali Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Victoria, Fitzmanrice es ers, F. Mueller. Soe i seat manh Pant is referred by E. Mueller, Fragm. i, 53, to C.remosisina, SF inion is bles in many respects, but which, in its large flowers and broad reflexed vi A Crispat, e ce lunulata, Heyne. Both these species are allied to C. eens in han they are p edonbtedly connected with them, alihough rather more distinct > ere from each other, : š C. juncea, Lini.; DO. Prod. ii. 125. An erect a, ad . i 180 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [Crotalaria. many feet, with few, erect, sulcate-striate, silky-pubescent branches. Leaves simple, nearly sessile, oblong or linear, obtuse, 1 to 3 in., or when narrow, 4 3 in. long or more, glabrous above or nearly so, pubescent underneath. Flowers rather large, yellow, not numerous, in a long terminal raceme. Calyx tomen- ` tose, 4 to 6 or even 7 lines long, deeply divided into narrow-lanceolate nearly 1 equal lobes, the 2 upper ones truncate or hooked at the top. Petals slightly exceeding the calyx, the standard usually pubescent. Ovary sessile, villous, . with about 20 ovules. Pod above 1 in. long, densely clothed with a rusty | tomentum.—Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 422; Bot. Mag. t. 490; W. and Arn. Prod. | Fl. Ind. 185 (with the synonyms given); F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 51. N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, Hooker's and Sturt's Creeks, F. Mueller. Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown ; Logan river, Fraser; Port Denison, Bow- man ; Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy ; Wide Bay, Leichhardt. The species is common in East India, where it is much cultivated for the fibrous bark, used as a substitute for hemp under the name of Sunn. 4. C. linifolia, Linn. f.; DC. Prod. ii. 128. A perennial with a thick — rhizome, or sometimes annual, exceedingly variable in aspect, usually silky- q pubescent or villous, sometimes clothed with long spreading hairs or vhe | close or woolly white tomentum, often drying black. Steins erect or ascend- y ing, from a few inches to 11 ft. high. Leaves simple, the lower ones, 0t nearly all in the smaller form8, obovate or oblong, obtuse and mostly under A 3 in. long, the upper ones, or nearly all in the elongated varieties, ae 3 oblong or linear, 1 to 2 in. long, obtuse or almost acute. Flowers smat, yellow, in loose terminal racemes. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, divided mene the base into 2 lips, the upper one 2-toothed, the lower one 3-lobed to t | middle. Petals not exceeding the calyx. Ovary sessile, glabrous, with 19% i 20 ovules.. Pod ovoid-globular, scarcely exceeding the calyx.—W. and Am. | Prod. Fl. Ind. 190; Benth.in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 569; F. Muell. sn 3 iii. 55; C. stenophylla, Vog.; Benth. l.c. ; C. melanocarpa, Wall. ; Benth. 1. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; N. W. Coast, Bynoe Goulburn Island, 4. Cunningham ; Victoria river and Macadam ruge, F, Mueller. Queensland. Endeavour river, Keppel Bay, Shoalwater Bay, etc., R. Pa York, M‘Gillivray ; Percy Island, A. Cunningham ; Rockhampton, Thozet and f Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Moreton Bay, M‘Gillivray, F. Mueller, and others. N. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler. : ecting R. Brown’s herbarium comprises a particularly instructive series of specimens coun all the different forms, which have at first sight the appearance of distinct species. these varieties the species is easily recognized by the calyx and pod. 5. C. calycina, Schranck, Pl. Rar. Hort. Monac. t.12. A deci a or nearly erect annual, 1 to 14 ft. high, not much branched, villous with ap- y pressed or scarcely spreading hairs. Leaves simple, nearly sessile, from $ | and oblong, to lanceolate or linear and 2 to 6 in. long, glabrous or near thet + above, villous underneath. Flowers in terminal racemes, remarkable for thet large pendulous calyx, often fully 1 in. long, thickly covered with long SP ing rusty hairs, deeply divided into nearly equal lobes the 2 upper ones brous, broader. Petals pale yellow, shorter than the calyx. Ovary sessile, pn with above 30 ovules. Pod oblong, not exceeding the calyx.—Ben Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 564; C. anthylloides, D. Don; W. and Arn. prod: Ind. 181, and of some others, not of Lam. = Ss > Crolalaria.] XL. LEGUMINOS. 181 Queensland. Endeavour river and Broad Sound, R. Brown ; Rockhampton, Thozet ; Fitzroy river, Dallachy ; Port Denison, Fitzalan. 6. C. retusa, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 125. An erect perennial or under- shrub of 14 to 3 ft., with few stiff erect branches, hoary with a short pubes- cence. Leaves simple, cuneate-oblong, very obtuse or retuse, 13 to 3 in. long, glabrous above, hoary or silky-pubescent underneath. Flowers yellow, rather large, pendulous. Bracts and bracteoles as in the other Australian ¿Species small and narrow. Calyx 4 to 6 lines long, slightly pubescent, the tube broad, the lobes longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones rather broader, the lateral ones shortly united with the narrow lowest one. Standard broadly orbicular, 2 to 1 in. diameter. Ovary sessile, glabrous, with 18 to 20 ovules. Pod glabrous, much inflated, often attaining 1} in. in length.—Bot. Reg. t. 253; Bot. Mag. t. 2561; W. and Arn. Prod. 187; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 51. N. Australia. Sandy rocky situations on Victoria river, and Sea Range, Arnhem's Land, F. Mueller ; Albert river, Henne. ; Queensland, Bowman ; Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy. í The species is widely spredd over the warmer regions of the globe, both in the New and the Old World, but chiefly near the sea. 1. C. Mitchelli, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 120. A perennial with ‘thick stock and erect branching stems of 1} to 8 ft., more or less pubescent or tomentose. Leaves ovate-elliptical, ovate-lanceolate or rarely almost obo- vate or narrow-oblong, obtuse but usually less so than in C. retusa, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 in, long, glabrous above, hoary or loosely pubescent underneath. OWers much smaller and more numerous than in O. retusa, in a dense ter- ~ minal raceme often attaining 4 to 6 in. Calyx rarely 3 lines long, slightly dl Pubescent, the lobes scarcely longer than the tube. Standard 5 to 6 lines E Ovary sessile, glabrous, with 8 to 10 ovules. Pod under 1 in. N. Australia. Wills’s tts edition. 7 Queensland. Bed a whe E daraa ; Dawson and Brisbane hts F. Mueller; Wide Bay, Bidwill ; Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy ; Port Denison, Fitza pr : 5. Wales. Hunters River, R. Brown ; Clarence river, Beckler ; head of dir, Leichhardt, y PA Cy uch as the shape of the leaves varies, they are always broader and less cunea! E “sa, and the pellucid dots are much less conspicuous. A, simple, the petiole articulate or ge- niculate above the middle. Stem shrubby. ile Sie | “Ss three following species appear to be anomalous in the development of their een t of the specimens of C. Nove-Hollandie have the lower buds of the raceme sti po whilst the upper ones are fully out, and I have observed it also in ee ira q Vunninghamii, in another I see undevelcped buds irregularly mixed. pony a — Cimeng 1 ; $ development. It remains, = of C. crassipes are not in a state to show the order soe ltda de ver, as yet doubtful inflorescence is really cen e e Yelopment of the loser bale ginny es boss a cause retarded after their first appearance. 3° C. Novee-Hollandize, DC. Prod. ii. 127. An erect aes cfs ud tal 2 Vh terete or angular closely tomentose branches. Leaves ale T oblong, very obtuse, 2 to 3 in. long, glabrous or pubescen $ $ de 0 or . ? “tky-pubescent, tomentose or villous underneath, the petiole from } to ¿ in. | N. Australia. Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown.; S. Goulburn Island, A. Cunningham. à i ; 182 XL. LEGUMİNOSÆ. ` (Crotalaria, long, more or less distinctly articulate or geniculate above the middle. Flowers yellow, rather numerous, in terminal racemes, variable in size. Bracts small and narrow. Calyx about 3 to 34 lines long, the lobes all acuminate, nearly equal and scarcely longer than the tube. Standard 6 to 8 lines diameter, glabrous. Ovary sessile, pubescent or villous, with 15 to 20 ovules or even more.. Pod 1 to 14 in. long, tomentose-pubescent, or at length nearly gla- ‘brous.—C. oblongifolia, Hook. Ic. Pl. under n. 830; C. Mitchelli, E. Muell. Fragm. iii. 50, not of Benth. N. Australia. N.W. coast, Bynoe; Nichol Bay, F. Gregorys Expedition; Upper Victoria river and Alligator Point, F. Mueller ; Gulf of Carpentaria, Henne, Landsborough } near Monnt Humphries, M‘ Douall Stuart. The above specimens comprise the 3 following rather marked forms :— a. parviflora, Leaves glabrous above. Flowers small. Pod oblong, about Ẹ in. long. b. oblongifolia. Leaves glabrous above or slightly pubescent. Flowers rather large. Pod above 1 in. long, much inflated. c. lasiophylla. Leaves softly pubescent on both sides. Flowers rather large. Bracts closely reflexed, 9. C. crassipes, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 830. Apparently a tall and erect plant, closely allied to ©. Nove-Hollandia, with the same oblong or elliptical obtuse leaves on articulate or geniculate petioles, but the whole plant 1s per- fectly glabrous, and the subulate stipules, and the back of the petiole are continued below the insertion of the leaf into raised angles shortly d on the stem. The inflorescence is that of C. Nove-Hollandie, the flowers rather larger and the calyx-lobes rather longer. The ovary is as glabrous as the rest of the plant. N. Australia. N.W. coast, Bynoe. 10. C. Cunninghamii, R. Br. in. App. Sturt Exped. 8. A shrub, of 2 to 3 ft., with softly tomentose terete or slightly angular branches. Leaves ovate, usually broad, very obtuse, 13 to 3 in. long, densely and softly tomen tose-pubescent or villous on both sides, the petiole 4 to $ in. long, articulate or geniculate above the middle. Stipules and bracts softly subulate, some- times rather long, but very deciduous. Racemes terminal, usually short : dense, sometimes reduced to a sessile cluster, rarely 4 to 5 in. long. Lette very large, of a yellowish-green colour, more or less streaked with í ee Calyx tomentose, the tube about 3 lines long, the lobes varying E at e length to twice as long, all nearly equal. Standard ovate, acuminate. abou : 13 in. long when fully developed; keel rather longer; wings shorter. Ovary E shortly stipitate, villous, with 20 or more ovules. Pod coriaceous, tomentos®, a 13 in. long.—Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 829; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 52. ao W. Australia. Common on the sandy shores of the N.W. coast, Bynoe ; from Cyr Bay, A. Cunningham, to Victoria river, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller, : hardt ; sandy ridges of the Hammersley Range, F. Gregorys Expedition; N E and De Grey river, Rid/ey's Expedition ; Mount Humphries, M'Douall Stuart. Wheeler, A S. Australia. Towards Spencer’s Gulf, Warburton ; near Cooper's Creek, o Howitt s Expedition. W. Australia. Sharks Bay, M. Brown. e C. Sturtii, R. Br. in App. Sturt Exped? 7, gathered by D. Sturt between aro D and 26°, which I have not seen, is believed both by Hooker and by F. Mueller to ' same as C, Cunninghamit, the specimen of the latter seen by R. Brown having been IMi} fect as to inflorescence, and there is nothing in R. Brown’s diagnoses of C. Sturt, ot Wa long common petiole. Flowers small, yello Crotalaria.] : XL. LEGUMINOSA. 183 does not agree perfectly with the common state of C. Cunninghamii; but in the description the tenth stamen is said to be free, which I have never found in C. Cunninghamit. Series II. DicriraTa.—Leaves all or mostly digitately compound, with 3 leaflets in the Australian species, very rarely reduced to 1 in a few leaves of one species, 5 or 7 in some East Indian species. Herbs or shrubs. 11, C. trifoliastrum, Willd. ; W. and Arn. Prod. 191. A perennial with rather slender, erect ascending or decumbent branching stems, usually 1 to 2 ft. high, more or less pubescent. Leaflets 3, usually oblong-cuneate, . but varying from obovate and under 4 in. long, to linear-cuneate and about l in. long, very obtuse or retuse, glabrous above, hoary or pubescent under- neath, the petiole slender. Flowers usually small,.but variable in size, in terminal racemes of 1 to 3 in. Calyx pubescent, about 2 lines long, the lobes narrow and much longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones rather smaller than the others. Standard broad, exceeding the calyx, but usually shorter than the straight beak of the keel. Ovary sessile, pubeseent, with 2 ovules. Pod about 2 lines broad and not longer, tapering into a short hooked point, pu- at or nearly glabrous.—Wight, lc. t. 421. N. Australia. N.W. coast, Bynoe ; Victoria river, F. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R, Brown, Henne ; Port Essington, Armstrong. q Ed d. Bay of Inlets and Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Wide Bay, Bidwill ; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy; Port Denison, Fitzalan. F. Mueller, Fragm. iii. 56, unites this with C. medicaginea, Lam., but the latter appears to be always prostrate, with small broad leaflets, unless when drawn up in luxuriant grass, imi racemes mueh shorter, the flowers smaller, the standard larger in proportion to the eel, ete, F. Mueller’s herbarium contains also a single imperfect specimen from the Gulf of Car- pentaria, Landsborough, allied to C. trifoliastrum, but evidently shrubby, with woolly to- mentose branches and larger flowers, closely resembling C.. Notonit; wW. aud Arn. Prod. ii. 192 (the same as C. rostrata, W. and Arn. |. c. 191), but the materials are insufficient for ascertaining whether it be a distinct species. 12. C. incana, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 132. An erect herb, usually annual, attaining 2 or 3 ft., the branches tomentose, pubescent or rusty-villous. Leaflets 3, obovate or orbicular, very obtuse, usually 4 to 1 in. long, gla- brous above, more or less ciliate on the edge and sometimes hairy underneath, w, in short ss teta opposed racemes. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long or rarely rather more, the lobes nely acuminate, kaal times longer than the small tube. Standard as ng as or rather longer than the calyx, broad, but almost acuminate ; Wings narrow; keel nearly as long as the standard ; anthers smaller than m most species and rather less disproportioned. Ovary sessile, villous, with humerous densely crowded ovules. Pod sessile, 1 to 1g in. long, usually much inflated and hirsute with spreading hairs.—Benth. in Mart. Fl, Bras. 8-27; F. Muell. Fragm. iii, 53; C. affinis, DO. Prod. ii. 132 ; C. herba- T Schweigg. in Schranck, Syll. Pl. Ratisb. ii. 77; C. cubensis, DC. Prod. ii. 31; O. Schimperi, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 151. land. - Moreton island and Gilbert river, F. Mueller ; E Rockhampton and oe ner bee Dallachy. The species is widely dispersed per 87 eal and subtropical regions of the New and the Old World. The gare in cone eg. ae usually quoted for it, represents rather C. striata, DC; Prod. ii. 131, another com- Species, but not as yet found in Australia. za wo 184 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [ Crotalaria. 13. C. dissitiflora, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 386. - An erect per- ennial, of 1 to 2 ft., the branches hoary or silky-tomentose. Leaflets usually 3, broadly obovate, oblong, or rarely almost linear, very obtuse, rarely above 1 in. long, and often much smaller, usually glabrous above and hoary-tomen- tose or silky underneath, rarely glabrous or villous on both sides. _ Flowers yellow, in a rather loose terminal raceme, often elongating to 5 or 6 in. Calyx 2 to 3 lines long, the lobes rarely longer than the tube, and all nearly equal. Standard broad, twice as long as the calyx; keel rather shorter. Ovary shortly stipitate, more or less pubescent or villous, with 10 to 12 ovules. Pod pubescent, tomentose, or nearly glabrous. N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough. Queensland. Balonne river, Mitchel! ; Suttor river, F. Mueller , Broad Sound, Bow- man; Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy ; heads of the Isaacs and Bowen rivers, man. Var. eremea. Leaflets narrow, the lateral ones often small or wanting, softly tomentose hoary or white.—C. eremea, F. Mvell. Rep. Greg. Pl. 5; referred to C. dissiliflora, E Muell. Fragm. iii. 56.—Flooded border of Wills's Creek, Murray, also— N. S. Wales. Between the Darling and Cooper's Creek, Neilson. S. Australia. Cooper's Creek, O. A. Gregory ; towards Spencer's Gulf, Warburton. Var. rugosa. Leaves soft, silky-villous on both sides. Flowers small.—Sturt’s Creek and Newcastle Water, F. Mueller. Var. (?) grandiflora. Very silky-villous. Flowers much larger.— Hammersley Range, F. Gregory's Expedition ; Port Nichol aud De Grey River, Ridley's Expedition. 14. C. laburnifolia, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 130. An erect glabrous ‘shrub of several feet, with rather slender terete branches. Leaflets 3, petio- lulate, ovate, mostly acute, 1 to 2 in. long, on a rather long common petiole. Flowers large, yellow, in loose terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. Caly z es 6 lines long, the lobes acuminate, much longer than the broad tube. Stand broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, fully ¢ in. long; wings not half so long, broad, with the transverse folds particularly prominent; keel with a long straight beak, as long as the standard. Ovary on a long stipes, glabrous with 20 to 30 or more ovules. Pod 14 in. long or more, on a stipes M longer than the calyx.—W. and Arn. Prod. 193; F. Muell, Fragm. m. 53. Queensland. Cape Cleveland, A. Cunningham ; Cape Upstart, M'Gillivray; sandy shores of the Burdekin, Dawson and Burnett rivers, F. Mueller ; Port Denison, J Burdekin and Bowen rivers, Bowman. The species is common on the saudy coasts of East India. 15. C. quinquefolia, Zinn.; DC. Prod. ii. 135. An erect annual, attaining 3 or 4 ft., with a hollow stem, glabrous or silky-pubescent. ; lets usially 5, lanceolate or linear, obtuse, 14 to 3 in. long or the central on longer, almost sessile on a rather long common petiole. Flowers "o yellow, in loose terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. Bracts lanceolate, acuti- nate, reflexed. Calyx 5 to 6 lines long, the lobes broad, acuminate, sc? y cd louger than the tube. Standard broad, very obtuse, about 4 in. diameter wings rather shorter; keel with an acute curved beak. Pod glabrous, 4 E 2 in. long, on a stipes equal to or longer than the calyx.—W. and Arn. m E 194. Queensland. On the lower Burdekin river, Bowman. The species is generally de persed over E. India and the Archipelago. . 2 . XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 185 - 26. PENTADYNAMIS, R. Br. _Calyx-lobes nearly equal. Standard broad, without auricles, but with cal- losities decurrent on the claw; keel obtuse, as long as the wings. Upper stamen free, the others united; anthers alternately long and erect, and short and versatile. Ovary with several ovules; style incurved, bearded upwards along the inner side; stigma terminal. Pod flattened.—Herbs. Leaves 3- foliolate. Leaflets sessile (digitate?). Flowers yellow, in axillary racemes. The genus is limited to the single Australian species. l. P, incana, R. Br. in App. Sturt Exped. 76. An erect branching hoary-white herb or perhaps undershrub, of about 2 ft. Leaflets linear, ob- tuse, the central one the longest and scarcely 1 in. long. Racemes many- flowered, the pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx-lobes acute, as long as the tube, Petals more than twice as long as the calyx. Ovary pubescent. _ Unripe pod hoary-white, acuminate by the incurved base of the style. S. Australia. On sandhills with Crotalaria Sturtii, Sturt. Y have seen no speci- mens answering at all to the above character, which I have taken from R. Brown. The affinity of the genus must therefore remain uncertain till the plant has been again seen and examined. The author suspects that one of my Vignas may be another species, but I have seen no plant, allied to Vigna, which has any tendency to the dimorphous anthers, hitherto, among Phaseolee, only observed in Mucuna, Teramnus, and Dioclea. F. Mueller, Fragm. m. 56, refers the plant, without hesitation, to Crotalaria dissitiflora, Benth., var. eremea, but R. Brown describes the keel as obtuse, the stamens diadelphous, and the pod flattened, all of them characters incompatible with Crotalaria. 27. ROTHIA, Pers. (Westonia, Spreng.; Xerocarpus, Guillem. and Perr.) Calyx narrow, the lobes nearly of equal length, the 2 upper ones rather broader. Standard ovate or oblong; wings narrow; keel-petals like the Wings and searcely cohering. Stamens all united in a sheath open on the Upper side; anthers small, uniform. Ovary sessile, with several ovules ; [aye straight, not bearded, with a terminal stigma. Pod linear or linear- ` “nceolate, acute, not divided inside, opening when ripe on the upper side is a follicle. Seeds without any strophiole.—Anmuals. Leaves digitate, with 3 leaflets, Stipules free. Flowers very small, leaf-oppdsed. ; Besides the Australian species, which is also E. Indian, there is only one other species tropical Africa. -_ LR, trifoliata, Pers.; DO. Prod. ii. 382. A diffuse or prostrate Annual, attaining ps 13 ft., softly hairy in all its parts. Leaflets from “most obovate to narrow-oblong, quite entire, 4 to > in. or rarely 4 or even in. long, on a short common petiole. Stipules ovate and leaf-like, but Small. Flowers rarely above 2 lines long, solitary or 2 together on very short pedicels Opposite the leaves. Bracts and bracteoles small, setaceous. Pod na linear, 1 to 2 in. long.—W. and Arn. Prod. 195; Wight, lc. t. 199. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. Not uncommon in E. India. Tete II, Trirozrea,—Herbs, very rarely shrubs. Leaves usually y or rarely digitately 3-foliolate, the veinlets of the leaflets extending . 186 : XL. LEGUMINOSX. : [ Rothia, 4 to the edge and often produced into minute teeth. Peduncles, racemes or flower-heads axillary, or apparently terminal by the reduction of the upper floral leaves, never leaf-opposed. Upper stamens free, except in Ononis, the — others united in a sheath. Ovules 2 or more (except in Medicago lupulina). Pod not articulate. This tribe, consisting chiefly of European and North Asiatic plants, with a few American or tropical species, is represented in Australia by only one indigenous species, and that one closely allied to some east Mediterranean forms. Several European species have however become more or less established in waste or cultivated places in the settled colonies, espe- ciully the following :— Ononis Natriz, Linn. A low much-branched perennial, more or less viscid-pubescent. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate or the upper ones 1-foliolate, with denticulate leaflets. Flowers rather large, yellow, often streaked with purple, solitary on axillary peduncles, Stamens all united in a closed tube. Pod straight, oblong, turgid.—Campbell’s Creek, Herb. F. Mueller. Medicago sativa, Linn., or cultivated Lucern. A perennial with ascending or erect stems, of l to 2 ft. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Peduncles axillary, bearing a short close raceme of violet or blue flowers. Upper stamen free. Pod spirally twisted so as to form 2 or rarely 3 complete coils, without tubercles or prickles.—Rocky pastures, Victoria and S. Australia, F. Mueller.—M. lupulina, Linn., a softly pubescent or hairy annual. Leaves pinnately 3- foliolate. Peduncles axillary, bearing a compact raceme or head of very small yellow flowers. Ovary 1-ovulate. Pod small, kidney-sbaped, marked with veins curved almost into a spite, the minute base of the style completing the spire.— Gabo island, Maplestone, aud abo Port Jackson.—M. denticulata, Willd. An annual, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves pile nately 3-foliolate. Stipules finely-toothed. Flowers very small, yellow, few, in little heads - on axillary peduncles. Pod spirally-twisted, forming 2 or 3 loose flat coils veined on the surface and edged with 2 rows of hooked or curved prickles.— Waste places, Queensland, NUS, Wales, Victoria, and S. Australia. A „Melilotus parviflora, Desf. A slender branching annual. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate with narrow leaflets. Flowers small, yellow, in slender axillary racemes. Pod of 1 or 3 a seeds, straight, thick, small, but longer than the calyx, indehiscent.—About Port Jackson, | in Tasmania and in S. Australia, A Trifolium pratense, \inn., or Red Clover. A more or less hairy decumbent or erect 4 perennial, of 1 to 2 ft. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate. Flowers of a purplish-red, in ovoid | showy heads, apparently terminal, with 2 sessile 3-foliolate leaves close under the head. a Claws of the lower petals adhering to the staminal tube, as in all the following species Of Trifolium. Pod small, enclosed in the calyx.— Pastures on the Snowy River, in the Austra- | lian Alps, F. Mueller.—T. repens, Linu., or White or Dutch Clover. A glabrous oF | slightly hairy perennial, the stems creeping and rooting at the nodes. Leaves digitately 3- a foliolate, with obovate leaflets. Peduncies axillary, long and erect, bearing a globular ie umbel of white flowers. „Pod 2- to 4-seeded, usually protruding from the calyx, but enciost in the withered corolla.—Victoria and S. Australia.—7. agrarium, Linn., or Hop Clover. Eo A slender branching annual, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, with obo- d vate or obcordate leaflets. Flowers small, yellow, 30 to 50 together, in loosely globular ot [ ovoid heads, turmng a pale-brown in fading, persistent, reflexed, with a strongly stae standard concealing the small pod.—Victoria and S. Australia.—7. procumbens, Lilt — (T. minus, Sm), differing from 7. agrarium, in being more slender and procumbent, Wi: As flowers, less than 20 in the head, and the faded standard scarcely striate. Victori® and Tasmania. 28. TRIGONELLA, Linn. Calyx-teeth nearly equal. Petals free from the staminal tube; standard obovate or oblong, narrowed at the base but scarcely clawed ; wings and keel shorter, obtuse. Upper stamen free or at first united with the others; filaments not dilated; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or shortly stipital® with several ovules ; style filiform. Pod either linear straight or curved, : Irigonella.] ` XL. LEGUMINOS£. 187 in species not Australian, flat and falcate, or short with a long beak, 2- valved or indehiscent. Seeds not strophiolate.—Herbs, often strong-scented. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, the leaflets usually denticulate. Stipules adnate tothe petiole. Flowers yellow white or blue, in axillary heads umbels or short racemes, The genus is rather numerous in species in the warmer extratropical regions of the northern hemisphere in the Old World, one of the common ones being also found in South Africa. The only Australian species is very nearly allied to an Egyptian one, although not quite identical with any form hitherto observed there. l. T. suavissima, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. i. 255. An annual, either quite glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs on the under side of the leaves and on the calyxes, the stems prostrate or ascending, from 3 to 2 or 3 ft. in length. Leaflets broadly obovate or obcordate, rarely above + in. long, more or less denticulate, on a long slender petiole. Stipules. semisagittate, deeply toothed. Flowers small, yellow, in sessile clusters. Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes lanceolate-subulate, rather rigid, fully as long as the tube. Standard longer than the calyx; wings and keel scarcely shorter, Upper stamen free. Pod linear, curved, almost obtuse, ¿ to ¿ in. long, and about 1 line broad, opening in 2 thin reticulate valves, either flat or-undulate. N.S. Wales. On the Darling river, Mitchell, also Victorian Expedition ; Molle’s Plains, 4, Cunningham. Victoria. Wimmera, Dallachy. S. Australia. Central Australia, M‘Kinlay’s Expedition; grassy and saline pes E “omy Cudnaka, F. Mueller. : - Australia. Between Moore and M urchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 30. i The species is closely allied to Z. hamosa of the northern hemisphere, which is also found Mo. Africa, and to the E. Mediterranean 7. microcarpa, Poir., and T. anguina, Delile, but Not quite identical with either. 3 : _ Trige IV, EuLorr4.—Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves pinnate or some- times apparently digitately 3-foliolate, the lowest pair of leaflets toking the Place of stipules ; leaflets entire. Flowers capitate or umbellate, on axillary peduncles, Upper stamen usually free, at least at the base, the others united o filaments either all or 5 only dilated towards the end. Pod not . 29. LOTUS, Linn. Calyx-lobes nearly equal or the lowest longer. Standard obovate or orbi- cular; keel much incurved, beaked. Upper stamen free, the rest united in a sheath ; filaments, above the sheath, alternately dilated near the top; i uniform, Ovary sessile, with several ovules ; style bent above t . Ae glabrous, with a terminal stigma. Pod usually linear, terete, with cel- ®t Partitions between the seeds. Seeds not strophiolate.— Herbs, or, m Pecics not Australian, undershrubs. Leaves of 4 or 5 leaflets, 3 almost - -gitate at the end of the petiole, 1 or 2 close to the stem, taking the place A stipules, Real stipules reduced to minute tubercles or dark spots, or en- Y wanting. Flowers yellow pink or white, usually several e in “1 umbel, on an axillary pedunele, with a leaf-like bract under the os a : Olt World. t is widely spread over the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere In *pecies, te mountains of tropical Asia, and extratropical South Africa. Of the Australian has a very wide European and Asiatic range, the other is endemic. - -188 “XL. LEGUMINOSA. * [Lotus, Flowers yellow. Calyx-lobes about as long as the tube . . . . . 1. Z. corniculatus. Flowers pink or white. Calyx-lobes usually longer than the tube . . 2. Z. australis. L. tetragonolobus, Linn., an annual with deep purple-red flowers, belonging to the section Tetragonolobus, with the pods winged, a native of Southern Europe, has been introduced as a weed of cultivation in the Bugle Range, S. Australia, F. Mueller. 1. L. corniculatus, Linn. ; Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 214. A perennial, with prostrate, decumbent, ascending or almost erect stems, from a few in. to nearly 2 ft. high, the Australian specimens usually glabrous or somewhat — glaucous, but often hairy in other countries, Leaflets usually obovate or ovate, acute, and rarely much above + in. long, the 2 stipular ones broader and very oblique, but sometimes all are narrow. Flowers yellow, often tinged with bight red, from about 5 to near 10 in the umbel. Calyx 3 to 33 lines long, usually slightly hairy, the lobes narrow and subulate-acuminate, about as long as the tube. Standard fully 5 lines diameter; wings nearly as long; keel with a long straight beak. Pod linear, terete, straight, rather slender, 1 to 1} in. long. Seeds globular, separated by thin transverse par- titions.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 98. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and others; New England and Clareuce river, Beckler. Victoria. Wimmera, Dallachy. Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant in rich soils and marshy places, affording good pasturage and ascending to 4000 ft., J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Near Bethanie, F. Mueller. The species is widely spread over Europe, temperate Asia, and the mountainous districts of East India, 2. L. australis, 4udr. Bot. Rep. t. 624, A perennial, sometimes almost shrubby at the base, with diffuse ascending or erect stems, either gla- brous and glaucous or more frequently pubescent on the younger branches and peduncles, and in some Queensland specimens softly villous all over. Leaflets usually narrower than in Z. corniculatus, and the stipulary ones less dissimilar, but varying from obovate and all under 3 in. long, to linear am l to 13 in. long. Inflorescence and pod of L. corniculatus, and the flowers scarcely to be distinguished except by the colour, which is usually pink, but varies from white to a purple-red ; they are also very variable in size, in some forms much smaller, in others much larger than in Z. corniculatus; t tube of the calyx is also shorter, and the lobes longer than in that species. Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 212; Bot. Mag. t: 1365; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 98; L. levigatus, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 62; L. albidus, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1063; Maund, Botanist, t. 211. : _N. Australia. E. tributaries of Victoria river, F. Mueller; Nichol Bay and De — river, Ridley's Expedition. 4 Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Moreton Bay, , a Damen near Mount Faraday, Mitchell ; Edgecombe Bay, Rockhampton, s a N. S. Wales. Hunters River, R. Brown, Oldfield; Macquarrie river, Mitchel paca to Clarence river, Beckler ; New England, C. Stuart ; and in the interior gi Murray. . Victoria. Pasture land, frequent on the coast and on several ranges in the interior, E Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy. Tasmania, Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; sandy shores of the N. coast, J. D. eat S. Australia, Near Adelaide, Whittaker; Lofty and Bugle ranges, Mount R able, ete., F. Mueller; Kangaroo Island, Waterhouse. i ! . La Lotus.] ; XL. LEGUMINOSA. 189 W. Australia. Flinders Bay, Collie ; between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drum- mond, 6th Coll. n. 32, Oldfield. Var. parviflorus. Leaves small, usually broad. Flowers often solitary or only 2 or 3 together on the peduncle, very much smaller, and often but not always deeply coloured, the calyx- lobes very fine and scarcely so long in proportion to the tube as usual in Z. australis.— L. coccineus, Schlecht. Linneea, xxi. 452.— Paterson’s River, R. Brown ; Peel's Range, A. Cunningham ; in the M urray desert and numerous S. Australian localities, Behr, F. Mueller, and others; between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 31, Oldfield ; Nichol Bay and De Grey river, Ridley's Expedition. Most of the specimens have a very different aspect from those of the normal L. australis, but there are also too many interme- diate forms to admit of characterizing it as a distinct species. Trine V. Gatrcex.—Herbs not twining, shrubs or rarely tall trees or woody climbers. Leaves pinnate, rarely reduced to 1 or 3 leaflets. Stipellæ None, or setaceous in a few pinnate genera. Upper stamen usually free, at least at the base, the others united in a sheath, very rarely all united; fila- ments filiform. Oyules usually 2 or more. Pod not articulate, 2-valved, except in Psoralea, > ) _ This tribe comprises a large number of genera from all parts of the world, generally dis- tinguished by their stems not twiniug, pinnate leaves without tendrils, diadelphous stamens, and 2-valved pod ; but to all these characters there are exceptions, connecting them with almost all the other tribes of Papilionaceæ. Thus, amongst Australian genera, Psoralea * connected with the l-seeded Hedysarea by its indehiscent 1-seeded pod; Plychosema an Lamprolobium have the stamens of Genistee ; and Millettia has the habit of Daldergiee. dia, placed in Genistee, might be nearly as well inserted next to Ptychosema, among Galegee ; and in several genera of Phaseolea, there are species which, by their erect stems, 5- or 7-foliolate leaves, or evanescent stipellee, connect that tribe with Galegee. 30. PSORALEA, Linn. (Meladenia, Zurcz.) Calyx-lobes nearly equal or the lowest the largest, or the 2 upper ones united. Standard ovate or orbicular; wings slightly adhering to the A Which is slightly incurved, obtuse, and shorter than the other petals. Upper. amen free or more or less adhering to the others; anthers uniform. Ovary with a single ovule; style filiform or dilated at the base. - a of 3, 5,or not dehiscent, the pericarp usually adhering to the seed.—Herbs | = rarely shrubs, dotted with black or transparent glands. Leaves toked digitate entire leaflets, or of 1 or 3 pinnately PEET ai aes $, or in species not Australian pinnate with several leaflets. k p A attached by a broad base. Flowers purple pink blue or white, og el ai = in the Australian species, in axillary spikes or T racts m nous, deciduous, each usually with 2 or 3 flowers 1n its a : RES Al i istri i rts of the globe, but most abundant S Atin and N. Ameria Or the Aacoanapein, one i alo a vative of the Indian Archipelago, the remainder are endemic, but some are very nearly allied to some o de Tranean species. oat gra Leaflets entire or toothed. Ower lobe much longer than the others. t ; y Soa folly pubescent or silky-villous. Leaflets entire . >- o ismid. Leaflets toothed ~ «>. o seer wire? pe Y*-lobes nearly equal in length. Plant very dark and rough, With glandular dots. T 190 XL. LEGUMINOS£. x i [ Psoralea. Plant pubescent or villous. Flowers in nearly globular short E ee re a > SER lia Plant glabrous or slightly hoary. Flowers small, in loose elon- A AR eh EN Leaves all pinnately 3-foliolate, or the lower ones rarely 1-foliolate. Calyx lower lobe much longer than the lateral ones. Leaflets entire. Flowers in dense heads. Calyx very hispid, the lower lobe long-lanceolate. Petals shorter than the calyx . . . . 4. P. plumosa. Flowers in interrupted spikes. Petals longer than the calyx. Calyx pubescetit ©. i we elie ew BS. Pee Calyx densely clothed with soft white woolly hairs . . . 6. P. lachnostachys. Calyx lower lobe scarcely exceeding the upper ones. Leaflets usually toothed. Calyx softly silky-villous or black, 2 to 4 lines long, com- pletely concealing the pod. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, the lateral lobes short. Plant usually White-toméntose=. 6259548) a 4 aS Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes nearly equal. Plant Hoare OR SURO A A eae Calyx hoary-tomentose or slightly pubescent, 1 to 1} lines long, open when in fruit, and scarcely exceeding or shorter - than the pod. Leaflets ovate or elliptical, mostly 3 to 1 in. long. . . . 9. P. cinerea. : Leaflets oblong or lanceolate, 14 to 3 in. long. . . . . 10. P. leucantha. ` Leaves digitately 3- to 7-folivlate. Leaflets entire. Spikes dense. Calyx 2 to 23 lines long, black or silky-villous, much longer than the Soe he CNP ee A RA A Racemes slender. Calyx 1 to 1} lines long, slightly pubescent, Shout as ong a Maa sc. Ge Pete 1. P. badocana, Benth. An erect stout undershrub or shrub, of 2 to 3 ft., softly tomentose or silky-villous all over and strongly scented, the black dots mostly concealed by the indumentum. Leaflet single, on a petiole arti- culate near the top, ovate to lanceolate, obtuse or scarcely acute, 2 to3 in. long, entire, softly villous on both sides and usually silky underneath. Stipules linear-subulate or broad and subulate-acuminate, often 3 in. long. Flowers dense heads or short spikes, all axillary or sessile or very shortly pedunculate, os Caiyx softly villous, fully 5 lines long in the normal forms, including the lower lobe, which is much longer than the others and boat-shaped. Petals, shorter than the lower calyx-lobe. Pod small, reticulate, glandular. —Liparie badocana, Blanco, El. Filip. 597; Meladenia densiflora, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1818, i. 576. d N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; N. coast, A: Cunningham ; Port Essington, Armstrong. Also in New Guinea, M‘Gillivray, and the Philippine Islands, Cuming, n. 1149 and 1649. i Var. grandiflora. Spikes crowded and often 1 to 14 in. long. Calyx fully 7 lines long: Pod tomentose.— P. Archeri, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 21, partly.—Regent's River, NM. . coast, 4. Cunningham ; Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. A Var. ? cephalantha. Rather less villous. Stipules broad, triangular, very shortly ari nate. Spikes or flower-heads globular, Calyx rather smaller than in the normal form, lowest jobe scarcely so long as the petals.— P, cephalantha, F. Muell: Fragm. 1Y- 85: : Queensland. Mount Elliott, Dallachy. o 2. P. Archeri, F: Muell. Fragm. iv. 21 (partly). Very nearly alied to P. badocana, with which F. Mueller unites it, but apparently an 10. P. leucantha. 7. P. eriantha. 12. P. adscendens. Psoralea. | XL. LEGUMINOS®.. . 191 coarse annual of 1 to 2 ft., hirsute with much more rigid and spreading hairs than in that species. Leaves similarly 1-foliolate, the leaflet ovate or oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 in. long, but always toothed. Flower-heads sessile and very hispid. Flowers of P. badocana, but the calyx-lobes more subulate. Pod - ovate, almost acute, very hispid. N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. 3. P.balsamica, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. iii. 55. A tall under- shrub, softly pubescent or villous, or at length nearly glabrous, the branches very rough with numerous prominent tubercular glands, Leaflets single, on a petiole articulate at the top, elliptical-oblong obtuse or mucronate, denti- culate, 13 to 3 in. long, slightly pubescent, the black or brown glandular dots numerous. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in nearly globular short ra- cemes, in the upper axils or at the ends of the branches. Calyx shortly vil- lous, 2 to 23 lines long, open when in fruit, the lobes shorter than the tube, _ the lowest broader but not longer than the others. Petals rather longer than. the calyx; keel shorter than the others and obtuse. Pod obovate, very obtuse, pubescent, nearly as long as the calyx. N..Australia. Van Alphen river, F. Mueller; Attack Creek, M‘Douall Stuart. 4. P. plumosa, F. Muell. Fragm. iv.22. Apparently an annual, erect, nearly simple, 6 to 9 in. high, very hispid with long spreading rigid hairs. aves pinnately 3-foliolate ; leaflets obovate or elliptical, acute or mucro- nulate, quite entire, to 1 in. long, the lateral veins few. Flower-spikes dense, short, shortly pedunculate, very hispid. Bracts broad. Cualyx-tube Very short, the lowest lobe lanceolate, acuminate, nearly 4 lines long, the upper ones scarcely half as long and narrow. Petals shorter than the lower talyx-lobe ; keel with a short erect point. Pod ovate, slightly hirsute. N. Australia. Hooker's Creek, F. Mueller. 5. P. pustulata, F. Muell. in Trans, Vict. Inst. iii. 54. An undershrub With stout rigid erect branches attaining 5 to 10 ft. in height, loosely pubes- ett and sprinkled with large almost scale-like glands. Leaves pinnately 3- - ‘Wliolate ; leaflets obovate or oblong, very obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long, entire, softly pubescent, Stipules broad, rigid, striate. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in Tather loose axillary racemes of 2 to 4 in., flowering almost from the base. "yx about 3 lines long, slightly pubescent and sprinkled with paa mds; the lobes rather broad, the 4 upper ones very short, the lowest nearly vice as long. Petals half as long again as the calyx, the standard rather rad. Pod enclosed in the somewhat inflated calyx, ovate-oblong, slightly > Very glandular. E RS Australia. Victoria river, and sources of Nicholson river, Gulf of Carpentaria, teller ; Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition. pet? lachnostachys F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 105. From the single a fag ent of this plant in F. Mueller's yee oa it would appear to have oA g% foliage, inflorescence, and floral characters of P. pustulata, except t P Towers are rather larger, and the rhachis of the racemes, the pedicels, an Me calyxes are densely clothed with soft, very white, woolly hairs. Australia. Nichol Bay, F; Gregory's Expedition. 192 XL. LEGUMINOSX. [Psoralea, 7. P, eriantha, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 131. A perennial with a woody rhizome and prostrate or ascending stems of 1 to 2 ft., hoary or white with a short or soft tomentum. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate obovate or almost orbicular, toothed, hoary or white-tomentose, the ter- minal one usually $ to 1 in. or rarely 1} in. long, the lateral ones smaller, Stipules short. Spikes pedunculate, sometimes dense and 1 to 2 in. long, more frequently rather loose and 2 to 3 or even 4 in. long. Flowers bluish, almost sessile. Calyx 3 to nearly 4 lines long, clothed with a soft white to- mentum or pubescence, the lowest lobe rather longer than the 2 uppermost, the lateral ones much shorter. Petals rather longer than the calyx. Pod ovoid, obtuse, tomentose or villous, shorter than the calyx. Queensland. In the bed of the Balonne river, near St. George’s Bridge, Mitchell. N. S. Wales. Near the Darling river, Dallachy and Goodwin; sandhills near Me- nindee, Victorian Expedition. Victoria. Along the Murray from the junction of the Murrumbidgee to the western limits of the colony, F. Mueller. S. Australia. Along the Murray, F. Mueller; Mount Kingston, M‘Douall Stuart. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 158, 5th Coll. n. 96. The species is nearly allied to, although not identical with, P. Jaudertiana, Fenzl, from the E. Mediterranean region. - 8. P, patens, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 9. A perennial with a woody rhizome and erect or ascending branches of 1 to 2 ft., hoary or pubescent. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Leaflets from ovate-rhombol to broadly lanceolate, obtuse, usually rounded at the base, mostly 1 to 13 in. long, denticulate, green or minutely hoary-tomentose. Spikes at first dense, but afterwards elongated and interrupted, on very long peduncles. Flowers nearly sessile, the bracts small. Calyx softly silky with white or black hairs, about 2 lines long, the lobes about as long as the tube, the lowest m broader but not longer than the others. Standard and wings half as long again as the calyx; keel shorter, obtuse. Pod tomentose, much shorter than the calyx.—P. australasica, Schlecht. Linnea, xx. 668. Sp N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller ; Attack Creek, M‘Douall Stuart's Expedition. i Queensland. On the Burcekin and near Port Denison, Bowman, Dallachy. chell; d N. S. Wales. On and near the Lachlan river, A. Cunningham, Fraser, MNE near Wellington, O. Moore. - Victoria. On the Murray river, F. Mueller. Ranges S. Australia. S. coast, R. Brown; common about Bethanie, Behr ; Lofty F, Mueller ; about Adelaide, Whittaker ; Spencer’s Gulf, Warburton. f one This plant, P. eriantha and P. cinerea, are all considered by F. Mueller as gig species ; they belong to the same group as P. plicata, Delile, from Africa and the zin ithit. ranean region, and are all nearly allied to that species, although none are quite identi E TA e 9. P. cinerea, Lindl.'in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 65. A perennial wiy | ascending or erect branching stems as in P. patens, but more slender, mint ei] hoary as well as the leaves. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; leaflets over i elliptical, cuneate at the base, mostly 4 to 1 or 14 in. long, apr e irregularly denticulate. Racemes pedunculate, slender, loose and much long" — than the leaves. Flowers very small, shortly pedicellate. Calyx etals above 1 line long, rather open, the teeth short broad and nearly ele as but little longer than the calyx, the keet very obtuse. Pod about as as the calyx, slightly hairy.—P. Drummondii, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 31. Psoralea.) XL. LEGUMINOSA. 193 N. Australia. Victoria river, Bynoe, F. Mueller ; Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough. N.S. Wales. Lachlan and Darling rivers, A. Cunningham, Mitchell, Dallachy and Goodwin. W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 33. 10. P. leucantha, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. iii. 54. A tall under- shrub or shrub with spreading branches, minutely hoary-tomentose or glabrous. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or some of them 1-foliolate ; leaflets oblong or lanceolate, mucronate but otherwise obtuse, entire or bordered by small cre- natures or prominent glands, 13 to 3 or even 4 in. long, hoary-tomentose or nearly glabrous. Flowers small, white with a blue keel, pedicellate in rather. . loose pedunculate racemes of 2 to 3 in. or sometimes longer, often clustered along the rhachis. Calyx about 13 lines long, the lobes of nearly equal length, the 2 upper ones united, the lowest broader than the others. Petals , = twie as long as the calyx; standard obovate; keel rather shorter. Pod ~ neay glabrous, exceeding the calyx, very oblique and much wrinkled. N. Australia. Hammersley range, Nichol Bay, F. Gregory’s Expedition ; gravelly banks of the Victoria river, F, Mueller, Bynoe; Attack Creek, M‘Douall Stuart ; Arn- hem’s Land, P. Mueller; Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough. ensland. Bowen river, Bowman; Bogie river, and Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy. 11. P. tenax, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 10. A perennial with mbent or ascending rather slender branching-stems of 1 to 2 ft., glabrous er minutely pubescent with appressed hairs. Leaves digitately 5- or 7-folio- le with linear-lanceolate or oblong-elliptical acute leaflets of 4 to 13 in., or lower leaves with 3 broader and more obtuse leaflets, all quite entire, gla- "ous or sprinkled underneath with a few appressed hairs. Flowers small, ce (or purple?), very shortly pedicellate in dense or interrupted racemes of = Ho4 in, on very long peduncles. Calyx 1 to 14 lines long, the lobes acute, a long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle, the lowest one Standard usually not half as long again as the calyx; keel shorter, Pod ovoid, slightly pubescent, about as long as the open fruiting | Queensland, Bidwi . iver and Peak Downs, F. Mueller. Z it 8. Wales, ane) banks of rivers towards the Laci and he, Ameren achy and Goodwin; open forest land, Argyle county, cad of the Gwydir and plains E dic. Exploring Erpedition ; New England, C. Stuart ; head o: the ret tdamine, Leichhardt ; Clarence river, Beckler. In R. Brown's collection without se station. : Var. (P) major, Leaves all 3-foliolate with broader leaficts. Standard nearly twice as long Me calyx.—N, S, Wales, 4. Cunningham ; Moreton Bay, 0. Stuart. wine, P. adscendens, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst i. 40. A vere fe, woody rhizome and straggling or ascending branching stems ne! 1 a 4 or more, glabrous or sparingly pubescent. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate sl in Mostly lanceolate or oblong-elliptical, quite entire, 1 to 2 or e x e long, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs, those of the lower ¿si e and broader. Flowers purple pink or white, nearly se pe po or cylindrical spikes of $ to 3-in., rarely fewer-flowered and a some 3 of died, on very long peduncles. “Calyx 2 to 2} lines long, aa tr ‘oft White or black hairs, lobes scarcely so long as the tube and nearly e Standard about half as long again as the calyx ; keel pert Pod 194 XL. LEGUMINOSA., [ Psoralea, 7 | ovate, densely granular-glandular, much shorter than the calyx.—P. Gunni, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 99. l N. S. Wales. Near Nangas, Backhouse. 4 Victoria. Grassy moist banks of rivers and along the torrents in the Australian Alps, F. Mueller. Tasmania. Near Woolnorth, Guan. j S. Australia. Torrens and Gawler rivers, Barossa range, near Villunga, etc, F. Mueller. Var. parva. Flowers rather smaller, few, in less dense spikes, calyx hoary-pubescent.—P. parva, Y. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. i. 40.—Dry pastures, Thompson and Latrobe rivers, F. Mueller, also most of the S. Australian specimens. E + : The works in which Dr. Hooker and Dr. Mueller respectively described this species were published at about the same time, but the latter may have been before the Australian world a few months before the former was issued in England. - 31. INDIGOFERA, Linn. (Spheeridiophorum, Desv.) Calyx-tube short broad and oblique, the teeth or lobes nearly equal or the lowest longest. Standard ovate or orbicular, sessile or narrowed into a short claw; keel erect, obtuse or acuminate, with a hollow protuberance or spur on each side. Upper stamen free from the base, the others united in a sheath open on the upper side; anthers uniform, tipped by the point of the connec- tivum resembling a small gland. Ovary sessile or nearly so, with several or rarely 1 or 2 ovules; style incurved at the top, with a terminal stigma. oblong, linear or rarely globular, terete or rarely flattened, straight or 1ncurY 2-valved, divided transversely between the seeds by cellular tissue. Seeds glo- be bular, or truncate at each end, or flattened, not strophiolate.—Herbs under- : shrubs or shrubs, more or less clothed or sprinkled with appressed hairs at- tached by the centre, sometimes mixed with loose hairs or tomentum. Leaves in the Australian species 1-foliolate or pinnate with 3 or more leaflets, occa- sionally stipellate. Stipules small, setaceous. Flowers usually red or pulp in axillary spikes or racemes. Bracts usually small and deciduous. B none. Standard usually silky-pubescent outside. A very large and distinct genus widely spread over the warmer regions of the globe, ail cially numerous in tropical and southern Africa. Of the Australian species 9 out herbaceous ones are common in India, the remaining 2 herbaceous ones and the 6 ones are all endemic. Calyx-lobes very much longer than the very short tube. Herbs or undershrubs (except 1. rugosa). Leaves simple, nearly sessile. Leaves linear or narrow-oblong. eee Flowers in short sessile spikes. Pod globular, 1-seeded . . 1. J. linifolia. Flowers in long pedanculate racemes. Pod linear, several- seeded E EA ET R A a AT lO ge A e gs . pe ee Oe 5, de haplophylla. E Leaves cordate-ovate. Pod short, usually 2-seeded . . . . 2. T. cordifolia. Leaflets single, ovate, rugose, very white, on a petiole of 3 to 4 lipos +... NWR eA Bales iene | sade os oe dr eee Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Flowers scarcely 2 lines long, in ee very short sessile spikes. Plant conspicuously glandular-dotted. Ovules 2. Pod ovoid- dulosa. oblong, 2 lines long, reflexed, pubescent and glandular . . 4. Z. glanawot" Indigofera.) XL. LEGUMINOS®. 195 Plant with very small glandular dots. Ovules 8 or more. Pod slender, reflexed, glabrous, nearly 4 in. long... . Plant pale or hoary. Ovules many. Pod spreading, slightly incurved, 1 to 14 in. long, obtusely 4-sngled i o eae uio A cbois - Leaves pinnate, with several pairs of leaflets. Pod short. Ovules and sceds 2, Spikes short dense and sessile 3. I. enneaphylla. Pod linear. Ovules and seeds several, Calyx much shorter than the petals. Flowers rather crowded in sessile racemes. Pod 1 to 13 6. I. trifoliata. in. long, with an incurved point. . . 2... . . 8L parviflora. Flowers very small, distant, iu slender racemes. Pod 3 to ; 3 in. long, straight, very slender, often viscid . . . 9. L viscosa. Calyx-lobes about as long as the petals. Racemes loose. ; Plant hirsute with spreading hairs. . . . . . . . 10. L hirsuta. Calys-teeth all very short, the lower ones rarely rather longer than the tube. Shrubs (except 7. pratensis). - 1, articulate on the petiole. Leaflet broadly obovate, with parallel prominent pinnate veins . 12. T. monophylla. flet ovate or oval-oblong, reticulate and very rugose . . . 13. I. rugosa. flets usually 5, obovate or orbicular, the veins scarcely con- s _Spicuous. . , , 3 «ML ds os 9 or more. ie vated erd or undershrub. Leaflets mucronate and distinctly veined. Soi Stipellee setaceous. Flowers 5 to 6 lines long . . . + . 11.2. pr i Leaflets obscurely veined. Stipellæ none or replaced by small glands, alyx truncate, the teeth searcely prominent. Plant nearly glabrous. Flowers 3 to 4 lines long, on rather long pedi- gies Pod quite glabrous. a o a ss Calyx-teeth distinct, the lowest as long as the tube or nearly so . 15. I. australis. meee plant slightly canescent. Pods ee at = iolu- k rat Sages Leaflets contracted at the or pet gear oe Branches densely tomentose. Leaflets ‘sessile, orbicular or : ee vas = nearly so, thick, glabrous on both sides . . i E 17. I cor proce ba ‘Cision purea, Ham. (Wight, Te. t. 369), a Himalayan shrubby species whic! men amally grown in our slant coc has been sent by C. Moore from oe dardo I daeatichhardt’s collection from Glendon, but is probably not igh aapi. froma ‘pind Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 22, a Chinese shrubby species, | E 4810 the neighbourhood of Moreton Bay. § 1. Herbaceous species. EL linifolia, Retz; DC. Prod. ii. 222. A slender eor ay fuse or procumbent annual or perennial of 3 to 13 ft., more pa nie std tte. Leaves simple, almost sessile, linear or rarely oblong- a a to 13 in. long. Flowers very small, in sessile spikes, very a vc ver, and rarely lengthening to 3 in. when in fruit. Calyx-teet in A pointed, much longer than the tube, the lower ones as long as t “3 ee Stand; sessile, about 12 lines long. Ovary i sessile, en se ae Prod. FH globular, white-tomentose, about 1 line diameter. —W y “o ‘Gods ; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 101; Spheridiophorum ig pct : yssinicum, Spach, in Jaub. and Spach, Il. PI. Or. v. 103, ne P. Mueller: N. n a. N. Goulburn Island, 4. Cunningham ; Victoria river, 4. Mueller ; E Essingto » Armstrong ; Sweers island, Henne. — o 2 196 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Indigofera. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown; Dawson river, F. Mueller; Rockhampton, Dallachy ; Bremer river, Fraser; also in Leich- hardt's collection. N. S. Wales. Sandy banks of Hunter’s River, A. Cunningham. The species is common in tropical Asia and some parts of Africa. Wight, Ic. t. 313, re- presents a short broad-leaved variety not found in Australia. 2. I. cordifolia, Heyne; DC. Prod. ii. 222. A diffuse or prostrate branching annual or perennial of a few inches or rarely extending to nearly 1 ft., hoary or white. with forked hairs, not so appressed as usual in the genus. Leaves simple, nearly sessile, broadly ovate-cordate, mostly about > in. long. Flowers very minute, in short sessile spikes or clusters. Calyx- tube scarcely any ; lobes subulate, about 1 line long. Petals scarcely exceed- ing the calyx; standard narrowed into a long claw ; keel acuminate. Ovary with 2 ovules. Pod about 2 lines long, pubescent, usually 2-seeded. N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong. Found also in tropical Africa, E. India and Timor. 3. I. enneaphylla, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 229. A prostrate straggling or rarely erect perennial of 1 to 14 ft., hoary or almost silky-pubescent, the branches angular with the hairs sometimes spreading. Leaflets 5 to 9, mostly alternate or scarcely opposite, obovate or oblong-cuneate, 3 to 4 or rarely lines long. Flowers very small, in sessile spikes which are short and dense when in flower, rarely 4 in. long in fruit. Calyx-teeth much longer than t tube and shorter than the petals. Standard about 3 lines long, narro into a broad claw; keel narrow, almost acuminate. Ovary with 2 or rarely 3 ovules. Pod terete, about 3 lines long, usually 2-seeded.—W. and Prod. 199; Wight, Ic. t. 403; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 102. N. Australia. Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition ; Depuech Island, Bynoe ; stony, chiefly basaltic, plains and hills, Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. a Queensland. Bay of Inlets, Banks and Solander ; Keppel Bay, 2. Brown ; aon river, F. Mueller ; Fitzroy river, Dallachy ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Connor’s River, man. : N.S. Wales. Between Darling river and Cooper’s Creek, Neilson. The species is common in the plains of India. a 4. I. glandulosa, Willd. ; DC. Prod. ii. 223. An annual or perennial with the habit nearly of Z. trifoliata, but usually rather stouter and taller, more pubescent, and conspicuously marked with glandular dots, especi ye the under side of the leaflets. Leaflets 3, from obovate to narrow-0 ong) obtuse, H to 1 in. long, more hoary than in J. trifoliata. Flowers very _in sessile racemes very short at first, but lengthening out to nearly 3M. lyx glandular and hirsute, about 1 line long, the lobes subulate, muc than the tube, Standard about 2 lines long, narrowed at the base, pubert and glandular outside. Ovules 2. Pod reflexed, ovoid-oblong, almost + angled, about 2 lines long, glandular and pubescent. —W. and Arn. 410%: 199; Wight, Te. t. 330; Psoralea Leichhardtii, F. Muell. Fragm. iY- 22. Queensland. Comet river, Leichhardt. The species is widely spread over E. It has the habit and foliage of 1. trifoliata, with the pod of T. enneaphylla. a 5. I. haplophylla, F. Muell. Fragm. ii, 102. An erect or rarely (itt! branching herb of 1 ft. or rather more, pale or hoary with a slight pued Leaves simple, almost sessile, linear or very narrow-oblong, mostly 1 to 2 pe Sa Reese a Leer a eS AR Indigofera.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 197 long. Racemes slender, pedunculate, scarcely exceeding the leaves. Calyx- lobes much longer than the tube, but much shorter than the petals. Standard narrowed at the base, but not clawed; keel obtuse. Pod straight, rather slender, cylindrical, spreading, often 1 in. long or rather more. __N. Australia. Rocky springs and torrents on the Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 6. I. trifoliata, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 223. Stock perennial, with seve- tal ascending or erect rather slender stems of 4 to 1 or 14 ft., the pubescence very short and scarcely hoary. Leaflets 3, on a slender petiole, obovate-ob- long cuneate or narrow-oblong, mostly 3 to 1 in. long, green or slightly hoary underneath. Racemes sessile, exceedingly short. Flowers very small. Calyx-teeth much longer than the tube, but scarcely so long as the claws of the lower petals. Standard about 2 lines long, narrowed into a short broad claw ; keel obtuse, pubescent and glandular as well as the standard. Pod slender, reflexed, about 4 in. long, with 4 prominent angles or narrow longitudinal wings, many-seeded.—W. and Arn. Prod. 201; Wight, Ic. t. 314; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 104. ; Queensland. Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander ; Northumberland island, R. Brown ; Glasshouse mountains, F, Mueller ; along the coast and adjoining islands, 4. Cunningham, M'Gillivray, Henne, Dallachy, also in Leichhardt’s collection. The species 1s widely ‘Spread over E. India and the Archipelago, Tt is always much more slender than Z. trita, with more closely sessile short spikes or clusters of much smaller flowers. 1. I trita, Linn. f.; DC. Prod. ii. 232. A decumbent or suberect per- eunial of $ to 14 ft., pale or hoary with a minute pubescence. Leaflets 3, or very rarely 5, on a rather rigid petiole, from broadly obovate and 3 or 4 Ines long, to elliptical-oblong and above 1 in. long. Flowers small, very nearly sessile ; the racemes sometimes short, dense, and nearly sessile, some- times pedunculate, interrupted, and attaining several inches. Calyx-teeth much longer than the tube, but not exceeding the claws of the lower petals. Standard nearly 3 lines long, narrowed at the base but scarcely clawed ; keel almost acu- = Minate. Pod rather rigid, usually incurved, obscurely quadrangular, with thickened sutures, 1 to 13 in. long or even more.—Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i.t. id W. and Arn. Prod. 203 ; Wight, Ie. t. 315, 386; F. port ee teen - Australia. G i ictoria river, F. Mueller; is : Gulf of Carpentaria, Pitre es kisa aja mainland, Landsborough. Queensland. In the interior, Mitchell ; Peak Downs, F. Mueller; Bowen river, an, N.S. Wales. Be one » Creek, Neilson. y . tween Darling river and Cooper's Ureek, + Fag Species is widely spread over j India and the Archipelago. Z. Ze a m I paoriensis, DC. Prod. ii. 223, which have been referred to T. trifoliata, ng ra, 8. I. parviflora, Heyne; Wand Arn. Prod. 201. An erect herb of 1 oe fi, pale or hoary with a minute pubescence. Leaflets 9 to 13 or orl Wer, linear or rarely oblong, mostly 4 to 1 in. long. Racemes usually y 4 _Tather loose, rarely lengthening out to 1 or 2 in., and flowering — em ase. Calyx small, the lobes much longer than the tube but much s y er the petals. Standard 2 to 22 lines long, narrowed into a short ie us or nearly so; keel terminating ina linear obtuse point e = beyond the wings. Anthers small, tipped with a minute point. Pod nearly 198 E XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Indigofera. glabrous, linear, with thickened sutures, 1 to 14 in. long, straight except an incurved or hooked end.—1. deflexa, Hochst. in A. Rich. Fl. Abyssin. i. 178; L. oxycarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 103. N. Australia. Nichol Bay and De Grey river, Ridley’s Expedition ; stony hills and „gravelly banks, Victoria river and Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller, Queensland. Walloon, Bowman. The species is common in the E. Indian peninsula, also in Abyssinia and Cordofan. 9. I. viscosa, Lam.; DC. Prod. ii. 227. A slender wiry annual or perennial, with much-branched decumbent or erect stems of 4 to 1 ft, more or less clothed with spreading glandular viscid hairs, mixed with the ordinary pubescence of the genus. Leaflets 9 to 15, ovate or oblong, sometimes under 2 lines, sometimes 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers very small, distant, in slender racemes rather shorter than the leaves. Calyx-lobes much longer than the tube, but not exceeding the claws of the lower petals. Standard almost sessile, about 14 lines long ; keel obtuse, the lateral spurs very short. Pod slender, straight, spreading or pendulous, 3 to ¿ in. long, torulose, with viscid hairs mixed with the ordinary pubescence.—W. and Arn. Prod. 200; Wight, Ic. t. 404; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 104. N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller; Brinkley’s Bluff, M‘Douall Stuart; is- lands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Port Essington, Armstrong. i Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, R. Brown ; Port Curtis, M' Gil- livray ; E. coast, A. Cunningham; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Rockhampton, Bowman; Comet river, Leichhardt. The species is widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa. 10. I, hirsuta, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 228. A decumbent or ascending : branching annual, 1 to 2 ft. high, remarkable for the spreading hairs which clothe the branches, petioles, inflorescence, and calyx. Leaflets 7 to 11, obovate or oblong, 4 to 1 in. long, with stiff appressed hairs, Racemes usually dense, shortly pedunculate, 1 to 4 in. long. Calyx with scarcely any tube, the subulate lobes often nearly as long as the petals. Standard fully 3 lines long, narrowed into a distinct claw. Pod about 3 in. Jong, straight, quadrangular, reflexed on the peduncle, very hirsute.—W. and Arn. Pp 204; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. t. 24; Benth. El. Hongk. 76; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 105. > ` N. Australia. N. coast, R. Brown; Victoria river and Arnhem’s Land, F. Mueller; Port Essington, Armstrong ; islands off the coast, A. Cunningham, Henne. Port 5 Queensland. Bay of Inlets, Banks and Solander ; Keppel Bay, 2. Brown; : Denison, Fitzalan ; Rockhampton, Bowman ; Taylor's Range, Fraser ; Brisbane rivet x F. Mueller. : N. S. Wales. Hunters River, Leichhardt. also e _ The species is widely distributed over tropical Asia and Africa, and now introduced E into some parts of tropical America, > 11. I. pratensis, F. Muell. Rep. Burdek. Exped. 10. A diffuse perei- + nial, pale or hoary with the ordinary pubescence of the genus, the bran angular, ascending to 1 or 2 ft. Leaflets about 13 to 21, from broadly oval- oblong to narrow-oblong, obtuse with a fine straight point, 4 to 1 m. p the pinnate veins usually conspicuous underneath. Stipules setaceous, 3 to 4 lines long, and small setaceous stipellee usually present. po rather large, in pedunculate racemes longer than the leaves, the pedicels a” Indigofera.] XL. LEGUMINOS.E. 199 3 lines long. Calyx above 1 line long, the teeth shorter than the tube as in the shrabby species. Standard nearly 6 lines long; keel almost acuminate. Pod cylindrical, straight, rather thick, 1 to 1} in. long. Queensland. Bay of Inlets, Banks and Solander; Broad Sound and Keppel Bay, B. Brown ; along various points of the E. coast and adjoining islands, 4. Cunningham, M'Gillivray, Henne, and others; in the interior, Mitchell; on the Burdekin, F. Mueller ; Brisbane river, Fraser, F. Mueller, etc.; Mackenzie Hill, Leichhardt. $ 2. Shrubby species. 12. I. monophylla, DC. Prod. ii. 222. A straggling shrub of 2 to 3 ft., the branches and foliage very hoary or white with minute hairs. Leaflets single, articulate on the petiole with a pair of minute stipelle, broadly ob- ovate, to 1 in. long, the parallel primary veins very prominent underneath. Racemes shortly pedunculate, at length exceeding the leaves. Calyx-teeth shorter than the tube, the upper ones broad and distant. Standard sessile, about 3 lines long; keel almost acute. Pod straight, above 1 in. long, softly tomentose.—F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 44. N. Australia. Baudin’s Expedition ; Depuech Island, N.W. coast, Bynoe ; Nichol Bay and Fortescue river, F, Gregory's Expedition. 13. L rugosa, Benth. A shrub of 2 or 3 ft., the branches white with a dense soft tomentum. Leaflets solitary, ovate or oval-oblong, very obtuse, about 4 in, long in the specimen before me, reticulately veined and very ru- gose, soft and white on both sides with a minute almost silky pubescence ; the petiole articulate above the middle. Flowers in short dense nearly ses- sile racemes, the petals as well as the calyx white-tomentose. Calyx about 2 lines long, the subulate lobes longer than the tube. Standard nearly 4 lines long, broad, acute, sessile; lower petals narrow and rather shorter. Authers very prominently apiculate. Ovary glabrous with about 10 ovules. Pod not seen. _N. Australia, Bed of the Fortescue river, N.W. coast, F. Gregory's Expedition (Herb, E. Mueller). 14. I. saxicola, P. Muell. Herb. A shrub of 3 or 4 ft. with spreading branches, slightly hoary with a minute pubescence. Leaflets 5 or rarely 7, ovate or orbicular and very obtuse, mostly about 1 in. long, on petiolules of 2102 lines, the pinnate veins scarcely prominent. Racemes pedunculate, Mather slender, longer than the leaves. Calyx-teeth shorter than the tube, _ Me upper ones broad and distant. Standard sessile, 3 lines long or rather _ ‘More; keel acute, Pod terete, spreading, 3 to + in. long, suraight.« py, Australia. Port Essington, A. Cunningham; grassy stony plains, Sea Range, » Mueller, z 45 L australis, illd.; DC. Prod. ii. 226. An erect branching a Shrub of 2 to 4 ft., assuming occasionally the appearance of a low under- 0D, either glabrous or slightly sprinkled with the small hairs of the genus. e Leaflets usually 9 to 17, oblong, obtuse or retuse, 4 to 4 in. long, but vary- 08 to broadly ovate, almost orbicular in some specimens or nearly linear a ani s Stipules small; stipellee none except minute glands. Flowers re md Showy, in dense or loose racemes shorter or rather longer than the leaves, Pedicels usually longer than the calyx. Calyx about 1 line long, broad 200 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [Indigofera. . and obliquely truncate, the teeth either inconspicuous or the lower ones especially slightly prominent, but always much shorter than the tube. - Stan- dard truncate at the base, with an exceedingly short claw, 3 to 4 lines long. Pod spreading, terete, straight or nearly so, 1 to 13 in. long.—Vent. Jard. ‘Malm. t. 45; Bot. Reg. t. 386; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 149; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. — i. 99; I. angulata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 991; Z. sylvatica, Sieb. in Hook. Bot, Mag. t. 3000; T. ervoides, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 88. E RE Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, Fraser, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller, and ers. : N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 319, 380, and others; Hunter's River, Backhouse ; northward to Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beck- ler; New England, C. Stuart; and southward to Argyle county, M‘Arthur ; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller ; aud in the interior to the Darling and Lachlan rivers, 4. Cunningham, Neil- son, ete. Victoria. Grassy places near Melbourne and Port Phillip to Gipps’ Land, ete., F. Mueller, and others. _ Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown: abundant in many places throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Lofty Ranges, F. Mueller. ; sadi Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. Suppl. n. 44; rocks of Mount Matilda, Preiss, n. 3 Amidst all its variations, this species may be known by its glabrous, not hoary, aspect, notwithstanding the minute hairs often visible under a lens, by the very short or quite lete teeth of the calyx, and by the pod glabrous even when quite yonng. The following arè the principal forms it assumes, which, although they often pass one into another, are nevet- ‘theless sometimes considered as distinct. species. a. angulata. Tal, with angular branches. Flowers large and showy. The most com- mon form in our gardens, and received from Port Jackson, Port Phillip, and other mar time districts, the only one in Tasmania, and includes Drummond and Preiss’s W. A ' specimens. ea b. gracilis, DC. Branches terete and as well as the petioles and racemes more slender. Flowers rather smaller. Apparently common in Victoria, the Blue Mountains, and 1m the northern districts of N. S. Wales to the Brisbane in Queensland. a c. minor. More scrubby and branched, of a pale colour, the branchlets short and some what angular. Leaflets small, with small stipellary glands. Flowers small, in short fe cemes. Chiefly in the interior of N.S. Wales and S. Australia, on the Lachlan and Dar ete., and northward to Clarence river. a d. signata, F. Muell. Rigid, very glabrous, apparently almost leafless, the numerous rigid petioles bearing very small obcordate obovate or cuneate leaflets in distant pairs, Wi very prominent dark-coloured stipellary glands. Flowers as in the var. minor — ee Ovens river and Mayday Hills in Victoria, F. Mueller ; Port Jackson, Herd. Muelle Queensland, Bowman. E e. platypoda. With the same rigid aspect and few small leaflets with prominent stipell glands as the var. signata, but the common petioles very rigid and flattened, - 1 line broad.—New England, C. Stuart; Arne river, Beckler. a 16. I. brevidens, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 385. A st E shrub, very nearly allied to Z. australis, of which F. Mueller considers 1% | variety, but always hoary or silvery with the appressed forked pube: a the genus or white with a denser tomentuth. Leaflets from about 9 to 21, obovate or ovlong, obtuse or mucronate, rarely 4 in. long, usually firmer in i. australis, and hoary or white en both sides, more or less petionm y Stipules rather short and deciduous or rarely more persistent and recurved Flowers rather smaller than in Z. australis, the calyx-teeth much more P minent although still very short, the lowest occasionally as long as the tube: Indigofera.] XL. LEGUMINOSA, * 201 Standard densely silky-pubescent. Pod always pubescent or tomentose, at least when young.—J. lasiantha, F. Muell. in Rep. Greg. Exped. 6. N. Australia. M‘Donnell Range and up to lat. 20° 20", M*Douall Stuarts Expe- dition. q Queensland. St. George’s Bridge on the Balonne, Mitchell; Peak Downs, F, Muel- ler; in the scrub north of Expedition Range, Leichhardt; also in Bowman’s and other collections. ; N. S. Wales. On the Darling, Neilson and others. S. Australia. Cooper's Creek, 4. C. Gregory ; towards Spencer's Gulf, Warburton. W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. : Var, uncinata. Stipules persistent, broader at the base, recurved and sometimes spi- nescent. Var. (?) galegoides, R. Br. Branches softly tomentose; leaflets numerous, very white underneath, Pod small, loosely pubescent.—Cumberland Islands, R. Brown. 17. I, coronilleefolia, 4. Cunn. Herb. Shrubby, the branches very white with a dense soft tomentum. Leaflets 15 to 21 or more, sessile, broadly ovate or orbicular, very obtuse, 2 to 4 lines long, thick, veinless, and almost glabrous, the common petiole white-tomentose. Racemes about as long as the leaves. Calyx distinctly but shortly toothed. Petals hoary- pubescent. Pod straight, nearly terete, about 1 in. long, glabrous. N.S. Wales. In the barren rocky country west of Wellington Valley, A. Cunning- ham ; Castlereagh, C. Moore. The species requires further investigation from more perfect specimens, but the foliage gives it a different aspect from any forms of J. australis or of - brevidens. a A fragment from M‘Donnell’s Range, M‘Douall Stuart’s Expedition, with the leaflets white tomentose on both sides, has some affinity to I. coronillefolia, but is too imperfect determination. 32, PTYCHOSEMA, Benth, _ Calyx turbinate, the 2 upper lobes united in a truncate emarginate upper lip. Petals on rather long claws; standard nearly orbicular, emarginate ; Wings faleate-oblong, free ; keel shorter, nearly straight, obtuse. Stamens all United in a sheath open on the upper side; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, with several ovules ; style short, inflexed, the stigma oblique outwards. Pod *+-—Herb. Leaves unequally pinnate. Peduncles terminal, 1-flowered. The genus is limited to the single Australian species, apparently allied on the one hand to ‘a, on the other to Tephrosia. LP, pusillum, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 16. y A small, slender, early glabrous perennial, the diffuse stems mostly 2 to 3 in. long. Leaflets Tio 11, from obovate to linear-cuneate, obtuse or acute, mostly 2 to 3 lines ng, much narrowed at the base, green on both sides, the primary veins very Prominent underneath. Pedunecles slender, terminal, 1 to 2 in. long, articu- te and bearing 1 or 2 small bracts at about two-thirds of their length, the (EPer portion or pedicel bearing 2 bracteoles at some distance from the pain Saya slightly hirsute, abont 3 lines long, the lobes about as long as the tube, the 3 lower ones lanceolate, acute. Standard about 4 lines diameter, strongly striate-veined outside, without callosities inside. Ovules 4 or 5. Pod unknown, W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll., and n. 251. 202 * XL. LEGUMINOSA. 33. LAMPROLOBIUM, Benth. Calyx desply cleft, the 2 upper lobes united nearly to the top. Standard orbicular, narrowed into a short claw; wings obliquely oblong, free; keel — much curved, obtuse. Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper — side; anthers uniform. Ovary shortly stipitate, with several ovules; style filiform, incurved, with a terminal stigma. Pod stipitate, oblong-linear, very flat, 2-valved, with transverse partitions between the seeds, the valves coria- ceous. Seeds oblong, with a fleshy strophiole. Radicie short, quite straight. —Shrub. Leaves pinnate, without stipellæ. Stipules minute. Flowers yellow, small, solitary (or 2 or 3 2) on terminal or lateral peduncles. Bracts and bracteoles minute and very deciduous. The species is limited to a single species endemic in Australia. In the structure of the seeds, with a straight embryo, it differs from all Galege except the S. American genera Brongniartia and Harpalyce. 1. L. fruticosum, Benth. An erect shrub of a man’s height, the — branches softly pubescent. Leaflets 3, 5 or 7, or rarely solitary in the upper leaves, oblong, obtuse or mucronate, 1 to 2 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous or sprinkled with appressed hairs above, silky-pubescent underneath. Peduncles 3 short, terminal axillary or extra-axillary and all apparently 1-flowered in the > specimens seen, but perhaps sometimes bearing a raceme of 2 or 3. Calyx a silky-villous, 3 to 4 lines. long, like that of some Crotalarias, the 2 uppe! lobes faleate and united in a concave upper lip. Petals not exceeding the calyx. Pod 1 to 12 in. long, 3 or 4 lines broad, glabrous and sm Seeds transverse.—Crotalarivides fruticosa, Soland. ms.; Glycine lamprocarp® — A. Cunn. Herb. ce Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and*Solander, A. Cunningham. 34. TEPHROSIA, Pers. flowering advances; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, with many oF bi : or 2 ovules; style in the Australian species glabrous, incurved or ger more or less flattened with a terminal stigma, often slightly penicillate. < linear or rarely ovate, flattened, 2-valved. Seeds often with a sm Leaves : phiole.—Herbs undershrubs or, in species not Australian, shrubs. cel he pinnate ; leaflets usually opposite with a terminal odd one, sometimes * most to a single leaflet, either sessile or articulate oft the petiole, the veins ™ ` ie species numerous, parallel and oblique with the midrib. Flowers red t or white, in pairs or clusters, in terminal, leaf-opposed or rarely axil pe cemes, the lower clusters occasionally or sometimes all in the axils leaves. Bracteoles none. Standard always and the keel sometimes Y cent or silky-villous with appressed hairs. A large genús, widely spread over the warmer regions of the New and the Old Wor’ t= Tephrosia.] i XL. LEGUMINOSA. 203 and particularly numerous in species in S. Africa. The Anstralian species are all endemic with the exception of 7. purpurea, and, even of that, scarcely any of the Australian varieties quite agree with the common Asiatic and African forms. The Australian species also all, with the exception perhaps of 7. flammea and T. crocea, belong to the section Reineria, with terminal or leaf-opposed racemes or axillary clustered pedicels, and to the large subsec- tion with subulate or small stipules, except perhaps 7. venulosa, m which they are broad and striate, but not so much so as in the S. African Apodynomenes. Several species differ from all extra-Australian ones in the venation of the leaflets. One Australian species also, 7, brachycarpa, is remarkable for having the flowers and fruit of the African Requienias, whilst another, 7. coriacea, has very nearly their foliage. In general the Australian spe- cies, more even than the Asiatic ones, are extremely difficult to define; the terminal or axillary, racemose or clustered inflorescences, usually so distinct, seem to pass the one into the other or to be blended together even on the same specimen, the foliage and indumen- tum is more than usually diversified and variable, and when to this is added the imperfec- tion of the specimens we possess from tropical Australia, it must be expected that further a may considerably modify the cireumscriptions of several of the species here Leaflets obovate, oval, elliptical, or oblong, the primary veins anasto- _ mosing or reticulate within the margin. ` Leaflets solitary or rarely 3, coriaceous. Flowers in axillary clus- i ters. Pod softly tomentose. . . . . er Bo. a My O Leaflets asiy 5 to 11, rarely under 1 in. long. Racemes elon- te gated. i i Plant softly tomentose or silky. -Flowers numerous. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long, softly villous, lobes longer than the tube . `. 2. 7. flammea. ant nearly glabrous, Flowers few. Calyx scarcely 2 lines i long, the teeth very short <<: eS ai AAA 8 Bh vetienlala, ets numerous, above 4 in. long, glabrous above, silky-pubes- cent or villous underneath. Raceines long. E Leaflets 4 to 1 in. long, very silky underneath, the veins reticu- Stipules persistent. Bracts small... -. aie Leaficts 1 to 2 in. long, silky-pubescent underneath, the primary vetus parallel but anastomosiug within the margin, Stipules very deciduous. Bracts linear-subulate, long . . . . . 5. TZ. oblongata. ets numerous, not 4 in. loug. Racemes long. ae Plaut loosely pubescent or villous. Stipules striate, reflexed. _ a Leaflets 11 to 19 . . . 6. T. porrecta, 4. T. crocea. lant closely silky-pubescent, Stipules minute, erect. Leaflets . n 30 pee AS r eci be Ll S e q. T. poly Y9 Leaves all or mostly simple or l-foliolate. Leaflets long and li Or euneate-oblong, the veins mostly reaching the margin or irre- i : Leaves sessile, long, linear-lanceolate, the veins anastomosing. * Bene a. eee CN T Y Os. ets shortly peti -li ithout stipellæ. PES os wers mir lanaran g, EDIE a . 9. T. simplicifolia. sd and narrow-lincar, either solitary with 2 pg or 3 i i ir lower down. Ta Ar “ee os IO m e . +. +10, T. leptoclada, ‘i. cuneute-oblong, 1 or rarely Sorb. Flowers large . . 19. T. oligophylla. ey Primary veins of the leaflets oblique, numerons, and Mowers nearly sessile, mostly axillary. Pod straight, densely and o Seltly villous. Plant softly tomentose or villous. T brach owers not above 2 lines long. Ovule 1. Pod ate id 11. T. brachycarpa. wers i 8. to Ẹ in. 5 g about 3 lines. rete poder 4 MOT Sluarti. " DNY PES . eras yey A “bind 204 XL. LEGUMINOSE. > [Tephrosia — Flowers about 4 lines. Ovules about 6, Pod 1 to 13 in. long 13. T. eriocarpa. Flowers in short dense terminal racemes. Leaflets narrow, silvery- = silky underneath. Pod straight. Standard about 4 lines diameter. Leaflets usually CON DOM sides’. iae io ze e e ew ile T. pheosperma. Pod incurved towards the end. -Standard nearly 6 lines diameter. pe Leaflets usually green above. . +... . +... + 15.2 astragaloides. Flowers in long or slender racemes. . Leaflets small, numerous, with a long terminal one. Flowers small. Pod long “bed sis shaw Montes ware Leaflets few, or, if many, the terminal one not longer than the others. Pod about 1 in. long, nearly straight. Seeds orbicular. Leaflets 7 to 15. Flowers rarely 3 lines long. Pod ob- liquely acute, thin. Racemes filiform, not 2 in. long, with few distant pairs die A A Racemes long and slender . Sa . . 18. T. remotiflora. Leaflets solitary or rarely 3 or 5. Flowers about 6 lines long. Pod coriaceous, almost obtuse . - « . 19. Tu oligophylla. Pod above 1 in. long, more or less incurved. Seeds trans- versely oblong. Racemes usually long, Leaflets few, cuneate, glabrous, on long petioles. Calyx large, nearly glabrous ; lobes lanceolate. Standard very WIRY. <<< hayes os aio vi o «ae IO Leaflets usually above 7. Calyx small, on a slender pedi- cel ; teeth subulate or very short. Pod glabrous pubes- ‘eont or:loosely villous 5.2. 0... we ee DL: Dp Leaflets usually few, long, and narrow. Calyx large, densely rusty-villous ; lobes longer than the tube, in- curved, acuminate. Pedicels short. Pod softly and Se ae A E E E T. Bidwilli. Leaflets usually few, cuneate, silky on both sides. Calyx small, softly silky. Pedicels short. Pod much curved, scarcely flattened, densely silky-tomentose . . . + + 23. T. roset. — 1. T. coriacea, Benth. Branches softly pubescent. Leaflets gees on a petiole of 4 to 3 in., or rarely 3, obovate, very obtuse or retuse, 1 tos in. long, coriaceous, minutely pubescent, the pinnæ, veins, and reticulate vem- lets prominent underneath, as in 7. flammea. Flowers in axillary: cluster smaller than in 7. flammea, but imperfect in our specimens. Calyx ste the lobes long and acute, the lowest exceeding the others and twice 28 e as the tube. „Upper stamen free at the base, but not so geniculate a$ ™ most species. Pod linear, slightly falcate, softly pubescent, above 1 1m. 20%" Seeds lenticular, with a small strophiole. le N. Australia. Upper Victoria and Fitzmaurice rivers, F. Mueller. Tt i$ ws that in other specimens the branches may terminate in racemes, yet the flowers, a known, and seeds appear to be quite different from those of 7. flammea, the onl si cies. The foliage is nearly that of the African Reguienias. ee 5 2. T. flammea, F. Muell. Herb. An erect branching nndershrabs e, to 4 ft., the branches clothed with a loose velvety-rusty pubescence. A 5 to 9, or 3 in the uppermost leaves, broadly elliptical-oblong © ior ovate or obovate, very obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long, shortly and softly pubescent almost silky on both sides, the somewhat distant primary veins and ret pe veinlets very prominent underneath. Racemes terminal or in the upper ™ Tephrosia. | XL. LEGUMINOSA, 205 Flowers usually orange-red, numerous, clustered and rather large. Calyx- tube 2 lines long, the lobes lanceolate, as long as the tube. Standard fully 4 lines diameter, callous at the base above the claw ; keel much curved, almost rostrate, but obtuse. Upper stamen and an adjoining portion of the sta- minal tube hairy. Pod long, linear, rusty-villous, but not seen perfect. Seed nearly orbicular, with a small oblong strophiole. N. Australia. York Sound, 4. Cunningham; Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. In inflorescence this species seems to connect the sections Brissonia and Reineria ; the’very flat glabrous style is more that of Reineria. The venation of the leaflets differs from that of any extra-Australian species. Tr reticulata, R. Br. Herb. (under Galega). Rootstock perennial, with prostrate or ascending stems, of 2 ft. or more, minutely pubescent with appressed hairs. Leaflets 5 to 11 or more, petiolulate, ovate or oblong, ob- tuse, thinly coriaceous, the primary veins scarcely more prominent than the reticulate veinlets, glabrous or loosely pubescent underneath. Stipules some- times lanceolate, the lower ones reflexed. Racemes long and rigid, terminal or leaf-opposed. Flowers rather small, in distant pairs, on pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx scarcely 2 lines long, the lobes shorter than the tube. Standard very broad; keel incurved, obtuse. Pod broadly linear, nearly straight or recurved, pubescent, the upper suture thickened, the valves very flat. Seeds orbicular. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Sims’s Island, A. Cun- mngham ; Endeavour river, Banks and Solander (a more glabrous form). 4. T. crocea, R. Br. Herb. (under Galega). Stems or branches diffuse Or ascending, attaining 2 ft. or more, softly silky-villous. Leaflets usually 11 to 17, from obovate to narrow-oblong, 4 to 1 in. long, obtuse or mucronate, nearly glabrous above, softly silky underneath, the primary veins anastomo- Sing and reticulate, Stipules lanceolate or linear, reflexed, persistent. Ra- ~ mes long, terminal, leafy at the base. Flowers (pale yellow, R. Br.) in distant pairs or clusters i all. Calyx silky- on short pedicels. Bracts small. yx silky pubescent, about 3 lines long, the lobes nearly as long as the tube, Standard A Mt silky. Pod 13 to 2 in. long, incurved, softly velvety. Seeds orbi- N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. q mes long and rigid, terminal or in the upper axils, 5 T. oblongata, R. Br. Herb. (under Galega). An erect shrub or undershrub, of 5 or 6 ft., the branches angular, softly pubescent. Leaflets ‘ually 11 to 17, oblong, obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long, nearly glabrous above, y-pubescent underneath, the primary pinnate veins parallel and prominent jiderneath, but anastomosing within the margin. Stipules very deciduous. se rarely leaf-opposed. in distinet clus- vers (almost orange, R. Br., becoming pink when dry) $ ote Bracts linear-subulate, more conspicuous than in most species. a fully + in. diameter, callous at the base above the claw; keel muc r and much curved. Style flattened, glabrous. Pod not seen. imes Australia, ¥ aria, R. Brown. A very imperfect spe- sean Gusivclam's en the E CI a belong to the same species, the speci- of which sometimes almost assume the aspect of a Millettia. 206. ; XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ Tephrosia. - 6. T. porrecta, R. Br. Herb. (under Galega). Rootstock thick, with elongated diffuse or ascending stems, the whole plant loosely pubescent or nearly glabrous. Leaflets usually 11 to 19, sessile, from broadly elliptical- oblong to nearly linear, obtuse or with recurved points, 3 to 8 lines long, coriaceous, the primary veins arcuate and anastomosing within the edge, and ‘conspicuous on both sides. Stipules striate, recurved. Racemes long and slender, terminal, often leafy at the base, the floral leaves usually 3-foliolate. Flowers rather small, on pedicels longer than the calyx. Calyx pubescent, about 2 lines long, the lobes narrow-subulate, pointed, at least as long as the tube. Standard pubescent, about 4 lines diameter. Style scarcely flattened, strongly bearded. Pod about 1 to 13 in. long, arcuate, pubescent. Seeds , orbicular. ; N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Port Essington, Arm- sirong. 1. T., polyzyga, F. Muell. Herb. Stems or branches elongated, hoary or almost silky with a close tomentum. Leaflets 20 to 40 or more, on a common petiole of 3 to 5 in., oblong, obtuse, mostly 4 or 5 lines long, rigid, nearly glabrous above, silky pubescent underneath, the primary veins few and anastomosing within the margin. Flowers small, in distant clusters, in long often branched racemes. Pedicels short. Calyx silky-tomentose, 2 to 25 lines long, the lobes rather broad, acute, shorter than the tube. Stan broad ; keel obtuse. Style flat. Pod nearly straight, 14 to 2 in. long, softly tomentose. Seeds lenticular. r m, Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller ; islands cf the Gulf of Carpentaria, . Brown. _ 8. T. graminifolia, F. Muell. Herb. Rootstock perennial, with ascend- ing or erect branching stems of 1 to 14 ft., slender, angled, glabrous of loosely pubescent. Leaves few, simple, sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long, rather rigid, glabrous or nearly so, the primary veins very oblique, occasionally anastomosing. Racemes slender. Flowers small, in distant pairs or clusters. Calyx-tube not 1 line long, the teeth or lobes shorter than the tube, lanceolate. “Standard broad, with a small callo- sity above the claw ; keel much curved, obtuse. Style flattened. Pod linean pubescent, but only seen young. N. Australia. Providence Hill, F. Mueller. _ 9. T. simplicifolia, F. Muell. Herb. Rootstock perennial, with ascend- ing or erect brauching stems of 1 to 14 ft., slightly angular, glabrous © N. Australia. Trap plains, Roper river, F. Mueller. Tephrosia. | XL. LEGUMINOS£. 207 : 10. T. leptoclada, Benth. Apparently annual, erect, much branched at the base, loosely pubescent. Leaflets either single with a pair of stipelle, or 3 digitate at the end of the petiole, or rarely 1 or 2 pairs lower down the petiole, linear, often 2, 3, or even 4 in. long when single, acutely acuminate, glabrous above, pubescent underneath. Racemes long, slender, with very small flowers in distant pairs. Pedicels slender. Calyx-teeth subulate, longer than the short tube. Standard not 3 lines diameter. Pod long, narrow, straight, pubescent. Seeds nearly orbicular. N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. Queensland. Bowen river, Bowman. ll. T. brachycarpa, F. Muell. Herb. An erect herb, not exceeding 10 in. in any of our specimens, with spreading, softly-pubescent branches. Leaflets 3, 5, or rarely 7, oblong-cuneate obtuse or retuse, rarely above 3 in. closely silky-pubescent, especially underneath. Flowers very small, either in leaf-opposed clusters of 2 or 3, or 2 or 3 pairs in a raceme of 4 to 1 in., with a leaf under each pair. Calyx-lobes acute, the 2 uppermost and the lowest as long as the tube, the lateral ones shorter. Standard broad, not 2 lines long; keel slightly curved, obtuse. Ovary with a single ovule. Style flat- Pod very villous, ovate, compressed, 3 to 4 lines long. Seed trans- versely oblong. N. Australia. Desert near Hooker’s Creek, F. Mueller. This has the flowers and fruit, although not the foliage or inflorescence, of the African Reguienias, which it is there- necessary to unite as a section to the genus Tephrosia. T Stuartii, Benth. A low erect herb, with the habit of 7. brachy- Carpa, the branches softly villous.. Leaflets 3 or 5, from obovate to. oblong- cuneate, obtuse with a small soft point, about 4 in. long, softly silky-villous. wers about 3 lines long, sessile in leaf-opposed clusters of 2 or 3, or in - Short spikes with a leaf at the base of the cluster, so that the floral leaves n appear opposite, with the flowers in the axils of one : Fb Calyx-lobes about as long as the tube. Standard broad ; keel incurved, 0 tuse. Ovary with 2 or rarely 3 ovules, style flattened. Pod oblong, ee ES a hooked point, flat, softly villous, $ to 4 in. long. Seeds 2 or 3, orbi- ar y a, Australia. In lat. 18° 35, MoDenall Stuart ; Sturt’s Creek, F. re : the 2 latter an imperfect, somewhat doubtful specimen, with the flowers in pairs on a Lip aha A Dedunele, | This species connects the anomalous 7. drachycarpa with the rest o the genus, - id especially with the following species. O eriocarpa, Benth. Branches densely tomentose-villous. Leaf- 3,5, or rarely 7, in some specimens broadly oblong-cuneate, gager and mostly about 1 in. long, in others narrow-oblong or linear, = a 08 and mucronate, nearly glabrous above, silky-villous underneath, with - Parallel oblique veins. Flowers in almost sessile leaf-opposed pala, E “ial mes of 2 to 3 in., leafy at the base. Calyx softly villous, the tu yas tts lobes nearly 2 lines long. - Standard about 4 lines diameter, je y ‘Sen perfect. Pod 1 to 13 in. long, straight or slightly recurved, densely ‘Nd softly villous, the valves convex, Seeds orbicalar, usually about 6. ‘Australia, Deserts of Sturt’s Creek and Victoria river, F. Mueller. -208 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Tephrosia 14. T. phæosperma, F. Muell. Herb. A shrub of about 2 ft., the branches closely but densely silky-tomentose. Leaflets 5 to 9 or rarely 11, oblong-cuneate or linear-oblong, obtuse or almost acute, mucronate, 1 to 13 or rarely nearly 2 in. long, rather rigid, more or less silky on both sides, and strongly marked with oblique parallel veins. Flowers clustered, in dense ter- minal racemes of 1 to 2 in. Pedicels short. Calyx silky, the tube about 1 line long, the lobes at least as long, subulate-acuminate. Standard about 4 lines diameter ; keel much curved, almost acute. Pod straight, rarely above 1 in. long, slightly pubescent; valves broad and coriaceous. Seeds nearly orbicular. N. Australia. N. coast, 4. Cunningham ; Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. 15. T. astragaloides, R. Br. Herb. (under Galega). An erect under- shrub of 1 to 2 ft., the branches softly pubescent or silky. Leaflets usually 7 to 17, rather crowded, oblong-cuneate or almost linear, 4 to 1 in. long, obtuse or retuse, slightly pubescent and green above, softly silky and almost silvery underneath. Racemes short, leafy, with crowded rather large flowers, or very rarely elongated with distant clusters. Calyx 2 lines long or rather more, the lobes narrow, acute, rather shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Standard 5 or 6 lines diameter; keel incurved, obtuse. Style less flattened than in the other Australian species, and almost terete at the end, with a penicillate stigma. Pod above 1 in. long, incurved towa the end, tomentose. Seeds orbicular. f Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown, A. Cunningham ; Dunk Tsland, M'Gilli- vray ; Burdekin Expedition, F. Mueller; Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy ; near Marlbo- rough, Bowman. Var. (?) macrostachya. Raceme elongated. Leaflets silky-villous on both sides. Podof T. astragaloides.—Bowen river, Bowman. 16. T. juncea, R. Br. Herb. (under Galega). An annual or perennial, with erect, slender but rigid and virgate, not much branched stems, oe ee 2 ft., glabrous or hoary-pubescent. Leaflets above 20, on a long siente. common petiole, the terminal one oblong-linear $ to above 1 in. long. Ue others very much smaller, obovate obcordate or cuneate, from under 3 a nearly 5 lines long, glabrous above, hoary or silky underneath. How small, in distant pairs, in long slender terminal racemes. Calyx about 1 i long, with very short teeth. Standard nearly 3 lines diameter. Pod l i long or more, narrow, usually incurved towards the end, glabrous or slightly, pubescent. Seeds more or less transversely oblong. aa N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. on Queensland. Endeavour river and Bustard Bay, Henke and Solander ; Broad Sounds E. Brown; Gould Island, M'Gillivray; Wide Bay, Bidwill; Rockhampton, Elliott river, Bowman ; also in Leichhardt's collection. ; 17. 'T. filipes, Benth. A perennial, with slender diffuse or ascending branching stems, rarely above 1 ft. long, minutely silky-hoary.. Leaflets 1 r 15, narrow-oblong or linear, those of the lower leaves obtuse, of the ope leaves acute with straight or recurved points, all rather rigid, glabrous a? f Racemes filiform, 1 or rarely 2 in. long, with usually only 2 distant Peel small flowers, or the terminal ones more rigid, leafy at the base. oat longer than the calyx.. Calyx about 1 line long, including the short teen Tepkrosia.] XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 209 Standard about 3 lines diameter. Style flattened. Pod about 1 in. long, straight, glabrous or nearly so. Seeds orbicular. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R, Brown, Henne. Queensland. Northumberland Islands, R. Brown; Dawson river, F. Mueller ; En- deavour river and Percy Island, A. Cunningham ; May Day Island, Armstrong ; Wide Bay, Bidwill ; Erythrina Creek, Leichhardt. ea Leaflets cuneate-oblong, silky underneath.— Endeavour river, Banks and a r 18. T. remotiflora, 7. Muell. Herb. A perennial or undershrub of 1 to 2 ft. or more, slightly pubescent or silky-hoary. Leaflets usually 7 to 11, long-cuneate, 3 to 1 in. long, obtuse or retuse, with a minute straight or recurved point, glabrous above, hoary or silky underneath. Racemes very long, slender, with small flowers in distant clusters. Pedicels rather longer than the calyx, Calyx silky-pubescent, the tube 2 line long, the teeth rather nger, subulate-acuminate. Standard not 3 lines diameter. Style much ned. Pod about 1 in. long, obliquely acute or slightly falcate, glabrous or slightly pubescent ; valves thin. Seeds orbicular. N. Australia. N, coast, R. Brown ; Fitzmaurice and Upper Victoria rivers, F. Mueller ; Albert river, Henne. Differs from all the varieties of T. purpurea in the much smaller ers, the smaller, thinner, and straighter pod, and in the shape of the seed. BT. oligophylla, Benth. Rootstock woody, with ascending stems of 3 to 1 ft., glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaflets 1, 3 or rarely 5, toadly oblong-cuneate to narrow-oblong, + to 14 in. long, obtuse or retuse mith @ small point, glabrous or sprinkled underneath with a few hairs, the primary veins not so close as in most species. Flowers usually numerous, rather large, the racemes not very long. Bracts subulate, persistent. Pedicels short, Calyx-tube nearly glabrous, about 1 line long, the teeth rather longer, te-acuminate. Standard fully 4 lines diameter ; keel much curved, ob- Style flattened. Pod straight or slightly recurved (not incurved), about 1 in, long, glabrous or nearly so. Seeds orbicular. vas Australia, Cape York, M Gillivray; Albany Island, F. Mueller. oe. E, macrocarpa, Benth. Stems apparently loosely ascending, 4 rather rigid, glabrous. Leaflets 3, 5 or 7, oblong-cuneate, very TE = ~ -Marginate, 3 to 13 in. long, much narrowed into a petiolule of 1 to 3 as TEA rigid, the parallel’ primary. veine very ee nes yery long. Flowers rather large, in distant pairs. Pedicels at least as long as the calyx. Calyx glabrous and rather thick; lobes lanceolate, id Dong as the tube, the 2 upper ones more or less united, the lowest longer fiat F ved. Standard silky-villous, 4 to 5 lines diameter. Style vee . . a 2 iep brons, flat, falcate, 24 to 3 in. long and nearly 3 lines broad. Seeds E N. Australia. N.W. coast (Victoria river ?), Bynoe; Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller. 21, T 218. A perennial or * Purpurea, Pers.; W. and Arn. Prod. Wdershrub of 1 to 2 h. with spreading or decumbent branches, Ha thse or pubescent. Leaflets usually 7 to 11, oblong-cuneate or gal ob- ih or with a small recurved point, 4 to 1 in. long, glabrous above, hoary or F y underneath. Racemes terminal or leaf-opposed, the lower ones often L. IT, P 0 210 XL, LEGUMINOSZ, [Tephrosia. very short, the upper ones 6 in. long or more, with distant fascicles of 2 to 4 pinkish flowers. Calyx minutely pubescent, the tube about 1 line long, the lobes subulate-pointed, variable in length. Standard about 4 lines diameter; keel obtuse. Upper stamen slightly cohering with the others in the bud, but very soon quite free. Style much flattened. Pod glabrous or pubescent, about 14 in. long, more or less falcate. Seeds transversely oblong—Z Baueri, Benth. in A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 408. W. Australia. Hills near Nichol Bay, F. Gregory’s Expedition ; Port Cooper, Herb, F. Mueller (very pubescent fragmentary specimens); Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown. Queensland. Bowen river, F. Mueller; Port Denison, Fitzalan. y N. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler; Hunter’s River, American Exploring Erpe dition. wie The species is very common in tropical Asia and E. tropical Africa, where it varies con- siderably as to stature, dength of raceme, indumentum, etc., but where the calyx-lobes are always subulate and longer than the tube. Among the Australian specimens, those above quoted are the only ones I have seen agreeing in this respect as well as in foliage with a Asiatic ones. The following forms, which are probably varieties of the same species, not nevertheless appear to be represented out of Australia. salah 2o Var. brevidens. More shrubby and erect, with the habit of the Pacific island variety usually named 7. piscatoria, Pers. ; hoary with a minute appressed pubescence. ea mostly 9 to 15. Racemes usually very long. Calyx-teeth very short or the lowest neariy as long as the tube.— Various points of the N. and E. coasts, islands of the Gulf of Carpen? taria, R. Brown; Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; Port Essington, Are Cape Upstart, M'Gillivray ; Wide Bay, Bidwill ; Perey Island, 4. Cunningham; Me, quarrie river, Bowman ; the latter specimen imperfect. E Var. rufescens. Habit of the var. drevidens, but the branches densely and softly rusty: villous. Leaflets more numerous, often above 20. Racemes long and many- Calyx-tecth short as in the var. ¿revidens.—Rocky hills, Gorman Creek, Moreton Bay, C. Stuart; Port Bowen, A. Cunningham ; Archer's Hill, Leichhardt. ee Var. longifolia, Leaflets very narrow, obtuse acute or mucronate, often 1 to 2 in. long. Racemes long. Calyx-teeth subulate, but rather short.—Gulf of Carpentaria, E, Brow, Landsborough; Depot Creek, F. Mueller ; Albert river, Henne.” a Var. sericea. Leaflets numerous, narrow, acute, silky underneath. Calyx-teeth en 0 —Broad Sound, R. Brown, Bowen. ie | Var. (P) lara. Stems loosely decumbent. Leaflets few, broad, loosely pubescent, 9y a villous, the veins parallel above, almost reticulate underneath. Calyx-teeth S ae very short.—Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne. 22. T. Bidwilli, Benth. Rootstock woody, with ascending a stems of 1 to 2 ft., more or less pubescent. Leaflets in the lower leaves ? 5 5, oblong or lanceolate, in the others 7 to 11, linear or linear-lanceotato acutely acuminate, 1 to 2 or even 3 in. long, narrowed at the base, incl pairs along a slender rigid petiole, green on both sides, but slightly pu owers underneath. Racemes usually on long peduncles, the lower pairs of fi the | distant. Calyx densely rusty-pubescent, the tube about 14 lines mp — lobes longer, incurved, narrow, but not subulate, the 2 upper ones E above the middle. Standard fully 5 lines broad; keel much incurved, E most acute. Style much flattened. Pod 14 to 2 in. long, slightly ae softly pubescent. Seeds transversely oblong. Queensland. Wide Bay, Bidwill; Burnett river, F. Mueller. WN. S. Wales. Clarence and Macleay rivers, Beckler. uh ¿hee Var. (?) densa. Leaflets shorter and more silky; inflorescence dense, but with UN of T. Bidwilli. N. Australia. Hills near Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition. Tephrosia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. . 211 23. T. rosea, F. Muell. Herb. A perennial or undershrub, with as- cending branches, closely but rather densely silky-tomentose. Leaflets usually 5 or 7, oblong-cuneate or obovate-oblong, very obtuse or retuse, green and slightly pubescent above, silky underneath. Racemes long and rather rigid. Flowers small, in clusters of 2 or 3. Pedicels usually shorter than the calyx. Calyx silky-tomentose, the tube about 1 line long, the teeth or lobes about as long. Standard about 3 lines diameter, the claw short. Style Much flattened: Pod narrow, densely silky-pubescent, much curved, the ae scarcely thickened, the valves very convex. Seeds transversely ob- ng, N. Australia. Montague Sound, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham; Victoria river and t Creek, F. Mueller. ar. (?) angustifolia, Leaflets linear, elongated. Pod softly villous. _ N. S. Wales. Between Darling river and Cooper's Creek, Neilson, The specimen insufficient for accurate determination. 35. MILLETTIA, W. and Arn. Calyx broad, truncate or with short tecth or lobes, the 2 upper ones often wited. Standard broad, usually reflexed ; keel incurved, obtuse. Upper en free or cohering with the others in the middle; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or rarely stipitate, surrounded at the base by an angular or cup- shaped disk, with several ovules; style inflexed, terete, glabrous, with a small terminal stigma. Pod. broadly linear-laneeolate or oblong, flat and hard, or if convex, thick and woody, opening at length in 2 valves. Seeds orbicular or reniform, not strophiolate.— Trees, tall shrubs or woody climbers. Leaves unequally pinnate ; leaflets penniveined with reticulate veinlets, usually sti- pellate, Stipules small. Racemes terminal or paniculate at the ends of the nches. Flowers usually purple pink or white, clustered or scattered along the thachis. Bracts and bracteoles usually very deciduous. „A large genus, rangin over the warmer regions of Asia and Africa, with one endemic Australian species. it differs from the North American and Japanese genus Wistaria, only 3 hi bards usually flat or thick pod, not opening so readily, although not absolutely inde- a as in the Dalbergiee. Í è Mo me erma, F. Muell, (under Wistaria). A tall evergreen saat climber, glabrous except a slight hoariness “on the young shoots and a panicles, Leaflets 7 to 13, obovate or obovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, 1} 7 $ “1. long, somewhat coriaceous and green on both sides. Racemes 4 to Ong, several in a terminal almost leafless panicle. Flowers scattered, Calyx about 24 lines long, the lobes nearly as long as the tube, the y PPer ones united into a very broad truncate upper lip. Standard above E Fin. broad, minutely silky-pubescent, with a slightly prominent transverse stipe, PPendage insidé above the claw. Upper stamen quite free. Ovary ' tate.“ Pod about 6 in. long, thick, hard, almost woody, densely velvety Seeds large and thick.—W istaria megasperma, F. Muell. Fragm. i.. P2 21% e XL. LEGUMINOSL. ' 36. SESBANTA, Pers. (Agati, Desv.) Calyx-tube broad, truncate, or with nearly equal teeth or lobes. Standard orbicular or ovate, spreading or reflexed ; keel incurved, obtuse or acuminate, the claws much longer than those of the other petals. Upper stamen free, geniculate near the base, the others united in a sheath angled near the base; anthers uniform or nearly so. Ovary with several ovules; style glabrous, with a small terminal stigma. Pod long and linear (or in some species not Australian oblong), 2-valved or indehiscent, the endocarp continuous with spurious transverse partitions separating the seeds. Seeds without any stro- phiole.—Herbs or shrubs, sometimes arborescent, but of very few | duration. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with numerous entire leaflets, the stipellee minute or none. Stipules setaceous, usually very deciduous. Flowers yellow, red, variegated or white, in short loose axillary racemes; pedicels slender. Bracts and bracteoles very rarely persistent to the time of flowering. The genus is widely spread over the tropical regions both of the New and the Old World. Of the four Australian species, three are the commonest Asiatic ones, two of them also over tropical Africa, the fourth is endemic. : Flowers very large (nearly 3 in. long), the petals narrowed at the eee end . má a ES é re, ref ¿ am CARPA U 1 S A Flowers not 1 in. long. Petals broad. agas Racemes pendulous. Stem shrubby . . . +. . ... . +. 2 8. egypliacd. Racemes erect. Stem herbaceous. i Bracts and bracteoles very deciduous. Calyx-teeth very short. 3. $. aculeata. Bracts and bracteoles setaceous, often persistent. Calyx-teeth fs o. 4. S.simpliciusenlo. subulate-pointed, nearly as long as the tube . . : 1. S. grandiflora, Pers. Syn. Pl. ii. 316. A tall shrub or small tree of very few years’ duration, glabrous and more or less glaucous. Leaflets 10 sa to 30 pairs, oblong or elliptical, obtuse and often mucronate, 1 to 13 in. long. o Racemes short, with 2 to 4 very large flowers, white in our ias AE a cimens. Calyx-tube $ in. long, without the turbinate base, the teeth or 00 short and broad. Petals 2 to nearly 3 in. long; “standard ovate, 1 shorter than the others; keel much incurved, ending in an obtuse 96 Pod upwards of a foot long, nearly 3 lines broad.— Agati grandiflora, mii a DC. Prod. ii. 266; W. and Am. Prod. 215; 4. formosa, F. Muell. Fragm ii. 88. e _ N. Australia. Near Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's and Ridley s Expeditions; Glen a river, N.W. coast, Clarkson ; Fitzmaurice river, Arnhem’s Land, F. Mueller. is not an The red-flowered variety, S. coccinea, Pers. l. c., or Agati coccinea, Desv.._ 4 amongst the Australian species 1 have seen. Both varieties are frequent in I ve haps only about villages and other places where they have been planted; they both appr it be really indigenous in the Archipelago. The size of the flowers with the petals proportion, has induced the separation of this species as a genns, but there 15 no other | racter to distinguish it from Sesbania. The Sandwich Island $. tomentosa (Agati tosa, Nutt.) is quite intermediate between the two. 2. S. ægyptiaca, Pers. ; DC. Prod. ii. 264. A shrub of 5 oF 64 becoming, in India at least, a tree of twice that size, but of very few Y duration, glabrous and somewhat glaucous, the branches terete or obscul oy Sesbania,] XL. LEGUMINOSZ. , 213 angled. Leaflets usually under 20 and often not 10 pairs, oblong, obtuse, 4 to 8 lines long or when luxuriant nearly L in. Flowers rather large, yellow or with a purple vexillum, in loose pendulous racemes, shorter than the leaves. Bracts and bracteoles very deciduous. Calyx about 3 lines long, without the narrow-turbinate almost stalk-like base, the teeth very short and broad. Standard about 2 in. broad ; keel much incurved, broad, obtuse, with an acute angle at the base. Pod when perfect 8 to 10 in. long and 2 to 24 lines broad, but often much shorter by the abortion of many of the ovules. —W. and Arn. Prod. 214; Wight, Ic. t. 32; S. picta, Pers.; Bot. Reg. 4. 873. N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, F, Mueller. The species is common in tropical Asia and Africa. 3. S. aculeata, Pers. ; DC. Prod. ii. 265. An erect herb, usually of 4 to 5 ft., but sometimes twice that size, glabrous or the young shoots slightly pubescent, the branches terete or slightly angular. Leaflets from 20 to | - nearly 50 pairs, narrow-oblong, obtuse, mucronate, 4 to 8 lines long, on a common petiole often 4 to 1 ft. long and sometimes armed with small tuber- or prickles, which are however often very minute or quite wanting. owers yellow, much smaller than in S. agyptiaca, in loose erect racemes, shorter than the leaves. Bracts and bracteoles very deciduous. Calyx about - 22 lines long, including the short turbinate base, the teeth short, broad and acute. Standard scarcely 4 in. broad ; keel very much incurved, broadly ob- tuse in front. Pod long, narrower than in S. «gyptiaca, the sutures more thickened.—W. and Arn. Prod. 214 ; S. australis, Y. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. i. 36, ó N. Australia. Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller; Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough, also MKinlay's Expedition. land. In the interior, Mitchell ; Rockhampton, Dallachy. ge Wales. Darling river, Herb. F. Se ustralia. Cooper’s Creek, Howitt’s Expedition. yet Var. sericea, Young branches and foliage silky-pubescent.—N.W. ee or igh, Gregory's Expedition ; Sturt’s Creek aud Flinders river, E. Mueller; islands s of Carpentaria, R. Brown. sits ; i Var. (2) erubescens. Flowers rather longer, the standard pinkish. eigr Toge ed : fulet-—Sturt’s Creek. P. Mueller. This may possibly be near $. punctata, Pers., : ever is scarcely specifically distinct from S. aculeata. : e) Pio pta very much smaller and more numerous, —Albert river, “eme ; Newcastle Water, M'Douall Stuart's Expedition. . _ , 4. S. simpliciuscula, F. Muell. Herb. An erect herb, of 5 to 10 ft., -the branches ba glabrous or pubescent. Leaves long, with very numerous Raflets as in $, aculeata, but the leaflets usually longer, linear-oblong and More mucronate, Flowers yellow, nearly as large as in S. @gyptiaca, nd E re numerous, in short loose erect racemes. Stipules bracts and ap i us and more persistent than in any other species. Calyx-teet a : 2 lines long, without the turbinate base, the teeth subulate-pointed, nearly long as the tube. Standard not spotted. Pod not seen. : N. Australia, Upper Victoria river, F, Mueller. >. 214 ‘ XL. LEGUMINOSA. 37. CLIANTHUS, Soland. (Donia, G. Don.) Calyx-teeth nearly equal. Standard acuminate, closely reflexed over the calyx; wings shorter, lanceolate; keel about as long as the standard, erect, = indy acute. Upper stamen free, the others united in a sheath; an- thers reniform. Ovary stipitate, with many ovules ; style subulate, incurved, longitudinally bearded along the inside towards the end; stigma minute, terminal. Pod turgid, oblong-acuminate, 2-valved. Seeds reniform, not strophiolate.—Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves pinnate. Stipules herbaceous. Flowers large, red, in short axillary racemes. Besides the Australian species, which is endemic, the genus comprises one other from New Zealand. The Norfolk Island climber, described as C. carneus, forms the very distinct genus Streblorhiza, Endl. 1. C. Dampieri, 4. Cum. in Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, i. 522. A perennial, with stout procumbent or ascending stems, of 2 ft. or more, densely villous, with long soft hairs. Leaflets about 15 to 21, dro elip- tical or oblong, obtuse or almost acute, mostly 3 to 1 in. long, nearly 4 brous above, villous underneath. Stipules broad, embracing the a > duncles rarely exceeding the leaves, bearing a short dense almost um An 1 raceme of large red pendulous flowers. Bracts lanceolate. Pedicels a 4 in. long, with short linear bracteoles. Calyx hirsute, nearly 4 a a“ lobes lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the tube. Standard 25 in. one with a deep purple or black shining blotch at the base; wings"l4 xe Yin acute ; keel nearly as long as the standard. Pod narrow-oblong, 2 vs ie long; coriaceous, the seminal suture indented, softly pubescent AS de brous inside. Seeds small and numerous.—R. Br. in App. Sturt, Voy. in Bot. Mag. t. 5051; Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. t. 10; C. Oxleyi, A. eae He Trans. Hort. Sot. 1. c.; Donia speciosa and D. formosa, G. Don, Gen. li. 468. a N. Australia. N.W, coast, Bynoe; Dampier’s Archipelago, A. Cunningham; = Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition, N.S. Wales. Lachlan to Darling rivers, 4. Cunningham, Sturt, Dallachy me — Goodwin. S. Australia. Mount Arden and Lake Torrens, F, Mueller; Gawler range, Eyre; E Flinders range, Howitf's Expedition, * 88. SWAINSONA, Salisb. (Cyclogyne, Benth. ; Diplolobium, F. Muell.) Calyx-teeth nearly equal, Standard nearly orbicular, on a e wings oblong, falcate or slightly twisted, free; keel broad, incurv es bs or produced into a twisted beak, Upper stamen entirely free, w united in a sheath; anthers reniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate, w! pa ovules ; style incurved, subulate or curled inwards at the end, more spit- longitudinally bearded along the inner edge, the, stigma small or eg y ous at or near thé end. Pod either ovoid membranous = inflated 5 ofthe Tow and coriaceous, but turgid, the upper suture occasiona y imp ah pod divided by a longitudinal plow th ty Seeds usually small, reuiform, wi ER Swainsona.] XL. LEGUMINOSE. q 215 out any strophiole.—Herbs or undershrubs, glabrous or clothed, especially the young shoots, with short rather rigid appressed hairs. Leaves unequally pinnate, leaflets usually numerous, small, entire, without stipelle. Stipules herbaceous, oblique with a broad base, rarely almost subulate. Flowers violet-purple, blue, red, white or yellowish, in axillary racemes. Bracts mem- branous, usually small. Bracteoles sometimes close to the calyx and persis- tent, sometimes on the pedicel, and very small or none. The genus is limited to Australia, with the exception of a single New Zealand species, llied to S. lessertiéfolia. The European and Asiatic Coluteas are however ouly to be dis- tinguished by their shrubby habit and large prominent lateral stigma, and the S. African essertias are some of them so near to S. lessertiifolia and its allies, as to make it very difficult to draw any but a geographical line between the two genera. A. Standard with prominent oblique or longitudinal plate-like calli above the claw. Pod stipitate, thin, inflated. Style bearded only along the inner side. Flowers large. Pod acute, . a a in. long. a yx densely white-tomentose. . . . ER Coe A eee Greyana, . Calyx glabrous, or nearly boro FS 2 . . 2. S. galegifolia. Siyle with a tuft of small hairs behind the stigma on the back, besides | i gma on the back, the longitudinal beard. Pod under 4 in. long. Flowers small. . 8. 8. drachycarpa. B. Standard with transverse or confluent callosities on the top of or close above the claw, or the top of the claw much thickened. Pod sessile or nearly so, turgid, often co- naceous, Keel incurved, but neither twisted nor oblique. Style slender. Ovary suky-villous. Leaflets usually more than 9. Calyx-lobes lanceolate. | - Plant hoary or almost mealy-pubescent. Leaflets linear or ob- aa long. Flowers large, few, on long peduncles. . . . . + 4. S.p jacoide . Plant densely villous with white woolly hairs. Leaflets obovate. Flowers rather small, numerous, extending nearly to the base of the peduncle , Se ee Leaflets usually under 9 (except in S. Burkei). Calyx-lobes subu- or very short, Plants usually low or procumbent. ee eas softly villous. Leaflets obovate. Racemes dense, ov 6. 8. Burkei. are erpatiding. ~: .. os . 4 ee A lant slightly pode Leaflets obovate. Flowers small, few, in r hylla Short facemes =; nii 5, O id a Plant glabrous or slightly hoary. Leaflets lanceolate or linear, egy bed: Keel on ute: Flowers few, in short racemes. . - + + ñ . serene or laterally twisted. Style firm, readily twisting. Ovary rous or nearly so. c ta. ets few, lanoeolate, acute. Ovary quite sessile . +. + + + 8. S. campylan $ humerous, oblong, obtuse. Ovary shortly stipitate. — Sell nk a ERE a DER pinta 5. S. Burkittit. . . . Carpe! E EARS CAST By Cae EEE MES dE ~ Leaflets numerous, small, cuncat i Ovary shortly sti- ili. i s, small, cuneate, emarginate. Ovary E lis. Pitate, Flowers few, small, distank, ¢ co 3.453, cha 10. S. graci : broad in. Pod e Standard without any callosities, the claw usually short — US, Keel spirally twisted. wi iti a Mg: 2 y twisted, without callosities. Pod sessile, oblong. > Plendard Y to 1 in, broad. Pod above 1 in. Jong, the upper suture | edi ddis. intruded, but not completely dividing it . $ > + + + + * 216 + XL. LEGUMINOSA., [Swatnsona, Standard about 2 in. broad. Pod under 1 in. long, completely di- A vided longitudinally into 2 cells. . . . . . . . +... 12. 8 Drummondi, Keel incurved, not twisted, with a large callosity on each side at the end. Pod nearly sessile, oblong, tomentose. . . . . +. + + 18. S. canescens. Keel neither twisted nor callous. Style firm, flattened, hooked or inflexed at the end, bearded only along the inner side. Plant hoary or mealy. Leaflets narrow. 219% : AAA A ee cg ag . 14. S. phacifolia. Style slender, not hooked, bearded only along the inner side. Racemes pedunculate, exceeding the leaves. Pod rarely under ¿ in. long. Keel very obtuse. Leaflets usually more than 9, obtuse. Standard with a short eae broad claw. Celyx usually with black hairs . . . . 16. S. dessertiifolia, Leaflets 3, 5, or rarely 7, lanceolate, acute. Standard with a rather thick narrow claw. Calyx rarely with black : MTI ae alle a a es a Pod less than 4 in. long. Flowers small. Keel much in- . curved. Leaflets small or narrow . . . . . . . + 17. S. monticola. Racemes few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves. Flowers i An wy e A RA a aaa a Style slender, not hooked, with a tuft of hairs at the end on the back behind the stigma, besides the longitudinal beard, which is often slight. Ovary and pod sessile, : Leaflets linear, acute, 1 in. LN T 0 0 «e as > parviflora. Leaflets obcordate or cuneate-emarginate, under 4 lines long . 20. 8. Ovary and pod distinctly stipitate. Flowers purple or whitish. Pod above 1 in. long, on stipes ; much longer than the calyx . . 2 . . . we . 21. 8, Fraseri. Flowers yellow. Pod about 3 in. long, on a stipes not exceed- mg he ali A ER ee _ Among the specimens from Hammersley Range, collected in F. Gregory’s Espoli a aa single raceme of what may be a Swainsona, but with large flowers, differently shopt ae those of any of the above species. The fragment is however insufficient for accurate San mination. S S. Frebelii, Regel, Gartenfl. iii. 178, is only known to me from the diagnosis 1m W A : Ann. iv. 495, which gives no character different from those of S. lessertifolia, eg den I have only been able to find in our libraries the first two vols. of Regel’s Garten- ora. 4 . l. S. Greyana, Lindi. Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 66. A perennial or unde- — shrub, with erect or ascending pa 2 to 3 ft., the pda shoots and ay white-tomentose, becoming glabrous when full-grown. Leaflets 11 to 41 a oblong obtuse or retuse, 2 to 1 in. or sometimes 14 in. long. Flowers edicels a pink, in long erect pedunculate racemes. Bracts ovate or lanceolate. ma shorter than the calyx. Bracteoles close to the calyx and often as long 152 tube. Calyx densely cottony-white, 3 to 4 lines long, the teeth the Standard 3 in. diameter, with 2 prominent erect plate-like calli above © claw ; wings shorter; keel incurved, obtuse, not so broad as in $. gagy a Pod inflated, membranous, attaining -14 to 2 in., on a stipes of Y to ¢ Bot. Mag. t. 4416; 8, grandiflora, R. Br.in App. Sturt, Exped. pr rh N. S. Wales. ing ri ; ition, Dalach, ©’ riger Ps = the Darling river, Victorian Expedition, 0 Victoria. Murray river, Mitchell, Grey. - 8S. Australia. Near Adelaide, Herb. Hooker, . Siwainsona.] XL. LEGUMINOSÆ, ‘ 217 The precise form and proportions of the teeth of the calyx and bracteoles prove too variable to admit of distinguishing, even as constant varieties, the two forms described by R. Brown. 2. S. galegifolia, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii: 327. A gla- brous perennial or undershrub, with erect flexuose branches, sometimes under 1 ft., sometimes ascending or even climbing to the height of several feet. Leaf- lets 11 to 21 or rarely more, oblong, obtuse or emarginate, mostly 4 to 8 lines long. Stipules small, reflexed. Racemes pedunculate, exceeding the leaves and sometimes twice as long. Flowers rather large, deep red in the original variety. Pedicels rarely longer than the calyx, with minute bracs teoles near the top. Calyx glabrous, 23 to 3 lines long, the lobes acute, short or nearly as long as the tube. Standard 6 to 8 lines diameter, with 2 oblique or almost longitudinal plate-like prominent callosities above the claw ; wings shorter; keel broad, obtuse. Style subulate, acute, not inflexed at the end, bearded longitudinally without any terminal tuft. Pod much inflated, membranous, 1 to 2 in. long, on a stipes varying from 2 to 6 lines.—DC. Prod. ii. 271; Vicia galegifolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 319; Colutea galegifolia, Sims, Bot, Mag. t. 792; $. Osbornii, Moore, in Gard. Comp. t. 65, copied into Lemair. Jard. Fleur. t. 304. Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown; Moreton Bay, Fraser; Wide Bay, Bid- will, Leichhardt 3 Peak Downs, F. Mueller; Mantuan Downs and Balonne river, Mitchell ; A ekin river, Fitzalan ; plains of the Condamine, Leichhardt. 7 N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, Sieber, n. 508, and others; Hunter’s River, R. Brown, Backhouse ; northwards to New England, C. Stuart; Macleay, Hastings, and Clarence nvers, Beckler ; and in the interior to the Macquarrie and Darling, F. Mueller and others. 5. Australia, Herb. F. M ueller, without the precise station. . The species varies with light purplish-pink flowers, S. coronil/efolia, Salisb. Parad. Lond. gos; DC. Prod. ii. 271 ; Bot. Reg. 1.1725 ; and with white flowers, Bot. Reg. t. 994, 8. albiflora, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii, 345; Lodi. Bot. Cab. t. 1642. The differences in the length of the stipes of the pod do not, as had been supposed, coincide with the differences in the colour of the flower. 3. S. brach carpa, Benth. A perennial, glabrous or nearly so, with the habit of 8. jalan ole. but bat git de more slender. Leaflets numerous, oblong, mostly narrow, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long. Stipules small. Racemes on long peduncles exceeding the leaves. . Flowers small. “pparently purple or red. Pedicels about as long as the calyx. Calyx ~ Marcely above 1 line long, broad with short acute teeth. Standard about 5 diameter, with the oblique almost longitudinal plate-like appendages of S. galegifolia, and the wings and keel also similarly-shaped, but the style is only very slightly bearded longitudinally and has the dorsal tuft of hairs im- mediately behind the stigma of 8. microphylla, laxa, and Fraseri. Pod in- lated, membranous, globular or ovoid, 4 to 5 lines long, on a stipes exceed- mg the calyx, but perhaps not quite full grown in our specimen. ; land. Condamine river and Darling Downs, Leichhardt; Burnett river, F. ueller, N. S. Wales. New England, C. Stuart; Clarence river, Beckler, t S. Phacoides, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 363. A perennial, ya focumbent or ascending stems of 1 to 14 ft., hoary-pubescent as well as the ves, the young shoots silky. Leaflets 9 to 13, narrow-oblong or linear, 218 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Swainsona, obtuse or retuse, 4 lines to 1 in. long. Stipules lanceolate or subulate- pointed, Flowers rather large, yellow according to Mitchell, but apparently purple in most of our specimens, in short racemes on long peduncles. Bracts small, Pedicels very short. Calyx silky-villous, about 3 lines long, the lobes lanceolate, at least as long as the tube. Standard about 6 lines dia- meter, with thick almost confluent callosites almost on the claw ; wing short, rather broad; keel incurved, obtuse. Style slender and much incurved, but not involute at the end. Pod sessile, oblong-linear, about 1 in long, turgid, but coriaceous, silky-pubescent, the upper suture slightly indented.’ + Queensland. E. coast, R. Brown; Mount Owen and Maranoa river, Mitchell, N. S. Wales. Darling river, Victorian Expedition. * Victoria. Murray river, F. Mueller. ; S. Australia. Neale's River, M‘Douall Stuart ; south of Wells’ Creek, Howitt’s Erpe dition. f Var. parviflora. Leaflets fewer, usually narrow. Flowers smaller.—Darling and Lachlan rivers, Neilson and others. Var. grandiflora. Pubescence whiter, almost silky or mealy. Leaflets broadly oblong. Flowers large. N. Australia, Nichol Bay and De Grey river, Ridley's Expedition. _ f The callosities at the top of the claw in this and some of the following species, are vari- able in shape and consistence, but are always very different from the distinct plates of 5. ga- legifolia, and never disappear entirely as in S. phacifolia, lessertiifolia, ete. 5. S. Burkittii, F. Muell. Herb. Stems rather rigid and flexuose, densely clothed as well as the foliage and inflorescence, with soft white woolly hairs. Leaflets 13 to 21 or more. obovate, rarely exceeding 4 lines, very obtuse. Stipules broad. Racemes longer than the leaves, but > en flowering from nearly the base of the peduncle, the flowers numerous, rat $ small, on very short pedicels. Calyx densely and softly villous, about ; lines long, the lobes lanceolate-acuminate, about as long as the tube. Stan ard about 5 lines diameter, with transverse or oblique contiguous callosities close above the claw; wings much shorter; keel exceeding the wings, curved, obtuse or almost acute. Style slender, much inflexed at the en Pod sessile, oblong, turgid, obtuse, rather above 4 in. long, very densely woolly-tomentose, the seminal suture slightly intruded. N. S. Wales. Between the Lachlan and Darling rivers, Burkitt, S. Australia. N.E. of Lake Gairdner, Herb. Mueller, 6. S. Burkei, F. Muell. Herb. Apparently procumbent, the Pr foliage and inflorescence clothed with soft white spreading or almost. woo%Y hairs. Leaflets 7 to 11 or rarely more, obovate or broadly oblong, very < tuse, 4 to $ in. long or rather more. Stipules rather broad. Racemes ag - and ovoid before expanding, somewhat lengthened afterwards, on a pe exceeding the leaves. Pedicels short. Bracteoles linear or subulate, seed long. Calyx hirsute with soft white hairs, 3 to 4 lines long, the lobes SU late-acuminate, much longer than the tube. Standard 5 or 6 lines ee with 2 more or less prominent contiguous callosities close above the 2 d wings shorter ; keel exceeding the wings, much incurved, obtuse. y" slender, inflexed at the end. Young pod sessile, very woolly. N. Australia. Burke’s Creek, Newcastle Water, etc., M‘ Douall Stuart. "K : E to vary in the size of the flowers ; the standard, in the dried state, always looks Swainsona. | XL. LEGUMINOSA, 219 the keel in the smaller-flowered specimens appears to be yellow. The species is nearly allied to S. oligophylla, but is larger, coarser, with a more dense inflorescence, and the in- dumentum almost of $. Burkittii, from which it differs in its fewer leaflets, in inflorescence and calyx, x 1. S. oligophylla, F. Muell. Herb. Apparently perennial, with dif- fuse or ascending stems, under 1 ft. long, slightly hoary. Leaflets 5 to 9, from obovate to cuneate-oblong, very obtuse, + to 2 in. long. Stipules small. Flowers small, in short racemes, on peduncles sometimes scarcely exceeding the leaves, sometimes twice as long. Calyx-tube very short, with a promi- nent minutely-hispid nerve descending from each lobe, the lobes narrow, almost subulate, 3 or 4 times as long as the tube. Standard about 4 lines diameter, with a transverse callosity or thickening of the top of the claw; wings shorter ; keel much incurved, obtuse, slightly exceeding the wings. Style slender, much incurred. Pod sessile, broadly oblong, turgid, about 4 in. long, hoary-pubescent, the upper suture slightly indented, but not seen very perfect, N. S. Wales. Darling river, Victorian Expedition. S. Australia. Cooper's Creek, 4. C. Gregory ; towards Spencer’s Gulf, Warburton ; N.W. terior, M'Douall Stuart. ; 8. S. campylantha, F. Muell. in Rep. Greg. PI. 6. Glabrous and somewhat glaucous, with rather rigid stems of about 1 ft. in our specimens. saets usually about 5, lanceolate or linear, acute, 1 to 12 in. long, or those of the lower leaves short and obtuse. Stipules small. Flowers (purple ?) not Numerous, in pedunculate racemes longer than the leaves. Bracts small. cels rather short. Bracteoles subulate, close to the calyx. Calyx 2 to lines long, nearly glabrous outside; lobes acute, nearly as long as the tube, pubescent inside, Standard about 5 lines diameter, with a callosity or thickening of the top of the claw; wings twisted, nearly as long as the stan- y and always exceeding the keel; keel with a short obtuse oblique beak. Style thick, much inflected at the base, hooked aud almost involute at the oung pod sessile, glabrous. 2 sland. Bowen river, Bowman. : E = > Cooper’s Creek, 4, C. Gregory; Bagot range, M'Douall Stuarts 9. S. occidentalis, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 46. A glabrous or pubescent perennial, attaining 2 or 3 ft. but often shorter, the stems usually erect and quen zigzag at the nodes. Leaflets 11 to 17 or in some specimens more, oblong, obtuse or acute, from 3 or 4 lines to nearly 1 in. long. Flowers Purple, humerous, in long pedunculate racemes. Bracts small ; bracteoles ute. Calyx sprinkled with a few white or rarely black hairs, about 23 pe long, the lobes shorter than the tube, hirsute inside. Standard 6 lines » but not so long, with 2 prominent transverse callosities inside above W; wings obovate, almost as long ; keel much incurved, almost ros- trate, but obtuse. Ovary stipitate, glabrous or hairy at the base, with few ovules; style hard, flattened, inflexed and readily twisting, the slender extre- nly often hooked but not involute. Pod almost sessile, broadly ovate, about hard and rugose, the lower suture on the outer face keeled, the Suture indented, divided internally by a complete longitudinal partition 220 XL. LEGUMINOSE, [Swainsona. and separating when ripe into 2 closed hemicarpels, each ripening usually only 1 or 2 seeds. —Diplolobium Walcottii, F. Muell. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. vii. 489. N. Australia. N.W. coast, Depuech Island, Bynoe; frequent in sterile places about Nichol Bay, F. Gregory’s and Ridley's Expeditions. W. Australia. Raised in our gardens from Drummond’s seeds ; limestoue hills, Mur- chison river, Oldfield (these specimens not in fruit). -10. S. gracilis, Benth. Glabrous, with slender ascending or erect stems of about 1 ft. Leaflets 9 to 15, from obcordate to linear-cuneate, emarginate, rarely 3 lines long. Racemes loose and slender, with few small purple flowers. Pedicels almost as long as the calyx, clothed with short thick black hairs. Calyx glabrous or nearly so, not 2 lines long; the lobes shorter than the tube, slightly ciliate. Standard nearly 4 lines broad, but not so long, with 2 transverse callosities above the claw; wings nearly as long; keel much inflexed, slightly twisted and almost rostrate but obtuse. Ovary shortly stipitate, slightly hairy at the base; style flattened, inflexed, and twisting readily, but not involute. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. 11. S. procumbens, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 46. Glabrous or the young shoots and foliage slightly silky, or sometimes pubescent or hirsute, with procumbent ascending or erect stems of 1 to 3 ft. Leaflets 11 to 21 or more, varying from oblong or almost linear and 4 to 4 in. long, to lanceolate or linear-acute and above 1 in. long. Stipules herbaceous, rather large Flowers large, fragrant, violet or blue, in a loose raceme on a peduncle often attaining 1 ft. Bracts often as long as the pedicels ; bracteoles lanceolate, shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx about 3 lines long, the lobes at least as long as the tube, ciliate inside. Standard in the ordinary form above 1 10. broad, deeply emarginate, without callosities, the claw very short; wings shorter, narrow, slightly twisted; keel much incurved, produced into a long obtuse spirally twisted beak. Style very long and slender, spirally twisted with the keel, the slender tip sometimes hooked but not involute. Pod ses- sile, above 1 in. long, acute, turgid, very coriaceous, often incurved, the semi- nal suture either depressed or slightly prominent.—Cyclogyne swainsoni Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 397; C. procumbens, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 393 ; S. violacea, Henders. Illustr. Bouq. t. 19. Queensland. Plains of the Condamine, Leichhardt ; near Ipswich, Nernst. : N. S. Wales. Liverpool and Dundas plains, Fraser, M‘Arthur, Leichhar de; opa downs on the Gwydir, Mitchell; Darling river, Goodwin and Daliachy ; Casi oore. Victoria. Wimmera, Dallachy. S. Australia. Towards St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller. Var. (?) minor. Leaflets shorter, broader, and more frequently hirsute. Flowers smaller, the keel less twisted. Pod shorter and more turgid.-—Wimmera, Dallachy. 12. S. Drummondii, Benih. Slightly pubescent, Leaflets numeron? e narrow-oblong, obtuse, above + in. long in our specimen. Stipules b Racemes loose, Flowers much smaller than in 5. procumbens, but n a similar in shape. Calyx-teeth or lobes ciliate inside. Standard about y > broad, but much shorter, deeply emarginate, without callosities, 0n 4 E E Swainsona.] . XL. LEGUMINOSE. 221 claw; wings nearly as long; keel produced into an obtuse spirally involute * beak. Pod nearly sessile, oblong, acuminate, above 3 in. long, but not quite Tipe in our specimen, pubescent, the seminal suture much intruded and pro- — into a double dissepiment, completely dividing the pod into 2 longitu- cells. W. Australia, Drummond. The only specimen seen, raised many years since in the garden of the Horticultural Society from Drummond’s seeds. 13. S. canescens, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 46. Stock woody, with erect, rigid, but herbaceous stems of 1 to 2 ft., softly tomentose-pubescent. Leaf- : 9 to 15, obovate or oblong-elliptical, obtuse or retuse, 4 to 1 in. long, nearly glabrous above, softly pubescent or silky underneath. Stipules broad, rbaceous. Racemes many-flowered, on long silky=villous peduncles. Flowers nearly sessile, blue or violet-purple, variegated with pink, and a green blotch at the base of the standard. Calyx about 24 lines long, silky-hairy, the lobes about as long as the tube. Standard about 3 in. diameter, on a very short aw, without prominent callosities ; wings short; keel much curved, obtuse, with a thick callous appendage on each side of the tip. Ovary shortly stipi- tate; style much curved, involute at the end. Pod almost sessile, oblong, Yay softly tomentose-villous, in our specimens 7 to 8 lines long, rather coria- -= “ous, with an indented upper suture, but not quite ripe.—Cyclogyne canescens, th. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 16; Paxt. Mag. Bot. vii. 199, with a fig. W. Australia, Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. The general aspect, style, and pod of this species are so different from those of the few Swainsonas originally known, that . > appeared to warrant the establishment of a distinct genus ; the species subsequently discovered have, however, connected it by so many gradations with the others, that Cyclo- » Are can no longer be maintained even as a section. MB. Phacifolia, F. Muell. in S. Austral. Reg. 1850. A perennial, — ascending or erect stems, often exceeding 1 ft., and sometimes much uched, usually hoary or white with short hairs, giving it sometimes a silky “Most mealy appearance. Leaflets usually 7 to 11, linear or narrow-oblong, ute, rather obtuse or emarginate. Stipules broad, especially the upper : "ig Which are often toothed. Flowers few in the raceme, on long e -¡uncles, larger than in S. lessertiifolia, Calyx hoary or rarely with of » Nearly 3 lines long, the lobes acute or subulate-acuminate, usually ut as long as the tube. Standard thin at the base, with a broad short wand without any callosities as in 8. lessertiifolia ; keel much incurved, > use; wings as long as the keel. Ovary sessile, villous ; style much foe rigid than in S. lessertiifolia, flattened in the lower portion, ratios el E book inflexed or almost involute at the end. Pod narrow-oblong, 2 to E eed l in. long, often incurved, the upper suture slightly indented.—S. sti- E > F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 393. a Es A S. Wales. Darling river, Victorian Expedition ; Flinders range, Howitt’s Erpe- yn Avstralia. Akaba, F. Mueller; between Stokes range and Cooper’s Creek, This speci : : coides, but has no callosities Thateye rs sometimes resembles some specimens of S. phacoides, f thee ON the verillum; it is more nearly ae to S. lessertiifolia, but as e Stipules, and larger flowers, give it a very different aspect. The keel is also m arved, and the broad rigid style is peculiar. ' 222 XL. LEGUMINOSA. : [Swainsona. 15. S. oroboides, F. Muell. Herb. A small perennial, sometimes appearing annual, scarcely exceeding 6 in. in any of our specimens, the young parts silky-pubescent, at length nearly glabrous. Leaflets usually 3 or 5, lan- ceolate, acute, the terminal one often above l in. long, the lateral ones smaller, in the lower leaves often solitary, shorter, and more obtuse, in the upper leaves sometimes 7, smaller and linear. Stipuleg subulate. Flowers small, usually few in a very short raceme, or almost umbellate on a rigid pe- duncle, shortly exceeding the leaves. Calyx silky-pubescent, about 2 lines long, the lobes rather longer than the tube, but not so fine as in $. oligophylla. Standard 4 to 5 lines diameter, with a very slight callosity at the top of the claw, sometimes scarcely perceptible; wings short; keel exceeding the wings, broad, incurved, obtuse. Ovary villous; style slender, incurved. Pod ses- sile, ovoid ovoid-globular of shortly oblong, often incurved, membranous, in- flated, pubescent, about } in. long. Queensland. Near Warwick, Bechler. N. S. Wales. In the interior, Howitt’s Expedition, C. Moore; head of the Gwydir, Leichhardt ; New England, C. Stuart. Allied on the one hand to S. oligophylla, on the other to S. Zessertiifolia ; it is readily distinguished from both by the foliage. 16. S. lessertiifolia, DC. Prod. ii. 271. A perennial, with diffuse or ascending stems of 1 to 13 ft., or shorter in mountain stations, glabrous ex- cept the young shoots and foliage, or more or less clothed with a grey, rather rigid, appressed pubescence. Leaflets 9 to 15 or rarely more, oblong, obtuse mucronate or almost acute, 4 to 8 lines or rarely 1 in. long. Stipules rather broad, obtuse or acutely acuminate. Flowers rather small, violet-purple, m short racemes, sometimes reduced to umbels or heads, on peduncles longer than the leaves. Bracts small. Pedicels usually short. Bracteoles minute. Calyx more or less pubescent with appressed black hairs, 2 lines long or rather more, the teeth acute, shorter than the tube. Standard about 5 lines broad, without callosities; wing shorter; keel very obtuse, almost hood-sha Style not involute. Pod sessile, inflated, 2 to 1 in. long, transversely veme —Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 100; S. viciefolia, F. Muell. in Dietr. Fl. Univ. ñ. ser. t 17, a. normalis. Foliage nearly glabrous. Stipules broad, Keel not much curved. N.S. Wales. Near Nangas, M‘Arthur. ~ ; Victoria. Common on the S. coast, Robertson, F. Mueller, Gunn, and others. _, Tasmania. Kent's group, Bass’s Straits, R. Brown ; common near Woolnorth and in the islands of Bass’s Straits, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Guichen Bay, St. Vincent’s Gulf, ete., F. Mueller and others. te b. tephrotricha. Leaves clothed on both sides with ash-grey hairs. Stipules lance acute or subulate-acuminate. Flowers rather larger, with a more incurved but still very cm tuse keel.—S. tephrotricha, F. Mnell. in Linnea, xxv. 392. ; N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains and open forest land in the interior, 4. Cunningham. Fraser, M‘Arthur, and others; head of the Gwydir, Leichhardt ; New England, C. ue: Darling desert, Neilson. A Victoria. Near Melbourne, Adamson; Broughton, Hutt, and Hill rivers to Port Phillip, Glenelg and Murray rivers, F. Mueller. | S. Australia. 3 ia. Encounter Bay, Whittaker ; near Bethanie, Behr; St. Vincents sd a Mount Remarkable, Burra-Burra, F, Mueller. specie A The two varieties appear to pass one into the other by small gradations, but many mens are doubtful, being very rarely in fruit, ‘ Swainsona.] . XL. LEGUMINOSA. 223 17. S. monticola, 4. Cunn. ; A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 411. A diffuse ascending or erect perennial, closely resembling the more glabrous forms of 8. lessertiifolia, but appears to be constantly distinct in the shape of the keel and the small pod. Leaflets either small, or narrower and more acute _ than in that species. “Racemes usually looser and more elongated. Calyx _ with scarcely any black hairs. Keel broad, much incufved, rather acute or almost rostrate. “Pod sessile and inflated as in S. dessertijfolia, but not attain- | ug? in. in length in any of our specimens. N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains, 4. Cunningham and others; Nangas, M‘Arthur ; | Cow pastures, R, Brown (not in fruit); ridgy ground between Curacan and Canowmdra, €, | Moore. The Species requires further investigation from good fruiting specimens, 18. S, luteola, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 15. A small species, hoary or silky- pubescent, with branching, erect or ascending stems of 4 to 8 in. in our spe- _ mens. Leaflets 7 to 13, obovate or oblong, obtuse, not above 2 in. long. Ss es broadly lanceolate, Flowers small, yellowish, few, in almost sessile | Temes or interrupted spikes shorter than the leaves. Bracts small ; brac- i Meonspicuous. Calyx pubescent, narrower than in the other species, _ lot 2 lines long, the lobes acute, about as long as the tube. Standard nearly nes diameter, rather longer than broad, without callosities ; wings shorter ; hearly straight, obtuse. Style short, inflexed, almost involute at the ex- _ Hemity. Pod sessile, oblong, acuminate, $ to 14 in. long, membranous and ted, but narrow, with the seminal suture more or less indented. E Queensland. Basaltic plains, Peak Downs, F. Mueller. The small narrow flowers n a po short inflorescence give to this plant a very different aspect from that of the rest : genus, PS parviflora, Benth. Nearly glabrous, with erect slender stems of about 1 ft. and few leaves. Leaflets 5 to 9, linear-acute, mostly 1 in. p9 more. Racemes slender, with small distant flowers. Bracts minute. a Pedicels about as long as the calyx, Calyx-tube about 1 line long, the teeth Her, narrow, acute. Standard without callosities, about 3 lines broad and Uso long; Wings as long as the keel, which is much curved, but obtuse. Sole much inflexed, but not involute at the end, with a small tuft of hairs A 8 e stigma. Pod sessile, ovoid, membranous, much inflated, about 4 E Queensland. Wide Bay, Bidwill. mop S microphylla, 4. Gray, Bot. Amer. Bepl. Erped. i. 410. Much branched at the a: ds or erect branches of 4 to 1 ft., or rarely Wore, glabrous or minutely pubescent. Leaflets numerous, obovate obecrdate e cuneate-oblong, usually emarginate, sometimes all under 1 line, more fre- Wently 2 to 3 and rarely 4 lines long. Flowers (purple ?) small, rather nu- Rus, in erect racemes much longer than the leaves. Pedicels very = Bneteoles minute. Calyx shortly pubescent, with a few small ag oe Varcely above 1 line long, the teeth very short. Standard sap ` liamet €, without callosities, the claw very short; keel obtuse. Style on wet but not involute at the end, with a small tuft of hairs at the top be g Sma, besides the longitudinal beard of the genus. Pod sessile, ovoid or 224 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. i [Swainsona. nearly globular, 3 to 5 lines long, much inflated, more or less incurved, the base of the style much so, the seminal suture slightly intruded. : Queensland. Rockhampton, Dallachy ; Connor’s River, Bowman. N. S. Wales. Hunter’s River district, American Exploring Expedition ; sandy plains wa Wellington and Dubbo, C. Moore; between the Darling and Cooper’s Creek, euson. * Victoria. Murray river, F. Mueller. S. Australia. Along the Murray, F. Mueller: towards Lake Gairdner, Babbage. 21. S. Fraseri, Benth. A tall species, often attaining 5 or 6 ft. - Leaflets 11 to 21 or more, distinctly petiolulate, ovate or oblong, very obtuse, mostly 4 to 4 in. long, green on both sides. Flowers violet-purple or nearly white, rather small, numerous, in long loose racemes. Calyx glabrous or slightly hairy, nearly 2 lines long, the teeth rather longer than in $. lasa, but not exceeding the tube. Standard about 5 to 6 lines diameter, without callosities ; wings shorter than the very obtuse keel. Style incurved, with a very conspicuous tuft of hairs on the top behind the stigma, and a few short hairs on the inner side. Pod inflated, membranous, acute, above 1 in. long, on a stipes much longer than the calyx. Queensland. Moreton Bay, C. Stuart, N. S. Wales. Macquarrie river, Fraser ; Hastings river, Beckler. 22. S. laxa, R. Br. in App. Sturt, Exp. 18. Apparently a rather tall species, with tercte branches, glabrous or the young shoots slightly silky. Leaflets 11 to 21, distinctly petiolulate, from broadly ovate to oblong, vety obtuse, rarely above + in. long, and often very small. Stipules broad and falcate. Flowers yellow, rather small, in long loose racemes flowering from near the base. Bracts very small. Pedicels short, with minute bracteoles below the calyx. Calyx glabrous or slightly hairy, 13 lines long, the teeth acute, shorter than the tube. Standard about 5 lines diameter, without oak, losities ; wings much shorter; keel nearly as long as the standard, very ob- tuse. Style not involute, bearing a prominent tuft of hairs round or the stigma, especially at the back, besides the longitudinal beard of the genus: Pod glabrous, inflated, acute, fully 4 in. long, on a stipes usually shorter the calyx-tube. N.S. Wales. On the Darling, Victorian Expedition, Dallachy. ae S. Australia. Murray scrub, towards Moorundi, Behr. escent. a Var. (?) rigida. Leaflets small. Peduncles very long and thick. Calyx silky- poe —Near the Darling river, Victorian Expedition, Dallachy, etc. This species closely connects Swainsona with Lessertia, of which it has the style. 39. GLYCYRRHIZA, Linn. (Clidanthera, R. Br.) ed. Petals Calyx-lobes equal or the 2 upper ones shorter and more unit a narrow ; standard ovate or oblong, nearly sessile; keel shorter, obtuse oS almost acute, the petals scarcely cohering. Upper stamen free or $ bily cohering with the others in an open sheath; anther-cells confluent at thetop the alternate smaller anthers opening deeply in two unequal valves. Sa sessile, with 2 or more ovules; style incurved, glabrous, with a dolar a stigma. Pod ovate oblong or shortly linear, flattened or turgid, cm... Glycyrrhiza.] XL. LEGUMINOSA, . 225 muricate or rarely smooth, indehiscent or opening tardily in 2 valves. Seeds not strophiolate.—Herbs, with the root often sweet. Leaves unequally pinnate or rarely 3-foliolate, without stipellæ. Stipules narrow, membranous, deci- | duous, _ Flowers blue violet white or yellowish, sessile or very shortly pedi- | eellate, in axillary racemes, Bracts narrow, very deciduous. Bracteoles none. The majority of the species are from the E. Mediterranean region, and temperate and sub- | topical Asia; and one is found in extratropical S. America. The Australian species is en- lc, although nearly allied to some of the Mediterranean ones. The exceptional anthers fist observed by R. Brown, upon which he founded his genus Clidanthera as distinguished m Psoralea, are to be seen, in a greater or less degree, in all the species of Glycyrrhiza, moreover differ essentially from Psoralea in habit, in-the ovules always more than one, and in the seed, even when solitary, never adhering to the pericarp. LG, Psoraleoides, Benth. An erect herb or undershrub of 2 ft. or | More, glabrous or nearly so, but more or less glandular-viscid. Leaflets | ly 9 or 11, from elliptical-oblong to linear, 2 to 1 in. long or rarely _ More, bordered with minute glandular teeth. Flowers small, in pedunculate — Tacemes or interrupted spikes, Calyx about 1} lines long; petals about | twice as long. Ovules 2. Pod about 3 lines long, flattened, muricate, the tures slightly thickened, apparently indehiscent, containing 1 or 2 seeds.— igofera acanthocarpa, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 17; Clidanthera | Poralevides, R. Br. App. Sturt, Exped. 11; Psoralea acanthocarpa, F. Muell. | Fragm. iii. 45, and Pl. Vict. i t. 96, S. Wales. On the Lachlan and Darling rivers, Mitchell; Goodwin and Dallachy. ictoria. On the Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers, F. Mueller. Tage VI, HeEpysarem.—Pod separating into 1-seeded articles, or the “ole pod 1-seeded and indehiscent, that is, reduced to a single article. tom above isthe artificial character by which this tribe has been universally distinguished al other Papilionacee. It is, Pasto divisible into about 6 subtribes, several of E are: more naturally allied to other tribes than they are to each other. The aaa 4 pe » however, ® three of the most distinct subtribes : 1, Aschynomenez, wi -~ y Pate leaves of Galegeæ, but the upper stamen very rarely free, including Ormocarpum, E Exigomene, and Smithia ; 2, Stylosanthee, with few leaflets, persistent stipular bracts, 4 Joa stamens, and dimorphous anthers, of which Zornia is the only e 5 and 3, Desmodiew, with the leaves usually 3-foliolate and stipellate as in seme: ; jam stem rarely twining, and the stipules usually dry. The latter comprise the often streaked with red, in axillary’ or rarely terminal racemes. A : A considerable tropical genus, the species numerous in America, fewer in Africa, e a two in Asia, Of the two Australian ones, one is common in Asia and Africa, the a South America and South Africa. Lentets numerous, Stipules produced below their insertion. Calyx deeply | jis Leaflets 7 to Il. Sti i istent, not produced below their in- de per a a ee ne 2. a | 1. Æ. indica, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 320. A diffuse or erect annual ae 1 to 2 ft., or when luxuriant in very wet places 3 ft. high, usually gi" ay but the stem occasionally bearing a few asperities. Leaflets usually nceolate; linear-oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long. Stipules lance? i acute, produced below their insertion into a’ rounded appendage. * pinnate shorter than the leaves, loosely 2- to 4-flowered, and often bearing 2 PH” - . . MESTRE A eS 7 rab e Aschynomene.] XL. LEGUMINOSA, 297 leaf below the flowers. Pedicels slender. Bracts like the stipules but often - denticulate ; bracteoles short, persistent. Calyx about 2 lines long, deepl divided into 2 lips, the upper one 2-toothed, the lower shortly 3-lobed. Pe- tals about 4 lines long, glabrous ; keel much curved, almost acute. Pod on along stipes, the upper suture straight, the lower slightly indented between the seeds; articles about 2 lines Jong, glabrous, smooth or more or less _ Warted or muricate in the centre.—W. and Arn. Prod. 219 ; Wight, Ic. t. 405 ; Æ, cachemiriana, Camb. in Jacquem. Voy. 40. t. 48. N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F, Mueller ; in the interior, M'Douall Stuart ; also in R. Brown’s collection without any label. ‘ land. Burdekin river, Bowman, The species is widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa. 2. Æ. falcata, DC. Prod. ii. 322; var. paucijuga, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras, Papil. 67, t. 14, Stems from a woody stock diffuse decumbent or ascending, often under 1 ft. and rarely nearly 2 ft. long, more or less pubescent. Leaf-. F Tto11, obovate-oblong or cuneate, truncate or emarginate, usually oblique at the base, and about 3 to 4 lines long. Stipules acute, striate, not pro- low their insertion. Peduncles slender, as long as or longes than the yes» Mostly 2- or 3-flowered. Pedicels much longer than the calyx. Bracts and bracteoles small, striate, Calyx 13 lines long, the lobes all equally di- vided, as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones rather broader. Standard 3 to - Lines iameter ; wings broad; keel much curved, almost rostrate. Pod on aslender stipes of 2 to 4 lines, sprinkled with short hairs, the upper suture y straight and continuous, the lower edge deeply indented between the 5 articles 4 to 6, 14 to 2 lines diameter, opening in 2 valves on the Jover edge and scarcely separating from each other.—4. micrantha, DC. oy 321; Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 226, with all the synonyms there A ze ensland. Broad Sound. R. Brown ; on the Burdekin, F. Mueller; Wide Bay, The e. Plains of Rockhampton, Bowman, Dallachy ; Moreton Bay, Bidwill, F. “cored ‘Martins >. 5 18 common in Brazil, where it diverges into a number of varieties mentior e Variety $ above-quoted Flora. The Australian form appears to me quite identical wo = which there named Paucijuga, which is the most common in S. Brasil and Montey 22118 also the one found in S.E. Africa and Madagascar. e 42. SMITHTIA, Ait. pl nit deeply divided into 2 lips, the upper one entire or note 1, the lower ag 3-toot or 3-lobed. Standard by orbicular, narrowed into a short theat Wings and keel nearly as long as the standard. Stamens united in a thers open on the upper side and soon splitting also on the lower oni an- ow iform, Ovary sessile or stipitate, with several ovules ; style eies Ub a small terminal stigma. Pod consisting of 2 or more pian ati =e rated by Very narrow contractions and folded over each other within pa Mily Ditose herbs or in some African species shrubs, Leaves pinnate, vida pa Aa lize. Stipules membranous or scarious. Flowers yellow, in ax- sisten es or clusters. Bracts and bracteoles scarious or striate, per- ¿Mie genus has a considerable number of tropical Asiatic and E. African species, the only tralian one is one of the commonest in E, India, Q 2 . 228 XL. LEGUMINOSA. > [Smithin 1. S. conferta, Sm. in Rees’ Cyclop. xxxiii. A procumbent or diffuse perennial of 1 to 14 ft. or rarely more, glabrous except a few long rigid hairs or bristles on the young branches, petioles, margins and midribs of the leaflets, and on the calyx. Leaflets 7 to 15 or more, rather crowded on a short com- mon petiole, oblong or linear, oblique, under 3 in. long. Stipules produced below their insertion into a subulate-acuminate appendage longer than the upper part. Racemes reduced to clusters of 3 to 5 flowers, almost sessile in the upper axils. Bracteoles broad, striate, above half the length of the’calyx. Calyx 34 to 4 lines long, the lips slightly falcate, acute, mucronete, finely striated. Ovules about 6. Pod not protruding from the calyx.—S. capitata, Desv. Journ. Bot. i. (iii.) 121; S. sensitiva, var. B. W. and Arn. Prod. 220. Queensland ? E. Coast, R. Brown. Common in E. India and in the Archipelago. 43. ZORNIA, Gmel. : Calyx small and thin, the 2 upper lobes united, the 2 lateral ones small, the lowest narrow. Standard orbicular; wings obovate or oblong ; keel iu- eurved, almost rostrate. Stamens united in a closed tube; anthers alter- nately long and short. Ovary sessile with several ovules; style filiform, with a small terminal stigma. Pod with the upper suture continuous, the lower one much indented ; articles several, flat, smooth muricate or bristly.— erbs. Leaves of 2 or 4 digitate leaflets, without stipelle. Stipules striate. Flowers in terminal and axillary loose spikes. Bracts in pairs, enclosing the flowers, striate and oblique like the stipules, but broader and larger ; bracteoles pe. The genus is chiefly American, one species found also in South Africa, and another widely dispersed over the warmer regions of the New and the Old World, including Australia. 1. Z. diphylla, Pers. Syn. ii. 318. A low herb, sometimes anti sometimes forming a thick rootstock of several years’ duration, the SS t decumbent, ascending or nearly erect, 6 in. to 1 or 2 ft. long. Leaflets fe the end of the petiole varying from ovate and only 2 or 3 lines long m lower leaves, to lanceolate or linear from 3 to 1 in. long in the upper e. rarely all ovate acute and rather larger, or all linear. Flowers in the AU lian varieties 3 to 4 lines long, almost enclosed in the narrow or Ove E which like the stipules are produced into a short auricle below their inset oe and are often, as well as the leaves, marked with a few pellucid dolk longer or shorter than the bracts, of 3 to 6 articles, quite smooth and | sil a late or pubescent or muricate with hooked or pubescent bristles or PM" E i N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller; Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, ™ Brown ; Port Essington, Armstrong ; Sweers Island and Albert river, Henne. ‘aaa Sound = - Queensland. Burnett, Dawson, and Brisbane rivers, F. Mueller ; from Broad te, to Northumberland Islands, R. Brown ; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Rockhampton, A „ànd others ; Dogwood Creek, Leichhardt. Hastings _N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown ; Paramatta, Woolls ; Clarence and E rivers, Beckler ; New England, O. Stuart. 2 3 ae - The species is common in most hot countries in both the New and the Old World occ the numerous varieties enumerated in Mart. Fl, Bras. Papil. 79, the following at least ¢ E in Australia :— and es small ce _ a. vulgaris. The common Asiatic form, with the leaflets of the lower leav ovate, those of the upper ones lanceolate or linear, the bracts rather narrow %” small, ; i i © ee XL. LEGUMINOSA, 229 b. zeylonensis. Stems elongated and loose. Leaflets rather larger, all ovate or ovate- lanceolate. Bracts rather broad. Flowers rather larger. e. gracilis. Stems more ereet, glabrous or hairy as well as the leaves. Leaflets mostly lanceolate or linear or even all linear. Bracts rather narrow. Flowers small. _ Iwall the varieties the pod may be found smooth or muricate, glabrous or pubescent, and ~ mone of the forms of the var. gracilis, from Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller (Z. chetonhora, p F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Iust. Vict. iii. 56) ; the pods are rather larger and covered with rigid setæ much longer than in any other Zornia. 1 have seen.. 44. DESMODIUM, Desv. (Dendrolobium, W. and Arn. ; Dicerma, DC. ; Nicolsonia, DC.) Calyx-tube short, the 2 upper lobes more or less united. Standard from oblong to orbicular, narrowed at the base; wings oblong, usually adhering in the middle to the keel; keel obtuse. Upper stamen. free or more: or less united with the others in a sheath or tube; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile | Wstipitate with 2 or more ovules; style incurved, subulate. Pod longer than the calyx, flat, one or both sutures indented between the seeds, separating into dehiscent 1-seeded articles, or rarely the articles opening on the lower edge m 2? valves, and then not always readily separating.—Herbs shrubs. or rarely small trees. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or 1-foliolate, with stipellæ. Sti- pules usually dry, striate, membranous. Flowers purple, blue, pink or white, y small, in terminal racemes or panicles; or-rarely in axillary umbels or A very large genus widely dispersed-over the tropical regions both of the: New and the Old World, extending beyond the topes into N. Ane and a very few species into extratro- S. America, S. Africa, and extratropical Australia. Of the 16 Australian species, six 4 wide range in East India aud the Archipelago, one is common to Australia and id mia, the remaining 9 are endemic but partaking of the general character of the g's - Mecies, with the exception of D. acanthocladum, which is singular in the genus for i - Spinescent branchlets, s of tica pens ls readily divisible into from 12 to 15 tolerably well-marked sections, many of a been proposed by myself or others as distinct genera; but as they pred aioe ; tthe, distinguished some by habit only without marked floral or carpo: I found it more ¿Y Variations in the fruit, not always constant nor easily appreciated, retain them all quvenient, on a general review for the Floras of Brazil and Hongkong, to one generic name. * Wings usually free from the keel. Pod glabrous or silky-hairy. Powers white, in dense axilla g : shortl unculate umbels. Pod 5 articles rather titel (Sect. > sah ost ey hea E D. umbellatum. . vers small, in dense umbels or heads along the branches ofa - sa Panicle, each umbel almost enclosed in a 2-foliolate leaf. . Iohellum My oetticles 2, nearly orbicular-(Sect. Phyllodium) . . - 2 D. pu j s in leafless racemes. Pedicels short crowded.. Pod-articles rad orbicular. Leaflets digitate or nearly so (Sect. Di- 3. D. biarticulatum. E . e . . . Wings adhering to slight lateral protuberances or membranous appendages of the keel, ia iS spinescent. Flowering: branches- reduced to axillary a with 1 or 2 pairs of flowers below the summit. Pod-ar- Eae Heteroloma, but usually lor 2 only . . - + + + a ìn racemes or panicles. Ovules several, rarely 2 only. Pod several articles (unless by abortion) indehiscent, the upper 4. D. acanthocladum.. 230 XL. LEGUMINOSA. _ [Desmodium, suture straight or slightly indented, the lower suture much . indented between the seeds (Sect. ELeteroloma). Bracts narrow, persisting at least till the flower expands. Pe- dicels usually in pairs (Leptostachya). > Leaves all 1-foliolate. Pod-articles small, nearly glabrous , 5. D. gangeticum. Leaves all (except sometimes the lowest) 3-foliolate. Pod-articles flat, prehensile-pubescent. Stems rather rigid, erect or ascending. Fruiting-pedicels reflexed, not longer than the calyx . . . . . +. Stems slender, diffuse. Fruitin g-pedicels slender, spreading, much longer than the calyx. Plant slightly pubescent. Ovules and pod-articles several . . . . . +. . Ovules and pod-articles 2 only . AAA Stems diffuse or procumbent, rusty-villous. Leaves softly villous, rhomboid ovate. Pedicels slender, spreading : _, Father longer than the calyx S'S SS ks D. rhytidophyllum, Pod-articles somewhat turgid, slightly pubescent. ; : Stem trailing. Leaflets lanceolate, 2 to 3 in. long . . 10. D. campylocaulon. Bracts broad membranous, falling off long before the flower ex- } pands» (Strobilifera). Tall and erect. Leaflets oblong or elliptical, 13 to 24 in. long. Fruiting-pedicels mostly in pairs, rigid, reflexed, not longer than the calyx 2... 0... we . . . . . Ve Dy nemorosun. Diffuse and slender. Pedicels mostly solitary, filiform, spreading, longer than the calyx. Pod-articles thin, strongly reticulate. - Leaflets narrow-oblong or linear . oo s . . 12, D. HAMAS Leaflets broadly obcordate . . . . . . . . . . 18. D. trichostachyum Pod-articles scarcely separating, very finely veined, the , Upper suture thickened (see below, sect. Vico/sonia). Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles. Bracts of the Strodilifera. Ovules several. Pod very flat, the upper suture straight, the lower slightly indented and opening more or less in 2 valves (Sect. Nicolsonia). Fruiting-pedicels short, erect or nearly so in pairs or clusters. mes short, dense, in a short terminal panicle. Hairs for) P brachypodum, ] D. varians. . D. flagellare. at = short, usually appressed 2... s . a. «ss 14, D. polycarpum. Racemes elongated. Hairs of the stem and rhachis long and spreading . . a his A Fruiting-pedicels slender, spreading, solitary and distant. P Stem loosely diffuse. Leaves not crowded, leaflets oblong. . Hairs long and spreading, . . . . e o . . . » 16. D. Mueller. Stems procumbent, pubescent.: Leaves crowded ; leaflets small. dió Racemes filiform, few-flowered . . . , . . . . + 17. D. parvifolium. ze l. D. umbellatum, DC. Prod. ii. 325. A bushy shrub occasionalY : growing into a small tree, the young shoots silky. Leaflets 3, ovate or or oblong, obtuse or rarely almost acute, mostly 13 to 2 in. long, impar nearly so above, pale or silky-pubescent underneath, with prominent p. umbels veins. Stipules very deciduous. Flowers white, in dense axillary e Pee on a common peduncle; rarely attaining 4 in. Bracts very deciduous. +% dicels as long as the calyx. Bracteoles persistent, as long as the calyx ‘ab Calyx silky, about 2 lines long, the lobes: acute, not longer than the Jong Standard broad, twice as long asthe calyx; wings much shorter ; kod ta as the standard, without lateral protuberances. Pod of 3 or 4 thickish pat fleshy articles, each 3 or 4 lines long and not so much in breadth, not 16%% Desmodium.) XL. LEGUMINOS&. . 231 late, indehiscent.D. australe, DC. Prod. ii. 326 ; Dendrolobium umbellatum, W. and Arn. Prod. 224 (under Desmodium) ; Benth. in Pl. Jungh. 16; Or- mocarpum oblongum, Desv. in Ann. Soc. Linn. 1825, 307. 7 Queensland. Barnard Isles, M'Gillivray ; Port Denison and Edgecumbe Bay, Dal- lachy, also in R. Brown’s Collection. The species is widely spread over East India and the Archipelago, 2. D. pulchellum, Bent). Fi. Hongk. 83. A tall branching perennial or undershrub, the branches pubescent or villous. Leaflets 3, ovate, obtuse, the margins sometimes slightly sinuate, the terminal one usually 3 to 4 in. long, the lateral ones smaller, all slightly pubescent or nearly glabrous above, softly pubescent underneath. Flowers small, in dense umbels or heads, ses- sile along the branches of a large terminal leafy panicle, each umbel almost enclosed in a 2-foliolate leaf-like bract at its base, each leaflet broadly ovate or orbicular, 4 to 4 in. long and very oblique at the base. Pod of 2 flat nearly orbicular small articles, glabrous or nearly so except a few hairs along the edge, both edges of the pod, especially the lower one, indented be- tween the seeds.—Dicerma pulchellum, DC. Prod. ii. 339 Wight, Ic. t. 418; Plyllodium pulchellum, Desv.; Benth. in Pl. Jungh. 217. = N. Australia. N. coast, R. Brown. Widely spread over East India and the Archi- Plago, extending northwards to S. China. 3. D. biarticulatum, F. Muell. Fragm: ii. 121. A rigid undershrub th prostrate decumbent or almost erect branches of 1 to 2 or rarely 3 ft., the young shoots softly pubescent or silky. Leaflets 3, oblong or on the lower ; ves narrow-obovate, + to 1 or rarely 13 in. long, rather rigid, digitate or _ Nearly so at the end of a stiff short petiole. Stipules brown, searious, more or less united opposite the leaf. Flowers small, red,.crowded or distant in a =g narrow terminal raceme, Pedicels short, usually 2 together. Bracts _ Jarov, acuminate, rigid and striate. Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes i rather longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones united nearly to the top. Pe- a twice as long; wings scarcely adhering to the keel, which has not the Ng lateral appendages of most Desmodia. Ovary with only 2 ovules. - Pod a le, flat, silky-pubescent ; articles 2 or rarely 1, nearly orbicular, not 2 lines a eter, reticulate and indehiscent.—Dicerma biarticulatum, DC. Prod. ii. 8393 Wight, le. t. 419, | ae Lo = „N. Australia. Brunswick Bay, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; Albert and Nicolson- Tvers, E. Mueller ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne. a | Queensland. Burdekin river, F, Mueller ; Bowen river, Bowman. Common in a r Several of the Australian specimens are more erect and taller, with a 2 stipu ms and bracteoles than the Indian ones, but they do not otherwise differ, and others are Precisely like the Tndian form figured by Wight. J $ 3 t. D. acanthocladum, F. Muell. Fragm, ii. 122. A glabrous under- ‘Shrub or small shrub, cod pea rigid angular branches, Smaller Ones ending in a fine thorn. Leaflets 3, oblong or lanceolate, | “tinal one 2 to F in, long, the lateral ones smaller, the common pet > Stipules small. Flowering branches reduced to axillary esi oo. Msually shorter than the leaves, and bearing 1 or 2 pairs or clusters O a A ial the extremity. Pedicels short. Bracts very small. TORS a ws s long. Calyx-lobes about as long as the tube, Wings strongly achering r 232 » XL. LEGUMINOS2. [ Desmodium. to the lateral protuberances of the keel. Ovules usually Sor 4. Pod rarely ‘of more than 2 articles and often only 1, pubescent with clinging hairs, the upper suture straight, the lower deeply and broadly indented, each article 5 to 6 lines long and about 2 broad, tapering to each end, flat and indehiscent. N.S. Wales. Woods on the Clarence river, Beckler. This species, different from all others of the genus in its thorny branchlets, is otherwise more nearly allied to the section Heteroloma, subsection Podocarpia, than to Dicerma. 5. D. gangeticum, DC. Prod. ii. 327. A decumbent or erect herb or undershrub, the large-leaved forms attaining 2 or 3 ft., the small ones ‘slender and under 1 ft., sprinkled with a few hairs. Leaves all 1-foliolate, in the large forms ovate or ovate-lanceolate 3 or 4 in. long, in the smaller ones broadly ovate-cordate or almost orbicular 4 to 1 in. long. Racemes long and Slender, terminal or in the upper axils. Flowers small, the pedicels in pairs, under 2 lines long. Bracts linear-subulate, persistent to the time of flower- ing, but falling off soon after. Calyx about 1 line long, the lobes longer than the tube. Petals twice as long. Pod sessile, minutely pubescent, the upper ‘margin slightly, the lower deeply indented ; articles 4 to 6, 1 to 12 lines long and broad, flat, thin and indehiscent.—W. and Arn. Prod. ii. 125. ` W. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Northumberland Islands, ÈR. Brown; Moreton Bay, O. Stuart ;+Rockhampton, Dallachy ; Broad Sound, Bowman. The species is widely spread over E. India and the Archipelago. 6. D. brachypodum, 4. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. 434. Aro ther rigid, erect or decumbent perennial, of 1 to 2 ft., slightly pubescent, the specimens often assuming a bluish-black tint when dry. Leaflets 3 or m the lowest leaves solitary, from broadly ovate almost orbicular to oval-oblong, Very obtuse, mostly 1 to 2 in. long, rather stiff and strongly reticulate, the stipelle long. Stipules rather broad, striate, acuminate. Flowers small, usually m ‘pairs, the lower ones distant, in a long terniinal rigid raceme. Pedicels very short and recurved. Bracts subulate-acuminate, persistent to the time flowering but falling off soon after. Calyx 14 lines long, the lobes not longer than the tube. Petals about twice as long. Pod sessile or shortly stipitate, pubescent with clinging. hairs, the upper suture slightly the lower deeply 1m- dented; articles 4 to 6, about 2 lines long and nearly as broad, thin, reticu- late and indehiscent. : Queensland. Burdekin river, F. Mueller; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Percy Island, : 5 a ; Rockhampton, Dallachy, Bowman ; Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, ardt, WN. S. Wales Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Banks and So y New A. Cunningham, Woolls, etc.; Huuter’s River, American Exploring Expedition; England, C. Stuart ; head of the Gwydir, Leichhardt. 7. D. varians, Endl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. i, 185. Stock woody with prostrate diffuse or ascending slender stems of 2 to 12 ft, the whole p'an pubescent or nearly glabrous. Leaflets 3, in the lower leaves or sometime all broadly obovate or almost orbicular or obcordate, 3 to 4 in. long, the up” per ones or sometimes nearly all ovate oblong or almost linear, 4 to 1 m. Jong Stipules small, acute. Flowers very small, in distant pairs, in slender tet- minal racemes. — Pedicels filiform, short when in flower, spreading and nea! d m Desmodium.] XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. : 233 . e zin. long when in fruit. Bracts small, persistent. Calyx-lobes acuminate, as long asthe tube. Petals rarely 3 lines long. Pod sessile, the upper suture very slightly, the lower deeply indented ; articles 3 to 6, obliquely ovate, about 2 lines long and not so broad, flat, indehiscent, clothed with short clinging hairs. —Hedysarum varians, Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. 71, t. 71. r Queensland. Broad Sound and Keppel Bay, R. Brown ; Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, . Stuart. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, Banks, R. Brown, and others; Hastings river, Beckler; Liverpool Plains, Wools ; head of the Gwydir, Leichhardt. Victoria. Macalister-river mountains, Ovens and Delatite rivers, Bacchus Marsh, ete., F, Mueller, : Tasmania. N. coast, J. D. Hooker. Var. angustifolia. Leaves mostly linear.—D. spartioides, DC. Prod. ii. 337 (from a specimen formerly seen in Herb. DC.). a _ Var. Gunnii. “Leaves all broadly obovate orbicular or obcordate.—D. Gunnii, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 101. The differences T had formerly observed in the fruit disappear in the y ripe pod. This variety is the only one in Tasmania and occurs also in Victoria and N.S. Wales, but these pass frequently into the narrow-leaved form. 8. D. flagellare, Benth. Stems slender, trailing, hirsute when young as well as the racemes with soft loose hairs. Leaflets 3, mostly broadly obovate, but varying from almost fan-shaped to narrow-obovate, broadly trun- Gte or emarginate, $ to 1Y'in. long, glabrous above, sprinkled with rather „0ng appressed hairs underneath. Stipules subulate-acuminate. Racemes ong, slender, flexuose. Bracts lanceolate-subulate, persistent long after the ver opens. Pedicels mostly solitary, spreading, longer than the calyx. yx ciliate-hirsute, about 1° line long,.the lobes thin and rather broad. etals not seen perfect. Ovary sessile, hirsute, with 2 ovules. Pod of 1 or articles, each about 2 lines long and broad, the upper suture nearly straight, er arcuate, thin, flat, densely pubescent with clinging hairs, inde- . nt N. Australia. Beagle Valley, F. Miell 5 gle Valley, F. Mueller. j . tobe cimens are too far advanced for a satisfactory description, but the agree a seria E be allied to D. varians, notwithstanding that the ovules and pod-articles are 2 only. 9. D. rhytidophyllum F. Muell. Herb. A- perennial with long pro- - timbent almost trailing branches, softly rusty-tomentose or os. E ets 3, ovate-rhomboid or the upper ones rather narrow, obtuse, agp y in. long, rather thick and sofily villous on both sides. Stipules og : te, striate, often reflexed. Racemes long. Flowers rather small, > is- t pairs. Pedicels slender, rather longer than the calyx. Bracts pes zA ate, persistent. Calyx about 1% lines long, the lobes longer than tube. Petals about twice as long. Pod almost sessile, the upper suture - Slightly, the lower more deeply indented ; articles 3 to'6, about 13 lines long _ < nearly as broad, flat, indehiscent, clothed with short clinging hairs. oh ham caged Ph dager rocks between Dawson and Burnett rivers, F. Mueller ; near an mpton, Dallachy. i E “hing Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Backhouse ; Paramatta, Woolls ; Hastings, Th y and Clarence rivers, Beckler. ith a different foli nai species is allied to D. varians, but much larger and coarser, mane a ol d indumentum, m campylocaulon, F. Muell. Herb. Stem diffuse or trailing, 234 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Desmodiwn, elongated, rather stout, slightly pubescent. Leaflets 3, lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 2 to 3 in. long, glabrous or nearly so, strongly veined underneath, the stipellse very conspicuous. Stipules striate, thin. Racemes mostly leaf-op- posed, pedunculate. Flowers numerous. Pedicels solitary or in pairs, slen- der but short. Bracts narrow, usually persistent. Calyx nearly 13 lines long, the lobes longer than the tube. Petals twice as long. Pod sessile, pu- bescent when young with short clinging hairs, the upper suture continuous, the lower indented ; articles 3 to 6, about 14 lines long and broad, membra- nous turgid or almost inflated when ripe, slightly reticulate, indehiscent. i WN. Australia. Fertile plains, Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller. El _ 11. D. nemorosum, F. Muell. Herb. Stems apparently tall, erect, woody at the base, clothed as well as the under side of the leaves with soft silky appressed hairs. Leaflets 3 or solitary in the lowest leaves, oblong- elliptical, very obtuse, 14 to 24 in. long or the lateral ones smaller, glabrous above. Stipules rather long, striate. Racemes terminal. Bracts broad, membranous, acuminate, falling off long before the flowering. Flowers soli- tary or in pairs ; pedicels very short, rigid, recurved after flowering and not exceeding the calyx when in fruit. Calyx nearly 2 lines long, the lobes ra- ther broad, acute. Petals nearly twice as long, the lateral appendages of the keel very prominent. Pod sessile, the upper suture continuous, the lower rather deeply and broadly indented ; articles few, flat, 3 to 4 lines long and, about half as broad, indehiscent, pubescent with short clinging hairs. Queensland. Brisbane river, F. Mueller; Pine river, Fitzalan, also in Leichhardl's collection. The foliage and habit are nearly those of the E. Indian D. concinnum, but ‘pod and flowers are very different. 12. D. neurocarpum, Benth. Stems slender, diffuse, loosely villous 1 with spreading hairs. Leaflets 3 or the lower ones solitary, narrow-oblong, very obtuse, sometimes 14 to 2 in. long, but often under 4 in. Stipules Inn ceolate, subulate, quite free. Flowers small, few, in long filiform racemes; pedicels solitary, filiform, distant. Bracts small, lanceolate, falling off long before the flowers expand. Calyx about 1 line long; lobes acute, ran% longer than the tube. Pod sessile, the upper suture very slightly, the lower A ‘one more deeply sinuate; articles 2 to 4, as broad as long, flat, indeluscenh ‘strongly reticulate, sprinkled with a few hairs. di- <- N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. The inflorescence and habit a° those of D. Muelleri, with a very different pod. Var. gracile. Slender and apparently annual. Leaflets linear. Flowers and pod small. 4 —N. coast, R. Brown. E 13. D. trichostachyum, Benth. Stems prostrate, filiform, nearly gi a brous. Leaflets 1 or 3, very broadly obcordate, 2 to 4 lines or rarely 3 7 „long, and sometimes broader than long. Stipules subulate-ac a Flowers very small, distant, in filiform terminal simple or branched dues AE pedicels all solitary and filiform. Bracts membranous, lanceolate, falling before the flowers open. Calyx about 1 line long, divided nearly to the Das into narrow acute lobes. Pod sessile, the upper suture straight, the gli- rather deeply indented ; articles 3 or 4, small, as broad as long, thin, E” ‘brous, strongly reticulate. ee Desmodium.) XL. LEGUMINOS&, 235 N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Arnhem’s Land, F. Mueller ; Port Essington, Armstrong. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; E. coast, 4. Cunningham. 14. D. polycarpum, DC. Prod. ii. 334. An erect decumbent or as- cending perennial or undershrub, 1 to 2 or 3 ft. high or rarely more, more or - less pubescent with short appressed or scarcely spreading hairs. Leaflets 3, the terminal one obovate or elliptical, 14 to 2 in. long, the lateral ones usually * smaller, Stipules striate, acuminate. Racemes terminal, dense, 1 to near 3 in. long, often several together forming a short panicle. Bracts broad-lan- ceolate, imbricate at first, but falling off before the flowers expand. Flowers purple, crowded, 3 to 4 lines long. Pods crowded, erect, hairy or glabrous, ut $ to 4 in. long, the upper suture continuous, the lower indented ; arti- cles about 4 to 6, flat, usually opening at the lower edge when ripe.—W. and Am. Prod. 227; Wight, Ic. t. 406. y $ ` Queensland. Sandy Cape, Broad Sound, and Northumberland Island, R, Brown; vidence Hill, F. Mueller : Rockhampton, Zhozet. Extends over the whole of E. India, the Archipelago, and the Pacific Islands. To the numerous synonyms adduced by Wight and Arnott must probably be added Hedysarum tuberculosum, Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. t. 72 “15. D, trichocaulon, DC. Prod. ii. 335. Very nearly allied to D. po- lycarpum, with a similar foliage and the erect pods the same, but the stems _ more generally decumbent, more slender, and clothed as in D. Muelleri with ong soft spreading hairs, and the racemes much looser and slender. Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, Leichhardt, C. Stuart. Not uncommon in E. India, where the above-mentioned differences appear to be constant, al- though it may possibly prove to be a variety only of D. polycarpum, E 16. D, Muelleri, Benth. Stems branching at the base, apparently as- cending or erect, clothed as well as the racemes with long soft spreading hairs, young shoots almost silky. Leaflets 3, oblong, obtuse, $ to 13 in. long, ous or loosely pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, softly hairy. mes terminal, slender; pedicels distant, solitary, filiform, e pea = „acts broad, lanceolate, acuminate, imbricate at first, but falling off Jong before the flower expands. Calyx nearly 1 line long, the subulate-acuminate es longer than the tube. Pod sessile, rather broad, the upper ae straight and slightly thickened, the lower very slightly indented ep y ia gortlcles 4 to 6, as broad as long, truncate at both ends, thin an pm > Mith fine transverse veins, separating but apparently opening sometimes at the - Wer suture when ripe. Ne Australia, U r Victoria river, F. Mueller. : ane Bota river, Bonnie. iha a en D. parvifolium, DO. Prod. ii. 334. A very much-branched dif- a fuse or prostrate ede oo or perennial, sprinkled with a few q mgs. ‘big. Usually small and crowded ; leaflets 3 or rarely solitary, obovate = iole a to nearly 4 in, long or rarely more, on a short filiform ae E tio € Stipules acuminate, brown and scarious. Flowers small, z s + ml filifo racemes, usually terminating short lateral branches ; pedice Sri oo flo tm, distant. Bracts membranous, acuminate, falling off long $ e “Wer expands and seldom seen, Calyx about 1} lines long, the lobes acu- 236 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [ Desmodium. minate, much longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones only shortly united. ` Petals scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod sessile, glabrous or minutely pu- bescent, the upper suture straight or slightly indented, and often more or less dilated, the lower more deeply indented ; articles 2 to 4, thin, flat, with very fine transverse reticulations, scarcely separating from each other and some- times perhaps opening on the lower edge. N. Australia. Arnhem N. Bay, R. Brown. Queensland. Moreton Bay, F. Mueller ; Archer’s Station, Leichhardt. y The species is common in India, extending over the Archipelago and into S. China. This and D Muelleri seem to connect the section Sagotia, founded on the common tropical D. triflorum, DC., with D. trichostachyon and D. neurocarpum, which 1 have referred doubt- fully to Heteroloma, although they have the solitary pedicels of Sagotia. They all come very near in habit to some of the looser-flowered species of the section Nicolsonta, but the pod is much less disposed to open on the lower edge. 45, PYCNOSPORA, R. Br. Calyx 2 upper lobes united into one. Standard nearly orbicular, narrowed at the base; wings adhering to the keel; keel obtuse, with small lateral appendages. Upper stamen free or at first united with the others, anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, with several ovules. Style subulate, with a term stigma. Pod oblong, turgid, 2-valved, transversely veined. Seeds several, not strophiolate.—An undershrub, with the habit of Desmodium. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or 1-foliolate, with stipellee. Flowers small, in te racemes or panicles, : The genus consists of a:single species, extending over the Indian Archipelago to S. cipa It is very nearly allied to Desmodium, except in the pod (nearly that of Crotalaria), MAR would technically remove it from Hedysareæ, but it has no immediate affinit other tribe. l. P. hedysaroides, R. Br. in W. and Arn. Prod. 191. Stock per- ennial, with several decumbent or ascending branched stems, 1 to 2 ft. long pubescent or hairy. Leaves nearly those of Desmodium concinnum ; leat obovate or obovate-oblong, the terminal one in some specimens scarcely z Mo m others above 1 in. long, the lateral one usually smaller or sometimes wanting. Stipules striate, subulate-acuminate, frequently deciduous. mora about 2 lines long, purplish, in terminal slender racemes of 2 to 3 in., OF | 3 casionally longer and branching into panicles; pedicels short, m pe Bracts rather broad, acuminate, membranous, striate, falling off long the flower expands. Pod 3 to 4 lines lóng, very turgid, slightly poe E the valves thin, with very fine transverse reticulations. Seeds 6 to 5, ® reniform.—P. nervosa, W. and Arn. Prod. 197. > Land, N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ;. Copeland Island, Arnhem'5 A. Cunningham; Port Essington, Armstrong, «Gillioray i ` Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown, Bowman; Dunk Island, ua khampton, Zhozet, Dallachy. | 46. URARIA, Desv. Calyx-lobes subulate-acuminate, spreading, the 2 upper ones (lowest by the resupination of the flower) shorter. Standard orbicular or obovate, 14 rowed into the claw; wings adhering to the obtuse keel. Upper °° Draria,] XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 237 free, the others united ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or nearly so, with 2 or more ovules ; style filiform with a capitate terminal stigma. Pod nearly sessile, contracted between the seeds ; articles ovate, folded back upon each other within the calyx.—Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves pinnate of 3, rarely 5 or 7 leaflets, or sometimes of a single terminal leaflet, usually prominently reticulate, with stipelle. Stipules free, acuminate, striate. Flowers purplish or yellowish, in terminal racemes either slender and elongated or dense and spike-like, the pedicels in pairs, inflexed at the top so as to reverse the flowers. Bracts usually broad, acuminate ; bracteoles none. An Asiatic and African tropical genus, with one or two species naturalized in some parts of tropical America. Of the Australian species, two are common Asiatic ones, the third ap- pears to be endemic. Upper leaves of 3 or 5 long narrow leaflets. Raceme long and slender. lo Fod org tob amides. . . . . .. . a U. picta. Leaves mostly of 3 oblong leaflets. Raceme cylindrical dense and : spike-like. Pod of 2 articles. Bracts persistent . . . . . « 2, U. cylindracea, ves mostly of 1 very broad leaflet. Raceme oblong dense and spike- 2 like. Pod of 2 articles. Bracts deciduous . . + +. . . + + 3. U. lagopoides. l. U. picta, Des. ; DC. Prod.ii.324. An undershrub with ascending or erect stems of 1 to 3 ft., loosely pubescent or villous. Lower leaves oc-, casionally of 1 ovate leaflet, the others of 3, 5, or rarely 7 leaflets, from ovate- lanceolate to narrow oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 4 or even 5 in. long, obtuse or almost acute, glabrous or scabrous-pubescent, the Asiatic specimens often variegated with white along the midrib. Racemes long and slender, often attaining 6 to 8 in. in fruit, Bracts ovate, falling off long before the flower ex- pands. Pedicels short, hispid-villous. Calyx-lobes setaceous, plumose, rather above 1 line long, the upper ones rather shorter. Petals more than twice as long. Pod of 3 to 6 small glabrous articles. Wight, Ic. t. 411. . Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown; Rockhampton, Zhozet, Dallachy ; Bowen pret, Bowman, Widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa and introduced into ie hated es. The Anstralian specimens have the leaflets usually all green, and often 3 or 1 only, In some the leaves are nearly all 5-foliolate, as in the Asiatic ones. =, % U. eylindrac Benth. Anundershrub with decumbent or ascend- Mg stems, loosely beat or rusty-villous, Leaflets 3 or very vc I _ Svate-oblong, obtuse, the terminal one usually 1} to 3 in. long, the lat ones smaller, slightly scabrous above, softly pubescent underneath. Racemes dense, but more elongated than in U. lagopoides, often attaining 3 in. ih in fruit. Bracts broadly ovate, softly villous, persistent. Pedicels tee i longer than the calyx. Calyx-lobes subulate-plumose as in V. lagopoides, “an € Upper ones much shorter. Pod of 2 articles, the pericarp thin, bu strongly reticulate. a i Pat paustralia, Islands of the N. coast, R. Brown ; Upper Victoriariver, F. ea ington, Armstrong ; Sweers Island, Henne. Mi Bowman ; Port Denison, Fitzalan. 4 , With the "so dee habit of Tebeos, DC., which has not yet been found in e a Australia, this species has the 2-ovulate ovary and the.pod of U. lagopor a hort! O. vides, DC. Prod. ii. 324. Stock short and woody or shortly 4 creeping, with Ada or ascending stems of 3 to 13 ft., e ese villous, ` Leaflets solitary or 3, the single or terminal one irom ordi- 238 XL. LEGUMINOSR. [Uraria cular-reniform to broadly cordate-ovate, always very obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long, slightly scabrous or loosely pubescent, the lateral ones, when present, smaller. Stipules subulate-acuminate. Racemes contracted into a very dense oblong obtuse hirsute spike, of 1 to 2 in., nearly sessile above the last leaves. Bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, usually very deciduous, except sometimes at the base of the spike. Pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx lower-lobes (turned upwards by the inflexion of the pedicel) subulate-plumose, 2 to 3 lines long, the upper ones much shorter with a broad base. Petals not much * longer than the calyx, on slender claws. Ovules 2. Pod of 2 ovate, some- what turgid, reticulate articles, each about 14 lines long, glabrous or rarely pubescent.—Wight, Ic. t. 289; U. cercifolia, Desv.; DC. Prod. ii. 325. Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown ; Brisbane river, F. Mueller ; Rockhampton, Thozet, Widely dispersed over E. India aud the Archipelago. 47. LOUREA, Neck. Calyx broadly campanulate, enlarged after flowering, the lobes broad and equal. Standard obovate or obcordate, narrowed into the claw; wings hering to the obtuse keel. Upper stamen free, the others united ; anthers Teniform. Ovary with 2 or more ovules ; style subulate, with a capitate stigma. Pod stipitate or nearly sessile, contracted between the seeds; arti- cles ovate, folded back upon each other within the calyx.—Herbs. Leaflets l or 3, often broader than long, with stipellee ; stipules free. Flowers m terminal racemes, the pedicels usually in pairs. Bracts very deciduous. : A genus of 3 or 4 species, natives of tropical Asia, one of which extends into Australia. 1. L. obcordata, Desv. ; DO. Prod. ii. 324. Stems slender, prostrate, usually shortly hairy, 1 to 2 ft. long. Leaflets usually 3, the terminal one _ broadly obovate orbicular or reniform, 4 to 1 in. broad, rather rigi _ Strongly reticulate in the Australian specimens, less so in most Asiatic ones, sprinkled with a few small hairs, the lateral ones smaller, ovate or obo Racemes slender, either simple and 2 to 6 in. long, or shorter and pan Flowers small, shortly pedicellate. Calyx at first not above 1 line long a hairy, but after flowering attaining 3 lines and completely enclosing the Pod usually of 2 articles, each of about 13 lines long, much reticulate— L. reniformis, DC. Prod. ii. 324, N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. The species extends over the Indian Archipelago to S. China, i 48. ALYSICARPUS, Neck. hi . Calyx deeply cleft, the lobes stiff and dry, the two uppermost often united into one. Standard obovate or orbicular, narrowed into the claw ; TRE a hering to the obtuse keel. Upper stamen free, the others united; anther reniform. Ovary sessile or nearly so, with several ovules ; style filifor om a a capitate stigma. Pod erect, straight, nearly terete, or somewhat flat ee but thick, narrowed between the seeds or equal ; articles ovate, globular, pe truncate at both ends, indehiscent.—Herbs either glabrous or loose fee = eaves of a single leaflet (or very rarely in species not Australian, 3-fol the with stipelle, Stipules dry, striate, acuminate, free, or united opposite t a Alysicarpus.} XL. LEGUMINOSE, 239 leaf. Flowers small, in slender terminal or rarely axillary racemes, the pedi- ` cels usually in pairs. Bracts scarious. The genus is generally spread over tropical Asia and Africa, one species having also esta- blished itself in some parts of America. The three Australian species are all common Indian ones,’ 5 ` Calyx small, with very narrow lobes. Pod several times longer, not contracted, but with slightly raised transverse lines between the : We eg te ee 4 eee Calyx with narrow-lanceolate striate lobes, not overlapping. Pod about twice as long, scarcely contracted between the seeds, the articles slightly and irregularly wrinkled . o o s 1. 4 eu ee Calyx with lanceolate, rigid, not striate lobes overlapping each other. Pod shortly exserted, much contracted between the seeds, articles deeply marked with transverse wrinkles . a. ak Eee ee ie ee oe, IRA The common Indian 4. monilifer, DO., with smooth globular bead-like articles to the pod, may very likely be found also in tropical Australia. l. A. vaginalis, DC. Prod. ii. 353. A perennial, tufted or much branched at the base, the stems decumbent or ascending, from a few inches to above a foot long, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves on short slender ~ petioles, the lower ones cordate-orbicular or oval, not 4 in. long, the upper - Ones from oval-oblong to lanceolate-linear, and often 1 in. long or more, all obtuse, Racemes slender, terminal or at length leaf-opposed ; pedicels short, m rather distant pairs. Flowers very small. Calyx about 2 lines long, the obes very narrow, ending in a subulate almost hair-like point, the 2 upper ones less united than in most species. Petals scarcely exceeding the calyx. od often $ in, long or rather more, slightly compressed, obscurely wrinkled, the separation of the articles marked by transverse raised lines, without any or rarely with a slight contraction.—W. and Arn. Prod. 233; 4. nummula- naæfolius, DC. Prod. ii. 353; W. and Arn. Prod. 232. apliit y Queensland, Burdekin river and Broad Sound, Bowman. Common in E. India and | Archipelago, and introduced into other parts of the world. 2. A, longifoli W. and Arn. Prod. 233. Nearly glabrous, except “ae raceme, which ben, Sa or less clothed with soft hairs. or rather slender, but rigid, attaining 2 ft. or more. Leaves linear-lan rea acute, 2 to 4 in, long, or the lower ones shorter broader and more o a > pos usually logger than the petioles. Racemes slender, terminal ; P zi _ Cels in pairs, shorter than the calyx. Calyx about 3 lines long, the lobes lan- ceolate-subulate, striate, scarcely overlapping each other, the 2 e e vost completely united into one rather broader than the others. i Po al ai ong, compressed, not at all contracted. between the seeds, ut dr p 4 ac transverse lines, and slightly and irregularly wrinkled.— Wight, lc, = Australia, Arnhem N. Bay, R. Brown, Also in the E. Indian peninsula. 3. A. rugos 5 l or biennial, with pro- us, DC. Prod. ii. 353. An annua ; E> Gimbont ascending or erect stems, attaining 1 to 2 ft., but ae oe ne ole Be dower pubescent or loosely hairy. Leaves articulate on a short petiole, t i . pur ovate, obtuse, 2 to 1 in; long, the upper ones lanceolate or Linear, : es in the Australian form rather long, softly hairy. Bracts 2. A, congifolius. i . or orbicular, flat, reticulate, indehiscent.—Herbs undershrubs or shrubs. . _ underneath, the common petiole 1 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long. qu 240 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [4lysicarpus. ovate-lanceolate, striate, but falling off as in the other species long before the flower expands. Pedicels in distant pairs, much shorter than the calyx. Calyx about 3} lines long, divided almost to the base into 4 lanceolate acute dry stiff lobes, overlapping each other on the edges and not striate, the upper one (formed of 2 united) «slightly notched. Petals scarcely exceeding the | calyx or rather shorter. Pod scarcely exceeding the calyx, contracted be- tween the seeds, into 3, 4 or rarely 5 articles; as broad as or broader than long, strongly marked with transverse wrinkles.— Hedysarum rugosum, Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 1172; 4. cylindricus, Desv. in Ann. Linn. Soc. Par. 1825, 301, as quoted by him in Ann. Sc. Nat. ix. 417. hs N. Australia. Upper Victoria river and Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller. Queensland. Bowen river, Bowman. The species is common in tropical Asia and Africa, where it varies much, sometimes low and diffuse, with almost all the leaves obovate or broadly oblong, sometimes tall and almost erect, with nearly all the leaves lanceolate or linear. It includes A. styracifolia, W. and Arn. Prod. 234, with short dense very hairy racemes and 4. Wallichii, W. and Arn. Le, with elongated nearly glabrous racemes. The Australian specimens have the habit of the latter with the hairs nearly of the former. De Candolle’s specimen of A. styracifolia ìs nearer to A. Wallichii, W. and Arn. The original Hedysarum styracifolium, Linn., is Very properly referred by W. and Arn. to a very different plant, Desmodium retroflerum, DC, which is surely a true Desmodium (sect. Nicolsonia), not an Uraria. Alysicarpus Heyne- anus, W. and Arn. L c., must probably be considered as another form of 4. rugosus. 49. LESPEDEZA, Mich. Calyx-lobes or teeth nearly equal or the 2 upper ones shortly united. Stan- | dard orbicular, obovate or oblong, narrowed into a claw, or rarely obtuse at the base; wings free; keel obtuse or rostrate. Upper stamen free or rarely united with the others; anthers reniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with a single ovule ; style filiform, with a small terminal stigma. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or rarely 1-foliolate; leaflets entire, without sti- pelle. Stipules free, usually small or very deciduous. Flowers purple pm% or white, in axillary clusters or, in species not Australian, in axillary racemes or terminal panicles. : ae The genus is spread over North America, temperate, especially eastern Asia, and the : mountains of E. India and the Archipelago. Of the two Australian species, one is Asisti, the other endemic. * > Hoary-pubescent ly glabrous. i - O lA a Densely and softly velvety-tomentose lly. Calyx 4 lines long. Pod ; rather longer, obliquely semi-ovate ss. se.» De lle 1. L. cuneata, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 307. Rootstock thick anf woody ; stems several, decumbent ascending or erect, stiff and but branched, usually 1 to 2, but sometimes 3 or 4 ft. long, hoary-pubescen i at length glabrous. Leaves usually crowded, the leaflets linear-cuneate, mostly under 3 in., but occasionally 2 or even 1 in. long, hoary oF, pules small, subulate. Flowers pink-purple, in dense axillary clusters; those the upper axils nearly all complete, about 3 lines long, those of the w NE ZLespedeza.] XL. LEGUMINOS&, 241 | clusters mostly apetalous, with imperfect stamens. Calyx 14 lines long, the [E lobes rigid, very acute, longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, acute. Keel curved, obtuse. Pod Sessile, nearly orbicular, slightly acute, 1 to 12 lines diameter.—L. Juncea, - DC. Prod. ii 348, in part; Miq. El. Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 230, but not the Siberian L. juncea, Pers, N.S. Wales, Bynoe ; New England, C. Stuart; Macleay river, Beckler ; Argyle «county, Lhotsky. pa Victoria, Ovens, King, and Broken rivers, F. Mueller, 2. L, lanata, Benth. Apparently shrubby, the branches leaves and - Calyxes densely clothed with a soft white or brownish velvety cotton. Leaves E crowded; leaflets 3, cuneate-oblong, acute or rather obtuse, softly mucronate, If the terminal one about 1 in. long, the lateral ones shorter, with a short com- _ von petiole. Stipules and bracts softly linear-subulate. Flowers crowded, 7) ™ sessile axillary clusters, Calyx about 4 lines long, the tube very short, f the lobes linear-subulate, soft, shortly plumose. -Petals shorter than the — E calyx, tomentose outside; standard orbicular, obtuse at the base; keel E sightly incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen united with the others to the IẸ middle. Poq sessile, flat, obliquely semiovate, about 5 lines long, narrowed 17 at the end, softly tomentose. | S. Australia, Mount Strzelecki, M'Douall Stuart. TRIBE * Victnz.—Herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, the common petiole Usually ending in a tendril or in a fine point. Flowers and fruit of Phaseolez. [f “£duncles or racemes axillary. ea icieæ indi i i us Abrus, À Which I ited true Viciee indigenous in Australia, unless the anomalous gen te inserted below at the end of Phaseolee, be referred to Viciee, with which it is — respects connected, T only give here the tribual characters because some Log pres pá of Vicia have established themselves in waste and cultivated places in some of t 1e tedio colonies The genus is characterized chiefly by the style which is not bearded longi- nally on the inner side as in Lathyrus, but has usually a tuft of hairs at the top nok about or all round under the stigma. Two species have been sent as naturalized, ETA wi Adelaide in South Australia, Y. sativa, Linn., var, segetalis, Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. fet 4 anual or biennial from a few in. to 1 or 2 ft. high with about 4 to 7 pairs pa i = very usually solitary purple flowers; and V. hirsuta, Koch (Ervum ee ak Pompe “lary Slender hairy annual with very smali pale-blue flowers, 2 or 3 together on 7 peduncles, the pod short and 2-seeded, | Teme VII, PHAsEOLE®.—Herbs usually twining or prostrate, vey foi >r shrubby at the base, very rarely trees. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate Wi paoliolate, rarely 5- or 7-foliolate, with stipellæ, very rarely digitate or “ont stipellæ. Upper stamen usually free, at least at the base, or all but Anthers uniform or nearly so, or very rarely alternately smaller fleshy ing. Pod not articulate, 2-valved. Cotyledons usually thick and Pex The tribe is a it nally through a few E exceptional og atural one but very difficult to define, as it passes gradually throug ki i by Hen ea or species into e others. The great majority of species are at pee E tra ian 7 their twining stems with pinnately 3-foliolate stipellate leaves, and org eo] an here are very few exceptions. Where there are 5 or 7 leaflets the stipe z habit readily distinguish them from Galegea. Erythrinas are arborescent but i of Phaseolee, hen: species of Atylosia, Rhynchosia, and _ are 242 XL. LEGUMINOSAE. erect or shrubby, and the latter genus has digitate leaflets, but these have all the habit of Genistee rather than of Galegee, and are distinguished from the former by their upper stamen free. Pycnospora, placed in Hedysaree, has the technical characters almost of Phaseolee, but is too evidently allied to Desmodium to be removed far from it. Abrus, with its numerous leaflets, is a still further departure from the normal characters of Pha- seoleæ, but is placed at the end of the tribe as closing the series of more or less herbaceous Papilionaces. 50. CLITORIA, Linn. (Neurocarpum, Desv.) Calyx tubular, the 2 upper lobes slightly connate, the lowest narrow. Standard large, erect, open, narrowed at the base without auricles; wings shorter, spreading, adhering to the keel in the middle; keel shorter, incurved, acute. Upper stamen free or more or less united with the others; anthers uniform. Ovary stipitate, with several ovules, style elongated ineurved, more or less dilated wpwards and bearded longitudinally on the inner side. Pod linear, flattened, the upper or both sutures thickened, the sides flat or convex, occasionally bearing a raised longitudinal rib. Seeds globose or flattened, without any strophiole.—Herbs or shrubs, short and erect or with long twining branches. Leaves pinnate with 3 or several leaflets, or occasionally only 1, usually stipellate. Stipules persistent, striate. Flowers large, solitary or clustered in the axils, or in pairs crowded in*short racemes. Bracts stipule- like, persistent, "the lower ones in pairs, the upper ones united into one. Bracteoles like the bracts or larger, persistent. A considerable American genus, with a few African and Asiatic tropical species. = Australian one is endemic, its nearest affinities being S. American. The C. Ternatea, with pinnate leaves, the most common Asiatic and African one, very generally cultivated for et nament, has not yet been found in Australia. The genus is readily distinguished by its large tubular calyx. = 1. C. australis, Benth. Stems herbaceous but hard, erect, flexuose, 1 z to 2 ft. high, scarcely branched, pubescent with appressed silky hairs. a lets 1 or 3, ovate, obtuse, rarely shortly acuminate, 1} to 24 in. long, glabrous above, silky-pubescent underneath, the lateral ones when present smaller ano at a distance from the terminal one. Stipules broadly lanceolate. ; axillary, very short, bearing a cluster of 2 or 3 pairs of white flowers nearly 13 in. long. Bracts narrow, acuminate. Calyx about 4 in. long, the Joes acuminate and acute, about as long as the tube. Standard nearly 131. long, wings and keel scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod not seen. N. Australia. Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown (Herb. R. Br). 1 have been unable t0 adopt Brown’s MS. name which is now preoccupied in the genus. - 51. GLYCINE, Linn. (Leptolobium, altered to Leptocyamus, Benth.) Calyx 2 upper lobes united in a 2-toothed or 2-lobed upper lip: Oe as nearly orbicular, without inflexed auricles at the base; wings narrow, slightly adhering to the keel; keel obtuse, shorter than the wings. Uppe h free; at first united with the others in a closed tube, often becoming at length BY"? anthers uniform. Ovary nearly sessile, with several ovules; style 1%, curved, with a terminal stigma, Pod linear or falcate, 2-valved, with a pithy Glycine.] > XL. LEGUMINOSA. 243 substance between the seeds, the base of the style forming a very short straight or rarely hooked point. Seeds not strophiolate.—Twining or prostrate herbs, with a perennial often thick or woody rootstock and usually pubescent or vil- lous. Leaflets 3, or rarely 5 or 7, in opposite pairs, entire or rarely sinuately 3-lobed, stipitate. Flowers usually very small, in axillary racemes, singly scattered along the rhachis, the lower ones often solitary or clustered in the . axils without a common peduncle, and sometimes without or almost without petals. Bracts small, setaceous; bracteoles narrow or minute, usually per- sistent. The genus as now limited, comprising Soja, DC., and Johnia, Wight and Arn., neither of them Australian, extends over tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia. The Australian species belong to a section Leptocyamus, differing from the others only in the flowers being distinct from each other, not clustered along the rhachis of the raceme. Two of these spe- cies are also found in the Indian Archipelago, the remaining four are endemic, some of them perhaps reducible to varieties of G. clandestina or G. tabacina. They have by some been included in X; ennedya, and supposed to have the strophiole of that genus. I have, however, never found any real strophiole, althongh the funiele, as in many other Phaseolea, expands into a thin white membrane covering the hilum, fragments of which may remain attached to seed after its separation from the funicle. Terminal leaflets sessile between the 2 others or the 3 very shertly and equally petiolulate. Stems short. Leaflets 1 to 2 in. long, very hirsute. Pods faleate, i broad. Upper calyx-lobes free from the middle . E Stems slender, twining. Pod linear, nearly straight. Upper calyx- tom the middle. es Stems short. Leaflets orbicular or obovate. Pod linear, nearly m straight. Upper calyx-lobes united nearly to the top . . . . 3. G. Latrobeana. “po inal leaflet inserted at some distance from the lateral ones. t hirsute or nearly glabrous. Leaflets of the lowest leaves short and broad -lancolate, lanceolate or almost line ts a > upper ones ovate-lancolate, tia ie A a Silky with closel od ar, ee po 5. G. sericea. y appressed pubescence. Leaflets linear acute. . 5. {tly tomentose or villous. atleta ovate or oblong, all obtuse . 6. G. tomentosa. a Na G. faleata, Benth. Stems in our specimens short, decumbent or per- E i erect, hirsute with ‘reflexed hairs. Leaflets 3, the central one sessile “teen the others, all lanceolate or oblong, ] to 2 in. long, villous, on a long ute common petiole. Stipules striate, larger than in the other species. Tug all racemose, on long hirsute erect peduncles. Pedicels very short. a silky-villous, 2 to 23 lines long, the lobes nearly as long as the tube, 162 upper ones united to about the middle. Standard rather narrower than a her species. Pods reflexed, very hirsute, falcate, } to 4 in. long gen fully 2 lines broad, but not ripe in the specimens seen. “Australia. Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller. Queensland. Sutton river, D'Orsa > Australia, Cooper’s Creek, ji Neilson. 2. G, clandesti , lender, twining, more Sy estina, Wendl. Bot. Beob. 54. Stems slender, t 8» kas hirsute with reflexed hairs, Leaflets 3, the terminal one inserted close een the 2 lateral ones or very rarely here and there slightly raised above then, those of the lower leaves often broadly obovate, about $ in. long, those et e ones narrow-lanceolate or linear, } to 13 in. long or more, acute, 1. G. falcata. 2. G. clandestina. early glabrous above and pubescent with appressed hairs — 244 XL, LEGUMINOSZ. . [Glycine. or silky-villous on both sides. Stipules minute. Racemes in the upper axils usually exceeding the leaves, the flowers about 4 lines long, scattered along the upper half of the peduncle, the pedicels either very short or nearly as long as the calyx; in the lower part of the plant the flowers are smaller, often without any or with imperfect petals, and solitary or clustered in the axils, without a common peduncle. Calyx about 2 lines long, the 2 upper lobes united to the middle or nearly distinct. Pod linear, straight, 4 to l in. long, — with a minute terminal straight or hooked point. Seeds nearly orbicular or transversely oblong, smooth or rough with raised dots, often different in the racemose and in the axillary pods.—DC. Prod. ii. 241; Leptolobium clandes- tinum, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ji. 125; Leptocyamus clandestinus, Benth. in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 102; Teramnus clandestinus, Spr. Syst. Veg. iii. 235 ; Leptolobium microphyllum, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 125 ; Glycine mi- nima, Willd. Enum. 756, from the diagnosis copied in DC. Prod. ii. 241. Queensland. Keppel Bay, Broad Sound, R. Brown ; near Moreton Bay, Leichhardt. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, and others; north- ward to New England, C. Stuart ; Clarence river, Beckler; and southward to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. Victoria. Port Phillip, R. Brown; common from the neighbourhood of Melbourne to Gipps’ Land, Adamson, F. Mueller, and others. Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; common in all the northern parts of the island, ascending to 3000 ft., J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Gawler town, Behr.; Buffalo range, Mount Remarkable, Spencer's Gulf, etc., F. Mueller. W. Australia. Gairdner river, Mazwell ; and probably also from the S. coast to- wards the east, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 39, 5th Coll. n. 92. Var. sericea. Silky-pubescent or villous, Calyx very rusty-villous. Pedicels very short. To this form belong all the W. Australian, most of the S. Australian specimens, and a only of those from the other colonies. 3. G. Latrobeana, Benth. Considered by F. Mueller as a form of G. clandestina, and much resembles the undeveloped states of that species. short, prostrate or scarcely twining at the ends. Leaflets all obovate or 0% bicular, or very few of the upper ones narrow. Stipules larger A elandestina. Flowers rather larger, the racemose ones more crowded to 4 the end of long peduncles. Upper lobes of the calyx united to near the top» Standard broader than in G. clandestina. Pod the same as in that pe | —Zichya Latrobeana, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 94; Leplocyamus Tomon Benth. in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 102. t. 17. E tak Victoria. Sandy pastures and meadows, Port Phillip to the Grampians, E Adamson, F. Mueller, aud others. : a Tasmania. Pastures in the northern parts of the island, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Mount Gambier, Rivoli Bay, F. Mueller. 4. G. tabacina, Benth. Slender, twining, pubescent or villous. a : lets 3, the lateral ones always at a distance from the terminal one, those 0 lower leaves orbicular obovate or oblong and usually obtuse, 1 the cally leaves. ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or almost linear and, usually WS? git 2 to 1 in. rarely 14 to 2 in. long. Stipules small. Racemes slender, € gated, the flowers distant, usually about 4 lines long, on very short sai in the lower part of the plant the flowers often axillary and solitary 0! 4 | together as in other species. Calyx-lobes subulate-acuminate, ' Glycine.] XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 245 the tube, the 2 upper ones united to about the middle. Pod straight, glabrous or villous, £ to above 1 in. long, the terminal point very short, or rarely rather longer and hooked. Seeds smooth or tuberculate. Kennedya tabacina, Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. 70. t. 70; Leptolobium tabacinum, and L. elonga- tum, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 125; Desmodium Novo-Hollandicum, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 394. Queensland. Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander; Keppel Bay, Thirsty Sound, R, Brown ; Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, C. Stuart ; Rockhampton, Dallachy ; in the interior on the Maranoa, Mitchell ; and Condamine river, Leichhardt. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, and others, northward to New England, C. Stuart; and Clarence, Hastings, and Macleay tiers, Beckler ; to the southward, A. Cunningham. Victoria. Rocky pastures near Melbourne, Robertson, also F. Mueller. S. Australia. “Crystal Brook and Rocky River, F. Mueller. "W. Australia. Port Gregory, Oldfield. : The species is also in New Caledonia, the Feejee and other islands of the South Pacific. The most slender and glabrescent forms approach G. clandestina, but may be always known by the terminal leaflet distinctly raised above the others; the more common hirsute variety ers from G. tomentosa in the upper leaflets almost always narrow and acute, the less mea divided calyx, ete. Among the numerous varieties the two following are, the most minent :— A uncinata. Very hirsute. Pod hooked at the end, although not so much so as in *ramnus.—Rockhampton, Thozet. P Var. latifolia, Leaflets more obtuse and villous, almost connecting the species with G. ‘omentosa.— Leptocyamus latifolius, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 361.—To this belong Several Queensland specimens. Where the pod is present it appears to be always longer and more slender than in G., tomentosa. ' 5. G. sericea, Benth. Stems trailing or twining, the whole plant hoary or white with a close appressed silky pubescence, occasionally mixed on the calyx only with rust-coloured hairs. Leaflets 3, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, mostly 1 to 2 in. long, the terminal one at a distance from the others. owers rather larger than in G. tabacina, but otherwise like them. Pod y above 1 in. long, densely silky-pubescent with appressed hairs. Seeds smooth. —Zeptocyamus sericeus, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 45, and m Trans. Phil. Inst, Vict. i. 40, > Fafe Wales. On the Darling, Dallachy ; between Stokes Range and Cooper’s Creek, 6. G.t idee atrae Hi trate bling the coarser l ++ tomentosa, Benth. Twining or prostrate, resem O. labia but bo contaminate rl, and often densely and softly velvety-tomentose. Leaflets 3, ovate or oblong, very obtuse, 1 to m. long, not passing into the lanceolate acute form of the upper leaves of T. tabacina. Flowers very shortly pedicellate in the raceme as in that spe- ues, and of the same size, but usually more approximate at the end of the pence. Calyx very villous, with the lobes longer than the tube. Pod A to se long or rarely more. Flowers in the lower axils solitary or clustered as all other Australian species except G. faleata.—Leptolobium tomentosum, a m Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 125. . Jaa Brown. Quee Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller; Arnhem N. Bay, R. y Curt and. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; Broad Sound, R. Brown ; Port a iray; Peak Downs, E. Mueller. ` 246 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 52. HARDENBERGIA, Benth. Calyx-teeth short, the 2 upper ones more or less united. Standard broadly orbicular, emarginate, without inflexed auricles; wings obovate-falcate, ad- hering to the keel; keel obtuse, shorter and usually very much shorter than the wings. Upper stamen quite free, the others united in a sheath; an- thers reniform. Ovary sessile, with several ovules; style short thick, incurved, attenuate at the end, with a terminal stigma. Pod linear, compressed or tur- gid. Seeds ovoid or oblong, laterally attached to a short funicle, strophiolate. — Glabrous twining herbs or undershrubs. Leaves of 1, 3 or 5 entire sti- pellate leaflets. Stipules small, striate. Flowers small, violet white or pink- ish, with a yellowish or greenish spot on the standard, in axillary racemes, the pedicels ‘usually in pairs or small clusters. Bracts small, deciduous, or rarely persistent.. Bracteoles none. ‘ A small genus limited to Australia and distinguished from Kennedya by the short calyx- teeth and (except the doubtful H. retusa) by the small keel, and still more by the habit and numerous small flowers of a very different colour, giving it more the aspect of a Glycine than of a true Kennedya. * Leaflets cordate ovate lanceolate or linear. Keel much shorter than the wings. p ; Teatlets solitary, Pod flat, with dry pulp inside . . . . . 1 H. monophylla. — Leaflets 3 or 5. Pod turgid, clear inside. . . . . . . + 2. H. Comptoniana. Leaflets obovate truncate obcordate or broadly 2-lobed. Keel rather shorter than the wings . $ T ee T E 1. H. monophylla, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 41. Leaflets always soli- tary, usually ovate or lanceolate, 2 to 3 or even 4 in. long, obtuse or rather acute, often coriaceous and strongly reticulate, but varying from broadly cor- date-ovate to narrow-lanceolate, more or less cordate or rounded at the base, articulate on a petiole of 4 to 1 in. Flowers usually numerous, about 5 lines long, on pedicels rather longer than the calyx, in pairs or rarely 3 together, the upper racemes often forming a terminal panicle. Calyx about lg lines long. Pod sessile, flat, attaining about 14 in., coriaceous, more or less filled: between the seeds with a pithy pulp. Seeds very oblique, almost transvers? —Maund, Botanist, t. 84; Glycine bimaculata, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. ind Kennedya monophylla, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 106; DC. Prod. ii. 384; ae Reg. t. 1336; Lodd. Bot. Cab, t. 758; K. longiracemosa, Lodd. Bot. Ca 7 t. 1940; K. ovata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2169; DC. Prod. ii. 384; K. cordata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 944; Hardenbergia monophylla, and H. ovata, pu Ann. Wien. Mus. ii, 124; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 361; H. cordata, Bente — in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 124, : _ Queensland. Moreton Island, F. Mueller. nd N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. iui to Fl. Mizt. n. 552, and others ; northward to Hastings river, Beckler; and southwar? Y Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. : 3 thick Victoria. Dandenong ranges, etc., F. Mueller; Bendigo diggings, where "i root is used for Sarsaparilla, Adamson. ; Tasmania. Rocky hills near Frogmore, Richmond, Oldfield. : : - Australia. Near Bethanie, Oswald ; towards Spencer's Gulf, F. Mueller. oe In some specimens from near Bathurst, Herb. F. Mueller, with broadly cordate , h the the bracts are numerous and persistent; in the ordinary forms, including those will 22 same broad cordate leaves, the bracts are all fallen off long before the flowers expand. — A . . o. Hardenbergia.] ‘XL. LEGUMINOSA. 247 2. H. Comptoniana, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 41. Leaflets 3 or 5, and in the latter case the lateral ones in 2 opposite pairs, not opposite in distant pairs as in other 5-foliolate Phaseolee, varying from ovate to linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse, usually 14 to 3, sometimes 4 to 5 in. long, rounded or truncate at the base. Flowers of the same size, colour and structure as those of H. _ monophylla, in pairs or clusters of 3 or 4 along the racemes. Pod cylindrical, very turgid, coriaceous, attaining 12 in. in length, quite free from any pithy pulp inside. Seeds almost sessile and longitudinal.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 94; Glycine Comptoniana, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 602; Bot. Reg. t. 298; Ken- nedya Comptoniana, Link, Enum. ii. 235; DC. Prod. ii. 383; K. macrophylla, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1862; Hardenbergia Huegelii, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 41; H. digitata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 60; H. Lindleyi, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i, 94; H, Makoyana, Ch. Lem. Tlustr. Hortic. v. t. 179. W. Australis. King George’s Sound, R. Brown; and thence to Swan River, Drum- mond, lst Coll. and n. 271, Huegel, Preiss, n. 1093, 1094, and others. 3. H. (?) retusa, Benth. A tall twiner, the young shoots and inflores- cence silky-pubescent, the foliage at length glabrous, the branches usually | angular. Leaflets 3, broadly obovate-truncate, obeordate or broadly and ob- tusely 2-lobed, the midrib usually produced into a short point, 14 to 3 in. long, somewhat coriaceous, rather shining above, pale underneath. Stipules ovate or lanceolate, striate, reflexed. Flowers like those of the other species, * or rather larger and more numerous, usually several together in each cluster, the thachis of the cluster sometimes slightly developed, the racemes axillary or In terminal panicles as in the other species. Calyx about 2 lines long, hoary- Pubescent, the teeth very short and obtuse. Standard nearly 5 lines dia- meter, broad and emarginate; wings nearly as long, faleate; keel rather Shorter, much incurved, obtuse. Ovary nearly sessile, with about 10 ovules. Style rather thickened and inflexed at the base, then straight and slender, with a small terminal stigma. Pod broadly linear, flattened, silky-villous, Mont 24 in, long, without pithy partitions inside. Seeds strophiolate.— Dolichos obcordatus, A. Cunn. Herb. ; Glycine retusa, Soland. mss. "eensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham ; Dunk Island, a Wlioray ; Albany Island, F. Mueller; Cape York, W. Hill. The keel is dr 00 rusia the other species, but the other characters and habit are quite those of Har > A A E EE E E RLE 53. KENNEDYA, Vent. 0 (Physolobium, Huey. ; Zichya, Hueg.; Amphodus, Je ; . “alyx-lobes about as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united in an emar- Emate or 2-toothed apps ES. SEREA or orbicular, narrowed into a short claw, with minute inflexed auricles; wings falcate, adhering to the eel; keel incurved, obtuse or rather acute. Upper stamen free, the qn. ; anthers uniform. Ovary nearly sessile or shortly stipitate, with Si a 0 3 Style filiform, rarely toothed at the top, stigma terminal. et oat fattened cylindrical or turgid, 2-valved, more or less divided by a pit y th a ve obween the seeds, Seeds ovoid or oblong, laterally attached, with a SY prominent strophiole.—Perennials, with prostrate trailing or twining in usually pubescent or villous. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or very 248 XL. LEGUMINOSA. ` [ Kennedya. rarely with an additional pair or reduced to 1; leaflets entire or obscurely 3- lobed, with stipellee. Stipules persistent, striate or veined.- Flowers red or rarely almost black, in racemes, umbels, pairs, or solitary on axillary pedun- cles. Bracts either stipule-like and persistent, or small and very deciduous. Bracteoles none. Disk round the ovary obscurely annular or none at all. The genus is entirely Australian, and, with Hardenbergia, distinguished amongst Pha- seolee by the prominently strophiolate seeds. I had formerly divided it into 3 genera, which, as far as the materials we then had could show, appeared quite distinct, viz. Ken- nedya, with a narrow standard and flat pods; Physolodium, with an orbicular standard, flowers in pairs, and a turgid pod; and Zichya, with an orbicular standard, flowers umbel- late, and a flat pod; but the numerous additional specimens and some new species since ex- atnined, show that the above characters are too variously combined to be relied on even for good sections, and that the forms which I had considered as constituting several species of each genus were in many instances not even varieties, Taking the standard and the pod as the primary character, the species might be arranged as follows:— ; Standard narrow-obovate. Pod flat (Kennedya).—1. K. nigricans ; 2. K.rubicunda, Standard broadly-obovate. Pod cylindrical—4. K. prostrata. ; Standard orbicular. Pod flat (Zichya).—5. K. eximia; 6. K. coccinea; Y. K. mi- crophylla, eg +» _ Standard orbicular. Pod turgid (Physolobium).—8. K. parviflora; 9. K. Stirlingu ; 10. K. glabrata; 11. K. macrophylla. : K But these groups are not natural, and where the fruit is unknown, as in the case of A. procurrens, the place of a species cannot be fixed. F Standard narrow-obovate. . Keel almost acute. Pod compressed. Flowers above 1 in. long, racemose. Pes nearly black, in a one-sided raceme. Wings spreading at o li Ap CP ee a IT ME Wa a a Standard broadly-obovate, almost orbicular. Keel obtuse. Flowers not above 3 in. long. _ Flowers racemose. Pedicels very short. Bracts very small. (Pod wmo E et i L ASA Peduncles 1- or 2- flowered. Pedicels long. Bracts stipule-like, per- 1. K. nigricans. 2, K. rubicunda. sistent. Pod cylindrical, coriaceous . . . . . . . . . 4. K. prostrata. Flowers umbellate, usually few. Bracts small, very deciduous. ga Pod narrow, flat, with a thickened upper suture . . . . . 5, XK.ermia. Seager orbicular or broader than long. Flowers rarely above } in. ong. Flowers umbellate or shortly racemose. Bracts small, very de- ciduous. Stipules broad, leafy. Keel about as long as the wings. Pod narrow, flat with athickened upper suture. Flowers um- pe bellate, usually few. . Keel obtuse . . . . . . . . 5, K. eximua. Pod very turgid. Flowers umbellate or nearly so. Leaflets cuneate. Keel Flo nost acuminate . b Shes A wers distinctly racemose. Leaflets obovate or orbicular. Tn ee 1, 2, macroplylo Stipules very small. Keel considerably shorter than the win y Flowers aitita g poo capes y cosy reeks 5 6. E. coccinea. Peduncles 1- or 2-flowered, or with 2 rarely 3 pairs of flowers. 4 E Bracts small, very deciduous. Flowers Pb: solitary. Pod flat. 7. K. microphylla Bracts broad, stipule-like, persistent. Pod very turgid. Mort Peduncles usually 1-flowered. Pod under 1 in. long . . . 8. K. parvifiors ig Peduncles mostly with 1, 2, or 3 pairs of flowers. Pod above ingle l in. long . . yy . . E . . . . . « 9. K. Sti ce, . . . Kennedya. | XL. LEGUMINOSA. 249 K. Baumanni and K. splendens, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 89, described from garden plants supposed erroneously to have been of Australian origin, are S. American species of Campto- sema, Steudel's ‘ Nomenclator’ contains several other names of Kennedyas, extracted from garden catalogues, which, being unaccompanied by descriptions, it is impossible to identify. l. K. nigricans, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1715. A large twining species, usually pubescent, but less so than K. rubicunda, which it nearly resembles. Leaflets broadly ovate or rhomboidal, obtuse or emarginate, 2 to 3 in. long, and very often only one to each leaf. Stipules small, striate, reflexed. Flowers above 1 in. long, in racemes shorter than the leaves, but narrower and less pendulous than in K. rubicunda, all turned to one side, and of a deep violet-purple almost black colour, with a large greenish-yellow blotch on the standard. Standard narrow-obovate, reflexed ; wings narrow, about as long as the keel, with the tips spreading ; keel rather acute. Pod as in K. rubi- cunda, flattened, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Seeds almost transverse, laterally attached to a funicule protruding far into the cavity.—Bot. Mag. t. 8652; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 89. W. Australia. King George’s Sound to Cape Riche, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 38, Preiss, n. 1091, Oldfield, and others, 2. K. rubicunda, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 104. A large twining species, pubescent or villous. Leaflets 3, usually ovate and 3 to 4 in. long, but vary- lng from broadly rhomboid obovate or almost orbicular, to ovate-lanceolate or neeolate and acute, the smaller ones often under 2 in. and when very luxuriant attaining 5 or 6 in., rarely nearly glabrous, sometimes softly silky on both Sides, Stipules small, striate, reflexed. Flowers of a dull or dark red, 1} to 1 in. long, in pedunculate racemes rarely exceeding the leaves. Pedicels Usually in pairs, rather longer than the calyx. Bracts small, very deciduous. Calyx silky-villous, 5 to 6 lines long. Standard narrow-obovate, abruptly teflexed from about the middle ; wings narrow, erect, adhering to the keel above the middle; keel narrow, as long as the wings, rather acute. Pod t or the valves slightly convex, 2 to 4 in. long, usually villous. Seeds ob- 18, almost transverse, laterally attached to a funicle protruding far into the cavity.—DC. Prod. ii. 383; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 954; Glycine rubicunda, . - Curt. Bot, Mag. t. 268; Amphodus ovatus, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1101; Ken- + "edya phaseolifolia, Hoffm. from the descr. in Linnea, xvi. Litt. Ber. 281. Ipswich, emg Moreton Bay, Fraser, F. Mueller, and others; Wide Bay, Bidwill ; leh, ernst. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, ote ges an ia ore to Clarence, Hastings, and Macleay rivers, Beckler, and southw old Bay, F. Mueller. da Gipps’ Land, from Lake King to the limits of the colony, F. Mueller. 3. K. procurre Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 365. Stems prostrate, linen ae nag lies 3, ovate or “alliptial, obtuse or rare : in. long, rugose, slightly pubescent above, more so underneath. Sti- pules broadly lanceolate, reflexed. Flowers rather above + in. long, dio > ort raceme at the end of a rather long peduncle. Bracts small. Pedicels short, Calyx about 24 lines long, the lobes shorter than the tube. Stan- za dard roadly obovate, emarginate ; keel rather narrow, obtuse; wings nar- ~ "Ower and scarcely so long. Pod not seen. ; 250 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Kennedya, Queensland. Mount Kennedy, on the Maranoa, Mitchell. Only a single specimen seen, unless one without flowers from Keppel Bay, R. Brown, belongs to the same species. 4. K. prostrata, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 299. Stems prostrate or sometimes twining in the large variety, pubescent or hirsute, Leaflets 3, broadly obovate or orbicular, under 1 in. long in the ordinary va- riety, often undulate, pubescent or hirsute. Stipules leafy, broadly cordate, acute or acuminate, free or united. Peduncles 1- or 2-flowered, rarely with 2 pairs of flowers. Pedicels usually longer than the calyx, with stipule-like bracts at the base. Flowers scarlet, nearly ¿ in. long. Calyx pubescent, about 4 lines long. Standard obovate; keel incurved, obtuse ; wings much narrower and rather shorter, adhering only near the base. Pod nearly cylindrical, very coriaceous, pubescent, 13 to 2 in. long. Seeds attached by a very short wer hat f. Fl. Tasm. i. 101; Glycine coccinea, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 270. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson. R. Brown, Sieber, n. 377, and others. Victoria. Very common throughout the colony, F. Mueller. Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant throughout the island in dry and stony places, ete., J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Lofty Ranges and Spencer’s Gulf, F. Mueller. W. Australia. S. coast, E. of King George’s Sound, Maxwell. Var. major, DC. Larger and usually more hirsute, sometimes twining. Leaves ovate or rhomboidal, much undulate, often attaining 2 in. Stipules often very large, attaining even l in. diameter, Pod above 2 in. long.—K. bracteata, Gand. in Freye. Voy. 286, t. 113; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 90; K. stipularis, Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ix. 421; K. Maryatle, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1790; Maund, Botanist, t. 83; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 90; K. are- „naria, Uueg. Enum. 38.—King George’s Sound, R. Brown, and thence to Vasse, Swan, and Marchison rivers, Drummond, Preiss, n. 1095 and 1098, and others; Geographe Bay, Herb. Mus. Par. 5. K. eximia, Lindl. in Paxt. Mag. xvi. 35, with a fig. Prostrate or twining, silky-villous or at length nearly glabrous. Leaflets 3, ovate, oF obovate and all under 1 in. long, or, in ‘luxuriant specimens, broader, very obtuse, and fully 14 in. long. Stipules broad, leafy, acute, veined. Flowers scarlet, not above 7 or 8 lines long, 2, 3 or more together in an umbel oh - very short raceme. Bracts very deciduous. Calyx usually silky-villous, ` about 3 lines long, with lobes shorter than the tube, but liable to become en- larged and leafy. Standard very broadly obovate or almost orbicular, but A not so broad as in the several following species; keel much curved, obtuse; wings fully as long, but not so broad. Pod glabrous or slightly pubescent, usually curved, 14 to 2 in. long, narrow and much flattened, with the upper suture thickened. Seeds small. had W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. . n. 45; moist places, 64 Brook, and Phillips ranges, Maxwell. E Ap dee siipi of Physolobium, T pod of Zichya, and in the shape of the tlower is intermediate between that and K. prostr ata. Bee 6. K, coccinea, Vent. Jard. Malm. t.105. Twining or trailing, always , pubescent rusty or silky-villous, and often densely so. Leaflets 3 or very rarely 5, the additional pair lower down, usually ovate or oblong, very 0% and under 2 in. long, but varying from broadly ovate to narrow-oblong entire or slightly sinuately 3-lobed. Stipules very small. Flowers scarlet, about 4 in-long, several together in an umbel or very short umbel-like re on long axillary peduncles, with 1 or 2 small deciduous bracts at their base r e Kennedya. | XL. LEGUMINOSE. 251 Pedicels rarely longer than the calyx. Calyx rusty-villous, 3 to 32 lines long. Standard broadly orbicular ; wings shorter; keel still shorter, very obtuse. Style sometimes filiform at the end as in the other species, sometimes dilated at the back immediately behind the stigma into a tooth-like appendage. Pod flattened, the upper suture thickened, 13 to 2 in. long. Seeds on a very short funicle.—DC. Prod. ii, 383 ; Sweet, Fl, Austr. t, 23; Bot. Mag. t. 2664; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1126; Paxt. Mag. ii. 99, with a fig. ; Zichya coc- cinea, Hueg. ; Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 40, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 123 y Maund, Botanist, t. 120; K. inophylla, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1421; Zichya inophylla, Hueg.; Benth. 1. c. (a broad-leaved very silky form); K. dilatata, . A. Cumn.; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1526; X. heterophylla, Mackay, in Loud. Hort. Brit. 314 ; Zichya Molly, Hueg. Bot. Arch. t.1; Benth. 1. e. ; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 93; Z. sericea, Hueg.; Benth. l. c.; Meissn. l. c.; Z. tricolor, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 52; Meissn. l. c; Z. angustifolia, . Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, under t.52; Meissn. l. c. ; Z. villosa, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, t. 68; Meissn. 1. c. 92; Z, glabrata, Meissu. in Pl. Preiss, 1. 92, but not of Benth. ; Z. pannosa, Paxt. Mag. viii. 147, with a fig. W. Australia. King George’s Sound and neighbourhood to Esperance Bay, R. Brown, Drummond, Preiss, n. 1086, 1088, 1090, 1096, 1097, Oldfield, and others. The long list of synonyms is owing to great differences in the shape and size of the leaf- , In the indumentum, and in the style with more or less of an appendage or entirely with= out, which was very striking when we had only single specimens of various forms; but we now find that the leaves are very variable even on the same plant, there is every inter- mediate between the slightly pubescent'aud the very silky-villous specimens, and I find styles a without the appendage in combination with each of the most prominent varieties as to fo lage, 1. K. microphylla, Mcissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 91. A small prostrate species, sprinkled with a few short stiff hairs. Leaflets broadly obcordate, in “me specimens all under 2 lines long, in others nearly attaining 4 in. Sti- p ules broad, herbaceous, striate. Flowers the smallest of the genus, rarely attaining 5 lines, solitary or rarely 2 together on axillary peduncles; pedi- cels short; bracts small and deciduous. Jalyx nearly 2 lines long. Stan- orbicular ; keel obtuse, as long as the wings. Pod linear, flat or with convex valves, the upper suture slightly thickened. Seeds small. a lo Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 94; borders of Lake Matilda, Preiss, n. ; Kalgan river, Maxwell. i $. K. parviflora, Meisn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 91, ii. 222. Prostrate or trailing, glabrous hiss hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaflets 3, obovate Or broadly obcordate-truncate, sometimes as small as in K. microphylla, but - Pen above 1 in. long. Stipules leafy, acute, veined, 3 to 6 lines broad. Owers smaller than in any species except K. microphylla, and usually gre © pedicel longer than the peduncle, with small persistent leafy bracts at the ‘culation, Calyx 2 to 24 lines long. Standard orbicular, nearly 1 in. meter; keel much curved, obtuse, nearly as long as the wings. Pod Usually about + in. long, very turgid, coriaceous, glabrous or ace ‘nicle of the seeds. very short.—Physolobium carinatum, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 39, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 124 ; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 91. : i Huegel, * Australia. King George’s Sound and neighbourhood to Cape Riche, ges “ler, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 120, Preise, n. 1084, 1099; Vasse river, Oldfield (with 252 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [ Kennedya. pubescent pods). The smaller specimens of this species have a distinct aspect, with the pe- duncles almost all 1-flowered ; the larger ones seem almost to pass into K. Stir/ingit. K. physolobivides, Walp. Ann. i. 251, from the diagnosis given, is probably this species. 9. K. Stirlingii, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1845. Trailing or twining to a considerable length, hairy with soft spreading or silky hairs. Leaflets 3, ovate or orbicular, very obtuse, usually above 1 in. long. Stipules broadly cordate, usually large and much veined. Flowers scarlet, usually in 1, 2, or 3 pairs, on axillary peduncles, the pedicels long and slender, with persistent stipular leafy bracts at their base. Calyx 3 to 3} lines long, hirsute. Stan- dard orbicular, fully 4 in. diameter; keel broad, much incurved, very obtuse, nearly as long as the wings. Pod 1 to 2 in. long, very turgid, coriaceous. Funicle of the seeds very short.—Physolobium elatum, Hueg. Bot. Arch. t. 2 ; Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 39, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 124; Meissn. in Pl. - Preiss. i. 92; P. Stirlingii, Benth. 1. c. W. Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, n. 270; Preiss, n. 1087, 1089. 10. K. glabrata, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1838. A slender twining spe- cies, glabrous or with a few spreading hairs. Leaflets 3, cuneate or obovate- truncate, mucronate, to 1 in. long. Stipules broad, veined. Flowers scarlet, several together in a small umbel on axillary peduncles. Bracts none or very deciduous. Calyx scarcely 3 lines long, the lobes short, the upper ones forming an obtuse emarginate upper lip. Standard orbicular, about 5 lines diameter; wings much faleate; keel much incurved, almost acute or shortly acuminate. Pod glabrous, ‘very turgid, under 1 in. long.—Zichya glabrata, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 40, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 123; Bot. Mag. t. 3956. ; W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Barter. This species has the habit and inflo- rescence of Zichya with the pod of Physolobium, and may be generally known when im flower by the foliage and keel. 11. K. macrophylla, Benth. A tall, coarse, twining species, loosely hirsute with spreading hairs, silky on the young shoots. Leaflets 3, obovate or orbicular, very obtuse, often above 2 in. long. Stipules very broad, often united and attaining 1 in. in diameter; stipellæ lanceolate. Flowers red, distinctly racemose on axillary peduncles. Bracts deciduous. Pedicels ra- ther short. Calyx not 3 lines long, with short lobes, as in X. glabr oti: Standard orbicular, nearly 4 in. diameter; keel much curved, obtuse, nearly as long as the wings. Pod glabrous, very turgid, about 14 in. long, acuti nate with the persistent style.—Physolobium macrophyllum, Meissn. m. Preiss. ii. 222; Kennedya lateritia, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 78. W. Australia, Drummond, Ind Coll. n. 118. With the pod and aspect of Piys0lt bium, this species has the inflorescence of the true Kennedyas. 54. ERYTHRINA, Linn. Calyx campanulate or cylindrical, obliquely truncate or slit on the UPP side, entire or toothed. Standard broad or long, erect or recurved, ” rowed at the base, without appendages ; wings short, often minute Or este keel short, the petals united or free. Stamens all united at the base, t upper one often free from the middle; anthers reniform. Ovary stipitate, o dmt o . Erythrina.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 253 with several ovules; style subulate, oblique at the end, with a small stigma. Pod stipitate, linear-falcate, acuminate, narrowed at the base, more or less contracted between the seeds, 2-valved, usually pithy between the seeds. Seeds distant, ovoid or oblong, with a lateral oblong hilum, not strophiolate. —Erect trees or shrubs, rarely tall herbs, the trunk, branches, and often the petioles armed with conical prickles. Leaflets 3, usually broad, entire or 3- lobed, the stipellze usually gland-like. Stipules small. Racemes axillary, or, if terminal, leafy at the base. Flowers large, usually red, in clusters of 2 or 3 on lateral nodes along the peduncle. Bracts small or none. The genus is widely dispersed over tropical America, Africa, and Asia, extending into N. America and S. Africa. Of the 2 Australian species, one is a common Asiatic one, the other is endemic. The genus is a very natural one and well characterized, some botanists have, however, proposed to break it up into three or four, founded on diversities in the form of the calyx and proportions of the petals, which appear to vary so much from species to species as scarcely to serve even as sectional characters. Both the Australian ones have a spathe-like calyx, the wings and keel-petals all short and nearly free. : Leaves broadly 2- or 3-lobed. Calyx about 4 in. long. Standard scarcely clawed . . . . Leaves entire. Calyx about $ ARPA +. . 1, E vespertilio. a short ; eco. Be E. indica, 1. E. vespertilio, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 218. Glabrous, the branches prickly, but not the leaves. Leaflets broadly cuneate at the base, spreading to 3 or 4 in. in breadth, often but not always broader than long, ‘usually 3-lobed, the lateral lobes spreading or recurved, obtuse, sometimes broader than long, sometimes much longer than broad, the middle one trian- gular or lanceolate, usually acute, broad or narrow, either longer than the teral ones or more frequently much smaller or disappearing altogether, in Which case the leaf is divided into 2 long narrow diverging or divaricate lobes. Wers numerous, pendulous, in showy erect racemes. Calyx about $ in. long, broad, entire or obscurely toothed, obliquely truncate and slit on the upper side. Standard ovate, erect at the base, recurved upwards, nearly 13 In. long, narrowed but scarcely clawed at the base ; wings obliquely oblong, about 4 lines long ; keel-petals like the wings, but about 6 lines Jong, free. Style hooked at the end. Pod elongated, torulose, with few large red seeds. N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller ; frequent towards central Australia, M‘Douall Stuart’s Expedition. E tan’ : land. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; Bay of Tnlets, . “o : Brisbane river and Moreton Bay, Fraser, F. Mueller, etc.; Cape York, M'Gillivray ; 0-3 of ¡portal itzalan ; in the interior, on the Maranoa, ete., Mitchell ; found during the whole chhardt’s expedition, Herb. Mus. Par. The Brisbane x Ronen ine Seni large leaflets with broad short lobes, ta from the north-west (E. biloba, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 21), have 2 narrow lo! with or without a small intermediate one, the others show every gradation from the one m to the other, 2. E. indica, Lam. ; DC. Prod. ii. 412. Glabrous, the branches but hot the leaves ines de with saa usually black. Leaflets entire, very broadly ovate, often 6 to 8 in. long, the terminal one- rhomboidal, the lateral ones rather oblique. Flowers scarlet, nearly 2 in. long, in dense racemes. Caly x broad, fally 2 in. long, entire or slightly toothed, obliquely truncate and je it on the upper side, Standard ovate, scarcely recurved, narrowed into a dis- in. long. ` Standard narrowed into 254 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Erythrina. tinct stipes. Wings and keel nearly similar, all free obovate and about 4 in. long. Pod much contracted between the seeds, often attaining 9 in. to 1 ft. Seeds few, large, red, distant.—Wight, Ic. t. 58. WN. Australia. Islands of the N. coast, R. Brown. Queensland. Port Denison, Fitza/an. Common in Kast India and the Archipelago, and often planted for shade or ornament. 55. MUCUNA, Adans. Calyx broadly campanulate, 4-toothed, the upper one (consisting of 2 com- bined) broader, the lowest longer. Standard shorter than the wings; keel as long as or longer than the wings, incurved at the end, with a hardened point or beak. Upper stamen free, the others united ; filaments usually dilated upwards ; anthers alternately longer and erect, and shorter versatile and often bearded. Ovary sessile, with several ovules ; style filiform, with a terminal stigma. Pod thick, clothed with stinging often very deciduous hairs, 2-valved. Seeds roundish with a long linear hilum, or oblong with a shorter lateral hilum.—Large twiners. Leaflets 3, stipellate. Stipules. small or none. Flowers usually large, purple yellow or nearly white, in axillary racemes, the pedicels clustered along the rhachis on lateral nodes, or on’ short peduncles, when the raceme is converted into a corymb or dense panicle. The genus is widely spread over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World; the only Australian species is a common Asiatic one, With considerable diversity in the and seeds, the species are all distinguished by the keel and stamens. The pungent hairs of the podare rarely wanting, and all become black in drying. 1. M. gigantea, DC. Prod. ii. 405. Glabrous or slightly hairy when young. Leaflets from broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 4 in. long, the lateral ones very oblique. Flowers of a pale greenish-yellow, neatly 13 in. long, in short loose corymbs, on pendulous peduncles of from 2 or 3 in. to nearly 1 ft. Calyx about 3 in. broad, hirsute with deciduous hairs. Standard ovate, concave, reflexed ; wings rather longer, the edges pubescent below the middle ; keel still longer, with a short indurated inflexed beak. Shorter anthers bearded. Pod rather thick but flat, above 1 in. broad, with - a narrow longitudinal wing on each side of each suture, the pungent hairs usually falling off before maturity. Seeds 2 to about 6, large, orbicular, encircled by the hilum.—W. and Am. Prod. 254; Hook. Bot. Mise. iil. t. 3 a Suppl. 14 (wrong as to colour a? N. Australia. Islands of the N. coast, R. Brown. . ke d. Brisbane river and Moreton Bay, Fraser, F. Mueller, aud others; e, hampton, Thozet ; Edgecumbe Bay, Dallachy. N.S. Wales. Clarence river, Herb. F. Mueller, S. The species is widely distributed over E. India, the Archipelago, and islands of the >: Pacific 56. GALACTIA, R. Br. Calyx-lobes 4 (the upper one consisting of 2 combined) acuminate, the 2 lateral shorter. Standard ovate, dnd xt the base, the margins slightly in- flexed ; wings narrow, slightly adhering to the keel ; keel about as long. upe stamen free, the others united; anthers uniform. Ovary nearly sessile ; style filiform, with a small terminal stigma. Pod linear, straight or curved, us Y flat, 2-valved, with a pithy pulp between the seeds. Seeds not strophiolate. A Feet Ripe Ne > Galactia.) XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. i 255 —Prostrate or twining herbs. Leaflets 3 or rarely 1 or 5, stipellate. Flowers in axillary racemes, clustered along the common peduncle. Bracts small, se- taceous, deciduous. Bracteoles very small. The species are chiefly American, one of them widely spread over the warmer regions of both the New and the Old World, two or three others are African or Asiatic. Of the two Australian species, one is the common cosmopolitan one, the other is endemic. The genus is readily distinguished by the acuminate calyx with the upper lobe always quite entire. Glabrous or pubescent with spreading hairs. Flowers few in the raceme, MN U long ey oss aaa et a dd ee G. tenuiflora. Silky-pubescent or villous. Flowers numerous, 7 or 8 lines long. . . 2. G. Muelleri. 1. G. tenuiflora, Willd. ; Wight and Arn. Prod. 206. Stems from a thick rhizome, usually slender, twining, attaining several feet, glabrous or pu- bescent with spreading or reflexed hairs. Leaflets 3, ovate or oblong, usually lto 2 in. long and obtuse, but variable in shape and size, glabrous or pubes- cent especially underneath. Peduncles rarely exceeding 6 in., with few dis- tant clusters of 2 or 3 flowers each, on a small gland-like node. — Pedicels very short. Flowers pale reddish-purple or nearly white, varying from 4 to 6 lines, Calyx-lobes narrow, longer than the tube. Pod 1 to 2 in. long, linear, flat, coriaceous, with thickened margins, glabrous or pubescent. Seeds obliquely attached, smooth. N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria and adjoining coast, R. Brown, Henne, Landsborough; Strangways river, M'Douall Stuart's Expedition. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Keppel Bay, R. Brown ; Port Curtis and Keppel Island, M'Gillivray ; Brisbane river, F. Mueller ; Broad Sound, Bowman. -S. Wales. Clarence river, Moore, Beckler ; between. the Darling and Cooper’s Creek, Neilson. e species is common in tropical Asia, Africa, and America, and varies much in the breadth of the leaflets from ah Erbia to linear, in the indumentum, and in the size of the flowers. This has given rise to very numerous synonyms, of which nineteen are quote d ln Mart. Fl. Bras. Papil. 143. The Australian specimens have usually larger flowers ik the pa straighter than in most of those from other countries, but some are precisely like udian ones, ?. G. Muelleri, Benih. A larger and much stouter plant than G. te- nujflora, the branches softly i Leaflets oval-oblong and very obtuse or elliptical, 13 to 22 in. long, firm, softly silky-pubescent on ‘both sides. eduncles long, rigid, bearing numerous flowers, considerably larger than in - tenuiflora, in distinct or distant clusters. Calyx silky, nearly 5 lines long. Standard 7 to 8 lines long. Pod silky, about 2 in. long, straight. N. Australia. Fitzmaurice river, F, Mueller. 57. CANAVALIA, DC. Calyx 2 upper lobes united into a large obtuse entire or 2-lobed = tail a Wer ones into a much smaller entire or 3-lobed lower lip. a ar road, reflexed, with 2 callosities inside above the claw; wings eee Io - ar, falcate or twisted, free; keel incurved and sometimes rostrate. ` ‘Mens all united in a tube, open-at the very base, where the + od le > anthers uniform. Ovary shortly stipitate, with several ovules; sty or or slightly thickened, with a terminal stigma. Pod oblong or linear, = 256 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [ Canavalia. broad, 2-valved, with a prominent longitudinal rib or wing on each side of the upper suture. Seeds rounded or oblong, with a linear hilum, varying in length.—Large herbs with twining or trailing stems. Leaflets 3, usually large, stipellate. Stipules minute, often gland-like or none. Flowers rather large, purplish pink or white, in axillary racemes ; pedicels very short, clus- tered on lateral nodes along the upper portion of the rhachis. Bracts mi- nute. Bracteoles small, orbicular, very deciduous. The species are widely distributed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World, some of them cultivated in India for food, although others are very poisonous. The Aus- tralian one is a common maritime plant. The genus is readily known by the calyx, different — all except some species of Phaseolus, which have a very different keel, stigma, and pod. 1. C. obtusifolia, DC. Prod. ii. 404. Glabrous or the young shoots silky-pubescent, the stems more frequently prostrate or trailing than twining. Leaflets broadly obovate or orbicular, very obtuse or retuse, 2 to 3 in. long and rather thick, rarely thinner, attaining 4 or 5 in. and obscurely acuminate. Flowers pink or nearly white, along the upper portion of stout erect pedua- cles, varying from 6 in. to 1 ft. in length. - Calyx nearly 3 in. long, the upper lip nearly as long as the tube, with 2 very broad rounded lobes, the lower nearly half as long with 3 small lobes. Standard orbicular, 4 in. diameter ; keel much curved, but obtuse. Pod 2 to 1 in. broad, the longitudinal wings very narrow. Seeds 2 to 8, the hilum oblong or shortly linear, not half the length of the seed.—Benth. in Mart. El. Bras. Pap. 178, t. 48, where the numerous synonyms are quoted. cis . N. Australia. Nichol Bay, N.W. coast, F. Gregory's Expedition ; Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. Queensland. Endeavour river, Bustard Bay, Bay of Tulets, etc., Banks and Solan- der. , R. Brown ; Moreton Bay, F. Mueller ; Ipswich, Nernst ; Broad Sound and Fitzroy river, Bowman. N. S. Wales. Manly Beach, Port J ackson, Woolls. f 5 The species is common on the sea-coasts of $. America, Africa, and tropical Asia. F. Mueller's herbarium contains a specimen of C. Bonariensis, Lindl., with narrower acy —— minate leaflets and the lower lip of the calyx very small and entire, marked “ Moreton pyi on the label, but probably from a garden. It is'a S. American and S. African, but not an Asiatic species. .. 58. PHASEOLUS, Linn. Calyx 2 upper lobes or teeth united in a short entire or 2-lobed upper lip, the lowest one longer and narrow. Standard broad, recurved, often obh or twisted; wings obliquely obovate or oblong, adhering to the keel; k produced into a long linear beak, more or less spirally twisted. i Upper stamen free, the others united; anthers uniform. Ovary nearly sessile, E several ovules; style thickened within the beak of the keel and twisted Wi" it, more or less bearded upwards along the inner side; stigma oblique or 0 the inner side of the style. Pod linear or falcate, flat or terete, e Seeds with a small or shortly linear hilum, not strophiolate.—Herbs y ae annual or perennial and woody at the base, short and erect or elongated @ o twining in the same species. “Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or very rarely ok o liolate, stipellate, the leaflets entire or lobed. Stipules usually persis e -striate, sometimes produced below their insertion, Flowers white yelow? Phaseolus. ] _ XL. LEGUMINOSA, 257 purple or red, in clusters of 2, 3 or more on lateral nodes in the upper por- tion of long axillary peduncles. Bracts and bracteoles usually very deci- duous. _ A considerable genus, dispersed over the warmer regions of the New and the Old World, veral species long cultivated in various countries have given rise to many forms published as separate species, although frequently undistinguishable except by their origin. To these generally cultivated species belong the only three hitherto found in Australia, Stipules not produced below their insertion. Pod flattened. les broad, striate, persistent, as long as the calyx, Flowers small, pale yellowish-white . . , ~ de e Bracteoles small and very deciduous, Flowers large, pink or whitish DO Wings purple, . . r «< a sik ie Week Qo Rola Stipules oblong, produced below their insertion. Pod at length nearly ` cylindrical , E E E o MO, LP, vulgaris, Zinn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 392. Glabrous or silky-pubes- cent when young, dwarf and erect or tall and twining. Leaflets broad, acu- mmate, 2 to 3 in. long or more, the stipellee small, obtuse. Stipules small, hot produced below their insertion, Peduneles short, with few rather small Pale yellow-green or whitish flowers. Bracteoles ovate, striate, as long as the calyx, and persistent, Calyx: upper lobe very short, broad, obtuse and entire. Pod broadly linear, flattened, straight or slightly falcate.—Benth. in Mart. L Bras, Papil. 182, with the synonyms quoted. i Australia. Nichol Bay and De Grey river, Ridley's Expedition. The species is. e most generally cultivated in all warm and temperate countries. Its origin is uncertain, Probably Asiatic, No note accompanies the Australian specimens giving any clue as to the “rcumstances under which they were gathered. : y P. Truxillensis, M. B. and K.; DC. Prod. ii. 391. Twining or trailing at the base, glabrous or more or less hairy, the hairs reflexed on the > appressed or silky on the leaves. Leaflets usually broadly ovate, ob- tuse or shortly acuminate, 2 to 4 in. long, the terminal one somewhat rhom- oid, the lateral ones very oblique, those of the upper leaves narrower, the sipellee small, oblong. Stipules small, not produced below their insertion. uncles usually long, with few flowering nodes at or near the end. Pedi- very short. Bracteoles shorter than the calyx and very deciduous. wers rather large, mixed purplish or pink and white or the standard yel- Wish, Calyx upper lobes short, very broad and obtuse, the lowest narrow acute and as long as or longer than the tube. Standard and wings nearly 1 in. long ; keel forming 2 or 3 coils. Pod flattened, straight or falcate, attaining 3 or 4 in. in length and nearly 2 in. in breadth.—P. rostratus, Wall. Pl. As, 1°56, t. 63; Wight, Tc. t. 34. ; au Australia, Between Fitzmaurice river and Macadam Range, F. Mueller ; islands e Gulf of Carpentaria, R, ‘Brown. : ie Curtin aud Barn d. Bustard Bay, Endeavour river, etc., Banks and Solander ; ; Mio seh tei tly seat indigenous in collections from almost all tropical coun- 7 uen nous m į . tie, but it is also Pete Maga ep The numerous synonyms, as far as ascertained, are in Mart. F]. Bras, Papil. 186, 3 lain > Mungo, Linn, ; DO. Prod. ii. 395. More or less hirsute, the mee on the branches, appressed on the leaves, the Pa. speci- E A = 258 : XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [ Phaseolus. mens elongated and twining, but, like P. vulgaris, it is more generally culti- vated as dwarf and erect. Leaflets mostly ovate, acute or acuminate, entire or minutely 3-lobed, the lateral ones very oblique, 2 to 3 in. long. Stipules rather large, oblong, produced below their insertion so as to appear peltate. Flowers rather small, pale yellow, in 2 or 3 clusters at the end of the pedun- ele or rarely more numerous in a somewhat elongated raceme. Bracteoles small and very deciduous. Calyx 2 upper lobes very short and broad, the lowest nearly as long as the tube and acute. Keel spirally twisted to one side, with a spur near the base of the lamina on the same side only. Pods spreading or reflexed, cylindrical when ripe, 2 to 3 in. long, scarcely 3 lines broad, hirsute or rarely glabrous. N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller ; islands of the N. coast, R. Brown. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander: Gould Island, M‘Gillivray; limestone hills, Leichhardt ; Bowen river, Bowman ; Rockhampton, Dallachy. The Australian specimens belong chiefly to the slender twining form, which includes P. radiatus, Roxb., or P. Rorburghii, W. and Arn. Prod. 246, and P. trinervius, Heyne, W. and Arn. Prod. 245, This, like the erect form, including P. Max, Linn., as well as P. pndai appears to be very abundant, wild or cultivated, in tropical Asia, but not m 59. VIGNA, Savi. (Scytalis and Strophostyles, E. Mey. ; Plectrotropis, Schum.) Calyx 2 upper lobes united into one, or more or less distinct. Standard broad, spreading ; wings obliquely obovate, adhering to the keel; keel in- curved, either obtuse or with an obliquely incurved beak, not forming a com- plete spire. Upper stamen free, the others united; anthers uniform. Ovary nearly sessile, with several ovules ; style thickened upwards and, We gitudinally bearded on the inner side; stigma very oblique or on tame side of the style. Pod linear, nearly terete when ripe, 2-valved. Santia 7 a small or shortly linear hilum, not strophiolate.—Herbs either prostrate Me trailing or twining, or short and erect in the same species. Leaves pinnatey trifoliolate, stipellate, the leaflets entire or 3-lobed. Stipules usually oe rarely produced below their insertion, Flowers greenish yellow or ap : very short pedicels, in clusters of 2 or 3 on lateral nodes in the upper at | of long axillary peduncles, or more frequently only 1 or 2 such ptes the end of the peduncle. Bracts and bracteoles usually very deciduous. a The genus is as widely distributed as P. armer regions of the Kemiaj the Old World, and po several Boosie sat pected poik M oniy SAD EE from Phaseolus in the keel not forming complete spires. Of the four Australian species, a three have a very wide range in the New and the Old World, the fourth is endemic. — Calyx-lobes acute, as long as the tube, the 2 upper united at the base oe only. Keel with along obliquely incurved ms: tks A, AO vexillata. Calyx-lobes short, the 2 upper ones united into one broad entire one. o Keel rather acute, but not beaked. Ce Leaflets obovate, very obtuse . +... . . 3 se ss 1 ee Ena mostly ovate, acute or acuminate, or narrow and lanceolate or near. Flowers 7 or 8 lines long. Leaflets mostlyovate. . +. + - 8 A A > Flowers about 5 lines long. Leaflets mostly lanceolate or linear . 4. F. ee pA E AA vexillata, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Papil. 193, t. 50, $ a Vigna. - XL. LEGUMINOS2. | 259 Stems, from a tuberous rootstock, twining and hirsute as well as the leaves, the hairs reflexed on the branches, more appressed and scattered on the leaves, rarely at length glabrous. Leaflets usually ovate-lanceolate in the lower leaves, narrow-lanceolate in the upper ones, 2 to 4 in. long and entire, but varying in breadth and size. Stipules cordate-lanceolate, sometimes shortly auriculate. Flowers greenish-yellow, more or less tinged with purple, larger than in most species, 2 to 4 together at the summit of the peduncle. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones shortly united at the base. Standard 10 or 11 lines dia- meter, reflexed ; wings rather shorter, one with a long auricle at the base, the other with scarcely any; keel with a long incurved almost involute oblique beak, not however forming a complete spire, and with a lateral spur on one side below the beak. Stigma thick, on the inner side of the style above the beard. Pod nearly cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 3 to 4 in. long, about 2 lines broad.— Phaseolus vexillatus, Linn. ; Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 102; á E hirta, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 637; F. tuberosa, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. , 4.42, N. Australia. Sea Range and Point Pearce, F, Mueller; Albert river, Henne. d. Bustard Bay and Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Broad Sound, tic, R. Brown ; Moreton Bay, Bidwill; Pine river, Fitzalan ; Burdekin and Burnett mets, F Mueller; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Bowen river, Bowman ; Rockhampton, hg S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson, Woolls ; Hunter's River, Sieber ; ral England, C. Stuart ; Macleay and Clarence rivers, Beekler. | Sails The species is widely spread over tropical Asia, Africa, aud America. By the obliquity +! the flower and length of the beak it is intermediate in some respects between Vigna an i haseolus, and has been placed alternately by botanists in either of these geuera or in Do- "08, or has been proposed as a distinct genus under the name of Plectrotropis by ces smoker and of Strophostyles by E. Meyer, as appears by the extensive synonymy collec i the ‘Flora Brasiliensis’ above quoted. — tie A. Gray, B vpl. Exped. i. 454. Rather coarse, rs . Gray, bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. 1. 454. Prostrate, trailing or shortly twining, nearly glabrous or the young shoots hoary or silky, with centrally fixed appressed hairs. Leaflets orbicular, obovate se] pate-rhomboid, usually very obtuse, 14 to 3 in. long. >: ROA - 4 duo? Stipellæ obtuse. Flowers yellow, like those of 7. = a qa ad “sters crowded at the end of the peduncle. Calyx 14 lines long, ka me d vr teeth shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones united into wg gi en Toad one. Standard above 3 in. diameter or rather more; _ or oh incurved, rather acute, but not beaked. Stigma oblong, very cong or quite on the inner side of the style above the dense beard. Pod e se ght or curved, about 3 in. long, ¿ in. wide.— Dolichos gue bed 4 py ind. Occid. iii 1246; V. retusa, Walp. Rep. i. 778; Harv. riera Cap. ii. 249 (Scytalis, E. Mey.); V. anomala, Walp. Rep. 1. (Sey talis, Vog.). r N. Austra li s š é pe Bes MG; hoe Bay” sE Beton: EN along the coast down to Moreton = g E Gillioray, F. Mueller, Thozet, amd others. : N. S. Wales. Bandy sida Slappa ed Newcastle, ide Clarence river, ¿ Hastings river, Beckler ; Botany Bay, Banks and Sola SE Abie and islands of > he Pach cies appears to be not unfrequent in maritime sands in t nde. 9 7 Pacific, and in Southern enana rare in the W. Indies. 1 have not eo Swartz’s . 260 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. T: Vigia, specimens, but his description leaves no doubt that A. Gray is right in referring his plant to the present one. 3. V. luteola, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Papil. 194, t..50, f. 2. Pro- strate, trailing or twining, often hirsute, especially when young, sometimes nearly glabrous, very rarely with a few of the centrally affixed hairs of V. lutea. Leaflets very variable, usually ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. long, entire or slightly sinuately 3-lobed, the upper ones sometimes longer and narrower, almost always acute or acuminate. Stipules small. Flowers pale-yellow, in few clusters at the end of the peduncle. Calyx scarcely 2 lines long, the 2 upper lobes united into one very short and broad one, the lowest about as long as the tube. Standard 7 or 8 lines diameter ; keel as long as the wings, broad, much curved and rather acute, but not beaked. Stigma ollonz, very oblique or quite on the inner side of the style above the dense beard, Pod hirsute or rarely at length glabrous, nearly terete, often torulose, 2 to 3 in. long, scarcely } in. broad.—Dolichos luteolus, Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 90; Vigna glabra and V. villosa, Savi; DC. Prod. ii. 401. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Burdekin river, F. Mueller. W. S. Wales. Clarence river, Wilcoz. The species is common in tropical America and temperate N. America, chiefly near the sea ; it is also in tropical Africa. I have not seen any Asiatic specimens, which leads me to doubt in some measure the identification of the Australian ones. I can however detect no difference between them and some of the common American forms. 4. V. lanceolata, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 350. Glabrous or slightly pubescent, short and erect or elongated and twining, but always more slender than Y. luteola. Leaflets usually lanceolate, obtuse or rather acute, 13 to 2 or rarely 3 in. long, entire or the terminal one hastately lobed on each side at the base, the lateral ones on one side only, those of the lower leaves sometimes short and ovate, in the upper ones long and linear. Flowers much smaller than in V. luteola, otherwise like them, in few clusters at t end of the peduncle. Calyx about 1 line long, the 2 upper lobes united into one very short and broad one, the lowest not so long as the tube. Standard about 5 lines diameter, with the 2 callosities and inflexed auricles of the allied species; keel broad, much incurved, rather acute, but not beake® Pod glabrous or pubescent, nearly terete, 1 to 2 in. long.—V. 8 Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 388. $ N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller ; to the S. of Wills’ Creek, Howilf# Expedition ; Arnhem 8, Bay, R. Brown; Albert river, Henne. pes Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; Broad Sound, R. sat Siu Owen and Mount Faraday, Mitchell ; Archer's Creek, Leichhardt; Bowen river, wman., a $ N.S. Wales. Between Darling river and Cooper’s Creek, Neilson. E. Var. filiformis. Stems long slender and twining. * Tiii all linear or linear-Janceolat: — smaller, —Victoria river, F. Mueller ; N. coast, R. Brown ; Port Essington, strong. . The pod in some of R. Brown’s specimens, with lanceolate leaves, is much flatter than 10 the other specimens seen in fruit, but I can detect no specific differences. 60. DOLICHOS, Linn. sn ; Calyx-lobes short, the 2 upper ones united into one broad entire or emat- A ginate one, Standard orbicular, recurved or spreading, with 2 inflexed awr AS ` Dolichos.} XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 261 cles at the base and 2 callosities inside; wings obovate, falcate, adhering to the keel, nearly as long as the standard; keel much incurved, often beaked, but not spiral. Upper stamen free, the others united ; anthers uniform. Ovary nearly sessile, with several ovules; style thickened upwards, either bearded longitudinally on the inner side or hairy all round, at least round the rect which is small and terminal. Pod flattened, usually falcate and acute, cage Seeds with a small or shortly linear hilum, not strophiolate.— Herbs often woody at the base, twining trailing or short and suberect. errs pinnately trifoliolate, stipellate. Stipules small. Flowers sometimes ew together, on very short axillary peduncles or even solitary, with striate gy bracts and bracteoles, almost as in Clitoria, more frequently in — pios pd racemes, clustered on lateral nodes along the peduncle, with very and deciduous bracts and bracteoles, as in Vignaand Phaseolus. ge) pe >. chiefly S. African, with a few tropical Asiatic and S. American species. The Tene. ee ji idei spread over E. India and S.E. Africa. But, besides that, i oe E 397; Bot. Mag. t. 382 (D. gibbosus, Thunb., Harv. and apra io yd a tall twiner with elegant racemes of pink and white flowers, a wild, from the nei tots — cultivated for ornament in hot countries, has ee sent as tally introduced n y ood of King George's Sound, by Maxwell and Oldfield, but is pro- seeds, a » Dr. ynchosioides. Schlecht. Linnea, xxvii. 531, raised from S. Australian appears from his description to be the same introduced D. dignosus. = og biflorus, Linn.; DO. Prod. ii. 398. Either dwarf and nearly o elongated and twining, softly pubescent in all its parts, or at length obli us. Leaflets ovate, acuminate, 1 to 2 in. long, the lateral ones very or =i Stipules ovate or lanceolate, striate, persistent. Flowers usually 1 das no 3 or 4, clustered in the axils on a very short common peduncle, do colour, not 4 in. long. Bracts and bracteoles narrow, almost than th or the lower ones broader and striate, Calyx-lobes subulate, longer Wi e tube, the lowest longer than the others. Standard broadly obovate ; “dead ; keel much incurved, with a short obtuse beak. Style filiform, usual! us, except a small tuft of hairs round the terminal stigma. Pod falcate, y ly to 2 in. long and about 4 lines broad.—D. uniflorus, Lam. ; DC. ad i. 398 ; D. eaillaris, E. Mey.; Harv. and Sond. Fi Cap. ii. 245. The speci alia. Gilbert river, F. Mueller. ; aa iki style not | es is dispersed over tropical Asia and S.E. Africa. In inflorescence, and 1n th ongitudinally bearded, it differs from most species of the genus, and approaches iu tespects Clitoria, The lowest flowers are apparently sometimes small and apetalous. 61. DUNBARIA, W. and Am. o 1 entire or slightly ely -lobes acuminate, the 2 upper ones united int OF auricl one. Standard obovate or orbicular, erect or reflexed, with inflexed ay at the base and 2 callosities inside; keel incurved, obtuse. Upper ls free, the others united ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, with severa =S ; style filiform, incurved and rather thickened about the middle ; stigma lves rather thin, l, small. * Pod li -faleate, acuminate ; Va linear, flat, often falcate, th a short or ob- n indented between the seeds. Seeds nearly orbicular, wi ng hilum, and a thin or small strophiole, scarcely fleshy.— Trailing or twin- pinnately trifoliolate YE bs, usually tomentose, often viscid. Leaves mento inous dots underneath, t stipellze, ‘leaflets. usually sprinkled with resi 262 : XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [Dunbaria. Stipules striate or small or none. ` Flowers usually yellow, in axillary racemes, singly scattered along the rhachis or rarely solitary in the axils. Bracts — usually broad and membranous, but very deciduous. Bracteoles none. The genus extends, like Atylosia, over E. India and the Archipelago, the Australian spe- cies being one of the most widely dispersed. Nearly allied to A¢y/osia, it has the pod almost of a Dolichos, differing from Rhynchosia only in the more numerous ovules. 1. D. conspersa, Benth. in Pl. Jungh. i. 241. A slender twiner, hoary all over with a minute tomentum, scarcely becoming glabrous when old, and more or less sprinkled with resinous dots. Leaflets broadly rhomboidal, rarely 1 in. long, entire or the terminal one broadly sinuate-3-lobed. Flowers rather small, yellow, 2 together or rarely solitary in the axils of the leaves, on short pedicels. Calyx-lobes lanceolate-falcate, the upper and lower ones longer than the tube.” Pod nearly straight or falcate, obliquely acuminate, 1 to 13 in. long, glabrous or slightly tomentose. Seeds 6 to 8, with an oblong hilum and a rather thicker strophiole than in most species. —Dolichos (2) rhynchosioides, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 185. Queensland. Dunk Island, M'Gillivray. The species ranges over the eastern pro- vinces of India and the Archipelago up to S. China, It has very much the aspect of some of the common trailing R/ynchosias, but the pod is quite different. 62. ATYLOSIA, W. and Arn. (Cantharospermum, W. and Arn.) Calyx-lobes acuminate, the 2 upper ones united into 1 entire or slightly toothed one. Standard orbicular, reflexed, with 2 inflexed auricles at the base and often with 2 slight callosities inside; keel incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen free, the others united; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, with api veral ovules ; style filiform, incurved and rather thickened above the middle ; stigma terminal, small. Pod oblong or broadly linear, straight, scarcely acu- minate, 2-valved, with partitions between the seeds, the valves coriaceous or . Yarely thin, transversely indented between the seeds. Seeds ovate or orbi- cular, with an oblong hilum and a thick fleshy strophiole.—Trailing or twm- ing herbs or erect shrubs, usually tomentose or softly villous. Leaves pm- nately trifoliolate, without stipelle ; leaflets usually glandular-dotted under- neath. Stipules small or none. Flowers yellow, solitary or clustered in the axils or at the end of axillary peduncles. Bracts usually broad and membra- nous, but so deciduous as to be rarely seen. Bracteoles none. The genus extends over E. India and the Archipelago and westward to the Mauritius. se the Australian species, one is common over the whole range of the genus, the others ees demic. F. Mueller proposes to reunite it with Cajanus to which it is closely allied, w pod is differently shaped, and the strophiole appears to be constant. It only differs some sections of Rhynchosia in the ovules always more than 2. pee viste y or twining. road, thin, transversel ieulate. Leaflets broadly obovate or orbicular. o . a eres wy se P si j > 1, 4. marmorda. Pod coriaceous with deeply depressed transverse lines between the seeds. Leafl :ts rhomboid ovate or elliptical. Pedicels axillary solitary or clustered with scarcely any common peta og Tee ee iy eee REE Peduncles axillary, often exceeding the leaves . . | . . . 8. A. reticulata. . near acuminate, the upper or lower ones about Atylosia.] XL. LEGUMINOS&. 263 Stems erect, shrubby at the base. Pod coriaceous. Leaflets very rugose, thick and soft. Pod villous, with long hairs. Terminal leaflets at some distance from the lateral one . . . 4. A. grandifolia. Terminal leaflets close between the 2 lateral ones . . . . . 5. A. pluriflora. Leaflets scarcely rugose, silky-hoary or silvery-tomentose. Pod tomentose, without long hairs . . . . «s. oe Bh, Aa l. A. marmorata, Benth. Stems rather slender, trailing or twining, ` pubescent or hirsute. Leaflets very broadly obovate orbicular or broader than long, very obtuse, 1 to 14 in. long, softly pubescent when young, rather rigid and nearly glabrous when old. Peduneles solitary or 2 together, often slightly exceeding the leaves, either 1-flowered or bearing 1 or 2 pairs of flowers. Calyx slightly tomentose, about 4 lines long, the lobes rather longer than the tube. Petals 5 or 6 lineslong. Ovary with about 4 ovules. Pod very flat, about 1 in. long, and nearly + in. broad, mottled with purple and thinly hairy, the valves very thin and marked with fine transverse reticulations, the transverse depressed lines between the seeds very faint.— Glycine marmo- rata, R. Br. Herb. : $ N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, - Brown, Henne. d. Nebo Creek and Bowen river, Bowman ; Port Denison, Fitzalan. The species is allied to the E. Indian A. platycarpa, Benth., but the leaflets are differently shaped, the pod straighter, ete. These two species belong to the section Rhynchosioides, Which only differs from the section Nomismia of Rhynchosia, in the number of ovules. _ 2. A. scarabzeoides, Benth. in Pl. Jungh. i. 242. Trailing or twin- Ing, slender, but often extending to several feet, softly tomentose in all its parts. Leaflets obovate or elliptical, obtuse or the upper ones narrower and almost acute, 1 to l4 in. long, rugose and soft. Peduncles very short or almost none, bearing 1 to 5 shortly pedicellate flowers, about 5 lines long. Calyx-lobes falcate, acute, rather longer than the tube and nearly as long as He petals. Ovary with 6 to 8 ovules. Pod about ¿ to 1 in. long and 3 to - £ lines broad, softly tomentose and hairy, the valves coriaceous, marked be- tween the seeds by deep transverse lines and furrows. —Rhynchosia (2) sca- er i DC. Prod. ii. 387; Cantharospermum pauciflorum, W. and Arn. . 255. Queensland. Port Denison, Burdekin river, etc., Bowman, Dallachy. The species is common in E. India and the Archipelago, extending from the Mauritius to S. China. ove Ustralian specimens have the leaflets rather narrow, but do not otherwise differ from the common form. This and all the following species belong to the section Cantharospermum, Pounding to the section Ptychocentrum of Rhynchosia. 3. A, reticulata, Benth. Steins elongated, trailing or rarely twining, wither coarse, nist hire or velvety. Leaflets ovate or rhomboidal, obtuse, 8 in. long, rugose and softly velvety-tomentose. Peduncles usually 2 or 3 in each axil, of unequal lengths, bearing at the end a cluster or short raceme of about 3 to 9 flowers, the pedicels at first very short, but gehen th as long as the calyx. Calyx rusty-villous, fully 6 lines long, the lobes th 3 times as ing as the o le lateral ones rather shorter. Petals scarcely exceeding the calyx. Ovary with about 6 ovules. Pod about 1 in. long Lad 4 lines wide, very villous, with long hairs, the valves coriaceous, marked with deep rather oblique trans- 264 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ Atylosia. verse furrows between the seeds.—Dolichos reticulatus, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, iii. 33; DC. Prod. ii. 400. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham ; Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Rockhampton, Dallachy.. 4. A. grandifolia, F. Muell. Herb. An erect branching, rusty-tomen- tose or softly villous shrub, closely resembling in other respects 4. reticulata. ` Leaflets broadly ovate or rhomboidal, obtuse or rather acute, 2 to 3 in. long, very rugose and soft. Flowers in irregular clusters or short racemes, pedun- culate in the upper axils, the upper peduncles short, forming an irregular ter- minal leafy panicle. Pedicels at first very short, or rarely attaining the length of the calyx. Calyx rusty villous, about 4 in. long, the lobes about twice as long as the tube. Petals scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod as in 4. reticu- lata, about 1 in. long and 4 lines wide, very villous with long hairs, the valves coriaceous, marked with deep transverse furrows between the seeds. E =. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, . Brown. ` Queensland. Burnett ranges, F. Mueller; Burdekin Expedition, Fitalan ; Fitzroy river, Bowman ; Port Denison, Dallachy. i i Var. calycina. Leaflets very thick and rugose. Calyx-lobes longer and broader than in the ordinary form, the tube very short. Pod very broad.— Victoria river, F. Mueller. 5. A. pluriflora, F. Muell. Herb. Erect and shrubby, clothed with a soft woolly or silky tomentum, usually very white on the branches. Leaflets from obovate, very obtuse, and about 1 in. long, to elliptical-oblong, obtuse or almost acute and near 2 in. long, more or less rhomboid, very rugose and soft, the terminal one inserted close between the lateral ones instead of being raised at some distance above them as in all the other Australian species. Peduncles in the upper axils bearing an irregular head or umbel-like cluster of flowers, the pedicels at first very short, at length nearly as long as the calyx. Calyx softly villous, 4 to 5 lines long, the lobes not much longer than the tube. Petals exceeding the calyx, attaining about 7 lines. Ovary with 4 to 6 ovules. Pod about 1 in. long, very villous with long hairs, the valves coriaceous, marked with deep transverse furrows between the seeds. Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown; Burdekin Expedition, Fitzalan ; Rockhamp- ton, Thozet ; near Princhester, Bowman ; Thozet’s River, Dallachy. i 6. A. cinerea, 7. Muell. Herb. A shrub of 2 or 3 ft., moré slender than the last two species; hoary or silvery with a soft but close and short to mentum. Leaflets ovate obtuse or rather acute, 1 to 14 in. long, strongly reticulate underneath, and sometimes rugose above, but much less so than m A. grandifolia. Peduncles axillary, bearing usually a short irregular raceme of rather large flowers. Pedicels ‘rather thick, often as long as the caly% Calyx tomentose or silky, 4 to 5 lines long, the lobes lanceolate, rather longes than the tube. Standard and keel 8 or 9 lines long. Ovary with 410 6 ovules. Pod 1 in. long or rather more, nearly 4 lines broad, softly tomen- tose, but without long hairs, the valves coriaceous, with transverse furrows between the seeds. e N. Australia. Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition ; Victoria river, F. Mueller, Le of these specimens may at first sight be confounded with the more tomentose ey oe e E nchosia acutifolia, which however has smaller flowers and only 2 ovules in - i Atylosia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 265 ovaries I have examined. —Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown (specimens rather doubtful, scarcely canescent, and possibly a var. of A. grandifolia). a 63. REYNCHOSIA, Lour. | (Nomismia, W. and Arn.; Copisma, E. Mey.) Calyx 2 upper lobes more or less united. Standard obovate or orbicular, usually with inflexed auricles at the base, rarely callous inside; keel incurved, _ obtuse or rarely beaked ; wings narrower or rarely obovate, and often shorter. Upper stamen free, the others united; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or nearly so, with 2 or very rarely 1 ovule; style curved above the middle and often thickened ; stigma terminal. Pod flattened, oblong or fulcate, 2-valved, farely divided inside. Seeds ovoid, rounded or almost reniform, with a lateral short or oblong hilum, the funicle centrally attached, with or without a stro- phiole.—Trailing or twining herbs or erect undershrubs or low shrubs, often tomentose and usually sprinkled with resinous dots. Leaves pinnately 3- foliolate, rarely in species not Australian 1- or 5-foliolate, without any or ` with small setaceous stipellee. Stipules broad or linear or very small or none. Peduncles axillary, bearing a raceme or rarely single flowers, usually yellow, the standard often streaked with purple. Bracts very deciduous ; bracteoles none. _A considerable genus, dispersed over the warmer regions of the globe, especially S. Ame- Tica and Africa, with several Asiatic species, and a few in N. America. Of the six Aus- tralian species, one is very common both in the New and the Old World, the others are all endemic, although one is closely allied to a common S. American one, Stems erect and shrubby. Leaflets minutely tomentose, slightly rugose. Peduncles slender, fees . ian q towered; Keel obtuse. Seeds strophiolate Bs 2. R. acutifolia. e ets softly tom se. icels short, axillary. ; oae meron o tems trailing or twining., Flowers racemose. Pod nearly as broad as long, membranous, transversely reticulate. J Seeds strophiolate. Calyx-lobes much longer than the tube . EE rhomboidea. cbr much longer than broad. Seeds not proa á mentose, depressed between the seeds. ets mostly a de above 2 in, jong. Calyx-lobes shorter than the tube. . . 4 R. Cunninghamii. Pod nearly glabrous or hairy. Leaflets not much above 1 in. eae long. Calyx-lobes rather longer than the tube. E Flowers scarcely above 3 lines long . +. +. + + : wets nearly 5 lines long. +. aap 8 As l. R. rhomboidea, F. Muell. Herb. Diffuse, trailing or slightly twining, pubescent and apparently somewhat viscid. Leaflets broadly ovate, . thomboid or : ly acute, mostly under 1 in. long. almost orbicular, obtuse or scarcely ol distant Feduncles slender not exceeding the leaves, bearing J flowers, Bracts striate, deciduous. Pedicels very short. Calyx hirsute, 23 £s long, the lobes narrow, much longer than the tube, the upper ones nes to the middle, Standard about 3 lines long; keel obtuse. Ovules 2; me orm. Pod flat, 6 or 7 lines long, 4 to 5 lines broad, not acuminate, the nae thin, with fine transverse reticulations. Seeds with a thick fleshy stro- . 5. R. minima. 6. R. australis. N. Australia. Victoria river, F, Mueller. Nearly allied to R. nummularia, DC., in 266 XL, LEGUMINOSA. [ Rhynchosia, which, however, the flowers are large and the ovules solitary. These species belong to the section Nomismia, proposed as a genus by Wight and Arnott, differing from the section Rhynchosivides of Atylosia, in having never more than 2 ovules. 2. R. acutifolia, F. Muell. Herb. (under Atylosia). Erect and shrubby but slender, minutely and closely tomentose or rarely softly pubescent. Leaf- lets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 14 in. long, almost acute or shortly acu- minate, sometimes slightly rugose. Peduncles axillary, slender, bearing 2, - 3 or few flowers in an irregular raceme. Pedicels at first short, often at length as long as the calyx and filiform. Flowers yellow, 5 or 6 lines long. Calyx- lobes rather longer than the tube. Standard with 2 callosities inside; keel obtuse, but very much incurved. Ovules 2. Pod coriaceous not acuminate, minutely tomentose, slightly depressed between the seeds, 6 to 8 lines long, fully 3 lines broad. Seeds with a thick fleshy strophiole. N. Australia. Victoria river, F, Mueller, Bynoe; Gilbert river, F. Mueller (a frag- ment with loose fruits, one having had 3 ovules); N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham ; Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition (more tomentose, with the aspect of Atylosia cinerea, but with the small flowers and 2 ovules of R. acutifolia). The species belongs to the section Plycho- centrum, W. and Arn., differing from the shrubby 4ty/osias of the section Scarabaores in the 2 ovules. From the above-mentioned pod with the Gilbert River specimen it appears that there may be occasionally a third ovule as occurs also in R. minima; but I found 2 ouly in all the ovaries I examined. 3. R.(?) rostrata, Benth. Erect* and shrubby, densely woolly-tomen- tose or velvety. Leaflets ovate or rhomboidal, thick, soft, and very rugose, rather acute, not 14 in. long in our specimens, but probably larger in more perfect ones. Flowers apparently clustered in the axils on a very short pe- duncle. Calyx densely clothed with white wool, the tube about 2 lines, the lobes narrow, the upper and lower ones about 4 lines long, the lateral ones shorter. Standard not exceeding the calyx, slightly tomentose outside, with 2 prominent callosities inside; wings obovate, much falcate; keel much curved, with a narrow obtuse beak longer than broad. Ovary very hirsute, | with 2 ovules in the only flower examined. Pod unknown. : N. Australia. York Sound, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham. The true affinities of this species cannot be determined until the fruit and seeds are known, but it appears to bons to the section Pseudocajan of Rhynchosia. 4. R. Cunninghamii, Benth. Twining to a considerable length, shortly and softly pubescent or velvety. Leaflets broadly ovate-rhomboidal, acum- nate, 2 to 4 in. long, rather thin. Stipules subulate-acuminate, and stipe often present. Racemes axillary, not exceeding the leaves, the pedicels 2 to lines long, often 2 together or the upper ones almost clustered. Calyx a mentose, 2 to 24 lines long, the lobes obtuse, shorter than the tube. Standa fully twice as long, slightly callous inside ; keel obtuse. Pod slightly falcate and shortly acuminate, slightly contracted between the seeds, nearly ¿ in. long, 4 in. broad, densely tomentose and often also hairy, valves coriaceous. Seeds ovoid, bluish-black, the hilum short, lateral, without any strophiole. : Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; N.E. coast, A. Cunningham i ; Moreton Bay, C. Stuart ; Mount Elliott and Thozet's Creek, Fitzalan, Dallachy. de eles is very closely allied to the common S. American R. phaseoloides, DC., but if some slight differences in the size of the flowers, the seeds in that species have usually, Y not always, a large scarlet spot round the hilum. ; Rhynchosia.} XL. LEGUMINOSA. 267 5. R. minima, DC. Prod. ii. 385. Slender, trailing or twining, minutely tomentose or nearly glabrous. Leaflets broadly ovate-rhomboidal, mostly about 1 in. long when full-grown but often much smaller, with minute or without any stipellæ. Stipules also very small or none. Racemes mostly longer than the leaves, bearing in their upper portion scattered pendulous yellow flowers rarely exceeding 3 lines in length, on very short pedicels ; in the lower axils the peduncles are sometimes very short and few-flowered. Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes rather longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the base or to the middle. Standard obovate, without callosi- ties; keel obtuse. Style slightly thickened upwards. Pod falcate, shortly acuminate or acute, narrowed at the base, 4 to nearly 3 in. long, shortly to- mentose-pubescent. Seeds without any strophiole.—Mart. Fl. Bras. Papil. t.54.£.2; R. punctata, DC. Mem. Leg. t. 56, and Prod. ii. 385; R. nuda, R. ervoidea, R. medicaginea, and R. rhombifola, DC. Prod. ii. 385, 386; R. laxiflora, Camb. in Jacquem. Voy. t. 54; and numerous other synonyms cited in Mart. Fl, Bras. Papil. 204. N. Australia. Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's and Ridley's Expeditions ; Victoria river, F. Mueller ; Goulburn Islands, A. Cunningham ; New Year's Island, R. Brown. land. Broad Sound, Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Bowen and Burdekin rivers, Bowman, Dallachy ; Moreton Bay, C. Stuart. a N. S. Wales. Hastings and Macleay rivers, Beckler ; between the Darling and Coo- pers Creek, Neilson ; Mount Goningberi, Beckler. i z The species appears to be abundant in almost all tropical or subtropical countries. 6. R. australis, Bent. Slender with trailing or twining stems as in . minima, with the same foliage and inflorescence, but the flowers are much larger, usually nearly 5 lines long, bright yellow, without streaks on the standard, Calyx-lobes all narrow, subulate-acumiñate, rather longer than the tube, the 2 upper lobes more united than in R. minima. Pod falcate, acu- miuate, narrowed at the base, above 4 in. long, hirsute with long hairs besides cya tomentum of R. minima. Seeds not strophiolate. . » Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong. Queensland, Moreton Bay. Bidwill ; Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy, Bowman. vita Wales. Clarence river, Beckler. id died : ariety of R. minima, this is yet different from any of the numerons gen tae countries by that ubiquitous species, approaching in some respects he Ee a. 64. ERIOSEMA, DC. Calyx 2 upper lobes usually free. Standard obovate or oblong, with in- flexed narices at the base, vey callous inside; keel slightly incurved, ob- tuse; wings usually longer, narrow. Upper stamen free, the others united ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, with 2 ovules; style filiform, incurv ed above the middle and sometimes slightly thickened. Pod flattened, obliquely orbi- cular or broadly oblong, 2-valved, not divided inside. Seeds oblong, oblique, hot strophiolate, the funicle attached to one end.of a long linear hilum.— erbs or undershrubs, erect prostrate or rarely twining, tomentose or ens ep resinous dots less conspicuous than in Rhynchosia. Leaves o y “foliolate or 1-foliolate, usually without stipelle. Stipules lanceolate, free opposite the leaf. Flowers usually yellow, in axillary racemes, or . 268 ` XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Eriosema. clusters, the standard often silky-villous. Bracts very deciduous; bracteoles none. The genus is numerous in S. American and African species, with a single tropical Asiatic one which is the same as the only Australian one. Formerly considered as a section of - Rhynchosia, it differs in the position of the seeds and generally in habit. 1. E. chinense, Vog. in Pl. Meyen. 31. Rhizome a perennial oblong tuber. Stems erect, 4 to 1 ft. high, simple or branching at the base only, more or less hirsute with long rust-coloured hairs, intermixed with a short pubescence. Leaflets solitary, nearly sessile, from oblong-lanceolate to linear, 1 to 2 in. long, sprinkled with a few long hairs on the upper surface and on the veins of the lower one, otherwise glabrous above, hairy or glaucous un- derneath. Peduncles axillary, exceedingly short, with 1, 2 or rarely 3 flowers, about 4 lines long. Bracts small, narrow. Calyx pubescent or villous, the lobes either shorter than the tube, or with long subulate points. Pod 4 to 6 lines long, 3 to 4 lines broad, covered with long rusty hairs.—Pyrrhotrichia tuberosa, W. and Arn. Prod. i. 238; Rhynchosia virgata, Hamilt, in Wall. Cat. n. 5503. N. Australia. Arnhem N. Bay, R. Brown; Port Essington, Armstrong. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham. : The species is frequent in the hilly districts of N. India, also in Ceylon, Burmah, the Philippines, aud S. China. 65. FLEMINGIA, Roxb. Calyx-lobes nearly equal or the lowest longer. Standard oval obovate or orbicular, with inflexed auricles at the base, often callous inside ; keel incurved, obtuse or acute; wings usually rather shorter. Vexillary stamen free, the others united ; anthers uniform. Ovary short, sessile or nearly so, with 2 ovules ; style filiform, incurved above the middle and often slightly thickened; stigma terminal. Pod very oblique, short, turgid, 2-valved. Seeds with a sħort hilum without any strophiole.—Herbs undershrubs or shrubs, rarely twining; usually tomentose or pubescent and sprinkled with resinous dots. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate or 1-foliolate, without stipellæ, the veins of the leaflets very prominent underneath. Stipules usually dry, striate, deciduous. Flowers purple-reddish, or mixed with yellow, in panicles or spike-like ra- cemes. Bracts either like the stipules or (in species not Australian) largó - leafy, concave, enclosing the flowers. Bracteoles none. The genus is most numerous in tropical Asia, with one or two African species. Of the Australian species two are common to E. India and the Archipelago, the other two are en- demic. The species with large leafy bracts forming the section Ostryodium, DC., com mon in the Archipelago, have not yet been found in Australia. The habit and foliage of sed genus are almost those of some Genistee, from which tribe, however, it is readily distin- guished by the free upper stamen. Several species also resemble some Psoraleas, but the ovary and pod are quite different. Flowers in small loose panicles. . . Ad RS ti Flowers 2 or 3 on a short axillary peduncle Te 2. F. paucifora. Flowers in axillary oblong spike-like racemes . . . +. . 3. F, paroiflora, Flowers in dense globular sessile heads . . . . . +. 4. F. involucrat. 1. F. lineata, Roxb. ; DC. Prod. ii. 351. An erect undershrub or low ‘Shrub with slender branches, the young parts and inflorescence minutely rusty Flemingia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA, * 269 tomentose, the foliage at length nearly glabrous. Leaflets 3, from obovate- cuneate to elliptical-oblong or broadly lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 14 to 3 in. long. Stipules and bracts small, usually persistent. Flowers small, secund and loosely racemose along the branches of small irregular axillary or terminal panicles. Calyx minutely tomentose, about 3 lines long, the lobes much fal- cate, longer than the tube. Standard broad, scarcely exceeding the calyx; keel at least as long, much curved, acute; wings rather shorter. Pod very oblique, about 4 to 6 lines long and 3 lines broad.—Wight, Ic. t. 327. N. Australia. Victoria river, Treachery Bay, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller; Port ington, Armstrong. y Queensland. Rockhampton, Thozet ; Burdekin river and Denison Creek, Bowman ; Port Denison and Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy. The species is widely spread over E. India and the Archipelago. 2. F, pauciflora, Benth. A low perennial or undershrub, with the habit of F. parviflora, but softly silky-pubescent or villous all over. Leaflets 3, from obovate to elliptical-oblong, obtuse or softly mucronate, 1 to 2 in. long. Stipules narrow, acuminate, often persistent. Flowers small, 2 or 3 together, almost sessile, on short axillary peduncles. Bracts narrow, silky, persistent, Calyx silky, the tube very short, the lobes narrow, acuminate, often 3 linés long. Petals shorter than the calyx-lobes. Standard rather broad ; keel obtuse. Pod very oblique, as broad as long, attaining nearly 3 in. N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller; Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough. 3. F. parviflora, Benth. A low perennial or undershrub, with rather slender prostrate or ascending stems, rarely exceeding 1 ft., loosely pubescent, almost silky when young. Leaflets 3, from obovate-cuneate and 1 to 13 In. long, to ovate-lanceolate and 3 to 4 in. long, usually very rugose. Stipules very deciduous. Flowers small, pink, in short dense spike-like racemes ses-. -Sile in the axils. Bracts lanceolate, silky-hairy, very deciduous. Calyx silky- pubescent, about 2 lines long, the upper lobe rather longer than the tube, the west still longer. Petals shortly exceeding the calyx; standard ovate, ob- tuse; keel nearly straight, obtuse. Pod 4 to 5 lines long, not 3 inet Queensland. Shoal Ba age, R. Brown ; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, 4. /4ue- ie 3 Burdekin river, aai 0 Denison, Dallachy ; Lynedoch valley, nee. early allied to the E. Indian F. prostrata, Roxb., but in the latter species the flowers considerably larger, although the petals are shorter than the calyx. - + 4. F. involucrata, Benth. in Pl. Jungh. i. 246. An erect stout peren- nial or undershrub of res 4 rs more or ioe villous with soft spreading hairs. Leaflets 3, ovate, rather acute, 2 to 3 in. long. Stipules lanceolate, very de- ciduous. Flowers in dense globose heads of 1 in. diameter or rather more, Sessile or very shortly pedunculate in the upper axils and at the ends of the ranches. Guter bracts ovate-lanceolate, striate, pubescent, ctra wh Volucre round the head’; al ones much carbs. Calyx covered ta g soft hairs, the upper lobes about 4 lines, the lowest nearly 6 lines ong and much broader than the others. Standard rather shorter fhan dhe a ae » obovate ; keel scarcely shorter, almost acute. Rodo cuales ol calyx, scarcely 3 lines long, usually 1-seeded by abortion.—F. capitata, “$ +» FI. Ind. Bat. i. part i. 166, Eo a Endeavour river, R. Brown. Also in N. E. India and in Java, 270 * XL. LEGUMINOS£, [Plemingia, 66. ABRUS, Linn. Calyx campanulate, truncate or shortly and broadly toothed. Standard ovate, the short claw adhering to the base of the staminal tube; keel much curved, the petals united from the base, often longer than the wings. Stamens 9 united in a sheath open on the upper side, the upper one deficient. - Ovary sessile, with several ovules; style short, incurved; stigma terminal, Pod oblong or linear, flat, 2-valved, with cellular partitions between the seeds, Seeds not strophiolate.—Stems usually twining or trailing, woody at the basg. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with several pairs of small leaflets, without stipelle, the common petiole ending in a short point. Racemes terminal or axillary, the flowers in clusters on lateral thickened nodes. Bracts minute or none; bracteoles none. A small genus dispersed over the tropical regions both of the New and the Old World, the only Australian species extending over the whole range. It is in some measure inter- mediate between the tribes Viciee, Phaseolee, and Dalbergiea. 1. A. precatorius, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 381. Glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaflets in 7 to 10 pairs, oblong-elliptical or rarely obovate, usually about + in. long. Racemes with 1 or 2 leaves, or at least with a leaf- less pair of stipules below the flowers, the flowering part 1 in. or rather more in length, the nodes rather crowded. Flowers pink, or rarely white or pur ple, 5 to 6 lines long, the keel narrow, longer than the wings. Pod sessile, 1 to 13 in. long, 6 to 7 lines broad, almost squared at both ends and at- tached by the inner angle, glabrous or scaly outside. Seeds usually black with a large scarlet spot, sometimes brown with a darker spot, or white and unspotted.—Lam. Illustr. t. 608.f. 1; W. and Arn. Prod. i. 236; 4. pauci- Horus, Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ix. 418; 4. squamulosus, E. Mey. Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. 126. ` N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne. ; Queensland. Burdekin Expedition and Port Denison, Fitzalan, Very common m India and the Archipelago, extending into tropical and southern Africa, and frequent also, but perhaps naturalized, in several parts of S. America. ` Teise VIII. DALBERGIE®.—Trees or woody climbers. Leaves pinnate, with 5-or more leaflets or sometimes one large leaflet, very rarely 3. Stipellie none, or small and subulate. Stamens all united in a sheath or tube or into two parcels of 5, very rarely the upper one free. Pod indebiscent. .. This tribe is closely connected on the one hand with the arborescent Galegez, from which it is distinguished by the indehiscent pod, and on the other hand with Sophore@, differmg poi united stamens. The genera are all tropical or subtropical, American, tic oF ‘African. 67. DALBERGIA, Linn. Calyx-teeth short, the lowest rather longer. Standard obovate or orbicular s keel obtuse. Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side, or m equal bundles, or reduced to 9, the upper one deficient; anthers small, erect, didymous, opening at the top. Ovary stipitate, with 1 or few ovules; style incurved, with a terminal stigma. Pod thin and flat, oblong, ere rarely falcate, indehiscent, the margins neither thickened nor winged. =- . . 7 Dalbergia. | XL. LEGUMINOS£. : 271 single or few and distant along the centre of the pod, very flat and reniform. —Trees or woody climbers. Leaves pinnate, without stipellee, the leaflets usually alternate. Flowers small, usually numerous in axillary or terminal dichotomous cymes or irregular panicles. Bracts and bracteoles usually minute. A large genus dispersed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. The only Australian species has also been found in New Guinea. í 1. D. densa, Bent). in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 217. A small tree, with the branches sometimes weak or climbing. Leaflets 7 to 15, broadly oblong, or oval-elliptical, very obtuse, to 13 in. long, glabrous above, minutely pu- beseent underneath. Panicles or clusters of racemes, under 2 in. long, not much branched. Flowers scarcely above 2 lines long. Calyx nearly glabrous, about 1 line long, the teeth very short and broad. Claws of the petals as long as the calyx. Ovary glabrous; style rather slender, Pod very thin, obtuse, 13 to nearly 3 in. long, about 4 in. wide, slightly reticulate along the centre, on a stipes of about 2 lines. : ; Queensland. Prince of Wales Islands, R. Brown; Albany Island, W. Hill. Also in New Guinea, The Australian specimens have rather more leaflets than the New Guinea ones, but do not otherwise differ. The species is allied to the common D. tamarindifolia, Roxb., from E. India and the Archipelago, and has the same pod, but much and fewer leaflets and smaller flowers. 68. LONCHOCARPUS, H. B. and K. Calyx truncate or very broadly and shortly toothed. Standard orbicular obovate or rarely oblong ; wings usually slightly adhering to the keel ; =e nearly straight or incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen free at the bass, Ds nate with the others in the middle ; anthers uniform. Ovary with 2 or more ovules; style iucurved, stigma small, terminal. Pod very flat, oblong. or broadly linear, thin or rather thick and coriaceous, indehiscent, the Tai r th margins sometimes thickened or bordered by a prominent nerve, t not winged. Seeds usually 1 or 2, rarely more, flat, reniform or orbicular.— tees or woody climbers. Leaves pinnate; leaflets usually few, opposite, with a terminal’ odd one; stipelle none or small and setaceous. | ae small or none. Racemes or raceme-like panicles axillary or oe — nal panicles. Flowers violet purple or white, usually in pairs or m ¢ - ters along the rhachis, Bracts small, deciduous; bracteoles also small, but n more persistent. Asia. Th A numerous genus i ic ical Africa, but as yet unknown in Asia. “Me Y Australian ei anaes repro peras very dear do some spa paea species, generically distinguished by Fenzl under the name of Philenoptera, and by Sols) under that of Capassa. In flower, Lonchocarpus cannot always be distinguishe he s “4, but the pod is always thinner and indehiscent, the pod alone cigar 132 pm m Derris and Pongamia. i LL. Blackii, Benth. A tall woody climber, the young branches and y ° ye , = rusty -pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaflets 7 to 11, ye agen : and obtusely acuminate, 1 to 14 or rarely above 2 in. Jong, on en band Petiolules, with small setaceous stipellas. Flowers dark purple, in long 10080 -= . > 272 XL. LEGUMINOSAE. . [ Lonchocarpus. racemes, forming large terminal panicles, the pedicels usually 2 together ona short common peduncle. Calyx about 2 lines long, slightly silky-pubescent, with short broad teeth. Standard about 4 lines broad, narrowed into a long claw; keel nearly as long, obliquely ovate; wings very small, Ovary very villous, with numerous ovules ; style short, inflexed. Pod very thin, 2 to 5 in. long, 4 to 2 in. broad, with 2 to 4 or 5 broad flat reniform seeds.—Mil- lettia Blackii, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 123. Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, W. Hill, Leichhardt ; Ips wich, Nernst ; Broad Sound and Bowen river, Bowman ; Rockhampton, Dallachy. N.S. Wales. Clarence and Hastings rivers, Bechler. 69. DERRIS, Lour. (Brachypterum, W. and Arn.) Calyx truncate or very shortly and broadly toothed. Standard obo- vate or orbicular; keel slightly incurved. Upper stamen usually free at the base, united with the others in the middle; anthers uniform. Ovary * sessile or shortly stipitate, with several ovules; style incurved, with a small terminal stigma. Pod flat, oblong or linear, straight or slightly in- curved, thin or coriaceous, indehiscent, the upper or both sutures borde by a narrow wing. Seeds J, 2, or rarely 3, very flat, orbicular or reniform. —Tall woody climbers or rarely trees. Leaves pinnate; leaflets opposite, with a terminal odd one; stipelle small and setaceous or none. Stipu small or none. Flowers white yellowish or rarely violet, usually clustered on lateral nodes along the rhachis of axillary racemes. Bracts and bracteoles small and deciduous. f A tropical genus, comprising a considerable number of Asiatic species with three S. Ame- | rican ones, one only of the Asiatic species extending into Africa. The Australian species — are both common Indian ones, The genus differs from Lonchocarpus and Pongamia ch in the winged fruit. Leaflets 9 to 13, usually obtuse. Racemes long and slender. Pod lan- ceolate, ‘narrowed at both mdt e 46555, 654 a Gas Leaflets 3 to 7, usually acuminate. Racemes rather short and crowded. jf a Pod short and broad, obliquely rounded at both ends . . . . +. + 2. D. wliginosa- 1. D. scandens, Benth. Syn. Dalb. 103. A tall woody climber, some times rusty-pubescent or almost villous at first, nearly glabrous when grown. Leaflets 9 to 13, broadly oblong, obtuse, retuse or shortly and 0 tusely acuminate, 1 to 2 in, long. Racemes rather slender, from 4 or 51M" to nearly 1 ft. long. Flowers about 5 lines long, in clusters of 3 to 6, the pedicels filiform. Pod either 1-seeded and about 13 in. long, oF e: several-seeded attaining 3 in. or more, 5 to 6 lines broad, glabrous oF a 4 nutely pubescent, acute at both ends, very thin, with a narrow wing oe: 3 the upper suture.—Dalbergia scandens, Roxb. Pl. Corom. t. 192; Wight, Le. t. 275. . x š Queensland. Wide Bay, Bidwill; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, ©: Stuart ; Ipswich, Nernst. _ N.S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler, Common in E. India and the Archipelago. A 2. D. uliginosa, Benth. in Pl. Jungh. i. 252, and Syn. Dalb. 107, 0 tall woody climber, glabrous in all its parts, Leaflets, in the common variely, D. scandens. Derris.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. * Bis : 5 or 7, ovate or oval-oblong, 13 to 3 in. long, shortly and obtusely acumi- nate, somewhat coriaceous and shining. Axillary racemes 1 to 3 in. long, the terminal one longer. Flowers 4 to 5 lines long, on short pedicels, the clusters rather crowded. Standard broadly ovate; wings and keel scarcely = shorter, but narrow-oblong. Ovules usually 4 to 6, all in the lower part of _. the ovary. Pod. very flat and thin, 1 to 13 in. long, very obtuse at both ends so as to become nearer square than round, but very oblique, sometimes as broad as long, but in some varieties narrower. Seeds 1 or 2.—Pongamia = uliginosa, DC. Prod. ii. 416. = | N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Albert river, Henze ; aurice river, F, Mueller. 3 po land. Cape York, W. Hill. i ~ „Common in E, India and the Archipelago, extending from S.E. Africa to S. China. , ` À j 70. PONGAMIA, Vent. Calyx truncate. Standard orbicnlar, with inflexed auricles at the base ; keel slightly incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen free at the base, connate with the others in a tube in the middle; anthers uniform. Ovary nearly sessile, with 2 ovules ; style incurved, stigma small, terminal. Pod broadly and obliquely oblong or slightly falcate, thick but flat, 1-seeded, indehiscent, the Sutures obtuse, without wings. Seed reniform.—I'ree. Leaves pinnate, without stipelle. Flowers in axillary racemes. Bracts very deciduous ; oles minute or none. The genus is limited to a single species widely diffused over tropical Asia. l. P. glabra, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 28. Glabrous except a very slight E cence on the inflorescence. Leaflets 5 or 7, ovate, shortly and obtusely ~ Aminte, usually broad, about 3 in. long, on a rather long petiole, but bs mea size. Racemes loose, about 3 to 5 in. long. Flowers in pairs, bale - Pedicels 2 to 4 lines long. Standard about 3 in. diameter, lower pi Pod usually 13 to 2 in. long and about 1 in. broad, Je Nearly so, often somewhat falcate or with a very short incurved point.— - Benth. Syn. Dalb. 117. Piia ee Fitzmaurice river, F. Mueller ; Raffles Bay, A. aga i $ oerland, Cape York and Fitzroy Island, M‘Gillivray ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; » Dallachy. 7 4 minor, < rea qn and narrow,—Gulf of Carpentaria, Leichhardt ; Cape Grafton, ; Port Denison, Fitzalan. E The species occurs throughout Southern India on the coast and plains to the foot of the Ms and is abundant in the Archipelago. E. Terse IX, SoPHorE4.—Trees woody climbers or rarely tall shrubs, pe: 7 m one or two species not Australian, almost herbaceous. ke a With several leaflets, usually without stipellee, or reduced to one larg i Stamens or scarcely united at the base. i ign tribe is very near Dalbergieæ, differing only in the free stamens passage on ig Pape ling titty distinguished by the habit and foliage. It also forms icle, from short and Bes to salpinier, presenting the greatest differences in the radi B, s . : has at first sight to long and accumbent even in the same genus. Barklya hi toa constan: regular flowers of some Cesalpiniee, but the upper. petal is outside, not inside, VOL, A distinction between the two suborders. ‘ 274 * XL. LEGUMINOSA. 11. SOPHORA, Linn. Calyx-teeth very short. Standard broad, erect or reflexed ; wings oblong, erect, free ; keel-petals like the wings or rather larger, overlapping each other at the back but scarcely united. Stamens 10, free, or 9 of them slightly connected in a ring at the base; anthers uniform. Ovary shortly stipitate, with several ovules; style incurved, with a minute terminal stigma. Pod moniliform, fleshy, coriaceous or woody, indehiscent or opening at length in 2 valves, each seed enclosed in a separate cell. Seeds globular, oblong or flattened ; cotyledons fleshy ; radicle very short and straight or more or less elongated and inflexed.—Trees shrubs or rarely undershrubs. Leaves un- equally pinnate, without stipella or with very small setaceous ones. Stipules small. Flowers white yellow or rarely violet-blue, in racemes either simple and terminal or forming large terminal panicles. Bracts small, deciduous ; bracteoles usually none. The genus is dispersed over the warmer regions of the New and the Old World, extending also into New Zealand and S. Chili, where it assumes the form distinguished by some as @ genus under the name of Edwardsia, with a shorter standard and exserted stamens. two Australian species belong to the true Sophoras, with a larger standard and the stameus meer in the keel. One is a common tropical seacoast tree or shrub, the other is en- C. Hoary. Leaflets under 18, broadly ovate or orbicular, rather thick . . 1. S. tomentosa. Softly pubescent. Leaflets above 20, oyal-oblong, thin . o Di Sree 1. S. tomentosa, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 95. A tall shrub or small tree, hoary all over with a minute close tomentum. Leaflets 11 to 17, broadly ovate or orbicular, very obtuse or retuse, about 1 in. long or rather more, rather thick and sometimes almost silky, rarely becoming 8 brous. Flowers pale yeilow, in loose simple terminal racemes ; pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx very broad, about 3 lines long, truncate with scarcely pro- minent teeth. Standard broad, 9 to 10. lines diameter, spreading oF reflex above the middle; wings and keel rather shorter, covering the stamens. _ indehiscent, much contracted between the seeds, appearing to consist of 5 to 10 nearly globular articles, each enclosing a globular seed with a FL shining testa; radicle scarcely prominent and straight.— Benth. in Mar Bras. Pap. 314, t. 124, with thẹ synonymy there cited. E Queensland. Keppel Bay, Broad Sound, etc., R. Brown; on the seacoast and adjoining islands, from the Brisbane to the Burdekin, F. Mueller, M*Gillioray, Fitzalan, Henne, and others. 4 N. S. Wales. Hastings river, Bechler. 2. S. Fraseri, Benth. An erect shrub of 4 to 6 ft., the branches pets pubescent or tomentose, more slender than in S. tomentosa. Leaflets 2 in. 31, oblong or rarely oyal, obtuse or retuse, from under 2 in. to about 4 de long, rather thin, pubescent. Flowers rather smaller than in, S. tomentose, in similar loose terminal simple racemes. Calyx broad, 2 to 24 lines pr a the teeth prominent though very short and broad. Petals and eer tomentosa, except that 9 of the stamens appear to be very shortly com seeds in a ring at the base, Pod tomentose, much less contracted between the 2 than in S. tomentosa, the articles more oblong. Seeds ovoid-oblong, °°" radicle prominent and slightly incurved. wets Sophora. | XL. LEGUMINOSA. 275 Queensland. Moreton Bay, Fraser; Murrum-Murrum Creek, Leichhardt; Pine river, Fitzalan ; Ipswich, Nernst. N. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler. 12, CASTANOSPERMUM, A. Cunn. Calyx-teeth very short and broad. Standard obovate-orbicular, recurved, narrowed into a claw; wings and keel-petals shorter than the standard, all free and nearly similar, erect, oblong. Stamens 10, all free ; anthers linear, versatile. Ovary on a long stipes, with several ovules, tapering into an in- curved style ; stigma small, terminal, Pod large, coriaceous, almost woody, turgid, 2-valved, spongy inside. Seeds large, nearly globular; cotyledons thick ; radicle scarcely prominent, straight.—Tree. Leaves large, unequally pinnate. Flowers large, yellow, in loose axillary or lateral racemes. Bracts small; bracteoles none. The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia, l. C, australe, 4. Cunn. in Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 241, t. 51, 52. A tall glabrous tree. Leaves 1 to 12 ft. long ; leaflets 11 to 15, ovate-elliptical or broadly oblong, shortly acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long, shortly petiolulate. Ra- «mes under 6 in. long, either in the axils of the older leaves or on the leaf- older wood; pedicels nearly 1 in. long. Calyx about $ lines long, in- cluding the turbinate base. Standard above 1 in. diameter. Pod 8 or 9 in. long, about 2 in. broad, slightly falcate, almost terete, the valves hard and thick, the spongy substance inside dividing it into 3 to 5 cells, each contain- ing a large chestnut-like seed. land. Endeayour river, Banks and Solander; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, 4. Cunningham, F, Mueller ; Pine river, Fitzalan. :S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler. The seeds are eaten roasted, like chestnuts. 73. BARKLYA, F. Muell. Calyx-teeth very short and obtuse. Petals all free, obovate, erect, oni nearly equal, on long claws, the upper outer one or standard ee er ader than the others. Stamens 10, all free, longer than the petals ; p: ik - Mgittate, Ovary stipitate, with several ovules, tapering into a short style són - Minute terminal stigma. Pod stipitate, flat, the valves thin and e i : i g. Seeds flat, albuminous ; cotyledons obovate, flat ; radicle all, fexed.— Tree, Leaves simple (unifoliolate), petiolate. Flowers small, The y ane Troe, Brate vareamalk; brnnieoli puerta in habit and in genus is limited to a si ies, endemic in Australia, approaching 1n ha : fhe small wan ry Se “Casalpiniee ailied to Bauhinia, but with the floral æsti- Yation and the embryo of Papilionacee. 2 Ss oli . inn. Soe. iii. 158, and Fragm. : Syringifolia, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. E 1109 4 hd ondaa eel from 20 to 60 ft., glabrous or the ung’ shoots and inflorescence rusty-tomentose. Leaves very broadly cor- date, short] — . and often as broad as long, o y acuminate, 2, 3, or even 4 in. long í ! ad at the E e 5- to 7-nerved, on a petiole of 1 to 2 m., slightly thic ot bricht o and at the top. Stipules small, ovate, deciduous. Flowers O = p a E Bolden yellow, in dense racemes of 6 to 9 in., forming ER a 276 : XL. LEGUMINOSS. [Barklya, panicles. Pedicels short. Calyx about 2 lines long. Petal-claws rather longer than the calyx, the lamina about as long. Ovary glabrous, with 3 or 4 ovules. Pod oblong-lanceolate, oblique or slightly falcate, 14 to 2 in. long and about + in. broad, narrowed at the base, with 1 or 2 seeds. : Queensland. Woods near Brisbane, W. Hill, Fitzalan ; Rockhampton, Dallachy ; Wide Bay, Leichhardt. Suporper Il. CASALPINIEZ, Flowers usually 5-merous, very rarely 4-merous or 3-merous, the sepals united at the base into a short tube, lined by the disk, bearing at its margin the petals and stamens, rarely forming a campanulate or tubular calyx with the stamens near the base, as in Papilionacee, the free part of the sepals or lobes of the calyx, imbricate or rarely valvate. Corolla irregular or nearl regular, either with the 5 (or 4 or 3) petals variously imbricate in the bud, but the upper one never outside and usually quite inside, or, in genera nob Australian, some or all of the four lower petals wanting. Stamens 10 or fewer, or, in genera not Australian, indefinite, free or rarely more or less united, all perfect or several of them reduced to staminodia. Ovules anatro- pous or nearly so. Radicle of the embryo short and straight. The tropical genera of this suborder are numerous, and have been distributed into several tribes, but these are not sufficiently marked to render it necessary to apply them to the few genera found in Australia. Barklya amongst Sophoree has the regular corolla of some Cesalpiniee, but with the æstivation of Papilionacee, and Erythrophlaum amongst Mimose@ has the imbricate estivation of Cesalpiniee, but in a very slight degree, with the inflores- cence characteristic of Mimosee. 74. GUILANDINA, Linn. Sepals 5, shortly united at the base, much imbricate, nearly equal or the lowest rather larger and more concave. Petals 5, nearly equal, sessile, spread- ing. Stamens 10, free; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, with 2 ovules ; style subulate, with a small stigma. Pod ovate, compressed, covered with prickles, 2-valved, thickly coriaceous. Seeds ovoid or globular, with a very thick hard fleshy testa and no albumen.—Woody climbers, armed w prickles. Leaves twice pinnate, Flowers yellow, in simple or pan racemes. Bracts very deciduous. New and the A genus of 2 species, both of them dispersed over the tropical regions of the Old World, one only hitherto found in Australia. 5 1. G. Bonducella, Linn. Spec. 545. A shrub, with loose spreading or climbing branches, pubescent or villous in all its parts, armed vito rous scattered hooked prickles, especially on the petioles. Leaves with 4 common petiole of 1 to 13 ft.; pinuz in 4 to 6 distant pairs, each 4 to ô sa long; leafiets 8 to 12 pairs, oblong, + to 1 in. long or rarely nearly that size. Stipules lobed and leafy, deciduous. Racemes 4 to 6 in. sA simple or branched in the upper axils. Flowers shortly pedicellate an” crowded in the upper part. Bracts with along recurved point. Calyx a i 4 lines long. Petals scarcely longer. Pod 2 tọ 3 in. long, about ur broad. Seeds large, of a bluish-grey or lead colour.—Lam. Illustr. t- 33 “Queensland. Cumberland Islands, R. Brown ; Barnard Island, M“Gillivray s BIE" i Guilandina.] XL, LEGUMINOS As 277 combe Bay, Dallachy ; Low Island, Henne (the latter specimen a leaf only, and therefore doubtful). Widely spread and often very common, especially near the sea, in tropical Asia, Africa, and America. It is usually confounded with G. Bondue, Linn., which is a much rarer plant, although equally found, indigenous or introduced, in East India, in the Archipe- lago, and in the West Indies. It is nearly glabrous, has usually larger leaflets, no stipules ; the bracts are erect, not recurved, and the seeds are said to be yellow, not grey. It remains to be ascertained how far these differences are constant. . 75. CASALPINIA, Linn: Sepals 5, shortly united at the base, much imbricated, the lowest one larger and concave. Petals 5, spreading, rather unequal, the upper inner one the smallest, the 2 lowest outer ones the largest. Stamens 10, free; anthers uniform, ovate. Ovary with 2 or more ovules; style subulate, with a small stigma. Pod flattened, obliquely ovate, oblong or broadly linear-falcate, with- out prickles, 2-valved. Seeds thick or flattened, with a very small hilum ; bumen none; radicle short, straight.—Shrubs trees or woody climbers, often armed with scattered recurved prickles. Leaves abruptly bipinnate. Owers yellow, in racemes, either single in the upper axils or forming ter- minal panicles, Filaments more or less hairy at the base. ; A considerable genus, spread over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. Australian species are both of them common Asiatic onés. Glabrous. Pinna 2 to 4 pairs. Leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, ovate, rather acute: Pod ovate, l-seeded . ao Pee ee te ee ae C. nuga. nt or tomentose. Pinnte 6 to 8 pairs: Leaflets 8 to 12 pairs, am oblong, very obtuse. Pod oblong, 6 to S-seeded . . . . - +=» 2 C. sepiaria. _ 1. C. mugay Ait. ; DC. Prod.ii.481. A woody climber, glabrous in all its parts, armed with a few scattered recurved prickles, especially on the petioles. Pinnee’ 2, 3, or 4 pairs ; leaflets 2 or 3 pairs to each pinna, ovate, H to 2 in. long, usually rather acute, but occasionally obtuse, coriaceous and ining. Racemes 4 to 8 in. long, forming large terminal panicles. Pedicels slender, Lowest sepal about 5 lines long, the others shorter. Petals scarcely exceeding thie lowest sépal. Ovary with 2 ovules. Pod py nd oval, acu- minate, flat, with cofiaceous valves: Seed usually solitary, flat, broad.—O. pa- meulata, Desf. ; DC. Prod. ii. 481; Wight, lo. & 86 T Py any . Barnard Islands, M‘Gillivray. Generally distributed over E. India and Archipelago, extending to S. China. a A : 2. Ca Sepiaria, Rox). ; W. and Arn. Prod. 282. A woody climber, the branches petioles and racemes more or less tomentose or pubescent and omg numerous scatteréd recurved prickles. Pinna 6 to 10 pairs; leaflets 12 pairs, oblong, very obtuse, rarely exceeding: $ in. in length, pubescent Ous when young, often glabrous when old. Stipules broad and semi- - Sao à : el- Sagittate, but very deciduous, or sometimes none, Flowers numerous, y low, in axillary and terminal racemes of 5 or 6 in. Pedicels longer than the calyx, “aon ovate, acute, very deciduous. Lowest sepal about g lines long, Petals about 6 lines. Ovary with several ovules. Pod oblong-linear, to 3 in. long and nearly 1 in. broad, rounded at the end, with a long cr Point, glabrous, Seeds 6 to 8, ovoid, thick, the hilum very small at one end. Wight, Te. t.37, e Queensland. Near Brisbane, Henne. An E. Indian species, much planted for hedges, 278 *XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [ Cesalpinia, and now naturalized in the W. Indies and some other tropical countries. It may therefore possibly be an introduced plant also in Australia. 76. MEZONEURUM, Desf. Sepals 5, shortly united at the base, much imbricated, the lowest one larger and concave. Petals 5, spreading, rather unequal, the upper inner one the smallest, the 2 outer lower ones the largest. Stamens free ; anthers uniform, ovate or oblong. Ovary with 2 or more ovules; style subulate, with a very small terminal stigma. Pod quite flat, very thin or coriaceous, indehiscent or opening tardily in 2 valves; the upper suture bordered by a wing. Seeds very flat reniform or orbicular, with a small lateral hilum ; albumen none.—Woody climbers (or rarely erect ?), sparingly armed with small prickles, usually only at the base of the pinne of the leaves. Leaves abruptly bipinnate. Flowers (yellow ?) in racemes, either simple in the upper axils or forming large ter- minal panicles. - Filaments glabrous or slightly hairy. The genus is dispersed over tropical Asia and Africa, with one Australian species which appears to be endemic. 1. M. brachycarpum, Benth. Apparently climbing, the branches and petioles tomentose-pubescent, unarmed except a minute prickle under raceme and a rather larger recurved one under each pinna of the leaf. Leaves often above 1 ft. long; pirinee 3 to 8 pairs, each 3 to 4 in. long; leaflets 4 to 10 pairs, ovate-oblong, very obtuse or retuse, 4 to } in. long, very oblique at the base, glabrous above, pubescent wnderneath. Racemes paniculate, about 3 ft. long, clothed with a golden-yellow pubescence ; pedicels very short. Flowers much smaller than in the rest of the genus, the calyx-lobes not above 2 lines long and the petals scarcely exceeding them. Filaments rather longer, slightly bearded at the base. Style filiform, with a slightly dilated stigma. Ovulés 2 (of sometimes 3%), Pod obliquely and broat obovate or almost orbicular, nearly 2 in. long and 14 in. broad, more a ceous than in most species, and perhaps dehiscent, the wing of the = suture about 2 lines broad. Seed: large, solitary, very flat, reniform, with a very small hilum. Queensland. Wide Bay, Bidwill (in friiit and léaves); Araucaria Range, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller (leaves only). N. S. Wales. Richmond river, C. Moore (flowers and fragments of leaves). 1 11. PTEROLOBIUM, R. Br. Sepals 5, united in a cup at the base, much imbricate, the lowest longer and concave. Petals 5, spreading, the 2 lowest rather larger than the ot! Stamens 10, free; anthers óvate, uniform. Ovary sessile, with a s ovule. Style filiform or slightly clavate, with a truncate stigma. ° ie sile, samaroid, the lower seed-bearing pařt obliquely ovate or lanc er de dehiscent, ending in an oblique oblong or falcate membranous WMS: 4 attached near the apex of the cell, flat, without albumen.—Trees oF of the climbers, armed with scattered hooked prickles, especially at the base either A pinnæ of the leaves. Leaves abruptly bipinnate. Flowers in racemes, oe simple or forming terminal panicles. ` Filaments usually bearded. Plerolobium.] XL, LEGUMINOSE, 279 The genus contains very few species, dispersed over tropical Asia and Africa. The Aus» tralian one is endemic, but not quite certain as to its genus until the fruit has been seen, 1. P. nitens, F. Muell. Herb. A handsome woody climber, the branch- lets and rhachis of the leaves minutely rusty-pubescent. Prickles very small, except under the pinne of the leaves. Pinne 3 to 5 pairs; leaflets 3 to 5 pairs, obliquely obovate or almost rhomboid, very obtuse, rarely exceeding $ in., shining above, glabrous or ciliate on the edge. Racemes rusty-pubescent, apparently paniculate ; pedicels much shorter than in the other species, scarcely exceeding 1 line. Flowers rather small. Calyx lower lobe considerably longer than the others. Filaments bearded at’ the base. Style slightly cla- vate. Fruit not seen. Queensland. Mount Mueller, fear Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy. Although I have not seen the fruit, the 1-ovulate ovary, bearded stamiens and style, leave little doubt that this belongs to Pterolobium. 78; PELTOPHORUM, Vog. . (Cxesalpinia, sect. Brasilettia, DC.) . Sepals 5, united in a cup at the base, much imbricate, nearly equal or the lowest rather larger and more concave. Petals 5, spreading, undulate, the 2 lower outer ones rather larger than the’ others. Stamens 10, free ; anthers uniform, oblong-linear. Ovary sessile, with 2 or more ovules ; style filiform, with a broad peitate stigma. Pod oblong-lanceolate, thin and flat, indehis- cent, tapering at the base, the margins thin and faintly marked within them bya longitudinal nerve, but not distinétly winged. Seeds 1, 9 or rarely more, very flat, without albumen.—Tall hard-wooded trees, without prickles. es twice pinnate, with numerous leaflets. Flowers yellow, in racemes > terminal panicles. ORAR nus consi é ical American species, one in S. Africa, or perhaps two in the Indien iiae of which is the Australian one. - l. P. ferrugineum, Benth. A large tree, the young branches petio and inflorescence densely den Pinnæ of the leaves 8 to 10 pairs; terminal panicle. Pedicels very short. Bracts small, lanceolate, Calyx 4 to 5 lines long, globular before opening. Petals rather longer, obo- Yate, undulate, villous at the base. Pod about 3 to 4 m. long, 4 ik a with m. broad, shortly acuminate, narrdwed at the base, glabrous or nee 134; Mi » 2 or 3 seeds. —Cesalpinia ferruginea, Dene. Herb. Tim. po 6 112 Y l Ind: Bat, 1, part i. 111 and 1081; O. arborea, Boll. in O9. © ooi 1 N. Australia, Bynoe ; islands of the N: coast; R. Brown (in fruit) ; pit Fu ¿Pecimens, perhaps belonging to a different although closely oe are as long, with 3 or'4 seeds. 79. CASSIA, Linn. (Cathartocarpiis, D. Don.) Sepals 5, somewhat unequal, much imbricate, the outer ee amaian, 280 XL. LEGUMINOS#. [Cassia, scarcely connected at the base. Petals 5, spreading, nearly equal or the lower outer ones rather larger. Stamens usually 10, free, either all nearly equal and perfect or 2 or 3 lower ones larger or on longer filaments, and 3 or 4 upper ones reduced to small staminodia ; anthers when perfect opening at the end in pores or in short lateral slits. Ovary with several ovules, incurved, tapering into a short style. Pod cylindrical or flat, indehiscent or 2-valved. Seeds oblong or obovate, transverse, with fleshy albumen ; coty- ledons flat or rarely folded, usually cordate ; radicle short, straight.—Trees shrubs or herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, the leaflets opposite. Flowers yellow or very rarely reddish-purple or white, in axillary or terminal racemes or solitary. Bracts usually deciduous. Bracteoles none. A large genus, widely distributed within the tropicak and subtropical regions of both the New and the Old World, but particularly numerous in America. Of the 27 Australian species, 5 are widely spread over tropical Asin and Africa, 1 is American also found in Africa, the remaining 21 are all endemic. ‘The genus is divided into several sections, founded chiefly upon the fruit; but as some are only represented in Australia by single species, and the per- fect pod rarely accompanies the specimens, the chief divisions in the following synopsis are, for convenience, selected also from other characters. A. Flowers in pedunculate racemes or umbels, either axillary or forming a terminal panicle or compound raceme. (The Australian species all shrubs or trees.) Stamens 7 perfect, of which 2 or 3 lower ones larger or on longer filaments; 3 smail and imperfect’ staminodia: Lower stamens with long filaments and short ovate anthers, the other perfect ones with oblong-linear anthers. Pod very long A and thick, with horizontal seeds (Cathartocarpus) . . . 1. C. Brewsteri. Perfect anther’ all oblong-linear, the lower ones longer. Racemes short, almost corymbose, axillary or in a marrow ter- minal panicle. Pod thick or turgid. Seeds mostly hori- zontal. (Chameefistula.) Leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, with glands between those of each pair, but none on the pétiole below . . . ...... Leaflets 4 to 10 pair's, with a gland at the base of the petiole, but none between the leaflets... . . . . . us Racemes short, loose, on long peduncles, forming a large ter- minal panicle. Leaflets 10 to 20 pairs, pubescent. Pod very Epe A eager maser A A A PA cemes elongated, on long axilla uncles: Bracts large, deciduous, Pod son, ry ri es s Glabrous, Leaflets 4 to 8 pairs, large, broad, very obtuse, K reticulate. Stipules ovate. Bracts broad, obtuse. . . 5. O. magnifolia. Pubescent. Leaflets 9 to 15 pairs, oblong or ovate, obtuse, mucronate. ` Stipules ovate-cordate, acuminate, rigid. . , Bracts broad, obtuse». si, 1a ee. 0. 6s O venusla. Pubescent. Leaflets 9 to 15- pairs, - ovate-lanceolate, acute, de, a Pe gg Stipules narrow. Bractsacuminate . . . 7. O. notabilis. Tous. flets 4 or 5 pairs, oblong-linear. Stipules 4 i PUSS 8. C.-pleurocarpa. 2. C. levigata. 3. C. Sophera. 4, a laxiflora. small, subulate. Bracts biomi, Obtuse =; a eae er o Stamens 10, all with oblong-linear perfect anthers, all equal or the lower ones rather longer. (Psilorh Glands between the leaflets (at least of the lowest pair), oblong, subulate or stipitate, very rarely wanting. ok acuminate. rous or minutely pubescent. Leaflets 6’ to 10 pairs, . obovate. Bracts nta, often rather broad. . ree 9, O. suffruticosa. Softly pubescent. ‘Leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, obovate or cuneate, mostly emarginate. Bracts very narrow. , . . . . 10, C. retusa. Cassia. | XL. LEGUMINOSA. : 281 Bracts small, broad, obtuse. Leaflets oblong-lanceolate or linear. Leaflets usually 6 to 10 pairs (Eastern species) . . . . 11. C. australis. : Leaflets usually 3 to 5 pairs (Western species) . . . . 12. C. Chatelainiana. Glands between the leaflets sessile, flat, obscure or none (ovoid in C. leptoclada). Very glutinous, otherwise glabrous. Leaflets usually 4 or 5 O et, E ae e ee Glabrous or glaucous. Stipules leafy, semicordate. Leaflets Y Edo aio na A . 14, C. pruinosa. Glabrous, glaucous, hoary, or white-tomentose. Stipules small subulate or none. Flowers in very short corymbose ra- cemes, Leaves all simple, phyllodineous. Glands none or on the upper edge about the middle. Leaves usually slender and green. Peduncles l- or 2- _ pS flowered. Pod very much curved oranmular . . . . 15. C. circinata. — usually thick, hoary or white, price segir 5 eduncles several-flowered. Pod straight or slightly Carve gg Se a o un zi . + 16. C. phyllodinea. — 1 or more pairs, rarely none in the lower ao = en the phyllodineons petiole has a gland at the end. 3 ets mostly 1 or 2 pairs, terete or linear . + + +17. Ger it PONTE Leaflets mostly 3 to 6 pairs, linear-terete, channelled above 18. C. artemisioides. Leaflets mostly 3 to 6 pairs, linear-lanceolate, eúneate, — $ elliptical or almost obovate .. + . +. . +. + +» +19 C. Sturtit. Leaflets 1, 2, or rarely 3 pairs; ovate, obovate, or broadly í 2% pi ag Pod not above 3 in. broad . . aas a 20. C. desolata. ets 2 or rarely 1 pair, broadly obovate. nearly ; 4 in, broad, very obtuse ao aad ia ae 21. C. oligophylla. y pubescent. Leaflets 2 to 4 pairs, elliptical-oblong. Sti- pules small, setaceous. Flowersin an umbel of 4 to6 . . 22. & oligoclada. Sales and glaucous.. Stems slender. Leaflets hae vate or oblong. G id. Stipules minute. un- Smee, Sante ori, Ss minte, ES. pido B. Flowers in simple racemes, either terminal or becoming lateral dy the elongation of the branch, Stamens 5 to 10, all perfect. Pod flat. (Absus:) Hi Herbaceons, Leaflets 9 pairs, obovate . . . . o e e + + eG ea C. Peduncles l-flowered, solitary or 2 or 3 together in or, just above the axils, 10, all perfect. Pod flat. (Chaxarecrista.) : . Usually under 12 pairs. Gland stipitate below the lowest Sepals rather obtuse. Anthers 5. Petals scarcely longer than the calyx. Stigma péltate . + + - “q o. ca I Petals twice as long as the calyx. Stigma smáll. . -_- h ' above 20 pairs. Sepals farj oie Anthers 6 to T0 . . 27. C. AE Besides the above there ate in Dallachy’s Queensland collection fragments te ei oe tint, s some species of Cassia of the sections Cathartocarpus or Chamafistula, or identificati description. 3 . tomentosa, Linn, £. a shrubby species allied tó O. Sophera but more tomentose, with more oblong leaflets and a flatter pod, occurs in some Australian collections as 1m cultivated, sa . Stamens 10, 3 or 4 upper CTION I, CatHartocaRrpus.—Sepals obtuse E O E Ones small and imperfect: 5 or 4 equal, perfect, wi ; x long or linear pea opening in preso pores and sometimes a in short slits; 2 or 3 lower ones with Jong filaments and: short ovate anthers opening . 282 XL. LEGUMINOS#, (Cassia, on the inner face in short slits. Pod long, hard, thick or terete, usually in- dehiscent. Seeds more or less flattened and lying horizontally in the pod (the flat sides at right angles to the valves), separated by complete partitions. —Usually trees. Flowers in axillary pedunculate racemes. 1. ©. Brewsteri, F. Muell. 4th Ann. Rep. 17. A tree, attaining 30 to 40 ft., usually glabrous in al! its parts. Leaflets 2 to 4 pairs, from narrow- ovate or obovate and about ¢ in. long to narrow-oblong or oblong-lanceolate and 2 in. long, obtuse or emarginate, narrowed at the base, the common pe- tiole without glands. Racemes 3 to 6 in. long. Bracts minute or none. Pedicels slender, Sepals about 3 lines long. Petals stipitate, narrow-ovate, rather obtuse, about + lines long. Filaments of the 3 long lower stamens longer than the petals, swollen into a globular appendage about the middle, with ovate anthers, the other stamens shorter than the petals. Pod (only one seen) nearly 1 fi. long, about 8 lines wide, thick but slightly compressed, the edges persistent after the inside has fallen away. Seeds thick, ovoid, the testa pulpy when soaked; albumen copioús.—Cathartocarpus Brewsteri, Y. Muell. Fragm. i. 110. Queensland. Hilly pastures and river-banks on the Burdekin, F. Mueller: Rock- hampton, Thozet ; Port Denison and Fitzroy river, Bowman. Var. tomentella. Branches, under side of the leaflets and inflorescence mintitely hoary- tomentose. Leaflets short and broad. Flowers rather small.—Castle Creek, Bowman. The seeds of this and some other species of Fistula and Chamefistula appear to be flat- tened at right angles to the embryo, which, as in the other sections of Cassia, lies thus pa- rallel to the valves. In others, such as the African C. goratensis, 1 have seen the cotyledons so folded as to have no particular relative position, but 1 have as yet been able to examine -but very few perfect seeds in either of these sections, Section II. CHAMÆFISTULA.—Sepals obtuse. Stamens 10, 3 upper ones small and imperfect, 7 perfect, the 2 or 3 lower ones often larger or on longer filaments than the others ; anthers oblong-linear, the cells opening in term pores. Pod terete or turgid, or if compressed thick, woody coriaceous or membranous, indehiscent or 2-valved. Seeds some or all more or less flat- tened and lying horizontally in the pod (at right angles to the valves), sepa- rated by complete or incomplete partitions or púlp.—Shrubs, or in species not orange tall herbs. Flowers in axillary pedunculate racemes or term! panicles, 2. C. leevigata, Willd. ; Vog. Syn. Cass. 19. An erect glabrous shrub of several feet. Leaflets 3 or 4 or rarely 2 pairs, ovate to lanceolate, usually acuminate, 13 to 3 in. long, with an oblong of slender gland between those of each pair. Racemes axillary, pedunculate, short and almost corymbose, the upper ones forming a short terminal panicle. Sepals unequal, the mner ones 4 or 5 lines long. Petals broad, very obtuse, varying from 3 10 i q Perfect anthers 4, almost sessile, 1 on a short and 2 on much longer oe Pod 2 to 3 in. long, membranous or slightly coriaceous, cylindrical or m or less inflated when ripe, 2 to 3 in. long, opening at length in 2 valves. , crowded and horizontal or the upper ones less crowded and almost vertical. s - F. Muell. Fragm. iv; 14. Queensland, Near Brisbane, Herb. F. Mueller, N. S. Wales. Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler. A A AS Cassia.] XL. LEGUMINOSAS. 283 A common species in tropical America, occurring also in tropical Africa, but probably in- troduced there and perhaps not really indigenous in Australia. 7 3. C. Sophera, Linn.; Vog. Syn. Cass. 20, var. schinifolia. An erect shrub or undershrub of several feet, usually glabrous. Leaflets 4 to 10 pairs, lanceolate, mostly acute, 1 to 2 in. long, with an obovate or ovate acute gland on the petiole near the base. Racemes short and few-flowered, on short pe- duncles in the upper axils, and forming a narrow terminal almost raceme-like panicle. Sepals 3 to 4 lines long. Petals broad, obtuse. Perfect anthers 2 larger than the others, all on short filaments. Pod 2 to 4 in: long, at first flat but thick, when ripe terete or turgid, 2-valved. Seeds crowded and mostly or all horizontal.—C. schinifolia, A. DC. 7th Not. Pl. Rar. Hort. Gen. 35 ; O. Bar- elayana, Sweet, Fl. Austral. t.32 ; Vog. Syn. Cass. 45; F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 14. Queensland. Burdekin river, F. Mueller; near Fort Cooper, Thozet ; Moreton Bay, Dallachy, O. Stuart ; Tpswich, Nernst. ie ae ¡E S. Wales. Hunters River, R. Brown ; New England, C. Stuart; Hastings river, zer. Var. pubescens. Branches petioles ‘ard inflorescence more or less pubescent. Petiolar gland occasionally disappearing.—Broad Sound, R. Brown, Bowman; Ottley’s Station, Leichhardt ; Paramatta, Woolls. $ _The species, in its glabrous form, is common in E. India and the Archipelago and in tro- pical Africa. It is there often confounded with C. occidentalis, of which 1 had formerly considered it a variety, and undér which it is included in Hooker and Thomson’s Indian dis- tributions. The latter species is, however, annual, with the few leaflets of C. levigata, but with the petiolar gland of C. Sophera, and the pod remains flat, although thick when ripe. Secrrow TIT: CHAMÆSENNA. Sepals obtuse. Stamens of Chamafistula, Pod very flat and thin. Seeds flattened parallel to the embryo, and lying Vertically in the pod ‘(parallel to the valves), separated by more or less com- plete partitions or-thin pulp. Shrubs. Flowers in axillary pedunculate ra- Cemes or terminal panicles. headers - 4. C. laxiflora;:Benth. A tall erect shrub, softly tomentose-pu “ Leaflets 10 to 20 pairs, elliptical-oblong, 4 to 1 in. Jong, without ns On the common petiole, - Stipules inconspicuous. Flowers in loose rac Pedunculate in the upper axils, the upper ones forming a loose pu zA minal panicle. Bracts inconspicuous. Sepals obtuse, the inner ones "uy es long. Petals not twice as long. Perfect anthers 7, nearly equal, on Very short filaments, o ening by terminal pores, 3 very ae ee wall Style slightly thiekoned at the end with a truncate stigma. Pod stipita rous, thin and flat, acuminate, about 3 in. long and 4 lines wide. d N. Australia, Arnhem N. Bay, R. Brown. 5. C. magnifolia, 7. Muell. Fragm. i. 166. Glabrous. Leaflets 4 p 8 pairs, broadly ovate, very obtuse and emarginate, broad and nepa at the » 2 to 3 in. long, coriaceous and strongly (di Rata mon petiole + to 1 ft. long; glands between the leaflets rar a pules persistent, ovate, the margins recurved at the base. P ae at- taining 1 ft. in length, rigid, bearing a raceme in the upper part. s aH not seen, Fruiting pedicels 1 in. long.» Pod very fiat, 3 to pe ib in. broad, glabrous, with thin valves. Seeds flat, om slender funicles ; albu- men scanty, Queensland: Rocky. granite ridges; Upper Gilbert river, F. Mueller. 284 XL. LEGUMINOSR. . [ Cassia. 6. C. venusta, F. Muell. Fragm.i. 165. A tall shrub or small tree, the young parts softly silky-pubescent or villous; becoming at length nearly glabrous. Leaflets 10 to 15 pairs; or in smaller specimens 7 to 10 pairs, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse and finely mucronate, 1 to 2 in. long, very obliquely rounded at the base, rather coriaceous; glands very small between the leaflets of most pairs. Stipules ovate-cordate, acuminate, rigid and per- sistent, especially at the base of the peduncles, the margins usually revolute at the base. Peduncles in the upper axils 4 to 1 ft. long, -rigid, bearing in their upper portion a raceme of flowers on short pedicels. Bracts membra- nous, orbicular, imbricate before flowering, but soon falling off. Sepals 5 to nearly 6 lines long. Petals rather longer. Perfect anthers 7 on short fila- ments, 2 of them nearly twice as large as the others, 3 small imperfect sta- mens. Ovary villous. Pod very flat, about 3 in. long and } in. broad. Seeds flat, rather distant. y N. Australia. Cambridge Ġulf and Dampier’s Archipelago, Æ. Cunningham ; granite hills, Nichol Bay, and Hammersley Range, F. Gregory's Expedition ; sandstone table-land, Arnhem’s Land, F. Mueller ; Attack Creek, M‘Douall Stuarts Expédition ; raised also in the Melbourne garden from'seeds gathered in M'Kinlay's Expedition. 7. C. notabilis, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 28. Villous with long soft hairs. Leaflets 9 to 15 pairs, ovate-lanceolate or oval-oblong, acute or the lower ones obtuse and mucronate, sessile, very obliquely rounded or truncate at the base, 1 to 1} in. long; glands very small between the leaflets of most of the pairs. Stipules narrow and deciduous. Racemes on elongated peduncles in the upper axils. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, very deciduous. Pedicels short. Sepals villous, about 3 lines long. Petals shortly exceeding the calyx. Perfect anthers 7 on very short filaments, of which 2 larger than the others; 3 small imperfect stamens. Ovary glabrous. Pod not seen. N. Australia. Between Bonney river and Mount Morphett, M ‘Douall Stuarts Er- pedition, and probably the same species, leaves only, from Strangways River. 8. C. pleurocarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 223 and ii. 182. A tall erect glabrous shrub. Leaflets usually 4 or 5 rather distant pairs, oblong-linear, 1; to 2 in. long, rather thick; glands none. Stipules small, subulate, deci- duous. Flowers loosely racemose in the upper portion of axillary peduncles. Bracts membranous, broad; obtuse, very deciduous. Sepals thin, broad, 3 to 3z lines long. Petals unequal, rather longer than the calyx. Perfect anthers 7, on short filaments; 2 of them nearly twice as large as the others and 1n- curved; 3 small imperfect stamens. Ovary glabrous. Pod stipitate, flat, very obtuse, about 2 in. long and 4 in. wide, the valves thin with a longitudinal line along the centre, interrupted between each seed. thick, cuneate-oblong, truncate, with a raised line across each near corresponding to that on the pod; albumen copious. E N. S. Wales. Mount Goningberi, Barrier Range, Victorian Exploring Expedition. W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield, í y SECTION IV. PsiLORHEGMA. Sepals obtuse. Stamens 10, all perfect eon similar or the lower ones rather larger ; anthers oblong-linear, opening either short and terminal or extending more or less down the sides. . very flat and thin. Seeds flattened parallel to the embryo and lying verti y in the pod (parallel to the valves) separated by more or less complete part! Seeds the end, Cassia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. * 285 tions or thin pulp. Shrubs. Flowers in very short corymbose racemes or umbels pedunculate in the axils, rarely reduced to 2 flowers. 9. C. suffruticosa, Ken. ; Vog. Syn. Cass. 30. A tall weak shrub, quite glabrous or the young branches inflorescence and under side of the leaves pubescent. Leaflets 6 to 10 pairs, obovate or broadly oblong, obtuse, mostly lto 1} in. long; glands oblong or slender, usually stipitate, between those of the 1, 2 or 3 lowest pairs. Stipules linear or subulate. Flowers in short umbel-like racemes in the upper axils. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, rather persistent. Sepals very obtuse, the inner ones 3 to 4 lines long. Petals broad, 4 in. long or more,+2 or 3 lower ones rather larger than the others. Anthers all on short filaments, -2 or 3 rather larger than the others. Pod 3 to 4 in. long, 4 to 5 lines broad.— W. and Arn. Prod. 289; C. acclinis, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 13, N. Australia. Islands of the N. Coast, R. Brown. : Queensland. Percy islands, 4. Cunningham; Rockhampton, Dallachy ; Edgecombe Bay and Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Ipswich, Nernst. N.S. Wales. Hastings river, Beckler. : _Although more variable in aspect than the Indian specimens, some of the Australian spe- cimens, especially some of Brown’s, cannot be distinguished from Asiatic ones. The species ìs said to be in cultivation only in E. India, but indigenous in the Archipelago. It is very closely allied to, and perhaps a variety of C. glauca. 10. C. retusa, Soland. ; Vog. in Linnea, xv. 12. Shrubby and softly pubescent, especially the young parts. Leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, obovate to ob- ng-cuneate, very obtuse or emarginate, 4 to above 1 in. long; glands slender or stipitate between those of the 1, 2 or 3 lowest pairs. Stipules linear, E aate, deciduous. Flowers crowded in short almost umbellate fant, on axillary peduncles shorter than the leaves. Bracts narrow, acuminate. Sepals broad: very obtuse. Petals not twice as long. Anthers all nearly equal. Pod stipitate, 2 to 4 in. long, 4 to 5 lines broad. TUTAR , nd. Busta , Banks and Solander ; Shoalwater Bay, Broad Sound an Thirsty Sound, R. od The Erie closely allied on the one hand to C. sufruticosa, on the other to some forms of €. australis. i ll. C. australis, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2676. A tall erect shrub, either qute glabrous or loosely pubescent, the young branches more or less angular. .eallets usually 8 to 10 pairs, in some specimens reduced to 6 or 7, in others increased to 11 or 12 pairs, oblong lanceolate or almost -linear, obtuse or acute, $ to $ or rarely 1 in. long, the margins usually recurved and sometimes revolute; glands slender or stipitate between the leaflets of most or only of ower pairs, or rarely almost none. Stipules subulate, deciduous. Flowers to 6 ma loose umbel on peduncles usually shorter than the leaves, but sometimes longer. Bracts small, broad, obtuse. Sepals very obtuse, 2 ag long. Petals broad, 3 in. long or rather more. Anthers 2 or 3 often rather larger than the others. Pod shortly stipitate, glabrous, 3 to 4 in. ra 3 to 4 lines broad, straight or curved into a half-eirele. Seeds shining PA qbot. Reg. t. 1322; C. umbellata, Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 206; C. Schultesii, Hort. Ripul. App. ii. 344, and iii. t. 10; C. Barrenfieldii norte Corrected to O. Fieldii), Colla, Hort. Ripul. App. iv. 23, t. 11; €. coronilloides, Cunn.; Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 384. 7 in ri d Peak Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown, A. Cunningham ; Burdekin river an Downs, P, Mueller ; Rockhampton, Thozet ; Comet and Condamine rivers, Leichhardt. 3224. > XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Cassia. N.S. Wales. Paramatta, Woolls ; Blue Mountains and Hunter's River, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, and others; New England, C. Stuart; Hastings, Macleay and Clarence rivers, Beckler; Boyd river, Leichhardt. Victoria. Gipps' Land, F. Mueller. - Var. revoluta. Leaflets narrow-linear and acute, the margins much revolute, glabrous or pubescent.—C. revoluta, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1852, 120; C. aciphylla, Benth. in A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 465. To this belong most of the southern and several of the N. S. Wales specimens from the interior. Var. pedunculata. Peduncles much longer than the leaves.—St. George’s River, R. Brown ; Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham, and others. Var. (P?) glaucescens. Slender and glaucous. Leaflets few. N. Australia. Hooker’s Creek, F. Mueller. m 12. C. Chatelainiana, Gaud. in Freye, Voy. 485, t. 111. An erect glabrous shrub of several ft. Leaflets 3, 4 or 5 rather distant pairs, linear, obtuse, about ¿ to 1 in. long, rather tbick, flat ; gland usually long and subu- late between those of the lowest pair only, but sometimes also of the next pair, or rarely wanting. Flowers rather large, in umbels at the end of short axillary peduncles with sometimes 1 or 2 pedicels belọw the umbel. Bracts ovate or oblong, very obtuse. Sepals nearly 3 lines long. Petals broad, 3 to Fin. long. Lower stamens rather larger than the others. Pod straight, often 3 in. broad.—Vog. Syn. Cass. 47. W. Australia. Sharks Bay, Gaudichaud; Murchison River, Oldfield ; also Drum- mond. Very nearly allied on the one hand to C. australis, in which, however, the leaflets when linear are usually revolute, and on the other to C. eremicola, which has fewer leaflets without the subulate gland. ; 13. C. glutinosa, DC. Prod. ii. 495. An erect glabrous shrub, the specimens very glutinous and brittle. Leaflets usually 4 or 5 pairs, oblong- linear, rather obtuse, 4 to 1 in. long or rather more, flat and rather thick; gland flat and broad between the leaflets of the lowest 1 or 2 pairs. Flowers umbellate on axillary peduncles usually shorter than the leaves. Sepals co- loured, obtuse, 3 to 33 lines long. Petals twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 lower ones upon rather longer filaments than the others. Pod straight, about 4 lines broad, as glutinous as the rest of the plant.—Vog. Syn. Cass. 47. N. Australia, Attack Creek, M'Douall Stuart's Expedition. Described by De Can- dolle probably from specimens gathered on the N. coast in Baudin’s Expedition, but I have not seen them. 14. C. pruinosa, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 48. A tall erect shrub, glabrous but often more or less glaucous. Leaflets 3 to 5 pairs, oblong-elliptical, rather obtuse, 4 to 4 in. long, rather thick and flat; gland small and flat, usually between the leaflets of the lowest 1 or 2 pairs. Stipules broad, leafy, semi- cordate. Flowers rather large, 2 to 5 together in umbels on axillary pedun-. cles usually shorter than the leaves. Sepals coloured, obtuse, the inner ones fully 3 lines long. Petals twice as long. Anthers 3 or 4 rather longer than the others. Pod stipitate, straight, apparently about 4 lines broad, but not seen perfect. : N. Australia. N.W. coast, Bynoe ; Rocky Hills, Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition N.S. Wales. Between Stokes Range aa Cooper’s et Views > 15. C. circinata, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 384. An erect bushy shrub of several ft., glabrous or hoary with a minute silky tomentum. Lea Cassia.] _ XL. LEGUMINOSE, 287 all phyllodineous without leaflets, linear-terete, often almost filiform or very slightly vertically flattened, 1 to 14 in. long, often clustered on the nodes of the previous year’s wood, and then sometimes not half so long; gland none, or very obscure at or above the middle of the phyllodium. Peduncles short, axillary, bearing 1 or 2 flowers on slender pedicels. Bracts minute. Sepals obtuse, 2 to 24 lines long. Petals twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 rather larger than the others and on longer filaments. Pod fully 5 lines broad, very flat and thin as in the rest of the section, but usualiy curved into a complete circle.—R. Br, in App. Sturt, Exped. 15. Queensland. Balonne river, Mitchell ; Burdekin river, F, Mueller; Suttor river, D Orsay ; Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy. N. S. Wales. Mount Flinders, A. Cunningham; Darling river to Barrier Range, Victorian Exploring Expedition. 16. C. phyllodinea, R. Br. in App. Sturt, Exped. 15. An erect rigid bushy shrub, hoary or white with a close silky tomentum. Leaves all phyllo- dineous, linear, vertically compressed but thick, obliquely obtuse truncate or even shortly 2-lobed at the end, 1 to 12 in. long, narrowed at the base; gland none, or a faint one on the upper edge. Peduncles short, axillary, bearing a very short raceme of several flowers on slender pedicels. Bracts very small. Sepals obtuse, 2 to 22 lines long. Petals twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 ra- ther larger than the others. Pod stipitate, straight or slightly curved, 5 to 6 es broad, obtuse. N. S. Wales. Lachlan and Darling desert to Barrier Range and Cooper’s Creek, Victorian Exploring Erpedition, Dallachy and Goodwin; and others. S. A ia. S. coast, R. Brown; Flinders range, F. Mueller. 4 F. Mueller is disposed to consider this and the preceding phyllodineous species, together with the five following ones as forms of one species, and it is true that we occasionally meet specimens apparently connecting them, but so it is with the whole of the section from C. glauca to C. circinata, which we certainly should not be justified in uniting. Those spe- rimens of C. eremophila, var. platypoda, in which the lower leaves are phyllodineous neg the end pe generally if not always be distinguished from C. phyllodinea by the gla end of the phyllodia where the leaflets have aborted. 17. C. eremophila (by a clerical error nemophila), 4. Cunn. in Vog. Syn, Cass, 47. e erect le shrub, glabrous or slightly hoary but never so white as some of the allied species. Leaflets 1 or 2 pairs, very narrow- linear, thick, terete and channelled above or slightly flattened out, sometimes Very short, usually about 1 in. long, and often more, the petiole terete or ver- lly flattened ; ‘gland depressed between the lowest or the only pair; the wer leaves sometimes reduced to a flattened phyllodium with the gland at end where the leaflets have aborted. Peduncles short, or rarely as long as the leaves, bearing a short almost corymbose raceme of several flowers on - Sender pedicels. Bracts very small, Sepals obtuse, rarely 2 lines long. ther usually more. than twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 lower ones ra larger or on longer filaments than the others. Pod straight or slightly pi lien lines broad or rarely more.—R. Br. in App. Sturt. Exp. r e Fe lata, R. Br. 1, c.; O. heteroloba, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. 1. : Mueller j On the Maranoa, Mitchell ; desert of the Suttor and Burdekin, F, an Wales. Near Port Jackson, Herb. F. Mueller; New England, C. Stuart ; 288 XL. LEGUMINOSE? , [Cassia. common in the desert interior fróm the Lachlan and Darling to the Barrier Range, A. Oun- ningham, Victorian Exploring Expedition, ete. Victoria. Murray desert and Wimmera, F. Mueller, Mitchell, Dallachy, and others. S. Australia. S. coast, R. Brown ; from the Murray to Flinders’ Range and Spencer's Gulf, F. Mueller ; Venus Bay and Mount Serle, Warburton. W. Australia, Drummond, Roe ; Stirling Range, Phillips Range, ete., Maxwell. A very variable species, of which specimens oceur occasionally with here and there an ad- ditional pair of leaflets, showing an approach towards C. artemisioides, and some of the western ones with the gland rather more prominent are at first sight like reduced forms of C. Chatelainiana. The two following varieties which have been distinguished as species, are very inconstant; they both occur mixed with the common form. : Var. platypoda. Petioles vertically compressed, the lower ones often without leaflets.— C. platypoda, R. Br. in App. Sturt Exped. 15. Var. zygophylla. Leaflets 1 or 2 pairs, linear, flat, often 1 to 2 lines broad.—C. zygophylla, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 288. 18. C. artemisioides, Gaud. in DC. Prod. ii. 495. An erect bushy shrub, hoary or white with a minute silky tomentum. Leaflets 3 to 6 palta, linear-terete and more or less channelled above, slender but rigid, usually + to 1 in. long, but sometimes longer or shorter; glands small and flat between those of the lower 1 or 2 pairs. Flowers in a short dense raceme on pedun- cles much shorter than the leayes. Bracts small, ovate. Sepals obtuse, 2 to 23 lines long. Petals about twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 longer than the others on longer filaments. Pod straight, 2 to 3 in. long, about 4 lines broad. —C. teretifolia, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. i. 289; C. teretiuscula, F. Muell. in Linnæa, xxv. 389. Queensland. Dawson river, F. Mueller. ; - the N.S. Wales. In the interior, Fraser; near Mount Flinders, 4. Cunningham ¡int Darling desert, Mitchell and others, and thence to the Barrier Range, Victorian Exploring Expedition and others. S. Australia. Near Cudnaka and towards Lake Torrens, F. Mueller ; Mount Serle, Warburton. i Nearly allied to C. eremophila and C. Sturtii, this differs from the former chiefly prins more numerous leaflets, from the latter in their shape and in the narrower pod. If the were united, it is the name of C. artemisioides that has the priority. 19. C. Sturtii, R. Br. in App. Sturt Exped. 14. A bushy shrub, gla- brous or more frequently glaucous hoary or white with a close tomentum. Leaflets usually 3 to 5 pairs, linear, lanceolate, cuneate, elliptical or a obovate, } to 1 in. long, thick, flat or concave, sometimes all small and rs ovate, the lower leaves rarely with only 2 pairs; glands small pale leaflets of the lowest 1 or 2 pairs. Stipules small and deciduous as In hila, allied species. Flowers in short axillary dense racemes as in C. eremoph but usually more numerous on a longer peduncle. Sepals obtuse, ally long, frequently tomentose. Petals twice as long. Pod when perfect 3 in. broad, straight or slightly curved and very obtuse. Queensland, Bowen; Suttor river, F. Mueller. an Er- N.S. Wales. Darling river to the Barvier Range and Cooper's Creek, Victorian Ez ploring Expedition, Howitt's Expedition, etc. geal Murray scrub and Wimmera, Dallachy. S. Australia. Near Cudnaka, F. Mueller. W. Australia, Drummond. obtuse, Var. (?) coriacea. Leaflets usually 4 or 5 pairs, small oblong or obovate, sree! - Dar thick and green or glancous.—S. coast, R. Brown ; Mount Flinders, A. CunmngAa >” ling and Murray desert and S, Australia, 9 to 3 lines - Cassia, XL. LEGUMINOS&, 289 Var. (?) tomentosa, Leaflets oblong or narrow-obovate, very white. Sepals much longer and tomentose,— Mount Murchison and Barrier Range. This may be a variety of O. desolata. The specimens of these forms, although numerous, are often fragmentary, and rarely have fruit, or show at once the foliage of the barren and of the flowering branches. 20. C. desolata, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 389. Shrubby, the young parts hoary or white, becoming glabrous with age. Leaflets 1, 2 or very rarely 3 pairs, ovate obovate or broadly oblong, 4 to 1 in. long or more, cori-, aceous ; gland depressed between those of the lowest or of both pairs, rarely wanting. Flowers in a very short raceme, on short axillary peduncles. Bracts ovate, concave. Sepals about 3 lines long, usually pubescent or tomentose. Petals twice as long. Anthers nearly equal or 2 or 3 lower ones scarcely » Pod not seen perfect but apparently more like that of C. Sturtii than of C. oligophylla. N. Australia. Depuech Island, N.W. coast, Bynoe; Victoria river, F. Mueller; Central Mount Stuart, M‘ Douall Stuart. N.S. Wales. Barrier Range, Victorian Exploring Expedition. S. Australia. Spencer’s Gulf, Warburton. y Z | Some of the specimens are very doubtful and may belong to C. oligophylla, which this E closely resembles in foliage and flowers; and it would require more perfect materials I have seen to establish satisfactorily the distinction between this species and C. Sturtii on the one hand and C, oligophylla on the other. 21. C. oligophylla, F Muell. Fragm. iii. 49. A tall shrub, glabrous or minutely pubescent. Leaflets 2 or rarely only 1 pair, broadly obovate, very obtuse, $ to 1 in. long, coriaceous; glands depressed and rather large Ween those of each pair. Flowers in short dense racemes, on axillary pe- cles, rather more numerous than in the preceding species, with rather er oblong or lanceolate bracts. Sepals obtuse, pubescent, about 3 lines ng. Petals not twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 lower ones rather longer A the others. Pod 2 to 24 in. long, nearly 4 in. broad, very obtuse. | win Australia. Sandy plains, Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition. From the few E ati gathered, this af ome a allied to O, datolata, differing chiefly er pd 2 as broad as in C. artemisioides ; half as broad again as in €. Sturtit, and probably * Sesolata ; but better specimens are required to confirm the species. 22. C. oligoclada, P. Muell. Fragm. iii. 49. A shrub of 1 to 3 ft, pe softly pubescent in all its parts. Leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, or in slender starved ens only 1 or 2 pairs, elliptical-oblong, obtuse or almost acute, shortly : i atonate; 4 to l in. long ; glands none. Stipules small, setaceous. Flowers -* to 6, umbellate, on slender axillary peduncles, about as long as the leaves; almost filiform. Bracts minute, deciduous. Sepals obtuse, the St about 2 lines long. Petals twice as long or the upper inner ones "dy Anthers 3 a little larger than the others. Pod stipitate, falcate, oe to 13 in. long and about 4 lines broad. Seeds 4 to 6, on very es, ; - ; pu | py, Anstralia, _ Cambridge Gulf, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; Upper Victoria river, Ye ler ; Gulf of Carpentaria, R, Brown. ‘ wits - €) gracilis, Very slender and quite glabrous. Leaflets 1 or 2 pairs. aller Attack © K reek, M‘Douall Stuart. : fen, broad falcate pod of this species reminds one at first sight of that of the wn v 290 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Cassia. 23. C. leptoclada, Benth. A shrub of 3 or 4 ft., glabrous and very glaucous, with very slender often purplish branches. Leaflets 2 pairs, obo- vate to oblong-elliptical, very obtuse and sometimes emarginate, those of the upper pair 3 to 1 in. long, of the lower pair smaller or wanting 1n the lower leaves ; glands small, ovoid, between those of each pair. Stipules very minute. Peduncles in the upper axils very short, bearing 2 flowers on fili- form pedicels, or sometimes the peduncle adnate to the branch, the pedicels then proceeding from a little above the axil. Sepals obtuse, not 2 lines long. Petals deep yellow, above 4 lines long. Anthers 2 or 3 rather larger than the others. Pod stipitate, flat and glabrous, either nearly orbicular and 1- seeded, or 2-seeded and about 4 in. long and 4 lines broad. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. (Herb. R. Br.) Section V. Apsus.—Sepals usually obtuse. Stamens 5 to 10, all perfect and similar, the anthers opening iu slits either short and terminal or extend- ing down the sides of the cells. Pod flat, oblique and obliquely acute. Seeds lying vertically in the pod. Herbs or (in species not Australian) shrubs, often glandular-pubescent. Flowers in simple terminal racemes, becoming , sometimes lateral by the elongation of the branch. 24, C. Absus, Linn. ; Vog. Syn. Cass. 50. A viscidly pubescent — branched annual or biennial, rarely exceeding 1 ft. Leaflets 2 pairs, obliquely and broadly obovate, obtuse, 4 to 1 in. long or rarely more, the common La tiole rather long and slender ; glands small between the leaflets of the low i or of both pairs. Stipules narrow. Flowers small, in short terminal or a length lateral racemes. Bracts small, reflexed. Sepals narrow, pa py bescent, about 3 lines long. Petals scarcely longer. Stamens usually in Style dilated at the end, with a rather broad fringed stigma. Pod 1 0 long and about ¿ in. broad. Seeds with very little albumen.—F. Fragm. iii. 50. ¿E? N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F, Mueller ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. Queensland. Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander; Port Denison, Fitzalan; Bowen ` river, Bowman. aE The species is common in tropical Asia and Africa. 0, Section VI. CHAMÆCRISTA.—Sepals obtuse or acute. Stamens aa all perfect; anthers opening in slits either short and terminal or eX! Sepals rather obtuse, about 2 lines long. Petals scarcely ere = sepals. Stamens 5, nearly equal, obtuse. Style short, slightly" Cassia.] i XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 291 the end, with a broadly peltate stigma. Pod narrow, 1 to l4 in. long, ob- lique or slightly curved. Queensland. Port Curtis, M'Gillivray; Bowen river, Bowman. Pedicels longer than in the Indian specimens, but the style anc other essential characters are quite the same. 26. C. concinna, Benth. A diffuse perennial, woody at the base, more ¿or less pubescent, with the habit of C. pumila, but at once known by the much larger flowers and by the style. Leaflets S to 10 or rarely 12 to15 - pairs, rather crowded, linear-falcate, mucronate, 2 to 3 lines long ; gland sti- pitate below the lowest pair. Peduncles 1-flowered, solitary, usually longer than the leaves, with minute bracteoles at or above the middle. Sepals 3 long, obtuse or minutely mucronate. Petals nearly twice as long. Sta- mens 5; anthers nearly equal, Style incurved, not thickened, with a small terminal stigma. Pod rarely above 1 in. long, about 2 lines wide.—C. pumila, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 47, not of Lam. N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. : Queensland. Keppel Islands, I‘Gillivray; Wide Bay, Bidwill; Broad Sound, Bowman ; Rockhampton, Zhozet, Dallachy ; Moreton Bay, C. Stuart. N.S. Wales. Mount Flinders, Leichhardt. *7. C. mimosoides, Linn.; Vog. Syn. Cass. 68. An annual or per- ennial of short duration, with a hard almost woody base, and numerous diffuse or ascending wiry stems, of 1 to 2 ft. or rarely more, usually pubescent. ves 13 to 2 in. long; leaflets numerous (20 to 50 pairs), linear-falcate, mucronate, seldom above 2 lines long ; gland depressed, below the lowest bin Pedicels axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 together, unequal, but rarely above i n, long. Sepals very acute, above 3 lines long. Petals 3 to 4 or rarely 5 lines long. Stamens 7 to 10; anthers all similar, but rather unequal in size. jale slightly dilated at the end with a truncate stigma. Pod 1} to 2 in. B scarcely 2 lines broad, oblique or slightly curved.—F. Muell. Fragm. iii. hog Australia, -Victoria river, F, Mueller ; Port Essington, Armstrong ; islands of ulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. in th colon fensland. Broad Sound and Northumberland islands, R. Brown; common in the WN in Moist pastures, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller, aud others. : -S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler. 80. PETALOSTYLES, R. Br. ta Pals 5, much imbricate, somewhat unequal, scarcely connected at the - Petals 5, spreading, nearly equal. Stamens 3 perfect; filaments very 3 anthers linear, the cells opening inwardly in longitudinal slits; 2 small Modia, with acuminate imperfect anthers. Ovary nearly’ sessile, with om ovules; style large and petal-like, saccate immediately above the «Ovary, with 3 erect lobes, 2 short ones in front, the other much longer, con- cave, the midrib prominent inside and terminating at the top in a small ae Pod flat, oblong-linear, oblique, 2-valved. ` Seeds ovate-oblong, : tines ; testa shining; funicle expanded into a fleshy appendage dis- tea from the seed . albumen copious ; cotyledons flat —Shrubs. Leaves a “ply pinnate, Flowers yellow, on axillary peduncles. ná 292 XL. LEGUMINOSL. [Petalostyles. The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia, very nearly allied to Cassia (sect. Chamecrista) and to Labichea, but distinguished especially hy the very singular style. 1. P. labicheoides, R. Br. in App. Sturt Exped. 17. An erect, bushy, nearly glabrous, somewhat glaucous shrub of several feet, the young shoots minutely silky. Leaflets from about 11 to above 30, mostly alternate along the rhachis with an odd terminal one, narrow-oblong, mucronate, 2 to $in - long, narrowed at the base, but not oblique, thick, somewhat concave, the ` midrib only conspicuous underneath. Stipules narrow and very deciduous, Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, with 2 small very deciduous bracteoles. Sepals acute, 3 in. long, green and glabrous. Petals obovate, nearly in. long. Ovules 4 to 6. Style deep-yellow, like the petals, and not much shorter. Pod 1 to 13 in. long. _N. Australia. Dampiers Archipelago, Bynoe ; Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedir tion. Queensland. Suttor Range, rare, F. Mueller. N.S. Wales. Barrier Range, Victorian Exploring Expedition. S. Australia. Akava river, F., Mueller; Mount Serle and towards Spencer's Gulf, Warburton. Var. cassioides. Leaflets smaller, numerous, obovate or oblong, obtuse or retuse.— _ Sturt’s Creek and Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller. 81. LABICHEA, Gaudich. Sepals 4 or 5, much imbricate, somewhat unequal, scarcely connected at the base. Petals as many as sepals, spreading, nearly equal. Stamens 2; filaments very short; anthers oblong-linear, opening in terminal pores, either both alike or one of them produced into a tube exceeding the other and with pollen at the base only. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate, with, ad rarely 3 ovules, tapering into a short style, with a small terminal stigmé Pod oblong or lanceolate, oblique, flat, 2-valved. Seeds obovate or oblong, with a hard shining testa; funicle (in the species examined) expanded below the top into a globular fleshy appendage ; albumen copious ; cotyledons iig —Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate, or from the common petiole not being developed, consisting of 3 or 5 digitate leaflets or reduced the terminal leaflet. Stipules small, deciduous. Flowers yellow, few is in short loose axillary racemes. Bracts small and deciduous. racteo none. The genus is limited to Australia, and is very nearly allied tọ, Cassia. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Anthers unequal. Leaves pinnate, with an elongated common petiole . . . + + 1. Leaflets digitate, without any common petiole. . . . + = + 2. Sepals 4. Petals 4. ` i _ Bushy shrub. Leaves simple or digitate. Anthers unequal . - - 3. Bos shah Leaves simple or digitate. Anthers equal . => + ndershrub with nearly simple stems. ll simple. Anthers ee ee o A 1. L. cassioides, Gaud. in DO. Prod. ii. 507. A bushy glabrow shrub. Leaves poe with the common petiole 4 to 1 in. long; btol to 15, or reduced to 3 in the upper leaves, narrow-oblong or linear, L. cassioides, L. nitida. L. lanceolala. L. rupestris, . . . . . . . . . + Labichea.] XL. LEGUMINOSA.. 293 in. long, coriaceous, with a pungent point. Racemes loose, often as long as the leaves. Sepals 5, the outer ones 5 lines long, the innermost rather shorter and more petal-like. Petals 5, rather longer than the calyx, nearly orbicular. Anthers incurved, one oblong-linear, the other much longer and polliniferous at the base only. Ovary silky-pubescent, with 2 ovules. Pod not seen, but represented in Gaudichaud's figure like that of the other species, except that there is no swelling of the funicle.—Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. 485, t. 112; L. tephrosiefolia, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 12. W. Australia. Sharks’ Bay, Gaudichaud ; between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. vE 2. L. nitida, Benth. A rigid shtub, with divaricate slightly pubescent branches. Leaflets usually 5, digitate, without a common petiole, from obo- vate-oblong to elliptical, obtuse with a pungent’ point, coriaceous and shining above, the central one 3 to 1 in. long, the lateral ones smaller, all shortly pe- tiolulate, Racemes short and loose. Flowers much larger than in Z. rupes- tris. Sepals 5, about 4 lines long. Petals 5, the lower ones fully Fin. long, the upper ones rather smaller. One anther at least. half as long again as the other, Ovary very villous, with 3 ovules in both the flowers examined. Pod not séen; ; N. Australia. Victoria river, Bynoe. Queensland, Burdekin Expedition. 3. L. lanceolata, Benth. in Huey. Enum. 41. An erect glabrous shrub, of 6 ft. or more. Leaflets sometimes all or mostly solitary, from narrow-ob- long to lanceolate or linear, obtuse or acute, with a pungent point, 1} to 4 in. long, coriaceous and shining, on a petiolule of 1 to 2 lines, at the base of which aré occasionally 1 or 2 very small leaflets ; in other specimens the cen- tral leaflet is much smaller, and there are 1 or 2 less disproportionate ones On each side. Racemes loose, nearly as long as the leaves. Sepals 4, about nes long. Petals 4, longer than the calyx. One anther nearly twice as long as the other, without pollen above the middle. Ovules 2. Pod about l in. long. Seeds with a-testa marked with longitudinal rows of glandular dots, and becoming swollen and pulpy when soaked.—Z. diversifolia, Meissn. wn Pl. Preiss, i. 235 Lindl. and Paxt. Fl. Gard. t.52; Z. bipunctata, Past. Mag. x. 150, with a fig. — terca cal > Australia. Ki ; Swan River, 4. Cunningham, Fraser, Huegel, mond, let Coll FOL Poses Oot, and others; Murchison river, Oldfeld 4. L. rupestris, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 342. A small hard bushy shrub, the branches pubescent or at length glabrous. Leaflets in some -Pecimens mostly 3-foliolate, the terminal one linear-oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, coriaceous, with a pungent point, the lateral ones much smaller, in other spe- “mens most dr all digitate, with 3 or 5 less unequal leaflets, without any com- mon petiole. Racemes short dense and few-flowered. Sepals 4, about 24 ‘nes long. Petals about the same length. Anthers both nearly cf the same Size, scarcely shorter than the petals. -Ovules 2. Pod short, acuminate, fre- joe opal only, but not seen ripe.—L. digitata, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. 4 Queensland. Sandstone rocks and ravines about Mount Pluto, Mitchell; Newcastle 294 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Labichea. Range, F. Mueller (in leaf only). The two forms I had distinguished, with 1-foliolate or very unequally 3-foliolate leaves, and with nearly equal 5-foliolate leaves, may be found on different branches of the same specimen. 5. L. punctata, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 15. An undershrub, with ascending or erect almost simple stems, of 1 to 14 ft., more or less flat- tened and usually glabrous. Leaves all simple, the lower ones sometimes ovate, 1 to 2-in. long, the upper ones lanceolate or linear, attaining often 4 or 5 in., coriaceous, reticulate and scabrous above, with minute dots, which however are often visible in some other species, glabrous or slightly pubescent underneath. Racemes very short and several-flowered. Sepals 4, about 4 lines"long, the outer ones concave and rather acute, the inner more petal-like. Petals 4, rather longer than the calyx. Anthers both of the same size. Ovary slightly pubescent, with 2 ovules. Pod not seen.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 24, W. Australia, Swan River and Darling Range, Collie, Drummond, lst Coll. and 2nd Coll. n. 279, Preiss, n. 1025, 1026 ; Harvey River, Oldfield. 82. TAMARINDUS, Linn. Sepals 4, united at the base into a turbinate tube, the free portion or seg- ments much imbricate. Petals 3, the lateral ones ovate, the upper inner one narrower, concave. Stamens incurved, united in a sheath to the middle, 3 or rarely 2 only perfect, with ovate anthers, 4 or 5 others reduced to short teeth at the top of the sheath. Ovary stipitate, with several ovules ; style m- flexed, rather thick, with a truncate stigma. Pod linear or oblong-linear, curved, thick, but slightly compressed, the epicarp crustaceous and fragile, the mesocarp pulpy, the endocarp thick and fleshy, forming complete parti- tions between the seeds. Seeds broadly obovate, flattened ; testa rather thick.; albumen none; embryo straight, with a short radicle.—Tree. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Flowers in terminal racemes. The genus contains only one species, widely spread over tropical regions. 1. T. indicus, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 488. A hard-wooded tree, with a spreading head and a pale or glaucous glabrous foliage. Leaflets 10 to 20 pairs, oblong-linear, obtuse, $ to ¿ in. long. Stipules small, deciduous. Flowers yellow, the racemes short and loose, really terminal, but usually on very $ branchlets so as to appear lateral and shorter than the leaves. Bracts very deciduous. Calyx-segments about 4 lines long. Petals rather longer. about 1 in. broad, varying in length according to the number of seeds rp usually 2 or 3. . N. Australia. On the cliffs at the entrance to Victoria river, F. Mueller (fruits only ); Port Essington, Leichhardt (fragments of a raceme). Common, wild or cultivated, wea pical Asia and Africa, and introduced into the West Indies. This tree supplies e known Zamarinds, used as conserves and in medicine. The Anstralian specimens being fragmentary only, 1 have described it from Indian ones. 83. BAUHINIA, Linn. e Sepals united at the base into a short or long disk-bearing tube, be pi part separating into 5 or fewer valvate or induplicate lobes. + Petals 9, ™ Bauhinia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. oa serted at the summit of the tube, usually clawed, more or less unequal. Stamens 10, free, either all perfect or some reduced to small staminodia. Ovary stipitate, the stalk adnate to one side of the calyx-tube, with several ovules; style usually filiform, with a capitate, broad or oblique, terminal stigma. Pod linear or oblong, compressed, 2-valved. Seeds compressed ; albumen usually thin; radicle short and straight.—Trees or woody climbers. Leaflets either 2 distinct from the base, or (in the majority of species not Aus- tralian) united into an entire or 2-lobed leaf, with 5 to 11 digitate nerves. mes terminal. A large genus, distributed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. It has been divided into several genera, which I have in other works been disposed to adopt ; but it may be more convenient to follow De Candolle and others in considering them as sub- genera. ‘The following Australian species, all endemic, with one or two nearly allied Asiatic ones, form a small group, with the 2 leaflets quite distinct, and in their flowers and fruit agreeing with Phanera, except that the 10 stamens are all perfect. Calyx disk-bearing base very short, free part campanulate, deeply : es lobed. Outer petals 5 to 6 lines long. Pod 2 in. broad. . . 1, B. Cunninghamti. Calyx disk-bearing base turbinate, free part as long, shortly lobed. Petals 6 or 7 lines long. Pod not 1} in. broad. . + + + «2. B. Carronu. Calyx disk-bearing base cylindrical, free part as long, divided to the ; base. Outer petals 1} in. long. Pod 1to 1% in. broad . . + 3. B. Hookeri. l. B. Cunninghamii, Benth. A tree of 20 ft. or more, the young branches slender, rarely short and spinescent, the young shoots and leaves pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaflets quite distinct, broadly falcate-ovate, very obtuse, 2 to 14 in. long, and more than half as broad, finely 5- to 7- nerved. Flowers 2 or 3 together on a very short common peduncle, the pe- dicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx about 5 lines long, velvety-tomentose, the disk-bearing base very short and broad, the free part broadly, campanulate, thick, divided below the middle into 5 ovate equal lobes. Petals silky- tomentose, ovate, the 2 outer lower ones exceeding the calyx by above 3 lines, the lateral ones by about 2 lines, and the uppermost inner one scarcely at all. Stamens 10, longer than the petals, the lowest the longest. eae | on a long stipes, with 8 to 10 ovules; stigma large, capitate. Pod very ax thinly coriaceous, about 2 in. broad, 6 in. long or shorter, according to t number of seeds ripened.—Phanera Cunninghamii, Benth. in Pl. Jungh. 1 * he Bauhinia Leichhardtii, Y. Muell. in Trans. Vict. cena ill. - pated : Australi i nsi Bay, A. Cunningham; N.W. Bynoe ; rage rr vis aia pal ; Arnhem’s Land, F. M ueller. 2. B. Carronii, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. iii. 49. A tree, with the foliage and pic of B. Cunninghamii, or with rather narrower leaf- 8, but undistingúishable without the flowers or fruit, both of which are nar- Tower. Calyx slightly tomentose, about 3 in. long, the disk-bearing base varrow-turbinate, the free portion about the same length, very shortly a Petals obovate, silky outside, the lower ones exceeding the calyx by about 5 lines, the others rather shorter. Stamens and pistil of B. paro a "it. Pod coriaceous, not quite 14 in. broad, the valves coriaceous, slightly Convex when ripe. is censland, in. F. Mueller ; in the interior, Mitchell. N. S. Wales. “Toned Oi trek Howitt's Expedition. e. XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Bauhinia. Some specimens of Leichhardt's, in leaf only and therefore not determinable, referred by F. Mueller to the preceding species, appear to me rather to belong to the present one. 3. B. Hookeri, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. iii. 51. A large tree, with a Spreading head, usually quite glabrous. Leaflets quite distinct, very obliquely and broadly ovate or obovate, very obtuse, + to 14 in. long, finely 5- to 7-nerved, with a small thick point terminating the petiole between them. Flowers white, edged with crimson, few in short terminal racemes, the pedicels very short. Calyx glabrous or nearly so, 1 in. long or even more, the disk-bearing base narrow-cylindrical, the free part about as long, dividing nearly to the base into 5 narrow lobes. Petals clawed, ovate, nearly equal, the lamina nearly 13 in. long, slightly villoús outside near the base. Stamens 10, rather longer than the petals. Ovary on a long stipes; stigma large. Pod stipitate, flat, 1 to 14 in. broad. N. Australia. Arnhem N. Bay, R. Brown; Port Essington, A. Cunningham. | Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown; Gilbert river, F. Mueller; Suttor river, D Orsay ; Rockhampton, Dallachy ; islands of Torres Straits, Henne. Var. puberula. Young shoots slightly pubescent. Calyx tomentose, the free part shorter than the disk-bearing base. Pod large and broad.—Burdekin river, F. Mueller. : The latter specimens come very near to B. (Phanera) Blancoi, Benth. in Pl. Jungh. 1. 264, which we have from Siam and from the Philippine Islands, and of which B. Hooker may prove to be a variety only. 84. CYNOMETRA, Linn. Sepals very shortly united at the base, the free part separating into 4 imbri- : cate segments, the upper one rather broader (consisting of 2 sepals ?). Pe- tals 5, oblong-lanceolate, nearly equal, the upper one innermost. Stamens 10 or more, free; filaments filiform ; anthers small. Ovary nearly sessile, with 2 ovules; style subulate, with a small terminal stigma. Pod obliquely and broadly semiorbicular, thick, fleshy, and turgid, 2-valved. Seed usually solitary, thick ; radicle short, straight.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with 1, 2, or rarely more pairs of leaflets. Flowers small, usually reddish, in axillary or lateral clusters or short racemes. Thè genus is distributed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. e] only Australian species is a common Asiatic one. _ E Cy ramifloray Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 509, var. bijuga. A tree either glabrous or the young shoots and inflorescence rusty-pubescent. é lets in the Australian specimens 2 pairs or rarely 1 pair only, obliquely obo- vate-oblong, very obtuse or shortly and obtusely acuminate, coriaceous, pr niveined, the terminal ones 2 to 3 in. long, the lower ones smaller. Powe in very short axillary racemes or clusters. Bracts dry, concave, at first a bricate, but very deciduous. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines long. Calyx and pelas not 2 lines long. Stamens 10, rather longer. Ovary very villous. *™ - as broad as long, very thick and fleshy, 4 to 2 in. long and very rugose ad the dried specimens, probably larger and smoother when fresh.—W. 8 Arn, Prod. i. 293; C. bijuga, Spanoghe, in Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. part i. 18. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, A. Cunning ham.—Widely Sh the over E. India and the Archipelago, most frequently with 2 pairs of leaves in Ceylon dis- Archipelago, with one pair only on the continent of India, but the two can scarcely w tinguished, even as varieties. Cynometra.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 297 SurorDER III. MIMOSEZ. Flowers 5-merous, 4-merous, or rarely 3-merous or 6-merous, small, re- gular, sessile in spikes or heads or very rarely shortly pedicellate, often poly- gamous. Sepals valvate, often united. Petals valvate, except in Erylhro- phleeum, often united. Stamens equal to or double the number of petals or indefinite. Seeds usually flattened, with a hard shining testa. Albumen none or very scanty. Radicle of the embryo short and straight. Leaves bi- pinnate, except in the American genus Inga. The genera of this well-marked suborder are not numerous in proportion to the species, and are technically distributed into four tribes :—Parkiee, with definite stamens and slightly imbricate petals, including Erythrophleum ; Eumimosee, with definite stamens, including Entada, Adenanthera, Dichrostachys, and Neptunia ; Acaciee, with indefinite free stamens, consisting chiefly of the vast genús Acacia ; and fagee, with indefinite monadelphous sta- mens, including A/bizzia and Pithecolobium. s 85. ERYTHROPHLŒUM, Afzel. (Fillea, Guillem. and Perr. ; Laboucheria, F. Muell.) * _ Calyx-teeth 5, valvate in the bud. Petals 5, small, very slightly imbricate. Stamens 10, inserted with the petals on a perigynous disk, free, longer than the petals, all equal and perfect; anthers ovate, without glands. Ovary sti- pitate, with several ovules; style short, with a terminal stigma. Pod oblong, linear, flat, coriaceous, 2-valved. Seeds ovate, compressed, transverse ; funicle filiform ; testa pulpy outside ; albumen thin ; radiċle short, straight. rees. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers small, almost sessile in long eylindrical ste forming a terminal panicle. Bracts inconspicuous. an small genus, containing, besi e Australian species, which is endemic, two or from tropical Africa. In the vent ibe of the petalé it approaches Césalpiniee, and especially Mora, and may be considered, with Parsia, as intermediate between. that suborder and true Mimosee. 1. E, Laboucherii, F. Muell: Herb. A hard-wooded tree, the branches and foliage glabrous. Pinnæ opposite, in 2 or 3 pairs; leaflets 4 to 9, al- ternate, obliquely obovate or orbicular, very obtuse or retuse, mostly 13 to 2 in. long, Spikes rather dense, nearly sessile, 1 to 3 in. long. Flowers 2 to 24 lines long. Calyx sptinkléd and ciliate with a few hairs. Petals rather nger than the calyx, with woolly edges. Stamens more than twice as long as the petals, distinctly inserted in 2 rows. Ovary shortly stipitate, hairy, with about 10 ovules, Pod 4 to 6 in. long, 1 to 13 in. broad, flat, with thinly-coriaceous valves. Seeds nearly orbicular.—Laboucheria chlorostachys, : Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 159. N. i s TAR Careening Bay and Van x Victoria river, Bynoe, F. Mueller $ islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Strang- Ways river, MD Stuart. rae lea d. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; A. Cunningham ; Burdekin a bert rivers, F, Mueller ; also in Leichhardt’s collection, and said ta be his “ Legumino! Tron-bark Tree.” 3 sittart Bay, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; 86. ENTADA, Adams. Calyx very shortly 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate, more or less united or * Stamens 10, shortly exserted; free; anthers tipped by a gland. Ovary 298 XL. LEGUMINOS. [Entada, - nearly sessile, with several ovules; style filiform, with a truncate stigma. Pod large and long, flat, coriaceous or woody, the sutures thick and forming a persistent replum, the valves falling away separately and divided transversely into 1-seeded articles, the endocarp separating from the epicarp and persisting round the large orbicular flat seeds.—Tall woody climbers, unarmed. Leaves abruptly bipinnate, the pinne of the upper pair often converted into tendrils without leaflets. Flowers small, sessile in long slender spikes, either solitary in the upper axils or forming a terminal simple panicle. Bracts very small. The genus is common to the New and the Old World within the tropics. The only Aus- tralian species is the same as the most generally diffused Asiatic one. 1. E. scandens, Benth. in. Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 332. A woody climber, stretching over the largest trees, the young parts and inflorescence slightly pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaves usually consisting of a common petiole of 2 to 6 in., terminating in 2 simple tendrils, which are not however always developed, and bearing below them 1 or 2 pairs of pinne ; leaflets on each pinna 2 or 3 rarely 4 or even 5 pairs, obovate-oblong obtuse or emargl- nate, often very oblique, 2 to 5 in. long when few, smaller when more nume- rous. Spikes varying in length from 1 or 2 in. to nearly 1 ft. Flowers about 1} in. long. Calyx very small, truncate or minutely toothed. Petals lanceolate, rigid, becoming at length quite separate. Gland of the anthers very deciduous. Pod woody, attaining 2 to 4 ft. in length and 3 to 4 in. m breadth. Seeds 10 to 30, nearly 2 in. diameter.—Mimosa scandens, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1501; Entada Pursetha, DC. Prod. ii. 425; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 part i. 45. Queensland. Cape York, M'Gillivray, small specimens in flower and leaf only, the description completed from Indian ones, The species is widely diffused over tropical Asia and Africa and the West Indies, the seeds being carried very far by ocean currents losing their power of germination. The opinion now generally adopted that the East and West Indian species are the same is, however, not universally admitted ; and our herbarium specimens, numerous as they are, are mostly too imperfect, the foliage, flowers, and pods too rarely matched to determine the question with any approach to certainty. 87. ADENANTHERA, Linn: Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate in the bud, cohering at first, at lengt free. Stamens 10, free; anthers ovate, tipped by a deciduous gland. C sessile, with several ovules; style filiform, with a small terminal stigWa- Pod linear, compressed, falcate, 2-valved, the endocarp often forming mor? or less complete partitions between the seeds; valves somewhat convex. Seeds thick, with a hard, shining, red or red-and-black testa, surround usually by a thin pulp; funicle slightly thickened; albumen scanty ; raei short, straight.—Unarmed trees. Leaves abruptly bipinnate, with seve pairs of pinne and of leaflets. Flowers small, white or yellowish, always pe dicellate in long spike-like racemes, either solitary in the axils or forming 4 simple terminal panicle. ; A genus of few species, natives of the tropical regions of the Old World, one of them t troduced and now naturalized in the West Indies. It is closely allied to Prosopis ® ral others separated from Mimosa and Acacia, differing chiefly in the pedicellate flower 5g] in the seeds resembling those of Ormosia, and externally those of Abrus, and the A. Pona, Liun., has moreover a remarkably long twisting pod. Adenanthera. | XL. LEGUMINOSA. 299 Fragments of a plant evidently belonging to this genus, but insufficient for determination, are in F. Mueller’s collection from Gilbert river. One imperfect leaf is like that of 4. pavo- nina, but with it are two loose pods which I can only compare with those of a Borneo plaut in the Kew herbaria. They are short, slight] y falcate, and the seeds more like those of the Cingalese A. dicolor, which, however, has very different leaves. 88. DICHROSTACHYS, W. and Arn. (Caillea, Guillem. and Pers.) Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate, usually cohering. Stamens in the perfect flowers 10, free; anthers ovate, tipped with a deciduous gland. Ovary nearly sessile, with several ovules; style short or filiform, with a small terminal stigma. Lower flowers of the spike neuter, with long, linear, | white or coloured staminodia, and a small rudimentary ovary. Pod linear, compressed, variously twisted, indehiscent or the valves irregularly separating from the persistent sutures.—Rigid shrubs, the branchlets occasionally spines- cent. Leaves abruptly bipinnate, with a stipitate gland between the pinnæ of the lowest or of all the pairs ; leaflets small. Stipules subulate or acumi- nate,-often imbricate on the short flowering branches. Flowers sessile, in ~ dense cylindrical spikes, either terminal or apparently axillary by the short- Jess of the branchlet, the upper flowers of the spike hermaphrodite and yellow, the lower ones neuter and white pink or purple. The genus extends over tropical Africa and Asia. Of the Australian species one is the „ommon Indian one, the other is endemic. F. Mueller proposes to reunite it with Neptunia, - but the difference in the pod is accompanied by too marked a difference in habit to be neg- lected, unless the whole of the Mimosee with definite stamens and gland-tipped anthers be united into one genus, Hime 8 to 10 pai i 1. D. cinerea. pairs. Leaflets 12 to 20 pairs. . . . +. » + + » ‘LD. i l or 2 pairs, Leailete-4'to 6 pilie < ogy is 0, 08, MA, Pat the branches and | “wwe Cinerea, Y. and Arn. Prod. 271. Glabrous or petioles pubescent? Pinne 8 to 10 pairs, 4 to 1 in. long; leaflets 12 to 20 Pairs, crowded, oblong-linear, slightly faleate, 1 to 13 or rarely 2 lines long. Spikes shortly pedunculate, usually nodding, about 1 in. long. Hermaphro- flowers about 1 line long without the stamens, which are twice or thrice as long. Staminodia of the neuter flowers still longer and wpe, Fou 2 to 3 in. long, 8 to 4 lines wide, irregularly twisted, viscid-pubescent or Re us.—Wight, Ic. t. 357, Ea tralia. Port Essington, Armstrong. Extends over E. India and the Archi- 9 2. D. Muelleri, Benth. Glabrous or slightly pubescent. Pinnæ l or purs, rather distant; leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, oblong-linear, 3 to 5 ay long, , r coriaceous and pale-coloured. Spikes pedunculate, about 13 in. long. ho ia hrodite flowers about 1 line long without the stamens. gen Mets in the lower part of the spike not so crowded as the others, wit! 151 pale whitish-purple staminodia.— Neptunia spicata, F. Muell. Fragm. ill. N. Australia, Arnhem’s Land, Waterhouse in M‘Douall Stuart's Expedition. $00 : XL. LEGUMINOSA. 89. NEPTUNTA, Lour. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate in the bud, cohering or free, Sta- mens in the perfect flowers 10 or (in the Australian species) 5, free ; anthers ovate, tipped with a deciduous gland, very rarely wanting ; pollen granular. Ovary stipitate, with 2 or several ovules ; style filiform, with a truncate or concave stigma. Lower flowers of the head male or more fre- quently neuter, with long liriear staminodia. Pod short and broad, flat, turned downwards, 2-valved, without pulp inside. Seeds transverse, flat- tened, ovate or orbicular, the funicle not ilated.—Procumbent or floating perennials or undershrubs. Leaves abruptly bipinnate, with small leaflets, either without glands or with a depressed gland below the pinne. Stipules membra- nous, obliquely cordate. Peduncles axillary, usually with 2 distant stipule- like deciduous bracteoles, and bearing a single globular or ovoid flower-head. Flowers small, sessile, mostly hermaphrodite, but a few of the lower ones either like the others but male by the abortion of the ovary, or neuter with a smaller calyx and corolla, and long linear almost petal-like staminodia. A small genus, widely diffused over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World, extending also into N. America. The two Australian species are endemic, and differ from all others in their stamens always 5 only instead of 10. Peduncles slender, 1 to 3 in. long. Ovules several. Pod oblong, with / : Sebi. O Pe Tee Peduncles very short. Ovules 2. Pod orbicular, 1-seeded . . . - 2. N. monosperma. 1. N: gracilis; Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 355. Stock perennial, often woody, with procumbent or ascending stems of about 1 ft. or rarely twice as long, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Pinne usually 1 or 2 pairs; leaflets 6 to 20 pairs, oblong-linear, falcate, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long; glands none in the ordinary form, but small setaceous stipellæ under the pinne. Stipules leafy, obliquely cordate, acuminate. Peduncles 1 to 3 m. long, with 2 brdad cordate bracteoles, one about the middle, the other much lower down, both very deciduous. Flower-head small, globular, with very few of the male or neuter flowers at the base and sometimes none at all. Her- maphrodite flowers smaller than in the extra-Australian species, always 5 stamens only and few or sometimes none of the neuter ones at the base the head. Gland of the anthers small, sometimes perhaps quite wanting: Ovules 6 to 8. Pod, when perfect, 2 in. long, about 4 lines wide, with ics 6 seeds. N. Australia. Islands of the N. coast, È. Brown. Queensland. Shoalwater Bay and Broad Sound, R. Brown ; Moreton Bay , €. yet pe dr Beckler ; in the interior, on the Maranoa, ete., Mitchell, Leichhardt, N. S. Wales. Between the Darling and Cooper’s Creek, Neilson. wed Var. major. Larger and more erect. Leaves with a depressed gland below the o of pair of pinnæ, but less conspicuons than in N. monosperma. Flowers rather large-— Ínlets, Banks and Solander ; Rockhampton and Burdekin river, Herb. F. Mueller... Var. villosula. More or less pubescent. Pifinse 3 or 4 pairs, without glands. : also heads rather large.-—Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller; Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough i ‘ Neilson’s N. S. Wales specimens. A rbaceous, 2. N. monosperma, F. Muell. Herb. Stems apparently herbaceous, — ` but stouter aud taller than in N. gracilis (except perhaps in the var. major): d Neptunia.] XL. LEGUMINOSE. 301 Pinne 2 or 3 pairs; leaflets 20 to 30 pairs, mostly 3 to 5 lines long; gland large, depressed below the lowest pair of pinne. Stipules and bracteoles ` very much smaller than in N. gracilis and very deciduous. Peduncles very short, rarely exceeding 4 in. Flowers small, all with 5 stamens only, with very few or scarcely any of the neuter ones at the base of the head. Ovules always 2 only. Pod nearly orbicular, 3, 4, or rarely 5 lines diameter, with a single seed. N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller ; Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough, enne. Queensland, Bowman. 90. ACACIA, Willd. (Vachellia, W. and Arn. ; Tetracheilos, Ležm. ; Chithonanthus, Lehm.) Sepals 5, 4, or 3, free or united (wanting in A. Huegelii and 4. squamala). etals as many, free or united (wanting in 4. squamata). Stamens indefi- nite, usually very numerous, free or slightly connected at the very base. Pod linear or oblong, flat or nearly cylindrical, straight, falcate or variously twisted, opening in 2 valves or indehiscent. Seeds more or less flattened, usually marked in the centre of each face with an oval or horseshoe-shaped pression or opaque spot or ring, sometimes very obscure. Funicle usually thickened into a fleshy aril under or round the seed.—Trees, shrubs, climbers, or rarely undershrubs, with or without prickles or stipular spines. Leaves twice pinnate or reduced to a simple phyllodium or dilated petiole. Flowers mea yellow or white, in globular heads or cylindrical spikes, often poly- ous, A very large genus, dispersed over the warmer regions of the glohe, and in Australia the 4 humerous in species of all Pheenogamous genera. Of the Australian species, one only, - Farnesiana, is common to the warmer regions of the New and the Old World, the re- mainder are all endemic. Of these by far the greater number belong to the phyllodineous series, Which is entirely Australian, with the exception of a very few from New Caledonia, Tudian Archipelago, and the Pacific Islands, none of which can be specifically identified with any Australian ones, although very near some of the tropical species. Acacias are also er distributed over every part of Australia, but are entirely absent from New Taken as a whole, the genus is the most marked of those which have been dismembered from the Linnæan p ani ata at once distinguished from Znga and its allies by the free notwi and from the true Mimosee by their indefinite number; but, for its subdivision, notwithstanding considerable differences iu the flowers and more striking ones in the fruit, been found impossible to establish upon these diffcrences auy definite sections, even among those species where both flowers and fruit are well known, and in the majority of *pecinens gathered, the pod is neglected by collectors. Species with the most discrepant „> are sometimes almost identical in foliage, and, on the other gis pods o — > Sometimes belong to species widely different in foliage and even m Hower. — it therefore on each of the Gone llas Amy I have gone through the genus in detail, with th number of specimens before me, in vain sought for any better mode of distributing = Species than in Series, founded chiefly upon foliage and inflorescence. There are ee or two species in which the cylindrical spike appears to pass into the globular head, an: venation of the phyllodia is nearly, thongh not quite, as constant. ‘The glands y va even edge of the phyllodia and on the common petiole in the compound leaf seldom A” ; AA specific distinction, and the bracts in the flower-head still less so, and T have there- ìn the descriptions seldom mentioned them. The bracts are almost always narrow, tato, Y Packed in with the flowers, and more-or less dilated at the end, sometimes quito pel- ile; generally the onter ones of each head are flatter, the inner ones more slender and pro- 308 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Acacia. jortionally more dilated at the end, where they are usually ciliate and sometimes acuminate, apes derived from the united or free sepals must be used with caution, for the sepals, at first united, often separate as the flowering advances. ‘The forms assumed by me pod are tolerably constant in species, although rarely available for classing them in groups; so it is also with the seeds, transverse or longitudinal, and with the infinite variety of forms assumed by the funicle. This funicle on the ripe seed rarely remains short and — A almost always forms two or three folds under the seed, the end of the last fold or the w a of the last and more or less of the lower folds being thickened into a variously-shaped sm: fleshy aril, usually described as a strophiole, but always a part of the funicle and cer ery de with the lower filiform part, or forming the whole funicle ; occasionally the aver = is much elongated extending round one side of the seed, returning on the same side > ee ing another double fold on the other side, or completely encircling the seed in a dow . Š returning on the same side, or extending twice round without a return, or even encirc n b in a triple fold. All these and other modifications appear to be constant in each paren S only rarely available for specific diagnosis, for in many species the funicle is as yet un K its it is often unsafe to rely on it unless the sced is quite ripe, and then the thin part o funicle is so brittle that it is often destroyed merely by the elastic opening of the pod. Leaves all or mostly reduced to flat terete or subulate phyllodia or minute scales with- out leaflets. (Phyllodineæ.) Flowers in globular heads. 5 Phyllodia none or reduced to minute scales. : A 1 Pa Branches rush-like, not spinescent . . . . . + . . +. IV. CALAMIFO Phyllodia (either small and tooth-like or. vertically flattened or elongated) decurrent on or continuous with the branches. Branches flat or 2-winged by the decurrent phyllodia . . . I. Anata. Branches 3-winged or the phyllodia (usually pungent) very A shortly or scarcely decurrent, but not articulate . . . . II. CONTINUE. Faena articulate on the stems, at least when old. ‘ yllodia rigid, tapering into pungent straight points, usually narrow te shoe. hse octal ree in 43, A. verticillata) III. PUNGENTES. Phyllodia linear-subulate, terete or tetragonous, rarely slightly flattened, obtuse or with incurved or innocuous points, not iy iti atic i Ghee es ck ee yllodia terete or slightly flattened, usuall short, all whor or crowded and itrepulaily whorled or deed Pareri y OE ae Phyllodia vertically flattened, broader than thick, obtuse acute or with incurved or innocuous points. Phyllodia 1-nerved, the veins pinnate, reticulate or eed - or 2 secondary small nerves from the base on one side o e, A, ae rhe Te Sas akemea Phyllodia with 2, 3 or more parallel nerves . . . . . VII. PLURIN : E a) yria or oblong spikes. yllodia rigid, tapering into pungent points. a Phyllodia s amd dere de ie tte OS Lo IO Oa Phyllodia 1- or 3-nerved, articulate on the stem. . . +. . TIL Poa Phyllodia obtuse or with a callous, innocuous or hooked point . VIII. JULIFL IV. CALAMIFORMES. | Leaves all bipinnate. Flowersin globular heads or rarely in spikes. (Bipinnate,) Stipules none or brown and scarious. Spines none or axillary. ALE» Flower-heads several, in axillary or Sanioulate memea .. -s D Borr : -Flower-heads or spikes single, on axillary solitary or clustered miS. a e: si tec aeo e at e : ipules all or some of them spinescent. Flower-heads single on qaillegy peduncles <-s iie 4h Gh wale cous bry Gee? + Die AUERS Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 303 Div. I. PHYLLODINEZ.—Leaves mostly phyllodineous without leaflets. Sertes I. Alatee.—Phyllodia bifariously decurrent, forming 2 opposite wings to the siem, the free part short, broad, and acute, or rigid and pungent-pointed. Flowers in glo- bular heads, on axillary simple peduncles, rarely appearing racemose by the reduction of the flowering branches. Wings broad, continuous with the next below, removing the axillary bud to a distance from the stem . os cil A DORAMA Wings interrupted at each node, the axillary bud sessile on the stem. Wings broad, free part of the phyllodia usually short and broad, with an almost central nerve. Phyllodia without glands. Flowers numerous in a small com- $ | pact head. . PAg 2. A. glaucoptera. Phyllodia with a glandular angle on the upper eles. Heads PA seine LS Ala 6 to 12-flowered . via epee? wien gee N Wings narrow, free part narrow or with the nerve almost marginal. Phyllodia erect, incurved. Flowers numerous in the head, memerous. >. Petals smooth... eo Aa ad de aed diptera. Phyllodia rigid, recurved. Flowers few in the head, 4-merous. Petals strongly striate . he ee een + 5. A. stenoptera. . 3 Series II. Continuæ.— P} llodia narrow, rigid, tapering into a pungent point, con- | tinuous with the stem and ay and trifariously or irregularly decurrent. Flowers in | heads or spikes on axillary simple peduncles. Flowers in globular heads, . Phyllodia linear or linear-lanceolate, flattened, 1-nerved. ¿ eads nearly sessile, with 4 to 8 flowers . . . . . . +. 6.4. incurva. Heads pedunculate, compact, with above 40 flowers . + + 7. 4. trigonophylla. Phyllodia terete, very shortly decurrent. Lower phyllodia 1 to 2 in. long, upper ones short and distant. Pod curved or twisted, about 2 lines broad . . . . + Phyllodia crowded on the branchlets, slender and rigid, 2 to 4 in. long. Pod nearly 14 in. broad elie: ai i e | «i el Wid. Penes, Flowers in cylindrical spikes. ` Phyllodia lanceolate, thick, several- j En aana o En ere © © | A TO (106, 4. anceps, has some of the phyllodia only half articulate on the angles of the stem, and 59, A. extensa, has the branches often narrowly winged, with phyllodia scarcely to be distinguished from them.) portes TIL. Pungentes.—Rigid shrubs, branches in some species spinescent. Phyl- lodia articulate on the stem, FES pric into pungent points, subulate, linear or lan- e, or rarely none. Flowers in heads or spikes, on axillary simple peduncles. , (Besides the following species, a few of the short-leaved Calamiformes and of the small leaved Plurinerves might almost be classed among the Pungentes.) - A. Aphylle.— Pjy/j, spinescent. Heads a Globular, sessile ad vr paar oo“ pe. es yee oe on, gene etinerves.— Phyllodia 2- or more nerved, or terete and nerveless. Heads ar. Phyllodia faleate, not exceeding Y in. (See Series VII. Plurinerves.) Phyllodia linear- lanceolate, 3- or more nerved. Petals smooth or with prominent midribs. aro narrow, spathulate (Western species except A. swaldi). 4 Phyllodia attached by abroad base, very rigid and pungent . 12. 4. latipes. gid and pungen hyllodia slightly contracted at the con ian rigid and pungent 13. A. cochlearis. Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, with 3 prominent nerves, scarcely delta Pungent. Petals without prominent midribs . . +. + 177. A, heteroclita. 8. A. continua, AR AS e* . . . . 304 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. Phyllodia rigid, but scarcely pungent, several-nerved. Flower- heads almost sessile (Eastern species) . . . + «+ + Sepals united (Eastern or tropical species). Seeds longitudinal (extratropical species). Peduncles short. Pod 4 to 5 lines broad. Branches usually woolly . . nie o Seeds obliquely transverse. -Branches glabrous, somewhat mascid tropical spevies) 5020 REI EE a Phyllodia nearly terete, striate with several nerves or nerveless. Petals smooth. Stipules lanceolate, small and very deciduous. Phyllodia divaricate, straight or slightly incurved. Peduncles very short. Petals narrow, with raised midribs . Phyllodia straight, short, with not more than 2 nerves. Pe- duncles very short. Petals smooth... . +. +. + Phyllodia divaricate, straight or reeurved. Peduncles as long as or longer than the heads. Petals with raised midribs . Phyllodia crowded, incurved, mostly under lin, Petals with- CUCA ee re e Stipules setaceous or spinescent. Stipules slender. Phyllodia divaricate, recurved or flexyose. Pod flat, with raised margins. . . . with short pungent points. Petals concave and thickened at the top. . nearly marginal nerves. Stipules setaceous or spinescent. Petals striate. Phyllodia mostly 4 in. long, rather broad... . . + 22. A costata. | Phyllodia 4 to L in. A A A es BEE A, barbinervis. Phyllodia 1 to 2 in. long, very narrow, with hooked points . 24. 4. ataziplylla. Petals smooth. Phyllodia 4 to 1 in., rather broad . . 25, A. Baster Phyllodia subulate, terete, finely striate. Heads beiaile:: ovoid. Flowers 5-merous. . . . . ë C. Uninerves.— Phyllodia 1-nerved. Heads globular. Petals prominently striate. Pod thick, with broad smooth margins. Flowers 5-merous. Phyllodia crowded, under $ in. long, obliquely oblong-lanceolate, often falcate oo ,* wi . Phyllodia scattered, 2 to i} i long, linear-tetragonous ot as ae Petals membranous, smooth or with a prominent midrib. Flowers mostly 5-merous. Phyllodia oblong-lanceolate, under 4 in. long. Branches KR AE AAA Phyllodia linear or lanceolate, broader than thick. Pod 2} to 3 lines broad, not contracted between the seeds when perfect (E. and S. species). . . . . . +: ~~ y lines eg regularly contracted between every seed N.W. specit): eoa sell e ea Phyllodia linear-subulate, acicular or 4-gonons. Phyllodia mostly recurved. Branches tomentose. Pedun- cles slender. Heads small. Pod-valves very convex, striate -Phyllodia straight, clustered at the old nodes. Peduncles $’ slender. Funicle encircling the seed... .. +3 Phyllodia straight, often numerous, but not clustered. Pe- duncles very short , . . ès . . . . . . . . A, Oswaldi. A one Seater A Peduncles slender. Pod 1 to 2 lines broad . . . +. . 16. 15. A. phlebocarpa. 17. A. colletioides. . 4. sphacelata. . A, striatula. . A. sulcata. Se ce See campylophylla. Stipules rigidly spinescent. Phyllodia erect, almost obtuse, : o a eg ee an A Phyllodia linear or. lanceolate, recurved, with 2 thick marginal or . A, aciphylla. 26. A. anronitens. 98. A. erioclada. 29. A. siculiforwis. — AR O A 30. A, pat ens. : 81. A. laricina. 9, A. tetragonophylla. 34, A. sphacelata: [4cacia, A. lanigera. A. trinervata. A. quadrisuleata- Acacia. XL. LEGUMINOSR. 305 Phyllodia scattered, erect or slightly spreading, often 1 in, card long. Peduncles slender, mostly clustered. . . . . 83. A. genistoides. Phyllodia scattered, divaricate, rather broader or with a small glandular angle at the base. , Petals without any prominent nerve. Peduncles slender 35. A. ingrata. Petals with a prominent midrib. Peduncles slender. ghalled A A loa A 36. A. juniperina. Petals without any prominent nerve. Heads almost sessile 37. 4. asparagoides, (See also 93, 4, vomeriformis, with the glandular angle more prominent,) Flowers mostly 4-merous or 3-merous, Sepals free, narrow. Funicle shortly thickened . Calyx toothed or lobe q Peduncles longer than the flower-head. Phyllodia linear. Funicle folded and thickened under > the seed cos. a e a a O A Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, broad at the base. Funicle : dilated and clasping the base of the seed . . . . 40. A. rupicola. Flower-heads almost sessile, few-flowered. El Flowers 6 to 10, mostly 4-merous’ . . . . . . «4L 4 rhigiophylla, Flowers 1 to 4, mostly 3-merous. . . . . . . . 45. 4. azillaris. E D. Spicatee.—Phyiiodia 1- to 3-nerved. Flowers 4- or B-merous in cylindrical oblong E Or ovoid spikes, E Spikes or heads few-flowered, almost sessile. . ro Dr 6 Eo 10, mostly dineron E yo f & soo e 41, 4.rhigiophylla. ers 1 to 4, mostly 3-merous . ++ . - 45, A. axillaris. 's pedunculate, many -flowered. kes cylindrical or ovoid, dense. Flowers mostly 4-merous. ps linear-lanceolate, very rigid, 3- or 4-nerved as ween 42, A. oxycedrus. i i -nerved and ver- . So tats Pee aos ee ae verticillata. interrupted, slender. Flowers mostly 3-merous . . . 44. A. meager Series IV, iformes.—Phyllodia rarely none, more frequently narrow-linear or subulate, terete tetragonous be Mery niebla flattened, articulate on the stem, obtuse or , * short innocuous or recurved points, 1- or several-nerved. Flowers in globular ae on simple axillary peduncles, or rarely several heads in a short raceme, or irreg: racemose by the abortion of the floral phyllodia. ita pn ee cen” of Ser. VIIL, Juliftorer, have similar phyllodia, but cylindrical or in sc 21, A. sulcata, and a few allied Pungentes, have varieties with the phy ging them near to the short-leaved Calamiformes.) A, Subaphyllee,— Phyllodia none or very few and slender, resembling the branches. py cts | to 4 in the head, 4-merous. Petals striate. Pod 4-angled 46. 4. tetragonocarpa, : Flowers numerous, 5-merous, Petals smooth. Pod not angled. f Flower-heads racemose ‘ . 47. A. restiacea. na Plurinerves.— Phyllodia striate, with 2, 3, or more nerves on each side. A or corolla. Flower-heads in a raceme, enclosed when E AS “Calyx e 2 imbricate deciduous scales . . : - . . ~ + 48. A. squamata. ; and corolla present. Peduncles poo: APER . ra merous, under 4 in. long, obtuse or with h ght point. Peduneies $ to 4 lines long . . . . - - 49. A. brachyphylla. E Phyllodia may nearly 1 in. long, with a hooked or recurved Point... Peduncles 3 to 4 lines long. Petals narrow, membranous (tropical species) . . + . + ee e siete Payal concave and thickened at the end (Western species) . 40, 4. y VOL 1; mostly 14 to 3 in, or longer. Peduncles very short. + +. . 38, A. tenuifolia. . . . > + = E x . 306 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [4cacia. Nerves of the phyllodia few and prominent, usually 3. Sepals narrow-spathulate, free (Western species) . . + - 51. A. triptycha. Sepals united (Eastern species) . . . . 178. A. elongata. Nerves of the phyllodia numerous, very fine, often only visible under a lens. Phyllodia slender, terete, scarcely hooked. Sepals narrow- spathulate, nearly free. Pod unknown (Western species) 52. A. leptoneura. Phyllodia thick, slightly flattened, hooked. Flowers un- known. Pod broad, flat, membranous (Southern species) 54. 4. papyrocarpa. Phyllodia terete, rigid, scarcely hooked. Sepals spathulate, united to the middle. Pod very narrow, twisted, convex, coriaceous (Eastern species) . . +. « . 53. A, rigens. (185, 4. lineolata, has sometimes nearly the aliada of 4. tiptoe, but decidedly flattened and often much broader.) C. Uninerves.—Phyllodia 1-nerved or nerveless. Phyllodia mostly elongated, above 13 in. long. eduncles l-headed. Flowers 1 to 4 in the head, ` 4-meroùs. Petals striate . . . « 46. A. tetragonocarpa. Peduncles 1-headed. Sepals ‘spathulate (Eastern species). Phyllodia 14 to 2 or rarely 3 in. long; nerve prominent. Petals with a prominent midrib . . 55. A. pugioniformis. Phyllodia 3 to 6 in. long, ~~ nerved. Petals without ia E any prominent nerve . . . 56, A. juncifolia. Peduncles mostly bearing a raceme of 2 or 3 heads. ' Calyx aye shortly toothed or lobed (Eastern species) `.. . 57. A. calamifolia. Peduncles 1-headed or rarely irregularly racemose. Calyx trun- cate (Western species). as eh Phyllodia terete, obscurely nerved . . . 58, A. scirpifolia. Phyllodia. prominently nerved. Branches acutely angular almost winged ey Peay . 59. A. extensa. aby borro short, po exceeding lin. í ia very rigid, tetragonous, with very prominent nerves, A loug of abo ieee aes ads . 60. A *gonophylla. Phyllodia mostly under 1 in., terete or slightly flattened hori- zontally, usually nerveless, and often petiolate. Branches not thorny. Phyllodia mostly 4 to 2 in., narrowed but not petiolate. ps Peduncles slender . . 61. A. ericifolia. hyllodia mostly 1 in. long, distinet tiolate. Peduncles shore. f eu : a ype tis . 62. A. uncinella. Desh pio ie . 63. A. ozxyclada. roader than in A: (147, 4. subulata, has sometimes the long slender phyllodia scarcely b juncifolia, but is readily distinguished by the small flower-heads several in a raceme. Serres V. Brunioidese.— Phyl/lodia numerous, small, linear-subulate (ener xcept A. com ferta), verticillate, clustered or crowded, obtuse or with innocuous or rarely Ti ins os 4 Flowers in glohular heads or simple azillary peduncles, usually exceeding the pe y y Meo all regularly verticillate. ia-many in the whorl, rigid, alm ent, 4 to 1 in. y e. Petals smooth . cy E at sem at 64. A. cedroides. Phyllodia 8 to 10 or more in the whorl, slender, “urider 4i in. long. Petals striate. TÄ Phyllodia recurved at the end, sulcate, Pod sessile . . - 65. A. espe Phyllodia recurved at the end, not cs Pod on a a stipes of ? to 3 lines . . 67. A. galivides, Phyllodia straight at the end; wilasta.” Poa aid o i E GRA A. hippuroides. Acacia.) XL.. LEGUMINOSA. : 807: Phyllodia 5 to 7 in the whorl, recurved at the end, not sulcate. Petals not striate, with a prominent midrib . . . sard . 68. A. Baneri. Phyllodia in clusters of about 3. Pod almost woody, narrowed * ‘into a long stipes . ‘ ba eg te a Phyllodia crowded, but scattered or irregularly verticillate, under + in. long. Phyllodia linear-subulate Ai a a a e I Phyllodia flattened . 2221 ros tose + +. 71. A. conferta, SERIES VI. Uninerves.— Phyllodia vertically flattened, either narrow and obtuse or with a short oblique point, or broad and obtuse, acute or rarely pungent-pointed, with 1 cen- tral or nearly marginal nerve, or very rarely 2-nerved. Flowers in globular heads, either on simple axillary peduncles, solitary, in pairs or clusters, or several in axillary racemes. A. Spinescentes.— Rigid shrubs, with spinescent branches.* Phyllodia small, usually - 0100, not pungent, without marginal glands, Stipules minute or none (except sometimes mA. scabra). Peduncles 1-headed. Phyllodia narrow-linear. z Scabrous-pubescent. Phyllodia scattered. Stipules setaceons . 72. A. scabra. Nearly glabrous. Phyllodia clustered. Sepals free... . 73. A nodiflora. Us. Phyllodia scattered, Flowers not above 10, in a very small head. Calyx very short, truncate. Funicle filiform ss ee + Th, A. spinosissima. Flowers about 20 in the head. Calyx lobed, half as long as e Ph the corolla. Funicle club-shaped ; 75. A, ulicina. y: llodia obovate oblong or lanceolate, 2 to 4 lines long. Calyx ‘ A ne aa 76. A. erinacea. B. Armatze.— Shynjs or undershrubs, not spinescent (except sometimes A. congesta zw, idiomorpha). Phyllodia from obovate to lanceolate, rarely above 13 in. long, more or lesg undulate, with a central nerve and usually nerve-like margins ; marginal glands none Or very small and obscure. Stipules generally persistent, either spinescent or seta- 0r acuminate or phyllodia-like. Peduncles \-headed. > Phyllodia short, broadly recurved-faleate, pungent pointed. Calyx e. Petals 5, hirsute . ee er See ene Phyllodia obovate to incurved-falcate. Calyx small, Petals 4, . Chon 78, A. nervosa, IS. Buds obtuse. Stipules spinescent . . +. + + 78,4. pasa. pysctbrous-pubescent, Buds sentia Stipules small . . . 79. A. obovata. Various. Flowers 5-merous. : glabrous. ; > Glabrous, rigid and spinescent. Phyllodia obliquely ovate-lan- an rigid, almost pungent. Pupila e A eig „tous, rigid, unarmed except the stipules. Phyllo liquely sbim or cuneate, po thick te rigid, undulate . 81. A. dermatophylla. ular-pubescent and resinous, Phyllodia obliquely ob- “linear onnarrow-falcate. . . 9... + +; Hirsute or glabrons. Phyllodia obliquely semiovate or lan- an e Stipules spinescent (wanting in some garden va- 77. A. Huegelii. 80. A. congesta. 82, A. aspera. 83. A. armata. 84. A. idiomorpha. ios Densely pubescent, rigid and spinescent. Phyllodia broadly a genset va, PER Eg A Petals hirsute, eta yee Phyllodia obovate-orbicular, not narrowed at the - Undershrub, “Phyllodia obliquely obovate or oblong, narrowed at the base Stipules setaceous . . . + ere 85. A. Shuttleworthit. 87. A. pilosa. x3 . eee a 308 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ Acacia. Habit and phyllodia of A. pilosa. Bracts more acuminate. Stipules with abroad base . 2... . . . . . . 86. A. Gregori. Undershrub. Phyllodia narrow, incurved and oblique, scarcely narrowed at the base. Stipules setaceons. . . .-. -. Phyllodia of A. crispula. Stipules like the phyllodia and about e? E half their length . + webiwSes wi. SOS Sey. 0 A Some garden specimens of A. armata have some of the phyllodia 2-nerved ; the other 2- or more uerved species, formerly included in Armatæ, are now transferred to the Pluri- nerves. 107, A. hispidula, and 108, A. undulifolia, among Brevifolice, have the undulate phyl- Jodia, but not the stipules of Armate, and 120, A. sentis, and 121, A. dentifera, among Angustifolie, have occasionally spinescent stipules. 88. A. crispula. C. Triangulares.—S/rubs usually rigid and occasionally spinescent. Pi hyllodia small, rigid, the nerve either near the lower margin or rarely central, the upper side more or less dilated, the margin rounded or angular, with usually a gland at the angle. Sti- pules spinescent or setaceous or minute. Peduneles \-headed. Phyllodia tapering to a pungent point, the glandular augle below the middle or diverging from the base. Phyllodia hastate or lanceolate, the nerve nearly central. Flowers 4-merous, 3 to 5 (usually 4) in the head. ` Petals glabrous . ae hee n Petals densely villous . oop tind tal seid, Laid oll Phyllodia semilanceolate or divaricately 2-lobed, the nerve near the lower margin. _ Flowers 4-merous, 8 to 12 in the head ce aio DIA a Flowers 5-merous, 30 or more in the head . . . . . . 93. A. vomeriformis. — Phyllodia re acing i trapezoid, the nerve often excen- | » produced into a small pungent point, the upper angle above the middle. o 04 . Flowers 4-merous, 2, rarely 3 or.4 in thehead. . . . . . 94 A. biflora. Flowers 4-merous, 6 to 10 or more in the head. : Phyllodia triangular or rhomboidal, not much longer than broad at the top ¿UL balon isga Sissies acute? l + Phyllodia cuneate, much longer than broad, . . . . . 96. 4. cuneata, Flowers mostly 5-merous, 8 to 20 or more in the head. Glan- dular angles of the phyllodia broad and rounded, the pointed angle at the end of the lower side scarcely pungent. . . 90. A. hastulata. 91. A. horridula. 95. A. decipiens. Calyx lobed. , Phyllodia very coriaceous. Petals hirsute . . . . . 97. A. dilatata. Faridia usually small, slightly coriaceous. Petals gla- rous. Phyllodia obovate or broadly cuneate-oblong . . . . 98. 4. bidentata, Phyllodia narrow-cuneate o long. . j 99. A. acanthoc distinct, spathulate. Phyllodia scarcely triangular. (See the first 3 species of the following subseries.) i D. Brevifolize.—Shrubs, never spinescent. Phyllodia either broad ovate or fi we or narrow, oblong or linear, short (under 1 in. or larger in A. anceps), obtuse or Wt small recurved innocuous int, occasional inted.. Stipules minute or none. Peduncles Tiada : asionally undulate and more pot: qe Phyllodia from obovate-orbicular to linear, obtuse but with the nerve ending in a small recurved point. Sepals free, linear- -- spathulate. Phyllodia foe! exceeding 4 in. Branches scarcely angular. Flowers 10 to 15 or rarely 20 in the head (Eastern species). ¿Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 309 + Phyllodia broadly obovate or orbictlat +. o. . + . 100. A; obliqua. Phyllodia oblong, with a minute gland at the end . . . . 101. A. acinacea. * Phyllodia linear... Ae IR a A Phyllodia mostly 4 to 1 im. Branches acutely angular, - Flowers numerous (30 or more) in the head (Western species). 2 Phyllodia linear. Pod nartow. Funicle short... . . . 103. A. triquetra. yllodia lanceolate= . . a 104, A. ligustrina. Phyllodia obovate-oblong or obliquely cuneate, Pod broad. 3 Vunicle long, much-folded. . O PE AA EA il TTA Phyllodia crowded, linear, obtuse, under Y in. long. Sepals linear- y vet i RE ak Bossio abafi aeia, Phyllodia from orbicular to cuneate or linear, very obtuse or mh- cronate. Sepals united in a toothed calyx (except 4. dura). - R Branches with 3, rarely 2 acute angles, Phyllodia very thick, rather large, broad or narrow: Flower-heads dense, on thick __ PUES o e E oo 6 a a a O A ee rede angular. yllodia oblong-falcate, often undulate, the nerve-like margin as e an aret oe. E E Gree A iia 107. A. hispidula, yllodia broadly ovate or orbicular, mucronate, much undu- se te, entire, Podittitles slender . O ARA AA Phyllodia linear or linear-oblong, very obtuse, with a thick nerve within the lower edge, and a very thick nerve-like Upper edge. Flower-heads small, few-flowered. Calyx shortly lobed or toothed. Branches usually hoary ae (Beatern species) TS A. flexifotia. ‘Sepals free, spathulate. Branches glabrous. Phyllodia very = ms Sm (Western species) . Y Pay a là 4 - 110. A. durà. ` *hytodia cuneate-oblon > very obtuse, thick and fleshy, almost nerveless, . ño E Y E a a IE Æ A yllodia dong: linear, ‘obtuse, equally but not prominently “nerve nee . 113. 4, montana, (1 55, A. brachybotrya has occasionally the peduncles 1-headed, and is then neár 4. un- dulifolia,) E Angustifoliee.—S/rubs or trees, not spinescent. Phyllodia oblong opa linear, occasionally falcate, with 1 central nerve or , rarely 2- nra a ees td the: long Stipules minute or none, or rarely spinescent. Peduncles 1- : di very resinous, eS Peduncles y í a } Very short, rarely above 4 in. long. Usually resinous. -— Phyllodia cope or lanceolate, faintly TE a me S ag Phyllodia very obtuse, mostly under lim . . . a ee 198. 4: montana, Phyllodia mostly acute, love Win... 0. ee + + 114, 4. vernicifiua. podn L-nery ed. Calyx toothed or lobed. : Phyllodia mostly acute or mucronate; lateral veins fine and ie not very conspicuous A REA NR 115. A. leprosa. yllodia mostly obtuse ; lateral anastomosing veins very nu- ecu a i a. Sud Gidepiouoms. 5 =, 2 si 83 os peer . A. stricta. ‘ rea nearly or above } in. long. Phyllodia always Very peine Lateral veins few, rather prominent, anastomo- 8. Calyx toothed or lobed, . olia. Phyllodia lanceolate or linear-lanceolate . . i: - + + -> Ho rs ed ce je as y lodia narrow-linear, numerous. . . . . A. Gnidium Lateral veins scarcely conspicuons. . . . * 310 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Acacia, | Phyllodia narrow-linear, thick, the midrib obscure. Funicle m . linear, thick, scarcely folded. (Flowers unknown) . . . 119. A. ramosissima. Phyllodia with a prominent midrib. ; : es AAA A ey! | Ser Sepals narrow, free. Pedicels solitary or in pairs, the upper ones often race- mose from the abortion of the phyllodia. Stipules often spinescent. Phyllodia rarely above 2in.long . . . . . . . 120. A. sentis. Phyllodia very narrow, 3 to 8 in. long . . + + . 121. A. dentifera. Pedicels slender, clustered in the axils. Stipules not spinescent. Phyllodia lanceolate-falcate, 4 to 6 in. i BON A E aa hadas A O A F. Racemosæ.—Not spinescent. Phyllodiá not pungent (except in a few broad- leaved species), with one central nerve or very rarely a second shorter or fainter one, the beinlets when visible diverging from the midrib of reticulate. Flower-heads globular, few or all or nearly all in axillary racemes, very rarely a few solitary in the lower axils of a young branch. Flowers usually small and 5-merous in all except A. myrtifolia. Petals- not striate. : Phyllodia mostly long, falcate-lanceolate or almost linear, narrowed at the ends, more or less distinctly penniveined. Calyx about half as long as the corolla. ; Eastern species. Flower-heads small, Phyllodia mostly long lanceolate-falcate. Sepals free, narrow. Gland of the phyllodia at the base or none. Funicle surrounding the seed. . . . . . 123. A. falcata. Sepals united. Gland of the phyllodia at the base or none. ; eiulets transverse; funicle short . . . . . . . 124. A. macradenia. Sepals united. Gland of the phyllodia distant from the base, a secondary nerve often leading to it. Veinlets ob- CH A tuse. Funicle surrounding the seed . . > . +. «125. A, penmmnervis. Phyllodia mostly long linear-falcate. Sepals united. Gland distant from the base or none. : Funicle surrounding the seed . . . . . . . . . 126. A. retinodes. Sepals free or nearly so. Gland at the base of the phyl- lodia minute or none. Funicle short, the last fold DE A A A Western species (the first near A’, sentis, the second near A. fal- cata, the others near A. pycnantha). Phyllodia 1-nerved. s Sepals narrow, quite distinct . . . . . . . . « «121. 4. dentifera. ahs cohen least at first. s ower-heads small, on short slender peduncles. Funi- ; ele long folded. =... ai sa. . 128. A. microbatry4- Flower-heads rather large, on rather stout peduncles. Funicle clavate, as long as the seed, scarcely folded at the base. 7 ee more or less prominently penniveined . + rh [a sa > yllodia smooth, the veins se. icuous . . 129. Æ. sa Phyllodia 2-nerved . ES o cies Tae . 174. A. bivenosa. Phyllodia long falcate-lanceolate or almost linear or thick and nearly straight. Flower-heads dense, rather large. Calyx at least E ee as the prone: ca es yllodia penniveined, much faleate, Seeds longitudinal, funicle Ada, scarcely folded at the base . . . so ul 0 . . 131. 4. pyenantha. yllodia thick, straight or falcate, obtuse. Seeds transverse, the ic funicle almost encircling them’. . . . . , , . + . 189, A. notabilis. 127. A. neriifolia. ` Acacia.) — XL. LEGUMINOS&. . Dh -Phyllodia straight or falcate, thick, oblong-linear and obtuse or rarely lanceolate acute, the lateral veins inconspicuous or very obscure. -Calyx about half as long as the corolla, readily se- parating into distinct sepals. Phyllodia 3 to 6 in. long, obtuse, incurved. Sepals narrow, quite distinct. Two folds of the funicle encircling the seed . . . 183. 4. gladiiformis. Phyllodia 13 to 3 in. long, obtuse, nearly straight. Racemes : very short. Sepals at first cohering . . . . . . ... 184, A. obtusata. Phyllodia about 3 in. long, rather acute, usually with 1 gland. Racemes many-headed. Sepals at first cohering . . . . 1835. A. rubida. Phyllodia (on flowering branches) 14 to 24 in. long, usually with 2or3 distant glands. Racemes many-headed. Sepals at first cohering. Three folds of the funicle encircling the seed . . 136. 4. amina. Phyllodia 2 to 5 in. long, scarcely falcate, thick, obscurely reti-~ culate. Racemes few-headed. Sepals at first cohering. Fu- E nicle clavate, scarcely folded at the base . . . . . +. . 187. A. hakeoides. (See also the longest-leaved forms of 4. crassiuscula and A. decora.) ' Phyllodia linear, thick, rarely falcate-lanceolate, usually without A the lateral veins reticulate and obscure. Seeds longi- udinal, Calyx short, thin, truncate. gii Phyllodia mostly oblong-linéar, obtuse. Pod thick . . . 138. A. salicina. hyllodia lanceolate-linear with an oblique or recurved callous ; Point (western specien):i:0 cord yu siko sciigi? + + 189. A. rostellifera. yx lobed, thin, half as long as the corolla (Western species). Phyllodia all narrow-linear, erect. Pod narrow, flat, thinly coriaceous. Funicle folded into a small fleshy aril . . . 140. 4. pycnophylla. Phyllodia all narrow-linear. Flower-heads small. Pod 3 in. j broad, very flat, coriaceons. Fúnicle long, folded . . . 141 4. Harveyi. Phyllodia linear or lanceolate, usually thick. Sepals very thin or Narrow, distinct. Pod very flat, obtuse. Seeds transverse. oung racemes often enclosed in imbricate scales. oung branches acutely triquetrous. Pod broad coriaceous and glaucous, Sepals very thin. Phyllodia mostly above 3 in. long (Eastern species) . . -~ 142. A. suaveolens. Es Phyllodia mostly under 3 in. long (Western species) a BY 143. A. subcerulea. ~ Phylicdia long, lanceolate, penniveined (Western species) . . 144. 4. Lindleyi. oung branches scarcely angular. Pod membranous. Sepals a very narrow, Phyllodia under 2 j li lanceolate (Wes- } ag pan a long, Pens es E a TES tis. T Ieplonetale: a Phy Phy llodia several inches long, narrow linear rh aren 146. 4. Murrayana. i a ve TE è $ i lowers g a E A iah Jllodia rarely exceeding 14 in., linear lanceolate or obliquely 8, not very thick, without thick margins. Pod flat 4 to 6 lines broad, not contracted between the seeds. along the centre. : brous or pubesce A der 15 in the head. ee Phyllodia in dades e E a 4 pub Phyllodia lanecolate-faleate or slightly oblong > - + "150. 4. Leichhardt. 'spid with long hairs, Flowers above 20 in the head Pod rather thick, coriaceous, 2 to 2} lines broad, contracted be- 1. A. crassiuscula. Pod tween the seeds, Flowers about 20 in the head . MA flat, eo 3 lines broad, often contracted between the a ose to the edge ee E: i 15 to 20 - $ “og — - feat, l to ee a $ . 152. A. decora. . - 312 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ Acacia. Phyllodia obliquely oblong or broadly lanceolate, rarely above lin. Jong. Flowers 8 to 15 in thehead . . + . ... Phyllodia falcate oblong or obliquely ovate, rarely above 1 in. long. Flowers 4 to 10 in the head, . . . . ~ +. . 154. 4. lunata. Phyllodia ovate obovate or broadly oblong, usually under 1 in., or in Nos. 157 and 158 often 14 in. long. Racemes short with few heads. Flowers numerous. . Sepals free or separating. Funicle short, clavate . . . . 155. A. brachybotrya. Calyx short, broad, shortly toothed. Funicle long, folded foma the'seed «= ks yn die epee sda Racemes much longer than the phyllodia. Glaucous and scarcely pubescent. Phyllodia ovate obovate or : broadly oblong, 1 to 14 in. long. Flowers numerous . 157. A. podalyriefola. Softly pubescent. Phyllodia elliptical falcate or broadly and _ obliquely oblong, 14 in. or rather longer. Flowers numerous 158. 4. uncifera. Hirsute. Phyllodia ovate-elliptical recurved obliquely aris- tate mostly about in. Flowers 10 to 20 . > . . . 159. 4. vestita. Glaucous and glabrous. Phyllodia falcate-ovate or curved: A oblong, under 1 in. long. Flowers 10 to 20. . . . . 160, A. cultriformis. Glabrous. Phyllodia falcate-obovate or trapezoid, usually 2- fe nerved and not exceeding 4 in. Flowers 8 to 12 . . . 161. A. pravissuna. Phyllodia ovate, spinescent, 1 to 3 in. long. Stipules spinescent. sath Racemes exceeding the leaves. Flowers numerous . . . . 162. A. pyrifolia. Phyllodia incurved-faltate, ovate lanceolate or linear, coriaceous with thick margins. Flowers 4-merows, 2 to 4 or rarely 6 in Bo the head. Racemes rarely'exceeding the leaves . . . . + 163. A. myrtifolia. 153. 4. buxifolia. 156. 4. Wattsiana. Series VII. Plurinerves.— Phyllodia vertically flattened, obtuse or with an inno- cuous or recurved point (rarely pungent when the phyllodium is broad), with oror mei longitudinal nerves. Flowers in globular heads on axillary peduncles, either solitary or clustered or shortly racemose. A. Armatæ.— Stipules spinescent. Phyllodia falcate, subulate te or almost pungent. : Phyllodia }-to°14 ‘in. long, 2-nerved, the upper margin entire, formit. nie with aprominent angle . . ve wed . «+ 164. A, scalpellife yllodia 14 to 3 im. or longer, 2- to 4-nerved, the u margin much-curved, undulate, crenulate . . . a gr . 5 . 165. A. urophylla. . . . B. Triangulares.—Slipules setaceous or minute, not spinescent. Phyllodia sma e (under y in. long), broadly falcate-ovate or triangular with small points often pungent. Phyllodia triangular. Pod narrow, curved or twisted, glabrous. Branches usually spinescent. Phyllodia rather distant. Flowers Bi eNO in the head Eee el eae ae a oe ER nches elongated, rather rigid. Phyllodia numerous. Flowers prem? 13 it the head . Ve ee nn ee yllodia ovate-falcate. Pod flat, elandular-hispid. o, Flowers not 3 line long. Calyx much later than the corolla . 168. A. deltoidea. Flowers above 1 line long. Calyx nearly as long as the corolla. 169. A. stipulosa. (95, A. decipiens and some allied 1-nerved species, have occasionally nerves, but fainter and shorter than the principal one.) C. Brevifolive.—Phyllodia under 1 in. long, obovate ovate or broadly oblong, very obtuse, often undulate, Stipules inconspicuous. Phyllodia under } in. or very rarely 4 in. ] Petals smooth. ae faintly 2-nerved, iy e ar yof i a : shy s poe loxophylla. yllodia faintly several-nerved, obt i incurved j hair-like"point e i ae MOUYE, 171. A. setalifors , E J or 2 secondary Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSAE. 313 Phyllodia 4 to 1 in. long. Petals strongly striate. Phyllodia faintly nerved. Calyx shortly toothed. Pod thick and hard, hooked at the end, tapering into a long stipes . . 172. A. translucens. Phyllodia several-nerved, Sepals spathulate, free or separating. Pod thinly coriaceous, flat with thickened parallel margins, SNE WINER +55 ación hee 173. A. impressa. D. Oligoneure.—P/yllodia above $ in. and mostly above 1 in. long, oblong lanceo- late or linear, straight or scarcely falcate, with 2 or 3 nerves, Saintly or not at all veined en them (except A. Simsii), and not glutinous (except A. subporosa). Flower-heads racemose. Phyllodia coriaceous, obtuse. Phyllodia 2-nerved. Flower-heads loosely and irregularly race- : mee Calyx short, toothed +"! piix oy: lspargizgun Japigi 174. A. bivenosa. Phyllodia 3-nerved. Flower-heads very shortly racemose. Se - nt {eae ring AREA AO, ME IAN Peduncles solitary or clustered. dr prominently 3-nerved, rarely 2-nerved. s tree, spathulate (Western species). fe Phyllodia 4 to 14 in. long; ep o... +. + 176. A. mitidula. Phyllodia 13 to 3 in. long, linear-lanceolate or linear ¿de 177. A. heter oclita, Calyx turbinate, lobed. Phyllodia long, linear (astern species) 178. A. elongata. Phyllodia less rigid, nerves 3 rarely 2, less prominent; and ofteit veins between them. + Glutinous. Phyllodia marked with numerous glandular dots. 179. A. subporosa. Not glutinous tor dotted e E PO O PAGO, ADA. (13, A, cochlearis and some allied species among Pungentes, have occasionally scarcely Pungent phyllodia, bringing them near to A. heteroclita.) ; : (113, 4. montana, and 114, A. verniciflua, have usually 2 promineut nerves, but are y connected with and pass into some 1-nerved species; both are glutinous.) | , (191, A. y, hanii, 194, A. ¿iriophylla, and some others of F, Nervose, have sometimes only or 3 nerves, but usually either a greater number or they anastomose with each other.) E. Microneura,— Glabrous oF glaucous and not glutinous. Phyllodia thick, veinless 0r with very fine, scarcely prominent parallel veins, narrow or rarely short and obovate. Phyllodia cun t bout 3 o OF AA 181. 4. leptospermoides. Phyllodia linear or linear-cuneate, obtuse, E to 14 in. long. . . 190. A. farinosa. yllodia linear-lanceolate, 1 to 3 in. long. =: on short peduneles. eit “tag “Ai 2 to 3 lines broad, coriaceons, longitudinally striate . + 182. 4. nend Sed Ar broad, thin, flat, transversely reticulate . cs i ie aide a oe sessie U Ae E ee E is . : pp lodia ge very narrow and rigid, 14 to 2 in. long . . : 185. A. laeolata. y near, - long or more. ; Veins only visible finder a lens (Western species) . +. +. +. + e e ri Ph ad fine but prominent (Eastern species) <> atone ae F he P t Ta Modia linear-lanceolate falcate, 4 ft. long or more + . 200. 4. karpophyita. ¿En isci y or pubescent. Phyl- ervosee.— Often viscid, occasionally glaucous rarely hoary or pubesc: ee = straight or actus Jalcate, Pere A d òr` thin, with several ER >. rd oad, reticulate between them, the nerves rarely reduced to 3 w phy 18 narrow, Glancons Phyllodj , ; * y Wllodia coriaceous, oblong-cuneate, obtuse; nerves ; : Subro Sghtly prominent, veins reticulate . . . . +. . 188: 4; hemignosta, midi hot viscid. Phyllodia linear, coriaceous with a prominent - and several fine parallel nerves- , . . . + . 192: A. Peteroneura. 314 XL. LEGUMINOS&. [ Acacia. Glabrous, often viscid. Phyllodia rigid, narrow, obtuse, with few prominent, more or less anastomosing nerves. E Phyllodia $ to 1 in. long. Veins scarcely anastomosing. Se- pals free, Nerves prominent. Peduncles glabrous . + . . . +. + 189. A. selerophylla, Nerves faint. Peduncles tomentose . . . +. + E Se 190. 4. farinosa. Phyllodia 14 to 2 in. long. Veins more anastomosing. Sepals <3 very tinh, Albita O ERA A AREA . 191. A. Whanii. Very viscid. Nerves or veins numerous. Nerves parallel scarcely anastomosing. gai Phyllodia narrow-linear . . 1. 1 ee ee ¿+ +19, A, viscidula. Phyllodia linear-lanceolate or oblong . . . . . ^ . + 194. A. iziophylla. Reticulate veins very prominent, anastomosing with the nerves . 195. 4. dictyophleba. Not viscid. Nerves or veins usually numerous. Phyllodia nearly straight, coriaceous, many-nerved, strongly re- ticulate. Phyllodia oblong-lanceolate. Funicle folded and thickened under the seed (Eastern species). .°. . . . . + + 196. 4. venulosa. Phyllodia oblong, obtuse. Funicle encircling the seed in a ; double fold (Western species) . . . . +... « + 197. 4. eyelopis. Phyllodia falcate-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse. Veins nume- ios rous, Funicle encircling the seed (Eastern species) . . 198. 4. melanozy Phyllodia long and falcate, coriaceous. ; Reticulate veins numerous. lias Pod broad. Funicle encireling the seed in a double fold . 198. 4. melanoaylon- Pod narrow, twisted. Funicle folded under the seed. . 199. 4. implexa. i Reticulate veins few, scarcely conspicuous, nerves several, fine 200. 4. harpophylla. Phyllodia rather thin, straight, with several nerves and few fine l intermediate veins. Bu DI 269208 e p E A i Branches flattened, 2-edged or Pile? (23 ae A complanata. G. Dimidiatee.—Phyllodia, usually broad, and often long, falcate or a with 2, 3, or 4 prominent distant nerves, and reticulately penniverned between them. Glabrous. Phyllodia rather thin (3 to 4 in.). Flower-heads in axillary racemes growing out into leafy branches. Pod 6 to 8 Hoes broad o PR ee pee See ip er ee Glabrous. Phyllodia coriaceous, long-falcate (6 to 8 in.). Flower- si heads in axillary clusters or very short racemes . . + ped 204, A. lakeseent, oary or glaucous. Phyllodia large, broad (3 to 4 in.). x aboye lin. broad. . . . e E Es O a Young shoots hoary or yellowish-tomentose. Phyllodia large broad à = = Ag a = A : SRE T Sya + 206. A. flavescens. Woolly or velvety-tomentose. Phyllodia obovate or orbicular (14 pd to 2 in.). Flower-heads in a terminal raceme . o OL A FE E species terelt Serres VIII. Suliftorse.—Phylodia vertically flattened or in a few ent. Flowers ; several-nerved or rarely \-nerved, obtuse acute or pointed, rarely slightly pungent. în cylindrical dense or interrupted spikes, rarely, when sessile, shortly spot A. Rigidulee.—Phyllodia flat, often short, straight oblique or shortly falcate:. pa 2 dense (except A. megalantha). Flowers 5-merous. Species all tropical exc a which are eastern. Phyllodia small, rarely above } in. long, undulate. Phyllodia mostly clustered, narrow, 2 to 4 lines long. Spikes sessile. Son hota se Phyllodia broad, about 4 in. long. Spikes pedunculate. y. hamis sinuate-foothed. Seeds oblique . : ; Ap PE N 209. A. Wickham | 903. A. binervata. 908. A. amentifera- — l ast A at a A ias y eaa l mepa or slender, with small 5-merous, or in terete-leaved sp a Pibes sessile, Flowers 5-merous or 4-merous, Pod narrow, With Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSA. eo 315 Phyllodia narrow, obtuse with a short point, 3 to 14 in. long. Phyllodia obscurely 3- to 5-nerved. Pod 3 to 6 lines broad. E o ¿E A E A lysiphlæa. Phyllodia obscurely 1-nerved. Pod -1} lines broad. Seeds e longitudinal . . . . . 211. A. linarioides. Phyllodia rather broad, coriaceous, mostly 1 to 3 in. rarely 4 in. long, obtuse or with a glandular callous point, straight oblique or shortly falcate. Tomentose or pubescent. Stipules conspicuous. Phyllodia1 to 2 im long, 2- to 4-nerved, with anastomosiug veins. Pod magi narrow . . . 212. A. stipuligera. __ Resinous. Phyllodia 1 to 1 in. long, 5- to 9-nerved, without intermediate veins ni.i erain entu asane breno « 213. A. ptychophylla. Glabrous, except the young shoots. Phyllodia obliquely nar- ; i rowed at both ends, somewhat undulate, with a terminal : yes often large. a at yllodia finely 3- to 5-nerved. Spikes pedunculate. PE te: Calyx sinuate-toothed . . ak ee hy 214. A. stigmatophylla. yllodia very coriaceous, 5- to 9-nerved. Spikes sessile. ead turgid. Seeds oblique . . . ‘is . . 215. 4. umbellata. yllodia finely 3- to 5-nerved. Spikes pedunculate. Buds smooth. Calyx deeply lobed . A ME EA O Phyllodia broadly oblong-faleate, obtuse or with a hooked callous point, very coriaceous. a dense. Flowers not 1 line long. Pod flat. Seeds ob- que. Pod sessil se Halk Get Abina Pod site cg . p? = O po Foe Ob. A brevipes. pikes interrupted. Flowers 2 lines Mi: dal sr ¿nro DIO, 4. megalantha. Phyllodia nearly straight, coriaceous, obtuse, 3 to 4 in. long. Pod Marrow, Seeds longitudinal. Branches very angul c gular, Spikes Pomo... aras A cca: AA ame a Spikes sessile . | | , A 10< inom ae kde a 209 es terete or May Boe SS. ee Cou. . 222. A. subtilin . a Tetramerse.—Phy/lodia Jat, coriaceous or thin, straight or falcate, 8 Beds boi k jneroed when very narrow. Spikes often loose. Flowers 4-merous. = [ety dense and sessile, PP a inear-lanceolate, very rigid, 5- to 7-nerved. ss rochliocarpa. rally twisted (Western species) . 3 e eens oes oe — = Dalleckiena. spaa ia long, broadly falcate, 2- to 5-nerved and much reticulate 224, 4. es usually slender or interrupted. : 25. A. alpina e coro aud obliquely obovate, Ẹ to ee ce ved =. ` ‘4 rarely falcate, 2 to 6 in. long or more, 3- to 5-nerved, ifoli 2 ed oblongand much reticulate ies narrow and scarcely veined et Fi el Al yllodia long, narrow-linear, mostly l-nerved. . : R y: li . e (44, 4. Riceana, and 45, A. axillaris, differ from the short-leaved forms of A. linearis oo ane the phyllodia more rigid and pungent.) eW species of the following Stenophylle have 4-merous flowers, but with linear-terete Y-striate Phyllodia.) C. straight or slightly ca, po Phyllæe.—Phy?odia iincer-anialela, de paire Sb broad. Spikes erete or flat but thick, rarely under 2 in. long or above dense ecies often 4-merouv Me > 316 - . XL. LEGUMINOS#. [Acacia longitudinal seeds in 4. aciphylla and A. ephedroides, broad with oblique seeds in 4. drachystachya, unknown in the others. Phyllodia linear-subulate, terete or nearly 80. - Phyllodia pungent-pointed, minutely striate under a lens. Spikes ovoid or oblong. Flowers 5-merous . . . . . 228. A. aciphylla. Phyllodia few-nerved. Spikes ovoid or oblong. Flowers 4- i, merous . 229. A. ephedroides. Phyllodia minutely striate under a lens: Spikes 3 to 4 lines long: Flowers Saipan 2 os:clzece ie, bored Phyllodia very long, minutely striate under a lens. Spikes + mi, long. Plowersibemerodó nst o) wo nos cob ik eL Phyllodia with few prominent nerves. Spikes above 3 in. TIAS ao ise Yds EA eaten Phyllodia 4 to 1 line broad; flat but thick. Spikes under 4 lines long. Phyllodia finely striate, withthe central nerve prominent. : Flowers 4-merous. Sepals united . . . . . +. + . 281. A, microneura. Phyllodia minutely striate under a lens. Flówers 5-merous. Sepals free A Seely abe Spikes pedunculate. Flowers usually 5-merous. Pod narrow, with 1 longitudinal seeds in A. pityoides and A. oncinophylla; hard, 4 with valves rolling teni elastically: and oblique seeds, in 4. aylocarpa, A. gonocarpa, A. drepanocarpa, and A. arida ; l flat, broad, thin, with oblique’ or transverse seeds, in 4. aneura A and 4. brachystachya. Phyllodia terete or scarcely flattened, very finely striate under a 930. A. Burkittii. 232. A. cyperophylla. 233. A. multispicata, lens: E is Calyx thin and deeply divided, the lobes not spathulate . . 234. 4. pityoides. a Sepals free, narrow-spathulate . . . . +. + 240. A. aneura. d Phyllodia terete, nerveless or obsturely 1-nerved. Calyx lobed. 235. 4. aylocarpa. Phyllodia very narrow but flat, 1-nerved. Sepals free . 236. A. gonocarpa. a C pre amy 3- or 5-nerved. ‘ with a hooked or rarely. straight point (Western ; ʻi OJN a a za > 5 de T . . 237. A. oncinophylla. T Phyllodia obtuse (tropical species). . . . . . + « + 288, A. drepanocarpe — Phyllodia flat, minutely striate under a lens. - a Calyx shortly lobed." Pp EF AOS. a. N. ae Sepals free, linear-spathulate. Spikes cylindrical 5, 2, 5. ss . Ge a Spikes ovoid or oblong, 2 to 8 lines long . . . : : . 241. 4. brachystach D. Paleatee.—Phyllodia usually long or large, more or less falcate, narrowed am : end, with numerous parallel nerves or veins either all equal or the central one or se” more prominent than the others, the smaller ones occasionally anastomosing. slender, dense or rarely interrupted. Flowers mostly 5-merous. (Several speciés of this group cannot be distinguished without the fruit.) Pod (where known and probably in all the species) narrow, with longitudinal seeds, or rarely broader with the longitudinal seeds along the centre. Phyllodia narrow-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, rather thick, slightly falcate, with very fine parallel nerves, the midrib usually more prominent. Loosely pubescent. Stipules conspicuous. Phyllodia not above 3 in. long. . . A Oe ee ` Glabrous or the E shoots silky-pubescent. Stipules in- es conspicuous. i ve 3 in. long. A : p yllodia mostly above 3 in. lo! g 948. 4 doratorylom . species. Podunknown . . . . . nen TE Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSA, y 317 Western species, Young shoots usually silky-pubescent. Midrib of the phyllodia prominent. Pod narrow, convex over the P o Beds 6 a MR AA A Quite glabrous. Nerves of the thick phyllodia nearly Equal? Pod unknown zs «sn ach} S, madia Bessey SAB ale stereophylla, + Glabrous and glaucous. Pod rather broad, with thickened IA Seeds ovate oe eee 246. A. signata. Phyllodia narrow-lanceolate, not so thick and rather more falcate than in the preceding species, usually with about 3 nerves More prominent than the rest. Phyllodia sprinkled with a few hairs, Pod flat, slightly Ponve over the seeds 2... Luo il e danba Phyllodia very glabrous, the smaller veins between the 3 prin- E3 cipal nerves scarcely conspicuous. Pod unknown... . 248. 4. oligoneura. Phyllodia glabrous. ` Nerves numerous, Pod very convex over the seeds and moniliform no. + 249, A. torulosa. Phyllodia glabrous. Pod spirally twisted into numerous coils 250. 4. julifera. Phyllodia glabrous. Spikes interrupted, 2 to 3 in. long (slen- - l A der but dense in the preceding species). . . . < . . 251. 4. Solandri. Phyllodia more falcate than in the preceding species, often broader or longer, with more nerves. Pod narrow or flat, straight or twisted. iches scarcely angular, Phyllodia coriaceous, often hoary with numerous very fine nerves, all free from the base. o: a a 253. A. glaucescens. Branches very angular, Phyllodia with 1 or 2 of the principal nerves confluent with the lower margin of the base. Pod s = o rre a eae . 254. A. Cunninghamit. ranches terete or nearly so. Flowers glabrous. od very narrow and NR sor ee E Pod broad, very flexuose or twisted, not spiral. Seeds along oe. a eee tid eg a ae ches terete or nearly so. Flowers pubescent. Pod long N and slender, longitudinally striate and furrowed cs SM (where known and probably in all the species) rather broad, riaceous ey or rarely rather thin. Seeds va oblique or Sverse. Parallel veins of the phyllodia usu: y numerous putt closely packed, ai ck yllodia long, narrow, and slightly falcate (as in 4. julifera). P od re with straight margins and undulate valves. icular. Sanches acutely an view re. al ep eet A E een, py ranchos seareely angular cha Sb ge oe ee e E at EN. a erg broad, wae or very oblique. Pod nearly terete zz 2000 A ikid. 244. A. acuminata, 255. A. leptocarpa. 256. A. polystachya. 257. A. holcocarpa. Phyllodia long, as in A. julifera, but usually more falcate. Pod » Hat, contracted to the base. Phyllodia 3 to 5 lines broad. Pod obtuse, not hooked . . 261. 4. lozocarpa. yllodia 6 to 8 lines broad. Pod obtusely hooked at the end 262. 4. oncinocarpa. Phyllodia broad, falcate or very oblique. Pod broad, hard, and Woody, obliquely veined. Branchlets 3-angled. Pod obtusely recurved or hooked at the A 0d, much narrowed at the base. oi 1 96, calyobidla — very flat. Pod not hooked, narrowed at the base . 265. 4. calycul ry rn terete or slightly angular. Pod broad, very » Obliquely truncate at the base. : Pod flat or Aly twisted, the outer margin entire. . 266, 4, erassicarpa. 318 : E XL. LEGUMINOS#. [ Acacia. Pod much twisted, the outer margin deeply sinuate . . . 267. A. auriculiformis. Pod quite uncertain. Phyllodia narrowed at both ends, with numerous parallel veins or nerves, and usually falcate, as in the Falcate, but under eee ne a OA HPA AA AE BE e Phyllodia of 4. julifera and others of the Falcate, but the small lateral parallel veins appearing, under a lens, very much ana- pa stomosed into a fine network. . . . . 2... . +. +. + 263, A. refinervis. E. Dimidiatee.—Plyllodia large, broad, very oblique or falcate, with 3 or more dis- tant prominent nerves, more or less confluent at or near the lower margin at the base, — pinnately net-veined between them. Branchlets very acutely angular or alinost winged. Glabrous and glaucous. Spike pedunculate. Flowers mostly 252. A. leptostachya. Paes \ 2b. ..> A E vee ee Hoary or silky-pubescent, Spikes sessile. Flowers mostly 5- -Mitut h AS Ohe AIOE Branchlets terete or scarcely angular. Spikes 1 to 2 in. long. Flowers glabrous. (Erect shrub) . . 270. A. dimidiata. Spikes scarcely 4 in. long, dense. Flowers densely pubescent. Stem prostrate or diffuse . Bokas ea A mi ati ciate AS Div. II. BIPINNATÆ.— Leaves all bipinnate. Series IX. Botryocephalee.—Leaves bipinnate. Stipules small or none. Flower- heads globular, in axillary racemes or terminal clusters. Pinnz 2 to 4 pairs, rarely 5 or 6 pairs. Leaflets above + in. long. Young shoots golden-pubescent. Leaflets 8 to 12 pairs, lan- ceolate, acute, lto2in.long . . ..... . « +» 272. 4. elata. Glabrous and glaucous. Leaflets 12 to 20 pairs, oblong or linear, scarcely acute, about 4 in. long. Gland distant from the ; A E a O SO. A Glabrous aud glaucous. Leaflets 4 to 8 pairs, obovate-oblong, rie very obtuse, 4 to 6 lines long. Gland close to the lowest pinnæ 274. A. spectabilis. + Foliage pubescent. Leaflets 6 to 10 pairs or more, obtuse, 3 to ee 4 lines long. Gland at the base of the petiole . . . . . 275. A. polydotrya. = Foliage glabrous. Leaflets 10 to 15 pairs, obtuse or acute, firm, 4 _ pale underneath, 3 to 4 lines long . et es ee Pinne 8 to 15 pairs. Leaflets very numerous, narrow-linear and very small, or 3 to 4 lines long and subulate. Glabrons, or, if tomentose, pubescent, the young shoots of a yel- lowish or golden tinge. Pod (always?) under 4 lines broad, ae poniraried between the seeds. . . - + a + lvery-tomentose or v laucous. Pod (always?) above 4 + lines broad, not Akirita between the ira . ) . . . 278. A. dealbata. ee | Pinne 12 to 15 pairs. Leaflets 6 to 10 pairs, ovate-cordate, — a under 1 line long. Branches pubescent . . . . . . . + 279. 4 cardiophy!l Bose 3 to 6 be a 6 to 10 pairs, oblong, under 2 lines z ong. Branc rous or hispi us, in p, dense tu oee naaa E inne 3 to 10 pairs. Leaflets 6 to 20 pairs, linear, under 2 lines : e long. Branches hirsute. Flowers ris. the heads 2 BE A pee 3 -f 276. A. discolor. . 277. A. decurrens — Series X. Pulchellee.—Leaves bipinnate. Stipules none or smaller, prea spinescent. Flower-heads globular or cylindrical, on simple axillary solitary or peduncles. ne — — globular. Petals not striate. ; ines axillary, rarely entirely wanting. Pinnæ 1 pair. Leaf- E MW in a ee T Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSA, - Y No spines. Branches pubescent. Pinn 2 or 3 pairs. Leaflets 3 to 6 pairs, oblong, 1 to 2 lines long. Sepals free or nearly so . 283. A. Mitchelli. Glabrous. Pinne 2 to 5 pairs. Leaflets 20 to 30 pairs, with a broad oblique base, 1 to 3 lines long. Calyx shortly toothed els ica ts oat wd do 00%. Av pentadentá: Glabrous. Pinnæ 1 pair. Leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, above 3 lines _ ` long. Flowers large, 4-merous, 3 to 8 in the head . . . 285. 4. Gilberti. Seeds transverse. No spines. Flower-heads globular. Petals usually striate. Pinnee usually 1 or 2 pairs. Glabrous. Leaflets 5 to 10 pairs, 3 to 5 lines long. Flowers - 20 or more in the head eet TUTE VTA eee, I ls II: Branches pubescent or hirsute. Flowers 12 to 15 in the head. ; Leaflets 5 to 10 pairs, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long. . . . 287. A. obscura. Leaflets 1 to 4 pairs, 1 to 2 lines long. .. . . . + . . 288. A, strigosa. transverse. No spines. Flower-spikes cylindrical or rarely : ovoid. Petals smooth. Pinne 2 pairs. Leaflets 2 to 6 pairs. 289. 4. Drummondit. (Branches of 292, A. Bidwilli and of 293, A. pallida, are sometimes almost or quite Without stipular spines.) , SERIES XI. Gummiferse.—Leaves bipinnate. Stipules of some or all the leaves per- sistent and spinescent. Flower-heads globular, on solitary or clustered simple peduncles. Bracts small, close under the flower-heads. : : da cb 6 pairs. Leaflets small, 10 to 20 pairs. nae api cylindrical indle- i iscent, pithy between the seeds cl E Soros palas eek cic. e 200, A: Marnostnne, Pinnæ l or 2 pairs. Leaflets small, 8 to 12 pairs. Pod narrow- red. Se AO ll beroda. forming a little 4-lobed ring round the middle of the pe- duncle, Pinne 15 to 25 pairs. Leaflets scarcely 1 line long. Flowers 4-merous. Pod coriaceous; valves slightly convex, striate ON se a a ee A he 3 to 10 pairs. 4 lines long. Flowers 5- > merous E" ramet EN : Mimosa obliqua, Pers, Syn. ii. 261, not of Wendl. nor of Tam., a phyllodineous Austra- fian Acacia, is insufficiently described to determine even to which series it belongs. | 7 leat Ssuevides, Colla, Hort. Ripul. App. ii. 339, is described from a garden specimen in only and is quite unrecognizable. : ; i Numerous manuscript names of A. Cunningham’s, F. Mueller’s, and others, unaccom- ed by descriptions, but quoted in G. Don's ‘General System,” in my own papers in er’s * London Journal of Botany,’ i. 318, and in the ‘ Linnæa,” xxvi. 603, in F. Mueller’s Paper In the * Journal of the Linnean Society,’ iii, 114, in Seemann’s work, Die in ig Omitted as a Acacien,’ 1852, in Steudel's * Nomenclator,’ or in garden catalogues, are here 44 as Unpublished. E Division I. PHYLLODINEA. “aves all (ex, o i nd occasionally one or two on young a branches) ie eis the petiole either terete or angular _ 0 More or less vertically dilated so as to assume the appearance of a rigid Simple leaf, with an upper and a lower edge or margin, and two lateral similar es, and either sessile or contracted at the base into a short petiole, the «Per edge often bearing 1, 2, or rarely 3 or more shield-shaped or tuber- ar or depressed glands, Series I) Azara, —Phyllodia bifariously decurrent, forming 2 opposite . 320 : XL. LEGUMINOSAE. [ Acacia. wings to the stem, the free part either short broad and acute, or rigid and pungent-pointed. Flowers in globular heads, on axillary simple peduncles, the heads rarely appearing racemose by the reduction of the flowering branches. This series differs from the Continue by the phyllodia always distichous, much more de- current, and often reduced apparently to lobes or teeth of the wings. A few other species, such as 4. complanata, have flattened stems, but the phyllodia are distinetly articulate on the node. i 1. A.(?) bossiæoides, 4. Cunn. Herb. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 323; not of Seem. A tall shrub, glabrous and glaucous, apparently allied to 4. alata, but somewhat doubtful, the flowers and fruits being unknown. Phyllodia short, triangular, bifarious and decurrent along the stem, each one continued beyond the next below, forming continuous opposite wings, the axillary buds thus removed to 2 or 3 lines from the stem in the centre, as in some species of Brachysema and Bossiea, but the venation is that of the winged Acacias. Stipules small, lanceolate, oblique and almost semisagittate at the base. l N. Australia. Liverpool river, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham. A very remarkable species, originally published as an Acacia, on the authority of Cunningham, which 1 now regret, although I know of no other genus to which it is likely to belong. 2. A. glaucoptera, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 604. A much-branched, glabrous and glaucous shrub. Phyllodia erect, bifarious, oblong-falcate, de- current along the stem, each one continued to the next below, but not be- yond, forming opposite wings, notched at each node, where the axillary bud is sessile on the stem ; the free part of the phyllodium from 4 to 13 in. long, and 3 to 4 lines broad at the base, with a central prominent nerve. Stipules small, rigid, but not spinescent. Peduncles solitary or 2 together, under 4 in. long, bearing each a globular compact head of very numerous (above s0) ae small flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals distinct, linear-spathulate, scarce’y half as long as the corolla. Petals distinct, rather narrow, smooth. od not seen.—A. bossieoides, Seem. Eingef. Acac. t. 1, not of A. Cunn. W. Australia. Towards Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 1, and in leaf only, 4th Coll. n. 1; Clay flats, Fitzgerald, Gardner and Phillips ranges, Mazwell. 3. A. alata, R. Br. in Ait. Hort, Kew. ed. 3, v. 464. A tall shrub, ats — taining 5 or 6 ft. or more, but flowering when only 1 or 2 ft. high, glabrous or more or less hirsute. Phyllodia falcate-ovate, erect or spreading, buan- ously decurrent along the stem, each one continued to the next below, but not beyond, forming opposite wings, notched at each node, varying ™ | breadth from 1 or 2 lines to 4 in., the free part, in the ordinary form, @ | 3 to 4 in. long, usually with a gland-bearing angle on the upper edge," | central nerve terminating in a pungent point. Stipules spinescent. Feon cles solitary or 2 together, bearing each a globular head of about 6 to 1 A comparatively large flowers, mostly 5-merous. Bracts ovate, sessile. sometimes minute, sometimes nearly one-third as long as the corolla, broas more or less lobed. Petals 5, smooth, united to the middle. Pod stip! pr oblong-falcate or lanceolate, acuminate, incurved, with thickened margins glabrous or hirsute; valves convex. Seeds ovate, transverse, the With few short folds, the last thickened into a small aril.—Wen Comm. Acacia, | XL. LEGUMINOSA, 321 Acac. t. 1; Bot. Reg. t. 396; DC. Prod. ii. 448 ; Colla, Hort. Ripul. t. 17; Reichb. Ic. et Descr. Pl. t. 88, f. 1; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 4. W. Australia. King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Fraser, and others ; Swan and Canning rivers, Oldfield, Preiss, n. 997, Drummond, lst Coll. n. 306 and 307. Var. platyptera, Meissn. Phyllodia larger narrower and more distant, recurved at the end and scarcely pungent.—A. platyptera, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, Mise. 3 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3933 ; A. uniglandulosa, Seem. and Schmidt, in Flora, 1844, 495.—Raised from Drummong’s seeds Var. biglandulosa. Phyllodia short, broad, coriaceous, mostly with 2 or sometimes 3 d-bearing angles or teeth on the upper edge.—Amongst Oldfield’s and other specimens. 4. A, diptera, Lindi. Swan Riv. App. 15. A glabrous and glaucous or pubescent shrub, with virgate branches, more slender and elongated than m 4. alata, Phyllodia few, distant, bifariously decurrent, forming loug op- posite wings, sometimes very narrow, sometimes 2 to 4 lines broad, the free part falcate, varying from a minute tooth to + in. in length, the nerve close to the upper edge, which has no gland. Stipules minute or none. Peduncles nder, solitary or 2 together in the axils, or appearing racemose from the wermg branch being reduced to a slender leafless rhachis, bearing each a bular head of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx very small, lortly lobed. Petals united at the base, slightly striate. Pod stipitate, ightly faleate, flat with nerve-like margins, about 2 in. long and 4 lines ad, but not quite ripe in our specimens. Seeds transverse.— Hook. Ie. l t. 369; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 4 ; A. Willdenowiana, Wendl. Verz. K. - 1845, 5, according to Seem. Eingef. Acac. 9. w. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll., Preiss, n. 995, 996, and others ; = river, Mrs. Mol loy, Oldfield ; Gordon plains, Oldfield ; northward to Moore and Murchi- and phot’) Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 3, and southward to Mount Wuljenup, Preiss, n. 393, sl Cheynes Beach, Maxwell. ; wen frioptera, Grah, in Bot, Mag. t. 3939. Pubescent. Flowers rather large.—Swan River, mmond. ; : le stenoptera, Benih, in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 825. A rigid ; mndershrub or be . bushy shrub, quite glabrous or slightly scabrous. Phyl- p bifariously decurrent, forming long opposite wings, 13 to 2 or even 3 Lies broad, the free part lanceolate or linear-faleate, rigid, tapering to a — Peent point, 1-nerved, without marginal glands. Stipules small, not Puhgent. < Peduncles under 3 in. long, bearing each a head of 6 to 10 flowers, Larger n in 4. alata and mostly 4-merous. Calyx less than half as long *S the corolla, shortly lobed. Petals rather figid and strongly striate. Pod maly seen unripe, very much falcate, acuminate, 3 in. broad in the middle, rowed into a stipes of nearly 1 in., and apparently very convex, with a i gitudinal wing on each side of each suture.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 5, i i » D ond, 2nd Coll. 45 Swan River to King George's Sound, Fraser, Drummond, * “al Pr Preiss, n. 991 and 993, and others; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy. The it are nearly those of 4. tetragonocarpa, but the habit and phyllodia are very | Sa tL. Contryua.—Phyllodia narrow, rigid, tapering into Kyong E -N . . 322 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [ Acacia. point, continuous with the stem and shortly and trifariously or irregularly decurrent. Flowers in heads or spikes, on axillary simple peduncles. This small series connects the 4/ate with several others, and I had much doubt whether it would be most convenient to unite the species with 4/ate as in my former papers, or with Pungentes, with which they more generally agree, or distribute them into several of series, placing 4. incurva and A. trigonophylla in the Alata, A. continua in the Pungentes, A, Peuce in the Calamiformes, and A. triptera in the Juliflore, but on the whole it ap- peared to me that these large series remain better defined, if the Continue are collected into a small intermediate group. 6. A. incurva, Benth. in Hook. Lond.Journ. i. 325. A rigid shrub of 13 to 2 ft., glabrous or slightly scabrous. Phyllodia continuous with the stem and shortly and trifariously decurrent, linear or linear-lanceolate, incurved or recurved, mostly 14 to 2 in. long, rigid and tapering into a pun- gent point, 1-nerved, without marginal glands. Stipules minute or shortly setaceous. Flower-heads globular, mostly solitary and almost sessile, con- taining 4 to 8 flowers, mostly 4-merous. Calyx very short. Petals membra- nous, not striate, the buds very angular. Pod unknown.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 5. W. Australia. Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy; sandy plains, near Erwin, Preiss, #- 990. Var. brachyptera. Phyllodia divaricate, under 4 in. long.—A. brachyptera, Benth. iu Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 325,—King George’s Sound, 4. Cunningham ; near Mount Mazwell, also Oldfield. | 7: A. trigonophylla, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 199. A rigid glabrous shrub, resembling at first sight the coarse specimens of 4. incurva, but with | very different flower-heads. Phyllodia continuous and shortly decurrent, nearly half as long as the corolla, splitting into linear-cuneate sepals. Petals rather thick, with prominent midribs. Pod straight, flat with thickened margins, 7 3i _ 8. A. continua, Benth. A rigid shrub of 1 to 2 ft, glabrous . a a its parts, the young branches angular-striate. Phyllodia continuon? -ito pungent points, with several Yaised nerves disappearing with age, hort ones often 1 to 2 in. long and erect, the upper ones much shorter, SP’ or recurved, or even reduced to short spines. Peduncles usually pr re bearing each a globular head of above 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. — e bracts broadly cuneate, inner ones small. Sepals spathulate, distinct, Ja 1 half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, at length free. Pp ee | curved or twisted, about 2 lines broad.—4. colletioides, Y. Muell. Pl. Vic ES 5, not of A. Cunn. a Victoria. Ridges of the Murra) : ler. S. Australia. pora and ita te ares to St. Vincent’s and Spencer Gulfs and Mount Remarkable, F, Mueller ; Lake Gilles, Burkitt. Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSA. 323 Thad, in the “Linneea? xxvi. 609, followed F. Mueller in referring this to 4. colletioides, of which it has the pod, but I find, on further examination, that the character of the phyllodia, - continuous not articulate on the stem, now pointed out by F. Mueller, does not exist in ningham’s plant, which has moreover a different venation. ° 9(?). A. Peuce, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 151. A tree of 15 to 30 ft., with the aspect of a Pine, quite glabrous and somewhat glaucous. Phyllodia rather crowded, not articulate, but very shortly decurrent on the stem, subu- late-terete, rigid, tapering into pungent points, mostly 2 to 3 in. long or rather more, straight and erect, with few slightly prominent nerves. Stipules Very minute and deciduous. Flowers... Pod (from a single imperfect one) Very flat, glaucous, several in. long and nearly 14 in. broad. Seeds broadly ovate, flat, the funicle filiform to the end, : N. Australia. N. of Will’s Creek, Howitt’s Expedition. The pod is not attached to ‘ae Specimen, and closely resembles that of 4, sericata, aud some doubt therefore attaches self to the species, 10. A, triptera, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 325. A dense rigid shrub of 3 or 4 ft., quite glabrous. Phyllodia numerous, lanceolate, re- curved-faleate, decurrent on the stem, rigid and tapering into a pungent point, $ to 1 in. long, striate with several prominent nerves, without any marginal gland. Stipules scarcely any. Peduncles short, solitary or 2 to- gether, bearing each a cylindrical spike of 3 to 2 in. Flowers not crowded, VY small and globular in the bud, mostly 4-merous. Calyx short, broad, Petals membranous and smooth. Pod unknown. Queensland. Sandstone ridges, Mantuan Downs, Mitchell ; on the lower Macquarrie, Bowman, also in Leichhardt's Collection. ; N. S. Wales, Barren lands, N. of Arbuthnot Range, Fraser. _ Serres TIT, PuneEntEs.—Rigid shrubs, the branches in some species spinescent, Phyllodia articulate on the stem, rigid, tapering into pungent > Usually subulate linear or lanceolate, or rarely none. Flowers in heads °S, on axillary simple peduncles. Pungent phyllodia give these species in general so peculiar a habit, that it appe: os More convenient to unite fax ina vid pas than to distribute them in whip t Mie -On venation and inflorescence, at the same time it must be admitted ha two species, the pungent character is variable. On the other hand, the adopti hare the Ep series Pi ungentes and Calamiformes disposes of those terete-leaved e. aca ee forescenc, UCettain, and of 4. verticillata, where the spicate passes into the globular in- E cent APuYLL.—Phyllodia none except minute scales. Branches spines- The general as is si ies i f the Pungentes, that it is ; pect of this single species is so much that o gentes, placed here, although no phyllodia per ago any of the specimens seen. ine ons fod, Which ne erly described as aphyllous, occasionally produce a few branch-like phy 3 € their place among Calamiformes. ¿IL A, spi escens, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 323. A glabrous, Re bushy. » diffuse ‘tinh, rarely exceeding 2 ft., the branches terete, striate foes T spinescent. Leaves none, replaced on the young shoo ont: écidous scales, Flower-heads globular, sessile along the h to 6 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx truncate, ay A * . lodia, with the points usually recurved, and 2 or 3 prominent nerves, and is the 324 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ Acacia. broadly toothed, about half as long as the corolla, Petals free, striate. Pod shortly stipitate, linear, curved, flat with slightly thickened margins, about 1} lines broad ; valves convex over the seed and contracted between them. Seeds’ longitudinal, the funicle expanded into a broadly clavate lateral aril, and scarcely folded below it.—F. Muell.: Pl. Vict. ii. 3. N. S. Wales. In the S.W. interior, Fraser. Victoria. Desert tracts of the N.W..of the colony, F, Mueller. S. Australia. Memory Cove, R. Brown; Encounter Bay, Whittaker ; Murray desert, Onkaparinga river, Barossa ranges and towards St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller. B. Piurinerves.—Phyllodia 2- or more nerved, or terete and nerveless. Heads globular. Where the phyllodia are terete and 2-nerved, the total number of apparent nerves is 6, 2 on each side, and the 2 nerve-like edges of the phyllodium uearly equally prominent. ` 12. A. latipes, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 334. A glabrous rigid shrub, very nearly allied to 4. cochlearis, and perhaps a variety, differing chiefly in the thick rigid phyllodia more divaricate, and attached by a broad base, rarely 1 in. long, abont 1 line broad, with 3 or 4 prọminent nerves as in that species. Peduncles about 1 to 2 lines long, bearing a globular head of 30 to 40 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow-linear, with spathulate concave tips. Petals rather firm, smooth, united above the middle. Pod not seen. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond ; Darling range, Oldfield. 13. A. cochlearis, Wendl. Comm. Acac.15. A rigid shrub of seyeral | ft., glabrous and often somewhat viscid, or the young shoots woolly-pubes- cent. Phyllodia linear or linear-lanceolate, rigid, tapering into a pu point, 1 to 14 or rarely 2 in. long, rarely above 2 lines broad, more oF narrowed at the base, with 3.or 4 not very prominent nerves on each side. : duncles solitary or 2 together, 2 to 3 lines long or rarely more, bearing a glo- bular head of numerous (above 30) flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow, — spathulate, free. Petals smooth, free. Pod about 1 to 2 in. long, 2 lines : wide, flat with thickened margins. Seeds longitudinal, the funicle thickened : at the end, but not seen perfect.—DC, Prod. ii. 451; Meissn. in Pl, Preiss i 11; Mimosa cochlearia. Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl, i, 85, ¢ 284; 4.0mm losa, DC. Mem. Leg. 445; Prod. ii, 450 (from the diagnoses given). W. Australia. King George’s Sound to Vasse and Swan rivers, Labiilardibre, ied E field, Drummond, 1st Coll. and 2nd Coll. n. 139, Preiss, n. 933 and 949, and othe y A. Benthamii, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 11, ii. 202, is a slight variety, quite glabrots hy. narrower phyllodia; 4. >eteroclifa, Meissn,, is nearly allied, but has much less pungent G E amongst Plurinerves oligoneure. 14. A, lanigera, 4. Quan. in Field, N. S. Wales, 345. A rigid ut > of several feet, the young shoots usually woolly-pubescent. | or lanceolate, rigid, tapering into a pungent point, 1 to 13 long, mostly 2 to 3.lines broad, with several nerves, occasionally an her OF siag or all parallel, Peduneles exceedingly short, solitary, 2 ay E almost clustered, bearing a globular head of about 30 howe ene merous. Calyx campanulate, with broad obtuse lobes, not half ya ja the corolla, Petals smooth, united to the middle. Pod attaimng Acacia. | XL. LEGUMINOSA, 325 in length, and 4 or even 5 lines in breadth at the seeds, much contracted be- tween them ; the valves slightly convex. Seeds longitudinal, last short fold of - * the funicle and the end of the next much thickened, the remainder of the latter and the third fold filiform and extending some way round the seed, but not seen perfect.—Bot. Mag. t. 2922. N.S. Wales. Frequent in rocky barren ranges of the interior, from the Blue Moun- tains to Liverpool plains, Lachlan river and to the southward, 4. Cunningham, Fraser, Hueyel, Mitchell, and others, . Victoria. Forest Creek,-F. Mueller. Var. gracilipes. Peduncles rather longer, although shorter than in 4. trinervata. The species has much the aspect of 4. cóchlearis, but has a very different calyx and pod. A. multinervia, DC. Mem. Leg. 445, Prod. ii. 450, answers, in-the-short character given, to A. lanigera, with the exception of the gland on the upper edge of the phyllodium which 1 do not find in that or any other allied species known to me. l5. A. phlebocarpa, 7. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 119. A gja- brous nova: visti aha of 2 to 5 ft.; branches nearly terete. - PhyHodia 'marrow-lanceolate, rigid, tapering into a pungent point, 1 to 1} in. long, mostly 2 to 3 lines broad, narrowed at the base, with several parallel nérves occasionally anastomosing, 1 to 3 more prominent. Stipules small. Pedun- cles solitary, attaining $ in. when in fruit. Flowers 5-merous, but only seen withered, Calyx turbinate, lobed, half as long as the corolla. Petals appa- tently striate: ` Pod curved, hard, rather flat, with much thickened margins and obliquely veined between them, depressed between the seeds. Seeds rounded, compressed, oblique; funicle with the last 2 or 3 folds much: dilated Into a cup-shaped apparently. 2-lobed aril, enclosing the base of the seed. pe Australia, Rocky places at the sources of Seven Emu river, Gulf of Carpentaria, «Mueller, The species appears to be closely allied to 4. lanigera. 16. A, trinervata, Sic). in DC. Prod. ii. 451. A tall shrub, glabrous a young shoots slightly pubescent, branches angus ; ene ga ing, thick, rigid, tapering into pungent points, 1 to 14 in. on rarely all under 1 in., E pi, slightly contracted at the base. Stipules minute. Peduncles solitary, about + in. long, slender, bearing each a small globular head of numerous small flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx about a. as long. as the corolla, very thin, irregularly toothed or lobed. Petals — i ed to the middle. Pod straight or scarcely curved, flat with ¡grand thickened margins ; attaining 3 to 5 in. in length. 1 to 13 or rarely 2 Ines Seeds oblong, longitudinal, funicle dilated from the base a an almost membranous aril consisting of 3 or 4 folds.—4. taxifolia, A. Cunn. m Field, N, S. Wales, 344, not of Willd.; 4. Cunninghamii, G. Don, Gen. PY, 404, > A, Wales. Grose river, R- Brown ; Blue Mountains; Sieber, n. 445, :4. Cunning- A ped Phyllodi 3 in. long.— A. genistifolia, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. - matt? (1); Benth: i Hook Loud. Journ, 1 DEV. The ehirectet givew by"Link applies ds well to some forms of 4. juniperina. foli í s reely prominent, angustifolia. Phyllodia very: narrow, with: the-2 or 3 nerves scar p than in 4. apale, Bie tk pungent.— Blue: Mountains, Miss Atkinson. re A. colletioides, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond: Journ. i. 336. A "ery rigid shrub, the branches terete or nearly so and glabrous. Phyllodia 326 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [ Acacia. very spreading, linear-terete or slightly compressed, rigid, tapering into pungent . points, striate with several nerves, distinctly articulate at the base as in the allied species, 4 to 14 in. long. Stipules small, membranous or none. Pe- « duncles solitary, not above 2 lines long, bearing each a small globular head of very small 5-merous flowers. Sepals linear-spathulate, distinct, at least half as long as the corolla. Petals distinct, smooth, without prominent midribs. Pod linear, flat, the margins not thickened, curved or twisted, about 2 to 24 lines broad and slightly contracted between the seeds. Seeds longitudinal, the 2 or 3 last folds of the funicle dilated into a yellow cupular arillus, mem- branous at the edge and half enclosing the seed. ‘ane S. Wales. Harrington plains in the interior, 4. Cunningham, specimens in fruit only. Var. nyssophylla. Nerves of the phyllodia searcely prominent but not otherwise differing rh A. Cunningham’s specimens.—Á. nyssophylla, Y. Muell. Fragm. iv. 4, and PI, Viet. H. Y. = Victoria. In the N.W. desert, F. Mueller. S. Australia, Near Lake Gairduer, Babbage. ee I had formerly confounded specimens of this variety with some of those of 4. continua, but F. Mueller has well pointed out the chatatter of the continuous decurrent phyllodia dis- tinguishing the latter. 18. A. striatula; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ.i.336. A rigid shrub, allied to 4. colletioides and A. campylophylla. Branches slightly angular and minutely pubescent. Phyllodia spreading or récurved, linear-terete or slightly compressed, rigid and tapering into pungent points, in our specimens mostly about 3 in. long, but probably often longer, striate with several nerves. Stipules small, lanceolate, membranous, very deciduous. Peduneles short, bearing each a’ small globular head of rather numerous flowers, mostly 5- merous. Sepals free, very thin, linéar-spathulate. Petals smooth, but w pops midribs asin 4, juniperina. Pod unknown.—Meissn. in Pl, Preiss. li. 201. ‘ . W. Australia, Drummond ; South Hutt river, Oldfield. A A 19. A. campylophylla, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 605. A rigid bushy 2 shrub, apparently low, and quite glabrous, branches angular. Phyllodia nu z merous, linear-terete, rigid but recurved or flexuose, tapering into pu ak E points, mostly $ to 1 in. long, striate with several nerves. Stipules sma5 setaceous, almost spinescent. Flowers not seen perfect, but from their Te E mains they appear to have been many in the head, with narrow sm ith Fruiting peduncles 4 to 4 in. long. Pod stipitate, linear, narrow, pre nerve-like margins, and not contracted between the seeds, but not eom | grown. ge l W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. ń. 134, and n. 41, of some other set. Evidently : allied to A. colletioides, but differing in the stipules, and apparently in the pod. a _ 20. A. teretifolia, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 326. A mer shrub of 1 or 2 ft., with virgate angular-striate branches, the smaller bi bat lets rigidly flexuose. Phyllodia linear-terete or scarcely flattened, a less pungent than the allied species, 2 to 1 or rarely 14 in. long, very ° wearing or irregularly nerved. Stipules shortly subulate-spinescent, but S008” olar off. Peduncles solitary, shorter than the phyllodia, bearing each a g at the head of flowers, mostly 5-merous, Sepals small, narrow-linear, united at a Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 327 base only. Petals linear-spathulate, concave and thick at the top, giving the buds a peculiar turbinate truncate shape. Pod (only seen in Herb. Sonder.) + sessile, linear, incurved, terete or compressed at right angles to the valves, acuminate and narrowed at the base, 2 to 4 in. long, hard and quite smooth, neither contracted between the seeds nor showing prominent sutures. Seeds not seen.— Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i: 6, ii. 200. W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 140; Swan and Canning rivers, Preiss, n. 975 and 998 ; Gordon river, O/dfield.—Resembles sometimes 4. genistoides and A. ericifolia, but the pod is totally different, the phyllodia, although often sulcate, have no prominent herve, aud the stipules are usually more or less spinescent. 21. A. sulcata, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 460. A dense bushy shrub, attaining sometimes several ft., quite glabrous, the branches slightly angular. Phyllodia usually crowded, linear-terete, incurved, with a short pungent point, 4 to 1 in. long, deeply sulcate-striate. Stipules minute. Peduncles usually 2 together, rather shorter than the phyllodia, bearing each A globular head of about 10 to 15 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals distinct, linear-spathulate, not half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, without Prominent midribs, completely separating. Pod flat, but very flexuous, much curved or twisted, rarely above 1 in. long, 1} to 2 lines broad. Seeds nearly orbicular ; funicle very shortly filiform and folded at the base, dilated into a cup-shaped fleshy arillus under the seed.—DC. Prod. ii. 450; Bot. Reg. t. 928; Wendl. Comm. Atac: t. 10; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 11. W.A i i ’s Soi djoining districts, R. Brown, Drummond, 5th Coll. OE e Ag prea e pea to E. Mount Barren, Maxwell. Font specimens appear almost to pass into 4. éricifolia and its allies amongst’ Calami- 22. A, costata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 339. A low shrub, with thick rigid striate often spinescent branches, pubescent or glabrous. yllodia narrow-lanceolate, 2 to 4 lines long, very rigid and thick, tapering ~ mto pungent points, the upper edge convex but without any gland, both mar- A Md ee ee aa = Sins thick and nerve-like. Stipules minute, setaceous. Peduncles rather ~ Short, bearing each a globular head of about 10 to 15, 5-merous flowers. "yx small, deeply lobed or at length separating into distinct ciliate acute cay Petals rigid, striate, united at the base. Sadat ap E tralia. i b; ng range, . tit of Privada legua nestle to this, with the same spinescent branches, but the phyllodia are occasionally slightly angular, and the flowers are nearer those * Mivergens, 23. A. barbinervis, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i: 326. A low shrub, n under 1 ft., usually ‘loosely pubescent with short spreading hairs, the ranches angular. Phyilodia linear-falcate, recurved, rigid, tapering into : -Pungent point, 2 to 1 in. long ot the lower ones shorter and’ broader, wit {SY prominent nerve-like margins. Stipules very small, setaceous, gal times spinescent, Peduncles shorter than the phyllodia; bearing each a glo- bular head with usually 8 to 10, rarely 12 to 15, mostly 5-merous jE PA = Calyx broad, shortly toothed, ciliate, not half so long as the corolla. Pe s Mick and prominently striate. Pod not seen.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 7. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. ; Preiss, n. 988. > 328 XL. LEGUMINOS&. [ Acacia. 24. A. ataxiphylla, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 605. A low rigid under- shrub or shrub, the branches prominently and acutely angled, the young shoots hoary-pubescent but soon glabrous. Phyllodia linear or subulate, rigid but flexuose, tapering into a hooked pungent point, 14 to 2 in. long, with a very prominent nerve on each side. Stipules small, setaceous or pungent. Pe- duncles scarcely 3 in. long, bearing each a globular head of 20 to 30 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx deeply and acutely lobed, less than half as long as the corolla. Petals thick and more or less prominently striate or veined. Pod not seen. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 6. 25. A. Baxteri, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 327 (misspelt Bagsleri). A glabrous rigid shrub, branchés prominently and’ acutely angled or striate. Phyllodia linear-oblong or lanceolate, somewhat recurved-faleate, very rigid and tapering into a pungent point, 4 to 1 in. long; with very thick nerve-like margins, the lower one sometimes slightly within the edge. Stipules seta- ceous, at length deciduous. Peduúneles short, solitary or 2 or 3 together, bearing each a globular head of numerous (above 40) flowets, mostly 5-merous. Sepals distinct, linear-spathulate, thickened at the end, half as long as the co- rolla. Petals quite sufooth. Pod not seen. W. Australia. S. coast, Baxter; Salt river, Maxwell. The aspect is nearly that of A. auronitens or of some varieties’ of A. siculiformis. It also’ resembles 4. crassistipula, but without the leafy stipules of that species, C. Untnerves.—Phyllodia with 1 nerve on each side, central or nearly so. Flowers in globular héads. When the phyllodia are very narrow they are usually 4-gouous, the four angles formed by the upper and lower nerve-like margins and by one nerve on each side. E 26. A. auronitens, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 15. A rigid bushy shrub, the branches nearly terete and usually shortly hirsute. Phyllodia numerous, — rigid, glabrous, linear-oblong, oblique or curved, tapering into. a pungent point and narrowed at the base, mostly about + in. long, with a nearly cen nerve, and scarcely thickened nerve-like margins. Stipules short, setaceous oF pungent. Peduncles nearly as long as the leaves, bearing each a glo head of about 15 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals distinct, linear- spathulate, very thin. Petals, soon separating, striate but not thick. about I in. long, and 3 lines broad, straight, Very tħick, not contra tween the seeds, with very broad smooth margins, and obscurely velne tween. Seeds thick, obovoid; funicle short, not folded, expanding into 2 short broad concave aril at the end of the seed. : W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll.; also 4th Coll. n. 7. 27. A. quadrisulcata, F. Muell. Fragm: iii. 197. A rigid’ straggling shrub, the branches terete, slightly viscid-pubescent, at length apo d Phyllodia harrow-linear, almost tetragonous, the single nerve On each q very prominent, very rigid and tapering into a pungent point, ¿to 13 in. qu" Stipules minute. Peduneles solitary, shorter than the phyllodia, bearing 6 g a globular head of 15 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous, but occasionally i merous. Sepals distinct, very small and narrow, linear-spathulate. i} ; striate, united above the middle. Pod straight or slightly curved, 1 Bs A Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOS&. 329 in. long, nearly 3 lines broad, very thick, with broad smooth margins and obscurely veined between them. Seeds thick, obovoid-globose, often mottled ; funicle short, not folded, expanding into a short broad concave arillus at the end of the seed. W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. Differs from 4. auronitens chiefly in the form of the phyllodia. 28. A. erioclada, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 606. A rigid spreading shrub, the branches numerous, not very stout, mostly spinescent and densely woolly, becoming glabrous with age. Phyllodia narrow-oblong, oblique or curved, rigid and tapering into a pungent point, under 3 in. long, narrowed at the base, the midrib and nerve-like margins prominent, and sometimes with a faint nerve between. Stipules setaceous, sómetimes spinescent, deciduous. Peduncles 2 to 3 lines long, bearing each a globular head of above 30 flowers, much smaller than in the last two species, mostly 5-merous. Sepals spathu- late with a dark thickened top, but often united. Petals quite smooth. Pod hot seen. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 7; Vasse river, Oldfield. 29. A. siculiformis, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 337. An erect or diffuse rigid glabrous shrub, attaining several ft., the branches nearly terete. Phyllodia linear or linear-lanceolate, oblique or slightly curved, ngid and tapering into a pungent point, ¿to 13 in. long, 1 to 2 lines broad, with a prominent central nerve and the margins sometimes slightly thickened, narrowed at the base. Stipules minute, membranous. Peduncles solitary, nearly 4 in. long in the original form, bearing a globular head of numerous wers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals free, narrow-spathulate, ciliate, half as long as the corolla, Petals smooth, shortly united at the base. Pod stipitate, , Plong-linear, very flat, not contracted between the seeds when perfect, rarely ve 1 in. long, 24 to 3 lines broad. Seeds transverse or oblique, the funi- dle filiform to the end.—F, Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 6. cebada Rocky Hills S.W. of Lake George, 4. Cunningham; Mount Mitchell, er, De E i A Var, bossievides, Benti. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 337. More diffuse, peduncles scarcely a tin. long or shorter. —4. Stuartianay F. Muell.; Benth. in Linnæa, xxvi. 609; Hook. f. asm. i. 104. t, 19; Dietr. Fl. Univers. N. Ser. t. 82. : : pa ictoria. Along subalpine streamlets in many parts of the Austra lian ve A agrsind 5000 ft., F. Mueller: One specimen ina young state from the Tummut Valley has Peduucles of the original form. . > Dios iA river, R. Brown ; Western Mountains; and S. Esk and Derwent ñvers at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 ft., J. D. Hooker. 30. A, patens, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 120 (under A. siculi- formis; to which 1 had erroneously referred it). A tall glabrous shrub, the branchlets somewhat glutinous. *Phvllodia numerous, linear-lanceolate, rather "gid and tapering into a pungent point, narrowed at the base and often some- What falcate, -to ¿+ in. long, 1 to 13 lines wide, 1-nerved or obscurely pen- veined, -usually with a small gland near the middle of the upper edge. Sti- small, lanceolate. Peduncles often slightly exceeding the leaves, bear- ing each a dense globular head of flowers, mostly. 5-merous, but only seen in bud, distinct, linear-spathulate, ciliate. Petals narrow, almost free. 330 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [4cacia, Pod linear, straight, flat, 1 in. long or rather more, 13 lines broad, and con- tracted between every seed. Seeds ovate, almost longitudinal; funicle filiform to the end.— 4. Maitlandi, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 46. N. Australia. Stony places, Hammersley Range, Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedi- tion; Hooker and Sturt's Creeks, F. Mueller. The foliage and young flowers cannot be dis- tinguished from those of some specimens of 4. siculiformis, but the pod is certainly different. 31. A. laricina; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 6. A bushy shrub of 1 to 2 ft., the branches nearly terete, rather slender, hoary-tomentose. Phyllodia numerous, recurved-spreading, narrow-linear, almost tetragonous from the very prominent nerve on each side, 3 to $ or rarely 1 in. long, with a short pungent point. Stipules setaceous, almost spinescent. Peduncles slender, shorter than thé phyllodia, bearing each a small globular head of 15 to 20 small flowers, mostly 5-merous, Calyx turbinate, shortly toothed, about half as long as the corolla. Petals not striate, but with prominent midribs, usually cohering to the middle. Young pod narrow, glabrous dr pubescent, incurved, acuminate and contracted at the base, not torulose, the sides very convex and marked with longitudinal prominent nerves. W. Australia. In the interior, Preiss, n. 973, Drummond, 8rd Coll. m. 101, 4th Coll. n. 5; E. Mount Barren, Maxwell. 32. A. tetragonophylla; F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iii. 121 (un- der A. sphacelata), and Fragm. iv. 3. A tall spreading shrub or small tree, glabrous ; branches terete. Phyllodia usually clustered on the old nodes, linear-subulate, rigid, pungent-pointed, 3 to 1 in. long or rarely more, with 1 or 2 nerves on each side. Stipules small, deciduous. Peduncles solitary or 2 together, nearly as long as the phyllodia, bearing a globular head of nume- rous (often above 50) 5-merous flowers. Sepals linear-spathulate, half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth,-usually cohering to the middle. Pod much curved or twisted, flat with thickened margins, nearly 3 lines broad. , Seeds longitudinal; funicle yellow, shortly flexuose and much thickened al . the base, then completely encircling the seed in a single fold more or less di- lated the whole length. on S. Wales. From the Darling to the Barrier Range, Victorian and other Erpedi- ns. ; S. Australia. Dry pastures on the Cudnaka; Flinders and Elders Ranges, F. Mueller; towards Spencer’s Gulf, Warburton. 33. A. genistoides, 4. Cuńn: Herb. À tall glabrous shrub, very rigid and sometimes spinescent; brariches fereté or slightly angular. Phyl erect or scarcely spreading, linear-subulate, with a very prominent nerve ae each side, shortly pungent-pointed, mostly rather above 1 in. long. Sup small, fine-pointed, deciduous. Peduncles solitary or 2 together, slender, usually above + in. long, bearing each a very compact globular head of ni- merous small flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals free, narrow-linear, SPé u- late, more than half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, with a prominent midrib. Pod somewhat incurved, 1 to 3 in. long, 2} to 3 lines broad, valves convex, not striate, slightly contracted between the seeds. longitudinal ; funicle yellow, thickened almost from the base, n encircling the seed, one fold within the other without any return. W. Australia. Dirk Hartog's Island, A. Cunningham ; Sharks Bay, Milne ; Mur- 4 rt ip ii ii ia da Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. i 331 chison and S. Hutt rivers, Oldfield. Very nearly allied to 4. tetragonophylla, and some- times resembles 4. teretifolia, but the stipules are not spinescent, the phyllodia are promi- nently 1-nerved, and the pod is quite different. 34. A. sphacelata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 338. A rigid shrub, the branches not very stout, nearly terete, glabrous or pubescent. Phyllodia scattered, linear-subulate, erect or spreading, rigid and tapering into a pungent point, mostly 3 to $ in. long, with 1 or rarely 2 prominent nerves on each side. Stipules minute. Peduncles mostly solitary, short, bearing each a small globular head of 15 to 20 or more flowers, mostly 5- merous. Sepals distinct, linear-spathulate, with dark tips, half as long as the corolla, Petals free, smooth. Pod not seen.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. £13. sele Australia, Drummond, lst Coll. n. 299; Mount Currie, Preiss, n. 985 (which I ve not seen), Var. serie ` Branches woolly. Flower-heads almost sessile. Pod, according to Meiss- ner, linear, straight, flat, 14 in. long, 14 lines broad, with thickened margins, E when young, at length glabrous.—4. sessilis, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 336; Meissn. in asi Preiss. i. 11, ii. 202,—Swan River, Drummond, Lst Coll., Preiss, n. 979, 980, 982 ; urehison river, Oldfield. $ Var. retrorsa. Phyilodia reflexed.—A. retrorsa, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 10.—Be- Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 6.220: Bee. me specimens have almost the aspect of 4. striatula, but differ in their 1- or rarely 2- nerved phyllodia, and very short peduncles. 35. A, ingrata, Benth. Branches rigid, glabrous or minutely pubes- cent. Phyllodia divaricate or reflexed, very rigidly linear-subulate, with a rather broad base and tapering into a pungent point, rarely 4 in. long, with a prominent nerve on each side. Peduneles short, solitary or 2 together, bear- "8 each a small globular head of about 5 or 6 flowers, mostly 5-merous. “yx very short and broad, thin, slightly sinuate-toothed. Petals smooth, without raised midribs, cohering at the base. Pod unknown. . . W. Australia. E. Mount Barren, Mazwell (Herb. F. Mueller). The peso enn cient for a satisfactory description, they have some resemblance to some f a :Jumiperina, but the flowers are different. 4 Some small specimens of Drummond's, alluded to above under A. aiia ek pe e ' "grata also, and have the same flowers, only rather more numerous in - delta, “and . eS are spinescent and the phyllodia have the very thick margins T nss ae occasionally the Upper one has an angle asin 4. žorridula, but the flowers . id. with ut of the latter species. A small specimen from Murchison river, ea q flowers, has the foliage nearly of 4. ingrata and a single pod, very goon pta vt that sunitens, but longer and rather narrower, without the distinct b 86. A. juniperina; Willd. Spec. Pl, iv. 1049. A rigid bushy divari- Cate shrub, attaining several feet, e branches pubescent or in some varieties 2s brous, Phyllodia scattered, often numerous, divaricate, linear-subulate, ngid and tapering into a pungent point, rarely above $ in. long, with a pro- Minent nerve on each side and a rather broad base. Peduncles often exceed- 4.5 the leaves, bearing each a dense globular head of numerous (20 to 50) wers, mostly 5-merous. Bracts more or less acuminate. Sepals. narrow- Pathulate, at first united but readily separating. Petals also separating, “mooth but with prominent midribs. Pod more or less faleate, flat, 1 to 2 332 XL. LEGUMINOS&. [ Acacia. in. long, about 2 lines broad, usually contracted between the seeds. Seeds longitudinal, the funicle but little folded and filiform to the ead.—Mimosa juniperina, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 64; M. ulicina, Wendl. Coll. ii. 25, t. 6; M. ulicifolia, Salisb: Prod. 324?; 4. juniperina, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 398; DC. Prod. ii..449 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 105; F. Muell. Pl. Vict: ii. 7; 4. verticillata, Sieb. Pl. Exs. not of Willd.; 4. echinula, DC. Prod. ii. 449; A. pungens, Spreng. Syst. iii: 134. Queensland. Moreton Island and Brisbane river, F. Mueller. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 447, 449, and Fl. Mirt.n. 602, and others; northward to New England, C. Stuart, and Clarence river, Beckler ; southward to Twofold Bay; F. Mueller. Victoria. Rocky especially granitic hills, Mount Hiinter, Corner Inlet, Mount Liget, Genoa river, Muddy Creek, Grampians, etc., F. Mueller. Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown light sandy soil near George Town and West head, J. D. Hooker. : Var. Brownei. Branches glabrous; peduncles slender.—4. acicularis, R: Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 460, not of Willd. ; altered to 4. pugioniformis by Wendl. in Flora, 1819, 139, but not 4. pugioniformis, Wendl. Comm. ; 4. Brownii, Steud.; DC. Prod. il. 449; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1333; 4. arceuthos, Spreng. Syst. iii. 134.—Port Jackson, Sieber, nm, 463 and others. : > A. yenistifolía, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 442 ; DC. Prod. ii. 449, above referred with doubt to 4. trinervata, may, from the very incomplete description given, be almost equally referable to some forms of 4. juniperina: 37. A. asparagoides, 4. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 343. A gla- brous rigid shrub ; -branches nearly terete. Phyllodia spreading, line ar-subu- late, thick and rigid, tapering into-a pungent point, 3 to 4 in. long, witha prominent nerve on each side, and a scarcely prominent glandular angle at the | base on the upper edge. Stipules minute. ` Flower-heads almost sessile, soli- tary, globular, with about 20 to-30 small flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals linear, slightly- spathulate, cohering at first, but: readily separating. + distinct, narrowed into a claw at the base, smooth, without any prominent nerve. Pod unknown. N. S: Wales. Rare on the rocky verge of Regent’s` Glen, Blue Mountains, A, Cun- e ningham, _ 38. A. tenuifolia, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 31; Pl. Viel. u. 8. A diffuse or procumbent shrub ; branches terete, glabrous or pubescent. _ Phyllodia linear-subulate, rigid but slender, tapering: into a pungent point, with a strong raised nerve on each side, rarely above + in. long. Stipules small, deciduous. Peduncles slender, shorter than the leaves, bearing each a globular head of about 20 small flowers, mostly 4-merous. Sepals free oF united at the base ouly, small and narrow. Petals soon separating; smooth, the midrib scarcely prominent. Pod straight or curved, scarcely contrac: between the seeds, 1 to 2 in. long and nearly 2 lines broad, the valves ooma g Seeds ovate, longitudinal, the last short fold of the funicle and sometimes? | part of the next thickened into a small aril. > Victoria. Dry Stringy-bark and Iron-bark Ranges towards the Upper Yarra, = burn, Broken and Ovens rivers, and near Ballarat, F. Mueller. Readily distinguished A de A. juniperina, which it resembles, by the 4. the petals not ribbed, thickened funicles. >» OY 4-merous flowers, the p 39. A, diffusa, Lindl. But. Reg. 1. 634. A glabrous divaricately-branchet Acacia, | XL. LEGUMINOS#. 333 or diffuse shrub, either quite low or rising to 5 or 6 ft.; branchlets angular. Phyllodia linear, thick and rigid, tapering into a pungent point, prominently l-nerved, mostly $ to 1 in. long, 1 to 14 lines broad, slightly narrowed at the base. Peduncles usually 2 or 3 together, under 4 in. long, bearing each a globular head of about 20 flowers, mostly 4-merous, rarely 5-merous or 3- merous. Calyx with short broad somewhat thickened lobes, not half as long as the corolla. Petals membranous, without the prominent nerve of 4. juni- perina, cohering or at length separating. Pod stipitate, often attaining 3 or 4 in., about 2 lines broad, flat or the valves at length.convex. Seeds longi- tudinal ; funicle much folded, thickened either from the middle upwards or nearly from the base.—DC. Prod. ii. 450; Bot. Mag. t. 2417; Hook. f. HP tb i. 105; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 6; 4. prostrata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. Victoria. Heathy ground, Stringy. bark forests and other barren localities throughout the greater part of the colony, F. Mueller. "Eos Tasmania. Port Dalrymple and Derwent river, R. Brown; abundant in dry places especially by roadsides throughout the island, J. D.. Hooker. y Var. cuspidata. Phyllodia more slender, often not broader than thick, sometimes all under din, re on barren shoots attaining 2 in.—4. cuspidata, A: Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. . Journ. i, 337. N. S. Wales. Brushy hills of the southern districts, 4. Cunningham, Fraser, Huegel. 40. A, rupicola, F. Muell. ; Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 610. A glabrous shrub, attaining 5 ft.; branches slightly angular. Phyllodia linear or linear- ceolate, rigid and tapering into a pungent point, prominently 1-nerved, rarely above 4 in, long, broader at the base than in 4. diffusa, which this spe- cies closely resembles. Stipules minute or none. Peduncles about 3 in. long, bearing each a small globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 4-merous. Calyx shortly lobed, half as long as the corolla. Petals membranous, with- out any prominent midrib, Pod linear, flattened, straight or curved, 1 to 2 e long, about 2 lines broad, not contracted between the seeds. Seeds lon- gitudinal ; funicle much folded and thickened nearly from the base, the upper folds forming a broad aril clasping the base of the seed.—F, Muell. Pl. Vict. 1. 8; Dietr. Fl. Univers. N. Ser. t. 8. S. Australia a rca post, papa POOL tissue river, Mount Barker > ischer, z x D. SercaTæ,—Phyllodia l- 2- or 3-nerved. Flowers 4-merous or 3- merous, in cylindrical or oblong rarely ovoid spikes, on axillary peduncles or ost sessile, Some species of this i Lionel i le group, especially 4. +higiophylla *y 2 in their inflorescence to connect the spicate with the « Peoies of Mimosee, Australian or extra-Australian, are 30 constan 41. A. rhigiophylla, F. Muell.; Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 611. A compact cit pe 5 ft., with numerous spreading terete branches, ae slightly glutinous-pubescent when young, at length glabrous. — Phyllodia : ar or linear-lanceolate, thick and very rigid, tapermg to a pungent point, lo 1 in, long, with 2 or 3 raised nerves on each side. Flower-heads small and nearly sessile, less compact than in most species and often oblong, with and A. verticillata var. ovoidea, capitate species, which in almost tly distinct. 334 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [4cacia. 6 to 10 flowers, mostly 4-merous. Calyx campanulate, with broad short lobes, not half as long as the corolla. Petals quite smooth and readily sepa- rating. Pod unknown.—-F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 9. S. Australia. Desert on the lower Murray, towards Mount Barker Range, F. Mueller. 42. A. oxycedrus, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 453. A tall rigid spreading shrub, the branches usually pubescent and nearly terete. Phyllodia scattered or rarely irregularly verticillate, rigid, tapering into a pungent point, rather broad at the base, + to 2 or rarely above 1 in. long, with 3 or rarely 4 pro- minent nerves on each side. Stipules small, often spinescent. Peduncles short, bearing each a dense cylindrical spike, often above 1 in. long. Flowers mostly 4-merous. Calyx short, the lobes obtuse. Petals smooth, readily separating. Pod incurved, acuminate and narrowed at the base, about 2 lines wide and often above 3 in. long, pubescent or at length glabrous, the valves very convex, striate, thicker and harder than in 4. verticillata. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; funicle much folded, and usually more or less thickened from the base.—Sweet, Fl. Austr. t. 6; Bot. Mag. t. 2928; Reichb. Icon. moe t. 120; Paxt. Mag. Bot. vii. 151, witha fig.; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. 11, 10. ; N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 427, A. Cunningham, Fraser. Victoria. Not unfrequent in heathy tracts throughout the southern part of the colony, po also into the mountains, F. Mueller. i y Fitzalan (Herb. F. Mueller, but doubtful). S. Australia. Between Mount Gambier and Rivoli Bay, F. Mueller. 43. A. verticillata, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 1049. A shrub, rather low and spreading or erect and bushy, sometimes growing into a small tree; branches angular-striate, pubescent or rarely glabrous. Phyllodia scattered or more often verticillate, linear-subulate, lanceolate or oblong, rigid and ta- pering into a pungent point, about 4 in. long or shorter, rarely 4 in. long, with a prominent central nerve and rarely 1 or 2 slender lateral ones. Sti- pules minute. Peduneles short or slender, bearing each, in the common va- riety, a dense cylindrical spike of 4 to 1 in. long, or rarely longer and loose. Flowers 4-merous, globular in the bud. Calyx short, broad, irregularly > lobed. Petals smooth, united at the base. Pod flat, with slightly thickened margins, straight or curved, acute at each end, 14 to 2 in. long when 2 lines wide and scarcely contracted between the seeds. Seeds oblong, lon- gitudinal; funicle much folded, thickened sometimes, from the base, but always much more so at the end or about the middle.—Mimosa verticillata, L'Hér. Sert. Angl. 30; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 63; Bot. Mag. t. 110; 4 verticillata, DC. Prod. ii. 458; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 535; Hook. f. Pl Tasm. i. 106; F. Muell. PL Vict. ii. 10; 4. semiverticillata, Knowl. and Weste. Fl. Cab. ii. 27 (from the char. in Walp. Rep. i. 922). : Victoria. Port Phillip, R. Brown ; extremely abundant in all the more humid parts of the colony, F, Mueller. ; ; Tasmania, Derwent river, Port Dalrymple, and islands of Bass’s Straits, R. Brows; abundant in moist situations throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. aa Var. latifolia. Phyllodia lanceolate or oblong.— A. ruscifolia, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen, Syst. ii. 407; Bot. Mag. t. 3195; 4. masta, Lindl. Bot, Reg. 1846, t.67. With the com mon variety, especially in Tasmania. Acacia.] - XL, LEGUMINOSE. 335 Var. ovoidea. Phyllodia slender. Spikes very short, sometimes reduced to small ovoid- globular heads. Flowers small. Calyx-lobes narrow.—4. ovoidea, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 339; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 105, t. 20; Dietr. Fl. Univers. N. Ser. t. 8. Victoria. Grampians, Gipps’ Land, and other parts of the colony, but less frequent than the cylindrical-spiked variety, F. Mueller. Ş anene. Amongst grass, etc., in dry places, Woolnorth, Circular Head, ete., J. D. looker. S. Australia. Not unfrequent in the colony, extending northward to Mount Remark- able, F. Mueller. Í Distinct as are the Tasmanian specimens from the common variety, the Continental ones appear to pass into the more slender forms of the true 4. verticillata. 44. A. Riceana, Henslow, in Maund, Botanist, iii. t. 135. A handsome dark-green, tall shrub or small tree, glabrous with angular branchlets. Phyl-. lodia scattered or almost whorled, linear or subulate, sometimes all rather broad and 4 to 2 in. long, sometimes very narrow, and 1 to 13 in. long, tapering mto pungent points, 1-nerved. Stipules minute. Spikes slender and loose, n above 1 in. long, the flowers often distant, 3-merous or rarely 4-merous, ovoid and obtuse or acute in the bud. Calyx short, with broad obtuse ciliate es. Petals smooth, readily separating. Pod usually curved, acuminate, often 2 to 3 in. long and scarcely 14 lines broad, slightly pubesceut when young, but soon glabrous; valves very convex, coriaceous, contracted between the seeds. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; funicle much folded and thickened nearly from the base.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 106; 4. setigera, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 316; A. erythropus, Ten. Cat. Hort. Neap. Annot. 77 (from the descrip- tion given) ; 4. taxifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1225 ? (from the figure). , Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown ; moist shady places in the southern parts of the island, J. D. Hooker. y 45. A. axillaris, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 341. Very near the g-leaved forms of 4. Riceana, and perhaps a variety as suggested by Y. Mueller, but the phyllodia are often still longer, showing faint lateral nerves, and the inflorescence is different ; the spikes are sessile or nearly so and con- tain but very few flowers, rarely more than 4, otherwise like those of 4. | teeana. T have not as yet seen any intermediate specimens.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 1. 307. 2 » Gunn ; Brook's Head, St. Paul's River, C. Stuart. Serres IV. CaLamirormes.—Phyllodia rarely none, more frequently hartow-linear or subulate, terete, tetragonous or very slightly flattened, arti- e on the stem, obtuse or with short innocuous or recurved points, l- or Several-neryed. Flowers in globular heads, on simple axillary peduncles, or Tarely several heads in a short raceme, or irregularly racemose by the abortion the floral phyllodia. ia Although the long slender phyllodia, not broader than thick, give a peculiar € aracter to e majority of the Aer included in this series, a few, by their more a phy — ‘er points, pass into the Pungentes, the shorter-leaved ones serme them weenie West among the Uninerves brevifolie, some almost pass into the parido das woh neure, and a few of the Juliftore only differ in their flower-heads oblong or cylindrical no globular, A. SUBAPHYLLÆ. —Phyllodia none or very few ranches, chiefly subtending the inflorescences. ~ and slender, resembling 336 XL. LEGUMINOSA. - [Acaeia. 46. A. tetragonocarpa, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 4. A glabrous un- dershrub, with erect slender rush-like stems of 1 to 23 ft., slightly branched and nearly leafless. Phyllodia mostly reduced to small striate scales at the base of the branches, 1 or 2 often filiform, terete, resembling the branches, the lower ones of the young plant occasionally bipinnate as in other phyllo- dineous species. Peduncles short, often 2 or 3 together, bearing a head of 3 or 4 flowers, occasionally reduced to a single one, 4-merous and oblong in the bud. Calyx short. Petals rigid, striate, nearly 13 lines long. Pod stipi- tate, linear-faleate, about 1 in. long, with a very prominent longitudinal angle on each side of each suture. Seeds longitudinal, the last fold of the funicle dilated into a small turbinate almost cup-shaped aril under the seed, with a filiform fold below it.— Tetracheilos Meissneri, Lehm. in PL. Preiss. ii. 368. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown; Swan River, Fraser ; boggy ground near Spencer, Plantagenet district, Preiss, n. 866 ; Israeliti Bay, Maxwell. Var. scabra. Phyllodia long, rigid, prominently 1-nerved, glabrous. Pod not seen. Flowers as in the ordinary form. —A single specimen from O/dfield. 3 The longitudinally 4-angled pod, upon which Lehmann founded the genus Tetracheilos, _ occurs also in 4. stenoptera, a species widely different in several other respects, and to a cer- tain degree also in some of the Juliflore. 4”. A. restiacea, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 3. A glabrous un- dershrub or shrub, with rush-like branches somewhat angular or striate, leaf- less or with a few slender terete phyllodia, scarcely to be distinguished from the branches. Flower-heads globular, several in a raceme, covered when very young by imbricate scales very early deciduous. Flowers mostly 5-merous, usually 20 to 30 in the head. Calyx small, thin, irregularly lobed. Petals smooth. Pod (according to Lehmann) stipitate, linear, moniliform, with re- ticulately veined coriaceous valves.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 3, ii. 199; thonanthus restiaceus, Lehm. in Pl. Preiss. ii, 368. W. Australia. Swan Riyer and adjoining districts, Drummond, 2nd Coll. m. 14%, Preiss, n. 971, 972; Preston and Murchison riyers, Oldfield. i A. squamata; Morren, in Amn. Soe. Hort. Gand, iii. 209, t. 134, a work which I do not find in our libraries, appears to be, from the characters copied into Walp. Ann. 1. 264, the same as 4. restiacea, and certainly not 4. squamata, Lindl. „The imbricate scales covering the very young racemes, which induced Lehmann to propos? his genus Chithonanthus, oceur also in 4. squamata, in A. suaveolens, and in some species widely differing in other characters. . B. PLurivervEs.—Phyllodia either striate with 2, 3, or more prominent perya or with numerous very fine parallel nerves, scarcely visibl ns. 48. A. squamata, Lindl. Swan Riv. App, 15. Glabrous with “E terete, rush-like branches. Phyllodia few, distant, linear-terete, slight striate with fine nerves, resembling the branchlets, but not continuous E them, with short recurved points, attaining about 2 in. Flower-heads © short axillary racemes, with imbricate striate scales, falling off as the How” open. Calyx and corolla none or reduced to a minute membranous as A Stamens very densely packed, above 100 in each flower, and 6 to 10 flower in the head. Pod unknown.—Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 367. : ge *w. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. ; between Perth and King Georg” Sound, Harvey ; hills near Coogenup and Gordon Plains, Oldfield. e without 4 e Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOS®. 337 49. A. brachyphylla, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 615. Apparently a diffuse shrub, the branches woolly-pubescent or at length glabrous. Phyllo- dia numerous, linear-terete, incurved, obtuse or with short innocuous points, under 4 in. long, striate with several nerves. Stipules small, deciduous. Peduncles shorter than the phyllodia, bearing each a small globular head of apparently 5-merous flowers, but not seen perfect. Pod flexuose, 1 to 2 in. , Scarcely 1} lines broad, flat, with slightly thickened nerve-like margins. Seeds small, obovoid, oblique or longitudinal, the last fold of the funicle thickened into a short fleshy aril. W. Australia, Drummond. , 50 A. Bynoeana, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 614. Bhrubby, with nu- merous branches, loosely pubescent and sometimes glutinous. Phyllodia numerous, linear-terete, ‘striate with several nerves, usually recurved at the Point, rarely above 1 in. long. Stipules small, deciduous. Peduncles 3 to nes long, bearing each a small globular head of about 20 flowers, mostly õ-merous, Calyx with narrow ciliate lobes. Petals narrow, smooth, not much longer than the calyx and quite distinct. Pod much curved, flat with thickened margins, scarcely above 1 line broad. Seeds oblong, longitudinal, the last fold of the funicle, and sometimes part of the next also, thickened mto a fleshy aril.—A. leptophylla, F. Muell: Fragm. iv. 9. the ‘ustralia. N.W. coast, Bynoe ; Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller. The latter are ana ens alluded to by F. Mueller, Pl. Vict. ii. 12, as nearly resembling 4. Wilhelm- ana. The Corresponding ones, both in Herb. Hooker and in Herb. Sonder, were, by some ha istake, labelled as A, Wilhelmsiana from the Murray scrub, and were mentioned by me nnæa, xvi. 613, as a var, of A. nematophylla, F. Muell. The latter is, however, a rada form of A. calamifolia, which has never more than 1 nerve on each side of the Sl. A, triptycha, 7. Muell. Herb. A s reading shrub, very nearly me pa Ai a, with linear-subulate, adi or flexuose phyllodia d lè to 3 in., but with only 2 or 3 prominent nerves on each side. Pe- ao short, bearing a small head of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. » harrow-spathulate. Petals smooth. Pod unknown. 7 Oldfield . oe ia, Drummond (4th Coll.?), n. 132, and 5th Coll. n. 5; Kalgan river, ña >) TUDA rock, Marwell. gio ; = cc. 2 ake eptoneura, Benih. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1. i y- e hes slightly angular, glabrous or hoary-pubesceut when young. rie at, ear-subulate, rather rigid, nearly terete, straight or flexuose, finely striate with humerous scarcely prominent nerves, almost obtuse or with short Pea pl Points, mostly about 2 in. long. Peduncles short, bearing each a ular head of 20 to 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow-spathu- r distinct or very shortly united in a cup at the base. Petals pie Pid Separating, Pod not seen.—Bot. Mag. t. 4350; Meissn. in Pl ny 1. 12 (except the yar. 8). eE 4 Australia, Drummond ; Fitzgerald ranges, Maxwell. aun A, rigens, 4. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 403. A tall ae. dute glabrous or pale or hoary with a minute pubescence ; branchlets : straigh angular. Phyllodia linear-subulate rather rigid, nearly “sen von, r incurved, usually 2 to 3 in. long and very finely striate 3 to L 338 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [Acacia. 5 scarcely prominent nerves, with a short, innocuous, oblique or recurved int, but in some specimens 3 nerves on each side are prominent, at least at the base. Peduncles very short, bearing each a globular head of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals spathulate, united to about the middle. Petals smooth. Pod linear, straight or curved, flat, about 13 lines broad, much contracted between the seeds, the valves coriaceous and convex at the seeds. Seeds ovate, longitudinal; funicle with several folds, the last dilated into a turbinate almost cup-shaped aril.—4. chordophylla, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxvi. 612, and Pl. Vict. ii. 11. N. S. Wales. Low flat country on the Lachlan river, 4. Cunningham; Darling river and thence to the Bartier Range, Victorian Expedition. Victoria. Desert country along the Murray and Wimmera, F. Mueller. S. Australia. Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi; towards Lake Alexandrina, F. Mueller. Distinguished from 4. /eptoneura only in the sepals rather more united, from the narrow- leaved forms of A. elongata in the phyllodia still narrower and less flattened. Var. longifolia. Phyllodia slender, often 6 in. long. Heads almost sessile, with nume- rous flowers.—In Leichhardf's collection. 54. A. papyrocarpa, Benth. A small tree, of about 25 ft., the branches nearly terete, glabrous or minutely hoary-pubescent. Phyllodia linear-subulate, rigid, thick but slightly flattened, 2 to 3 in. long, tapermg into a recurved but not pungent point, narrowed at the base, striate with numerous fine parallel nerves only visible under a lens, slightly hoary-tomen- — tose especially along the centre, without any midrib. Flowers not seen, but from the scars they must have been in globular heads on very short peduncles. Pod flat, falcate or flexuose, 3 to 4 in. long, 4 to 5 lines broad ; valves thin, almost membranous. Seeds ovate, longitudinal ; funicle with very short folds, gradually and not much thickened from the base. S. Australia. S. coast, R. Brown (Herb. R. Br). The phyllodia at first sight r semble those of 4. rigens, or of some forms of A. calamifolia, but the veins are finer and more numerous and the pod is very different, more like that of A. Murrayana. ©. Unrverves.—Phyllodia 1-nerved or nerveless. Where the nerves (one on each side) are prominent, the phyllodium becomes tetra- gonous. 55. A. pugioniformis, Wendl. Comm. Acac. 38, t. 9, but not the sy given in Flora, 1819, 139. A tall glabrous shrub, with slender slightly an- gular branches. Phyllodia rather numerous, straight or slightly curved, eet? - erect, linear-subulate, 14 to 2 rarely 3 in. long, abruptly terminating 1 * short straight point, nearly tetragonous by a prominent nerve on each sio I Stipules minute. Peduncles solitary or 2 together, 2 to 3 lines or $ in. long, bearing each a globular head of numerous flowers, mostly eT Sepals linear-spathulate, ciliate, at length free, about half as long as the rolla. Petals smooth, with a prominent midrib. Pod unknown.— ; ii. 450; 4. quadrilateralis, DC. Prod. ii. 451. ' ay reo Brisbane and Logan rivers, 4. Cunningham ; also in Leiehhardts O° on. $ 4 N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, R. Cunningheh a Sieber, n. 442. Timor The 4. quadrilateralis inserted by Decaisne in the Herb. Tim. Deser. 3100 plant, which 1 have not seen, is more likely to be the following species. 1 with the northern A. Bynoeana, which is at once known by the venati Acacia. | XL. LEGUMINOSA. 339 56. A. juncifolia, Benth. in. Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 341. A tall gla- brous shrub, with slender branches, quite terete. Phyllodia linear-subulate, erett or spreading, slightly flattened with a scarcely prominent nerve on each side, 3 to 6 in. long or even more, with a very short erect or curved point or obtuse. Stipules minute. Peduncles solitary or 2 together, rarely 3 in. long, bearing each a small globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals spathulate, at length free, half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, > without the prominent midrib of 4. pugioniformis. Pod straight, flat or flexuous, often 3 or 4 in. long, 13 to 2 lines wide. Seeds obovate-oblong, longitudinal; funicle not folded, slightly thickened towards the end.—4. Punifolia, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 342. N. Australia, Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; barren stony places on the Macarthur, Gulf of Carpentaria, F Mueller. > fin land. E. coast, R. Brown; Port Bowen, 4. Cunningham; near Mount Plato, Mitchell ; also in Leichhardé’s collection. 3 N.S. Wales. Barren lands, N.W. interior, Mitchell, A. Cunningham, Fraser. Var. planifolia. Phyllodia flatter, nearly a line broad, with a more prominent midrib, almost like those of 4. subulata, but the peduncles all simple. —In Mitehel?'s collection. 57. A. calamifolia, Sweet, in Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 839. A tall shrub, glabrous and often glaucous or slightly mealy, the branches rather slender - and terete, Phyllodia linear-subulate, in the northern specimens very slender mostly 3 to 4 in. long, in the more southern ones usually about 2 in. and from that to 3 in., rarely shorter, and then often slightly flattened and nearly 1 line broad but thick, scmetimes slender as in the long ones, always Pering into a fine recurved point which only wears away with age, nerve- «$8 Or with one fine nerve on each side. Flower-heads globular, smaller than m A. pugioniformis, and usually 3 or 4 in a short raceme, more rarely solitary. - Wers numerous, mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin and transparent, with > broad, ciliate lobes, often splitting into spathulate sepals. Petals eet, distinct. Pod often 5 or 6 in. long, usually curved, 2 to 23 lines toad but much contracted between the distant seeds, the valves hard and convex over the seeds. Seeds oblong, longitudinal; funicle long, often al- post encircling the seed, then bent back and returning within the previous thickened at the end into a long clavate or shortly turbinate fleshy aril. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 909; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 12; 4. pulverulenta, A. un.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 342 (the shorter-leaved southern ens). xN. S. Wales. In interi the Macquarrie, Lachlan, etc., A. Cunningham, Per eel Tivrpo pansy & Bons; als Latter ain. i . Mueller. ah Astralia. Tet ad hee da aar to Speer Gulf and Kangaroo Island, Northw, and others. ; m lit: Hiletnsiona, AS Scala longer.—A. Wilhelmsiana, F. Muell. tan Phil. Inst. Vict. i. 37.—S. Australia, R. Brown, F. Mueller. ; 612 (owin the name of 4, nematophylla, F. Muell., I had, in Linnæa, xxvi. g Partly to es : i , confounded this variety ap 9,40 a wrong label originally sent with F. Mueller’s specimens) e Ele laia 58. A, scirpifolia, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 10. Quite glabrous or Young shoots very sparingly pubescent ; branchlets angular. ; — 340 : XL. LEGUMINOSA. [4cacia. linear-subulate, abtuse or with a minute recurved innocuous point, mostly 3 to 5 in. long, terete or slightly flattened, obscurely l-nerved. Stipules very deciduous. Peduncles solitary, bearing a small globular head of about20 , flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx turbinate, truncate, obtusely sinuate- toothed, about half as longas the corolla. Petals smooth. Pod long, straight or nearly so, about 2 lines broad and much contracted between the seeds, valves hard, very convex over the seeds. Seeds oblong, longitudinal; funicle with short folds, 2 at least of the last much thickened or dilated. W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 5, Oldfield. The calyx and pod are nearly those of 4. salicina and its allies, but the phyl- lodia and seeds are more those of some of the Ca/amiformes. 59. A. extensa, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 15. An erect glabrous shrub of several ft., with elongated branches, always angular and sometimes almost winged. Phyllodia linear-subulate, rigid but slender, often scarcely to be - distinguished from branchlets, erect spreading or recurved, sometimes few and short, mure frequently from 3 or 4 in. to twice that length, with a pro- minent nerve on each side. Peduncles solitary or shortly and irregularly ra; cemose, bearing each a globular head of 20 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx turbinate, thin, truncate or shortly and broadly lobed. Petals smooth, united at the base. Pod long, linear, straight or curved, about 14 lines broa and contracted between the seeds; valves thinly coriaceous. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; funicle with short folds, the last 2 usually much thickened.— Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 6 ; 4. graminea, Lehm. Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb. pe Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 5; 4. pentaedra, Regel, Gartenfl. i. 228, W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. ; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy; Princess Royal Harbour, Preiss, m. 983; Gordon ranges, Maxwell ; Preston and King rivers, Oldfteld. 60. A. gonophylla, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 613. A rigid glabrous shrub, allied in some respects to 4. suleata ; branches angular. Phyllodia not crowded, linear, incurved, obtuse with a short point, rigid and acutely te- tragonous by the very prominent nerves, narrowed at the base, 1 to by mM- long. Stipules minute. Pedunctes usually in pairs, 2 to 4 lines long, bear ing each a globular head of about 12 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. very thin, often separating into distinct sepals, half as long as the coro Petals smooth. Pod linear, flat, slightly contracted between the seeds, 2 2 lines broad. Seeds oblong, longitudinal, the last fold of the funicle very short and turbinate, the next long and considerably dilated. we W. Australia. Towards Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 4 ; Phillips Range Bremer Bay, Maxwell. : s Var. crassifolia. Lower phyllodia sometimes dilated, linear-cuneate or almost ys 2 in. long, very thick and much narrowed at the base, upper ones as in the common Heads rather larger, with more flowers.—Towards the Great Bight, Maxwell. from A fragment from Kojonerap range has the stipules almost spinescent ; another, 11°" eag range, has the phyllodia not 4 in. long; neither are sufficient for accurate determi lon. 61. A. ericifolia, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 345. shrub, attaining sometimes 8 or 4 ft., glabrous or loosely hirsute. Phy numerous, shortly linear-terete or slightly flattened horizontally, a A low busig Acacia. | XL. LEGUMINOSA. . 841 mostly $ to + very rarely 1 in. long, narrowed at the base, nerveless or ob- surely l-nerved. Stipules deciduous: Peduncles short, solitary or in pairs, bearing each a head of about 15 to 20 or rather more flowers, mostly 5- merous. Sepals free, narrow-spathulate. Petals smooth, united to the middle. Young pod hard and terete, byt not seen fully formed.—4. Hookeri, Meissh. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 202, W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. (n. 300, according to Meissner), 2nd Coll. n. 141, Preiss, n. 981; Murchison river, Oldfield. Narrow-leaved specimens of A. leptospermoides might at first be mistaken for’ this species, but may be known by at least : 3 nerves visible under a lens, at least at the base of the leaf. 62. A. uncinella, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 613. A low bushy shrub, glabrous or the young shoots minutely pubescent; branches terete or slightly angular. Phyllodia shortly linear-subulate, terete or nearly so, mostly about lin. long, faintly 1- or 3=nerved on one side, narrowed at the base and as it were petiolate. Stipules minute, deciduous. Peduncles 2 to 4 lines long, Tather slender, solitary or in pairs, bearing each a small globular head of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals distinct, natrow-spathulate. Petals smooth. Pod (from the remains on one specimen) not above 1} lines broad, not con- tracted between the seeds. De Australia. In the interior, J. S. Roe; W. tributary to the Oldfield river, Maz- 63. A. oxyclada, F. Muell. Herb. A bushy, heath-like, glabrous shrub of 3 or 4 ft., the very numerous slender: branches mostly ending in fine thorns, Phyllodia shortly linear-terete or slightly flattened horizontally, mostly 3 to 4 lines long, nerveless on one side, faintly 1- or 3-nerved on the other, almost petiolate. Flowers not:seen. Fruiting peduncles 3 to 4 lines ns: bearing the scars of a head of several flowers: Pod about 1 in. long, 1} lines broad, flexuose. Seeds orbicular; funicle short, thickened at the end, but not seen perfect: W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. 'Phe species has the habit of the Uni- nerves spinescentes, but the phyHodia are almost terete, Sertes V, Bruntorpex.—Phyllodia numerous, small, linear-subulate (except in A. conferta), verticillate, clustered or crowded, obtuse or with in- locuous ör rarely rigid points. Flowers in globular heads, on simple axillary a usually RR p the phyllodia. istinct as are fhe majori 'speciés Uf this group, they heii titonga coo.” Vario Pioda aca lo y are there rigid and pungent: aes A. cedroides, Benth. in Linnea, Tub of 3 or 4 ft., the specimens having the Or of an Equisetum: branches shortly villous. ted 4-gonous, rigid, almost pungent-poin a ar setaceous. Peduncles 2 to 4 lines long, 0 to 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous, the receptac » obtusely lobed, not half so long as the corolla, Petals narrow, smooth, usually cohering to the middle. Pod sessile, incurved, acuminate, 13 to 2 in. long, about 2 lines broad, the valves hard, longitudinally striate, with broad pass into the Uninerves in A. verticillata, but xxvi. 615. A much-branched aspect of a short-leaved Fir Phyllodia verticillate, linear- ted, 4 to 1 in. long. Sti- bearing each a small head le densely ciliate. Calyx 342 » XL. LEGUMINOSE. [4cacia. smooth margins. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; funicle folded and thickened at the end into a turbinate aril, but not seen perfect. Y7. Australia. Southern districts, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 4; among rocks, Fitz- , gerald Range, Mount Bland, etc., Maxwell. 65. A. lycopodifolia, 4. Cunh. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 172. A much- branched diffuse or divaricate’shrub, clothed with very short spreading hairs and more or less viseid. Phyllodia verticillate, about 8 to 10 in the whorl, subulate, rarely above 3 lines long and often only 1 to 2 lines, sulcate with a prominent vein on each side, erect at the base, recurved at the end with a fine glabrous viscid point, sometimes very short, sometimes nearly as long as the * phyliodium. Stipules setaceous. Peduncles longer than the phyllodia, bearing each a globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous, the bracts protruding when young. Calyx very short, with small acute teeth. Petals several times as long, striate, pubescent, united above the middle. Pod sessile or very shortly contracted at the base, quite flat, straight or slightly curved, 1 to 13 in. long, 24 to 3 lines broad. Seeds nearly orbicular, ob- lique, the last fold of the funicle thickened into a fleshy aril. N. Australia. Cambridge Gulf, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; Hammersley Range, Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition ; Victoria river, Bynoe, F. Mueller ; Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown; also in Leichhardf's collection. nce Var. glabrescens. Pubescence much shorter or disappearing. Phyllodia rather longer, but sulcate, with recurved points, as in the ordinary form. Calyx rather more prominent. Pod sessile—A. asperulacea, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ili, 123.—Vietoria river, E. Mueller. 66. A. hippuroides, Heward ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1. 344 Pubescent, with verticillate, subulate, sulcate phyllodia, as in A, lycopodifolia, of which it may possibly prove a variety, but the phyllodia are much longer, attaining 5 or 6 lines, straight not recurved at the end, and the calyx, thi membranous, is at least one-third as long as the corolla. Petals striate pod sessile, as in 4. lycopodifolia. : N. Australia, Usborne’s Harbour, N.W. coast, Voyage of the Beagle; un Creek, M‘Douall Stuart's Expedition. igid and A fragment from M‘Douall Stuart's Expedition differs in the phyllodia more rigid short, but with the same straight points, the stems more viscid, awnless, pabessens a pecially in the extreme tenuity of the calyx, which it is rather difficult to find, and in petals membranous and smooth, as in A. cedroides, but broader and glabrous. 67. A. galioides, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 344... Pubescen: m tomentose, with verticillate finely subulate phyllodia, as in A. lycopod: folia, but the phyllodia are more slender, slightly striate only, not sulcate with : ; minent nerves, 2 to 5 lines long, reeurved at the end but apparently withou : viscid points. Flowers mostly 5-merous, in globular heads on peduncles E 4 ceeding the leaves, as in that species, but the calyx is at least one-third } long as the corolla, and the pod is always borne on a stipes of 2 to 3 e N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller ; islands of the Gulf of Carpenlatiie © Brown ; and a variety with rather stouter phyllodia, Sweers Island, Henne. e ye 68. A, Baueri, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 344. Apparen undershrub, with erect or ascending stems, under 1 ft. high, the terete 05 1, a lets minutely pubescent, otherwise glabrous. Phyllodia in whorls of 5 1% Acacia, | XL. LEGUMINOSA, : 343 linear-subulate, terete, without prominent nerves, but often a slight furrow underneath, recurved at the end and obtuse or with a minute point, about 4 to 6 lines long. Stipules minute or none. Pedunëles rather longer than the phyllodia, bearing a very small head of 10 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous and scarcely 4 line long. Calyx fully half as long as the corolla, with acu- * minate teeth. Petals with a prominent midrib, But not striate. Pod falcate, Z m at each end, 13 to 2 lines broad, hard, longitudinally striate. Seeds not seen. N. Australia. N. coast, R. Brown, without the precise station. The aspect of the Plant is that of A. subternata, but the phyllodia are verticillate as in the preceding species, although fewer in the whorl. 69. A. subternata, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 124. A gla- brous shrub of 3 to 5 ft.; branchlets angular, sulcate, slightly viscid when young. Phyllodia mostly in clusters of 2, 3 or 4, linear-terete or very slightly compressed, with short recurved or hooked points, 3 to 6 lines long, without Prominent nerves and scarcely furrowed. Stipules minute or none. Pedun- cles scarcely longer than the phyllodia, bearing each a globular head of nume- Tous flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals rather rigid, linear-spathulate, fully half as long as the corolla, united in a 5-nerved cup at the base.’ Petals slightly striate, united to the middle. Pod flat, rigidly coriaceous, much narrowed into a long stipes, about 2 lines broad in the upper part, somewhat viscid, very obliquely striate, with thickened margins and oblique partitions tween the seeds.” Seeds oblong, obliquely transverse; funicle straight, gradually thickened from the base to the end. Fra Australia. Table land, Upper Victoria river, P. Mueller. Some young specimens f Leichhardt’ s appear to be referable to the same species. _ 70. A, bruniades, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 404. A heath- like shrub, glabrous or the terete branches minutely pubescent. Phyllodia crowded, but scattered or irregularly verticillate, linear-terete, 2 to 4 lines ng, with short straight points, without prominent nerves or furrows. Sti- pules minute or none. Peduncles longer than the phyllodia, bearing each a obular head of rather small flowers, mostly 5=merous. Calyx turbinate, angular, half as long as the corolla, with short obtuse minutely ciliate lobes. etals free, smooth with rather prominent midribs. Pod not seen. land. Brisbane river, 4. Cunningham ; Mounts Hooker and Lindsay, Fraser. - TL. A, confe A. Cunn.: Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 345. A tall heath-like bare with terete slightly pubescent branches. Phyllodia - Crowded, scattered or irregularly verticillate, linear, compressed, 3 to 4 or rarely 5 lines long, rigid, mostly obtuse, without nerves OF with slightly ickened nerve-like margins, 3 to 1 line broad. Stipules minute or none. eduncles longer than the phyllodia, bearing each a globular head of nume- Tous small flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals linear-spathulate, distinct or ‘lightly united at the base. Petals distinct, smooth, but with slightly promi- nent midribs. Pod very flat, stipitate, obtuse, 1 to 12 in. long, about 5 lines die glaucous. Seeds nearly transverse, ovate, the last fold of the funicle lated into a cup-shaped aril. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown; Dawson river, F. Mueller ; tributaries of 344 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [ Acacia, the Macquarrie, 4. Cunningham; on the upper Maranoa, Mitchell; also in Leichhardt’s Collection. Series VI. Univerves.—Phyllodia vertically flattened, either narrow and obtuse or with a short oblique or innocuous point, or broad and obtuse acute or rarely pungent-pointed, with 1 central or nearly marginal nerve, or very rarely 2-nerved. Flowers in globular heads, either on simple axillary peduncles, solitary or in pairs or clusters, or several in axillary racemes. This series comprises all the species with 1-nerved phyllodia and globular flower-heads, where the phyllodia are not continuous with the stem as in the A/ate and Continue, nor narrow and pungent as in the Pungentes, nor terete or tetragonous as in the Calamiformes, nor whorled as in the Brunividee. The nerve is usually central or nearly so, with the small veins, when conspicuous, pinnate or reticulate; where the nerve is excentrical or near the lower margin, one or two of the principal veins will sometimes arise from near the. base on the upper side, but diverge from the midrib and are not continned to the end of the phyllo- dium as in the P/urinerves. A. verniciflua, and a very few others, have most or some 0 their phyllodia 2-nerved as in the 2-nerved P/urinerves, but are placed among the Uni- nerves, either because the second nerve is very inconstant or from their close affinity to species where it does not exist. A. SpINESCENTES.—Rigid shrubs with spinescent branches. Phyllodia small, usually narrow, not pungent, without marginal glands. Stipules minute or none (except sometimes in 4. scabra}. Peduncles L-headed. Spinescent branches occur also in a very few of the Armate and of the Triangulares the present series, in some of the Pungentes, and in 4. amblygona among Plurinerves. 712. A. scabra, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 605. A shrub with rigid di- varicate spinescent branches, more or less scabrous-pubescent. Phyllodia linear-oblong, very oblique or falcate, obtuse or with a small recurved point, about 3 in. long, 1 to 2 lines broad, rather thick and 1-nerved, scabrous-pU- bescent or at length glabrous. Stipules small, setaceous or almost spinescent. — Peduncles about as long as the leaves, bearing each a globular head of above 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin, the lobes obtuse and ciliate, readily separating into spathulate sepals, fully half as long as the corolla. Petals thin, with slightly prominent midribs. Pod (not seen ripe) narrow- linear, flat, with thickened nerve-like margins. W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 162. Allied on the one hand to the follow- ing species, on the other to some of the narrow-leaved Armale. _ 73, A. nodiflora, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 621. A shrub with oe e rigid virgate branches and divaricate branchlets, often spinescent and nearly glabrous. Phyllodia clustered on the old nodes, linear, oblique or falca obtuse or with a small oblique point, rarely above 3 in. long, 3 to 1 line broad, 1-nerved. Stipules minute or none. Peduncles slender, about as long as the phyllodia, bearing each a small globular head of numerous owon mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow-linear, spathulate, free. Petals smoot), readily separating. Pod not seen. ee W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 8. i 14. A. spinosissima, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 621. A glabrous with numerous slender striate spinescent branches. Phyllodia linear- obtuse or mucronulate, mostly 2 to 3 lines long, and under 1 line b : scurely 1-nerved. Peduncles slender, about as long as the phyllodia, De of shrub, Sa Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 345 each a very small head of 6 to 10 small flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx very short, truncate or sinuately toothed. Petals smooth. Pod linear, flat, with nerve-like margins, 14 or scarcely 2 lines broad, on a rather long stipes. Seeds nearly globular, the funicle filiform to the end, but not seen quite ripe. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 51. 15. A. ulicina, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 202. A rigid spreading gla- brous shrub of 2 to 4 ft., the branches sulcate-striate, the smaller short ones spinescent or reduced to small thorns. Phyllodia linear, obtuse or obliquely mucronate, often 1 in. long'on the main branches, } to 4 in. on the side ones, obscurely 1-nerved. Peduncles short, bearing each a globular head of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx obtusely lobed, half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, but with prominent midribs. Pod linear, very flexuose, 1 to lz lines broad, much contracted between the seeds. Seeds obovate-oblong, thick; the funicle with a first short filiform fold, the next thickened into a club-shaped, almost hood-shaped aril, almost as long as the seed. ai Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 147; Bowes river and S. Hutt river, Old- _ 16. A. erinacea, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 360. A rigid spread- mg glabrous shrub, with striate spinescent branches. Phyllodia obliquely obovate-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or mucronulate, 3 to 5 lines long and 1 to 2 broad, thick, rigid and obscurely 1-nerved. Peduncles 2 to 4 lines long, ing each a head of about 20 or fewer flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx Very short, truncate or minute-toothed. Petals smooth, without prominent midribs. Pod not seen. W. Australia, Drummond (8nd or 3rd Coll), n. 163. . B. Armara,—Shrubs or undershrubs, not spinescent (except sometimes m 4. congesta and 4. idiomorpha): Phyllodia from obovate to lanceolate, rarely above 13 in. long, more or less undulate, with a central nerve and usually nerve-like margins, the marginal gland very small and obscure or none at all. Stipules generally persistent, either spinescent or subulate, or oe or phyllodia-like. Peduncles EE A Te = ersistent rigid sti lodia are the e eristics o Troup, but there aa faked oa ns disappear, and spinescent stipules enst also in several of the Triangulares and in A. sentis and A. dentifera among Ángusti- 12; the undulate phyllodia dcir also in A. hispidula and A. undulifolta among Breci- olie, J formerly considered Armate as a primary series, but finding the characters so Vague, I have now thought it more convenient to divide them into subseries of Uninerves . tnd Plurinerves, 17. A. Huegelii Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 42. An erect bushy shrub, with nearly Danai hirsute Sae Phyllodia semiovate, recurved- cate, + to $ or rarely 1 in. long, 2 to 5 lines broad, tapering into a pun- gent point, narrowed at the base, often undulate, pubescent, with a curved “tral nerve, Stipules setaceous, almost spinescent. Peduncles short, bear- mg each a small head of 20 to 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx none. ttals united above the middle, hirsute outside. Pod (according to Meissner) sessile, linear, falcate, 1 in. long, 2 lines wide, flat with nerve-like margins, nt.—Hueg. Bot. Archiv, t. 10; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. 1. a. 346 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [ Acacia. W. Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Fraser; Swan River and Port Leschenault, Preiss, n. 953, 961; Tone and Vasse rivers, Oldfield. 78. A. nervosa, DC. Mém. Leg. 444; Prod. ii. 449. A glabrous erect shrub or undershrub of 1 to 2 or 3 ft., branches prominently and acutely an- gular and striate. Phyllodia broadly lanceolate, incurved-falcate, rather rigid, but usually undulate, tapering into a short point, 1 to 14 or rarely 2 in. long, with a nearly central nerve and nerve-like margins. Stipules spinescent. Peduncles short, usually 2 or 3 together, bearing each a head of 8 to 12 rather large flowers, mostly 4-merous. Calyx very short and broad, lobed, or some- times scarcely any. Petals several times longer, smooth, spreading, united at the base only. Pod not seen.—Field and Gardn. Sert. Pl. t. 4; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, i. 7, ii. 200. W. Australia. Geographe Bay, Baudin's Expedition ; Swan River, Drummond, \st Coll. n. 290 or 298, Fraser, and others; Gordon river, Oldfield ; summit of Green Moun- tain, Preiss, n. 936. The flowers resemble those of 4. myrtifolia, but the stipules and in- florescence are quite different. 719. A. obovata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 329. An undersbrub or shrub of 1 to 14 ft., more or less scabrous-pubescent, with angular-striate branches. Lower phyllodia obovate or oblong, obtuse, 1 to 13 in. long, the upper ones broadly incurved-falcate, acute and pungent-pointed, all much un- dulate, with thickened nerve-like margins, a prominent midrib and pinnate veins. Stipules setaceous. Peduncles solitary or 2 or 3 together, about as long as the phyllodia, bearing each a head of about 6 to 8 flowers, mostly 4 merous, with a very short calyx as in Æ. nervosa, but more acuminate in t bud. Pod not seen.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 8. “re Australia. Cape Leewin, Collie; gravelly places, Green Mountain, Preiss, ® 80. A. congesta, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i: 327. + A igidin — with divaricaté terete pubescent branches, often spinescent. Phyllodia ob- | liquely oval-oblong or falcaté-lanceolate, obtuse or acute and shortly mucronate, — 4 to 4 or rarely nearly 1 in. long, 2 to 4 lines broad, usually undulate, T glabrous, not thick, with a prominent midrib and obscurely pinnate Y ; Stipules very short, usually spinescent. Peduncles solitary or clustered, ing each a globular head of numerous (40 to 50) small flowet?, HA Poe . merous. Sepals free, linear-spathulate, fully half as long as the coro dé 4 tals smooth, glabrous. Pod linear, compressed but thick, much curved pu a „contracted between the seeds. Seeds longitudinal, the last 2 folds of the funicle | expanding into an oblique cup-shaped aril at the end of the seed.— E in Pl. Preiss. ii. 200; 4. Baxteri, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 7, not of Benth. W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 293; near York, Preiss, 2. 977. bi pod maombi some varieties of Æ. armata, but the stipules are smaller and the calyx ant f uferent. 81.. A. dermatophylla, Benth. Quite glabrous. Branchlets angular, Phyllodia dbion oia somewhat ite undulate, with a very short rgd or callous point, ¿ to 14 in. long, very thick and rigid, with a Conte al and thick nerve-like margins, scarcely prominent. Stipules rigid, SU glon persistent. Peduncles shorter than the phyllodia, bearing each a dense 8% bular head of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow, linear-spa- thulate, free or shortly united at the base. Petals smooth. Pod unknown. W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. The specimens are small, but the smooth thick phyllodia distinguish them from all the Armate, except some varieties of A. nervosa, from which it is easily known by the broader phyllodia, less pungent stipules, and much more Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 347 numerous 5-merous flowers. 82. A. aspera, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 139. A spreading shrub, attdining several ft., very resinous and rough with a glandular viscid pubescence ; branches rigid, nearly terete, striate. Phyllodia oblong-linear, | oblique and more or less undulate, obtuse or with an incurved innocuous Point, } to 1 in. or rarely 12 in. long, with a central nerve and slightly _ thickened nerve-like margins. Stipules small, setaceous. Peduncles solitary or in pairs, not above + in. long, rather thick, bearing each a dense globular head of 30 to 50 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Bracts usually acuminate and protruding beyond the buds. Sepals spathulate, glandular-pubescent at | e end, more or less united to the middle. Petals smooth, glabrous, united Vo the middle. Pod linear, curved, glandular-hispid, 1 to 2 in. long, about 2 | s broad, contracted between the seeds. Seeds longitudinal, oval-oblong ; | funicle with short folds, the last 2 thickened into an almost cup-shaped aril at the base of the seed.—F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 21; 4. erythrocephala, A. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 362 (a narrow-leaved form). - N.S. Wales. Lachlan river, 4. Cunningham. — Victoria. Junction of the Loddon and Murray, Mitchell ; open barren forest-lands and serubby ridges, Serra and Victoria ranges, Grampians, Forest Creek, Black Forest, Goulburn aud Broken rivers, F, Mueller. Var. densifolia. Phyllodia smaller. Flower-heads almost sessile. Bracts much less | o strigosa., Lindl. in Mitch, Three Exped. ii. 185, not of Link; 4. densifolia, 7 th. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 360.—Near Mount Zero, Mitchell. dd is species has been sometimes confounded with A. Aéspidula, which is however read) y by the tuberculate almost denticulate margins of the phyllodia, the smaller heads wit fowers and especially by its short broad thick straight 1- or 2-seeded pod. 83. A. armata, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 463. A tall bushy shrub, attaining sometimes 10 ft. or more; branches angular-striate, hirsute- a ut or rarely glabrous. Phyllodia semiovate, obliquely oblong he - Surved-lanceolate, undulate, obtuse or with a very short oblique point, a a ~ Dearly central midrib and pinnate veins, varying from 4 lines to above = m length, and in breadth from one-fifth to nearly half their length. Stipules ight, divaricate and spinescent, often 4 to 5 lines long. Peduncles usually al a $ her numerous 5- oy dm bi nat repara i Sato sepals, - Merous flowers, Calyx thin, lobed, but not usually separatin ‘Wout half as long as the corolla. Petals narrow, glabrous, smooth. Pod cer a € S E be: ight or curved, 13 to 2 in. long, 2 to 3 lines broad, not es a fen the seeds, softly villous or rarely glabrous or hispid. s folds udinal, the finia slightly dilated. nearly from the base, nm í om n> Scarcely more thickened under the seed.— Bonpl. Jard. . ts k kan Pi . ii. 449; Bot. Mag. t. 1653; Lodd. Bot. Cab. cd . . Vict. ii. 3; 4, furcifera, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 267. da Wales. Blue Mountains and iu the interior to Peel's Range, 4. Cunningham ; “award to New England, C. Stuart. 348 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [ Acacia. Victoria. Barren ridges from near Port Phillip to Goulburn and Broken rivers, near Forest Creek and towards the mouth of the Glenelg, F. Mueller. S. Australia. From the Murray to Spencer's and St. Vincent's Gulfs and Mount Re- markable, F. Mueller; Kangaroo Island, R. Brown, Waterhouse. W. Australia. King George’s Sound (or to the E.?), Baxter; Murchison river, Oldfield. Var. angustifolia. Phyllodia narrower.—4. paradoza, DC. Prod. ii. 449 ; 4. undulata, Wild. Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 68; Wendl. Comm. Acac. t.3; Bot. Reg. t. 843; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 753 ; Reichb: Ic. et Descr. Pl. t. 89. i This species is now an old inmate of our gardens, where it varies much, and is said to have been frequently hybridized. Some of these forms have a second nerve to some or all the phyllodia, or have the stipules very small or none. These garden forms include A. ornitho- phora, Sweet, Fl. Austral. t. 24; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1469; A. hybrida, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1342; A. micracantha, Dietr. in Allgem. Gart. Zeit. i. 83; A. tristis, Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 3420. It is possible that a few of the Western or out-of-the-way stations given for the species, may have been erroneously founded on cultivated specimens sent as wild: 84. A. idiomorpha, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i, 329. A shrub with very rigid divaricate often spinescent branches, softly villous as well as the phyllodia. Phyllodia broadly and obliquely ovate, undulate, pun- gent-pointed, about 4 in. long, with a strong central nerve and nerve-like margins. Stipules spinescent, recurved. Flowers (only seen in a single glo- bular head sent with the specimen but not attached to it) numerous, 5-merous, glabrous or nearly so. W. Australia. Dirk Hartog's Island, A. Cunningham. 85. A. Shuttlewórthii, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss.i. 7. Apparently shrubby, hirsute or hispid with short hairs; branches terete or slightly angular. Phyl- lodia broadly ovate or orbicular, very oblique, mucronate, thick rigid ar much undulate, 4 to 4 in. long, obliquely obtuse at: the base, sessile, 1-nervel; the gland, if any, at or below the middle: Stipules minute, setaceous, Some times spinescent. Peduncles very short, bearing each a head of about 8 to 12 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx lobed, about half as long as the Petals free, hispid. Pod flat, but thick and coriaceous, about 3 lines either 1-seeded and nearly orbicular, or 2-seeded and twice as long, Very gen scabrous-pubescent, perhaps sometimes longer as there are sev ovules. W. Australia, Drummond, n. 294. 86. A. Gregorii, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 47. A diffuse or poama : shrub or undershrub of 1 to 12 ft., softly pubescent. Phyllodia pe E. oblong with a small usually recurved point, narrowed at the base, mosty 3 to 2 in. long, undulate, somewhat coriaceous, 1-nerved and Lavage Stipules small, lanceolate, acuminate, dry and persistent. Peduncles $01” nearly as long as the phyllodia, bearing a globular head of 30 to 40 or flowers, mostly 5-merous. Bracts acuminate. Calyx more than If as : as the corolla, with narrow thin ciliate lobes. Petals slightly pu Bie smooth with prominent midribs, cohering to the middle. Pod unknown: a de N. Australia. Nichol Bay, N.W. coast, F. Gregory's Expedition. Aa E describes it as a very rigid prickly shrub of 6 to 8 ft., but has evidently been MEP | 87. A. pilosa, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 607. A decumbent o a undershrub or shrub, often under 1 ft., but probably sometimes taller, BOP Acacia.) . XL, LEGUMINOS#, 349 or less hirsute with rather long spreading hairs. Phyllodia oblique, obovate or broadly oblong, shortly acute or mucronate, much narrowed at the base, much undulate, 1-nerved, mostly 4 to 1 in. long. Stipules setaceous, almost spinescent. Peduncles about as long as the phyllodia, slender, bearing each a small globular head of about 12 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx- lobes ciliate, fully half as long as the corolla. Petals hirsute, cohering to the middle. Pod oblong, flat, very coriaceous, obtuse, hispid, few-seeded, but not seen ripe. W. Australia, Drummond, Suppl. to 3rd Coll. n. 35, 5th Coll. n. 12; Gordon and Kalgan rivers, Oldfield ; Phillips Ranges, Maxwell. $8. A. crispula, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 607. Very near 4. pilosa in habit and essential characters, but the phyllodia are much narrower, faleate- oblong, rarely exceeding 4 in. in length, 1 to 14 lines broad, obtuse, shortly acute or mucronate, narrowed at the base, undulate, rather thick and 1-nerved. Stipules setaceous or spinescent. Peduncles slender, bearing a head smaller than in 4. pilosa, though often with more flowers, 5-merous and hirsute as in that species. Pod unknown. . W. Australia, Drummond, n. 78. Possibly a narrow-leaved variety of 4. pilosa. 89. A, crassistipula, Bent). in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 326. Apparently a small shrub, more or less hirsute with soft spreading hairs; branches angu- la, Phyllodia oblong-linear, falcate, undulate, with a short incurved or hooked point, 3 to 2 in. long, 1-nerved with nerve-like margins. Stipules like the phyllodia and about half their size, persistent. Peduncles rather shorter than the phyllodia, bearing each a small globular head of about 30 to 40 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx turbinate, shortly lobed, more than half as long as the corolla. Petals pubescent or hirsute, smooth, but with a pro- Minent midrib, cohering to the middle, Pod unknown. iit; Australia, Drummond, n. 295. Allied to, the last 3 species, but distinguished the whole genus by the phyllodineous stipules. C. TrIaNGULARES.—Shrubs usually rigid and occasionally spinescent. yllodia small, rigid, the nerve either near the lower margin or rarely cen- the upper side more or less dilated, the margin rounded or angular, with usually a gland at the angle. Stipules spinescent or setaceous or minute. Peduncles 1-headed. e the generally characterized by the small phyllodia with the lower margin nearly Wie “18 Upper on i rominen “leaved Bear, nk ee eles of A. vomeriformis, where the glandular angle host disap rs, and into the subseries Brevifolie, through some forms of A. bidentata, Tet come very near to 4. obliqua. As in mus case of the Armate, 1 had originally esta- the Triangulares as a distinct series, but it now appears more natural to ip te the many-neryed from the one-nerved species, and consider them as subseries only of the Pluri- nerves and Uninerves, Pied A. hastulata, Sm. in Rees Cycl. xxxix. Suppl. A shrub. of 2 or 3 ; branches rather slender, elongated, virgate or divaricate, terete, pubescent or at length glabrous, Phyllodia numerous, hastate-lanceolate or almost cor- tapering into pungent points, 2 to 3 lines long, with 1 central nerve, the lower margin rounded near the base, the upper one more angular and anally bearing a gland. Stipules setaceous, persistent. Peduncles very 350 XL. LEGUMINOS£. : [4cacia. short and slender, bearing each a head of 3 to 5, usually 4, flowers, mostly 4-merous. Calyx very short, with broad obtuse lobes. Petals smooth, gla- brous. Pod 1 to 2 in. long, scarcely above 1 line broad, curved, acuminate, - nearly terete, longitudinally striate, coriaceous, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; the last fold of the funicle thickened into a short aril under the seed.—DC. Prod. ii. 449; Bot. Mag. t. 3341; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 10. W. Australia. Sandy and rocky places, King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Menzies, Preiss, n. 959, and others. 91. A. horridula, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 9. A shrub of 2 or 3 ft.; branches virgate, rigid, terete or slightly sulcate, pubescent. Phyllodia nu- merous, obliquely ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, tapering into a pungent point, 3 to 4 or rarely 5 lines long, the upper angle near the base slightly prominent, with or without a small gland, rigid, with a nearly central nerve, glabrous or pubescent. Stipules setaceous, rigid. Peduncles shorter than _the phyllodia, bearing each a head of 3 to 5, usually 4, flowers, mostly 4- merous. Calyx very short, with broad obtuse lobes. Petals acute, densely villous. Pod pubescent when young, not seen fully formed. : W. Australia, Drummond, Preiss, n. 1151; Canning river, Preiss, n. 965; Harvey river, Oldfield. Although very near 4. hastulata, this species appears to be distinguishable by its more rigid, more oblique, less acuminate phyllodia, and narrower villous petals. Some specimens of Harvey’s from King George’s Sound appear, however, to be almost inter- mediate, 92. A. divergens, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 331. Glabrous or pubescent; branches angular, divaricate, rather slender. Phyllodia numerous, triangular or 2-lobed, tapering to a pungent point, 2 to 4 lines long, t upper angle or lobe diverging at right angles from the base of the phyllodium and usually bearing a gland, the midrib adjoining the lower straight margm- Stipules small, setaceous, almost spinescent, diverging from the base 0 t midrib. Pedicels filiform, often rather longer than the phyllodia, bearing each a small globular head of 8 to 12 flowers, mostly 4-merous. Calyx short, open, broadly lobed. Petals smooth, glabrous. Pod not seen. . ! w. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 159; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy. Resembles E in foliage some forms of 4. vomeriformis, but the flowers are quite different. ae 93. A. vomeriformis, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ: 1 A diffuse or procumbent rigid shrub; branches terete, pubescent or Lp Phyllodia numerous, from obliquely lanceolate to broadly triangular or 2-lobe rigid and pungent-pointed, 2 to 4 lines long, the upper angle below the me dle, either short and rounded or very prominent, rarely bearing a gla ‘oul midrib usually adjoining the lower straight margin. Peduncles slender, # = as long as the phyllodia or longer, bearing each a globular head of above flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals spathulate, united above the middle or length free, thick and dark at the top, half as long as the corolla. a | glabrous, smooth, readily separating. Pod linear, often elongated, fa es a aceous, glabrous, about 2 lines broad, contracted between the seeds”. a, | nearly orbicular; funicle short, filiform to the end.—F. Muell. Pl. heno d Dietr. Fl. Univers. N. Ser. t. 82; 4. Gunnii, Benth. in Hook. Lond. > a i, 332; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 104. t. 18. E Acacia. ; XL. LEGUMINOSA. 351 N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains and westward towards the Macquarrie, 4. Cunning- ham, Fraser, Huegel, Miss Atkinson ; New England, C. Stuart. Victoria. Barren mountains, forests and scrubs, Forest Creek, Grampians, Mitta-Mitta and Macalister rivers, sources of the Genoa river, etc., ascending to 4000 ft., F. Mueller. Tasmania. Port de |’Espérance, R. Brown ; S. Esk river, near Hobarton, near Camp- beltown, ete., J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Lofty Range, Whittaker, F. Mueller; Tattiara country, J. E. Woods. 94. A. biflora, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 463. A diffuse or bushy shrub, branches scarcely angular, pubescent or rarely glabrous. Phyllodia more or less triangular, 3 or 4 lines or rarely 4 in. long, with a small pungent point, the principal nerve near the lower straight margin, the upper margin forming a prominent angle above the middle, usually bearing a gland, and occasionally a secondary nerve tending towards it. Stipules setaceous or spinescent. Peduncles short, bearing each 2 or very rarely more 4-merous flowers, acuminate in the bud. Calyx short, ciliate, with broad lobes. Petals rather rigid but not striate. Pod flat with thickened nerve-like margins, often 2 in. long, 14 to 2 lines broad, acuminate and narrowed at the base, valves coriaceous. Seeds longitudinal, the last fold of the funicle thickened into a small aril under the seed. Wendl. Comm. Acac. t. 2; DC. Prod. ii. 449; Reichb. Ic. et Descr. Pl. t. 12; 4. triangularis, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 42 ; issn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 10. W. Australia. King Gecrge’s Sound and eastward to Cape Riche, R. Brown, Baxter, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 3, Preiss, n. 963 and 966, and others; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy. t varies in the buds nearly obtuse or much acuminate ; and very rarely most of the flower- have 3, 4 or even 5 flowers. 95. A. decipiens, R. Br. in dit. Hort. Kew. ed. 3. v. 463. A bushy shrub, sometimes low and diffuse, but frequently attaining 10 to 12 ft., gla- brous or rarely sparingly hirsute. Phyllodia triangular or irregularly trapezi- form, rigid, usually 4 to 8 lines long and nearly as broad at the top, the prin- cipal nerve near the lower straight margin and ending in a small point, the Upper margin forming 1 or rarely 2 very prominent angles, tipped with a , and occasionally there are 1 or 2 faint secondary nerves. Stipules here and there spinescent. Peduncles short, bearing each a bead of 6 to 10 flowers Mostly 4-merous, obtuse in the bud. Calyx short, broadly lobed. Petals free, glabrous and smooth. Pod thick and hard, glabrous, much incurved, f to 2 in, long, 1 to 14 lines broad, acuminate and narrowed at the base, scarcely contracted between the seeds. Seeds oblong, longitudinal; funicle with the last folds dilated into a thick obliquely turbinate aril.— Mimosa decipiens, Kon. in Sm. Ann. Bot. i. 366. t. 8; 4. decipiens, DO. Prod. ii. 449; Bot. Mag. t. 1745, 3244; Meissn. in PL. Preiss. i. 8; Reich. Ic. et Descr. Pl. t. 12, and 8; 4, dolabriformis, Colla, Hort. Ripul. 1, not of Wendl.; 4. ered yok le. Pl. t. 870; 4. biflora, Paxt. Mag. ix. 221, with a fig., not of B. , W. Australia. Ki % Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, A. Cunning- ham, Drummond, n. Bie Mesto aby 955, 962, 987. 968, and others ; Se bid e the 27; Gordon river, Oldfield. Tt varies much in the comparativo length ant Unt do, b phyllodia, the broadest. part always above the middle, occasionally the upper ange i ly rounded, projecting much beyond the mucronate angle, approaching ly P ca 5 form in 4, bidentata, the phyllodium then usually much longer, sometimes nearly © in. Tons. 95. A, cuneata, Benth. in Huey. Enum. 42. A tall shrub, glabrous or * 352 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [4cacia. with loosely hirsute angular branches. Phyllodia cuneate-oblong, truncate at the end, 4 to 1 in. long, the nerve much more central than in 4. decipiens, curved and ending in á small point at the lower angle, the upper one usually also acute and sometimes longer, tipped with a gland. Stipules setaceous. Peduneles nearly as long as the phyllodia, bearing each a globular head of 8 to 15 flowers, mostly 4-merous, smaller than in 4. decipiens. - Calyx broadly turbinate, half as long as the corolla, with broad obtuse lobes. Petals smooth. Pod much curved, hirsute, coriaceous, with thickened margins, 2 to 3 in. long, about 2 lines broad.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 9. "W. Australia. Swan River and Rottenest island, Fraser, Huegel, Drummond, n. 257 (or 297), Preiss, n, 954, 956, 957, and others. Nearly allied to A. decipiens, but the differences both in phyllodia and flowers appear to be constant. 97. A. dilatata, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 608. A rigid shrub, softly pubescent. Phyllodia broadly triangular-cuneate, rigidly coriaceous, } to ł in. long and almost as broad at the top, the principal nerve near the lower straight margin, with usually 1 or 2 other nerves diverging from the base, the upper angle obtuse, usually without any gland. Stipules setaceous or spinescent. Peduncles rarely 3 in. long, bearing each a globular head of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx half as long as the corolla, with narrow ciliate lobes, Petals strongly striate, hispid with a few rigid hairs. Pod not seen. W. Australia, Drummond. The shape of the phyllodia is not unlike that of some of the thick and broad-leaved forms of 4. decipiens, but the flowers are very different. 98. A. bidentata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 333. A very rigid divaricate shrub; branches terete, pubescent, or rarely nearly glabrous, 00- casionally spinescent. Phyllodia obovate or cuneate-oblong, 2 to 4 lines or rarely 3 in. long, thick and rigid, the principal nerve near the lower straight margin terminating in a small point, with a secondary nerve usually diverging from the base, the upper margin forming a broad rounded or rarely acute lobe or angle, often longer than the point. Stipules minute. Peduncles often exceeding the phyllodia, bearing each a small globular head of about 8 to 15 flowers, either 4-merous or 5-merous. Calyx very small and thin. P smooth. Pod (only seen loose) much curved or twisted, about 14 lines broad, Ss flat thinly coriaceous valves. Seeds longitudinal. —Meissn. in P}. Preiss. i. 10. W. Australia, Drummond, Preiss, n, 958, 969; Kojonerup and Gardner range, Maxwell. : 99. A, acanthoclada, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 127, and Pl. Viet. ii. 4. A rigid divaricate spinescent shrub, with the habit, characters, small AE phyllodia and flowers of 4. bidentata, and very probably a variety only of ps species, differing only in the phyllodia all narrow-cuneate slightly notehed a the end, one angle or lobe acute or mucronate, the other obtuse. Neit species (or variety) has been seen in good fruit. : : Pe were Sand ridges of the Murray desert, especially about Kielkoyne, Howitt s Ez- pedition. gne Australia, Drummond. Specimens apparently precisely similar to those from e y. us b . Acacia. | XL. LEGUMINOSA. 353 D. BREVIFOLIÆ. Shrubs, never spinescent. Phyllodia either broad, ovate or falcate, or narrow-oblong or linear, short, mostly under 1 in. long, obtuse or with a small recurved innocuous point, or sometimes undulate and more Pointed. Stipules minute or none. Peduncles 1-headed. These species pass into the Triangulares through A. obliqua, into the short-leaved Ca- lamiformes through 4. lineata, and some forms of 4. dura ; and the shorter-leaved forms of 4, montana and some others of the Angustifolie, might almost be included in the present : es. A. anceps is very variable in the form of its phyllodia, and they are usually larger than in other Brevifolice, but on the whole, it appears to be better placed here than m any other subseries of Uninerves. 100. A. obliqua, 4. Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 334. A much-branched shrub, attaining sometimes several ft., glabrous or slightly bescent. Phyllodia obliquely obovate or orbicular, from } to nearly + in. ng, the principal nerve scarcely prominent, near the lower margin, and ter- miuating in a minute recurved point, with often 1 or 2 fainter nerves diverging from the base. Stipules minute. Peduncles slender, solitary or in pairs, usually exceeding the phyllodia, bearing each a globular head of about 8 to 15 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals distinct, linear-spathulate, fully half as 8 as the corolla. Petals smooth. Pod linear, twisted, l4 to 2 lines d, with coriaceous valves. Seeds ovate, longitudinal; funicle not folded, scarcely so long as the seed, gradually thickened almost from the base into a clavate fleshy aril. —4. cyclophylla, Schlecht. in Linnæa, xx. 663; 4. rotun- Es ta, Hook. Bot, Mag. t. 4041; Paxt. Mag. xv. 123, with a fig. 41,8. Wales. Near Bathurst, Fraser; between the Lachlan and Macquarrie rivers, ween 3 Nangas, M' Arthur. "ral At and near the Oyens ranges, F. Mueller. ; E Ba- Austr Scrub of the Murray, Behr ; Encounter Bay, Whittaker; Lofty, Tossa, and Flinders ranges, F. Mueller. ‘ ge specimens resemble some of the broader-leaved forms of 4. bidentata, but are less : > never spinescent, and the calyx is different. The flowers and fruit are those of 4. temacea, with which F. Mueller proposes to unite it as a broad leaved variety. UL A, acinacea, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 267. A much nched shrub of several feet, usually glabrous, with the habit and essential “acters of 4. obliqua and A. lineata, and scarcely differing from either except m the shape of the phyllodia, which are obliquely oblong or somewhat falcate, _ y above 4 in. long, obtuse at the end, with a small recurved point usually be "A small gland, the nerve somewhat excentrical, the marginal gland flow the middle or none. Peduncles slender, often exceeding the phyllodia, Sena) cach a globular head of about 10° to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Pals distinct, linear-spathulate. Petals smooth. Pod linear, curved or to coriaceous, 11 to 2 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal, the pro R pued into a clavate fleshy aril, scarcely so long as the seed.—F. Mue | ict. ii. 5; 4. Latrobei, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 10. throughout Near Mount William, Mitchell; grassy and somewh A i the great the eastern distriets, F. Mueller. ?. Australia, Mie Corr E Brel pi near Spencer’s Gulf and Flinders Range, 3 er, y Abe , LEA ; Syst. ii. 403. A bushy ec eata, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. 11. 5 o Shrub of several k branches nearly terete, usually pubescent or villous and gas slightly resinous. Phyllodia linear, with a small AN point, at scrubby ridges kd 354 : XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ Acacia. about 4 in. long or rarely 4 in. or rather more, the nerve very near the lower margin and usually without any gland. Stipules minute. Peduncles slender, rarely exceeding the phyllodia, bearing each a small globular head of 10 to 15 or rarely more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals distinct, linear-spathulate. Petals smooth. Pod linear, curved or twisted, coriaceous, 13 to 2 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal, the funicle thickened into a clavate fleshy, aril scarcely so long as the seed.—Bot. Mag. t. 3346; A. runciformis, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 404; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 21; A. dasyphylla, A. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 359 (a more pubescent form) ; 4. imbricata, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 5, ii. HL N. S. Wales. Liverpool Plains, Wellington Valley, ete., A. Cunningham. Victoria. N.W. desert, Lockhart Morton. S. Australia. Port Lincoln and Dombey Bay, F. Mueller. The habit, inflorescence, flowers and fruit are those of A. obliqua and A. acinacea, from which this species only differs in the narrow phyllodia, 1 have not followed F. Mueller in taking up the name of runciformis, because that of lineata, of the same date, is universally a by gardeners as well as botanists, and does not appear to me to be in itself objec- 101ab1e, 103. A. triquetra, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 358. A glabrous erect shrub; branches acutely angled. Phyllodia linear, obtuse or with a minute recurved point, mostly under 1 in. long, narrowed at the base, the nerve nearly central, the marginal gland minute or none. Stipules minute. Fe duncles rarely exceeding the phyllodia, bearing each a small globular head numerous very small flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow-linear, spa- thulate, ciliate. Petals smooth, narrow, distinct, almost clawed. Pod much curved, flat with nerve-like margins, 2 to 3 in. long, 14 lines broad. Seeds oblong, longitudinal, the funicle not folded, thickened into a short club- shaped fleshy arl.—4. Meissneri, var. angustifolia, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. 1- 18. W, Australia, Baxter, Drummond, n. 109 and 292, Differs from A. lineata in its glabrous very angular branches, from A. Meissneri in its narrow phyllodia and in the 104. A. ligustrina, Meisn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 208. A glabrous shrub with acntely angled branches, very closely allied to 4. triquetra, but app rently differing in the more coriaceous obliquely lanceolate phyllodia, often above 1 in. long, narrowed at both ends, the lateral veins quite inconsp! and usually with 2 or 3 small distant glands on the upper margin. no numerous, mostly 5-merous, in small globular heads ; sepals linear-spathulate and petals smooth as in 4. triguetra. Pod unknown. W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 150. 105. A. Meissneri, Lehm. Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1842 A tall sad quite glabrous and often glaucous, the young shoots very angular. Phy obliquely obovate-oblong or almost cuneate, obtuse or with a small hook point, $ to 1 in. long, 2 to 4 lines broad, much narrowed at the base, e ; ceous but thinner than in 4. anceps, without nerve-like margins, 1-nerved slightly penniveined. Peduncles shorter than the phyllodia, bearing small globular head of numerous (about 30) small flowers, mostly 5 Sepals free, nayrow, linear-spathulate, slightly ciliate at the top. Peta to narrow, smooth, quite distinet. Pod almost sessile, elongated, - ; lines broad, the margins not thickened. Seeds oblong, longitudinal; .. ‘ . Ácacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 355 very long and much folded, the last fold almost encircling the seed and re- turning, but thickened only at the end.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, i. 13. W. Australia. Muddy sandy places near York, Preiss, n. 930; Swan River, Mylne, 106. A. anceps, DC. Mem. Leg. 446, and Prod. ii. 451. An erect shrub _ of, several feet, quite glabrous, and often of a glaucous or purplish hue, the branches rigid, very acutely angled when young. Phyllodia from broadly ovate to oblong, attached by a broad base and only partially articulate, the lower edge continuous and shortly decurrent, 14 to 2 in. long and 4 to 1} in. broad, or even larger on barren branches, very rigid, often undulate, 1-nerved, Penniveined, with thickened margins. Peduncles from under 4 to nearly 1 in. long, thick, bearing each a rather large globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous, Calyx more than half as long as the corolla, turbinate, roadly and obtusely toothed. Petals smooth, readily separating. Pod sti- pitate, straight, flat, rigidly coriaceous, very obtuse, about 14 in. long and 2 in. broad. Seeds longitudinal ; funicle long, filiform, much folded, shortly | thickened at the end, but not seen perfect.—4. Muelleri, Benth. in Linnæa, xxvi. 603, p : „S. Australia. St. Peter's Island, Nuyts' Archipelago, Baudin's Expedition; Port Lincoln, R. Brown, F, Mueller ; towards Spencer’s Gulf, Warburton. ; : Var. (?) angustifolia, Branches rather less angular. Phyllodia from narrow-obovate to | “oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, occasionally with a prominent, gland above the middle, Pe- y duncles under 4 in. long.—S. coast, R. Brown ; towards Spencer’s Gulf, Warburton. | Me has sometimes almost the phyllodia of 4. notabilis, but the peduncles are always 107. A. hispidula, Willd. Spec. Pl. iv. 1054. A rigid spreading shrub, scabrous A over with very apc stiff hairs or tubercles. Phyllodia numerous, broadly falcate, with a minute point, cuneate at the base, mostly 4 pth. long, 2 to 3 lines broad, with a central nerve and thickened nerve- _ K€ margins more or less tuberculate or almost denticulate. Peduncles short, = g each a small globular head of 12 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. A Calyx lobed, about half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, connate to the middle,” Pod ovate and l-seeded or oblong and 2-seeded, very obtuse, Seat & lines broad, flat but thickly coriaceous, without prominent margins. Feeds oval-oblong, longitudinal; funicle with the last fold much thickened — y hearly as long as the seed, and shortly folded below it.—Mimosa his- Pinia, Sm, Bot. Nov. Holl. 59, t. 16; 4. hispidula, DC. Prod. ii. 450; E Cab. t. 823; Hook. le. Pl. t. 161. EA el others. This species has been confo “sage lo a aiina po not tuberculate phyllodia, denser flower- and a very different pod, besides the stipules usually persistent. - 108. A. undulifolia, 4. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 404. A shrub | metimes low and bushy, but “often attaining a great size, and very hand- Mme from its long pendulous garland-like flowering branches ; branchlets A potly angular but soon terete, pubescent, hirsute or rarely glabrous. Jodia numerous, ovate or almost orbicular, very obliquely truncate vá os to no ât the base and often petiolate, usually about 4 in. but + rom 4 ci tty 1 in. long, coriaceous, undulate, 1-nerved and penniveined, the mar- o meda ened, terminating in a short or fine point. Peduncles slender, often 212 356 XL. LEGUMINOS#. [ Acacia. exceeding the phyllodia, bearing each a globular head of 20 to 30 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx very short, toothed. Petals smooth, united above the middle. Pod shortly stipitate, 7 to 9 lines broad, very flat, with nerve-like margins. Seeds flat, ovate, oblique; funicle with the last fold thickened and not half so long as the seed, and short folds below it.— Bot. Mag. t. 3394; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1544; Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 282; A. uncinata, Lodd. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1332; 4. piligera, A. Cunn. in Bot, Mag. under n. 3394; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 166 (4. setigera, A. Cunn.). Queensland. Near Brisbane, F. Mueller, Leichhardt. i N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains, R. Brown ; abundant in thickets, barren woods, ete. in the N.W. interior, beyond Bathurst, Cox’s River, Liverpool Plains, etc., A. Cunninghan:, Fraser, Mitchell, and others. Var. sertiformis. More glabrous, with larger phylJodia, not contracted at the base.—A. ar A. Cunn. in Bot. Meg. under n. 3394; Hook. Tc, Pl. t. 159.—Liverpool ains. Var. dysophylia. Softly villous. Phyllodia large.— A. dysophylla, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 346.—Pine ridge near Croker’s Range, A. Cunningham. 5 Var. humilis. Diffuse and low, glabrous. Phyllodia not above 3 or 4 lines long, very oblique and often recurved, nearly as broad as long.—N.W. interior of N. S. Wales, Fr ad also the Brisbane specimens from F. Mueller and Leichhardt. A. plagiophylla, F. Muell. in Journ. Liun. Soc. iii. 131, not of Sieber, belongs probably to one of the varieties of 4. undulifolia. 109. A. flexifolia, A. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 359. ‘Shrubby, the branches terete or nearly so, hoary with a minute tomentum. Phyllodia numerous, linear, obtuse, scarcely mucronate, 4 to żin, long, rigidly coriaceous and glabrous, narrowed at the base, with an impres gland and often bent in at a little distance from the base, with a prominent nerve very near the lower margin, the upper margin thickened and nerve-like. Stipules minute. Peduneles very short, solitary or in pairs, tomentose, bear- ing each a small globular head of 6 to 10 very small flowers, mostly erg Calyx thin, shortly lobed, not half as long as the corolla. Petals smoott, united to the middle. N.S. Wales. Cugeegong river and between Lachlan and Macquarie rivers, £. ning ham. 110, A, dura, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 622. A low rigid glabrous shrub; „branches slightly angular when young. Phyllodia linear or linear-cuneate, very obtuse, ¿ to rather more than 1 in. long, thick and very rigid, narrow’ “ at the base and often bent in with an impressed gland below the middle, w! a very prominent nerve, and the upper margin thick and nerve-like or a a slightly intramarginal nerve, the smaller phyllodia straight, withou gland. Peduncles not 2 lines long, mostly solitary, bearing each a SM globular head of 6 to 10 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals very thin, sP® thulate, distinct. Petals narrow, smooth, distinct. she other do W. Australia, Drummond. i hand to 4. flerifolia, on the ONT A. nitidula, differing from the Mide tis mor raid phyllodia es Ya the aly, fom tle À latter in the marginal nerve, small flower-heads, etc. a 111. A. spathulata, F. Muell. Herb. A diffuse or bushy shrub pa a or 4ft.; branches usually crowded, nearly terete; glabrous or slightly E aS cent. Phyllodia linear-cuneate or oblong-spathulate, very obtuse, 4 to °°" ie Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSA. 357 long, thick and almost fleshy, faintly 1-nerved. Peduncles solitary or in y bearing each a globular head of numerous flowers, only seen in young bud. ` od oblong-linear, straight, flat but thick and hard, very obtuse, with broad margins, 1 to 13 in. long, 2 to 3 lines broad. Seeds oval-oblong, longitu- dinal; funicle short, thickened into a club-shaped oblique aril, with the edges more or less dilated over the seed. N. Australia. Bay of Rest, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham, W. Australia. Dirk Hartog’s Island and Sharks Bay, Mi/ne; Murchison river, Oldfield (phyllodia small, narrow; pod narrow) ; Murray river, Oldfield (phyllodia larger ; broader). Some of the smaller specimens have some resemblance to 4. /eptospermoides, the venation (often only visible under alens at the base of the phyllodium) is different. E. ANGUSTIFOLIÆ.—Shrubs or trees, not spinescent. Phyllodia oblong- late or linear, occasionally falcate, with 1 central nerve or rarely 2- uerved, mostly above 1 in. long. Stipules minute or none, or spinescent in A. sentis and A. dentifera. Peduncles 1-headed. Some species very resinous. A few of this section have often, and £. verniciflua almost constantly 2 nerves to the phyl- thus connecting the Uninerves with the Plurinerves, to which however I have traus- most of the 2-nerved species I had formerly included in the Uninerves. 112. A, microcarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 6, and Pl. Viet. ii. 12.4 shrub of 2 to 5 ft., glabrous or the young shoots minutely pubescent with silky or golden hairs, Phyllodia oblong-linear or linear-lanceolate, oblique or te, obtuse or with a small recurved point, mostly 1 to 1} rarely 2 in. 8, coriaceous, rather thick, quite smooth, besides a scarcely prominent cen- Nerve. Peduncles mostly in pairs, rarely above 4 in. long and often much er, bearing each a globular head of rather numerous flowers, mostly 5- merous. Sepals free, narrow-linear, spathulate, ciliate. Petals smooth, dis- tinct. Pod linear, curved or twisted, acuminate, often 2 or 3 in. long, but hot above 13 lines broad at the seeds and much contracted between them ; valves rather coriaceous. Seeds longitudinal ; funicle thickened into a small ‘pad oblique aril. -8. Wales. Plains of the Darling, Victorian Expedition. š S. + fer pital on the Stuy, Aroon and Wimmera rivers, F. Mueller. ear Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi, ; i Some specimens from the Maiani Botanic Garden have much smaller phyllodia, a de ng, small flower-heads, and the pods scarcely above 1 line broad, thus approaching acinacea in aspect. 13. A, montana, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 360. A resinous Seid shrub of 4 to 6 ft.; branches slightly angular and pubescent. Phyl- Es lodia oblong, oblong-lanceolate or broadly linear, very obtuse, narrowed at ; > coriaceous, more or less distinctly 2-nerved, in the N. S. Wales spe- “mens 1 to 13 in, long, 2 to 3 lines broad, in the Victorian ones often much ', narrower, approaching towards those of A. lineata. Peduncles - Usually 2 to 3 lines long, solitary or in pairs, bearing each a small globular E of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin, lobed and ciliate, r separating into distinct sepals. Petals smooth, distinct. Ae ~ densely tomentose, 1 to 2 in. long and about 2 lines broad, not contracte an the seeds. Seeds obovate-oblong, longitudinal; funicle with the 2 "3 last folds thickened into an oblique almost hood-shaped aril, at least half . 358 XL. LEGUMINOSZ, . [4cacia.. as long as the seed.—F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 22; 4, clavata, Schlecht. Lin-’ nea, xx. 662. WN. S. Wales. High lands near Liverpool Plains, Fraser. Victoria. Low stony and scrubby ridges and barren plains, Mount Korong, Avoca, Murray, and Wimmera rivers, F. Mueller. "S. Australia. East declivity of the scrub on the Murray, Behr; Lake Alexandrina and St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller. 114. A. verniciflua, 4. Cunn. in Field, N. 8. Wales, 344. A tall resi- nous viscid shrub, branches slightly angular, glabrous. Phyllodia from oblong. to linear-lanceolate, narrowed at each end and mostly acute, usually falcate, 2 to 4 in. long, with 2 or very rarely only 1 prominent nerve. Peduncles short, in pairs or clusters, bearing each a globular head of numerous mostly 5-merous flowers. Calyx turbinate, shortly toothed or lobed, about half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, united. Pod linear, usually straight, flat, 2 to 3 lines broad, glabrous or viscid, pubescent. Seeds rather small, longitudinal ; funicle short, the last folds forming a very small aril under the seed.—Bot. Mag. t. 3266; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 108; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. li. 22; A. graveolens, A. Cumn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 404; Bot. Mag. t. 3279; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1460; 4. virgata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1246. N.S. Wales. Rocky hills of the interior, A. Cunningham, Fraser, Huegel, and others ; head of the Gwydir river, Leichhardt. Victoria. Widely distributed over the colony in mountain and forest regions, rocky. hills, etc., F. Mueller. Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown ; common in many parts of the island, especially. about Hobarton, also St. Patrick's River, Lannceston, and near Yorktown, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Upper valleys of the Torrens and Onkaparinga rivers, F. Mueller. The species is nearly allied to 4. /eprosa, differing chiefly in the broader phyllodia almost always 2-nerved. - z Var. latifolia. Phyllodia shorter and broader.—A. ezudans, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Ex- ped. ii. 214; Dietr. Fl. Univers. N. Ser. t. 83.—Plains of the Glenelg, Mitchell. _ 115. A. leprosa, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 450. A tall shrub or small tree, with pendulous branchlets, more or less glutinous, otherwise glabrous oF, the young shoots minutely pubescent. Phyllodia narrow, linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse with a small callous point, narrowed at the base, 13 to 3 m. long, 1-nerved, with anastomosing veins, those of the barren shoots b E often 3 in. long in the middle, and thinner with fine veins oblique on the midrib and connected in an intramarginal almost continuous vein. Peduncles mosty in pairs or clusters, hoary-pubescent, rarely above 4 in. long, bearing €a a globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx half as npe the corolla, with short obtuse ciliate lobes. Petals united to the middle, wit rather thick smooth tips. Pod falcate or rarely straight, flat, 2 to 2} lines b Seeds oval-oblóng, longitudinal; funicle with the last fold thickened into iy ` irregularly turbinate or cup-shaped aril under the seed.—Bot. Reg. t. 1441 . (rather doubtful); F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii, 23; 4. reclinata, F: Muell. First Gen. Rep. 12. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, Sieber, n. 455, M‘Arthur. Victoria. Dandenong Ranges, F, Mueller. +h recurved Var. tenuifolia. Branches erect. Phyllodia very narrow, linear-falcate, wP points.—Between the Goulburn and Broken rivers, Victoria, F. Mueller. : 116, A, stricta, illd. Spec, Pl, iy. 1052. - A shrub of 2 or 3 f with Fe ES A EA et ss Acacia. | XL. LEGUMINOSAE. 359 creeping roots in Tasmania, attaining 5 or 6 ft. further north, glabrous and often slightly viscous; branchlets erect, angular. Phyllodia linear, obtuse, rarely with a short oblique point, 2 to 4 or even 5 in. long, from 2 to 4 or 5 lines broad, coriaceous, 1-nerved, with numerous fine anastomosing pinnate veins. Peduncles in pairs or clusters, rarely 2 lines long, bearing each a globular head of about 20 to 39 small flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx tur- binate, half as long as the corolla, shortly and obtusely lobed. Petals smooth, united to the middle. Pod elongated, flat, obtuse or acuminate, 13 to 24 lines broad, not contracted between the seeds. Seeds oval-oblong, longitudinal ; funicle with the last fold thickened into an irregularly turbinate or cup-shaped aril under the seed.—DC. Prod. ii. 450; Reichb. Ie. et Descr. Pl. t. 90 (the venation not represented) ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 99 (a doubtful narrow-leaved form); Mimosa stricta, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 53; Bot. Mag. t. 1121; Acacia emárginata, Wendl. Comm. Acac. 27 ; DC. Prod. ii. 450. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 456, Fl. Mizt. n. 594, and others; Newcastle, Leichhardt; New England, C. Stuart; aud south- ward to Gabo Island, Maplestone. A Victoria. Widely distributed over the southern and eastern parts of the colony, from a or rocky coasts to stony mountains, wet valleys, or heath or forest ground, F. er. Tasmania. Common throughout the island in dry soil, J. D. Hooker. 117. A, dodoneifolia, Milld. Enum. Suppl. 68. A tall shrub, glabrous very resinous, the branches soon terete. Phyllodia oblong-linear or late, obtuse or with a small recurved point, mostly 2 to 4 in. long and 2 to 4 lines broad, much narrowed towards the base, 1-nerved, with the lateral tuastomosing veins much fewer and more prominent than in A. stricta, 1 or ? glands on the upper margin sometimes very prominent but often wanting. eduncles solitary or in pairs, often above } in. long, bearmg a globular head. nuinerous flowers, usually 5-merotfs, Calyx more than half as long as the: corolla, with short thick lobes sometimes separating into distinct sepals. - Pe- smooth, rather thickened at the tips, usually united to the middle. Pod ngated, nearly flat, straight or falcate, obtuse, when perfect about 22 q. pa... Seeds oblong, longitudinal, the last 2 or 3 folds of the funiele m E dilated into an irregularly cup-shaped aril.— Mimosa dudoneifolia, Pers. Syn. PL ij, 261 ; 4. viscosa, Schrad. in Wendl. Diss. Acac. 30, t. T; 4. dodonai- _ Ilia, DC. Prod. ii, 450; Reichb. Ic. et Descr. Pl. t. 91; Colla, Hort. Ripul. es 4 Ane visciflua, F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 24. “ 0 lia, in” dition; Memory Cove, LK. Brown ; Port Lincoln, Wilke o an ee Pipera on the Continent, a, iti m seeds collected iu Baudin’s Expedition, but A. stricta now frequently represen Hin botanic gardens. ee 118. A. Gnidi Benth. A small tree, glabrous with the young shoo glu Inous ; ar virgate, soon becoming terete. Phyllodia ea at A > hatrow-linear, obtuse with a small callous hooked point, l to 2 in. ong E and not above 1 line broad, rigid with a scarcely prominent midrib, soe ña > obscure, anastomosing, and sometimes almost parallel. Peduncles s ai ban nearly $ in. long, bearing each a globular head of 15 to 20 qe ade e y merous, but often also 4-merous. Calyx shortly and broadly lobed, half as ng as the corolla, Petals smooth. ` Pod unknown. 360 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ 4cacia. Queensland, Under sandstone hills near Mount Pluto, Mitchell. On a hasty survey, 1 had formerly put this aside as a variety of 4. viscidula, from which however on examina- tion I find it to differ essentially in the venation of the phyllodia as well as in the flowers, The nearest affinity appears to be with 4. dodoneifolia, from which our specimens chiefly differ in the very uarrow phyllodia. 119. A. ramosissima, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 356 (partly). Apparently shrubby, with slender, pubescent, slightly angular branches. Phyl- lodia numerous, narrow-linear, obtuse with a minute hooked point, 1 to 13 in. long, about 1 line broad, narrowed at the base, rather thick, obscurely 1- nerved. Stipules minute but often persistent. Flowers not seen. Fruiting peduncles about 4 in. long, with the scars of a globular head. Pod linear, straight, flat but thickly coriaceous, scarcely contracted but transversely de-. pressed between the seeds, without thickened margins, 1 to 1} in. long, 2 lines broad. Seeds nearly orbicular; funicle thickened from near the base into a scarcely fleshy linear aril, and scarcely folded below it. _'W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd (or 4th?) Coll. n.79. Under the name of A, ramo- sissima, 1 had confounded several species, closely resembling each other in foliage, but which prove to have very different flowers and fruits. The one for which I now retain the name differs from all the thick narrow 1-nerved western ones in the pod and in the pubescent branchlets, but our specimens are very indifferent. 120. A. sentis, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 128, and Pl. Vict. ü. 18. A divaricately-branched rigid shrub or small tree, branchlets nearly terete, glabrous or pubescent when young. Phyllodia lanceolate-oblong or linear, mostly oblique faleate or curved, 1-nerved and more or less penniveined, in some specimens 4 in. long and 2 or 8 lines broad, in others more than 2 in. long and about 1 line broad, usually glabrous, the marginal gland near the base or none. “Stipules either subulate-spinescent or very small or none, Peduncles rather slender, solitary or in pairs, axillary or by the abortion the phyllodia in terminal racemes, bearifig each a small globular head of 20 to 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals linear-spathulate, free. , Petals smooth. Pod thin, flat, 4 to 3 in. broad. Seeds broadly ovate, longitudinal, along the centre of the pod; funicle transverse, gradually thickened from the base upwards, straight or shortly folded under the seed.—4. Y ictorie, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 333. N. Australia. Victoria river and Plains of Promise, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller. - Queensland. Bargoo river, Mitchell. N. S. Wales. From the Darling river to the Barrier range, Victorian and other Er- peditions. Victoria, Low sandhills and arid salt-bush plains towards the junction of the Murray Ea srl F. Mueller. rata ustralia. Base of Fli Gulf and in the interior, © Mueller. of Flinders range, towards Spencer’s an 121. A. dentifera, Benth. in Maund, Botanist, iv. t. 179. A tall gla- brous shrub, branchlets striate or slightly angular. Phylodia sarow BETA acute or obtuse with a small recurved point, 3 to 8 in. long, and 1 to 2104 broad, with a prominent midrib and obscurely veined. Stipules small a ps tooth-like or none. Peduncles slender, mostly above } in. long, solitary in pairs, the upper ones often forming a.raceme by the abortion of the phyl- lodia, each bearing a globular or-oyoid -head of densely packed flowers, pr > 5-merous. Sepals very ‘narrow; free, Petals: smooth, united abo eee N ~ Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSE. 361: middle. Pod straight or curved, flat, 2 to 3 in. long, about 3 lines broad, not contracted between the seeds. Seeds oblong, longitudinal; funicle with the last 2 or 3 folds dilated into an orange-coloured aril under the seed.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. 1. 17. -W. Australia. Swan River to King George’s Sound, Drummond, 1st Coll., 2nd Coll. n. 298, 5th Coll.m. 7; Canning river, Darling range and Murray river, Preiss, n. 932, 944, 946; Tweed river, Oldfield ; Stirling ranges, Maxwell. : _ A. longifolia, Paxt. Mag. xii. 269, with a fig. (4. dentifera, Bot. Mag. t. 4032) is a gar- variety, with more faleate phyllodia, and the flowering branches when young forming = UN racemes, often exceeding the leaves and producing numerous flower-heads from 122. A, fasciculifera, F. Muell. Herb. A tree, glabrous in all its parts ; branchlets slightly angular. Phyllodia lanceolate-faleate, acuminate, with a callous point, narrowed at the base, mostly 4 to 6 in. long, coriaceous, with a prominent midrib and nerve-like margins, the pinnate veins scarcely prominent. Peduncles filiform, 4 to 1 in. long or even more, clustered in the axils, bearing each a globular head of 20 to 30 or more flowers, mostly 5- merous. Sepals narrow, linear-spathulate, free. Petals smooth, soon sepa- tating. Pod not seen. Queensland. Rockhampton and Moreton Bay, Dallachy. The phyllodia are nearly | those of 4, falcata, but rather more coriaceous, the inflorescence is very different, showing | an affinity to 4. harpophylla and A. complanata. E. Racemosx.—Shrubs or trees, not spinescent. Phyllodia not pungent ] except in a very few broad-leaved species, with 1 central nerve or very rarely _ A second shorter or fainter one, the veinlets when visible diverging from the midrib or reticulate. Flower-heads globular, all or nearly all in axillary ra- “mes, very rarely a few solitary in the lower axils of a young branch. Flowers : ly small and 5-merous in all except 4. myrtifolia. Petals not ah soe T + This subseries is disti is ther Uninerves by the inflorescence. e phy -Jodia are, in the Bnei e a long and falcate as in the falcate Juliflore, and in the larger Plurinerves, in the latter species of the subseries they generally correspond lu shape to those of the Brevifolia. _ : 123. A. falcata, Willd. Spec. Pl. iv. 1053. A tall shrub or tree, gla- » With angular branchlets. Phyllodia lanceolate-faleate, acuminate, much narrowed towards the base, 3 to 6 in. long or even more, 1-nerved, obliquely _ Petniveined, the margins slightly thickened without any gland or with an ob- scure one at the base. Racemes much shorter than the phyllodia, usually with 10 to 20 small globular heads of about 20 small flowers, mostly 5- a ; peduncles short and slender. Sepals free, narrow-spathulate, ciliate. Petals smooth, soon separating. Pod flat, with slightly thickened margins, “103 in. long, about 3 lines broad. Seeds ovate, longitudinal, close to the margin; funicle slightly dilated and coloured from the base, very long, ex- tending round the seed and bent back on the same side, encircling it in a double fold and thickened at the end into a short fleshy aril —Minosa obligua, gg ull. Bot. Beob. 57; 4. falcata, DC. Prod. ii. 451; Wendl. Comm. Acac. *0.t.14; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1113; 4. plagiophylla, Spreng. io rl i i . Cunningham, Leichhardt, and others. "log Wales. de prue © SR lic R Brown, Sieber, n. 450, and Others. 362 XL. LEGUMINOSAE. [ Acacia, 121. A, macradenia, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 360. A shrub of: 10 to 12 ft., glabrous, with angular branchlets. Phyllod:a lanceolate-faleate, rather acute, much narrowed towards the base, coriaceous, 1-nerved, with thickened margins and often a gland at the base, like those of A. falcata, but usually longer, attaining from 6 in. to 1 ft., and the fine veins more nu- merous, prominent, and transverse. Racemes short with several small glo- bular heads of flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx turbinate, more than half as long as the corolla, shortly and broadly toothed, ciliate. Petals smooth, pubescent. Pod long, flat, 5 to 6 lines broad. Seeds orbicular ; funicle slightly thickened from the base, but not enlarged under the seed, not folded, about half as long as the seed. Queensland. Beds of rivers near Mount Pluto, Mitchell (in flower); Rockhampton, Thozet (in fruit). 125. A. penninervis, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 452. A tree attaining . sometimes 40 ft. but usually smaller, glabrous in all its parts in the common variety, with angular branchlets. Phyllodia from oblong to lanceolate-falcate, more or less acuminate, usually 3 to 4 in. long, but sometimes twice that length, much narrowed towards the base, 1-nerved and more or less promi- nently and finely penniveined, the margins usually nerve-like, and often but not always a short secondary nerve terminating in a marginal gland much below the middle. Racemes rather short but loose, with several small glo- bular heads of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx truncate or shortly toothed, not half so long as the corolla. Petals smooth. Pod flat, straight - or curved, with slightly thickened margins, often 4 or 5 in. long, nearly 3 in. broad. Seeds ovate, longitudinal; funicle long, dilated and coloured nearly from the base, extending round the seed and bent back on the same side, 80 as to encircle it in a double fold.—Bot. Mag. t. 2754; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 14; 4. impressa, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1115; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1319. Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, Fraser, F. Mueller ; Sandstone ridges ` near Mount Pluto, Mitchell. N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, S:eder, n. 458, and others; and inland to the Mac- quarrie, 4. Cunningham, Fraser ; northward to Hastings river, Beckler; and southward to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. E ine Victoria. Grauitic ranges and mountains on the Broken, Ovens, and Snowy rivers, F. Mueller, ; Tasmania. Brown’s Road, Mount Wellington, Oldfield. : Var. falciformis. Phyllodia usually longer and more faleate, young shoots and e ceuce minutely hoary or golden-pubescent. Pod nearly Ẹ in. broad.—4. faleiformis, Prod. ii. 452; 4. astringens, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 405.—From ‘Twofold Bay; F. Mueller, to Moreton Bay, Leichhardt, and New England, C. Stuart ; aud from Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 616, and others, to the Lachlan river, 4. Cunningham, Fraser: Called Blackwood by the western colonists, and the bark used for tanning. i 126. A, retinodes, Schlecht. in Linnea, xx. 664. A moderate-siZ tree usually glabrous, the branchlets at first very angular. Phyllodia linear- lanceolate, more or less falcate, with a small recurved point or obtuse, mua — narrowed towards the base, mostly 3 to 5 in. long, l-nerved, finely pemi- 3 | veined, the marginal gland above the base rarely wanting, those of shoots sometimes short and broad. Racemes much shorter than the phyl- lodia, almost always branched, with several, often 10 to 20, small globular heads of 12 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin, not half so long & - Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSH. * 363 the corolla, with very short broad ciliate lobes. Petals smooth, united to the middle, but readily separating. Pod shortly stipitate, usually straight, nearly flat, 3 to 8 in. long, 3 to 4 lines broad. Seeds oblong, longitudinal, the funicle dilated and coloured nearly from the base, extending round the seed and bent back on the same side, encircling it in a double fold.—F, Muell. Pl. Viet. ii, 13. ae Victoria. Port Phillip, R. Brown; grassy ridges and open valleys throughout the greater part of the colony, F. Mueller. | S. Australia. Memory Cove, R. Brown ; very frequent in rich soils near water in the | valleys, Behr ; Kangaroo island, Waterhouse; and northward to F linders range, F. Mueller, ge The species differs from 4. penninervis chiefly in the narrow, phyllodia, from 4. neriifolia E m the fewer smaller flowers, the sepals more united, and especially in the narrower pod and in the funicle, and usually from both species in the more compact branched racemes; but some flowering Specimens are uncertain in this respect, 127. A, neriifolia, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jaurn.i. 357. A taland handsome shrub or small tree; branchlets slender, slightly angular, glaucous or mealy-tomentose when young, but soon glabrous. Phyllodia - t-lanceolate, more or less faleate, with a small callous point often recurved, Much narrowed towards the base, mostly 3 to 5 in. long and 2 to 4 lines broad, 1-nerved, obscurely penniveined, with 1 or sometimes 2 or 3 distant marginal glands rarely all wanting. Racemes always simple, rather slender, much shorter than the phyllodia, the rhachis and peduncles usually tomentose. wer-heads globular, small, with 30 to 40 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals spathulate, more than half as long as the coroila, ciliate, free or slightly ad- nate below the middle, Petals smooth, usually free. Pod flat, straight or nearly so, several inches long, about 4 lines broad, often slightly contracted Ween the seeds. Seeds oval-oblong, longitudinal; funicle with the last ld appressed and thickened from the middle upwards into a club-shaped the lower folds short and filiform. land. Open forests on the Balonne river, Mitchell. i N. S. Wales. Detached whinstone hills, Liverpool plains, 4. Cunningham, Fraser ; ne about Tenterfield, New England, C. Stuart; Head of the Gwydir river, Leich- 5. i s i i i Hookerian herbarium appear to belong to this Species rather ce ; sane detente! Wt Weil F. Muell., Benth. in Linnea, mt 617, in fruit only, from Arkaba, has the pod and seeds of 4. neriifolia ; but neither can be identified with certainty until the flowers and fruit shall have been properly matched. 128. A. microbotrya, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Juurn.i. 353. A tall : shrub, quite glabrous except the inflorescence, branches slightly angular, soon Ming terete. Phyllodia lanceolate-falcate, acuminate, acute, obtuse or With a short ineurved’ point, much narrowed towaxds the base, mostly 3 to - | long,but very variable in size, and when small sometimes scarcely falcate, y Sed, penniveined, the nerve-like margin fine or scarcely prominent, with or 2 small marginal glands often wanting. Racemes 3 to 13 in. long, with 3 or 4 to above 20 small globular heads of numerous small flowers, y 5-merous, the rhachis and peduncles when young minutely silky or mealy-tomentose, Calyx very thin, lobes very short or slightly spathulate, Ni readily separating into distinct sepals. Petals glabrous or minutely > [ge sscent, the midribs prominent. Pod doubtful.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. A, myriobotrya and. A. leiophylla, var. microcephala, Meissn. 1. c.; 4. 364 XL. LEGUMINOS. - [ Acacia. subfalcata and 4. daphnifolia, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 11; 4. rostellifera, Seem. Eingef. Acac. t. 2, not of Benth., and therefore probably also 4. pleri- goidea, Seem. in Verhandl. K. K. Gartenb. 1846, 11, quoted by Seem. l. c. 33. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 286, Preiss, n. 923; be- tween Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n, 1 and 2; Murchison river, Oldfield ; and probably Kalgan river, O/dfield. This species appears to represent A, penni- nervis in the west, from which it differs in the usually narrower phyllodia, the flowers more numerous although in very small heads, and probably in the narrow pod and more filiform funicles. It is also very near the following 4. saligna, but the flower-heads are not half the size, the peduncles much more slender, the calyx longer, etc., and the pod probably different. Of the numerous specimens I have seen there are only two in fruit, both apparently agreeing with the flowering ones in brañches foliage and inflorescence, in one the pods, not yet ripe, are straight, flat, about'2 in. long and 14 lines wide, with longitudinal seeds and a filiform funicle forming several long folds, in the other the pods are old, 5 to 6 in. long, 6 to 8, lines broad, coriaceous, convex over the seeds, often narrowed between them; the seeds all shed. Flowering specimens of some forms of this species, of 4. neriifolia and of A. retinodes, are often very difficult to distinguish. 129. A. saligna, Wendl. Comm. Acac. 26. A tall shrub or tree, quite glabrous, with angular branchlets. Phyllodia falcate-lanceolate, rather obtuse, much narrowed towards the base, many inches long, rather thick, 1-nerved, obscurely or rarely more distinctly penniveined, with nerve-like margins, the marginal gland distinct from the base, often wanting. Racemes short, with few globular heads, larger than in the preceding six species, the rhachis rather stout and flexuose. Flowers about 25 to 30 in the head, often slightly pu- bescent, mostly 5-merous. Calyx not half so long as the corolla, truncate oF sinuate-toothed. Petals smooth. Pod flat, often 5 or 6 in. long, usually. straight, scarcely 3 lines broad, not at all or slightly contracted between the seeds. Seeds oval-oblong, lóngitudinal; funicle short, gradually thickened almost from the base into a club-shaped fleshy aril.—DC. Prod. ii. 450; Mimosa saligna, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. ii. 86. t. 235; 4. leiophylla, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 351. W. Australia. King George’s Sound, rare, R. Brown; to the eastward, Baxter; towards the Great Bight, Maxwell. I have not seen authentic specimens of Labillardiére $ plant, but have every reason to believe that it was this species, gathered on the same and not a Tasmanian plant that he figured and described. The species is nearly allied on the one hand to 4. cyanophylla, on the other to A. microbotrya. ge A. Blomei, Ohlend. in Neue Allgem. Gartenzeit. 1845, 369, described from a specimen n leaf only, is referred by Seemann, Eingef. Acac, 30, to 4. leiophylla, Benth. 130. A. cyanophylla, Lindl. bot. Rey. 1835, Misc. 49. A tall handsome shrub, glabrous and often more or less glaucous, emitting, at least in cultiva- tion, suckers from the roots, branches scarcely angular. Phyllodia oe” linear-oblong to lanceolate-falcate, the lower ones sometimes above 4 qe long, the upper ones 4 ft. or less and narrower, much narrowed towards the base, 1-nerved, penniveined, with nerve-like margins, the marginal usually obscure or none. Racemes short, with 3 to 5 heads of num (above 40) flowers, mostly 5-merous, the common rhachis rather stout aM flexuose, the peduncles 3 to 6 lines long. Sepals cohering to the mi ov a turbinate lobed calyx. Petals smooth, but with prominent midribs. several inches long, flat, 2 to 24 or rarely 3 lines broad, contracted the seeds. -Seeds oblong, longitudinal; funicle as long as the seed, the last between | toe eee le ee eee I Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 365 fold slightly thickened into a somewhat clavate aril, with very short folds be- low it.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 15. W. Australia. Swan River, Mangles, Huegel, Preiss, n. 925, Drummond, 1st Coll. and n. 284, and others. Closely allied on the oue hand to 4. saligna, to which I had re- ferred it in Hueg. Enum. 42, and on the other to 4. pycnantha. 131. A. pycnantha, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 351. A small or middle-sized tree, quite glabrous; branches terete or nearly so. Phyllodia lanceolate-falcate; obtuse or rather acute, much narrowed towards the base, 3 to 6 in. long, the larger ones often 1 in. broad in the middle, coriaceous, l- nerved, penniveined with nerve-like margins, the marginal gland rather large near the base. Racemes short, with a few dense globular heads of 50 to 100 flowers, mostly 5-merous, the rhachis and peduncles rather stout. Calyx shortly lobed, ciliate, usually about 3 as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, glabrous, distinct or readily separating. Pod straight or slightly curved, several inches long, about 3 lines broad, flat and rather thin. Seeds oval- oblong, longitudinal ; funicle not so long as the seed, thickened upwards, either not folded, or with 1 or 2 very short folds at the base.—Schlecht. Linnea, xx. 664 ; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 15; Dietr. Fl. Univers. N. Ser. t. 86; 4. petiolaris, Lehm. Novit. Hort. Hamb. in Linnea, xxv. 306; 4. fal- cella, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 11. _ Victoria. Frequent throughout the greater part of the colony in open forest country or scrubs, F. Muell . S. Australia. Common especially on undulating hills, exuding abundance of gum and furnishing bark for tanning, Behr, F. Mueller. ar. (P) angustifolia. Branchlets angular, phyllodia narrower, flower-heads fewer and smaller.— Memory Cove, R. Brown ; Spencer’s Gulf, F. Mueller, referred here on the au- thority of F, Mueller, but from the inspection of the specimens it appears somewhat distinct. od unknown, a 132. A. notabilis, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 6. A tall handsome shrub, gla- us and often glaucous, the branchlets terete or nearly so, Phyllodia from nceolate-falcate to almost linear, narrowed at the base, usually oblique, 4 to In. long, or the lower ones shorter and broader, thickly coriaceous, 1-nerved with thick nerve-like margins, obscurely veined, the marginal gland near the not very conspicuous. Racemes short, with dense globular heads of above 50 flowers as in A. pycnantha, and the calyx as in that species $ as long as the corolla. Petals silky-pubescent, united to the middle.* Pod straight, flat, glaucous, 13 to 3 in. long, 4 to 5 lines wide, somewhat coria- eous with nerve-like margins. Seeds transverse ; funicle long and filiform, encircling the seed ima double fold, only very shortly thickened at the end into a small fleshy aril. ; N.S. Wiles, ier range, Victorian Expedition. uč a E owards ry pa AA Lincoln, Wilhelmi; Flinders range, F. ueller, i i i 133. A, gladiiformis, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 354. Atall shrub, quite glabrous; branchlets angular. Phyllodia linear-lanceolate : or almost spathulate, enrved, very obtuse or with a small hooked point, 3 to in. long, much narrowed towards the base, thickly coriaceous, 1-nerved, A :Smooth and shining, the margins thickened and usually 2 or more marginal » Racemes short, the rhachis rigid and flexuose, with several dense 366 XL, LEGUMINOS®. [ Acacia. -globular heads of above 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow-linear, spathulate, with dark concave tips more than half the length of the corolla. Petals smooth. Pod elongated, flat but flexuose, about 3 lines broad, coria- ceous. Seeds longitudinal; funicle long, slightly dilated, encircling the seed in a double fold, but not returning the third time as in 4. ameena. j N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains and rocky hills to the westward, 4, and R. Cunning- am. > 134. A. obtusata, Sicb. in DO. Prod. ii. 453. A tall shrub, quite gla- "brous; branchlets angular. Phyllodia oblong-linear or almost spathulate, usually straight, very obtuse, 13 to 3 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, 1-nerved, with thickened nerve-like margins, the veinlets inconspicuous, with or without marginal glands. Racemes short, with few densely packed heads of above 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals thick, spathulate, half as long as the co- rolla, at first united but readily separating when fully out. Pod unknown. N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Sieber, n, 441; A. Cunningham, Fraser, Allied on ae hand to 4. amoena, ou the other to 4. gladiiformis, but apparently distinct from 135. A. rubida, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 344. A tall shrub, quite glabrous, allied to 4. amena, and perhaps a variety ; branchlets angu- lar. Phyllodia lanceolate, often falcate, rather acute, much narrowed towards the base, mostly about 3 in. long, rather thick, 1-nerved, with nerve-like mar- gins, the veinlets inconspicuous and never more than 1 marginal gland. Ra- cemes shorter than the phyllodia, with several, often 10 to 12, rather small heads of 10 to 15 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals half as long as the pe- tals, usually coherent. Petals smooth. Pod unknown.—4. amena, Sieb. Pl. Exs., not of Wendl. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 452; head of the Gwydir, Leichhardt ; Clarence river, Beckler ? (specimens not in flower). 136. A. ameena, Wendl. Comm, Acac. 10, t.4. A tall shrub, quite gla- brous, young branches pubescent. Phyllodia obliquely lanceolate or oblan- ceolate, straight or falcate, obtuse or with a small recurved point, mu narrowed towards the base, not very thick, 1-nerved with nerve-like margins and more or less distinctly veined, with 1, 2, or 3 often prominent distant marginal glands, 14 to 24 in. long on the flowering shoots, longer on ™ barren branches. Racemes usually shorter than the phyllodia, with sev small globular heads of about 8 to 12 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals short, broad, usually separating when the flower is fully out. Petals 5, dis- ‘tinct, smooth with prominent midribs. Pod flat, straight or curved, wit nerve-like margins, several in. long, 3 to 4 lines broad, not contracte tween the seeds. Seeds ovate, longitudinal; funicle dilated and reti ate from «near the base, very long, extending round the seed, returning 0% t same side and bent back a third time, encircling the seed in a triple fold, and thickened at the end into a fleshy aril, two-thirds the length of > y —DC. Prod. ii. 452; Fl. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 17. a. y N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, R. Brown ; Illawarra and banks of the Lachlan an Macquarrie, 4. Cunningham, Fraser. “tic banks Victoria. Rocky mountains along Macalister river and its tributaries, ree of Snowy River and adjoining mountains, at an elevation of 2000 to 4000 ft., F. Mueter Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOS#. 367 The funicle completely encircling the seed a third time does not occur in any other spe- cies which I have been able to observe, and is in all the seeds I have examined of A. amena ; it remains, however, to be ascertained whether it is really so constant a character as it ap- pears to be. z 137. A, hakeoides, 4. Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 354. A tall shrub, glabrous or nearly so, the branches scarcely angular. Phyllodia linear-spathulate or narrow oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, much narrowed at the , 2 to 5 in. long, rather thick, l-nerved, obscurely marked with longitu- dinal reticulations, the margins scarcely prominent, usually with a gland towards the middle. Racemes shorter than the phyllodia, with a few glo- bular heads of abont 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals spathulate, coher- ing at first but readily separating, half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, glabrous or minutely pubescent. Pod flat, usually curved, 2 to 3 lines broad, much contracted between the seeds. Seeds oblong, longitudinal; funicle half as long as the seed, the last fold thickened into a clavate, keeled, fleshy aril almost from the base, with 2 or 3 very minute folds below it.—F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 16. N. S. Wales. Lachlan and Dumaresq rivers, 4. Cunningham. Victoria. Murray desert, Prince Paul William of Wirtemberg, Dallachy. „Allied in flowers to 4. obtusata and A. crassiuscula, and in foliage to 4. salicina, but ring in several points from each of these species. ` 133. A, salicina, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 20. A tall shrub or small tree, with branches often pendulous, the foliage of a pale or glaucous hue and quite glabrous; branchlets scarcely angular. Phyllodia mostly straight or nearly so, oblong-linear or lanceolate, obtuse or slightly acuminate, much narrowed at the base, 2 to 5 in. long and not above 4 in. broad, but in Some varieties occasionally broader or falcate, always rather thick, the midrib scarcely prominent, the lateral veins obscurely reticulate, the margins scarcely thickened, the gland very rare. Racemes short, irregularly bearing 2 or 3 dense globular heads or reduced to a single head. Flowers 20 or more, Mostly 5-merous. Calyx short, truncate, entire or minutely toothed. Petals Quite smooth. Pod straight, 1 to 3 in. long, in the ordinary form not above $ lines broad; valves somewhat convex, hard and thick. Seeds orbicular, longitudinal; funicle thickened and usually scarlet almost from the base, forming Several folds under the seed.—F, Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 12; Dietr. Fl. Univers. «Ser. t. 83; 4, ligulata, A. Cunn. ; Benth, in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 362. on i 's Land, F. Mueller ; Curtis Island, Henne. rre pee, ae Bloc, Mitchell ; Suttor river, F. Mueller, N. S. Wales. On the Lachlan and thence to the Barrier Range, A. Cunningham, Mitchell, Victorian Expedition, ete. ; Liverpool plains, Leichhardt. . In the N.W. desert, F. Mueller. ; S. Australia. ia aie Marea to St. Vincent’s and Spencer’s Gulfs, and northward to the desert interior, F. Mueller; Memory Cove, R. Brown. Mi = W. Australia. Dirk Hartog’s Island, 4. Cunningham ; Sharks Bay, Milne; Mur- —— thison river, Oldfield ; also a specimen from Baudin’s Expedition, in Herb. R. BrE. : ar. varians. Branches more spreading. Phyllodia more veined, the lower jire s | broader and almost penniveined, as in A. penninervis, but without the t sones Margin or gland. Pod about 4 lines broad, the seeds often oblique and the _ = ae pe done y coding up one side.—4. varians, Benth, in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 132, o this be Jong all the tropical and subtropical specimens, It is generally a very distinct form, an 368 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [ Acacia. it is with some hesitation that I have followed F. Mueller in considering it a variety only of A. salicina. 139. A. rostellifera, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 356. A tall shrub or small tree, nearly allied to 4. salicina, with which it is united by F. Mueller, but the aspect is different, the nerve of the phyllodia is much more prominent, and the pod is unknown. Branchlets angular, flexuous, quite glabrous. Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, 2 to 5 in. long, 3 to 4 lines broad, straight or falcate, with an oblique or recurved usually callous point, rather thick, 1-nerved, very obscurely veined. Flower-heads few, in short racemes, as in A. salicina, with numerous 5-merous flowers. Calyx short, truncate. Petals quite smooth, without the prominent midribs of A. cyanophylla, which the long-leaved specimens sometimes resemble.—A. subbinervia, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 16. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. n. 285, 2nd Coll. n. 103; Murchison river, Oldfield ; Rottenest Island, Preiss, n. 924. The second nerve of the phyllodia, from whence Meissner derived his name, very seldom occurs, and was therefore in some measure exceptional in the specimen described by him. The species requires further investigation. 140. A. pycnophylla, Benth. A glabrous, erect shrub of several ft, the branches slightly angular. Phyllodia usually numerous, erect, linear, ob- tuse or with a small straight point, 13 to 3 in. long, thick and nerveless besides the midrib, narrowed at the base, without marginal glands. Flower- heads generally 2 or 3, in short axillary racemes on short thick peduncles, globular, with 10 to 15 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx half as long as the corolla, shortly and broadly lobed. Petals smooth, but angular in the bud. Pod linear, flat with thickened margins, not contracted between the seeds, 1 to 13 lines broad; valves thinly coriaceous. Seeds longitudinal, the last 2 or 3 short folds of the funicle thickened into a small fleshy aril under the seed. —A. crassiuscula, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 16, not of Sieber. W. Australia. King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 98, Preiss, n. 929, Oldfield. Var. angustifolia. Phyllodia narrower ; peduncles rather longer ; petals thinner. Pod - the same.—Cape Paisly and Cape Legrand, Maxwell. £ The foliage is nearly that of A. ramosissima and A. Harveyi, but the pod is very different. The lobed calyx as well as the pod readily distinguish it from the narrowest-leaved forms of A. salicina. 141. A. Harveyi, Benth. Quite glabrous, with erect slender branches, slightly angular when young. Phyllodia narrow-linear, obtuse oF with a short hooked point, 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 14 lines broad, narrowed at the base, rather thick, the midrib scarcely prominent and the veinlets very obscure, Flower-heads small, globular, several in short slender racemes, the part peduncles 1 to 2 lines long. Flowers small, 20 to 30 in the head, mostly 5- merous. Calyx thin, shortly lobed, more than half as long as the coro! Petals smooth. Pod very flat, with scarcely thickened margins, not rent tracted between the seeds, 3 in. long or more, above 4 in. broad, coriaceous and transversely reticulate. Young seeds along the centre of the pod, with a long funiéle folded and thickened under the seed, but not seen ripe— _ mosissima, Benth. ; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 16, partly. A -_ W. Australia. Between King George’s Sound and Cape Riche, Harvey (in ped Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 130 (in fruit). Allied in foliage to A. pycnophylla and A 700" E Acacia] ; XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 369 PE sissima, but very different in fruit. Of Preiss’s specimens I have only seen n. 941, which te Fe Se me to belong to the present species, but cannot be absolutely determined without EE the trai |) 12. A. suaveolens, Willd. Spec. Pl. iv. 1050. A shrub, attaining || about 3 to 6 ft., quite glabrous, often glaucous, with acutely angled branch- FE lets. Phyllodia linear or almost lanceolate, mostly 3 to 4 in. but sometimes | 6in. long, 2 to 4 lines broad, obtuse or mucronulate, narrowed towards the rather thick, l-nerved with nerve-like margins, obscurely veined. Wer-heads small, in axillary racemes, at first enclosed in imbricate scaly ] » Which fall off very early. Rhachis and peduncles slender. Flowers 6 to 10 in the head, mostly 5-merous. Sepals thin, narrow linear-spathulate, quite distinct. Petals thin, quite smooth. Pod oblong, flat, coriaceous, glaucous, very obtuse, 1 to 13 in. long, 6 to 8 lines broad. Seeds oblong, transverse; funicle filiform nearly till maturity, when it is contracted into short folds more or less thickened under the seed into a small fleshy aril.— Mimosa suaveolens, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 253; Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i 87, t. 236; M. obligua, Lam. in Journ, Hist. Nat. i. 89, t. 5, according to Wendl. Comm. Acac. 33, but not of Pers.; M. angustifolia, Jacq. Hort. Scheenbr. iii. 7 4, t. 391; 4. suaveolens, DC. Prod. ii. 453; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1.130; Reichb. Ic. et Descr. Pl. t, 46; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 107; F. Muell. nt ü. 14; 4. angustifolia, Wendl. Comm. Acac. 34; DC. Prod, ii. land. Moreton Bay, Fitzalan. 5 _ N.S. Wales. Port cere ta to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 462, and Bee 2. 595; northward to Hastings river, Beck/er ; southward to Twofold Bay, F. 4 er, i Bushy sand ridges, barren scrubby plains, and rocky coast declivities in the southern and eastern parts of the colony, F. Mueller. : DA a Dry soils, N. coast, and islands of Bass’s Straits, also on the Derwent, + 4100ker, ; r 143. A. subceerulea, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1075. An erect or spreading shrub, quite glabrous and “often very ¿edo branchlets acutely angular. llodia oblong-linear, lanceolate or narrow-linear, obtuse or mucronate, 13 3 in. long, 2 to 4 lines broad, straight, thick and toriaceous, 1-nerved and 'cinless, or, when broad, rather thinner, slightly falcate, and faintly penni- ved, the nerve-like margin much less prominent than in 4. obtusata and les, and sometimes altogether disappearing. Racemes often as long as the Phyllodia, enclosed when young in very deciduous bracts or scales, the thachis and peduncles slender. Flower-heads globular, with above 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals very thin, narrow and distinct or sometimes broader and slightly cohering, about half as long as the corolla or shorter. Potala smooth, at length separating. Pod 1 to 14 or rarely 2 in. long, 3 to near ¿ m. broad, very obtuse, flat, coriaceous and glaucous, as in 4. suaveolens. Seeds oblong, transverse, the funicle thickened into a few short closely packed folds under the seed.— 4. hemiteles, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 619; Æ. apicu- a issn. in Pl. Preiss. i, 17. mond, ond, King George’s Sound to Cape Riche, Drum- aan CoM. a. ar Ber 1, Vidita, Bi arde towards the Great Bight, II. $ 2 B 370 XL. LEGUMINOSE. . [ Acacia. Var. parvifolia. Phyllodia shorter, pod rather longer.—Near Cape Riche, Harvey ; “ Norabup,”” Oldfield. 144. A. Lindleyi, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 14. A glabrous, glaucous shrub, evidently allied to 4. subcerulea, but somewhat uncertain until the fruit has been seen. Branches much stouter, very acutely 3-angled when young. Lower phyllodia 6 to 10 in. long, 14 to 2 in. broad, lanceolate, much narrowed at the base, 1-nerved, with fine but prominent pinnate veins; upper ones smaller and narrower, more like those of 4. subcerulea. Racemes short, probably enclosed. when young in imbricate scales, but all fallen off in the specimens seen; heads few, globular, containing numerous 5-merous flowers. Sepals narrow. W. Australia. In the interior, Preiss, n, 947, Drummond (Ath Coll.), n. 25. The specimens I have seen are not satisfactory. 145. A. leptopetala, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 619. A bushy shrub, attaining 8 or 10 ft., glabrous and often somewhat glaucous; branches slightly angular. Phyllodia oblong linear or lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed at the base, 1 to 2 in. long, coriaceous, with a scarcely prominent nerve and very obscurely reticulate veins. Peduncles slender, in short axillary racemes or rarely solitary, bearing each a small globular head of numerous (above 30) flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals very narrow, distinct, spathulate at the end. Petals rather narrow, free, smooth. Pod flat, straight, 2 to 3 in. long, about + in. wide, obtuse; valves membranous. Seeds transverse, ovate ; oo from the base, and forming an aril of about 3 folds under W. Australia, Drummond, Suppl. to 5th Coll. n, 52; Murchison river, Oldfield. The pod seen in the latter specimens only, which otherwise agree with Drummond’s. 146. A, Murrayana, F. Muell. Herb, Glabrous; branchlets slightly angular. Phyllodia linear, straight or nearly so, obtuse or with a callous hooked point, 5 to 6 in. long, 1 to 14 lines wide, thick, with a slightly pro- minent nerve and very obscurely veined. Peduncles about 4 in. long, 2 or 3 together in a short raceme, bearing each a globular head of numerous (above 50) flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals very thin, narrow, linear-spa- thulate, fully half as long as the corolla. Petals free or nearly so, narrow, very thin. Pod linear, 2 to 8 in. long, about 4 lines broad, flat, obtuse ; valves membranous. Seeds transverse, ovate; funicle filiform or slightly thickened from the base, forming 2 or 3 short folds under the seed. Suesalamd: Open Forest, St. George’s Bridge on the Balonne, Mitchell. Australia. Cooper's Creek, Murray, in Howitt’s Expedition. E Murray's specimen, a single one, is in flower only; Mitchell’s, of which we have sere k are in fruit only; it is possible, therefore, that they may not have been correctly matched, bu they appear all to belong to one species, differing from A. leptopetala in little besides ay serle ca g species, differing from eptopeta 147. A. subulata, Bonpl. Jard. Malm. 110, t. 45. A tall glabrous shrub, attaining 10 ft. or more, with erect, slender, slightly angular branches- Phyllodia narrow-linear, mucronulate, narrowed at the base, 3 to 6 in. long» scarcely 1 line broad, straight or nearly so, rather thin, 1-nerved. tone heads ‘several, globular, small, in slender axillary racemes, the pedune almost filiform. Flowers about 12 to 20, very small, mostly 5-merous: = Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 371 Calyx thin, turbinate, usually toothed, fully half as long as the corolla. Pe- tals smooth. Pod not seen.—DC. Prod. ii. 453. N.S. Wales. Forests of the W. branches of Hunter’s River and plains of Daley, — A. Cunningham; also in Leichhardt’s collection. The phyllodia are sometimes scarcely broader than in the flat-leaved variety of A. juncifolia, but the inflorescence is different. 148. A, linifolia, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 1051. A tall shrub, glabrous or , minutely pubescent, sometimes glaucous when young; branchlets angular. Phyllodia linear or linear-lanceolate, narrowed at each end, 1 to 12 in. long, ito 2 or rarely 24 lines broad, rather thin, 1-nerved, slightly veined, the - Slender nerve-like margins and midrib often minutely ciliate, with a small - gland above the base. Racemes scarcely exceeding the phyllodia or shorter, - Comprising several small globular heads of about 8 to 12 fiowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx short, broadly lobed. Petals smooth, separating nearly to : the base. Pod linear, very flat, 2 to 4 in. long, 4 to 6 lines broad and not _ Contracted between the seeds; valves thinly coriaceous, with nerve-like mar- - Els. Seeds longitudinal, along the centre of the pod, the last fold of the funicle tickened into a club-shaped lateral aril, the other folds minute—AMimosa mola, Vent. Jard. Cels. t. 2; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 394; M. linearis, Wendl. A Beob. 56, and Hort. Herrenh. 8, t. 18, not of Sims; A. abietina, Willd. Sp. Pl.iv. 1051; DC. Prod. ii. 453; 4. linifolia, Bonpl. Jard. Malm. 56t. 16; DC. Prod. ii. 453; Bot. Mag. t. 2168; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 383? (this fig. looks more like A. subulata). ; island. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser, F. Mueller, and others; Wide Bay, Leichhardt ; Broad Sound, Bowman. 2 N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 465, and Fl. Mixt. n. > ind others ; Liverpool plains, 4. Cunningham. H i broad-leaved forms of this species, with the margins less ciliated or not perceptibly so, connect it with the following, A. prominens. ,149. A. prominens, 4. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst, ii. 406. A tall shrub, glabrous and usually glaucous, with angular branchlets. Phyllodia from linear-lanceolate to oblong-falcate, when narrow nearly those of 4. lini- fier but not so decidedly ciliate, more acute and the marginal gland further m the base, and passing from that to nearly those of 4. lunata, but always. Much thinner than the latter, with the pinnate veins as well as the gland sm conspicuous, mostly 1 to 13 in. long, from 2 lines broad in the narrow ito 3, 4, or even 5 in the broad ones. Racemes about as long as the phy » With very small globular heads of about 8 to 10 or rarely 12 to 15 Pas flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx very short, broadly lobed. Petals Or nearly so. Pod very flat, 2 to 3 in. long when perfect, 3, 4, or rely 5 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal along the centre, the last fold of the E fico thickened into a fleshy clavate lateral aril, the other folds very small. E eet Mag. t. 3502; Dietr. Fl. Univers. N. Ser. t. 83?; 4. fimbriata, A. aan, Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 406. ne "y ales. Biue } i , A. Cunningham, and others. iat La ia? chen pa Onn and Mount Remarkable, F. Mueller. Speci- ? The, young and doubtful. : ee EE TAN “pypscies may prove to be a broad-leaved variety of A. linifolia. - F. Mueller re Aa i A » describing the pod very accurately, but that is not the fruit of the true A. lu- always the seed lying close to the upper suture, not in the ga > the pod. Aa E. = + 372 ' XL. LEGUMINOSA. [4cacia. 150. A. Leichhardtii, Benth. Branches slender, terete, hispid with long spreading hairs. Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, falcate, mucronate, rarely above 1 in. long, the midrib and nerve-like margins prominent and ciliate, otherwise veinless, the marginal gland about the middle, often wanting. Ra- cemes much longer than the phyllodia, slender, with numerous small heads of 20 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx turvinate, shortly lobed, half as long as the corolla, Petals smooth. Pod very flat, 2 to 4 in. long, about 4 lines broad, hispid with long hairs, but not seen ripe. Queensland. Expedition range, Leichhardt, 151. A. crassiuscula, Wendl. Comm. Acac. 31, t. 8. A shrub of several feet, glabrous and often rather glaucous when young ; branches usually acutely angled. Phyllodia numerous, linear, often falcate, with a small oblique point or the lower ones obtuse and almost lanceolate, rather thick, 1-nerved and veinless, the nerve-like margins often but.not always ciliate, 1} to 2 in. long in some specimens, above 3 in. in others, 13 to 2 or in larger ones 3 lines broad, the marginal gland below the middle. Racemes shorter than the phyllodia, with several small dense globular heads of 20 or more flowers. Calyx turbinate, fully half as long as the corolla, ciliate and readily separating into spathulate sepals. Petals often separating, with prominent midribs. Pod linear, rather thick, about 22 lines broad, contracted between the seeds. Seeds in the centre of the pods, but not seen perfect.—DC. Prod. ii. 453; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 108; 4. adunca, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. 1. 406; A. Sieberiana. Tausch. in Flora, 1836, 420, not of DC. Queensland. Moreton Bay, Fitzalan. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 464; rocky barren brushy hills of the Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham, Fraser. Tasmania. Finders Island, Bass’s Straits, J. D. Hooker. ‘ Althongh evidently distinct from all other species I have examined, it is impossible to define this one satisfactorily until the fruit shall be more certainly known. It is certainly very distinct from the Western plant referred to in ‘ Plante Preissiane.’ 152. A. decora, Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 199. A shrub of several feet, glabrous or slightly glaucous-tomentose; branchlets angular. Phyllodia lan- ceolate or linear, narrowed at the base, straight or slightly falcate, 1 to 2 m. . long, thicker than in 4. linifolia, 1-nerved, slightly penniveined, with nerve- like margins and usually with a gland below the middle. Racemes usually numerous, longer than the phyllodia, with several globular heads of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous, Calyx shortly lobed, not half so long as the corolla. Pod straight or curved, flat, about 3 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal, close to the upper suture; last fold of the funicle thickened into a lateral club- shaped aril, the lower folds very small. Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Dawson river, F. Mueller; near Mount Pluto, Mitchell. N. S. Wales. Liverpool plains, A. Cunningham ; New England, C. Stuart. Perhaps a variety of A. buzifolia, differing aiji the longer E odia and more pom rous flowers in the heads. Some specimens from the Melbourne Botanic Garden, apparen y of this species, have the phyllodia still longer and narrower. 153. A, buxifolia, 4. Cunn. in Field, N. 8. Wales, 344. A glabrous shrub with angular branchlets, Phyllodia obliquely oblong-lanceolate, some- what falcate, narrowed at each end, usually under 1 in., rarely 13 10- long, | j Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSÆ, 373 rather thick, with a-scarcely prominent nerve and obscure veins, the marginal gland small or none. Racemes scarcely exceeding the phyllodia, with several small globular heads of 8 to 12 or rarely more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx short, broad. Petals smooth. Pod straight or curved, flat, 3 or 4 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal, close to the upper suture ; last fold: of the funicle thickened into a lateral clubeshaped aril; the lower ones very small.—Hook. Ic. Pi. t. 164. N. S. Wales. Hunters and Macquarrie rivers, 4. Cunningham, Fraser; New England, C. Stuart ; Clareñce river, Beckler. , Nearly allied to A. lunata, and perhaps a variety with narrower straighter phyllodia, and some specimens appear almost to pass into A. decora. 154. A, lunata, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 452. A glabrous shrub of several feet, with angular branchlets, often glaucous. Phyllodia oblong-falcate or almost ovate, but very oblique, obtuse or with a minute oblique or recurved point, rarely 1 in. long, 3 to 6 lines broad, coriaceous, 1-nerved, obscurely veined, the margins scarcely thickened, the gland minute or none. Racemes longer than the phyllodia, with several small heads of 4 to 10 comparatively lage flowers, mostly 5-merous, Calyx short and broad. Petals smooth. Pod flat, glaucous, straight or curved, 3 to 4 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal, close to the upper sutúre. the last fold of the funicle thickened into a lateral club-shaped aril, the lower folds very small.—Bot. Reg. t. 1352 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 384; Sweet, Fl. Austr. t. 42; F: Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 17 (partly); 4. falcinella, Tausch. in Flora, 1836, 419; 4. brevifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 12359; 4. oleefolia, A. Cunn, in G: Don, Gen. Syst: ii. 405; 4. dealbata, A, Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 345, not of Lindl; 4. furfuracea, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 405. Queensland. Morcton ] . Cunningham. Ea T N S. Wales. seg t a "Blue Mountains, È. Brown, Sieber, n. 461, and E: Pl, Mist, n. 600, and others; extending to the Macquarrie river, and Argyle County, 4. għam, Backhouse. : É ell | e + Barren scrubby ridges between Mayday Hills and Ovens river, F. Mueller i (specimens not in fruit). ‘ s : Without thé fruit this spécies may readily be confounded with 4. prominens, the prie are however more coriaceous, with the veitis less couspicuous aud the flowers in the hi y rather fewer and larger. | _ 155. A. brachybotrya, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i347. A hand- | “ome shrub of several feet, glabrous glaucous or silvery-white with a close pubescence; branchlets slightly angular, soon terete. Phjyllodia ob- liquely obóvate ór oblong, obtuse or rarely:mucronulate, 3 to Ł in. or in very Want specimens twice as long; narrowed at the base, corraceous, 1-nerved, Pemiveined, the marginal gland near the middle, small or often wanting. uncles rather short, solitary, or more frequently 2 to 5 on a very short | mon pedunete, often growing out into a leafy branch, each bearing a globular head of numerous (20 to 50) flowers, mostly 5=merous. Sepals Ihear-spathulate, free or connected by a thin membrane. Petals smooth, dis- _ tinct or readily separating. Pod linear, straight or undulate, 3 to 5 lines E broad, flat but the valves often alternately convex and concave over the seeds E and sometimes much warted. Seeds longitudinal; funicle thickened at the A Hon” aclub-shaped lateral aril and once folded below it.—4. argyrophylla, °C; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 18. 374 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [Acacia, ` N. S. Wales. Peels Range, 4. Cunningham; from the Darliig to the Barrier range,, Victorian Expedition. : Victoria. Not uncommon in the N.W. desert, F, Mueller. - S. Australia. Towards Spencer’s Gulf, F. Mueller ; Mount Hall, Warburton. - The following forms appear at first sight very distinct, but they pass too gradually into each other to be separable as species. a. argyrophylla. Silvery-silky, turning sometimes to a golden-yellow. Phyllodia mostly 2 to 14 in. long. Flower-heads often solitary, usually with more than 30 flowers.—4. ar- ophylla, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4384; A. bombycina, Benth. in Lindl. and Paxt. Fl. Gard. 11. 101, f. 186.—Chiefly in S. Australia. b. glaucophylla. Glaucous and more or less pubescent. Phyllodia mostly 3 to 3 in, long. Flower-heads mostly 2 to 5, shortly racemose, with about 20 to 30 flowers.—4. bra- chybotrya, Benth., as above; £. dictyocarpa, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 616,—N. S. Wales and Victoria. å c. glabra. Quite glabrous. Phyllodia small and narrow, Flower-heads small.—-Murray esert. 156. A. Wattsiana, F. Muell. Herb. À dense bushy glabrous shrub, of 4 to 5 ft.; branchlets angular: Phyllodia obovate-oblong, very obtuse, narrowed at the base, ¿ to 1 in. long, coriaceous, 1-nerved, obscurely penni- veined, thes marginal gland below the middle sometimes wanting. Ra- cemes as long as the phyllodia, with usually few globular heads of about ‘15 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx short, broad, toothed. Petals smooth. Pod falcate, coriaceous, 2 to 4 in. long, 3 to 4 lines broad, not con- tracted between the seeds. Seeds longitudinal along the centre; funicle long and much folded round the seed, but not seen quite ripe. S. Australia. Between Broughton and Rocky Creeks, F. Mueller. The foliage and habit are those of 4. brachybotrya, it has also much resemblance in habit and calyx to the shorter leaved forms of 4. /unata (A. oleefolia, A. Cunn.), to which I had referred it in the ‘Linnea,’ xxvi. 616, but differs essentially from them both in the pod and especially in the elongated funicle. 157. A. podalyrizfolia, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 405. A tall shrub, more or less mealy-glaucous, and minutely pubescent, rarely quite glabrous. Phyllodia obovate ovate or oblong, more or less oblique, obtuse oF narrowed at one or both ends, mostly 1to 12 in. long, 1-nerved, with 1 or 2 marginal glands. Racemes much longer than the phyllodia, with several, e. 10 to 20, small globular heads of numerous small mostly 5-merous flowers. Calyx turbinate, sinuate-toothed, not half so long as the corolla. Petals free or very slightly cohering, hirsute, with prominent midribs. Pod very nearly 2 in. broad, 1 to several in. long, glabrous or pubescent. Seeds ovate, longitudinal; funicle rather long, in short folds under the seed, the last fold slightly thickened.—4. Fraseri, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 171; 4. Caleyi, A- ie Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 317 (a stunted specimen). Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, 4. Cunningham, Fraser, and others; in the interior about Lake Salvator, etc., Mitchell ; between the Suttor and Dawson rivers, F. Mueller; Wide Bay, C. Moore. 3 158, A. uncifera, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 341. A shtub of — about 5 ft., softly velvety-pubescent; branchlets nearly terete. Phyllodia obliquely oblong or elliptical-falcate, narrowed at both ends, with a h point, 13 to 2 in. long, $ to + in. broad, 1-nerved, with 1 to 3 minute mar ginal glands. Racemes rather longer than the phyllodia, with several glo . Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. 375 bular heads, smaller than in 4. podalyriefolia, on shorter peduncles. Flowers also smaller, otherwise like those of that species, of which this may prove to bea variety. Pod unknown. Queensland. Foot of sandstone rocks near Mount Pluto, Mitchell. 159. A. vestita, Ker, in Bot. Reg. t. 698. A tall bushy shrub, softly pubescent or villous, usually 8 to 10 ft. high; but attaining twice that size. Phyllodia numerous, obliquely ovate-elliptical, more or less recurved-falcate, undulate, mostly about + in. long, with’a fine but not pungent point, cuneate at the base, 1-nerved. Racemes much longer than the phyllodia, forming a . terminal leafy panicle, each with several small globular heads of 10 to 20 or sometimes more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx turbinate, shortiy and ob- tusely lobed, nearly half as long as the corolla, rarely separating into distinet sepals. Petals smooth, glabrous, usually free. Pod very flat, straight, gla- brous and glaucous, 14 to 3 in. long, 4 to 5 lines broad. Seeds oval-oblong, longitudinal along the centre of the pod; last fold of the funicle thickened into an oblong-clavate lateral aril nearly as long as the seed, with 2 or 3 short filiform folds below it, and transverse at the base.—DC. Prod. ii. 452. N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 444, A. Cunningham, and others. 160. A, cultriformis, 4. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 406. A tall bushy shrub, glabrous and often mealy-glaucous when young ; branchlets an- guar, Phyllodia numerous, obliquely obovate-lanceolate, recurved-falcate or almost triangular, mucronulate, narrowed at the base, 4 to 4 or rarely 1 in. coriaceous, 1-nerved, with thickened margins and usually 1 marginal nd, sometimes on a prominent angle as in the Triangulares. Racemes numerous, much longer than the phyliodia, consisting often of 10 to 20 glo- heads, forming a terminal leafy panicle. Flowers 10 to 20 in the head, mostly 5-merous. Calyx broad, lobed, scarcely half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth. Pod very flat, glabrous, glaucous, 2 or 3 in. long when per- fect, 3 or rarely 4 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal, near the suture ; last fold Of the funicle thickened into a lateral club-shaped aril, with very small folds below it.—Hook Te. Pl. t. 170; Paxt. Mag. xi. 113, with a fig.; 4. scapuli- is, A.Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii, 405 (specimens with rather broader and shorter phyllodia). E N.S. Wales. Rocky ridges aud brushy forest ground, Hunter's and Dumaresq rivers, E Cunningham ; sources of the M'Intyre, on the borders of Queensland, Herb. F. Mueller. | A. glaucifoli Meissner’s description, Pl. Preiss. i. 14, I e ~via et py OF Lotions In Pl. Preiss. ii. 202, a specimen in Herb, Lehmann; is mentioned as believed to have been gathered in West Australia, but this 3 be a mistake, at any rate I know of no Western species at all like da AR 61. A. pravissima, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 5, and Pl. Vict. 1.5, t 4. E tall ad tree, quite glabrous branchlets angular, slender. Phy P numerous, broadly and very obliquely falcate obovate or almost trapezoid, tved, 3 to 5 lines or rarely 4 in. long, the lower terminal angle acute or mucronate, the upper one rounded as in the Triangulares, but the gland not placed at the angle, but much below it, rather thick and usually 2-nerved. paemes much longer than the leaves, with 10 to 20 small globular a gaS the whole forming a handsome terminal leafy panicle. Flowers about > to 12 in the head, mostly 5-merous. Calyx smail, obtusely lobed. Petals . “mooth, Pod flat, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal along the centre of the pod ;- 376 XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [4cacia. funicle very shortly thickened into a small fleshy aril under the seed, with several small folds below it. Victoria. Valleys of the Australian Alps and banks of streams descending from them, foot of Buffalo ranges, Snowy and Macalister rivers, etc., F. Mueller. The affinity of this species is evidently with 4. cultriformis, although the phyllodia are nearly those of the 7ri- angulares. 162. A. pyrifolia, DC. Mem. Leg. 447, and Prod. ii. 452. A gla- brous shrub, often glaucous, with slightly flattened branches. Phyllodia broadly ovate, with a pungent point, 2 to 3 in. long and almost as wide in ` perfect specimens, but often not half that size, thinly coriaceous, 1-nerved, penniveined. Stipules spinescent. Racemes numerous, often more than twice as long as the phyllodia, with 10 to 12 or more rather small but dense globular heads of very numerous flowers, often above 100, mostly 5-merous. Sepals distinct, linear-clavate. Pod flat, more or less curved or circinate, 2 to 3 in. long when perfect; 4 to 6 lines broad, often slightly contracted be- tween the seeds, with rather thick margins ; valves convex over the seeds. Seeds ovate, rather thick ;-funicle thickened and much folded under them.— F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 17. N. Australia. Dampier’s Archipelago, 4. Cunningham; Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition. W. Australia. Sharks Bay, Baudin's Expedition. The large phyllodia and spinescent stipules distinguish this from all others with long ra- cemes of globular heads. 163. A. myrtifolia, Willd. Spec. Pl. iv. 1054. A tall glabrous shrub, slightly glaucous in some varieties; branches acutely angular. Phyllodia ob- lique or faleate, obovate, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or linear, usually acute or mucronate and narrowed at the base, 1 to 2 in. long or much longer when ~ narrow, coriaceous, 1-nerved, with thickened nerve-like margins, the pinnate veins rarély conspicúous, the marginal gland below the middle. Racemes rarely exceeding the phyllodia, with several almost sessile flower-heads, con- sisting of only 2, 3 or 4 rather large flowers, almost always 4-merous. Calyx very short, broadly lobed. Petals smooth, separating nearly to the base. Pod linear, curved, flattened, but thick, with very thick margins, usually 1 to 2 in. long, about 2 lines broad ; valves hard and almost woody. Seeds ob- long, longitudinal; funicle very short, scarcely folded, thickened nearly from the base into an almost cup-shaped fleshy aril.—Mimosa myrtifolia, Sm. m Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 252, and Bot. Nov. Holl. 51, t. 15; A. myrtifolia, DC. Prod. ii. 452; Sw. FI. Austr. t. 49; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 772; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 107; Meissn. iw Pl. Preiss. i. 14; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 19. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountain’, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 437, and Fl. Mirt: n. 602, and others. and southward to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. x Victoria. Frequent in barren places, as well in the lowlands as in the mountains throughout the colony, F. Mueller. Tasmiania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant in dry soil throughout the colony, J. D. Hooker. , S. Australia. Rocky soils in the hill land, Behr; Encounter Bay, Whittaker; Mount Torrens, F. Mueller, à pe Anpenlii. King George’s Sound and to the eastward, R. Brown, Preiss, "- 927, ers. The three following forms, distinguished b f the phyllodia, are usually con sidered as species, but they all pide Filó ara N, Aili ho Acacia. ] XL. LEGUMINOSE. 377 a. celastrifolia. Phyllodia mostly 14 to 2 in. long and often 1 in. broad.—A. ce/astri- ~ jolia, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 349; Bot. Mag. t. 4306; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 14; A. Pawlikowskyana, Ohlend. in Neue Allgem. Gartenzeit, 1845, 369, and A. Ludwigit, Ohlend. Verz. 1844, 74, according to Seem. Eingef. Acac. 28.—Swan River, Drummond, lst Coli. n. 281; Grantham district, W. Australia, Preiss, n. 915, 916. b. normalis. Phyllodia mostly 1 to 2 in. long and abont + in. broad. The common form in the Eastern and Southern colonies. : c. angustifolia. Phyllodia mostly 2 to 4 in. long, 2 to 4 lines broad.—4. marginata, R.Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 462; Wendl. Comm. Acac. 19,t.5 A; DC. Prod. ii. 452; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 14; 4. trigona, A. DC. Not. 8. Pl. Rar. Jard. Gen. 20.— -——Tothis belong the great majority, but not all of the King George's Sound specimens, oecur- Mg very rarely in the other colonies. Series VII. Poriverves.—Phyllodia vertically flattened, obtuse or with an innocuous or recurved point (rarely pungent when the phyllodium is = broad), with 2 or or more longitudinal nerves. Flowers in globular heads . = maxillary peduncles, either solitary or clustered or shortly racemose. A. Armarz.—Stipules spinescent. Phyllodia falcate, subulate-acuminate = Wralmost pungent. ¡e correspond to the subseries Armate of Uninerves, except that the phyllodia are 164. A, scalpelliformis, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 200. A tall shrub, glabrous or the striate branches pubescent. Phyllodia obliquely triangular- olate, acute and pungent-pointed, 4 to 14 in. long, 3 to 5 lines broad, tapering at the base, 2-nerved, penniveined, with nerve-like margins, with a on the prominent angle of the upper edge. Stipules setaceous-spines- cent, spreading. Peduncles solitary, bearing each a globular flower-head. > Wers not seen perfect, but the withered remains have a broad short lobed _ calyx and 5 petals separating almost to the base. Pod very long, scarcely 1} es broad, readily twisting, with broad very thick obtusely dilated sutures. seeds oval-oblong, longitudinal, the last 2 or 3 folds of the funicle thickened into a small aril under the seed. ates ig Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 161. Differing from 4. urophylla chiefly in Me phyllodia, ; 165. A. urophylla, Benth. in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc: 24, and in Hook. ond. Journ, i. com x shrub of several E glabrous or slightly hirsute ; branches angular striate. Phyllodia semiovate or broadly and very obliquely _— Mate-lanceolate, subulate, acuminate, undulate, 13 to 3 in. long and $ to 1 ve m. broad below the middle, in luxuriant cultivated specimens often twice that _ ‘Se, 2- to 4-uerved, the lower margin nearly straight, the upper one much E curved and crenulate, the marginal gland near the base. Stipules setaceous- ‘pineseent. Peduncles 2 to 4 lines long, solitary clustered or forming very $ Tt racemes, bearing each a small globular head of 8 to 12 flowers, either : “oda or 4-merous. Calyx short, truncate. Petals smooth. Pod often 47 Fin. long, scarcely 13 lines broad, readily twisting, with very thick ob- SS of y dilated sutures, ` Seeds oval-oblong, longitudinal, the last 2 or 3 folds 2 ve funicle thickened into a small aril under the seed.— Bot. Mag. t. 4573 ; = “ssn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 8; Æ. smilacifolia, Field. and Gardn. Sert. Pl. t. 3. W. Australia. Ki nzi i d Darling Range i King George’s Sound, Menzies; Swan River and g 3 » 2nd Coll, n. "382, Pram. n. 913, 918; Harvey and Gordon rivers, Oldfield. 378 XL, LEGUMINOSZ. [ Acacia. B. TrIANGULARES.—Stipules setaceous or minute, not spinescent. Phyl- lodia small (under 3 in. long), broadly falcate-ovate or triangular, with small points often pungent. These correspoud to the subseries Triangulares of Uninerves, with which I had formerly united them as an independent series, 166. A. sublanata, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 42. A rigid shrub, woolly- pubescent when young, at length glabrous ; branches striate. Phyllodia from broadly triangular-falcate and mucronate to lanceolate-falcate and tapering into a pungent point, rarely 4 in. long, occasionally approaching in form those of 4. decipiens, but the upper angle much more obtuse, without any or with a very minute gland, and usually much narrower and always with 3 to 5 or even more nerves. Stipules small, deciduous. Peduncles longer than the phyllodia, bearing each a globular head of 20 to 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous, * glabrous or slightly hirsute, the bract-points projecting beyond the young buds. Calyx shortly toothed, half as long as the corolla. Pod linear, much twisted, about 2 lines broad.—4. pravifolia, F, Muell. Fragm. i. 4, and in Journ. Linn. Soc, iii. 117. S. Australia. S. coast, R. Brown; Crystal Brook, Flinders and Elders Ranges, F, Mueller (good specimens only in Herb. R. Br.). Some young specimens of Oldfield’s from Port Gregory in W. Australia are also like this species, but insufficient for determination. 167. A. amblygona, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i, 332. Branches elongated, diffuse, rather rigid, terete, pubescent. Phyllodia fal- cate-lanceolate or almost triangular, 3 to 4 lines long, 14 to 3 lines broad, several-nerved, the lower nerve produced into a sharp point, the upper margin much curved but without any glandular angle. Peduncles rarely exceeding the phyllodia, bearing each a globular head of about 10 to 15 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals broadly cuneate, cohering or at length separating, fully half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, readily separating. Pod linear, usually curved, 14 to 2 lines broad, contracted between the seeds. Seeds ovate, longitudinal; funicle thickened into a lateral oblong or club-sha aril, with a short fold below it.—4. Nernstii, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 3. Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, 4. Cunningham, C. Stuart, Nernst i to- wards Mount Pluto, Mitchell ; between Suttor river and Peak Range, F. Mueller. N.S. Wales. Highlands west of Macquarrie river, Fraser ; rocky hills on Wellington and Lachlan rivers, 4. Cunningham. 168. A, deltoidea, 4. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 401. A much- branched shrub, glabrous or pubescent when young, with terete branches. Phyllodia numerous, obliquely triangular-ovate, acute, mucronate, 2 to ia long and almost as broad, thick, several-nerved, the upper margin m curved but without any gland-bearing angle. Stipules setaceous, ponian” Peduncles slightly exceeding the phyllodia, bearing each a small globular h ‘ of numerous (30 to 50) very small flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx deep ` divided into narrow thin lobes, Petals slightly thickened and pubescent the tips, cohering above the middle. Stamens few. Pod elongated, sigi curved, flat, coriaceous, glandular-hispid, nearly 4 lines broad. 3 seen. N N. Australia. Greville Island, Montague Sound, and Barren Islands, Regent's _. -W. coast, 4. Cunningham. : ; Ácacia.] XL. LEGUMINOSA. 379 169. A. stipulosa, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 119. Glandular- pubescent or hirsute; branches terete. Phyllodia obliquely ovate-falcate or almost triangular, tapering into a pungent point, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long and almost as broad, thick and faintly several-nerved, the upper angle very obtuse, with a small gland about the middle or often none. Stipules setace- ous, spreading. Peduncles usually exceeding the phyllodia, pubescent, bear- $ ing each a dense head of numerous (above 30) flowers, mostly 5-merous but sometimes 6- to 8-merous. Calyx thin, striate, pubescent, as long as the corolla, at length separating into distinct sepals. Petals narrow, cohering. : ens very numerous. Pod linear, curved, flat, glandular-hispid, 2 to 3 lines broad, scarcely contracted between the seeds. Seeds very oblique; fu- nicle with the last 3 folds dilated into an almost membranous aril at the base of the seed. N. Australia. Upper Victoria river and Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller. Very near 4. deltoidea, differing chiefly in the flowers twice as large, and in the proportion of the calyx and corolla, ©. BreviroL1a.—Phyllodia under 1 in..long, obovate ovate or broadly oblong, very obtuse, often undulate. Stipules inconspicuous. . _ 170. A.loxophylla, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 622. A diffuse shrub, 1 very resinous, but otherwise glabrous. Phyllodia numerous, very obliquely vate or oblong, incurved, very obtuse, but often minutely mucronulate, in some specimens not exceeding 1 in., in others narrower and 2 to 4 in. long, rather thick, with 2 faint nerves, otherwise veinless. Stipules obsolete. Pedun- cles 1 to 2 lines long, bearing each a globular head of above 20 flowers, mostly - S-merous. Calyx turbinate, rather thick, above half as long as the corolla, shortly and broadly lobed and ciliate. Petals smooth, narrow, free or readily Separating. Pod curved, linear, about 2 lines broad ; valves convex over the seeds, flat between them. Seeds ovate, longitudinal ; funicle dilated almost from the base into a cup-shaped almost membranous aril of 2 or 3 folds. We Australia, Towards Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th Coll. a. 14 (with short broad Phyllodia),, Maxwell (with longer narrower phyllodia). j VILA, setulifera, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 625. Apparently diffuse, with the aspect almost of 4. Wickhami, quite glabrous. Phyllodia — liquely ovate, undulate, obtuse with a very oblique bristle-like point, rarely ve 2 lines long and broad, rigid, with several very faint nerves, of which or 3 arë rather more prominent. Stipules deciduous. Peduncles not ex- the phyllodia, rigid, bearing each a small globular dense head of about 12 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin, toothed, readily separating . into distinct sepals. Petals rather thick. Pod not seen. —N Australia. N.W. coast, Bynoe. ee 112. A. translucens, 4. Cunn. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 60. us h b or small tree, Tien or the young shoots pubescent ; pristo terete O slightly angular, Phyllodia from obliquely obovate to narrow-0 s ng fred lowe linear, incurved, usually much undulate, mostly about 3 in. Dut | 1 ower ones sometimes 1 in. long, obtuse with an oblique or recurved “oe and, coriaceous, obscurely several-nerved. Peduncles rigid, 3 to 1 in. long, each a dense globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous, 380 . XL. LEGUMINOSZ. [4cacia. Calyx broad, eup-shaped, shortly toothed, scarcely half as long as the corolla, Petals striate, but smaller and less rigid than in 4. impressa. Pod 1 to 1% in. long, flat but thick and almost woody, obtusely hooked at the end, about 2 lines broad above the middle and gradually narrowed into a long stipes, obliquely veined, partitioned inside between the seeds. Seeds oblong, oblique; funicle slightly folded and gradually dilated into a cup-shaped aril at the base of the seed. : N. Australia. Montague Sound and Bay of Rest, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller ; Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne. The pod is that of some Ju/iflore, but has only been seen in the narrow-leaved specimens. 173. A. impressa, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 133. A tall shrub, the branches slightly angular, more or less pubeseent as well as the foliage. Phyllodia obovate or obovate-oblong, very oblique, undulate, obtuse or with a small glandular point, 4 to $ or rarely 1 in. long, with 3 to 5 nerves more prominent than in 4. translucens, and anastomosing veins. Peduncles about as long as the phyllodia, bearing each a globular head of about 12 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals distinct or slightly coherent, spathulate. Petals rigid and striate, united at the base. Pod straight or nearly so, thinly coriaceous, flat with thickened margins, about 3 in. broad, very glutinous and villous. Seeds oval-oblong, transverse, the central area much depressed ; funicle forming several folds, the last 2 or 3 dilated into a rather small aril at the base of the seed. N. Australia. Sturt’s Creek, Victoria and Van Alphen rivers, F. Mueller ; Short’s Range, M‘Douall Stuart. Very near A. translucens in foliage and flowers, but with a very different fruit. D. OL1coNgurRA.—-Phyllodia above + in. and mostly above 1 in. long, oblong lanceolate or linear, straight or slightly falcate, with 2 or 3 nerves faintly or not at all veined between them and usually not: glutinous. Although,this subseries is generally distinct from the next two by the phyllodia with only 2 or 3 prominent nerves, yet the 4. Simsii is very variable in this respect, connecting t Oligoneura with the Nervosa, and A. subporosa, a vegy faintly nerved species, has the resi- nous foliage of several of the Nervose. 174. A. bivenosa, DO. Prod. ii. 452. A large bushy shrub, glabrous and often glaucous, or the upper leaves and inflorescence of a golden-yellow. Phyllodia from obovate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse and mestly with a callous recurved point, 14 to 3 in. long in the commonest form, } to 14 in the short leaved varieties, narrowed at the base, coriaceous, with 2 more or less promi- nent nerves, penniveined and with nerve-like margins. Racemes of few glo- bular heads with a flexuose rhachis and short peduncles, or reduced to a smg peduncle with a single head, of 20 to 30 flowers, not very small and mostly 5-merous. Calyx sinuate-toothed and petals smooth as in 4. salicina. elongated, nearly straight, flat, coriaceous, about 3 lines broad. Seed n seen perfect.— A. binervosa, DC. Mem. Leg. 448; 4. xanthina, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 355; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 16; 4. elliptica, A. umn Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 347. j N. Australia. N.W. coast, Admiral in ition; Bay of Rest & Dampier’s Archipelago, A. Cunningham ; - Han eva Paes Hearson Island Nia Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition. ; Acacia.] XL. LEGUMINOS#. . 381 W. Australia. Swan River, Baudin's Expedition, Drummond, lst Coll, n. 283, Preiss, n. 928; Sharks Bay, Milne; Dirk Hartog's Island, 4. Cunningham. There are two forms, one (4. elliptica, A. Cunn.) more glaugous with short obovate ob- long phyllodia faintly 2-nerved, the other (A. zanthina, Benth.) with longer phyllodia more prominently nerved and often of a golden colour. Both are in the Paris herbarium, from Baudin's Collection, and we have both from the N.W. coast, as well as from the west, the yellow one chiefly from Swan River; and, different as they look, some specimens are-quite Intermediate or combine the two. : 115. A. trineura, F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 25, and Fragm. iv. 5. A strongly scented bushy shrub, glabrous and glaucous ; branchlets slightly an- gular. Phyllodia narrow, cuneate-oblong, straight or slightly curved, very obtuse, mostly 13 to 2 in. long, 3 to 4 lines broad, narrowed at the base, with 3 prominent nerves and a few oblique veins. Flower-heads small, glo- bular, in very short racemes of 3 to 6. Flowers above 20 in the head, very closely packed, glutinous and mostly 5-merous. Sepals linear-spathulate. Petals smooth, usually free. Pod unknown. Victoria. Sandy banks of the Wimmera, Dallachy ; N.W. desert, Lockhart Morton. 176. A. nitidula, Benih. A low and diffuse or erect and bushy glabrous shrub, occasionally slightly glutinous; branchlets terete or nearly so. Phyl- linear-cuneate, obtuse or with a minute callous point, mostly + to 15 1n. long, rather thick, rigid and prominently 2- or 3-nerved. Peduncles slender, Mostly in pairs, 2 to 4 lines long, bearing each a small globular head of 12 to 0 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals free, narrow, linear-spathulate, ciliate. Petals smooth, distinct from the base or nearly so. Pod not seen. W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 128 (phyllodia 1 to 14 in.) ; along granite ders, Goose Island Bay, R. Brown ; Cape Arid, Maxwell (phyllodia ¿to din). The Peles approaches in some respects 4. dura, but differs in the nearly straight phyllodia with atleast 2 nerves, both distinct from the margin, more numerous flowers, ete. 177. A, heteroclita, Mcissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 318. An erect shrub of Sond tt, glabrous or the young shoots minutely silky-pubescent ; branchlets More or less angular. Phyllodia from linear-lanceolate, often oblique and 13 lo 2 in, long, to linear and exceeding 3 in., rather rigid, tapering into a straight or recurved point, but scarcely pungent, narrowed at the base, with € but prominent nearly equal nerves, and veinless or nearly so po 3 Peduneles solitary or in pairs, bearing each a globular head of a a 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow, linear-spathulate. ; Petals - nooth, cohering to the middle. Pod narrow-linear, flat, with thickened nerve-like margins, usually straight, 2 to 3 in. long, 14 lines broad. Seeds Sngitudinal ; funicle with the last fold dilated into a short fleshy oblique lateral aril and short filiform folds below it.—4. érissoneura, F. Muell. Fragm. _ W. Australia, T Riche, Preiss, n, 938, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 8 A harrow as cit a broad phyllodia) ; Fitzgerald Range, Ete he mein eld (phyllodia short and broad), Drummond (1st Coll. ?), n. 288. ki i ixed up in some lens, intermediate between the narrow and broad forms, have been mixed up 1). rite specimens of A. cochlearis, from which this species differs in the phyllodia less “SS, with more prominent nerves and more abruptly contracted into a less pungent point. 178. A, elo: eb. i ii A tall shrub, glabrous ‘or | elongata, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 451. ; , : or the young Gants MIE palco * Phyllodia narrow-linear, obtuse or 382 + XL. LEGUMINOSE. [ Acacia. with a small oblique or hooked point, 2 to 3 or even 4 in. long, 1 to 13 or rarely above 2 lines broad, with 3 prominent nerves, and, when broad, a few oblique veins between them. Peduncles solitary or in pairs, not exceeding 3 in. and usually much shorter, slender and pubescent, bearing a globular head of numerous (30 or more) flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx obtusely lobed, fully half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, with the midrib slightly rominent. Pod linear, straight, flat, 14 to 2 lines broad. Seeds longitudi- nal, the last folds of the short funicle dilated into a small aril at the base of- - the seed.—Bot. Mag. t. 3337; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 24; 4. hebecephala, A. Cunn. in Loud. Hort. Brit. 406. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 443, and - Fl. Mirt. n. 598, A. Cunningham, and others ; southward to IHawarra, 4. Cunningham, and Twofold Bay, Huegel. Victoria. Granite ridges near the Genoa river, F. Mueller, This species differs from 4. trinervata chiefly in the long narrow phyllodia, not pungent, when very narrow they are almost like those of the Ca/amiformes. In some garden speci- mens the nerves almost disappear as represented in the above quoted figure; and then it is not very easy to distinguish them from those specimens of 4. viscidula in which the nerves are very faint. 179. A. subporosa, F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 24, and Fragm. iv. 5. A tree attaining the height of 40 ft.; branchlets slender, viscid when young, scarcely angular. Phyllodia linear-lanceolate or linear, often slightly falcate, acute with the point usually incurved, 13 to 3 or rarely 4 in. long, from lline . broad in the narrow, to 3 or 4 lines in the broad variety, with 2 or 3 slightly prominent nerves and when broad a few faint ones between them, and often marked with semitransparent glandular dots. Peduncles solitary or in pairs, slender, 4 in. long or shorter, bearing a globular head of 20 to 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx lobed, not half so long as the corolla. Petals smooth. Pod unknown. N. S. Wales. Near Mount Imlay, Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. j Victoria. Forest gullies on the barren range at the eastern boundary of the colony, F. Mueller, i _ Var. Zinearis. Tall shrub. Phyllodia narrow-linear. Flower-heads much smaller, witt 12 to 20 smaller flowers.—With the broad-leaved variety, F, Mueller. 180. A. Simsii, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 368. A tall glabrops shrub with slender branches scarcely angular. Phyllodia linear or lanceoldte, usually faleate, obtuse or mucronate, much narrowed tówa the base, 2 to 5 in. long, 12 to 2 or rarely 3 lines broad, in the ordinary form with 3 or sometimes only 2 prominent nerves, smooth and finely veined | tween them. Peduncles solitary or in pairs, slender, rarely above 3 lines long, bearing each a globular head of 20 to 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx nearly half as long as the corolla, lobed and readily separating into distinct sepals. Petals smooth, distinct. Pod straight, flat or undulate, acuminate, 2 to 3 lines broad. Seeds compressed-giobular, longitudinal; funicle with the last fold shortly thickened into a clavate aril about re long as the seed, with a short filiform fold below it. N. Australia. Islands of the Gu i ne. Z Queensland. Bay of Inlets, poa ¿ego aer y oo Cleveland Bay, 4. Cunningham ; Cape Upstart, Burdekin Expedition; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Bay, Dallachy ; bed of the Belyando, Mitchell, also in Leichhardt’s Collection. | y Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSA. 383 _ Var. multisiliqua. Phyllodia shorter, rather broader, and nearly straight, with 3 promi- nent nerves and scarcely veined between them. Pod narrow.—On first seeing R. Brown’s specimens from the Carpentaria Islands, they looked so different from the ordinary form that I was inclined to adopt them as a distinct species under Brown’s name of 4. multisiliqua, ut I have since found that the two forms pass one into the other there as in other localities, and both phyllodia may be found even on the same specimen on different branches, depend- ing perhaps sometimes on differences in comparative luxuriance. E. MicRonevr#.—Glabrous or glaucous, not glutinous. Phyllodia thick, apparently veinless or with very fine scarcely prominent parallel veins or or often scarcely visible without a lens, narrow or rarely short and vate, | T BLA. leptospermoides, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 626. A low | much-branched glabrous shrub, with slender terete branches. Phyllodia nu- merous, cuneate-oblong, obtuse, mostly + in. long or rather more, narrowed at on a short petiole, thick, apparently veinless, the few very fine nerves Very rarely conspicuous except towards the base and under a lens. Peduncles solitary, about 2 lines long, bearing each a small globular head of above 20 wers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals free, narrow-spathulate, ciliate. Petals smooth, free, rather narrow. Pod unknown. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 11; East Mount Barren, Mazwell (Herb. T Oldfield), The narrow-leaved specimens bear some resemblance to 4, ericifolia and the broader ones to al. spathulata, but have a different venation. si 182. A, homalophylla, A. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 365 (there spelt omalophylia). A small tree, glabrous or the foliage minutely or pale ; branchlets at first slightly angular. Phyllodia lanceolate-fal- > harrow-oblong or linear, obtuse with a small oblique point, narrowed at e base, 1 to 3 in. long, 1 to 4 lines broad, thick, very finely striate with nerves only to be seen under a lens. Peduncles in pairs or clustered i =e very short common peduncle, bearing dense globular heads of numerous ers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals cuneate or spathulate, free or slightly con- » more than half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, free. Pod linear, val y glaucous, slightly curved, 2 to 3 lines broad, longitudinally veined ; ; eS cori riaceous, convex over the seeds, contracted between them. Seeds - mal-oblong, longitudinal ; funicle short, much folded and dilated almost from E the base into a short oblique aril—F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 28. de haus, Wales, Abundant on the barren heaths of the interior, from the Lachlan to i Range ; one of the spear-woods of the natives, A. Cunningham, Victorian Erpe- bi and others. Salt-bush flats on the Murray, yielding the hard dark and fragrant ‘ Myall- . > F. Mueller. i . : ingle speci in leaf only, and there- fore doubtful. ? Spencer’s Gulf, Wilhelmi. A single specimen y 183. A, pend A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 404. A handsome eile foliage a ash-coloured, with a minute pubescence ; branchlets «y pendulous, slightly angular, soon terete. Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, Hate, acuminate, narrowed towards the base, 2 to 3 in. long, rigidly coria- ad Very finely striate, with numerous parallel nerves, only to be seen cad shor, Peduncles usually clustered on a very short common peduncle, rarely ve 2 lines long, bearing each a small globular head of about 12 to 20 flowers, 384 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ Acacia. mostly 5-merous, much smaller than in 4. 2omalophylla. Calyx turbinate and. lobed, but readily separating into distinct sepals. Petals smooth. Pod linear, but very flat, and fully 5 lines broad, thinly coriaceous, transversely reticulate, the sutures bordered by a very narrow wing. Seeds nearly orbicular ; funicle thickened into a narrow clavate aril, and scarcely folded below it, but not seen perfect.—A. leucophylla, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 13. Queensland. On the Maranoa, Mitchell. N. S. Wales. Morasses of the Lachlan, 4. Cunningham ; the only timber-tree in these immense morasses, Fraser. Without the fruit the specimens are very difficult to distinguish from those of £. homa- lophylla. Yu both species, but especially in this one, 3 of the nerves of the phyilodia are sometimes slightly prominent. 184. A. Oswaldi, F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 27, and Fragm. iv. 5. A rigid bushy shrub, attaining 8 to 10 ft., glabrous or the young shoots hoary or silky-pubescent ; branchlets slightly angular. Phyllodia falcate-lanceolate, varying to linear or oblong-lanceolate, mostly 14 to 2 in long, rigid, wit a short usually incurved innocuous or scarcely pungent point, much narrow at the base, with numerous slightly prominent nerves, parallel or anastomo- sing when the phyllodium is broad. Flower-heads small, globular, sessile or nearly so, solitary or in pairs or clusters, containing about 10 to 15 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals linear-cuneate or spathulate, free. Petals smooth, usually pubescent. Pod long and much curved or twisted, 3 to 4 lines broad, hard or almost woody ; valves convex over the seeds, shghtly contracted be- tween them. Seeds large, ovate, longitudinal ; last fold of the funicle dilat into a broad, obliquely cup-shaped, fleshy aril, the lower folds short and filiform or slightly dilated. Queensland? ‘Towards Broad Sound, a small specimen in Herb. F. Mueller, without collector’s name. N. S. Wales. Interior desert, from the Lachlan and Darling to the Barrier range and Cooper’s Creek, Victorian Expedition, and others. ; Victoria. Desert on the Murray, from the Murrumbidgee to the W. frontier, F. Mueller. S. Australia. S. coast, R. Brown ; from the Murray desert to St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller. i Var. abbreviata. Phyllodia rigid, about 1 in. long, almost like those of A. lamgera S. coast, R. Brown. 185. A. lineolata, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 626. Young shoots silky- ES pubescent, but soon glabrous. — Phyllodia numerous, narrow-linear, eres - mucronulate, mostly 1} to 2 in. long, 1 to 2 lines broad, rigid, finely striate with numerous parallel nerves, scarcely visible without a lens, 3 occasiona y rather more prominent. Peduncles usually in pairs, recurved, very sa bearing each a globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous. narrow-spathulate, free or shortly united at the base, half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth. Pod unknown. E e W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n.12 and 13. Very nearly allied to the Ae A, homalophylla, as well as to A. leptoneura among the Calamiformes, and A. = among the Juliflore. jorge A specimen from Murchison river, Oldfield, has broader phyllodia and fewer eer flower-heads, with the sepals connate, but is insufficient to determine whether it be asp% — or variety. ' r Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSZ. y 385 : 186. A. coriacea, DO. Mem. Leg. 446, and Prod. ii. 451. Ashy-grey, with the young shoots silky-hoary or almost golden ; branchlets terete. Phyl- lodia long-linear, straight or curved, obtuse, narrowed towards the base, often 3 ft. long or more, 1 to 22 lines wide, thickly coriaceous, with numerous fine and closely packed longitudinal nerves, only visible under a lens. Peduncles usually in pairs, 4 to 1 in. long, bearing each a globular head of 20 to 25 flowers, mostly 5-merous, hoary-pubescent in the bud. Calyx ¿ line long, tubular, with ciliate lobes. Petals rather longer, united above the middle, Pod 6 to 9 in. long, moniliform ; valyes coriaceous, very convex, 4 to 5 lines broad, oblong and striate over the seeds, much contracted between then. _ Seeds longitudinal, distant ; funicle folded and dilated under the seed, but hot seen perfect. A Australia. Bay of Rest, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; Depuech island, Bynoe ; e Bay, P. Gregory's Expedition. a ; 4 siaii Bay, "enema Sharks Bay, Baudin's Erpedition ; Dirk Hartog's Island or s 187. A. stenophylla, 4. Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 366. A very hard-wooded tree, quite glabrous, with angular branchlets. Phylodia S-linear, acuminate or falcate, much narrowed at the base, 6 in. to 1 ft. ig, about 2 to 21 lines broad, thinly coriaceous, not at all hoary, finely te, with numerous prominent parallel nerves. Peduncles under 3 in. long, - Wally in short racemes of 3 to 6, but sometimes solitary, bearing each a glo- head of 20 to 30 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx half as long is the corolla, with short broad densely ciliate lobes. Petals pubescent. Pod £, moniliform ; valves coriaceous, 4 to 5 lines broad and convex over the seeds, but not striate, much narrowed between them. Seeds ovate, longitu- mal; funicle in short folds, the last slightly thickened into a small aril.— «Muell. PL. Vict. ii. 26. de ‘ee $ hing ere and Sturt's Mage ae e : itchell. a IS. Wales. haha: testing theuce to the Darling river, Barrier mee and Cooper's Creek, Victorian Expedition, ete. ees Austr Banks of the Murray, F. Mueller. A A ao desert, F. Mueller. | os we E Of this nen aig a, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. m. k A Nervos 2. —Foliage often viscid, el ene ee eee i io i aleate, coria ; o Scent. Phyllodia straight or ena eT Pare eis the E nl prominent nerves and, when broad, i | aS rarely reduced to three when the phyllodium is narrow. | the nerves are always either more numerous and nearer together than in t | Eome between them numerous and prominent. i ae 8. A. hemignosta, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 134. J Pes or small tree, sorte less glaucous or pale ; branchlets slender, slightly Pey Phyllodia falcate-lanceolate or oblong, obtuse, much cr q thinly the base, 2 to 4 in. long and often } to 4 in. broad above the middle, robably a narrow-leaved form he Oligoneure, terves ‘ily coriaceous, with 3 or sometimes 4 or 5 fine but slightly prominent Tings and more or less reticulate between them. Peduncles slender, 3 to 5 > , solitary or in terminal racemes through the abortion of the upper WER. " 2c 386 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. — [Acacia. phyllodia, bearing each a small globular head of about 20 to 30 flowers, ‘mostly 5-merous. Sepals very narrow, free. Petals smooth, glabrous. Pod flat, 2 to 4 in. long, about }.in. wide; valves thin, the sutures bordered by an acute edge. Seeds oibicular ; funicle oblique, not folded, filiform or very slightly thickened. N. Australia. Cambridge Gulf, 4. Cunningham ; Albert, Victoria, Gilbert, and Roper rivers, F. Mueller. 189. A. sclerophylla, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 139. A gla- brous bushy shrub of several ft., not glutinous, according to F. Mueller, but ‘with the strong resinous smell of the viscid species; branchlets terete or nearly so. Phyllodia oblong, linear or more or less cuneate, thick and rigid, striate with several prominent nerves, much narrowed at the base, usually ‘about 2 in. long, and from that to 1 or 13 in. in the typical form. Pedun- — cles exceedingly short, usually in pairs, bearing each a small globular head of E about 12 to 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals very thin, narrow lineat- — spathulate. Petals also thin and free. Pod (only seen in the long-leaved variety) linear, often about 2 in. long, not 14 lines broad; valves convex, — rather hard, longitudinally striate. Seeds oval-oblong, longitndinal, the last : 2 folds of the funicle dilated into a small cup-shaped aril.— F, Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 25; Dietr. Fl. Uniyers. N. Ser. t. 85 (incorrect as to nervation). Victoria. In the Murray desert, Mitchell, F. Mueller. S. Australia. From the Murray desert to Lake Alexandrina and St. Vincent's Gulf, also Spencer’s Gulf, near Tumbay Bay, F. Mueller. Var. Jongifolia, Phyllodia 14 to 2 in. long. With the typical form. - 190. A, farinosa, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 146. Amuch- i branched diffuse or bushy shrub, attaining several feet, glabrous or mealy- glaucous when young ; branchlets terete or slightly angular. Phyllodia aeii cuneate, obtuse, much narrowed at the base, thick and rigid, $ to 1} in. long, a much like those of 4. sclerophylla, but usually narrower, with much finer + nerves. Peduncles very short, mealy-tomentose, usually in pairs, bearing, each a small globular head of 12 to 20 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous Sepals free, linear-spathulate. Petals smooth, free or readily separating Pod linear, curved, about 2 lines broad or rather more; valves coriaceous and hard, not striate; margins thickened, slightly contracted between "i seeds. : Seeds ovoid, longitudinal; funicle short with the last folds dilated into a cup-shaped aril under the seed. ices Victoria. On the Murray, Mitchell. Island Waterh Murray desert to Spencer's Gulf, F. Mueller, Wilhelmi ; Kangaroo ; » Waterhouse. an ; Very closely allied to A. sclerophylla, and perhaps a variety, chiefly distinguished wa a nerves of the phyllodia scarcely prominent or quite inconspicuous, and thus connecting 1” subseries with the Microneure, 191. A. Whanii, F. Muell. Herb. Shrabby, with angelar, minute pubescent branchlets. Phyllodia oblong-linear, often incurved, very ilf E with a minute point, 14 to 2 in. long, much narrowed at the base, Menr coriaceous, striate with several nerves, parallel but here and there am sing; upper margin slightly thickened, with usually an indented pato low the middle, Peduncles exceedingly short, in pairs or clusters, 22 . Acacia. | XL. LEGUMINOSA, 387 each a globular head of about 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx rather short, thin, lobed and readily separating into distinct sepals. Petals smooth, united to near the middle. Pod unknown. 4 Victoria, Near Skipton, W. Whan. Very near A. sclerophylla, but the phyllodia’ broader, with the veins often anastomosing and the sepals and petals more united. 192. A, heteroneura, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 624. A glabrous shrub, with angular branchlets. Phyllodia narrow-linear, obtuse or obliquely mucro- nate, much narrowed towards the base, 14 to 3 in. long, 1 to 2 lines broad, tigid, with many parallel nerves, the central one very prominent, with 2 to 5 © ones on each side, Peduncles slender, 2 to 3 lines long, mostly in pairs, bearing each a small globular head of from 32 to 20 flowers, 5-merous or occasionally 4-merous. Calyx short, very thin, with short broad lobes not ~ liate in the bud. Petals smooth, with the midribs slightly prominent. Pod — own. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 138, 193. A. viscidula, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 363. A shrub, more or less pubescent and resinous-viscid ; branchlets terete or nearly $0. Phyllodia narrow-linear, with a small usually hooked point, rather in- curved, narrowed at the base, 2 to 23 in. long, 1 to 1} lines broad, coriaceous, several-nerved. Peduncles very short, generally in pairs, rarely clustered, Owers numerous, in dense globular or slightly ovoid heads, mostly 5-merous, t often 4-merous. Bracts acuminate. Sepals narrow-spathulate, quite © er scarcely connected at the base. Petals pubescent. Pod linear, straight, acuminate, pubescent, about 2 lines broad ; valves nearly flat, with thickened múgins. Seeds oblong, longitudinal; funicle with the last 2 or 3 folds thickened into an obliquely cup-shaped or apparently 2-lobed aril at the of the seed, a “ted S. Wales. Banks of the Lachlan, Fraser; Blue Mpuntains?, Caley in Herb. as angustifolia, Phyllodia about 4 line broad. Flower-heads smallere = 0 E 194. A, ixi lla, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ, i. 364. A glabrous or pubescent ate shits of several feet. Phyllodia oblong, lanceolate or a broadly linear, usually oblique or faleate, obtuse or with a small callous re- varved point or gland, $ to 14 or rarely nearly 2 in. long, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 A road, coriaceous, striate, with numerous fine but prominent nerves, - “Stomosing when the phyllodium is broad. Peduncles in pairs on short ra- o of 3 or 4, bearing each a small globular head of 15 to 20 or rarely More flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow-spathulate, quite free. Petals fee or readily separating, Pod (only known in the Western specimens) very : flexuose, hispid or glabrous, 2 to 3 lines broad. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; 4 funicle dilated into an obliquely oblong or club-shaped aril, not one-third as a du as the seed, and very shortly filiform and folded below it.—4. glutinosa, E Muell. Fragm. iv, 6 (the Western specimens). : Dolar and. In the interior towards Mount Pluto, Mitchell; between Severn and N. S. Wales Nae | plains, 4 Cunningham ow. s. . of Liverpoo: tn pao Ea Mebbeil. oiim Australia, Drummond (4th Coll. 7), n. 129, ant ih Col wan 388 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Acacia. still unable to detect any difference between this Western plant and the Eastern A. iriophylla. Both the narrow and the broad-leaved forms occur both in the East and in the West. 195. A. dictyophleba, Y. Muell. Fragm. iii. 128. Glabrous but very resinous; branchlets nearly terete. Phyllodia cuneate-oblong to lanceolate- falcate, very obtuse, with a small callous point, much narrowed at the base, 2 to 3 in. long, 2 to 5 lines broad, very coriaceous, with several nerves and in- termediate reticulations, all much raised, and scabrous with a resinous exuda- tion. Peduncles solitary, 6 to 8 lines long, bearing each a very dense globular head of 5-merous flowers. Calyx more than half as long as the corolla, very thin, with thickened resinous lobes or teeth. Pod unknown. N. Australia. Mount Humphries, M‘Douall Stuart. 196. A. venulosa, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 866. A tall shrub, softly pubescent or glabrous and sometimes slightly viscid ; branchlets angular. Phyilodia falcate-oblong or lanceolate, narrowed at each end, mostly 2 to 3 in. long, + to 4 in. broad, very rigid, many-nerved and strongly veined, with - about 3 nerves more prominent than the rest. Peduncles in pairs or clusters or on a very short common peduncle, mostly 2 to 4 lines long, rather thick, tomentose, bearing each a ONNE head of above 20 flowers, mostly Tan Sepals narrow-spathulate, usually uņited below the middle. Petals smooth. Pod linear, straight or curved, pubescent when young, 1 to 2 in. long, about 3 lines broad; valves convex over the seeds, depressed, but not contracted a tween them. Seeds ovate, longitudinal, the last 2 or 3 folds of the funicle thickened into a concave or 2-lobed aril under the seed. N.S. Wales. Liverpool plains, 4. Cunningham ; head of the Gwydir river, Lada hardt ; New England, C. Stuart. 197. A. eyclopis, 4. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 404. A shrub of 6 to 10 ft., usually glabrous, with angular branchlets. Phyllodia narrow- long, nearly straight, obtuse, narrowed at the base, 13 to 8, rarely 4 m. long, rigidly coriaceous, with 3 to 5 nerves, and anastomosing almost longitudin veins. Peduncles solitary or 2 or 3 in a short raceme, bearing each a dense globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx turbinate, shortly lobed or toothed, more than half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, 11€. Pod flat and 4 to 6 lines broad as in 4, melanoxylon, but more corinceon curved or twisted, Seeds nearly orbicular; funicle thickened and richly baat from the base, encircling the seed in double folds. —Meissn. in PL Preiss. a W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, A. Cunninghan, Fraser, SS ; E and eastward towards the Great Bight, Maxwell ; Swan River, Toward, Drummont, n. 926, and others; Preston river, Oldfield. 198. A. melanoxylon, R. Br. in Ait, Hort. Kew. ed. 3, V. 462. a hard-wooded tree, attaining a very large size, but sometimes flowering Y under 20 ft., glabrous or the young shoots minutely pubescent joran a angular. Phyllodia falcate-oblong or almost lanceolate, 3 to 4 in. arg, the common varieties, } to 1 in. broad, obtuse or rarely almost acute, M pi narrowed towards the base, coriaceous, with several longitudinal aa we numerous anastomosing veins. Peduncles 3 to 4 lines long, few pass $ E short raceme or sometimes solitary, bearing each a very dense globular, the of 30 to 50 or more flowers, mostly 5-merous and often so closely packed m Acacia.} XL. LEGUMINOSA. 389 head that the calyxes cohere. Calyx more than half as long as the corolla, thin and shortly toothed. Petals connate above the middle. Pod elongated, flat, often curved into a circle, 3 to 4 lines broad, with thickened nerve-like margins, Seeds nearly orbicular; funicle very long, dilated and coloured from the base, very flexuose, more or less encircling the seed in double folds. —Wendl. Comm. Acac. 24, t. 6; DC. Prod. ii. 452; Bot. Mag. t. 1659; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 630; Hook. f. FL Tasm. i. 109; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. %8; A. arcuata, Sieb. Pl. Exs. and in Spreng. Syst. iii. 135 (by mistake attributed to Labillardière). N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, 4. Cunningham, Sieber, n. 459, Pi. Mizt. 593, arid others: Victoria. Rich soil in valleys or grassy ranges throughout the colony, except the desert, ascending to considerable elevations, F. Mueller. ‘ a _ Tasmania. Port Dalrymple and Derwent river, R. Brown; abundant throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Encounter Bay, Whittaker ; St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller. 5 The wood, known to the colonists under the name of Blackwood, and the less appropriate one of Lightwood, is célebrated tor hardness and durability. A. brevipes, A. Cunn, in Bot: Mag. t. 3358, from the single specimen preserved of the cultivated plant described, appears to be a variety of A. melanoxylon, with longer more fal- tale phyllodia, attaining 5'to'7 iñ. f 199. A, implexa, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 368. A glabrous tree, sometimes slightly glaucous; branchlets'terete or nearly so. Phyllodia ceolate-firleate, more acuminate, more narrowed at the base and thinner hin A. melanoxylon, mostly 5 or 6 in. long or more, with several slender - 'gitudinal nerves and fine veins. Peduncles few, in a very short raceme, more slender than in A. -melanoxylon, bearing each'a small dense head of nu- merous flowers, mostly 5=merous. Calyx scarcely half as long as the corolla, nate. Petals smooth, united to the middle. Pod narrow-linear, much curved and twisted, 2 or rarely nearly 3 lines broad, contracted: between the eds, Seeds ovate-oblong, longitudinal ; funicle dilated and coloured almost from the base, much folded under the seed, but not encircling in—F. Muell. 29 : l. Viet. ii, . Queensland. Moreton Ba i F. aie, y, Dawson and Burnett rivers, : E meS Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls ; northward to va eg C. E ningham Mount Lindsay, /V. Aill; southward to Shoalhaven river and Illawarra, 4. Cun- y A da + Yarra river, E a. Open river banks and .grassy ridges scattered over the colony’: A Bacchus Marsh; Snowy River, ete., F. Mueller: 200. A, harpophylla, F. Muell. Herb. Probably a tree, glabrous or i Young shoots Lena hoary ; branchlets slightly angular. PhyHodia ‘lanceolate, mostly 6 to 8 in. long, narrowed but obtuse at the end, ~ Marrowed at the base, coriaceous, pale or glaucous, with several not jf Prominent nerves and scarcely veined between them. — Peduncles slender, to in, long, clustered or rarely ina very short raceme, bearing each a-small ra r head of about 12 to 15 mostly 5-merous flowers. Sepals spathulate, Pera! As long as the corolla, free or’ slightly connected below the middle, a Mooth, free. Pod unknown. r 390 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. ; [ Acacia. 201: A. excelsa, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 225. A large forest- tree; branchlets slender, terete or nearly so, glabrous or rarely minutely pu- bescent. Phyllodia oblong-falcate, rather obtuse or mucronulate, narrowed at the base, 2 to 3 in. long, 3 to ¿ in. broad, thinly coriaceous, with 5 to 7 nerves, and smooth or faintly veined between them. Peduncles solitary, in pairs or clusters, sometimes not 2 lines, in other specimens nearly } in. long, bearing each a globular head of numerous (20 to 30) flowers, mostly 5- merous. Sepals distinct. Petals smooth. Pod straight, flat, about 3 lines broad, thinly coriaceous, the sutures narrow-edged or almost winged, not usually dehiscent but hardening over the seeds and readily breaking off be- tween them. Seeds ovate; longitudinal ; funicle short and filiform, neither folded nor enlarged.—A. Daintreana, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 6. Queensland. Near Lake Salvator, Mitchell; Peak Downs; F. Mueller ; Clarke river, Daintree ; also in Bowman’s collection. Very closely allied to, and perhaps a variety of, A, laurifolia, Willd., from’ New Calédonia and the Pacific islands, differing chiefly in the narrower phyllodia and pods. 202. A. complanata, Z. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 369 A tree, glabrous; branchlets flattened, bordered by 2 or rarely 3 acute . angles or narrow wings. Phyllodia oval or oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 in. long, 3 to lin. broad, thinly coriaceous, with 5 to 9 or even more longitudin nerves and a féw fine veing between them. Peduncles slender, about 3 mM. Jong, in axillary clusters often’ of 6 to 8 or more, or by the abortion of the upper phyllodia forming an irregular terminal raceme, bearing each a globular head of numerous flowers, mostly 5-merous. Sepals free, spathulate. Petals smooth, free. Pod curved, acuminate, very flat, 3 to 4 lines broad, the upper suture nerve-like or with a narrow border. Seeds oblong; funicle m Banksian specimens short and not dilated, but not quite perfect, in F. Mue ler’s specimens elongated, more or less dilated from near the base, and enait- cling the seed in a single fold.—4. anceps, Hook. Te. Pl. t. 167, not of DC. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; Wide Bay, Bidwill, Moore; Dumaresq river, 4. Cunningham ; Brisbane river, Fraser, F, Mueller, and others. N.S. Wales. Clarence river, Bechler. G. Dimip1aTa.—Phyllodia usually broad and often long, falcate or very oblique, with 2 or 3 prominént distant nerves and reticulately pennivez between them. Stipules minute or none. A These correspond with the subseries Dimidiate of Juliflore, differing in their capitate mi sear Ahad = are much larger and more oblique than in a ig tg ee Saaie pinescent as in 4. urophylla amongst Armate, whic _ 203. A. binervata, DC. Prod. ii. 452. A tall shrub or a tree, attans ing sometimes 30’ to 40 ft., glabrous, with slightly angular branchlets, 300% becoming terete. Phyllodia falcate, oblong or lanceolate, narrowed at end, mostly 3'to 4 in. lofig, with 2 or 3 longitudinal nerves and pinnately veined between them, the marginal gland below the middle rather compe cuous. Peduncles rather slender, 3 to 8, at first in an axillary raceme, after flowering the raceme often grows out into a leafy branch with the pe duncles at the base, each bearing a globular head of about 20 flowers, M05” 5-merous. Calyx scarcely half as long as the corolla, sinuate-toothed. - d Acacia.) XL. “LEGUMINOS&. 391 tals smooth. Pod long, flat and very thin, about $ in. broad. Seeds obo- vate, longitudinal along the ceutre of the pod; funicle folded and dilated under the seed but not surrounding it.—4: umbrosa, A. Cunn, in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 405; Bot. Mag. t. 3338. N. S. Wales Port Jackson or Blue Monntains, Sieber, n. 504; Nepean and Has- tings rivers, Fraser; Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; Clyde river, ©. Moare ; southward to Illawarra, in shady woods, 4. Cunningham, Huegel. Allied in some respects. to 4. penninervis, differing in the venation of the phyllodia, in the pod and seeds, etc. A. dineura, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iii. 130, from the Table Land, Upper Roper river, N. Australia, appears to me to be a form of the samé species, of a pale hue, with ra- ther less oblique and more obtuse phyllodia. The specimens are small and in frait only, with the racemes grown out into leafy branches, : Some specimens of Mitchell's have narrow mutch mort coriaceous phyllodia and very small flower-heads, but without the fruit it cannot be determined whether they are a distinct species or not. 204. A, latescens, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 380. A tall shrub or tree, glabrous, with angular branchlets. Phyllodia lanceolate-falcate, ob- tuse, much narrowed towards the base, 6 to’8 in. long or even more, with 2 or 3 nerves, and a few reticulate or almost arallel veins between them ; mar- ginal glands minute or none. Peduncles slender, + to’ in. long, in clusters. or short axillary racemes, bearing each a small globular head of above 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin, more than half as long as the corolla, with very short obtuse thickened lobes or teeth. Petals united above the middle, rather thickened at the tips. Pod unknown. N. Australia. Mayday Island, Van Diemen's Gulf, 4. Cunningham ; Capstan Island, Port Essington, Armstrong. ; 205. As sericatay 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ, i. 380, with a very minute almost mealy down, or glabrous and glaucous; ranchlets terete cr nearly so. Phyllodia broadly falcate, obtuse but nare Towed at both ends, mostly 3 to 4’ in. long, Y to 13 in. broad in the middle, on batren shoots much longer and narrower, with 3 or 4 principal nerves, of which 1 or 2 confluent with the lower margin of the base, transversely re» 3 ticulate between them, the outer or upper margin often sinuate. Flowers Rot seen. Pod very flat, glaucous, 3 to 5 in. long, 1 to 13 in, broad, sutures bordered with a narrow edge ; valves’ coriaceous, hard when ripe, with Mins = - Teticulations. Seeds transverse, not seen peřfect.—4. platycarpa, F. Muell, * omp Linn. Soc. iii. 145. Ladies da vik q Australia, Sounds, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham me valves of a ripe Me ei (foliage only) and Gulf of Carpentaria (specimens unripe fruits), F. Mueller, 206. Av flavescens, 4. Cum: ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i, 381, =- “ung shoots rg Fe a hoary or yellowish almost fleecy tomentum, Mon Wearing off; branchlets angular. Phyllotlia broadly faleate, acuminate, - Cmeate at the base, 4 to S in. long, 1 to'2 or even 3 1 broad, with usually Š nerves, the lowest carried on to'a terminal gland, the 2 others ending in Mall glands on the upper margin, veins transversely reticulate between eae ~ Owens in small globular heads, on short peduneles in an irregular ar : e, and apparently 5-merous, with narrow sepals, but very impe m Wr specimens. Pod straight or curved, very fat; 8 to $ ip. long, $ in. broad, E 392 XL. LEGUMINOS#£. [ Acacia. coriaceous, reticulate, with slightly thickened margins. Seeds transverse; funicle forming short slightly thickened folds under the seed, but not seen quite ripe. Queensland. Sandy Cape, Broad Sound, Northumberland Islands, R. Brown ; Percy Islands, A. Cunningham ; sandstone ridges of Kongili, Leichhardt. 207. A. retivenia, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 128. Densely clothed with a whitish woolly almost fleecy or velvety tomentum. Phyllodia obliquely obovate or orbicular, very obtuse, 14 to 2 in. long, thick and soft, with about 4 prominent nerves and transverse reticulations. Upper phyllodia (in the only 2 branchlets seen) very much reduced, with dense globular flower-heads in their axils, on short thick tomentose peduncles. Flowers numerous, 5-merous, the buds shorter than the acute bracts, but not seen full-grown. Calyx thin, shortly lobed and ciliate. Pod unknown. N. Australia. Short's Range, M'Douall Stuart. Series VIII. JuLirLora.—Phyllodia vertically flattened or, in a few spe- cies, terete, articulate on the stem, several-nerved or rarely 1-nerved, obtuse acute or pointed, rarely slightly pungent. Flowers in cylindrical dense or m- terrupted spikes, rarely, when sessile, shortly oblong. da I have united under this series all the spicate phyllodineous Acacias except A. tripleris, which has decurrent phyllodia continuous with the stem, and a few short narrow rigid- leaved Pungentes, which appeared to have no immediate affinity with the great mass of spicate species. Many of these are particularly difficult to distinguish without the fruit, aud although I have passed over as doubtful numerous specimens which I had in flower only, there are still several of which I do not feel quite certain of having correctly mate! the flowers and fruits, A. RietpuLa#,—Phyllodia flat, often short, straight oblique or shortly faleate. Spikes dense, except in 4, megalantha. Flowers mostly 5-merous. The species here collected differ generally from the following subseries in their 5- merons flowers, and from the Zalcate in their shorter, more coriaceous, obtuse, ges’ straight or undulate phyllodla, but some species almost pass into the latter subseries. species are all tropical, except the last two of the subséries. 208. A, amentifera, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iit. 141. Ape: rently diffuse, glabrous and perhaps resinous; branclies angular-stri.le Phyllodia often clustered, obliquely oblong, incurved, obtuse or recurved @ the end, 2 to 4 lines long, coriaceous, nerveless or very obscurely 2-nerved Spikes sessile, oblong-cylindrical, rarely as long as the phyllodia, ace roas ¢losely-packed flowers, mostly 5-merous. Bracts acuminate, exceeds the flowers. Sepals free, narrow-linear, more than half as long as the coro Petals smooth, free or readily separating. Stamens few (about 20). unknown. N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F, Mueller. 209. A, Wickhami, Benth: in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 879. A glabrous shrub, often very glaucous or resinous; branchlets angular-striate. Phylloaia numerous, obliquely ovate or falcate-oblong, obtuse with a sma glandular point, ravely exceeding } in., coriaceous, undulate, Ps nerves all very faint or 1 or 3 more prominent. Spikes pedunculate, or rarely 1, in; long, densely cylindrical. Flowers mostly 5-merops. all oblique A eT eee Co ee ee Acacia] XL. LEGUMINOSZ. 393 thin, broadly sinuate-toothed, fully half as long as the corolla, Petals united - below the middle, the midribs prominent. Pod flat, but thick and woody, ob- liquely veined, about 2 in. long, 2 lines broad above the middle, gradually tapering to the base. Seeds oblique, oblong; -funiele straight, gradually sg from the base into a narrow-turbinate aril, scarcely folded towards end, N. Australia. Swan Bay, N.W. coast, Voyage of the Beagle; table land between Victoria river and Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, > ad adjoining mainland, F. Mueller. The more or less prominent nerves, the glaucóus hue or resinous exudations, vary in different parts of thé same specimen. 210. A. lysiphloea, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 137. A rigid shrub of several feet or small tree, glabrous or nearly so, often very resinous. Phyllodia rather crowded, erect, obliqitely linear-oblong, linear or oblanceolate, mostly obtuse but with a short rigid straight or oblique point, narrowed at the , 3 to 1 in. long, thick and rigid, with 3 to 5 obscure or more or less minent nerves. Spikes peduiculate, } to 1 in. long, slender but dense. ers mostly 5-merous. Sepals very short, thin, shortly united at the Petals shortly united, the midribs prominent. Pod flat, oblique or faleate, 1 to 2 in. long, 4 to 4 in. broad; hard and almost woody, reticulate and resinous. Seeds ovate, oblique; funicle shortly folded and thickened into a small aril under the base of the seed. N. Australia, Hooker’s and Sturt's Creeks, F. Mueller ; islands of the Gulf of Car- Pentaria, R, Brown ; sandy plains and valleys of the adjoining mainland, F. Mueller. Some of the harrow-leaved specimens have some resemblance to 4. linarioides, but the fruit is very different, 211, A, linarioides, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i: 371. Glabrows "slightly pubescent and viscid, with terete branchlets. Phyllodia rather - Fowded, linear, obtuse with a small rigid but not pungent point, 4 to 13 in. long, not above 1 line broad, obscurely 1-nerved. Spikes slender but rather . » Shortly pedunculate and exceeding the phyllodia. Flowers mostly 5- E merous, Sepals small, thin, free or slightly connate at the base. Petals -amate to the nfiddle, with thickened tips. Pod linear, slightly curved, 14 | ides broad at the seeds and contracted between them, the valves convex, = -TBld, obscurely striate, with thickened nerve-like margins. Séeds oblong, | 4 longitudinal ; funicle with the last 2 or 3 folds thickened into an irregularly E E aa aril under the seed. $ OOO RRS E '¿astralía. € Islai of Carpentaria, R. Brown. This speci t E thee merous towers tad sats id AA A. lysiphleea, with the pod more allied a of 4. longifolia and its allies, but mote rigid. 212. A. stipuligera, P. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 144. Softly 4 tomentose or Sem beane nearly terete. Phyllodia obliquely fal- E or oblong or lanceolate, shortly narrowed at each end, with a small callous 4 ked point, 1 to 2 in. long, 3 to 7 lines broad, coriaceous, with 2, 3, or Very prominent nerves and nerve-like margins and numerous anastomosing or less longitudinal veins, the principal nerves often scabrous with resi- Ms exudations. Stipules brown, small, but more Conspiciious than in any other Milorg except 4. conspersa. Spikes nearly sessile, solitary or m pairs, 1 to y 2 in, long, dense and tomentose. Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx . 394 : XL. LEGUMINOSA. : [ Acacia, half as long as the corolla, thin with spathulate lobes, readily separating into distinct sepals. Petals united to the middle, tomentose. Pod (only seen one loose one) long, linear, slightly twisted, not 13 lines broad, coriaceous, with nerve-like margins. W. Australia. Sources of the Victoria river, F. Mueller ; in the interior, lat. 18°, “ Serub-Wattle,? M‘Douall Stuart. : 213. A: ptychophylla, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. jii. 142. Very resinous, otherwise *glabrous ; branchlets slightly angular. Phyllodia ob- liquely oblong, very obtuse, with a small terminal gland or callous point, 1 to 13 in. long, 2 to 3 lines broad, shortly narrowed at the base, rigidly coria- ceous, with 5 to 9 prominent parallel nerves without conspicuous intervening veins. Spikes shortly pedunculate, very dense, 1 in. long or rather more, Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin, more or less deeply lobed. Petals united to the middle, with prominent midribs, Pod unknown. N. Australia. Sturt’s Creek, F. Muellér, 214, A. stigmatophylla, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 377. Glabrous or scarcely hoary-pubescent when young; branchlets rather slender, acutely angled or compressed when young, soon becoming terete. Phyllodia obliquely narrow-oblong or slightly falcate, narrowed at each end, tipped with a prominent nerve or broad callous point, 14 to 3 in. long, 3 to 4 lines broad, undulate, coriaceous; with 3 to 5 fine but prominent nerves and very fine (sometimes obscure), longitudinal, more or less anastomosing; closely-packed veins between them. Spikes shortly pedunculate, ¿to or at length 1 in. long, slender, often clustered in the upper axils, forming a ter- minal leafy panicle. Flowers small, mostly 5=merous. Calyx loosely cam- panulate, sinuate-toothed, slightly ciliate, half as long as the corolla. Pe with prominent midribs, giving the buds a strongly striate appearance. unknown. N. Australia. Brunswick Bay, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; Victoria river, F, Mueller. 215. A. umbellata, 4. Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 318. A tall shrub, young shoots slightly hoary or silky but soon glabrous ; branchlets nearly terete. Phyllodia from oblong and scarcely falcate E obliquely oblong-rhomboidal or broadly falcate, obtuse with a broadly cal- lous or glandular tip, 2 to 4 in. long, $ to 14 in. broad, very coriaceot™, with numerous parallel nerves or veins, 5 to 9 more prominent and some © them confluent with the lower margin at the base, the others closely pack» fine and rarely anastomosing. Spikes sessile or nearly so, often clust he rather dense, 1 to 13 in, long. Flowers mostly 5-merous but sometimes merous. Calyx pubescent, sinuate-toothed or shortly lobed. Petals W prominent midribs. Pod falcate or nearly straight, almo aie and coriaceous valves, as in 4. tumida. Seeds ovate, oblique; funicle $10 dilated into a small aril of 2 or 3 folds under the seed. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Cleveland Be Cape Flinders, 4. Cunningham ; Seven-Einu, and Robinson rivers, F. Mueller, Signal , also Depot Creek, F. Mueller (specimens in flower only). Allied in foliage to 4- oe phylla, in fruit to 4, tumida. st terete, with convex E Acacia.] - * XL. LEGUMINOSA. 395 216. A. leptophleba, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 143. Nearly glabrous and probably resinous ; branchlets slightly angular. Phyllodia ob- liquely oblong-falcate, obtuse with an oblique callous or glandular point, narrowed at the base, 2 to 23 in. long, about 3 in. broad in our specimens, coriaceous, undulate, with 3 or more slightly prominent nerves and thickened -verve-like margins, the intermediate fine veins more or less anastomosing, almost reduced to closely packed longitudinal parallel veins. Spikes pedun- culate, solitary or in pairs, 1 to 13 in. long. Flowers dense, mostly 5- merous. Calyx fully half as long as the corolla, thin, deeply lobed or divided to the base into narrow sepals. Petals thin, the midribs much jess promi- nent than in 4. stigmatophylla. Pod unknown. N. Australia. Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller. I had, in the above quoted paper, referred specimens to 4. au/acocarpa, but having now been able to match much more accurately -> he flowering and fruiting specimens of that species, I find I was in error. The present spe- tesis much nearer to 4. stigmatophylla, from which, in the absence of the fruit, it is dis- ' a by the more coriaceous phyllodia, larger flowers, deeply lobed calyx, and smoother 217. A. limbata, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 145. Branches glabrous, very acutely 2- or 3-angled and glaucous, as in A. latifolia, but not - neatly so broad. Phyllodia oblong, faléate, obtuse or with a hooked callous Point, 2 to 3 in. long, 4 to 2 in. broad, thickly coriaceous, with several nerves, of which the lower ones are confluent with the lower margin at the base, the smaller veins reticulate but longitudinal. Flowers not seen. Fruiting spikes pedunculate. Pod flat, hard and thin, with thickened margins and obliquely veined, as in 4. aulacocarpa and its allies, but very glabrous and smooth, ob- tuse, 13 to 2 in. long, 4 lines broad in the middle and tapering to the base, Not seen quite ripe: ; N. Australia, F. Mueller. 218. A, brevifolia, Benth. Glabrous and somewhat glaucous, with Mgular branchlets. Phyllodia obliquely oblong, somewhat falcate, very ob- tuse with a small callous point, narrowed at the base, 1} to 2 in, long, 3 to T broad, very coriaceous with several prominent nerves, the intermediate _ Yehs irregularly reticulate or longitudinal. Spikes short, oblong-cylindrical, - Pedunculate. “Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx short, sinuate-toothed. tals smooth. Pod flat, thick, almost woody, with oblique veins and —ekened margins, very obtuse, 1} in. long, nearly 4 lines broad, abruptly contracted below the middle into a broad stipes. Seeds oblique, but not F 'Tipe.— 4. leptophleba (referred by me to 4. aulacocarpa), var. brevifolia, 5 Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iii. 144. land. Desert of the Suttor, F. Mueller. Allied to 4. leptophleba and A. ¡Queens ; tn os, differing in flower from the former and in fruit from the latter, and the vena- Of the digs phyllodia does not agree with either. aii 719. A, megalantha, 7. Mnill. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 143. Glabrous, mith compressed but not arriti branchlets. Phyllodia broadly semiovate or in olate-falcate, obtuse, narrowed towards the base, 2 to 4 in. long, $ tol ii, rather thick, coriaceous with 3 to 7 prominent nerves, and more or ee distinet parallel veins between them. Spikes pedunculate, solitary or in Mis, 1 to 1} in. long, with a stout, rhachis. Flowers distiuct or distant, PT m 396 XL. LEGUMINOSA. + ó [ Acacia, larger than in any other Acacia, the oblong buds 2 lines long before expand- ing, mostly 5-merous. Calyx shortly campanulate, toothed. Petals united at the base but readily separating, smooth, with thickened hood-shaped tips and inflexed points. Pod unknown. N. Australia. Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller. 220. A. gonoclada, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 140. Glabrous and glaucous, brauchlets stout, with 2 or 3 much raised acute angles. Phyl- lodia lanceolate-oblong, slightly falcate, obtuse with oblique elandular tips, obliquely narrowed towards the base, 3 to 4 in. long, 4 to 8 lines broad, co- riaceous, with 2 or 3 mote prominent nerves almost confluent with the lower edge near the base, and numerous fine parallel veins scarcely anastomosing and not very closely packed. Spikes shortly pedunculate, oblong-cylindrical, dense, about 4 in. long. Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx half as long as the corolla, shortly toothed. Petals distinct, smooth, without prominent mid- rids. Pod narrow-linear; straight, 1 to 1} in. long, 14 lines broad, thin and flat with nerve-like margins. Seeds longitudinal; funicle dilated aud folded under the seed, but not ripe in our specimens. N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller. Allied in some respects to A. Cunning- hamii, but with the straighter more coriaceous phyllodia of the preceding species. 221. A, pycnostachya, F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 33. An erect shrub, glabrous and sometimes glaucous ; branchlets stout with acutely raised angles. Phyllodia oblong-lanceolate, oblique, straight or slightly falcate, obtuse oF with a recurved callous tip, mostly about 3 in. rarely 4 in: long, + to qu broad, rigidly coriaceous, with many fine nerves, 3 or 4 rather more promi- nent, the smaller ones scarcely anastomosing. Spikes sessile, solitary or 2 oF 3 together, thickly cylindrical, 1 to 14 in. long, very dense. Flowers most 5-merous. Calyx sinuate-toothed, not half as long as the corolla. Petals united at the base, rather rigid but smooth. Pod narrow-linear, erect, flat with thickened margins and longitudinal seeds, but not seen ripe. » : N. S. Wales. New England, near Tenterfield, abundant at an elevation of 1000 to - 1500 ft., C. Stuart. The foliage is that of some forms of 4. longifolia, var. Sophora, Ld the inflorescence and flowers are quite distinct. 222. A. subtilinervis, F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 32, and Fragm. iv. 8. An erect glabrous shrub, branchlets terete or nearly so and somewhat resinous. Phyllodia lanéeolate, narrowed at both ends but not falcate, with a callous often incurved point, 2 to 4 in. long, 3 to 6 lines wide, coriaceous, with a slightly prominent central nerve and several parallel veins, very fine and a most transparent, but neither closely packed nor prominent. Spikes shorty pedunculate, solitary or in pairs, rather dense, 4 in. long or rather mot Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx sinuate-toothed, fully half as long 25 -| corolla. Petals with a slightly prominent midrib. Pod unknown. — = j o ia Granite hills about Mount Imlay, F. Mueller (a single specimen ™ pes or falcate, B. TerRaMERÆ:—-Phyllodi i inate A Phyllodia flat, coriaceous or thin, straight Y wers several-nerved or 1-nerved when very narrow. Spikes often loose. 4-merous. Seeds longitudinal. „i In foliage this subseries connects the Rigidule with the Falcate, differing apes the flowers almost universally pe a Acacia. XL. LEGUMINOSAE. 397 223. A. cochliocarpa, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855,10. Glabrous and very rigid, apparently viscid when young; branchlets slightly angular, soon terete. Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, somewhat falcate, mostly acuminate, but not pungent, narrowed at the base, 2 to 4 in. long, 2 to 4 lines broad, very rigid, with 5 to 7 very prominent nerves, the central one usually thick and the margins often, but not always, much raised. Spikes sessile, solitary or in pairs, 4 to 2 in. long. Flowers dense, mostly 4-merous. Sepals narrow- spathulate, ciliate, distinct. Petals united at the base. Pod glabrous, spirally twisted into a dense compact cylindrical coil of about 4 lines diameter ; valves. coriaceous, flat, with thickened margins. Seeds ovate, last 2 or 3 folds of the funicle dilated into an aril nearly as large as the seed, but under it. w. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 6, also in the 8rd Coll. 224. A. Dallachiana, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 1, and Pl. Vict. ii. 32. A tree of 20 to 30 ft., glabrous, with angular usually glaucous branchlets. 4 Phyllodia lanceolate-falcate, obtuse or with a callous point, much and obliquely uatrowed towards the base, 3 to 6 in. long, often 1 in. broad in the middle, coriaceous, with 2 to 5 or 6 more or less prominent primary nerves and con- spicuously reticulate between them. Spikes usually in pairs, sessile, cylin- trical, 1 to 14 in. long. Bracts peltate, remarkably conspicuous and densely -imbricate with the flower buds. Flowers mostly 4-merous. Calyx obtusely : toothed, more than half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, united to the middle, with rather prominent midribs. Pod linear, straight or nearly so, 2 to % lines broad; valves convex over the seeds, flat and narrower between E Seeds ovoid, longitudinal, the last 2 or 3 folds of the funicle much 7 dilated, the last forming a cup-shaped aril under the seed. ; pa dictoria. Between granite blocks on the summits of the Buffalo ranges, at an elevation 4000 to 4500 ft., F. Mueller. 225, A, alpina, F. Muell, Fragin. iii. 129, A low divaricate glabrous rob, nearly allied to the var. Seance of A. longifolia, and included by F. ueller (PI. Vict. ii. 31) amongst the varieties of the latter species, but the bit and foliage appear too different to adopt that view in the absence of in- ~ “mediates, Branchlets acutely angular or flattened. Phyllodia broadly m , "y obliquely obovate, $ to 14 in. long, very obtuse or rarely with a smal Pque point, coriaceous, finely 3- or 4-nerved, with, numerous fine reticula- . a Spikes very short and few-flowered. Pod narrow. Flowers and fruit Ise as 1 ifoli E a: plateau of Mount Welling- , ton, Pa. summits of Mount Useful, and northern get A longifolia, Willd. Spec. Pl. iv. 1052. An erect shrub, some- Ea gah and bushy, but attaining often a considerable size or growing into A Seg tree, glabrous or slightly pubescent when young ; branchlets angular. -— Fhyllodia from broadly oblong to oblong-lanceolate or linear, very obtuse or oe acuminate, usually narrowed towards the base, with 2 to 5 pri e ¿0 Prominent longitudinal nerves and conspicuously or faintly reticn ee e- EEN them, varying in length from 2 to 3 in. in some varieties, to 5 or 6 In Spikes axillary, loose and interrupted, flowers not imbricate, almost 398 XL. LEGUMINOS£. (Acacia. always 4-merous. Calyx very short, toothed. Petals smooth, united at the base or sometimes quite separating. Pod linear, often several in. long, 2 to _ 4 lines broad or rarely more; valves coriaceous, convex over the seeds, usually contracted between them. Seeds longitudinal, often distant, funicle not much folded, thickened almost from the base into a turbinate almost cup- shaped aril at the base of the seed, and sometimes nearly as large. —F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 30. Queensland. Moreton Bay, 4. Cunningham. : N.S. Wales. Port Jackson and Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, and others; northward to Clarence river, Beck/er ; and New England, C. Stuart; southward to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. Victoria. Chiefly in the eastern and southern parts of the colony, F. Mueller. Tasmania. Common in various places throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Chiefly near the coast, R. Brown and others. : Under the name of A. longifolia, I have followed F. Mueller in including the following forms, which, different as they generally appear, are connected by such a gradual chain of ‘intermediates that they cannot be separated by any positive characters, excepting perhaps the first which seems to have a much broader pod, but is as yet not sufficiently known. a. phlebophylla, F. Muell. PL. Vict. ii. 31. Phyllodia resembling those of the var. So phore, but more coriaceous, often above 14 in. broad, very prominently reticulate. P nearly 3 in. broad, much flatter and less contracted between the seeds than in the other varieties.— Fissures of granite boulders on Mount Buffalo, Victoria, at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 ft., F. Mueller. y b. Sophore, F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 30. Phyllodia obovate-oblong, very obtuse, coriaceous, about 2 or rarely 3 in. long, 4 to 1 in. broad, smaller veins reticulate. Calyx rather larger than in the other varieties. Pod usually much curved and thick, either slender and narrow, or 3 to 4 lines broad and very thick, — Mimosa Sophore, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 87, t. 237; A. Sophore, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 462; DC. Prod. ii. 454; Bot. Cab. t. 1351; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 110.—Often abundant chiefly on the Moreton Bay, N. S. Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and S. Australia. ; . ` ©. typica. Phyllodia linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, mostly obtuse, 4 to 5 in., or 0 casionally above 6 in. long, coriaceous but often less so than in the last, the reticulate vem- lets more or less elongated and parallel. Pod usually long and slender.— Mimosa longis Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 207 ; Vent. Jard. Malm. t.62; 4. longifolia, Willd.; DO. Prod. ii. 45%; Bot. Reg. t. 362; Bot. Mag. t. 1827, 2166; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 678 ; Paxt. Mag. yee (very incorrect as to foliage) ; Maund, Botanist, t. 77; F. Muell. Pl. Viet. ii. 30; 4. sifolia, A. Cunn, in Field, N. S. Wales, 345 (with narrow phyllodia) ; 4. spathulata, Port 4 in Flora, 1836, 420; A. intertegta, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 454 (with broad phyllodia). 30 Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 438, 439, 453, Fl. Mixt. n. pee others; Twofold Bay and E. Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller. | y ipps’ Land, ueller linear-spathulate, 4 d. mucronata, F. Muell. PL Vict. ii. 31. Phyllodia linear-oblong or often very narrow, but coriaceous and obtuse, scarcely veined besides the 3 to 5 nihe ger minent parallel nerves, mostly 14 to 2} in. long, 1 to 3 lines broad.—4. mucr paalt, ji. Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 68 (name only) ; Wendl. Comm. Acac. 46. t. 12 > Po: Pie 454; Bot. Mag. t. 2747; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 110; F. Muell. PI. Viet. ii 31; 4- i pendens, A. Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 372.—Tasmania, R. Brown; com throughout the island, J. D. Hooker ; also in Victoria on sandy heath-ridges wear river, Corner Inlet, ete., F. Mueller. usually e. floribunda, Y. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 31. Phyllodia linear or linear lancia ina narrowed at the end or acute, 3 to 4 or even 5 in. long, less coriaceous than 10 the fuer forms, the smaller veins less anastomosing and passing into long parallel veins et Willd. than the principal nerve.—Mimosa floribunda, Vent. Choix, t. 13; 4. floribum oe Spec. Pl. iv. 1051; DC. Prod. ii. 454; A. angustifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 163, Ve Jacq.; A. intermedia, A. Cum. in Bot. Mag. Ped tiA (with broader phy Hodin) si sata, Ten. Cat. Hort. Neap. 77.—Port Jackson to the Blue Monntains, n. 440, and others, northward to New England, C. Stuart; Clarence river, sa. 4 ` southward to Tambo river, Victoria, F. Mueller. > Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOS. 399 f. dissitiflora. Phyllodia often very long and narrow as in 4. linearis, but rather more coriaceous, with 1 or 2 nerves parallel to the principal one, and continued nearly the whole length of the leaf, connecting in some measure the var. mucronata with A. linearis —A. dissitiflora, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 371.—N. coast of Tasmania. _ 227. A. linearis, Sims, Bot, Mag. t. 2156. An erect shrub of several ft., glabrous or slightly pubescent when young; branchlets angular. Phyl- lodia narrow-linear, from 4, 5 or 6.in. long to twice that length, scarcely above 1 line broad, with a prominent longitudinal nerve, and occasionally an additional faint one on each side. Spikes loose and interrupted, slender, 1 to 2 in. long, quite glabrous. Flowers mostly 4-merous. Calyx very short, toothed. Petals smooth, united at the base. Pod linear, nearly straight, several in. long; usually about 2 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal, but not seen perfect.—DC. Prod. ii. 454; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 595; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm.i, 109; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 31; 4, longissima, Wendl. Comm. Acac. 45.t.11; Bot. Reg. t. 680. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 451, 456, and Fl. Mixt. 596, and others; northward to Hastings river, Beck/er ; Richmond river, C. Moore. A Victoria. Wet forest glens and periodically flooded river-banks in the E. part of Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller. i Tasmania. Circular Head, Gunn. fer Enumerated by F. Mueller amongst the varieties of A. Jongifolia, and certainly very near he extreme forms of the yar. dissitiflora, differing chiefly in the long narrow phyllodia, tither strictly 1-nerved or with only a faint accessory nerye on each side. C. STEN OPHYLL#.—Phyllodia linear-subulate or narrow-linear, straight or slightly curved, terete or flat but thick, rarely under 2 in. long or ‘above 1} lines broad. Spikes dense or slender, with small 5-merous or, in terete- “te species, often 4-merous flowers. a me species of this subseries, with very short spikes, almost pass into the series Ca/ami- van tad od one or two of the last species of the sdlciariad with brad broader phyllodia, are connected with the narrower-leaved species of Falcate. 228. A, aciphylla, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 627. A glabrous shrub with scarcely angular branchlets, very soon terete. Phyllodia linear-subulate, "gid with a short pungent point, 2 to 4 in. long, terete and minutely striate With very fine parallel nerves scarcely visible without a lens. Spikes sessile, nse, ovoid or oblong, not above 8 lines long. Flowers mostly 5-merous. lyx turbinate, verv shortly lobed, fully half as long as the corolla. Petals ily separating. “Pod only seen in a single loose valve about 1 in. long, 2 Anes broad, coriaceous, rather hard, slightly contracted between the seeds, Which were evidently longitudinal.—4+ leptoneura, var. (?) pungens, Meissn. in Ñ Preiss, = 12? : ; - Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 14; in the interior, Preiss, n. 976 (I have seen Preiss’s specimens). A. ephedroides, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1. 370. A shrub, With slender divaricate or flexuose branchlets, glabrous or the young shoots ty or silky-pubescent. Phyllodia linear-filiform, terete, striate with few : tg or obtusely 4-gonous, straight or flexuose, with a small straight or ked point, 2 to 6 in. long. Spikes sessile, dense, ovoid-oblong or shortly ‘Vlindtical, scarcely exceeding 3 lines, or rarely 4 lines long. Flowers mostly 4-merous. Calyx shortly lobed, not half so long as the co- 400 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [ Acacia, rolla. Petals smooth except a very prominent midrib, readily separating. Pod very narrow, but not seen ripe.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 18; 4. filifolia, | Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 369. W. Australia. Cape Porteraz, Fraser; Swan River? and towards Cape Riche, ge m. 302, 2nd Coll. n, 149 and 156; 5th Coll. n. 2; Darling Range, Preiss, n. | 230. A. Burkittii, F. Muell. Hérb. A glabrous shrub, branchlets slender, nearly terete. Phyllodia linear-subulate, terete or slightly compressed, with a fine usually recurved but not pungent point, 2 to 3 in. long, striate | with very fine parallel nerves, the central one scarcely more prominent. Spikes oblong, sessile, solitary or in pairs, 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers mostly 4- merous. Sepals spathulate, above half as long as the corolla, united ina q short cup at the base. Petals smooth, rather thick at the tips, but without prominent midribs. Pod unknown. 3 . S. Australia. Lake Gilles in the interior, Burkitt. Very near 4. microneura, but | the phyllodia scarcely broader than thick and the calyx different. 231. A. microneura, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 19. Young shoots mi- nutely ashy-pubescent, becoming glabrous, branchlets slightly angular or nearly terete. Phyllodia narrow-linear, almost subulate, with a recurv point, 2 to 3 in. long, 4 to 1 line broad, rigid, with numerous parallel nerves, the central one usually more prominent. Spikes solitary or in pairs, sessile, 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers mostly, 4-merous. Calyx shortly toothed, not half so long as the corolla. Petals smooth. Pod unknown. W. Australia. S. interior, Preiss, n. 942; Drummond, 5th Coll. n: 10. Differs from A. ephedroides chiefly in the more flattened phyllodia. | 232. A. cyperophylla, F. Muell. Herb. Tall, with curly bark and dark wood, branchlets terete. Phyllodia linear-subulate with a fine usually curved point, 6 to 10 in. long, terete or very slightly compressed, striate numerous exceedingly fine parallel nerves only visible under a lens, hoary with a very minute loose pubescence. Spikes sessile or nearly 0, oblong, not 3 in. long. Flowers mostly 5-merous or 6-merous. Calyx turb ingi about half as long as the corolla, at first shortly toothed but often divi nearly to the base. Petals smooth, glabrous. Pod unknown. Queensland ? Leichhardt. S. Australia. Stony ground, Cooper's Creek, A. C. Gregory. bes- 233. A. multispicata, Benih. Young shoots minutely silky-pu cent, otherwise glabrous; branchlets slender, nearly terete, whitish. Phyllo- - dia linear-subulate, with fine usually recurved but not pungent points, +3 21 in. long, rather rigid, terete, with few prominent parallel nerves an rows. Spikes sessile, solitary or in pairs, cylindrical, not very dense, in. long. Flowers mostly 4-merous. Calyx broad, short, thin, pubescens 4 shortly lobed. Petals smooth, at length separating. Ovary densely tomen tose. Pod unknown. A e w. Australia, J. S. Roe, Drummond ; Hill river, Oldfield. Differs from 4. e droides in the prominently few-nerved phyllodia, longer spikes, unribbed petals, ete. : 234. A. pityoides, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 135: QUH Ei brous ; branchlets slender, terete. Phyllodia linear-subulate, rather rigid : Acacia. | XL. LEGUMINOS E, 401 not pungent, 2 to 4 in. long, slender, terete and almost nerveless, or slightly, fattened and striate with very fine nerves, scarcely visible without a lens. Spikes usually in pairs, pedunculate, about 3 in. long, slender but dense: Flowers small, mostly 5-merous. Calyx very thin and transparent, deeply _ lobed or the sepals quite free but not spathulate, fully two-thirds as long as | the corolla. Petals thin, connate to the middle, without prominent midribs. Pod elongated, nearly flat, curved or twisted, 1 to 13 lines broad, slightly = Contracted between the seeds; valves thinly coriaceous. Seeds obovate, lon- ~ gitudinal ; funicle not seen perfect. WN, Australia. Sturt's Creek and Gilbert river, F. Mueller. Queensland. Ridges of the Suttor, F. Mueller. - 235. A. xylocarpa, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 370. : A shrub of 2 to 4 ft., glabrous and slightly viscid ; branchlets terete. Phyl- lodia linear-subulate, not pointed, 2 to 4 in. long, rather rigid, terete or rarely ttened to nearly 1 line in breadth, obscurely l-nerved. Spikes mostly in pairs, shortly pedunculate, slender but closely packed, 3 to $ in. long when ly out. Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx shortly lobed, about half as g as the corolla. Petals united to the middle, with prominent midribs. _ Fed nearly terete or slightly flattened, 14 to 3 in. long, shortly acuminate, 3 - to4 lines broad and thick near the end, gradually tapering to tlie base ; valves © » Almost woody, striate lengthwise, opening elastically from the end > downwards, Seeds oblique ; funicle straight, gradually and slightly thickened Yom the base upwards.— 4. orthocarpa, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. m. 136 N. Australia. Dampier’s Archipelago and Water Islend, N.W. coast, 4. Cunning- E ed ssam Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition ; Upper Macarthur river, Gulf of Carpentaria, » Mueller, Var. (P) tenuissima. Phyllodia longer and more slender. Spikes short. Pod unknown. 4 lenuissima, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iii. 135.—Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller. ; 236. A. gonocarpa, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 136. A shrub of 4 or 5 ft., young shoots viscid, with slender flattened or angular branch- S'S, at length terete. Phyllodia very narrow-linear, but flat, with a small Glllous or hooked point, mostly 13 to 2 or rarely 3 in. long, prominently o Jeved. Spikes shortly pedunculate, solitary or in pairs, 4 to 3 in. long, 2 Tay slender, but with numerous closely packed very small flowers, mostly y] merous; Sepals very narrow, linear, thin and distinct. Petals thin, co- bering to the middle. “Pod hard and woody, 1} to 2 in. long, about 3 lines E 3 Valves opening elastically from the end downwards as in 4. aylocarpa, a but with raised acute longitudinal angles as in 4. telragonocarpa. Seeds not =en, the pod obliquely partitioned for their reception as in 4. xylocarpa. — a py, Australia. Arnhem N. Bay, R. Brown ; rocky shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, = er. 1887. A. oncinophylla, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 15. Glabrous or lightly a ea somewhat angular. Phyllodia linear- a: > Straight or slightly curved, with a straight oblique or hooked point, ev, œ long, about 1 line broad, flat but thick and rigid, with 3 oct A Spikes shortly pedunculate, mostly in ci esa i i ore ae? 40 i 2 + r -10. TA e He del ln cultivated specimens rather loose i 6 402 3 XL. LEGUMINOSÆ. [ Acacia, mostly 5-merous, but occasionally 4-merous or 3-merous. Calyx lobed, some- times separating into distinct sepals, fuliy half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth, connate to the middle. Pod (according to Meissner) linear, slightly tortuose, 1 to 1} in. long, 2 lines broad, flat, shortly villous. Seeds ovate, lenticular, half embraced by the folds of the funicle.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 19; Bot. Mag. t. 4353 (the calyx overlooked). W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 187; Darling Range, Preiss, n. 914, 238. A. drepanocarpa, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 131. A glabrous shrub, the young shoots resinous, branchlets slender, slightly an- gular. Phyllodia narrow-linear, straight or slightly curved, obtuse, narrowed towards the base, 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 2 lines broad, witha slightly promi- nent central nerve and 1 or 2 finer veins on each side. Spikes slender, not very dense, 4 to + in. long, shortly pedunculate. Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin, with narrow lobes, half as long as the corolla. Petals connate to the middle, with prominent midribs as in 4. aylocarpa. Pod erect, linear, 12 to 3 in. long, 12 to 2 lines broad, flat but thick with much raised margins and obliquely veined between them, the almost woody valves rolling elastically as in A. gonocarpa. Seeds oblique; funicle straight, gradually thickened from the base, narrow-turbinate and cup-shaped under the seed. : N. Australia. Rocks of the S.W. shore. of the Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller; Whitsunday and Palm Islands, Henne. Differs from A. gonocarpa, as A. arida does from A. rylocarpa, in its broader and flatter phyllodia. 239. A. arida, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 370. Glabrous or Mi nutely hoary; branchlets slender, terete or slightly compressed. , Phyllodis = narrow-linear, obtuse or with a callous point, narrowed at the base, 2 to 4m. eo long, 1 to 2 lines broad, flat but thick, obscurely 3-nerved. Spikes shortly e pedunculate, solitary or in pairs, slender and compact, + to 3 M- be Flowers very small, mostly 5-merous. Calyx shortly lobed. _ Petals smog» without prominent midribs. Pod thick but flat, nearly 4 in. long, 3 lines a broad, narrowed to the base; valves hard, almost woody, rolling back elasti? cally. Seeds not seen, but evidently oblique. T N. Australia., Parched desert shores of Cambridge Gulf, N.W. coast, Ai Curing a ham. Differs from A. zylocarpa chiefly in the broader flat phyllodia. a 240. A. aneura, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxvi. 627, and Fragm. pE E Shrubby, often hoary with a very minute pubescence; branchlets terete E nearly so. Phyllodia narrow-linear, obtuse or with a recurved or oblique r lous point, usually flat but thick, 14 to 3 in. long, 1 to 1} lives’ broat, i varying from short and narrow-oblong to very narrow and almost terete, W ; out conspicuous nerves, but finely and obscurely striate under a lens. Sepals shortly pedunculate, 4 to 2 in. long. Flowers mostly 5-merouS. 9 0 very narrow, linear-spathulate. Petals smooth. Pod thin, flat, obliquely as long, very obtuse, narrowed at the base, 1 to 1} in. long, about transe broad, the sutures edged with a narrow wing. Seeds ovate, oblique or Yo verse; funicle with 2 or 3 short folds, expanded into a small: mem aril under the seed. N: £. Wales. From the Darling to the west frontier, Victorian Expedition: — Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSX. 403 S. Australia. Flinders Range, F. Mueller; Lake Gairdner, Babbage; in the desert interior, forming the chief ingredient of the Mulga scrub, M'Douall Stuart. Var. (P) stenocarpa. Pod arrow, turgid. Seeds longitudinal, with the fanicle much more dilated aud folded.— Barrier Range, Victorian Expedition. 241. A. brachystachya, Benth. Very near 4. aneura and perhaps a _ short-spiked variety, slightly glaueous or hoary, but without visible pubes- = tence. Phyllodia linear-subulate, slightly compressed, rigid but not pun- gent, very tinely striate, with numerous nerves scarcely visible without a lens. ikes sessile or very shortly peduneulate, ovoid or oblong, 2 to 3 lines long. lowers mostly 5-merous. Sepals very narrow, linear-spathulate. Petals smooth, often minutely pubescent. Pod unknown. N. S. Wales. Mutanie Ranges, Victorian Expedition. cd FaLcata.—Phyllodia usually long or large, more or less falcate, nar- -Towed at each end, with numerous parallel nerves or veins, either all equal or * More frequently 1, 3, or more, prominent and undivided, the smaller ones “en more or less anastomosing. Spikes slender, dense or rarely interrupted, ~eWers mostly 5-merous. ¿Some of the shorter-leaved species or specimens of A. conspersa, A. leptostachya, A. uda, ete., connect this group with the Rigidule, but the phyliodia are usually less coria- . oS ouger or more falcate, with more numerous nerves. Several species with very dif- : Pods appear almost identical in foliage and flowers. 242. A. conspersa, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. tii. 140. A shrub — 5 to 10 ft., with loosely pubescent branches and conspicuous though small _ Mown stipules as in 4. stipuligera. Phyllodia narrow-lanceolate, mostly fal- €, narrowed at each end, obtuse or with a small rigid or glandular point, to 3 in, long, 2 to 4 lines broad, coriaceous, often minutely mealy or slightly nt, with a prominent central nerve and often 2 less prominent lateral ones, and numerous very fine parallel veins between. Flowers not seen. Pod linear, straight or slightly falcate, abovt 13 lines broad, thick but fat until Mie and then the valves slightly convex and hard. Seeds oblong, longitu- nag funicle short, the last 2 folds expanded into an aril under the gees se Australia. Island f of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; and rocky sandy dis- seat the adjoining maison wpe Roper dan Limmen-Blight rivers, F. Mueller ; : Creek, Leichhardt. 243. A, doratoxylon, 4. Cunn. in Field, N.S. Wales, 345. A tall hrub or small tree, glabrous with an ashy hue; branchlets at first acutely gular, but soon terete. Phyllodia elongated, slightly falcate, shortly acumi- ey and often with oblique or recurved points, 4 to $ in. long, 2, 3, or rarely a lines broad, narrowed towards the base, rather thick, with numerous fine lin. erves, the central one more prominent. Spikes shortly pedunculate, ay or clustered, rarely 1 in. long, rather dense. Flowers mostly 5-me- is, Calyx sinuate-toothed, not half as long as the corolla. Petals with shty prominent midribs. Pod unknown. i Australia ? Daly Waters, M'Douall Stuart. In leaf only and therefore kà eensland, On the Upper Maranoa, Mitchell ; Moreton Bay, €. Moore. 4 iberia 8. Wales 5. Lachlan Gi Macquarrie rivers, the Spear-wood of certain tribes of the te 404 XL. LEGUMINOS#. [ Acacia. Victoria. Ovens Ranges, F. Mueller, specimens in very young bud. -F. Mueller, Pl. Viet. ii. 33, describes the flowers as 4-merous or 3-merous ; 1 found them all 5-merous in the spike I soaked, but in that very young state the petals cohere so firmly that it is very difficult to ascertain their number. bt 244. A. acuminata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 373. A tree of 30 to 40 ft., glabrous or the young shoots silky with an almost golden pu- bescence; branchlets terete or nearly so. Phyliodia long-linear, somewhat “falcate, narrowed at each end, from 3 in long and 2 or 3 lines wide to 10 in, or more long and then rarely above 2 lines wide, striate as in 4. doratoxylon with numerous fine parallel nerves, the central one more prominent. Spikes nearly sessile, not above 1 in. long. Flowers mostly 5-merous, larger than in 4. doratoxylon. Calyx longer in proportion and readily separating into distinct sepals. Pod linear, straight or nearly so, 2 to 23 lines broad, flat or convex over the seeds, somewhat contracted between them. Seeds * oblong, longitudinal, the Jast 2 or 3 folds of the funicle dilated into an an under the seed.—4. doratoxylon and 4. acuminata, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. 1 19; A. Oldfieldii, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 7. 4 W. Australia. From King George's Sound to Swan River and northward to Mur chison river, Baxter, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 99, 4th Coll. m. 135, bth Coll. n. 6, J. $, E «Roe, Oldfield, Preiss, n. 934, 935, and probably 945. Very near A. doratozylon and per- haps a variety, said to be similarly used for making arms, and the wood to smell strongly of : raspberry jam. : Var. latifolia, Phyllodia sometimes 4 lines wide.—Middle Island, on the S., coast, a Maxwell. E 245. A. stereophylla, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 203. Quite glabrous, even the young shoots, with terete branchlets. Phyllodia linear, often some what falcate, with glandular or callous tips, 3 to 5 in. long, 1} to 3 lines broad, narrowed towards the base, striate with fine parallel nerves as 14 acuminata, but thicker and more rigid and the nerves all equal or 1 or 3 rather : more conspicuous. Spikes very dense, sessile or shortly pedunculate, pus in. long. Flowers mostly 5-merous. Sepals linear-spathulate, ciliate, 1 we 2 slightly cohering. Petals readily separating, smooth, with slightly thi tips. Pod unknown. a _W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. m. 100. This may prove to be a marked Ye : riety of A. acuminata, if it has the same pod. po 246. A. signata, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 7. A glabrous straggling shrub - of 6 to 8 ft.; branchlets compressed or terete, glaucous. F hyllodia Za lanceolate, obtuse or with a minute callous point, 2 to 5 in. long 1 the e mens seen, much narrowed towards the base, rather rigid, striate with eo rous fine nerves, 1 or 3 rather more prominent as in the preceding a Flowers not seen. Fruiting-spike pedunculate. Pod shortly stipitale, en falcate, flat, coriaceous, with thickened margins, about 3 in. long 0” nalor a 3 lines broad, not contracted between the seeds. Seeds ovate, longit 9013 somewhat oblique; funicle dilated from the base, forming an of #9 folds under the seed. per W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. Foliage of A. acuminata, but the * different. y 247. A, delibrata, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. + «a deacia.] Branchlets hot seen. 249. A, : N. Mueller, e l: tetit? ° aen young both ends, 4 to -res and the nerve-like margins rather more prominent than the numerous fne veing between them, Spikes dense, shortly pedunculate, 1 to 14 in. long, Solitary my Ord XL. LEGUMINOSA. 405 slender, slightly angular, silky-pubescent when young. Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, falcate, narrowed at both ends, 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 5 lines broad in the middle, rather thin, sprinkled with loose silky hairs, with about 3 fine but prominent nerves, and finer less conspicuous and not very nume- tous longitudinal veins between them occasionally anastomosing. Flowers Fruiting-spikes with a rhachis of 1 to 13 in. Pod elongated, straight, flat with thickened margins, about 3 lines broad, the coriaceous _ Valves rather convex over the seeds, narrowed between them. Seeds not seen, but probably longitudinal, = N. Australia. York Sound and Port Warrender, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham. The specimens are very imperfect, but do not match with any other we have. The fruit is nearly that of 4. torulosa, but very much flatter and the phyllodia much thinner, ete. The bark of the old branches appears to peel off in shreds. y 248. A. oligoneura, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 139. Glabrous With angular branchlets. Phyllodia narrow-lanceolate, falcate, narrowed at oth ends, 4 to 6 in. long, } to 2 in. broad, with about 3 prominent nerves, avery few longitudinal less conspicuous ones, and the smaller veins more or Teticulate. Spikes pedunculate, in pairs clusters or short racemes, slen- t rather dense, about 3in.long. Flowers very small, mostly 5-merous. short, sinuate-toothed. Pod not seen. N. Australia. Victoria river and Macadam Range, `F. Mueller. Possibly the same as A. delibrata. torulosa, Benih. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 139. A tall shrub Or small tree, glabrous, with angular branchlets. Phyllodia linear-lanceolate, -Jalcate, with an oblique glandular point, narrowed towards the base, 4 to 8 m. long, 3 to 4 lines wide, coriaceous, with 3 to 5 prominent nerves and nu- Ta very fine parallel ones between them. Spikes solitary or in pairs or shortly pedunculate, + to 4 in. long, slender but rather dense. : very le - Flowers small, mostly 5-merous. Sepals narrow-linear, sp:thulate, ciliate, , te Sam united at the base. Petals nnited to the middle. Pod long, tka Mout 3 Hine broad over the seeds, much contracted between them. Seeds s vg; longitudinal ; funicle short, the last fold expanded into a small ob- liquely cup shaped aril under the seed. moniliferous, the valves thickly coriaceous, convex, oblong, and Sandy banks of Roper and Nicholson rivers, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. d. Dayman’s Island, Endeavour Straits, Y. Hill. A be distinguished from 4. julifera, A. plectocarpa, and some others, except by 250, A. julifera, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ.i. 374. A tall shrub or Mee, usually glabrous except the inflorescence ; branchlets slender, angular but soon terete. Phyllodia narrow-lanceolate, falcate, narrowed 6 in. long, } to 3 in. broad, coriaceous, with 1 to 3 fine or 3 together on a short common peduncle. Flowers mostly 5- Blabroy Calyx short, more or less lobed, pubescent, woolly or rarely almost - P“0TOus, Pod long, 13 to 2 lines broad, spirally twisted into numerous 406 XL. LEGUMINOSAE. [4cacia. coils either loose and irregular or elosely packed into a short cylinder; valves flat or slightly convex. Seeds longitudinal; funicle slightly thickened from the base, at first straight, forming 2 or 3 more dilated folds under the seed. Queensland. Cumberland Islands, R. Brown; Redd’s Bay, A. Cunningham ; Rock- ingham Bay, W. Hill; Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy. Very difficult, without the pod, to dis- tinguish from 4. doratorylon and A. plectocarpa. Phyllodia more falcate than in the former. Branchlets much less angular than in the latter. > 251. A. Solandri, Benth. A tall shrub or tree, glabrous or the young shoots slightly silky ; branchlets nearly terete. Phyllodia as in 4. julifera, narrow-lanceolate, falcate, 4 to 6 in. long, 3 to 4 lines broad, with 1 to 3 slightly prominent and numerous very fine parallel nerves. Spikes 2 ted in. long, slender, interrupted and glabrous or nearly so. Flowers distant as in ‘A. linearis, but much smaller and all or mostly 5-merous. Calyx short and truncate. Petals smooth. Pod unknown. zA Queensland. Bay of Inlets, Banks and Solander (Herb. R. Br.), and possibly aform with woolly calyxes from the head of Boyd river, Leichhardt, the specimens 1 Che I am unable to adopt for this species Solander’s ms. name of sa/icifolia, as there already exist an A. saligna and an A. salicina, 252? A. leptostachya, Benth. Hoary or silvery white with a very minute pubescence or nearly glabrous; branchlets slender, slightly angular. a Phyllodia linear’ or lanceolate mostly falcate, narrowed at each end but obtuse, 1 to 2 or rarely 3 in. long, 1 to 5 lines broad, straight or slightly oblique a the base, coriaceous and finely striate with numerous nerves all equal or 2 or 8 rather more prominent. Spikes mostly in pairs, very shortly pedunculate, slender, 3 to above 1 in. long, glabrous or nearly so. Flowers usually di tant, mostly 5-merous. Calyx short, truncate. Petals smooth, united at : base only. Pod not seen. oa Queensland. Newcastle Range, F. Mueller; Edgecombe Heights, Port orn 3 Dallachy ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Broad Sound, Herb. F. Mueller. Until the fruit a known the affinities of this species must remain uncertain. F. Mueller considers it as 8 ra of 4. glaucescens, but the phyllodia are quite different, and the specimens have more aspect of some of the species with transverse seeds. a (253. A. glaucescens, Willd. Spee. Pl. iv. 1052, and Hort. Berol. t: a 101. A tree attaining 50 ft. or more, the foliage generally ashy or a% 7 with a very minute close pubescence or the young shoots yelloy eee branchlets more slender and much less angular than in Á. Cuming Phyllodia oblong-faleate or lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, mostly aid a _6 in. long, 4 to near 1 in. broad in the middle, coriaceous, striate nae E numerous very fine nerves, 3 to 5 rather more prominent, the w 5 occasionally anastomesing, and all free from the lower margin from t de Spikes nearly sessile or shortly pedunculate, often clustered in the upper 3 4 1 to 2 in. long. Flowers distinct or distant, mostly 5-merous but occ ai. 4-merous. Calyx short, truncate or sinuate-toothed, pubescent or : tan Pod (if correctly matched) linear, much twisted or irregularly coiled; * 4545 ae hard, convex, about 2 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal.—DC. Prod. i. past 2 Mimosa binervis, Wendl. Bot. Beob. 56, quoted in Comm. Acae. 535 4. pe malla, Wendl. Comm, Acac. 49, t. 13 (from the figure and deseription) ; a Prod. ii. 454; 4. cinerascens, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 454; Bot. NA 8174; 4. leucadendron, A. Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1-22. os Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSA. 407 Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, 4. Cunningham, F. Mueller, and others ; between the Severn and Condamine rivers, Leichhardt. : N.S. Wales. Frequent on Hunter’s River, R. Brown and others; Nepean river, 4. Cunningham ; Clarence river, Becker, C. Moore; Richmond river, C. Moore; Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson, also Sieber, n. 448 ; Bent’s Basin, Woolls. 254. A. Cunninghamii, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 165, not of Don. A shrub or small tree of 10 to 20 ft., glabrous or hoary-pubescent ; branchlets acutely 8-angled. Phyllodia falcate-oblong or lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, mostly 5 to 6 in. long and 1 to 14 in. broad, or larger on barren shoots, with humerous parallel veins, 3 to 5 more prominent than the others, and 1 or 2 confluent with the lower margin near the very oblique base. Spikes 1} to 3 m. long. Flowers mostly 5-merous, often distinct or distant. Calyx short, truncate or sinuate-toothed, usually glabrous. Petals smooth. Pod long, r, very flexuose or twisted, 1 to 2 lines broad ; valves coriaceous, convex. s longitudinal, but not seen ripe. Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, 4. Cunningham, F. Mueller, and others ; sandy forests near Mount Owen, Mitchell. N.S. Wales. Hunter’s and Hastings rivers, 4. Cunningham. ; eae from 4. glaucescens by the very augular branches, the larger phyllodia and venation. Var. longispicata. nd still more angular. Phyllodia 6 to 8 in. long, 1 to 2 in. e mb seg a pre peas Ba Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 298.—Near Mount Pluto and Lake Salvator, Mitchell. 255. A. leptocarpa, 4. Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 376. Usually glabrous ; branchlets at first slightly angular, but soon terete. Phyl- falcate-lanceolate, narrowed at each end, 4 to 6 in. long, 4 to 8 lines _ broad, with 3 or more fine slightly prominent nerves and very fine parallel ones between them, rarely anastomosing, and not nearly so close as in several ied species, the interval between each several times the breadth of the vein. Spikes 13 to 2 in. long, solitary or in pairs. Flowers mostly 5-merous, — usually glabrous, not very close. Calyx short, sinuate-toothed. Petals smooth, united at the base. Pod linear, straight or nearly so, several in. Jong, 13 to 2 lines broad ; valves coriaceous, convex over the seeds, contracted tween them. Seeds longitudinal ; funicle with the last 2 or 8 folds dilated : vot an one cup-shaped aril, nearly as long as the seed, but embracing its vase only, ; et Queensland, Cape York, W. Hill ; Endeavour river and Cape Flinders, 4. Cunning ham; Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Port Denison, Fitzalan. 256. A, polystachya, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 376. Glabrous, eae hein ee but soon terete. Phyllodia faleate-sblong - lanceolate, narrowed at each end, 6 to 10 in. long, 1 to 13 ìn. broad, Very oblique at the base, with 3 to 5 prominent nerves, the intermediate ‘hes fine and numerous, but not very closely packed and occasionally anasto- Mosing. Spikes solitary or 2 or 3 together, slender, glabrous, 1 to 2 in. rs Flowers mostly 5-merous, not very close. Calyx sinuate-toothed, not je ' so long as the corolla. Petals united to the middle. Pod very flexuose, Mut not spiral, several inches long, 5 to 6 lines broad; valves flat, thinly » 'oriaceous, Seeds longitudinal in the centre of the pod ; funicle long, dilated . in Saline eee 408 XL. LEGUMINOSS#. [ Acacia. and coloured, the last 2 folds more than half encircling the seed, the next 2 extending along the other side so as nearly to surround it. N. Australia. Port Essington, 4. Cunningham ; and probably the same species, in flower only, islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, : Queensland. Port Bowen, 4. Cunningham ; Endeavour river, W. Hil. Very like 4. leptocarpa, but phyllodia usually larger and the pod and seed different. 257. A. holcocarpa, Benth. Glabrous; branchlets slender, terete. Phyllodia broadly falcate, narrowed at both ends and very oblique at the base, 4 to 5 or perhaps 6 in. long, 4 to ¿ in. broad, not glaucous, with 2 or 3 fine rather prominent nerves and very numerous, very fine, closely packed parallel veins between them. Spikes nearly sessile, about 1 in. long, slender but dense. Flowers mostly 5-merous, but sometimes 4-merous, small. Calyx deeply lobed, pubescent. Pod Jong and slender, straight or slightly eurved, nearly terete, longitudinally sulcate-striate, about 2 lines diameter. Seeds oblong, longitudinal, embedded in what appears to be a dried pulp; funicle short, scarcely folded, dilated into a short more or less oblique aril. Queensland. Port Bowen and Thirsty Sound, R. Brown. Phyllodia precisely Tike those of A. crassicarpa, but the pod very different (Herd. R. Brown). 258. A. plectocarpa, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1.375. Glabrous and often somewhat glaucous, with’ acutely angular branchlets. Phyllodia usually falcate-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, 4 to 6 in. long, 4 to 8 lines broad, resembling those of 4. julifera, but varying from 2 or ò m. long, coriaceous and nearly straight to above 6 in. long, narrow-linear aud thin, about 3 nerves fine but more or less prominent, and numerous closely packed very fine parallel veins between them. Spikes slender, not very dense, about 1 in. long, the upper ones often forming a terminal leafy panicle. Flowers small, mostly 5-merous. Calyx short, minutely toothed. Pe “smooth. Pod linear, not very long, usually 3 to 4 lines broad, coriaceous, a first flat, with straight slightly thickened margins, but becoming often vey much undulate between them, and occasionally varying from under 3 lines — os broad and quite thin, to almost as broad and thick as in 4. pachycarpa. aL Seeds ovate, obliquely transverse, the last 2 or 3 folds of the funicle dilated i into an aril under the seed. : poni N. Australia. Cambridge Gulf ’% River, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham; | islands of the Gulf of Diaa E Pipp meme al Roper, Seven-Emu, and Hitt = maurice rivers, F. Mueller, : a 259. A. pachycarpa, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 139- dto =f shrub or tree, glabrous and somewhat resinous, or the foliage glaucous, . A a minute pubescence ; branchlets slender, scarcely angular. Phy Hodia o A lanceolate or linear, slightly faleate, narrowed at both ends, 3 to 10 ™- long or even more, 2 to 4 lines broad, coriaceous, apparently almost nerveless, ; with numerous very fine parallel veins seen under a lens, and sometimes | 3 more conspicuous nerves. Spikes solitary or in pairs, pedunculate, 1% slender but very dense, about 4 in. long. Flowers small, mostly eee Calyx short, sinuate-toothed. Petals rather thick, united at the base. “a _ Straight and undulate as in 4. plectocarpa, but thinly coriaceous, abot ied lines broad. Seeds orbicular, obliquely transverse ; funicle slightly 10 ae -and dilated into a small narrow-oblong obliquely lateral onl; 220" Acacia. | XL. LEGUMINOSA. 409 - N. Australia. Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller. I had, in the above-quoted paper, re- ferred this plant with doubt to 4. doratozxy/on, of which it has the foliage, and of which the fruit is unknown, but I now think it more probable that the latter has the pod of 4. acumi- mata, and that this one is quite distinct, being closely allied to A. plectocarpa. 260. A. tumida, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 144. A glabrous tree ; branchlets terete or nearly so, often glaucous. Phyllodia faleate-oblong -or lanceolate, much narrowed and very oblique at the base, usually 4 to 8 in. long, 1 to 14 in. broad, with very numerous parellel veins or nerves, 5 to 9 of them more prominent, the others very fine, closely packed and very rarely _ Mastomosing. Spikes slender but dense, solitary or in pairs, the upper ones often paniculate, mostly 1 to 13 in. long when fully out. Flowers mostly - S-merous. Sepals linear-spathulate, ciliate, shortly connected at the base. Petals smooth. Pod falcate, with very coriaceous convex valves so as to be Nearly terete, 14 to 3 in. long, 3 to 4 lines broad, divided inside between the seeds. Seeds ovate, obliquely transverse; funicle short, the last fold dilated into a small turbinate aril under the seed. _N. Australia. Isle Lacrosse, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; rocky places, Victoria ‘fiver, Point Pearce, and Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller; Attack Creek, M‘Douall Stuart. The foliage is that of 4. crassicarpa, with the pod of A. umbellata. - 261. A, loxocarpa, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 377. Glabrous and somewhat glaucous, the branehlets scarcely angular. Phyllodia long, heeolate or linear, much narrowed at the base or at both ends, 3 to 6 in. ng, 3 to 5 lines broad, much faleate except when short, with several fine t prominent nerves and numerous closely packed smaller ones between , rarely anastomosing. Spikes slender but dense. Flowers very small, mostly 5-terous. Calyx thin, sinuate-toothed, half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth. Pod linear-cuneate, nearly 3 lines broad above the middie, ering gradually to the base; valves flat, hard, obliquely veined, rolling back elastically. ` Seeds obliquely transverse, very shining ; funicle very - Short, the last fold expanded into an obliquely cup-shaped aril embracing the A. Australia, S. Gou , A. Cunningham. The pod aud seed are n e of A. dr gol viele are an broader and falcate, with much finer 262. A. oncinocarpa, Benth. in Hook: Lond. Journ. i. 378. Glabrous, slightly hoary with a very minute mealy pubescence ; branchlets terete. lyllodia lanceolate-falcate, rather obtuse, but narrowed at both ends, 4 to 6 - MW. long, 6 to 8 lines broad, rather thin, with 5 to 7 fine, but rather promi- ‘Ment nerves, the lower ones often confluent with the lower margin of the base, and numerous fine parallel veins between them. Spikes slender, m pans Or clusters, pedunculate, 1 to 14 in. long. Flowers often distant, small, Mostly 5-merous or 6-merous. Calyx thin, loose, sinuate-toothed, more than a long as the corolla. Petals smooth, united to the middle. Pod flat, but thick, hard and woody, straight except a hooked obtuse point, about 4 lines oad, much narrowed towards the base, obliquely veined. Seeds oblong, obliquely transverse ; funicle slightly flexuose, thickened nearly from the base Mtoa narrow-turbinate aril under the seed. : N.A alia. Melville Island, Herb. Fraser ; Sims’ Island, A. Cunningham. N., Near x lorocarpa, with broader phyllodia and remarkable for the hooked pod. 410 XL. LEGUMINOSE. [Acacia. 263. A, retinervis, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 379, parily. Gla- brous or slightly hoary, with nearly terete branchlets. Phyllodia falcate-lan- ceolate, narrowed at both ends, 3 to 6 in. long, 4 to 6 lines broad, with 3 to 7 fine slightly prominent nerves, the intermediate veins longitudinal, very fine, erowded and much anastomosed, forming a dense closely packed network only visible under a lens. Spikes in pairs or clusters, shortly pedunculate, slender but very dense, 4 to 3 in. long. Flowers small, mostly 5-merous. Calyx with narrow spathulate ciliate lobes, above half the length of the corolla. Petals united to the middle, with prominent midribs. Pod unknown. N. Australia. Cape Pond, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham. The general aspect is that of several falcate Juliflore, but I cannot match the venation with that of any other species. The fruiting specimens I formerly referred here, have the veins much less anastomosed aud belong to 4. tunida. 264. A. aulacocarpa, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 378. a Slightly hoary or ashy-glaucous with a minute almost powdery down, which at length disappears; branchlets angular. Phyllodia falcate-lanceolate, nat- rowed at both ends, 3 to 4 in. long, about 3 in. broad, with a few slightly prominent nerves, the lower ones confluent with the lower margin at the base, and numerous smaller closely packed veins, rarely anastomosing. Spikes slender, loose, 1 to 2 in. long, tomentose-pubescent or glabrous. Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx with short broad lobes. Petals united below the middle. Pod falcate-oblong, flat but thiek, obtusely recurved at the end, 1 to 2 in. long, + to 2 in. broad, much narrowed at the base, hard, obliquely veined. Seeds obliquely transverse, not seen perfect. - Queensland. Port Bowen, R. Brown, A. Cunningham; Rockhampton, Dallachy ; Cameron’s Brush, Zeichhardt ? (specimen not in fruit). Var. (?) macrocarpa. Pods 3 to 5 in. long, Ẹ to 1 in. broad, much undulate. —Keppel Bay, Shoalwater Bay, and Broad Sound, R.. Brown. 265. A. calyculata, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. I- 379 Glabrous or ashy-glaucous; branchlets very flat when young, with O edges. Phyllodia falcate-obtuse, narrowed at the base, 2 to 3 in. long, about 3 in. broad, rather thick, with a few slightly prominent fine nerves and” numerous very fine closely packed parallel veins, rarely anastomosilg- Spikes mostly clustered, shortly pedunculate, slender, 4 to 4 in. long. very small, mostly 5-merous, -probably white (from Solan A. albiflora). Calyx short, sinuate-toothed, pubescent or villous. * cate-oblong, obtuse, arrowed at the base, flat but thick and hard and bi liquely veined, resembling that of 4. aulacocarpa, but not seen "pe. Qu Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Fitzroy Island, A. aa ham. Pod of A. aulacocarpa, with shorter and more obtuse phyllodia, and the brancher more flattened than in any other Ju/iflore of the same subseries. The pods in, Cunning’ herbarium are not attached, but carefully numbered to prevent their being mismaten’"" 266. A. crassicarpa, 4. Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jown. pu A handsome tree of 30 to 40 ft. or more, glabrous and somewhat glau i or hoary with a minute powdery pubescence. Branchlets scarcely 4 gin Phyllodia falcate-oblong, narrowed at both ends, 5 to 8 in. long, 1 "r broad, very oblique, some of the principal nerves confluent with the 40 margin at the base, and numerous fine parallel veins between them, gi Flowers | der's ms. pame Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOSX. 411 rarely or not at all anastomosing. Spikes solitary or clustered, slender, not very dense, 1 in. long or rather more. Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx thin, sinuate-toothed, glabrous, about half as long as the corolla. Petals smooth but with the midrib prominent in the bud, united to the middle. Pod oblong, flat, thick, hard, obliquely veined, 2 to 3 in. long, + to nearly 1 in. broad, obliquely truncate at the base, occasionally slightly twisted. Seeds = Oblique; funicle not seen. N. Australia. Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown; Goulburn and Sims Islands, 4. Cunning- ham; Point Pearce, F. Mueller; Port Essington, Armstrong ; Goold Island, M'Gillivray ; Sweers Island, Henne. Queensland. Albany Island, W. Hill. 267. A. auriculiformis, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Loud. Journ. i. 377. A small tree, glabrous and glaucous, with slightly angular branchlets. Phyllodia falcate-oblong, narrowed at both ends, 5 to 8 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad, like those of 4. crassicarpa, but the finer veins less crowded and oc- casionally anastomosing, the principal nerves, as in that species 4. polystachya and others, confluent with or near the lower margin at the base, Flowers + Not seen, unless some of the flowering specimens referred to 4. polystachya E ng to this species. Pod hard, almost woody, as in 4. crassicarpa, very much twisted in an irregular spire, with the outer edge often sinuate as in some Pithecolobinms ; valves obliquely veined, 6 to 8 lines broad. N, Australia. S. Goulburn Island, 4. Cunningham. Queensland, Albany Island, W. Hill, F. Mueller. E. DimivriaT.—Phyllodia large, broad, very oblique or falcate, with 3 or S more distant prominent’ nerves, more or less confluent at or near the lower margin at the base, pinnately net-veined between them. The phyllodia are nearly those of the Plurinerves dimidiate, but usually larger, more - gue aud more coriaceous, and the inflorescence always spicate, 268. A. latifolia, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 382. Glabrous and E glaucous ; branchlets with 2 or 3 very much raised acute or almost winged angles. Phyllodia obliquely ovate-rhomboid or faleate, 3 to 6 in. long, 14 to Žin. broad, with 3 to 5 nerves confluent at the base at or near the lower margin, which is often slightly decurrent, pinnately net-veined between them. Spikes pedunculate, loose, 1 to 2 in. long. Flowers mostly 4-merous. Calyx Very short, broad, truncate or obscurely toothed. Petals smooth, above 1 e long, united at the base but readily separating. Pod shortly stipitate, LE E, straight or curved, 2 to 4 in. long, nearly 3 lines broad, flat with = Merve-like margins, but not seen ripe. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; funicle Scarcely folded, thickened into an oblique lateral aril. ie = Australia. Islauds of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Arnhem’s Land, F. eS er. 269. A, holos A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 407. Hoary œ white with a an “silky pubescence ; branchlets with 3 much raised - angles, Phyllodia obliquely oval-oblong, obtuse or mucronate, 4 to 6 in. E long, l to 3 in. broad, or the lower ones much larger, with 3 or 4 — "erves confluent with the lower margin at the base, and piimately net-veine 412 XL. LEGUMINOSA, [4cacia. between them. . Spikes sessile, often 2 in. long or more. Flowers mostly 5- merous. Calyx small, shortly lobed, pubescent. Petals pubescent, united at the base. Pod long-linear, irregularly or spirally twisted, 2 to 23 lines broad ; valves convex. Seeds ovate, longitudinal ; funicle folded and dilated into a cup-shaped or turbinate aril at the base.—A4. neurocarpa, A. Cunn. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 168. N. Australia. Cambridge Gulf, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham; Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition ; Victoria river, F. Mueller ; Attack Creek, M ‘Douall Stuart ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, : Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Rockhampton and Port Deni- son, Zhozet, Dallachy, aud others; Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy. Var, pubescens, Y. Muell. Everywhere softly pubescent, even the pod.—Victoria river, F. Mueller. . 270. A. dimidiata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 381. Hoary with a minute pubescence or nearly glabrous ; branchlets scarcely angular. Phyl- lodia broadly and obliquely ovate-rhomboid, obliquely truncate at the base, usually 3 to 4 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad, but on some barren shoots twice or three times that size, with 4 or 5 prominent nerves more or less confluent | with the lower margin at the base, and pinnately net-veined between them. + Spikes sessile or shortly pedunculate, usually in pairs, 1 to 2 in. long. | Fiowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx angular, lobed, readily separating into distinct sepals. Petals united below the middle. Pod linear, nearly straight, 2 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 lines broad; valves coriaceous, very convex. longitudinal, ovoid-oblong; funicle short, thickened into a turbinate or liquely cup-shaped aril at the base of the seed.—4. dolabriformis, A. Cunt. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 169, not of Wendl. NN. Australia. Various parts of the N., coast, A. Cunningham; Victoria river and M‘Adam Range, F. Mueller; Port Essington, Armstrong, and probably the same species, in leaf only, islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. aii A. humifusa, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 382. Diffuse or prostrate, softly pubescent or tomentose; branchlets nearly terete. Phy llodia broadly and obliquely ovate-rhomboid or almost orbicular, 15 to 2 in. long and nearly as broad, or in luxuriant shoots nearly twice that size, often undulate, with 3 to 5 nerves more or less confluent with the lower margin at the base, and pinnately reticulate between them. Spikes sessie, oblong, dense, scarcely exceeding $ in. Flowers mostly 5-merous. C n deeply lobed, pubescent. Petals densely pubescent, united at the base. 20 linear, nearly straight, thick, and nearly terete, 14 to 3 in. long, 24 to 3 a broad, coriaceous, pubescent. Seeds oblong, longitudinal ; funicle with the last 1 or 2 folds thickened into an obliquely cup-shaped aril at the the seed. e Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller ; islands of the Gulf of UN cal Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Cape Cleveland, 4. Cunning ham ; Lizard Islaud, M‘Gilliv:ay ; Albany Island, W. Hill. Division Il. BIPINNAT A. aS le Leaves all bipinnate, most frequently with a depressed or shield-shaped gland on the common pétiole near the base, and often smaller glands on he parti Carpentaria, R. a Acacia.) XL. LEGUMINOS#. 413 thachises at or below the last leaflets, and sometimes numerous glands along the whole general and partial rhachises, but the glands often inconstant in the same species. Series IX. BOTRYOCEPHALÆ.— Unarmed trees or shrubs. Leaves bipin- nate. Stipules small or none. Flower-heads globular, in axillary racemes or terminal panicles. Pod (where known) flat. Seeds longitudinal, the last fold of the funicle forming a short lateral or oblique aril, with very small folds below it. The species are all confined to Australia. 272. A. elata, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 383. A handsome tree of 60 ft. or more, the young shoots often tinged with a golden- yellow pubescence. Pinna in 2 to 4 distant pairs, 6 to 8 in. long ; leatlets 8 to 12 pairs, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 1 to 2 in. long, minutely silky ; gland wart-like on the petiole, and often small ones at the last pairs of leaf- lets. Flower-heads globular, in racemes often 6 in. long, the upper ones forming a large terminal panicle, often silky with a golden pubescence. Flowers numerous, mostly 5-merous. Calyx fully half as long as the corolla, - obtusely toothed. Petals smooth, united to the middle. Pod 4 to 6 in. long, about 4 in. broad. Seeds nearly lenticular. N.S. Wales. Grose river, R. Brown ; shaded ravines of the Blue Mountains, 4. Cunningham, Miss Atkinson, and others, and southward to Illawarra, Shepherd. 273. A. pruinosa, 4. Cunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ, i. 383. Glabrous and glaucous, with terete branchlets. Pine 2 to 4 or rarely 5 Pairs, 3 to 4 in. long; leaflets 12 to 20 pairs, oblong or linear, oblique or Somewhat falcate, obtuse or scarcely acute, attaining + in. or rather more ; nd prominent on the petiole at a distance from the lowest pair of pinne, smaller ones under several pairs of leaflets. Flower-heads globular, often _ Mimerous in axillary racemes or the upper ones paniculate. Flowers nume- _ Tous, mostly 5-merous. Calyx obtusely toothed. Pod not seen.—A. schi- noides, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 383. 5 ; Peta Wales. Near Sydney and Liverpool plains, 4. Cunningham ; New England, 274. A. spectabilis, 4. Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ.i. 383. Atal Seah lobos and glaucous, or the branchlets and petioles shortly E hirsute, Pinne 2 to 4 pairs; leaflets 4 to 8 pairs, obovate-oblong, very ob- Use, 4 to 6 lines long, rather thick and obscurely veined ; gland depressed at the lowest pair of pinnæ, often very obscure. Flower-heads in axillary Tacemes longer than the leaves, the upper ones often paniculate. Flowers Mostly 5-merous. Calyx short, obtusely toothed. Petals united at the base only, Pod 3 to 4 in. long, about 3 in. broad, glaucous.—Bot. Reg. 1843, t. a6; A. chrysobotrys, Meissn. Ind. Sem. Hort. Basil. 1842, from the cha- Tacter in W alp. Rep. ii. 906. eo ti sland. Brisbane river, A. Cunningham ; between the Severn “ys Condamine TEA Leichhardt ; forest near Harvey’s Range and Maranoa river, Mitche A i win, es Between Lachlan and Moca grm, and forest land E. and Y. o Ugton valley, 4. Cunningham: New England, C. Stuart. ; att (P) Stuartii. Leaflets 10 to 15 pairs ta rather narrower, but glands br A ra - labilis —New England, C. Stuart ; between Byron plains and the M'Intyre, Leichhardt. 414 XL. LEGUMINOSA, [4cacia. 275. A. polybotrya, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 384. A tall | shrub, the foliage more or less pubescent. Pinnee usually 2 or 3 pairs, leaf- lets 6 to 10 pairs, narrow-oblong, obtuse, 3 to 4 lines long, rather thick with i a prominent nerve near the lower edge, the rhachis terminating in a recurved deciduous point; a gland at the base of the petiole, those between the leaflets rare and minute. Flower-heads numerous, small, in racemes much exceed- ing the leaves, the upper ones forming a terminal panicle. Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx short, obtusely lobed. Petals united at the base. Pod unknown. N. S. Wales. Boggy forest land of the N. W. interior, the most beautiful of all the Acacias, Fraser ; Gwydir river, 4. Cunningham ; near Welliugton, C. Moore. i - Var. foholosa. Softly pubescent. Pinnæ 4 to 6 pairs, 2 to 3 in. long; leaflets 15 to 25 pairs, 3 to 6 lines long and less obtuse. : Queensland. Burnett river, F. Mueller; S. part of the colony, Bowman ; limestone hills, Leichhardt; Ipswich, Nernst. 276. A. discolor, Willd. Spec. Pl. iv. 1068. A tall shrub or tree, branchlets terete or angular, glabrous or pubescent. Pinne 2 to 6 pairs, leatlets 10 to 15 pairs, oblong, obtuse or acute, 3 to 4 lines long, rather firm, 1-nerved, glabrous, pale underneath; gland usually large on the petiole and a few small ones at the upper pairs of leaflets. “Flower-heads in axillary racemes, the upper racemes forming a terminal panicle; flowers 6 to 15 m the head, rather large, 5-merous. Calyx short, broadiy lobed, ciliate. Petals rather rigid, with prominent midribs, striate in the bud. Pod 1 to 3 in. long, 5 to 6 lines broad. Seeds longitudinal; funicle filiform.—Mimosa discolor, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 235; M. paniculata, Wendl. Bot. Bèob. 575. M. botry- cephala, Vent. Hort. Cels, t. 1; Acacia botrycephala, Dest. Cat. Hort. Par. ed. 3, 300; 4. discolor, DC. Prod. ii. 468; Bot. Mag. t. 1750; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 601; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 111; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 34; 4. ma- ritima, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 384 (with more glabrous and angu — lar branchlets); 4. Sieberiana, Scheele in Linnea, xvii. 337. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 454, and others; Macleay river, Fraser. y Victoria. Heath ground as well in the lowlands as in the mountains of Gipps Land, F. Mueller. ñ id - Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown. Common near the seacoast in various 10 ealities, J. D. Hooker, E is wu Var. (?) angustifolia, Branches nearly terete, leaflets linear-oblong, slightly faleate and , ather more numerous.—Port Jackson, Caley, R. Brown. he 277. A. decurrens, Willd. Spec. Pl. iv. 1072. A handsome tree, gl brous or more or less tomentose-pubescent ; branches more or less prom nently angled, sometimes almost winged. Pinne § to 15 pairs or aoe” A even wore, rarely reduced to 5 or 6, leaflets very numerous (30 to 40 ie E or even more), linear, from under 2 lines to nearly 5 lines long, according A the variety. Flower-heads small, globular in axillary racemes, the upper 0 forming a terminal panicle. Flowers 20 to 30 in the head, mostly lesen Cont short, broadly lobed, ciliate. Petals with slightly prominent pra : A usually 3 to 4 in. long, about 1 in. broad or rather more, more pas q contracted between the seeds. Seeds ovate.—F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 35. Queensland. Plains of the Condamine, Leichhardt ; Moreton Bay, C. Stuart. Acacia. | XL. LEGUMINOSA, 415 N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 436, 460, aud others; northward to Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; New England, C. Stwart. ia. Frequent along river banks, in valleys, etc., ascending to subalpine eleva- tions, forming the main underwood in Eucalyptus forests, F. Mueller. Tasmania. Abundant throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Mount Gambier, F. Mueller. ; Of this, the Black or Green Wattle of the colonists, the following forms appear at first sight very distinct, but pass into each other by many gradations. 4, normalis. Glabrous or the young shoots slightly tomentose-pubescent. Leaflets long tnd narrow, usually 3 to 4 lines; glands numerous along the primary rhachis.— Mimosa decurrens, Wendl. Bot. Beob. 57; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 61; 4. decurrens, DC. Prod. ii, 410; A. angulata, Desv. Journ. Bot. 1814, ii. 68; DC. Prod. ii. 468; A. sulcipes, Sieb. PL, Exs.; 4, adenophora, Spreng. Syst. iii. 140.—Chiefly about Port Jackson, E b. mollis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.371. Foliage softly tomentose-pubescent, the indumentum - Wsuming a golden-yellow tinge on the young shoots. Leaflets 2 to 3 lines long, obtuse ; glands numerous along the primary rhachis.—4. mollissima, Willd. Enum. 1053 3 DC. Prod. 470; Sweet, Fl. Austral. t. 12; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 117.—The only form in Tasmania and the most common one in Victoria ; less frequent in the northern districts of N.S. Y ales, Some of Beckler’s specimens from Warwick have the numerous glands of this form with the Very small leaflets of the following. : e. pauciglandulosa, Y. Muell, Pubescent but not so softly so as in the var. mollis, and metimes almost hirsute, with the same golden-yellow tinge on the young shoois. Leaflets Small, often under 2 lines; glands few, often only under the last 1 or 2 pairs of pr... ew England, Clarence and Hastings rivers, Moreton Bay, ete.; also between Archer's and enzie’s stations in moist places, Leichhardt. E Var, (?) Leichhardtii. More or less hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaflets small, nar- tow; glands few.— Between Archer’s station and Birou and towards the Buny a, Leic! hardt. iis seems to connect in some measure 4. decurrens with A. pubescens, but it has the nu- merous pinnæ of the former. . 278. A. dealbata, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 445. A handsome tree, ly resembling the var. mollis of 4. decurrens, and to be added perhaps the varieties of that species as proposed by F. Mueller, but the branches and Sage are very glaucous or hoary with a minute pubescence not assuming ; golden tinge on the young shoots. Pinna usually 10 to 20 pairs, leaflets 3 lo 40 pairs, linear, crowded, 2 to 3 lines long; glands usually numerous. < Ower-heads small, in axillary racemes paniculate at the ends of branches, as MA. decurrens, Pod broader, not contracted between the seeds and more - Blaucous,—DC. Prod. ii. 470; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1928; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. — i A. irrorata, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. iii. se ias -S. W; ins, Sieber, n. 446; ba Mac- pl of all the ena Siting Mestery into the interior, 4. Cunningham, Fraser, Ts. Teng Storia. Mostly on river banks or in valleys, flowering usually earlier than 4. decur- Tet mollis, F. Mueller. es oa 4 ‘asmania. Port Dalrymple, Derwent river, R. Brown ; abundant int el a TD Ei decurrens, var. mollis, flowering at the same time, but universally distinguished, J. 4 This, the Silver Wi Peg “tatinolv united with 4. decurrens by F. ; ttle of the colonists, is unhesitatingly um 5 a 3J. D. Bikes pa it é sufficiently distinct, although not easy SORT of the d specimens. The shape of the pod is different as far as known, specimen} ~ "€ Several forms of A. decurrens, from many stations, are in flower only. oe Ping A, cardiophylla, 4. Qunn.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. sapi i. iy a sal shrub?, pubescent with short rather rigid hairs, po cap a te A “ely angled, Pinnæ 12 to 15 pairs, 3 or 4 lines or the term 416 XL. LEGUMINOS®. [ Acacia. nearly 3 in. long; the common petiole 1 to 2 in. ; leaflets 6 to 10 pairs, ovate or almost cordate, 4 to $ line long; glands few and minute. Flower-heads small, in axillary racemes, each with above 20 flowers, mostly 5-merous. Ca- lyx turbinate, shortly lobed, ciliate. Petals glabrous, with prominent mid- ribs, but scarcely fully out in the specimens seen. Pod unknown. N. S. Wales. Eurylean scrub, N. of Macquarrie river, 4. Cunningham. 280. A. leptoclada, 4. Cunn. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 385. A shrub, either glabrous and somewhat glaucous or hispid with scattered short stiff hairs. Pinne 3 to 5 pairs, 3 to 4 lines long, on a common petiole of 4 to + in. ending in a recurved point; leaflets 6 to 10 pairs, oblong, coriaceous, 2 to 12 lines long ; glands several, usually small. Flower-heads small, hispid with long bristly hairs proceeding from the bracts and sepals, in racemes longer than the leaves. Flowers numerous, closely packed, the corolla not projruding in the bud, apparently ready to open, but not seen fully out. pals distinct, linear-spathulate with concave tips. Petals also free in the bud. Pod unknown. N. S. Wales. Liverpool plains, 4. Cunningham ; between Wyndham and the M‘In- _ tyre, Leichhardt. Var. (2) polyphylla. Pinnæ 10 to 12 pairs, leaflets 10 to 20 pairs. Flowers not seen. Queensland. E. coast, R. Brown. 981. A. pubescens, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v.467. A shrub, the branches petioles and rhachis hirsute with spreading hairs. Pinne 3 to 10 pairs to ¿ in. long, the common petiole about the same length; leaflets 6 to 20 pairs, crowded, linear, obtuse, 1 to 2 lines long, glabrous. Flower- heads small, in slender racemes longer than the leaves, and paniculate at w ends of the branches. Flowers not numerous, glabrous. Calyx short, Se | nuate-toothed, Corolla smooth, protruding in the bud, the petals united — Mimosa pubescens, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 21; Bot. Mag. t. 1263; 4- pro DC. Prod. ii. 468; Maund, Botanist, t. 48; Reichb. Ic. et Descr. Pl. t. 13 pas S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 466 and others, com A Serres X. PULCHELLÆ.—fTrees or shrubs, unarmed or rarely with axillary spines, without scattered prickles or stipular spines. Leaves bipinnate, PS pules small or none. Flowers in globular heads or rarely in cy lindrical spy on simple solitary or clustered axillary peduncles. Pods flat, straight or W7 cate. The species are all Australian. 282. A. pulchella, 2. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 464, MEE gant shrub, the slender branches quite glabrous or more or less hirsute WP spreading hairs, and usually armed with subulate axillary spines (abortive branches or peduncles). Pinnæ 1 pair or very rarely a single one, ON 1 mon petiole sometimes exceedingly short, sometimes 4 in. long, the mE of the pinnæ usually under 4 in. rarely 3 to 2 in. long; leaflets 4 to 7 pall obovate-oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, 1 to 2 lines rarely 3 lines long; oe ona long stipes between the pinne or often none. Peduncles axillary, 9 ing each a globular head of flowers, usually 5-merous. Calyx sina about half as long as the corolla, often readily separating into distinet od at . Petals with prominent midribs but not so striate as in 4. strigost: 200 dencia] XL. LEGUMINOSAE. 417 With thickened margins 1 to 2 in. long, 12 to 24 lines broad. Seeds longi- tudinal; funicle thickened into a small club-shaped appressed aril under the seed, with a short filiform fold below it.—DC. Prod. ii. 455; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 212; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 22; Paxt. Mag. iv. 198, with a fig. _ _ W. Australia. Very common from the S. coast to Swan and Murchison rivers, 2. Brown and others ; Drummond, lst Coll., n. 308 to 312, 2nd Coll., n. 116, 139, 156; | Preiss, n. 884, 886, 892 to 900, 904, 907, 908, 909, 911, 912, ete. A polymorphous - Species, especially as to the numbers and size of the leaflets, and hairiness, but generally known by the single pair of pinnæ and the axillary spines, which are rarely entirely wanting, A h often some branches are without them. ` It then resembles some forms of 4. stri- gosa, but the pod is quite different. The following have been distinguished as species, but Nt connected by too many intermediate forms to be separable even as varieties :—1. 4. de- _Mudala, Lehm. Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb.; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 21, quite glabrous, very - Spinescent, leaflets usually few; 2. 4. fagonioides, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 387, _ ea’rous or scarcely pubescent, leaflets few, small broad; 3. 4. grandis, Henfe. in Gard. Mag, with a fig., copied into Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 154, glabrous with more numerous Inger leaflets; 4. A. hispidissima, DO. Prod. ii. 455; Bot. Mag. t. 4588, copied into emaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 160 (4. lasiocarpa, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 43; Meissn. in Pl. - Preiss, i 22) ; branches very hirsute with long spreading hairs ; leaflets narrow ; pod hir- sue; 5. A. cycnorum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 388; Æ. cygnorum, Meissn. in Pl, reiss, i, 22 ; pubescent or hirsute; leaflets narrow, revolute, often very small; gland gene- wanting; pod flexuose, hirsute. . ; 283. A, Mitchelli, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 387. A shrub of few ft., the branches not much divided, nearly terete, softly pubescent, un- Pinne 2 to 3 pairs, the common petiole and partial rhachises pubes- nt, each usually under 3 lines, rarely above 4 lines long; leaflets 3 to 6 pars, oblong, obtuse, 1 to 2 lines long, rather thick. Peduncles slender, as ng as the leaves, bearing each a globular head of numerous small flowers, Mostly 5-merous, Sepals linear-spathulate, ciliate, free or united at the base. Petals smooth, united to the middle. Pod stipitate, straight or falcate, flat mith nerve-like margins, 1 to 2 in. long, 24 to 3 lines broad. Seeds ovate, longitudinal funicle dilated into an obliquely-oblong clavate appressed aril, “La short filiform fold below it.—F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. 33, t. suppl. 12. $ Mount Zero, Mitchell ; sterile ridges, Grampians, mouth of the Glenelg, y Iron-bark-tree ridges between Ovens river and May-day hills, F, Mueller. “St. A, pentadenia, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1521. A tall glabrous un- “med shrub; branchlets usually 4-angular. Pinnæ 2 to 5 pairs, 13 a = long; leaflets 20 to 30 pairs, very obliquely ovate, broadly oblong r mos thomboidal, with a broad oblique base, 1, 2, or nearly 3 lines g , i ma gns usually recurved ; glands below all the pairs of pinnæ. ee > ead =. istered, È in, long or rather more, bearing each a globular head of a eat toners, mostly 5-merous. Calyx not half as long as the corolla, shortly toothed. Petals smooth. Pod flat, with thickened margins, 1 to 13 1m. long, 25 lines broad ; valves hard, rolling back elastically. Seeds oa ct nal ; e thickened into a small club-shaped aril.—4. biglandulosa, m Pl. Preiss, ii. 205. VY, Australia, King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Drummond, “tan. 97, Oldfield. a 506. A. Gilberti, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 204. A glabrous unarme pol GON i i ches scarcely angular, Pinnæ 1 pair on a common ree abou 418 XL. LEGUMINOSZ: [ Acacia. 2 in., the rhachis of the pinnee often above 1 in. ; leaflets 4 to 6 pails, obliquely oblong, 4 to 6 lines long. Peduncles 2 or 3 together, slender, about 4 in. long, bearing each a head of 3 to 8 rather large globular 4-merous flowers. Calyx very short, truncate or sinuate-toothed. Petals smooth, nearly 14 lines long, united at the base. Pod flat, coriaceous, almost woody, acuminate, narrowed at the base, about 3 lines broad, with broad margins. Seeds ovate, longitudinal; funicle small, thickened into a very small oblong club-shaped aril with a short filiform fold below it. W. Australia, Drummond, Ind Coll., n. 157; Princess Royal Harbour and Mount Bakewell, Preiss, n. 887 (partly) and 891. Foliage nearly of A, nigricans, but flowers and pod very different. 286. A. nigricans, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 3, v. 465. A gla- brous unarmed shrub, branchlets scarcely angular. Pinnæ 1 or 2 pairs on a short common petiole, the partial rhachis } to 1 in. long; leaflets 5 to. 10 pairs, or fewer in the lower pinne, obovate-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 3 to 5 lines long, flat, or with recurved margins. Peduncles about 2 in. long, bearing each a globular head of 20 to 30 or more 5-merous flowers. Calyx not half as long as the corolla, truncate or sinuate-toothed. Petals rather thick, more or less conspicuously striate. Pod flat, 1 to 13 in. long, about 3 lines broad, with thickened margins, the valves rather hard, rolling back elastically. Seeds ovate, transverse, the last fold and part of the lower fold of the fumele thickened into a small oblong appressed aril.—Mimosa nigricans, Labill. Nov. Holl. ii. 88, t. 238, not of Vahl; 4. nigricans, DC. Prod. ii, 466; Bot. Mag. t. 2188 ;* Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 313; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 20; A. rutefolia, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 444. 4 W. Australia. King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, Menzies, R. Bom | Drummond, n. 314 and 5th Coll. n. 18, Preiss, n. 887 (partly), and others. nd 287. A. obscura, 4. DO. Not. 6. Pl. Rar. Jard. Qm 33.1.3 MS armed shrub, more or less pubescent or hirsute, branchlets scarcely angu Pinne 1, 2 or very rarely 3 pairs on a short common petiole, leaflets 5 to% | or rarely more pairs, from ovate to linear-oblong, 2 to 3 or rarely above d lines long. Peduncles slender, clustered, bearing each a small globular a l of about 12 to 15 5-merous flowers. Calyx short, truncate or sinuate- w a Petals somewhat striate. Pod flat, about 1 in. long and 3 lines broad, q. 7 thickened margins, the valves rolling back elastically. Seeds ovate, transverse funicle thickened into a small oblong-clavate aril.— Meissn. in 20; 4. Preissiana, Lehm. Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1842; 4. eycnorum, E Bot. Mag. t. 4653, copied into Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 322, not p Ben l W. Australia. Goose Isl : wn; Ki eorge’s Sound and Oy A districts, Barter, Drummond, Sad TON 158, fig l. 18. 5th Coll. n. 11, Praga 4 885, 889 (partly) ; eastward to W. Mount Barren, Maxwell ; Gordon river, from the 3 Closely allied on the one hand to A. strigosa, on the other to A. nigricans, dfen 3 former chiefly in the more numerous leaflets, from the latter in the hispid stems. l 288. A. strigosa, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 444. An uar mel shrub of 2 to 4 ft.; branchlets slender, terete, pubescent hirsute or Ys almost glabrous. Pinnz 2 or rarely 1 pair, the common petiole and Py rhachis each usually 1 to 2 lines long, leaflets 1 to 4 pairs, oblong, > slend to 2 lines long, glabrous or ciliate with short rigid hairs. Peduncles eee . Acacia.) XL, LEGUMINOS&. 419 longer than the leaves, bearing each a small globular head of 12 to 15 flowers, Mostly 5-merous. Calyx about half as long as the corolla, truncate or sinuate- = toothed. Petals striate. Pod flat with thickened margins, rarely above 1 in. Jong and often shorter, about 3 lines broad, the valves rolling back elastically. _ Seeds ovate, transverse; funicle thickened almost from the base into a small rl of 2 or 3 folds under the seed.—DO. Prod. ii. 466; 4. ciliata, R. Br. _ InÁit, Hort. Kew. ed. 3. v. 465, not of Willd.; 4. Browniana, Wendl. in Mora, 1819, 139, -= W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Drummond, Sth Coll. n. 16, Preiss, n. 902, and others. ; Var. Endlicheri. Leaflets 5 to 7 pairs, not ciliate, but much smaller than in A. nigri- 9M8:—A. Endlicheri, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 21. With the common form. 289. A, Drummondii, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 15. An unarmed shrub, _ Manchlets furrowed, minutely hoary or pubescent. Pinne 2 pairs; common - Petiole rarely above 4 in. long; partial rhachises longer, but rarely 4 in., ter- - ‘Mnating in straight points; leaflets 2 to 6 pairs, oblong-linear, about 3 to 4 long in the terminal pair, shorter in the others. Peduncles solitary, often ceeding the leaves, bearing each a cylindrical spike of 4 to 1 in. or rarely - Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx pubescent or hirsute, more or less - lobed, half as long as the corolla. Petals not striate but somewhat angular in the bud, usually sprinkled with a few rigid hairs. Pod not exceeding 1 in. long, out 3 lines broad, flat with thickened margins, glabrous or pubescent. : transverse; funicle short, thickened into a small aril of about 2 folds E the seed.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 23 ; Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 378 ; Bot Mag, t, 5191. A oy, Australia, i i ’s Sound, Drummond, 1st Col q Coll. n, 152, 3th reat Tate aa eee 7 901 ; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy ; Perongerup ranges, Maxwell ; swamps, King George’s Sound, Oldfield. tes major. Leaflets few, obliquely obovate or oblong, 4 to 6 lines long; flowers me m >—A, Candolleana, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 206. With the original form, especially ay George’s Sound, and often scarcely distinguishable from it. — Cpe Tada”) parviflora.. Hirsute. Leaflets small with revolute margins. Spikes E tiver, 0 loose, * Flowers much smaller than in the ordinary form. Pod unkuown.— ur = eld; W. Mount Barren, Maxwell. ; i x dá : (2) ovoidea,” Very hirsute. Leaflets small with revolute margins. ee Riche, Y 4 sob in. long. Flowers as in the typical form. Pod unknown.—Tow ape ha ERES IX. Guumirera.—Trees or shrubs, without scattered pros, ld or less armed with persistent spinescent stipules. Flowers A g t tay S$ or (in species not Australian) in cylindrical spikes on simple soli- e Or clustered peduncles. Pod very various. o PERN ana *Pecies of this seri in S. America, in Asia, and especially in Afi vo the t al remarkable for de diversity in the size of the stipular spines, same branch. ss 290. A, farnesi i i 3. A much-branched Eo o esiana, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 1083. _ qu, attaining a densidad size, quite glabrous or slightly ri om oles and peduncles. Pinne 4 to 6 or rarely more pairs ; Ta y 10 to 20 pairs, linear, about 2 lines long or on luxuriant shoots O E nger, Stipules converted into slender straight p al e 420 XL. LEGUMINOSA. [ 4cacia. in length, occasionally + in. long, and sometimes all very minute or almost none, the plant otherwise unarmed. Peduncles usually. 2 or 3 together in the older axils, each bearing a globular head of numerous 5-merous flowers. Bracts small, close under the flower-head. Calyx above half as long as the corolla. Pod thick, irregularly cylindrical or spindle-shaped, 2 to 3 in. long, indehiscent, filled with a pithy substance in the midst of which lie the seeds. Seeds ob- liquely transverse, with short fanicles.—DC. Prod. ii. 461; Vachellia farne- siana, W. and Arn. Prod. 272, with the synonymy adduced ; Wight, Ie. t. 300; 4. lenticellata, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iti. 147. N. Australia. N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition ; Sturt’s Creek and M'Arthur river, Y. Mueller ; Albert river, Henne. Queensland. Port Denison, Fitzalan ; in the interior, Mitchell. N.S. Wales. In the interior, 4. Cunningham ; Darling river to Cooper’s Creek, common, Victorian and Howitt's Expeditions. The species is very common in tropical countries in the New and the Old World, much planted for ornament or for the perfume extracted from its flowers, and readily spreading. Believed by some to be of American origin, by others to be truly indigenous also in Africa and Asia, and has every appearance of being so in Australia, 291. A. suberosa, 4.Cunn.; Benth.in Hook. Lond. Journ.i.499. Branches terete or nearly so, more or less hirsute, the older ones with a slightly corky bark. Pinne 1 or 2 pairs, the common petiole about 1 in., the partial rha- chis nearly 4 in. long; leaflets 8 to 12 pairs, oblong-linear, thick and rigid, obtuse, 1 to 2 lines long, more or less hirsute or ciliate. Stipules spinescent, short, slender, and straight. Flowers not seen, except some fragmentary Te- mains on a short thick peduncle. Pod flat, but rather thick, with convex valves, about 3 in. long, 4 to nearly 4 in. broad, pubescent. Seeds longi dinal, broadly ovate, woolly-pubescent. Funicle folded and slightly thickened under the seed. N. Australia. Vansittart Bay and Careening Bay, 4. Cunningham ; Glenelg rivets J. Martin. a 292. A. Bidwilli, Benth. in Linnea, xxvi. 629. Glabrous ; branei™® | mostly terete. Pinne 15 to 20 pairs, the common petiole 2 to 3 in, the | partial rhachis 4 to 1 in. long; leaflets 15 to 25 pairs, oblong, obtuse, ae scarcely 1 line long. Stipules spinescent and sometimes 2 to.3 lines 10NB usually very small or quite obsolete. Peduncles solitary, with an annt rf 4 ciduous 4-lobed bract about the middle, bearing a globular head of PP 7 rather more 4-merous flowers and sometimes 1 or 2 lower down the k] each flower often 2 lines long. Calyx shortly toothed. Petals $ le 4 united above the middle. Pod straight, 3 to 6 in. long, about 2 in. b ol narrowed at the base; valves coriaceous, somewhat convex, reticulate nn 4 wise. Seeds large, ovate, longitudinal; funicle slightly thickened from a base upwards, very shortly inflexed or folded under the seed. N. Australia. Whitsunday and Gloster Islands, Henne. a y differ in the fruit. = See T D 's in cylindrical spikes on axillary peduncles +. + + + > * E de A. vers in globular heads on axillary peduncles. f , 2.4 E : “tat to 10 pairs, 2 to 3 lines long... + «+. “o” * > T posae Towers in to 4 pairs, 4 to lin. long . - ecg N small heads in large terminal pe E Panicle loose. Stamens al 2 in. jong: Pod under 1 in. broad . 4, A. procera. Flower. heads very numerous and crowded. Stamens about 4 in. long. © NH do above Din. broad o o et oe ri ay -Lebbeck, Benth., allied to A. canescens, but more glabrous, with N Aa ada ely sessile, and the pod not so broad, ete., a tree widely dispersed nr 3 frica, has been introduced into the neighbourhood of Brisbane. A, lophantha, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 86. A tall shrub En tree; branches, petioles, and peduncles usually aps S o le 8 to 10 pairs ; leaflets 20 to 30 or more pairs, linear, 3 to 4 lines > the nerve near the upper margin, glabrous above, silky-pubescent under- to roles Bar llos! axillary pedunculate spikes of ren thortly Bs each flower 2 to 3 lines long, usually 5-merous. y 2 , not half as long as the corolla. Stamens fully } in. long, 5. Á. canescens. 422 XL: LEGUMINOSE. [Albizcia. united at the base into a tube rather shorter than the corolla. Pod often above 3 in. long, 4 to 6 lines broad, very flat. Seeds transverse, ovate or or- bicular.— Mimosa distachya, Vent. Jard. Cels. t. 20, not of Cav. ; M. elegans, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 563; Acacia lophantha, Willd. Sp. Pl iv. 1070; Bot. Reg. t. 361; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 716; Bot. Mag. t. 2108. i W. Australia. Goose Island Bay, R. Brown: King George's Sound, Baxter; Geo- graphe Bay, Fraser; Cape Naturaliste, Oldfield ; Swan River ?, Drummond. 2. A. basaltica, Benth. A shrub; branchlets nearly terete, rusty with à minute glandular pubescence. Pinnæ 1 or 2 pairs, the common petiole rarely 4 in. long and often very short; leaflets 5 to 10 pairs, oblong or almost ovate, very obtuse, mostly 2 to 3 lines long, coriaceous, minutely hoary-pubescent. Peduncles in the upper axils scarcely exceeding the leaves, bearing a dense globular head of about 20 to 30 flowers, mostly 5-merous, about 14 lines long. Calyx pubescent, shortly lobed, about two-thirds as long as the corolla. Staminal tube nearly as long as the corolla, the fila-, ments much longer. Pod about 3 im. long, 4 to 5 lines broad, coriaceous, very flat, with thickened margins. Seeds flat, orbicular.— Stamens indefinite, usually numerous and long, united at the base in a tube - tielosing the ovary. Pod flattened, usually rather thick and much curved, - Anular or spirally twisted, either opening entirely or on the outer edge in 2 ‘Valves, or quite indehiscent, very smooth and often coloured inside or with a thin pulp. Seeds ovate or orbicular ; funicle filiform.—Trees or rarely shrubs, Without prickles. Leaves twice pinnate, usually with a gland on the petiole below the pinnæ, and others between or below some or all of the pinne and llets; leaflets few and rather large in all the Australian species. Flowers M globular or oblong heads or umbels, or rarely in eyliudrical spikes, usually ermaphrodite and white, the stamens rarely red. three Australi i is also in the Indian Ar ee ee pon being unknown. Pithecolobium, with the that genus in the twice-pinnate, flowers and only differ wot simply pin i; iezia have the same kik y pinnate leaves. Calliandra and Albi p so” oy the stamens never a vers pedicellate in the head (umbellate). : T em or rhomboidal, acuminate. Pod twisted, Ag sr 1. P. pruinosum. a s obliquely obovate, obtuse. Pod indehiscent, very nare, a A “eparating into distinct articles. . - + + * E PE A — Sina ers sessile, the corolla 3 in. long. Leaflets acuminate. + + * 3. P. grandiflorum. e pruinosum, Benth. in Lond. Journ. iii, 211. A arte tree, young branches, foliage, and inflorescence rusty with a short pubescence 424 XL. LEGUMINOSAE. [ Pithecolobium. or glabrous. Pinnæ very irregularly in 1 or 2 pairs, with or without an odd one, the petiole and each rhachis varying from 1 to 6 in. long; leaflets Usually 3 or 4 pairs on the terminal pinne, but very irregular in number, size, and shape, mostly broadly oblong or rhomboidal and acuminate, rarely very obtuse, the larger ones often 2 to 3 in. long, but mostly smaller. Peduneles 2 or 3 together in the upper axils or shortly racemose. Flowers numerous, in globular umbels, on pedicels of about 2 lines. Calyx small, shortly toothed. Corolla fully 2 lines long. Pod several in. long, 7 to 8 lines broad, flat but much curved and twisted, the upper inner margin thickened and continuous, the outer one much sinuate and undulate, the valves smooth and reddish inside. Seeds ovate, transverse ; funicle rather thick, but terete, folded under the seed. ; ] E Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham and others; Rockhamp- ton, Thozet, Dallachy. ff N.S. Wales. Hunter's River, Ash Island, R. Brown and others; Clarence and Rich- mond rivers, C. Moore; Liverpool plains, A. Cunningham ; southward to Kiama, Harvey; Illawarra, Ra/ston. ie Tae Javanese P. Junghuhnianum, Benth., scareely differs from this species. 2. P. moniliferum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 211. A is with the young shoots usually pubescent, at length glabrous. Pinne 1 or A pairs, the common petiole 4 to 1 in., each rhachis 1 to 2 in. long; leaflets 5 „to 7 pairs, obliquely obovate or oval-oblong, obtuse, very oblique at a shining and reticulately penniveined above, opaque and less veined u ed neath, the terminal ones 1, 13, or nearly 2 in. long, the others smaller. a duneles clustered in the upper axils, forming a short irregular terminal PA a Flowers numerous, in globular umbels, the pedicels about 13 in. long. LalyX = nearly 1 line, corolla abouf 2 lines long, minutely silky-pubescent. o ad ee more than twice as long, the united part nearly as long, as the A ae usually falcate, 3 to 4 in. long, $ in. broad, very thick and hard, inde rey a but separating into closed l-seeded articles. Seeds transverse, paige se ee but thick ; funicle very short.—Jnga monilifera, DC. Prod. ii. 440; Callor- — — mion moniliferum, Hassk. Retzia, 231. oo W. Australia. Point Pearce, Victoria river, F. Mueller ; islands of the e a pentaria, R. Brown ; along all the watercourses round the Gulf of Carpentaria, sori a The species was originally described from Timor, and is in several islands of the Archipelago. ecord- a 3. P. (?) grandiflorum, Benth. A beautiful tree of 30 ft., Or, ri the: ing to some, a tall shrub, glabrous or nearly so. Pinna 1 or 2 an to 6 common petiole and each rhachis about 2 to 4 in. long f _— firmer pairs, ovate, acutely acuminate, 14 to 2 in. long, less oblique ne rt per than in P. pruinosum, penniveined. Flower-heads numerous, On peste © duncles, in a terminal panicle scarcely exceeding the leaves. Flowers ! se much larger than in any other Pithecolobium. Calyx campanulate, q a toothed, nearly 3 lines long. Corolla 2 in. long, funnel-shaped, 905 silky-pubescent outside. Stamens of a rich crimson, the tubular Pod nearly as long as the corolla, the free part exceeding it by about 1 im. 2 unknown.—Mimosa grandiflora, Soland, ms. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Cape York, 7 Hill; combe Bay, Dallachy. Edge- Pithecolobium. | XL. LEGUMINOSE. 425 N.S. Wales. Hastings river, Tozer. Until the fruit shall have been seen, it is impossible to fix the genus of this fine species. . lt has the foliage of the Indian section Clypearia of Pithecolobium, the flowers are more like _ those of several American Ca//iandras. Orpver XLI. ROSACER. hemisphere, with very few species extending into the tropical mountains or northern tem- or erect shrubs, with entire leaves. Stipules deciduous or none. Carpel ohh with 2 erect ovules and a basal style (Chryso- - balaneze). l Trees. Petals 5 or 4. Stamens perigynous, with filiform filaments and small anthers . o O AN ee moe. Petals none. Stamens hypogynous; anthers longer than ; TIONS. O na A e E O Herbs or scrambling shrubs. Leaves toothed divided or compound. Cerpels indefinite, protruding from the open calyx. Petals present. Herbs. Calyx with accessary external lobes. Fruit-carpels m Calyx imbricate. Styles persistent, forming long awns to DU pela. ee a eS e Calyx valvate. Styles deciduous. Carpels seed-like, wit ut awns = Ad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scrambling shrubs, rarely prestrate or almost herbaceous. Calyx slightly imbricate, without accessary lobes. Fruit-car pels suecu- 1. PARINARIUM. - 2. STYLOBASIUM. 3. GEUM. 4. POTENTILLA. tens ei eg daw . . 5, RUBUS. Carpels several, enclosed in the calyx-tube. Petals present. Esta Rosa (p. 432) numerous. Prickly shrubs with pinnate leaves - - + + E e dl i m els 1 to 4, enclosed in the ealyx-tube. Petals none on divided, ie eres, | Style basal. Leaves — aida es 0. ALOHEMILLA, 426 XLI. ROSACEA. Ovule pendulous. Style terminal or nearly so. Leaves pinnate. Fruiting-calyx armed with prickles. Stamens few. . . +. . 7. ACENA. Fruiting-calyx without prickles. Flowers usually monecious. > Stumenamumerous: . . o o . . . 05... PORN aay 1. PARINARIUM, Juss. (Petrocarya, Jack ; Grymania, Presl.) Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 5, rarely 4. Stamens numerous or rarely few, all perfect or those on one side reduced to small staminodia; filaments filiform; anthers small. Ovary of a single carpel, adnate on one side to the mouth of the calyx-tube and protruding from it, more or less completely 2- celled, with 1 erect ovule in each cell; style from the base of the ovary. Drupe ovoid or spherical, the endocarp bony. Seeds 1 or 2, erect.—Trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire. Stipules deciduous, usually small. Flowers white or pink, in cymes forming terminal raceme-like or corymbose panicles. The genus is dispersed over the tropical regions both of the New and the Old World. Of the two Australian species, one is also in the Indian Archipelago, the other is endemic. Petiole without glands. Leaves much veined. Flowers small. Calyx- lobes acute. Perfect stamensabout8 . © . . . + + + + Petiole with 2 glands. Leaves shining, little veined. Flowers rather +. large. Calyx-lobes obtuse. Perfect stamens 30 to 50 . . . - 2. P. Grifithianum. 1. P. Nonda, F. Muell. Herb. Branches rather slender, loosely tomen- tose when young. Leaves ovate, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, rounded or almost cordate at the base, 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 1} in. broad, rarely narrower and narrowed at each end, glabrous but rather rough above, whitish with a minute tomentum underneath, with many prominent parallel pinnate vems and much reticulate between them. Flowers small, the terminal panicle or thyrsus loose, the axillary oues smaller and raceme-like. the flowers, deciduous. Calyx pubescent, nearly regular, about 2 lines long, 1. P. Nonda. Bracts shorter than si the lobes acute, rather shorter than the tube and almost as long as the pe pe... Stamens short, usually about 8 perfect on the same side of the flower as = ovary, the ring completed by 6 to 10 small staminodia. Drupe ovoid, densely villous inside, 2-celled, 2-seeded. eee N. Australia. From the Upper Lind to Van Diemen’s river, Gulf of Carpentaria Leichhardt ; Gilbert river, F. Mueller. ae Queensland. Cape York, M'Gillivray ; Albany Island, F. Mueller. ‘still The species is nearly allied to the P. sumatranum of the Indian Archipelago, na e more to the African P. curatellafolium, Planch., but the flowers appear to be smaller in either, with some slight differences in the foliage. It is the one to which Leic gives the name of Nonda-tree in his travels. 2. P. Griffithianum, Benth. in Hoot. Fl. Nig. 334. Branches stout, glabrous or minutely hoary when young. Leaves elliptical-oblong, acuminate, 3 to 4 in. long or rather more, acute at the base, shining above, paler under neath, but quite glabrous, the veins not very prominent and distant ; 2 sma" glands at the top of the petiole. Flowers rather large, in terminal corymo 3 hoary-pubescent panicles. Calyx-tube obliquely turbinate, incurved, ado! E lines long; lobes very obtuse, the largest as long as the tube. Petals € ceeding the calyx. Stamens very numerous (30 to 50), all perfect. —Parinarium.] XLI. ROSACEA. 427 very villous, with a long style. Drupe oblong, very villous inside, 2-celled, - 2-seeded. _ N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong ; Quail Island, Flood. ¿210 species extends over the Indian Archipelago to the Philippine Islands, for Grymania — talicifolia, Presl, Epimel. Bot. 193 (Cuming, n. 1057), appears to be the same species, - ilihough with rather narrower, more rigid leaves. 2. STYLOBASIUM, Desf. (Macrostigma, Hook.) = Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate. Petals none. Stamens 10, hypogynous ; fila- ments short, persistent ; anthers large, linear, erect. Ovary of a single carpel, _ sessile in the base of the calyx, 1 -celled, with 2 erect ovules ; style from the base of the ovary ; stigma large, peltate. Drupe nearly dry, obovoid or glo- a bular, surrounded by the persistent calyx. Seed erect.—Unarmed shrubs. _ Leaves alternate, entire. Stipules minute or none. Flowers solitary iu the _ axils of the leaves, on short pedicels, the upper ones forming a terminal ra- teme, usually polygamous, the females with long filiform staminodia, the males with a small abortive ovary. a The genus is exclusively Australian. It differs from the whole Order in its hypogynous _ Stamens, and is connected with the American genus Leiostemon alone, by its large anthers. E Leaves cuneate-oblong or obovate. Drupe twice as Jong as the calyx. 1. 8. spathulatum, E ves linear. Drupe or nut scarcely exceeding the calyx . . 2. S. lineare. 1. S. spathulatum, Des/. in Mem. Mus. v. 37, t. 2. An erect bushy _ Shrub of several feet, glabrous or the young shoots hoary-pubescent. Leaves Mostly cuneate-oblong or the lower ones obovate, very obtuse or emarginate, to 13 in. long, narrowed into a short petiole, rather thick and fleshy ; vem- less except the midrib. Pedicels short, with 1 or 2 minute bracteoles. Calyx, When in flower, about 3 lines long, rather narrow, the lobes obtuse, shorter than the tube, the anthers shortly protruding, when in fruit very open- Drupe _ Nearly globular, about 5 lines diameter. = W. Australia. Sharks Bay, Milne, and probably from the same locality, Baudin's Expedition ; Flinders Bay, Collie; Port Gregory, Oldfield. | 28. lineare, Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 95. An erect bushy shrub, gla- ‘rous and somewhat glaucous or the young shoots slightly hoary. Leaves Narrow-linear, very obtuse, the lower ones 1 to 13 in. long, narrowed into a short petiole, thick and fleshy, the upper ones often very small and distant. X In the original form nearly as large as in $. spathulatum, but the lobes than the tube, the anthers shortly protruding. Drupe exceeding the ‘talyx-lobes, but much smaller and drier than in 8. spathulatum. de Australia. Abandoned fields, near Perth and York, Preiss, n. 2383 and 2384 ; me Range, N. of Murchison river, Oldfield. iy nes Jong. —Macrostigma ddr Var. : A parviflora. Branches slender. Calyx scarce . lc. Pl. t. 412,—W. Australia, Drummond, n. 16 3. GEUM, Linn. (Sieversia, R. Br.) - Calyx-tube short, open; lobes 5, imbricate, usually with as many small 428 - XLI. ROSACEA. [ Geum. external accessary lobes alternating with them. Petals 5, broad, spreading. Stamens indefinite. Carpels indefinite, with 1 erect ovule in each; style terminal, filiform, with a hook or twist at or below the end. Fruit a head of small dry achenes, surrounded by the persistent calyx, each one terminating in a long filiform straight hooked or geniculate awn, formed by the persistent style, and either naked hairy or plumose.—Herbs with a perennial rootstock. Leaves chiefly radical, pinnate or pinnatisect, the leaflets or segments toothed, the terminal one much larger than the others; stem-leaves usually small and bract-like. Flowers yellow white or red, solitary and terminal, or few ina - loose corymbose terminal panicle. The genus is dispersed over the temperate regions of the globe. Of the two Australian species, one is common in the northern hemisphere of the Old World, the other is endemic. — Flowers yellow, several on the stem, Radical leaves with 3 or more large ovate or lanceolate segments. Styles (in the flower) twisted Below tie Git! i PA AAA a a Flowers large, white, solitary. Radical Jeaves with one large reniform é crenate segment. Styles, even in the flower, twisted at the end only. 2. G. renifolium. 1. G. urbanum, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 551. | Stems erect, slightly branched, 1 to 2 ft. high, glabrous or softly pubescent. Lower leaves on long petioles, with 3, 5 or more large segments intermixed with small ones, the upper leaves usually with only 3 large segments or a single one divided into 3, and sometimes 2 or 3 small ones along the stalk, all as well as the leafy stipules coarsely toothed or lobed. Flowers yellow, terminating branches of a very loose panicle. Calyx-lobes entire, acute. Petals often ao exceeding the calyx in the northern specimens, considerably larger 1m the = Tasmanian ones. Fruit-carpels covered with silky hairs. Style plumos hairy, twisted below the middle at the time of flowering, but afterwards cts lower part elongates and becomes glabrous under the twist, the extremity at length frequently falls away, leaving the fruit with a terminal rec xi hooked only at the extremity, as in the section Sieversia.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 114, with the synonyms adduced. OR N. S. Wales. Nepean river, R. Brown ; Macleay river, Beckler, all with the small petals of the European form. : rather E E lor age Moist bauks of the Mitta-Mitta, Delatite river, ete., F. Mueller, rikna rge petals, various Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; not uncommon in shady places m i parts of the colony, J. D. Hooker, with rather large petals. E e The ‘Species is common in Europe, temperate Asia and the E. Indian mountains, 2° naturalized in several other parts of the world. ; 2. G. renifolium, F. Muell. in Trans, Phil. Inst. Vict. ii. 66. Root stock thick and hard. Leaves radical, with a single terminal reniform F ment, often 2 to 3 in. broad, coarsely crenate, usually broadly and ob E lobed, very much wrinkled, the veins very prominent underneath, and some times a few very small segments scattered along the petiole. Flowering å tol ft. high, with a single large terminal white flower, and usually cade tant small sessile bract-like deeply toothed leaves, the lowest above the etals of the stems. Calyx-lobes enlarged after flowering and often toothed. wi -longer than the calyx. Styles plumose-villous, not produced beyond the pe even at the time of flowering, elongated and hooked at the end when 1 2%? —Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 361. Ss 1. GE. urbanum. Geum.] XLI. ROSACER. 429 = _ Tasmania. Southern Alps, Oldfield; Mount Lapeyrouse, C. Stuart. This fine species belongs to the section Sreversia, by some ranked as a genus, but differing only in the style not produced beyond the twist. i 4. POTENTILLA, Linn. - Calyx-tube short, open; lobes 5 or rarely 4, valvate, with as many external - accessary lobes alternating with them. Petals 5, rarely 4, broad, spreading. Stamens indefinite. Carpels indefinite, with 1 erect ovule in each; style terminal or lateral, deciduous. Fruit a head of small dry seed-like achenes, surrounded by the persistent calyx, the receptacle scarcely enlarging.—Herbs with a perennial tufted stock, and occasionally creeping stolons or runners. Flowering stems usually short. Leaves either digitately 3- or 5-foliolate or pinnate; leaflets toothed. Peduncles 1-flowered, solitary or in a loose ter- minal cyme. The species are numerous, dispersed over the whole of the northern hemisphere without the tropics, especially in Europe and Asia, extending into the mountains of E. India, and de- - Sceuding along the Andes-into S. America, and one or two species only, and those the same As northern ones, are found in the extratropical regions of the southern hemisphere, in- _ @luding New Zealand. The only Australian species extends over the greater portion of the tea of the genus. l. P'anserina, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 582. Stock tufted, with long creeping runners rooting at the nodes. Leaves pinnate, with numerous ob- long, deeply notched leaflets, either green and slightly silky on the upper side ad of a shining silvery-white underneath from the silky down with which they are covered, or very white on both sides. Peduncles long, solitary at 2 e bearing a single rather large yellow flower.Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ee Searle’s Cove, F. Mueller ; Fitzroy river, Robertson ; mouth of the Glenelg, Tasmania. Port Dalrymple aud Derwent river, R. Brown; Circular Head and else- Where on the N. and W. coasts, rarer to the southward, J. D. Hooker. i y i species is widely dispersed over the extratropical regions of both the northern an rn hemispheres, including New Zealand. 5. RUBUS, Lim. _ Calyx-tube short, open; lobes 5, imbricate, without external accessary d of granulated acle.—Weak __ A considerable genus, dispersed over most parts of the globe. Of the five Australian spe- io i rts of Asia, one is common in the Indian e inc dadas ta Chine; bat oe intervening Achipelago, and two are = endemic, The fruits of several are edible but acid. Unarmed dwarf glabrous creeping plant. Flowers yellow + + + 1, R. Gunnianus. 430 XLI. ROSACEA. [Rubus. Prickly shrubs, scrambling climbing or almost erect. Flowers pink or white. Leaves broad, toothed or lobed, rusty underneath . Leaves pinnate, with 3 or 5 leaflets, white-tomentose underneath. Fruit with few large carpels ... . + 6 + + 6 se + 0. Leaves pinnate, with 5 or 7 leaflets, green on both sides. Fruit with anal WNDEIS > +2 beer ol o ee R. rosefolius. Leaves digitate, with 5 leaflets on long petiolules . .. . . 5, R. Moorei. ` 1. R. Gunnianus, Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 291. A dwarf, creeping, tufted, glabrous and unarmed plant, forming patches of several feet in diameter, the slender woody stems usually buried in the soil. Leaves mostly ovate, 2 to nearly l in. long, deeply crenate-lobed or pinnately divided into 3 segments or leaf- lets, the lobes obtuse. Peduncles solitary, not exceeding the leaves, l- flowered. Calyx-lobes rather obtuse, about 2 lines long. Petals yellow, narrow, exceeding the calyx. Fruit globular, scarlet, the carpels few, large, = fleshy, and said to be of an excellent flavour.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 2. Tasmania. Common in the mountains, at an elevation of 3000 to 5000 ft., J. D. Hooker. 2. R. moluccanus, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 566. A tall scrambling shrub; branches and petioles terete, clothed with a short rusty"or white woolly down, often mixed with longer hairs, and armed with numerous $ recurved prickles. Leaves usually broadly ovate-cordate, toothed, shortly and broadly 3- or 5-lobed, 2 to 4 in. long, occasionally deeply 3-lobed but not quite to the midrib, green, somewhat rugose and glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs above, rusty or whitish-tomentose underneath, the principal veins more villous and often armed with prickles. Flowers red, irregularly clus tered in short panicles in the upper axils, the upper ones forming a termi panicle, usually very silky-villous. Bracts deeply cut, very deciduous. | cels usually short when in flower, longer in fruit. Calyx-lobes acuminate, or 5 lines long. Fruit nearly globular, glabrous, scarcely exceeding calyx-lobes in our specimens, said to be red, insipid or slightly acid.— Hillii, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. iii. 67, and Fragm. iv. 31. ee N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong ; a rather smaller-flowered form, with the leaves less lobed, almost as in R. acerifolius, Wall. sland. ‘Brisbane river, W. Hill, Leichhardt ; Rockhampton, Dallachy. N.S. Wales. Hunter and Williams rivers, R. Brown; Hastings and Macleay rivers; Beckler ; Clarence river, C. Moore; Paramatta, Woolls; Illawarra, A. Cuanto” Kiama, Harvey. Victoria. Nangatta mountains, Upper Genoa river, F. Mueller. The species extends over the Indian Archipelago to the Philippines, R. rugosus, Sm., and R. reflerus, Bot. Reg., to E. India and China. Australian specimens belong to a form precisely the same as one commo A] which appears to be that originally described by Rumphius. eoo 3. R. parvifolius, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 564. A scrambling shrubs branches softly pubescent or woolly, armed with small hooked pt! very Leaves pinnate, with a common petiole of 1 to 2 in.; lealiels 5. rarely 5, nearly orbicular, about } to 1 in. long or in luxuriant shoots eg twice as much, deeply and irregularly toothed, glabrous or sprink | few hairs and deeply wrinkled above, white and tomentose oF woolly am 2. R. moluccanus. 3. R. parvifolius. and the closely allied The majority 0 n in the | Rubus] XLI. ROSACEA. 431 neath. Flowers few, in short terminal panicles or solitary in the upper axils. Bracts narrow, entire or rarely lobed. Sepals varying from 2 to 5 lines long, acuminate, softly hairy inside and out. Petals pink, usually erect and shorter than the calyx, rarely longer and spreading. Fruit globular, red, said to be of a pleasant flavour, the carpels rather large and not numerous, gla- brous or slightly hairy.—Bot. Reg. t. 496; R. ribesifolius, Sieb. Pl. Exs.; R. macropodus, Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 557; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 112; F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 30, and Pl. Vict. ii. t. 15; R. Zallbrucknerianus, Endl. Atakt. t. 35. : : Queensland. Moreton Bay, Fraser, F. Mueller; Rockhampton, Dallachy ; in the interior, on the Maranoa, Mitchell ; plains of the Condamine, Leichhardt. N.S. Wales. Common about Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 192, and others ; -= = Mountains, Miss Atkinson ; Hastings and Macleay rivers, Beckler ; New England, C. uart, Victoria. Wooded valleys and banks of streams, common, F. Mueller. Tasmania. Very common in many parts of the colony, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Mount Gambier and near Adelaide, F. Mueller. The species ranges from S. China to Loochoo, but I have seen no specimens from the _ tropical regions intervening between that and Australia, 4. R. rosæfolius, Sm. Ic. Pl. t. 60. A shrub, with creeping stolons and erect and weak but scarcely climbing stems, glandular-pubescent or rarely glabrous, armed with straight or more frequently recurved prickles. _ Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 5, rarely 3 or 7, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely and usually doubly toothed, 1, 2, or even 3 in. long, green and glandular- pubescent on both sides or rarely glabrous. Flowers white, not numerous, Ma short terminal panicle or in the upper axils. Bracts narrow, mostly en- tire. “Sepals hoary-tomentose, 3, 4, or rarely 5 lines long, with a long subu- late point. Petals spreading. Fruit ovoid or rarely globular, with exceed- - Mgly numerous small carpels, very little succulent, and said to have a rather Unpleasant resinous flavour.—Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 556; Bot. Mag. t. 1783 (with double flowers); Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 349; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 158; F. Muell. Fragm. iv, 32; R. eglanteria, Tratt. ; Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 556. d. Moreton Bay, F, Mueller and others; Broad Sound and Mount Elliott, N. S. Wales. Hawkesbury, Hunter's, and Paterson rivers, R. Brown ; Blue Moun- aan y : sai a s to New England, C. Stuart ; Clarence and Hastings _ Mvers, Beck/er ; southward to Illawarra, Shepherd; and Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 6. R, Moorei, F Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. ii. ri ene Praga. 210 29. A tall scrambling shrub, the branches and petioles glabrous or _ osely tomentose, with numerous small reflexed prickles. Leaves digitate, _ With 5 petiolulate leaflets, ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 3 to s bordered by regular prickly teeth in the glabrous or slightly pubescent Specimens ; in the more tomentose ones shorter, broader in proportion, more Coriaceous, with shorter te eth, glabrous above, softly velvety or villous under- n Flowers white, unisexual or polygamous, o Hoar agent ce Al raceme-like panicles. Bracts small, entire. Calyx pubescent, very spreading, the Segments ovate or oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long. Fruit (which I have Hot seen) said to be dark-red and insipid. 432 XLI. ROSACER. [Rubus 4 | N. S. Wales. Grose river, R. Brown ; Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson ; Richmond and Clarence rivers, C. Moore; from the Creek Brush to Archer’s Station, Leichhardt; southward to Illawarra, A. Cunningham, Backhouse, Ralston, : y The nearest affinity of this species is with the New Zealand R. australis, Forst., but the — leaves of the latter species, although protean in their forms, never quite resemble those of R. Moorei; the flowers are much smaller and very much more numerous, in large pa- — nicles, ete. Several species of Rosa are cultivated in gardens, and one, Rosa rubiginosa, Linn., the Sweetbriar, with glandular-pubescent aromatic leaves and pink flowers, is said to have esta- blished itself, apparently wild, in South Australia. 6. ALCHEMILLA, Linn. - Calyx-tube ovoid or campanulate ; lobes 4, valvate, with 4 small external — accessary lobes alternating with them. Petals none. Stamens 4 or fewer, inserted round an annular disk at the mouth of the calyx. Carpels 1 to 4, enclosed in the calyx-tube, with 1 ascending ovule in each ; style from the base or inner side of the carpel, protruding from the calyx-tube, with a capl- tate stigma. Achenes 1 to 4, 1-seeded, enclosed in the calyx-tube.—Herbs, either annual or with a perennial sometimes almost woody stock and annual flowering stems, or, in species not Australian, perennial tufted undershrubs. Leaves palmately lobed or divided. Flowers small, green, in terminal panicles or axillary clusters. The genus is not numerous in species, widely spread over the northern hemisphere, con- fined to mountains within the tropics, extending down the Andes to extratropical S. Ame- rica, one or two species found also in S. Africa and New Zealand. The two A species are common in temperate or mouutain regions, especially in the Old World. Perennial. Flowers in terminal panicles. Leaves orbicular, broadly lobed 1. 4. vulgaris. Ceke 1. A. vulgaris, Linn. : DC. Prod. ii. 589. A perennial, either git brous or more or less hairy. Radical leaves large, on long petioles, b a q orbicular or reniform, divided only to one-fourth or one-third of their dept into 7 or 9 broad regularly toothed-lobes, green on both sides. Flowers — stems decumbent or ascending, seldom above 6 in. high, bearing a fowr leave on short petioles, with large green toothed stipules and a loose Pai it, small green flowers, the pedicels usually at least as long as the calyx.— "185 Ic. t. 229. a © Victoria. Haidinger range, sources of the Mitta-Mitta, Murray, and Snowy epic the Australian Alps, F. Mueller, The species is common in Europe, N. Asia, and a mountains of E. India. E rarely 2. A. arvensis, Scop.; DC. Prod. ii. 590. A little annual, Ke above 2 or 3 in. high and often smaller, much branched, green, and pi Leaves on short petioles, orbicular, usually deeply lobed or divided. ge E very minute, green, sessile, in little clusters or heads in the axils of the lea! half enclosed in the leafy stipules. ee Victoria. Mount Korong, F. Mueller; Wendu Valley, Robertson» S. Australia. Mountain pastures, Rivoli Bay, F, Mueller. pabl Tasmania. Derwent river, £. Brown; various parts of the island, probably duced, J. D. Hooker. and in various pars . The species is common in the northern hemisphere in the Old World, Alchemilla.) . XII. ROSACEA. 433 of N. and S, America and Africa, and is also found in New Zealand ; but in the latter q country, and in some, if not all, the Australian stations, very probably introduced from 7. ACHENA, Linn. (Ancistrum, Forst.) Calyx-tube ovoid or campanulate ; lobes usually 4 or 5, but varying from §to7, valvate. Petals none. Stamens 2 to 10. Carpels 1 or rarely 2, enclosed in the calyx-tube, with 1 pendulous ovule in each ; style terminal or Dearly so, protruding from the calyx-tube, usually dilated into an oblique stigma. Achene solitary, dry, enclosed in the hardened tube of the calyx, which is usually closed at the top and more or less awned with subulate conical spines, often glochidiate at the end.—Herbs, with a perennial tufted stock, Leaves radical or alternate, pinnate, with toothed or cut leaflets. Stipules sheathing at the base. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, green or purplish, in a terminal globular head, or in an elongated or interrupted spike, the flowering-stem either leafy or reduced to a leafless The genus is dispersed over the temperate and colder regions of the southern hemisphere ; ls especially abundant in S. America, and occurs also in California, Mexico, and the Sand- Wich Islands. Of the three Australian species, two are apparently also natives of S. Ame- tica and New Zealand, the third is probably endemic. genus has been divided into two sections, Euacena, with the fruiting calyx more or $ augular, the spines, when present, one only to each angle; and Ancistrum, with the ovoid, irregularly covered with numerous spines or tubercles. In the former the fowers are usually capitate, but spicate in a few species, in the latter they are spicate in most not all species, There are a few species however, (not Australian,) with the spines not developed, and ambiguous between the two sections. : cylindrical or elongated and interrupted. Stamens 4 to 10. i Spines of the fruiting calyx numerous, irregularly scattered . . . 1. A. ovina. globular. Stamens 2. Spines of the fruiting calyx 4, 1 to each Calyx-lobes united at the base, usually persistent. Fruiting head E ; _ above } in. diameter, with long glochidiate spines . . +. + + 2. A. sanguisorbe. Calyx-lobes separately deciduous. Fruiting heads not 4 in. diameter, With very short fine spines . AE API ee l. A, ovina, 4. Cunn. in Field, N. 8. Wales, 358. Stems ascending or ect, leafy, 1 to 2 ft. high, silky-hairy. Leaflets ovate, from orbicular to ong, + to 2 in. long, deeply and obtusely crenate or pinnatifid, glabrous a silky-hairy underneath. Flowers in a long interrupted spike, more dense ds the end, polygamous. Calyx-lobes usually 5, rarely 4, 6, or 7. lens in the males either about as many or 8 to 1 0, in the females reduced © minute staminodia, or 1 or 2 of them filiform, without anthers. Ovary in the females with a si rarely 2 ovules; style obliquely dilated at the "q a single or y | A : fd, with a broad unilateral fringed stigma. Fruit ovoid, 2 to 3 lines long, ábrous or loosely villous, covered with short prickles, barbed at the end and Tegularly arranged, 2 or 3 of them usually longer than the others, with a ical base.—Hook. f, Fl. Tasm. i. 115; 4. echinata, Nees in Pl. Preiss. 955 4, Behriana, Schlecht. Linnea, xx. 660 (calyx often 6- or 7-lobed, mens often 10). Near Warwick, Bechler. 434 XLI. ROSACEA. [4cena.. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls ; frequent in rather moist pastures in the western country, A. Cunningham ; head of the Gwydir, Leichhardt. Victoria. I have seen no specimens from this colony, where, however, it is, no doubt, to be found. Tasmania. Pastures, especially in the northern parts of the island, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Memory Cove, R. Brown ; grassy plains, Barossa range, and Spencer's Gulf, F. Mueller. W. Australia. Shady rocks, Mount Brown, Preiss, n. 2395 ; King George’s Sound, Bald Island, and Cape Naturaliste, Oldfield. a The species extends to New Zealand, and probably also to extratropical S. America, for A. montevidensis, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. ii. 265, appears to be quite the same. : 2. A. sanguisorbæ, Vahl; DC. Prod. ii. 492. Stems prostrate or creeping and rooting at the nodes, the flowering branches ascending from a few in. to nearly 1 ft., loosely silky-villous, leafy at the base. Leaflets from nearly orbicular and 3 in. long to oblong and ¿ in., prominently toothed, — labrous or nearly so above, silky-hairy underneath. Flowers numerous, iù dense globular heads, on long terminal peduncles, usually under 3 in. diameter at the time of flowering, becoming when in fruit dense globular burrs of 4 w diameter or more. Calyx-lobes usually 4. Stamens2. Style with the fringed stigma of 4. ovina. Fruiting:calyx nearly 2 lines long, turbinate, the lobes 4-angled, with a long prickle barbed at the end, diverging from near the summit of each angle.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 114; 4. sarmentosa, Carmich.; DC. Fc: N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, 4. Cunningham ; Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson ; head of Gwydir river, Leichhardt ; Hastings river, Beckler ; southward to Illawarra, 4- Cunningham ; Gabo Island, Maplestone. Victoria. Port Phillip, 2. Brown; near Skipton, J. S. Whan. : 5 Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; common in pastures on roadsides, ele, throughout the colony, J. D. Hooker. : S. Australia. Kangaroo Island, R. Brown; Guichen Bay and Torrens river, F. rd Auckland's Isles, Ruiz and Pav. Mueller. The species is also found in New Zealand, Tristan d’Acunha, and Lo and it is perhaps not really distinct from the S. American A. ovalifolia, F 3. A. montana, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 276. A small spe cies, tufted or shortly prostrate, glabrous except a few silky hairs on the pe- tioles, midribs, and margins of the leaflets and sometimes on the peduncies. Leaflets ovate, strongly serrate, mostly about 4 in. long. Flowering su ascending, leafless or with 1 or 2 small distant pinnatifid or pinnate a and a small terminal globular head, rarely above 4 in. diameter. Cay. nearly glabrous, the lobes ovate, separating from the base and vety “ duous. Stamens 2. Stigma short. Fruiting calyx not 1 line long, sapere glabrous, with 4 slender spines not 1 line long, and the top of the caly* tube conical between them. ; ‘Tasmania. Moist summit of the Table Mountain on the Derwent, R. ine” iD. mit of Mount Wellington, J. D. Hooker, and of Mount Lapeyrouse, Ghee dently Hooker, Fl. Tasm. i. 115, unites this as a variety with 4. sanguisorbe ; but, RES earet of the foliage, the fruiting calyx appears to me to be quite different, and to bring i > fora to A. adscendens, Vahl. R. Brown’s herbarium contains specimens of a dwarf alpine © of A. sanguisorbe, from the Table Mountain, growing in company with Amon quite maintaining its characters, as pointed out in his notes. e Poterium Sanguisorba, Linn., a herb with the habit and globular inflorescence nearly ae — Ácena.] XLII. ROSACER. 435 A, sanguisorbe, but with strictly monecious flowers, more numerous and longer stamens, _ aud the fruiting calyx without prickles, is said to have established itself in some parts of Victoria, introduced from Europe. Orper XLII. SAXIFRAGEA. Calyx free or adnate to the ovary, with 4 or 5 valvate or imbricate lobes or Segments. Petals as many as calyx-lobes, valvate or imbricate, sometimes Very small or wanting. Stamens as many or twice as many as calyx-lobes, rarely fewer and very rarely indefinite, inserted with the petals on or outside a Perigynous or epigynous disk or rarely hypogynous. Ovary more or less adnate to the calyx, or if free usually attached by a broad base, either 2- to -celled or with 2 to 5 parietal placentas, very rarely contracted at the base MT apocarpous ; ovules usually several, very rarely solitary in each cell or to fach placenta; styles as many as cells or placentas, distinct or rarely united. Fruit capsular or very rarely succulent and indehiscent. Seeds usually small, with a copious albumen and small or terete straight embryo, very rarely larger ad without albumen.—Herbs shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate or opposite, Ample or compound, with or without stipules. Flowers usually regular and : phrodite. : A large Order. i whole world, the shrubby or arborescent genera i tai the herbeecks ones ger more temperate or cold regions of the northern hemisphere, with a few extratropical southern genera or species. Of the 20 ar genera, 1 is widely dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the New and ; e Old World, 1 spreads over E. India and the Archipelago, 1 is represented in extratropica S, America, 2 in New Caledonia, 1 in New Zealand and the antarctic regions generally, 2 in- New d alone, and the remaining 12, many of them monotypic, are endemic in aae. - The Order includes a great variety of forms, evidently connected with each ¿e difficult to unite by a common character which shall separate them from several ol E Calycifiorons and some Thalamiflorous Orders into which they appear sometimes to pass. There is especially no one character to distinguish them from Rosacee which has not edi ception, although the greater number of genera differ from that Order in their tamens, united carpels with free styles, and copious albumen. Tame I. Escallonieæ —Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate (except Polyosma). Sti- Piles none. Stamens as m any as calyx-segments. Styles usually united or cohering, at . least under the stigma. la to 5-celled. ers corymbose. Petals valvate. f Ovary semi-adnate. Petals fringed inside. Fruit capsular. ves white underneath . . . . +. + li Ta A goteo: E — nae sn « . 2, ABROPHYLLUM. phone O. io Ovary inferior. . . + 8. QUINTINIA. "uy With 2 parietal placentas. Flowers racemose. Petals valvate, Ory inferior. Fruit succulent, l-seeded . . ri os “tals imbricate. Ovary free. Capsule many-sceded . . + + 5. ; Tere II. © site (except Tetracarpæa). tipul, : Cunonieæ.—Shrubs or trees. Leaves oppo q t , <$ usually present. Stamens twice as many as calyx-segments or indefinite. Styles Si least at the top. | os bwice as many as calyx-segments. : d y -yX-segments valvate or rarely slightly imbricate. Flowers soli- "Y, eymose, capitate or paniculate. — 1. ARGOPHYLLUM. . 2FQ 436 XLII. SAXIFRAGER. Petals none or minute, or small and jagged. E Flowers in dense globular heads. Ovary 2- or 3-celled. Carpels small, follicular . . . . . . - + + + + 6. CALLICOMA, Flowers solitary. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit oblong, 1-seeded . 7. ANODOPETALUM. Flowers few in short loose cymes or panicles or solitary. Ovary 4-celled. Fruit small, 1-seeded, surrounded by the wing-like enlarged calyx-lobes. Stem climbing . . . 8. APHANOPETALUM. Flowers Spal numerous, eymose. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit 1-seeded. Fruit small, surrounded by the wing-like enlarged calyx- lobes. Leaflets 1 or 3, articulate on the petiole. . . 9. CERATOPETALUM. Drupe 1-seeded, the calyx-lobes small, reflexed. Leaves i simple, continuous withthe petiole. . . +. +. + + 10. ScHIZOMERIA. a Petals narrow, entire, as long as or longer than the calyx. EA Flowers in dense false whorls. Capsule terminating in 2 a diverging awn-like persistent styles . . . . . + +11. ACROPHYLLUM. Flowers very small and numerous, paniculate. Capsule small, E turgid, not awned . . . +. +. 12, AckAMA, Calyx-segments more or less imbricate.’ Flowers racemose: Ovary and fruit 2- rarely 3-celled . . . . « + +. + + 18, WEINMANNIA: Carpels 4; quite free from the first . . . . +... . +14 TETRACARPA. — Stamens indefinite, more than twice as many as calyx-segments, rarely fewer. Sepals 4. Sepals valvate. Stamens 10 to 15. Ovary 2-celled. Seeds winged. Flowers racemose . . . s e, . . + + + + 15. GEISSOIS. Sepals much imbricate. Stamens very numerous. Ovary 5- to 12-celled. Seeds winged. Flowers large, solitary . . . +16. EuckYPHIA. Sepals valvate or slightly imbricate. Stamens few or numerous. Ovary 2-celled. Seeds not winged. Flowers solitary. Leaves 3-foliolate (leaflets apparently in whorls of 6). . + + + +17. BAUERA. Trise Ill. Saxifragese—Herbs. Leaves in the Australian genera radical, alter- nate, or imbricate, without stipules. rae Leaves and pitchers radical. Scape leafless. Flowers paniculate. Sepals 6, valvate. Petals 0. com 12. Carpels di free. . 18. CBPHALOTUS. cal leaves entire, stem-leaves alternate, lobed. Flowers cymose. Calyx-lobes petals and stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled . . +. + + 19. EREMOSYNE. Small tufted plant with densely imbricate leaves. Flowers solitary, sessile. Calyx-lobes and petals 5. Stamens 2. Ovary inferior, 2-celled . . . 20. DONATIA. . . . . . . . . . „Trise 1.. EscaLLoNIE2.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate pi 3 (in Polyosma) more or less opposite. Stipules none. Stamens as many calyx-segments. Styles usually united or cohering, at least u stigma. 1. ARGOPHYLLUM, Forst. conical, with a capitate shortly lobed stigma. Capsule small, coriaceous,’ s to 5-celled, opening loculicidally and ad es septicidally or twice as many valves or cells. Seeds minute, globular, Aryophyllum.] XLII. SAXIFRAGES. 437 bryo minute in a fleshy albumen.—Shrubs. Leaves alternate, usually white underneath. Flowers small, in terminal or axillary corymbose panicles. Besides the Australian species, which is endemic, the genus comprises 3 or 4 from New Caledonia. s 1. A. Lejourdanii, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 33. An elegant shrub of 6 to 7 ft., the branches and inflorescence clothed with a close silky-white or reddish tomentum. Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrate, mostly 5 to 6 in. long, on a petiole of about 1 in., not coriaceous, green and glabrous or with scat- tered hairs above, silvery-white with a close silky tomentum underneath, the pinnate parallel primary veins, the transverse secondary ones, and smaller re- ticulations prominent underneath. Panicles terminal or in the upper axils, - Shorter than the leaves, corymbose or more frequently ovate. Flowers, in- cluding the small expanded petals, about 3 lines diameter. Capsule depressed- globular, about 2 lines diameter, usually 2-celled and 4-valved, rarely 3-celled and 6-valved. Queensland. Mount Elliott, Dallachy. The large thin serrate leaves, and their ant venation on the under side, distinguish this species at once from the New Cale- specimens of A. nitidum, Labill., the plate of which it in some respects resembles. 2, ABROPHYLLUM, Hook. f. (Brachynema, F. Muell.) Calyx-tube exceedingly short, adnate to the broad base of the ovary ; seg- ments 5, spreading, deciduous. Petals 5, valvate, spreading, deciduous. Stamens 5; anthers large, on very short filaments. Ovary free, except the broad base, oblong, 5-furrowed, 5-celled, with many ovules in each cell; _ Stigma sessile, 5-lobed. Berry free, ovoid, 5-celled. Seeds numerous, small, = Nearly globular; embryo (minute?) in a fleshy albumen.—Shrub. Leaves : ate. Flowersin corymbose panicles, terminal or in the upper axils. | The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. ok A. ornans, Hook. f. ms. A tall handsome shrub, the young shoc Inflorescence pubescent wih short appressed hairs. Leaves elliptical or ovate ~ nceolate, acuminate, 6 to 9 in. long, with a few short broad mucronate teeth - M the upper part, narrowed at the base into a petiole of 1 to 2 in., thin and _ Blabrous or sprinkled with a few appressed hairs on the principal veins un- eath, Panicles irregularly dichotomous, much shorter than the leaves. Owers rather small, yellowish. Calyx-segments triangular-lanceolate, jaa e long. Petals about 2 lines long. Berries 3 to 4 lines. —Brachynema ornans, Y, Muell, Fragm. iii. 90. N.S. Wales. Mount Tomah, Blue Mountains, 4. and R. Cunningham ; Richmond Mver, near Ballina, C. Moore. Dr. Hooker had described the genus for the * Genera Plan- * when the specimen and character arrived from F. Mueller, whose specific name he uently adopted, bat the generic name was preoccupied by a curious Brazilian genus allied : to Ebenacea, described and figured in the * Linnean Transactions, xxii. 126, t. 22. 3. QUINTINIA, Alph. DC. F Calyx-tube obconical, adnate to the ovary, with 5 persistent teeth. Petals *vimbricate, deciduous. Stamens 5; anthers ovate. Ovary inferior, 3- to 5- ox 438 XLII. SAXIFRAGEZ. [Quintinia. celled, with several ovules in each cell, the free summit broadly conical, tapering into a persistent 3- to 5-furrowed style, with a capitate 3- to 5-lobed stigma. Capsule inferior, opening at the summit in teeth or valves continuous with the styles, which separate up to the stigma. Seeds ascending, long, spindle-shaped, with a loose testa; embryo (very minute ?) in a fleshy albu- -men.—Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, without sti- pules. Flowers small, white, in racemes, either simple in the axils or several forming a terminal panicle. Besides the 2 following species, which are endemic in Australia, there are 2 in New Zealand. Racemes in a terminal leafless panicle . . . . . +... +. +. L@ Siebert. Racemes simple, axillary. . . . . . +. . . 2 O Perdon. 1. Q. Sieberi, 4. DC. Monogr. Camp. 90, and in DC. Prod. iv. 5. A spreading tree of 30 to 40 ft. Leaves oval-elliptical, shortly acuminate, mostly 3 to 4 in. long, entire, narrowed into a petiole of about 3 in., coria- ceous, reticulate. Racemes numerous, in a terminal panicle, scarcely longer than the last leaves. Pedicels very short, rarely 1 line long. Calyx-lobes very short and broad. Petals oval-oblong, spreading, about 2 lines long. Styles separating in the ripe capsule up to the stigmas, which remain united. Seeds obovate or oblong, with a loose reticulate testa, but not winged.—Endl. E in Flora, 1832, ii. 389, t. 3, and Atakta, 10, t. 10 (the plate wanting mour copy); F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 126. N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 261, A. Cunningham, and others; south- na to Illawarra, 4. Cunningham; and the dividing range towards the Yowaka, 2. Q. Verdonii, 7. Muell. Fragm. ii. 125. Very near Q. Siebert, ie leaves of the same shape and size, but much less reticulate. Racemes 1m the specimens seen all simple and solitary in the upper axils, 3 to 4 in. long. Flowers rather smaller than in Q. Sieberi, on pedicels about 2 lines long. Calyx lobes narrower, about half as long as the petals. Capsule sm than in Q. Sieberi. Seeds small, ovoid-oblong, obtuse, not winged. N. S. Wales. Macleay and Hastings rivers, Bechler. 4. POLYOSMA, Blume. Calyx-tube ovoid, adnate to the ovary, the limb small, 4-toothed, gi | tent. Petals 4, valvate, linear, erect and frequently cohering in a tube, A spreading at the end, deciduous. Stamens 4; anthers linear, erect, Ovary | inferior, l-celled, with numerous ovules attached to 2 parietal placentas, pa) truding far into the cavity and almost dividing it into 2 cells; sty le filiform, with an entire terminal stigma. Berry ovoid, inferior, with a single large” seed ; testa rather thick ; embryo small, in the summit of a fleshy album . Trees. Leaves opposite or nearly so, usually turning black m drymg: Flowers white or greenish, in terminal simple racemes. E Besides the Australian species, which is endemic, the genus comprises several A India, the Archipelago, and S. Pacifie Islands. ab of 1. P. Cunninghamii, J. J. Benn. Pl. Jao. Rar. 196. A tall shri E small tree, quite glabrous except the inflorescence and flowers. Ler Polyosma.] XLII. SAXIFRAGER. 439 elliptical, acuminate acute or rarely obtuse, 3 to 4 in. long, irregularly notched = with callous teeth, much narrowed into a short petiole, somewhat coriaceous, _ penniveined. Racemes usually shorter than the leaves. Pedicels 1 to 2 lines long, with 2 minute bracteoles under the ovary. Calyx-teeth small. Corolla : about 5 lines long, slightly pubescent outside with appressed hairs, the petals _ Temaining long coherent in a narrow tube. Fruit ovoid, above 4 in. long, crowned by the small persistent cup-shaped calyx-limb. _ N.S. Wales. Illawarra, 4. Cunningham, M‘Arthur ; near Grafton, Clarence river, - Beckler. : 5. ANOPTERUS, Labill. = Calyx-tube very short, adnate to the broad base of the ovary ; lobes 6 to Y, short, persistent. Petals as many as calyx-lobes, imbricate, spreading, de- E ciduous. Stamens as many as petals; anthers versatile. Ovary free, except _ the broad base, 1-celled, with several ovules attached to 2 parietal placentas ; _ Style 2-lobed, the lobes stigmatic along the inner side. Capsule oblong- Conical, thickly coriaceous, opening in 2 recurved valves with the placentas on _ ‘thelr margins. Seeds pendulous, imbricate, flattened ; testa membranous, = dilated at the hilum end into a broad membranous wing, the nucleus at the - Ppposite end small, oblong; embryo minute, in a fleshy albumen.—Shrubs or Small trees, quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, evergreen, coriaceous, without _ Stipules. Flowers white, rather large, in short terminal racemes. a The genus is endemic in Australia. Flowers mostly 6-merous. Capsule not exceeding ¿ in. Wers mostly 8- or 9-merous. Capsule 1 in. long or more . = LA, glandulosus, Ladill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 86, t. 112. A handsome _ Wergreen shrub, in some localities growing into a tree of 30 to 40 ft. Leaves E chiefly at the ends of the branches, from elliptical-lanceolate to almost obo- Yale, but nsually narrow, shortly acuminate, mostly 4 to 8 in. long, obtusely > callously serrate, narrowed into a very short petiole, coriaceous and shining, a Penviveined. Racemes 3 to 6 in. long, somewhat drooping. Bracts large, A membranous and imbricate at the base of the very young raceme, but soon ie lo away, those in the raceme small and narrow. Pedicels 3 to 5 lines DE Petals usually 6, ovate, 5 to 6 lines long. Capsule 3 to 4 in. long.— . Prod. iv. 6; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i, 151; Bot. Mag. t. 4377. J, ‘Tasmania. In forests, abundaut in many, especially the subalpine parts of the colony, "D. Hooker, E A. Macleayanus, 1. A. glandulosus. 2. A. Macleayanus. F. Muell. in Journ. Pharm. Soc. Vict. 1859. "ty closely allied to 4. glandulosus in aspect as well as in character, and ‘May prove to be a variety only. Leaves usually rather longer and narrower, - More acuminate, on petioles of 4 to l in. Calyx-lobes petals and stamens en 8 or 9 each. Capsule and seeds much larger than in 4. glandulosus, former from 1 to 14 in. long, the seeds } to + in., including the wing. WN d. Mount Lindsay, at an elevation of 4000 to 5000 ft., W. Hill. S. Wales. Hastings river, Beckler ; Clarence river, C. Moore. | Tring II. Cunonrex.—Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite (scattered in Telraca > . . $ pea). Stipul t, but deciduous. Stamens twice as ean eden at least at the top. "any as calyx-segments or indefinite. Styles free, 440 XLII. SAXIFRAGEA. 6. CALLICOMA, Andr. (Calycomig, R. Br.) Sepals 4 or 5, free, valvate or the margins slightly imbricate. Petals none, Stamens twice as many as sepals, hypogynous; anthers ovate, versatile, Ovary 2-celled or rarely 3-celled, with several pendulous ovules in each; styles distinct, filiform, each with a minute terminal stigma. Capsule small, separating into distinct carpels opening along the inner edge. Seeds small, ovoid-oblong, tuberculate ; embryo very small, in a somewhat fleshy albumen. TRAS = shrub. Leaves opposite, simple. Flowers small, in dense globu- r heads. The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. 1. C. serratifolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t.566. A tall shrub, growing into a tree of 30 to 40 ft., the young shoots often tomentose or villous, the branches soon glabrous. Leaves from elliptical-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, coarsely serrate, 2 to 4 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous a shining above, either white underneath with a minute tomentum, or softly to- mentose or villous and more rust-coloured, the parallel pinnate veins promi- nent underneath. Stipules ovate, very deciduous. Flowers numerous, IM dense globular heads on peduncles of 4 to 1 in., of which 2 to 4 are usually on a short common peduncle in the upper axils, and several form a ter cluster or short panicle. Sepals and capsules not above 1} lines long, tomen- tose or villous. Stamens more than twice as long. —DC. Prod. iv. 1; Mag. t. 1811; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1167. Queensland. Glasshouse Mountains, F. M specimens in leaf only). N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to or Oe Te peak Sieber, m. 269, and others; New England, C. Stuart ; Hastings river, Beckler. ; 3 C. ferruginea, D. Don, Cunon. 11, in Edinb, New Phil. Journ. Apr. to June, pra the leaves softly rusty-tomentose or villous underneath, passes into the common every gradation, 7. ANODOPETALUM, A. Cunn. _ Calyx divided nearly to the base into 4 or 5 valvate lobes. Petals as manj very small. Stamens twice as many, inserted round a prominent disk; an- e thers small, the connective produced into a linear or conical appt il: | Ovary superior, 2-lobed, 2-celled, with few pendulous ovules in each T styles diverging. Fruit oblong, fleshy, 1-seeded, probably indehiscent, not seen ripe.—Tree or shrub. Leaves opposite, simple. Flowers $0 xe J or 2 together in the upper axils. The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. 1. A. biglandulos A. Cunn. in Hook.f, Fl. Tam, i. 148. a bushy shrub, growing sl ets a tree of 50 to 60 E quite glabrous ; branches very tough; branchlets angular. Leaves petiolate, narrow-oblong OF bi ng, late, obtuse, with a few obtuse serratures, 1 to 14 in. long, coriaceous, few and with few veins. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, deciduous. Flowers ewe inconspicuous, nearly sessile or very shortly pedicellate in the e m Calyx-segments rather broad, about 2 lines long, usually clothed insi? y a minute but dense tomentum. Petals much shorter than the caly% E Anodopetalum.] XLII. SAXIFRAGER. 441 Stamens almost as long as the calyx, the appendage of the connective almost aslong asthe anther. Young fruit about 5 lines long, oblong, fleshy, with a single pendulous seed. _. Tasmania. Subalpine districts, often forming a dense and almost impenetrable scrub, ID, Hooker. 8. APHANOPETALUM, Endl. (Platyptelea, J. Drumm.) Calyx-tube very short, adnate to the broad base of the ovary ; lobes 4, slightly imbricate, 2 opposite ones rather larger than the other 2, persistent and enlarged after flowering. Petals none or very minute. Stamens 8 ; fila- = ments short, anthers oblong, 2-lobed at the base. Ovary 4-furrowed, 4- = lled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell, tapering into 4 more or less united _ Styles, shortly divergent at the top; stigmas terminal. Fruit hard, small, indehiscent, surrounded at the base by the horizontally spreading wing-like en- calyx-segments. Seed solitary, reniform or horse-shoe-shaped, rugose. E Embryo curved, in the axis of the fleshy albumen.—Shrubs or trees, with _ Weak or twining branches, quite glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple. Stipules minute or none. Flowers few in short cymes or leafy panicles, or solitary in the axils of the leaves. The genus is limited to Australia. It is nearly allied to Ceratopetalum in character, and — in the fruit, but with a very different habit. Seppe saves ovate-lanceolate or elliptical (Eastern species) - . 1. 4. resinosum. ves linear (Western Pre s a ips E 7 E a . 2, A. occidentale. -L A. resinosum, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 35, and Iconogr. t. 96. Stated dy some to be a tree of 30 to 40 ft., by others described as a tall straggling or - timbing shrub, quite glabrous, the smaller branches scabrous with raised dots sad to be resinous. Leaves ovate lanceolate or elliptical, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, obtusely serrate, 14 to 3 in. long, acute at the base, on a petiole l to 3 lines, thinly coriaceous, smooth and shining. Peduncles axillary, Sometimes 3-flowered, the central pedicel without bracteoles, the 2 paige ones late, or all bracteolate and an additional pair lower down, or %4 — flotescence further developed into a short dense more or less leafy a e. - Valyx-lobes at first small, but soon enlarging, and under the ripe fruit o pe eolate, obtuse, about + in. long. Petals, when present, quite a oak “Tut without the wings scarcely 13 lines diameter.—F. gas > da - Hill, C. Stuart ; Pine river, Fitzalan. o Bay, o; Hastings and Macleay river, Bectler; » A. Cunningham, Ralston; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. qna 2. A. occidentale, F. Mull. Fragm. i. 228. A shrub, with son twining branches. er linear, ato o to 2 in. long, smooth and ure, _ He midrib prominent underneath, narrowed into a mega pre or a ara - Sessile, Peduncles filiform, usually 1-flowered, with a par of apo mp e middle, occasionally 3-flowered. Flowers rather smaller than in ce e 4 ome, the calyx-lobes more obtuse. Petals none. Styles e. cea lower than in “4. resinosum. Fruit nearly the same, the > me] cation oo J oblong or almost obovate, about } in. long.—P. latypte , a „and Harv, in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 55. 442 XLII. SAXIFRAGER. [ Aphanopetalum. W. Australia. Crevices of limestone rocks, Murchison river and Champion Bay, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 94, Oldfield. 9, CERATOPETALUM, Sm. Calyx-tube short, adnate to the base of the ovary; lobes 5, valvate, per- sistent and enlarged after flowering. Petals small and laciniate or none. Sta- mens 10, inserted on a perigynous disk ; anthers small, the connective pro- duced into a recurved appendage. Ovary short, half-inferior, 2-celled, with 4 collateral ascending ovules in each cell, tapering into 2 more or less united styles, free and recurved at the top ; stigmas terminal. Fruit small hard and indehiscent, surrounded by the 5 wing-like horizontally spreading enlarged calyx-lobes. Seed solitary, slightly curved ; embryo green, curved, in the axis of a fleshy albumen.—Trees or shrubs, glabrous and resinous. Leaves oppo- site, with 1 or 3 digitate leaflets articulate on the petiole. Stipules very small. Flowers small, in terminal trichotomous cymes or corymbose panicles. The genus is limited to Australia. AN A O io ae ot al LO Leaflets usually solitary. Petalsnone. . +. - : . . 2, C. apetalum. 1. C. gummiferum, Sm. Bot. Nov. Holl. t. 3. A tree attaining 30 to 40 ft. Leaflets 3, lanceolate, in some specimens all under 14 in. long, M others mostly twice that size, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, obtusely serru- late, narrowed at the base, coriaceous, shining, penniveined and strongly reti- culate. Cymes or panicles loosely trichotomous, the common peduncle shorter or longer than the leaves. Calyx-lobes in flower scarcely above 1 line long, in fruit linear-oblong, fully + in. long. Petals rather shorter than the calyx, deeply cut into 3 to 5 very narrow lobes. Stamens as long as the calyx. Fruit without the wings above 14 lines diameter, the adnate calyx-tube strongly ribbed.—DC. Prod. iv. 13. pie S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R: Brown, Sieber, m. 260, and ers. 2. C. apetalum, D. Don, Cunon. 11, in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. Apr: to June, 1830. A beautiful tree of 50 to 60 ft., with a shining silvery bark. Leaflets usually solitary (occasionally 3 on luxuriant shoots or perhaps youns trees), from ovate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, 3 to 5 in. long, or neal y coriaceous, Flowers leaves, sometimes slightly pubescent. Calyx-lobes acute, in flower, scarcely above + in. in fruit. Petals none. Appendage 0 connective of the anthers smaller and straighter than in C. gummiferum. N. S. Wales. Grose river, R. Brown; Port Jackson and especially in tho Bise Mountains, A. and R. Cunningham, and others; Illawarra, Shepherd., C. montanum, D. Don, Cunon. 11, was established on narrow-leaved sp not otherwise differ from the common form. ; 10. SCHIZOMERIA, D. Don. _ Calyx-tube short, adnate to the base of the ovary; lobes b AY Le | enlarged after flowering. Petals small, toothed. Stamens 10, inserte ecimens which do. Schizomeria.] XLII. SAXIFRAGEA. 443 side a lobed disk; anthers ovate, the connective produced into a short conical ~ appendage. Ovary short, free except the broad base, 2-celled, with 4 ovules in each cell attached to a pendulous placenta; styles distinct, short, recurved, with terminal stigmas. Fruit a drupe, with the small calyx-lobes reflexed _ fromits base; epicarp thick and fleshy; endocarp bony. Seed solitary, some- _ what curved ; embryo green, rather large, in a fleshy albumen.—Tree. Leaves opposite, simple. Stipules small. Flowers small, in terminal trichotomous cymes. = The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia, and very nearly allied to — Ceratopetalum in habit and flowers, but the fruit is different, and the leaves truly simple, _ the lamina continuous with the petiole. = L S. ovata, D. Don, Cunon. 12, in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. Apr. to June, 1830. A tree attaining 50 ft., with a dense foliage of a light green. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, mostly 3 to 4 in. long, nearly _ entire or with irregular obtuse serratures, shortly narrowed at the base and _ Continuous with the petiole, coriaceous, penniveined and reticulate. Flowers father smaller than those of Ceratopetalum apetalum, and the cymes usually looser, but otherwise much resembling them. Calyx-lobes scarcely above 1 — linelong. Petals shorter than the calyx, broad and toothed or lobed at the tad. Drape ovoid or globular, under } in. diameter. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson ; north- = Ward to Macleay and Hastings rivers, Beckler ; southward to Illawarra, A. Cunningham. 11. ACROPHYLLUM, Benth. (Calycomis, D. Don, not of R. Brown.) _, Calyx divided almost to the base into 4 to 6, usually 5, valvate segments. - Petals as many, entire, exceeding the calyx. Stamens twice as many as petals, Inserted round the slightly crenate disk; anthers small. Ovary free, 2-lobed, celled, with several ovules in each cell; styles 2, subulate. Capsule small, E septicidally dehiscent, the valves or carpels terminating in- the long, persistent, - Straight but divergent awn-like styles. Seeds few, globular.—Shrub. Leaves Opposite or verticillate, simple. Flowers in dense axillary clusters (reduced - Cymes), the 2 opposite ones forming a false whorl. The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. 1. A, venosum, Benth. in Maund, Botanist, ii. 95. An elegant, erect, glabrous shrub, with slender branches. Leaves opposite or in threes, sessile very shortly petiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 2 to 3 in. long, - ordered by triangular acute and regular teeth, rounded or truncate at the _ dase, rigid, prominently penniveined and reticulate. Flowers pink, numerous ìn dense false whorls, each subtended by a pair of floral leaves reduced to tacts, whilst the uppermost leaves of the flowering branch are again large ut flowers in their axils. Pedicels filiform, short at the time of flower- Me, 8 to 4 lines long in fruit. Calyx-segments about 1 line long. Petals ther longer, very narrow. Stamens longer. Capsules slightly exceeding le calyx, the slender rigid divaricate styles at least 2 lines long.— einman= nia australis, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 353; DC. Prod. iv. 9; Caly- verticillata, D. Don, Cunon. 10, in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. April to 444 XXII. SAXIFRAGEZ. [4crophylla. June, 1830; Acrophyllum verticillatum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4050; Weinman- nia venosa, Knowl. and Westec. Fl. Cab. t. 65, according to Walp. Rep. ii. 373. N. S. Wales. Moist shaded rocks, Springwood, Blue Mountains, rare, A. and R. Cunningham. Don was in error in supposing this to be the Calycomis mentioned by R. Brown in the Appendix to Flinders's Voyage; that was merely the orthography adopted by R. Brown for the genus Callicoma of Andrews. The plant described by A. Cunningham has not been hitherto recognized, owing to De Candolle having misunderstood his expression * foliis ternatis,” and rendered it “ foliis trifoliolatis.” 12. ACKAMA, A. Cunn. Calyx-tube short, campanulate ; lobes 5, valvate. Petals 5. Stamens 10, - inserted round a crenate disk; anthers small, tipped by a minute gland-like appendage to the connective. Ovary free, 2-celled, with several ovules in each cell; styles filiform, deciduous. Capsule small, turgid, septicidally de- hiscent. Seeds few, ovoid, hairy ; embryo cylindrical in the axis of a fleshy albumen.—Trees. Leaves opposite, pinnate. Flowers small, very numerous, in compound panicles, in terminal pairs, becoming axillary by the elongation of the central shoot. Besides the Australian species which is endemic, the genus comprises another from New Zealand. The inflorescence, which is uniformly racemose in Weinmannia, being pam in both species of Ackama, gives them a habit so different from that of Weinmannia, that when coupled with the valvate calyx and the shape of the fruit, there seems to be quite suf- ficient to maintain Ackama as a distinct genus rather than as a section of Weinmannia, as proposed by A. Gray. 1, A. Muelleri, Benth. A tree, glabrous or nearly so except the in- florescence. Leaflets usually 5, rarely 7 or 3, ovate-elliptical or ovate-lanceo- late, acuminate, obtusely and very shortly serrate, usually 3 to 4 in. long but sometimes much larger, narrowed at the base and more or less petiolulate, somewhat coriaceous, penniveined, with usually a minute tuft of hairs m axils of the principal primary veins underneath. Flowers very small and nu- merous, clustered along the short ultimate branches of a very compound pa- nicle, the branchlets all minutely pubescent. Calyx about 4 line long. Pe slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes. Stamens exserted. Capsule ovoid-glo lar, 1 to 13 lines long.—Weinmannia paniculata, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 83, altered to W. paniculosa, 1. c. 175. N. S. Wales. Hastings and Clarence rivers, Bechler. 13. WEINMANNIA, Linn. Calyx divided almost to the base into 4 or 5 more or less imbricate sèg- ments. Petals as many as calyx-segments. Stamens twice as many as pe inserted round the disk; anthers small. Ovary free, 2- or rarely 3-celled, with several pendulous ovules in each cell; styles distinct, each with a ter- minal or decurrent stigma. Capsule oblong or ovoid, septicidally dehiscent Seeds oblong reniform or nearly giobular, usually (but not always) hairy ; embryo in the axis of a fleshy albumen.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, or digitately or pinnately compound, with 3 or more leaflets. Flowers in simple racemes, terminal or axillary, solitary or clustered. A genus widely distributed over the warmer regions of the globe, extending into .. Weinmannia.] XXII. SAXIFRAGER. 445 tropical S. America, S. Africa, and New Zealand. The only Australian species is endemic, but as yet insufficiently known to be quite certain as to its genus. 1. W. rubifolia, F. Muell. (under Geissois). A small tree, the young branches inflorescence and veins of the leaflets more or less clothed with long fine hairs. Leaflets 3 or 5, digitate, ovate-elliptical, acuminate, sharply ser- rate, much narrowed into a petiolule, rigid but not thick, the primary parallel = veins very prominent underneath, with transverse reticulations, the terminal one usually 2 to 3 in. long,'or rarely more, the lateral ones smaller. Stipules large, hairy, deciduous. Racemes axillary, usually several together on a very short common peduncle, 11 to 3 in. long when in fruit. Flowers not seen. Pedicels very short or scarcely any. Sepals shorter than the fruit, Capsules = Teflexed, 1} to nearly 2 lines long, narrow, hairy, with 2, rarely 3, recurved styles, the stigmas shortly decurrent. Seeds 2 or 8 in each carpel, narrow- oblong, the testa more or less extended into a loose wing at one or both ends, or, in some seeds the nucleus appears to extend‘ nearly the whole lenygth.— Geissois rubifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 82. N.S. Wales. Cloud’s Creek, a tributary of Clarence river, Beckler. The flowers : ing unknown, the genus is somewhat doubtful. The inflorescence and fruit are quite those of Weinmannia, except that the capsules are more pendulous than is usual in that genus. The foliage and habit scarcely differ from those of a Feejee pa which we take to be the einmannia spireoides, A. Gray, but of which the perfect flowers and fruit are unknown, W. rubifolia is, however, certainly not a Geissois. 14. TETRACARPAA, Hook. f. Sepals 4, quite free, imbricate. Petals 4, imbricate. Stamens 8, hypogy a _ hous, anthers oblong, erect. Carpels 4, distinct, narrowed at the base, with _ humerous ovules in each; styles short, each with an obtuse stigma. Fruit ~ arpels opening along the inner edge. Seeds numerous, obovoid ; testa loose, membranous; embryo minute in a fleshy albumen.—Shrub. Leaves scat- q Flowers in terminal racemes. ia “Sieg tema ty The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. It Sudlicher to Dilleniacee on account of the hypogynous stamens aud erect eri Ar : and habit, the seeds and several other characters, are entirely tho rre from woody Sarifragee, in other genera of which a gradual passage may eS inferior : stamens and a free apocarpous pistil to epigynous § E 1. T. Tasmanica, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 264, and Fl. Tasm. i. 150. - A small erect bushy abril id about 1 ft. high, quite glabrous. Leaves te-oblong, obtuse, crenate, 4 to 1 in. long, narrowed into a petiole, cori- _ feous and shining, the midrib prominent underneath, the veins obscure or — Meonspicuous. Flowers rather small, white, in erect racemes of 1 to 2 in. Braets small, narrow. Pedicels at first very short, 2 to 3 lines long when in fiuit. Petals nearly orbicular, about 1} lines diameter, on short slender claws, Carpels narrow, erect, about 2 lines long. = Common in subalpine situations, J. D. Hooker. 15. GEISSOIS, Labillardiére. Calyx-tube very short, adnate to the broad base of the ovary; segmen 4, valvate, icidvona, Petals none, Stamens indefinite, usually 10 to 15, 446 XLII. SAXIFRAGEZ. [ Geissois. hypogynous, filaments long, anthers ovate. Ovary oblong-conical, 2-celled, with several ascending ovules in each cell ; styles filiform, united at the base. Capsule narrow, coriaceous, 2-celled, opening septicidally. Seeds oblong, flat, imbricate, produced upwards into a short wing; embryo in the axis of a fleshy albumen —Trees. Leaves opposite, digitately compound ; leaflets 3 or 5, petiolulate, coriaceous, entire or with distant serratures. Flowers purple or red, usually larger than in Weinmannia, in simple lateral racemes. The genus is from New Caledonia, where there are 3 or 4 species, but there also appears to be an Australian one, although our specimens are insufficient for defining it. A detached raceme of old capsules with the seeds fallen out, from Cloud’s Creek, Hastings river, Beckler, much resembles those from New Caledonia. These capsules are cylindrical, about ¢ in. long, on short pedicels, the epicarp minutely tomentose, the endocarp more or less separating from it. To the same species may very likely belong some specimens in leaf only (in Herb. F. Muell.) from Hastings river, Beckler, and Duck Creek, C. Moore. They are glabrous. Leaves opposite, 3-foliolate; leaflets petiolulate, ovate, 6 to 10 in. long, 3 to 5 in. broad, coriaceous, remotely and not deeply toothed, green on both sides. Stipules orbicular, cori- aceous, more persistent than in most Cunoniez. 16. EUCRYPHIA, Cav. (Carpodontos, Labill.) Sepals 4, free, broad and thin but rigid, much imbricate, cohering into a calyptra and falling off together as the flower opens. Petals 4, broad, oblique, much imbricate. Stamens very numerous, hypogynous ; anthers small. Ovary free, 5- to 12-furrowed, 5- to 12-celled, with several ovules in each cell; styles distinct, with small terminal stigmas. Capsule hard, ovoid or oblong, septicidally dehiscent, the carpels remaining long attached by the filiform placentas. Seeds few in each carpel, oblong, compressed, produced upwards into a membranous wing.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple or pm- mn Stipules very deciduous. Flowers large, white, solitary in the upper axils. Besides the two Australian species, which are endemic, there are two Chilian ones, and there, as in Australia, one has simple, the other pinnate leaves. The genus is placed by most authors in Hypericinee, from which it differs in foliage, in the presence of stipules and in the albuminous seeds. As suggested by Planchon, it appears to be much nearer to the Cunonieæ, notwithstanding the hypogynous stamens and very much imbricate sepals a petals. The fruit and seeds are very nearly those of Geissois, except that the carpels are more numerous, Leaves simple Leaves pinnate . . . DE Billardieri. 2. E. Mooret. . . . . . . 1. E. Billardieri, Spach; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm.i. 54. A handsome tree, attaining a very large size, although the smaller forms are often reduced to A bushy shrub, quite glabrous, the buds and young leaves often very gummy: Leaves simple, shortly petiolate, oblong, very obtuse, entire, coriaceous, Sent cous or whitish underneath, 1 to 2 in. long in the larger forms. pa white, very showy, the broad petals often 1 in. diameter. Peduncles mu? -aorter than the leaves. Capsules usually about 3 in. long.—™ et lucida, Labill. Voy. t. 18; DC. Prod. i. 556. Tasmania, R. Brown; mountainous districts, especially in the interior and S. and W. coasts, J. D. Hooker. Var. Milligani, A shrub or small tree, smaller and more compact in all ite parts the towards the Eucryphia.] . XLII. SAXIFRAGER, 447 the typical form; leaves often all under 3 in. long and more crowded; flowers and fruits smaller, but there appears to be no other difference, and many specimens are quite interme- diate—#. Milligani, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 54. t. 8. 2. E. Moorei, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 2. A handsome tree, the young shoots and foliage pubescent, the buds very gummy. Leaves pinnate ; leaf- Y. lets usually 9 to 11, narrow-oblong, entire, coriaceous, the terminal one often 1} to 2 in. long, the lateral ones shorter, the veins more prominent than in È. Billardieri. Flowers and fruits quite the same as in the smaller forms of E. Billardieri, i ES S. Wales. Wooded hills near the sources of the Clyde and Shoalhaven rivers, €. Moore. š 17. BAUERA, Banks. = Calyx divided nearly to the base into 6 to 10, rarely 4 or 5, spreading seg- ments, often toothed, valvate or slightly imbricate. Petals as many as calyx- _ Segments. Stamens indefinite, few or numerous, inserted round a narrow disk; anthers short. Ovary wholly or partially free, 2-celled, with 2 or more = ovules in each cell; styles distinct, recurved. Capsule superior or half-in- ior, broad, truncate, opening loculicidally in 2 valves, or in 4 from the septicidal splitting of the valves. Seeds obovate with a granulate testa ; em- tyo nearly terete, in a fleshy albumen.—Shrubs. Leaves cpposite, each with 3 leaflets without any common petiole, so as to have the appearance of a s whorl of 6 leaves. Stipules none. Flowers axillary, solitary, but sometimes ` the pairs crowded in a terminal leafy head. __ The genus is limited to Australia. By a mistake of Salisbury’s, copied by subsequent _ Mthors, the name of the genus has been attributed to Kennedy. In Andrews's * Botanical Repository,’ where it was first published, it is expressly stated that it was named by Banks, t any allusion to Kennedy. Mewes pediocllate, cow puertos Sraka peik kranet feji eug es ly 8-toothed 2. B. capitata y superior, Ovules several, ascending. Leaves mostly 3-tooth . B. capitata. Ovary half-inferior. Ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous. Leaves entire 3. B. sessiliflora. ¿1 B. rubioides, Andr. Bol. Rep. t. 198. An elegant shrub, some- ques small slender and prostrate, sometimes erect and bushy, attaining 5 or 6 ft. or even more ; branches terete, glabrous or more frequently pubescent Or hirsute with long fine hairs. Leaflets oblong or lanceolate, rather acute, Tarely exceeding 3 in. and sometimes not ~n. long, evergreen and often ‘Siting, marked by a few serratures sometimes deep sometimes obscure or E Almost disappearing. Flowers pink or white, on slender pedicels, erp E shorter, but more frequently longer than the leaves. Calyx-segments m S rarely fewer than 6, and often 8 or 9. Petals longer uu the ca y often twice as long, spreading to a diameter of from 4 to 4 in. e a Shorter than the persistent calyx, very broad, wholly superior although attache bya broad base, several-seeded.—Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 96; Bot. Mag. t. 715; DO. Prod. iv. 13; Hook. f Fl. Tasm. i, 149, t. 81; B. rubiefolia, Salisb. in > «1 514, t. 10; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1313; F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 23; E humilis, Sweet ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1197; DC. Prod. iv. 13; B. Billar- 4 D. Don, Cunon. 13, in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. Apr. to June, 1830. 448 XLII. SAXIFRAGER. . [ Bauera. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 287, and == sa abundant on banks of streams, often in ‘the water, Lowne ; New England, Victoria. Wet swampy places and marshy woods, in the southern and eastern parts of the colony, F. Mueller. Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown ; very abundant throughout the colony, generally in poor wet soil, J. D. Hooker. Var. microphylla, Ser. Small, slender and prostrate. Leaflets mostly about 2 lines long. Pedicels long and slender. Flowers small. Petals usually 5 or 6. Stamens few.—B. mi- crophylla, Sieb. in DC. Prod. iv. 13; D. Don, Cunon. 13. in Edinb. New. Phil. Journ. Apr. to June, 1830; B. galioides, Sieb. in Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 77.— Port Jackson, R. Brown, Caley, Sieber, n. 286, aud others. The Tasmanian variety figured in the plate above quoted is not quite so small and slender as Sieber’s and some other Port Jackson specimens. 2. B. capitata, Ser. in DC. Prod. iv. 13. A small shrub, either diffuse, with the habit of the shorter specimens of B. rubioides, var. microphylla, or with a woody stock and numerous slender stems of 4 ft., slightly pubescent. Leaflets narrow, scarcely above } in. long, obtuse, usually with 1 prominent lobe or tooth on each side, Flowers almost sessile, solitary in each axil, but several pairs close together at the ends of the branches, forming little leafy heads. Calyx-segments 4 to 6, usually 5, about 2 lines long, more distinctly 3-fid than the leaves. Stamens not numerous; anthers small. Ovary free but attached by a broad base; ovules several in each cell, ascending from near the base of the partition. Capsule loculicidal but scarcely septicidal, Seeds rather large, pubescent, rugose, with a prominent raphe.—F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 24. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, F. Mueller ; Hastings river, Beckler ; New- eastle, Leichhardt. _ 3. B, sessiliflora, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 41, and Fragm. iv. 24. A shrub, with the habit of the larger forms of B. rubivides, usually hirsute. Leaflets oblong or almost obovate, obtuse, 2 to 1 in. long or rather more, the margins recurved and usually entire, scabrous pubescent or hirsute, Flowers (purple or pink ?) sessile in small axillary leafy clusters or termi leafy heads, Calyx-tube turbinate, adnate to the ovary ; lobes 6 to 9, usually 7 or 8, lanceolate, hirsute, 1 line long or rather more. Petals 2 or 3 times as long. Stamens few, rarely twice as many as petals; anthers larger than in B. rubioides, Ovary half-inferior with a very thin dissepiment, and 2 ovules in each cell, suspended from the summit. Capsule not seen rip, ye apparently 1-seeded.—F. Muell. Pl. Vict. ii. t. 16. Victoria. Crevices of rocks on the summit of Mount William and descending along the streams to the base of the Grampians, frequent at Morro-Morro, F. Mueller. Tripe II. Saxirracex.—Herbs. Leaves, in the Australian genera, radical, alternate, or imbricate, without stipules, Stamens various. free or shortly united at the base. 18. CEPHALOTUS, Labill. Calyx-tube short, free, lobes 6, valvate. Petals none. Stamens 12, me serted round a glandular disk; anthers short, with a thick glandular conne tive. Carpels 6, free, distinct, with 1 or rarely 2 ascending ovules m, ‘iste and tapering into short recurved styles. Fruit-carpels small, erect, vert? Cephalotus.] XLII. SAXIFRAGE. 449 round a globular succulent enlarged torus, opening along the inner edge. Seeds solitary, erect ; embryo very small, in the axis of a fleshy albumen.— Herb. _ Leaves radical, several of them converted into pitchers. Flowers white, in a narrow panicle at the end of a leafless scape. The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. The completely apocarpous _ Pistil has induced several botanists to place it in Rosacee, but the habit, definite stamens, and albuminons seeds, with a small embryo, are much more those of Sarifragee. 1. C, follicularis, Zadill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 7, ¢.145. Stock short and ‘perennial. Leaves rosulate, obovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, } to 1 in. long, narrowed into a petiole often as long as the lamina, glabrous or ciliate ; some converted into ovoid or nearly globular pitchers of about 1 in. diameter or ather more, each with 3 external longitudinal raised nerves, dilated into nar- Tow leaf-like double wings ciliate on the edge; the mouth of the pitcher bor- red by a transversely plaited ring; the ovate lid attached to the side next the petiole. Scape 1 to 2 ft. high, silky-pubescent. Flowers scarcely 2 lines diameter, silky-hairy, nearly sessile, in short alternate racemes forming a nar- Tow panicle of 1 to 3 in. Calyx-tube greenish, the lobes white, especially at the edges. Stamens not exceeding the calyx. Ripe carpels very little longer and very hairy, the central torus very small at the time of flowering, at least line diameter when in fruit.—R. Br. App. in Flind. Voy. 600, t. 4; Bot. Mag. t. 3118, 3119; Nees, in Pl. Preiss. i. 278. W. Australia. Wet marshes, King George’s Sound, Labillardióre, Pa Brown, and 19. EREMOSYNE, Endl. - Calyx-tube hemispherical, compressed, adnate to the ovary ; lobes 5, nar- Tw. Petals 5. Stamens 5. Ovary half-adnate to the calyx-tube, 2-celled, with l erect ovule in each cell; styles short, distinct, with capitate stigmas. psule half-inferior, membranous, compressed, broad, 2-celled, loculicidally “iscent. Seeds solitary in each cell, erect, albuminous.—Small herb. Leaves alternate, lobed. Flowers minute, in terminal cymes. The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. l. E. pectinata, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 53 ; Iconogr. t. 112, A slen- : or divaricately branched annual of 3 or 4 in., hirsute with short White spreading hairs. ‘Radical leaves rosulate, petiolate, obovate or spathu- y About $ in. long; stem-leaves alternate, sessile, deeply divided into 3 t~ ¿arrow linear lobes, the central one longer and often broader Ene the owers | i i j 1 line in diameter, the ous in terminal corymbose cymes, each flower about 3 line in diame > the small white petals exceeding the calyx-lobes, and occasionally with 2 or 3 i O; 3 line broad, hirsute with few Se id-coni wi i ttled testa, the albumen not Seeds ovoid-conical, with a thin pale mo a Ph i * Australia, Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 20 ; sandy shady places, district, Preiss, n. 2046. 450 XLII. SAXIFRAGEZ. 20. DONATIA, Forst. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, lobes 4 or 5. Petals 5 to 10, inserted round a broad flat disk. Stamens 2 or 3, inserted on or within the disk; anthers 2-celled, opening outwards. Ovary inferior, 2- or 3-celled, with several ovules in each cell attached to a pendulous placenta ; styles short and thick, united at the base, stigmas globular. Fruit... —Densely tufted alpine herbs. Leaves small, closely imbricated, persistent. Flowers solitary, sessile amongst the leaves. : Besides the Australian species, which is also in New Zealand, there is one from Fuegia. s genus is very anomalous, but appears to be nearer to Saxifragee than to any other rder. ; 1. D. Novæ-Zelandiæ, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 81, t. 20. A small densely tufted perennial, the short stem completely covered by the crowded imbricated leaves. Leaves linear, about 2 lines long, entire, coriaceous, shining, the fresh ones terminating the tufts of a bright green, the'old per- sisting ones below them brown, with dense tufts of white shining almost sea- rious hairs in their axils. Flowers solitary and sessile in the tufts, about as long as the leaves. Calyx-tube turbinate, the 5 lobes thick, somewhat obtuse, shining like the leaves. Petals 5. Stamens 2, inserted near the centre the disk close to the base of the styles and almost cohering with them. Ovules about 12 in each cell, in a dense tuft pendulous from the top. Tasmania. Summit of Mount Lapeyrouse, Oldfield ; also in New Zealand. Order XLII. CRASSULACEA. Sepals 3 or more, usually 5, but sometimes up to 20, free from the ovary: but occasionally united in a lobed calyx. Petals as many as sepals, free rarely united in a lobed corolla. Stamens as many or twice as many as ‘ inserted with them at the base of the calyx. Ovary superior, the carpels as many as the petals, distinct, usually with a small flat scale at the base of each ; with several ovules in each; styles simple, distinct. Ripe carpels capsut- Seeds several, with a thin fleshy albumen and straight embryo.—Herbs wa rarely low shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves succulent, without stipules. Flowers in terminal racemes cymes or panicles, or rarely in axillary clusters: A rather numerons Order, extending over the greater part of the globe, but particularly a abounding in S. Africa and in the rocky districts of Europe and Asia. The only Australian genus is generally spread over the area of the Order. The Order is nearly allied had herbaceous Sazifragee, but it is more a i and is a "3 pocarpous, the stamens less perigynous, known by its succulent leaves and thoroughly isomerous flowers. 1. TILLAA, Linn. (Bulliarda, DC) a Sepals, petals, stamens and carpels 3 or 4 each, very rarely, species not Australian, 5, all distinct. Ripe carpels opening along the inner edges © seeds often reduced to 1 or 2 in each.—Small, often minute, herbs. opposite. Flowers minute, axillary or in a terminal leafy panicle. The genus has very nearly the extensive geographical range of the Order. the s: ~ Tillea.] XLIII. CRASSULACEA. 451 “ay, | Australian species wo are also in New Zealand, one of which extends also to extratropical S. America, the two others are endemic. Flowers under 1 line long, axillary. Carpels short and obtuse. Flowers in dense leafy clusters. Petals shorter than the sepals. . 1. T. verticillaris. Flowers solitary, mostly pedicellate. Petals as long as or exceeding . the sepals. Leaves not 2 lines long. -Pedicels usually longer. No scales un- der the carpels IA ee er ER Leaves often above 4 in. long. Pedicels rarely as long as the leaves. A scale under each A AE ETA Flowers above 1 line long, in a broad dichotomous or 3-chotomous y Panicle. Carpels oblong +. sny d toe wien 3. T. macrantha. l omit Dasystemon calycinum, DC. Mem. Crass. 15. t. 3, and Prod, iii. 382, described from a plant from the Jardin des Plantes of Paris, supposed to have been raised from Aus- tralian seed, for it is evidently founded on a mistake. The stamens with thick ovoid fila- ments, forming the chief character of the genus, are not so figured in the plate; probably a first hasty examination the carpels were taken for stamens. The plant appears to me Crassula expansa, Ait., a S. African not an Australian species, an error as to origin Very common in botanical gardens. ET. verticillaris, DC. Prod. iii. 382. An annual, when first flower- Mg simple and 1 in. high, but when old much branched, forming dense tufts o 3 or 4 in. diameter, or slender and 4 or 5 in. long. Leaves ovate-lanceo- ~ late or linear, connate at the base, 1 to 2 lines long. Flowers very small in “nse axillary clusters mixed with small leaves, many of them nearly sessile, ts on pedicels of 1 or 2 lines. Sepals usually 4, very rarely 5, acute or tistate, about 2 line long. Petals shorter, narrow, acute. Carpels without. es, when Tipe very obtuse, not exceeding the calyx, with 1 or 2 seeds in ch— Hook. f, FI. Tasm. i. 145 ; T. pedunculata, Sieb. Pl. Exs., not of Sm. ; 4. adscendens and T. colorata, Nees, in Pl. Preiss. i. 277. 2 iis 1 l; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, NS. Wale. 6 Eme fhe Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 173, and E Mo northward to Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; southward to Twofold Bay, “yp teller ; in the interior to Barrier range, Victorian Expedition. i Rocky and gravelly places, common in various parts of the colony, F. Mueller Mud others, > . yaasmania, Common on dry rocks and gravel in many parts of the island, J. D. 2. T. purpurata. 4. T. recurva. min G Mia. From Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi, to Bugle and Barossa ranges, F. Mueller ; pe Gilles, Burkitt. yas | | a ww. Australia, King George's Sound, R. Brown, and thence to Swau and Murchison Rivers, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 114, 115, Preiss, n. 1931, 1932, Oldfield, and others. al Species extends to New Zealand, and also to extratropical S. America, if 7. minima, “8, be really the same. at. urata, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 472, and Fl. Tasm. «145, a slender roa fc annual of 4 to lin., rarely lengthening 102 in, Leaves linear, connate at the base, 1 to 14 or rarely 2 lines long. Mowers minute, on slender solitary pedicels mostly longer than the leaves, rarely short, Petals about + line long, sepals shorter, acute or obtuse. Car- > pee not longer than the sepals, with several seeds.—F. Muell. Pl. 1. t. 19, Via, Wales. Paramatta, R. Brown. Wet pastures, very abundant in many parts of the colony, s aul 452 XLIII. CRASSULACE. [Tillea. Tasmania. Wet places, Formosa, Gunn; S. Esk river, C. Stuart. S. Australia. Wet places, foot of Mount Remarkable, and many other parts of the colony, F. Mueller. W. Australia, Drummond. Also in New Zealand. : 3. T, macrantha, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 310, and Fl. Tasm. i. 145. An erect dichotomous much-branched anmual, attaining 2 or even 3 in. Leaves linear, 1 to 3 lines long, connate at the base. Flowers larger than in the other species, numerous, either on long pedicels in the forks, or — shortly pedicellate or sessile on the last branches, forming a broad corymbose panicle occupying the greater part of the plant. Sepals lanceolate, acute, about 14 lines long, sometimes, but not always, ciliate. Petals as mp the sepals or shorter. Carpels acuminate at the time of flowering; when ripe oblong, obtuse, abruptly pointed by the base of the style, nearly as long as the sepals. Seeds several, but not numerous, Victoria. Wet sandy places near Brighton, etc., F. Mueller ; very common in wet pastures about Melbourne, Adamson. Tasmania. Wet hollows, Georgetown, very common, Gunn. S. Australia. Near Adelaide, F. Mueller. 4. T. recurva, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 146. A slender plant, densely tufted and 1 or 2 in. high in sandy places, lengthening out to 1 ft. in water. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 4 in. long or more in the longer specimens, 1 to 2 lines in the smaller ones. Flowers few, small, solitary, on peduncles rarely exceeding the leaves. Sepals about 4 line long, acuminate. Pet about as long. Carpels acuminate with the recurved styles, with a sm cuneate or linear-spathulate scale under each, sometimes half as long as the carpel. Fruit-carpels about as long as the calyx, with 2 or 3 seeds 1D each. nl verticilaris, Hook. Te. Pl. t. 298, not of DO.; T. intricata, Nees in Pl- ` Preiss. i. 278. Queensland. A specimen not in flower from Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, appears to e this species. N. S. Wales. Inundated forests, Lake George, 4. Cunningham. Victoria. ¿Common on wet banks of rivers, etc., F. Mueller, Robertson. Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; common in bogs and inundated places throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Onkaparinga river and towards Lake Torrens, F. Mueller. ian’, F wW. nee Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 110 ; wet places on the lake, Rottenest 1 reiss, n. g Orver XLIV. DROSERACEÆ. Calyx free or very shortly adnate to the broad base of the ovary, to the base or nearly so, into 4 or 5 or rarely 8 segments or sepals. or 1 basal placenta, or 2- or 3-celled, with several ovules to each placenta m cell; styles either as many as placentas, simple or divided to the base ® g to appear twice the number, or variously branched ; or rarely the styles into one; stigmas various. Capsule opening loculicidally, in 45 many valves | XLIV. DROSERACER. 453 as cells or placentas, the valves rarely splitting septicidally. Seeds several, with a reticulate testa, sometimes produced beyond the nucleus into a loose wing; embryo cylindrical or sometimes minute in a fleshy albumen.—Herbs. Leaves usually ciliate or covered with glandular hairs. Flowers solitary or in one-sided racemes, either simple or forming a branching cyme. A small Order, found in nearly all parts of the world, the principal genus closely allied to the herbaceous Saxifragee, differing chiefly in the insertion of the petals and stamens, being more generally hypogynous ; the whole group is easily recognized by the glandular leaves, volute in vernation. Of the two Australian genera, the principal one constitutes nearly the Whole Order and ranges over the general area, the other is endemic and very anomalous. Ovary 1-celled. Styles 2 to 5, distinct or shortly united at the base . . 1. DROSERA. Ovary 2-celled. Style undivided . Tg eee eo eee A 2. BYBLIS. 1. DROSERA, Linn. (Sondera, Lehm.) Calyx=segments 4, 5, or rarely 8. Petals as many. Stamens as many; an- thers opening laterally or outwards in longitudinal slits. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 to 5, usually 3, parietal placentas; styles as many as placentas, simple or va- —Mously branched. Capsule opening in as many valves as placentas, with the ones in their centre.—Herbs. Leaves usually involute in vernation, the lamina more or less covered on the upper side with glandular hairs or cilia and bordered with longer ones, usually irritable and closing over insects or - other objects resting on them, the under side and petioles without glandular hairs. Stipules when present scarious and usually lobed or jagged. Flowers ‘Solitary or in one-sided racemes or forked cymes, ou radical scapes or terminal peduncles, : us Al nus, Wi ive hical range of the Order, and comprising th grat majority of ace OF 41 pita R species, 4 are also E. Indian or in the e. , of which 1 extends to New Zealand, 4 more extend to New Zealand only, the remain . The Australian species may be readily distributed into the two obd- OM Rorella and Ergaleium, if characterized chiefly by their mode of vegetation. | E stock or stem, very short and completely covered with the leaves, except in ms at its upper end the winter bud for the following year’s bi goma ying away either at the close of the season or after haying endured sev bat d With the old imbricate bases of the leaves, never forming a bulb at the base, bu ele lew roots or sometimes stolons immediately under the fresh leaves of me „r m aa) section also the styles are usually simple or once branched, very rarely i ree th se stipules are wanting only in 3 species. In the second section, Erga ar rad Stem-like stock forms usually, perhaps always, at its lower end a bulb, and age as aa 7 Aer a rosette of leaves with a leafless scape or leafy stems, which appear to y Tene’ k or Wed, although in wh: :< takes place has not been observed. The stoc gh in what manner this takes p : = £m between the bulb aad the rosette has frequently loose ragged remains of leaves or pe les, as if it were partially at least perennial. In this section the styles are perio kre ue Very much divided, forming usually a dense tuft on the ovary, vo se : = Linde tither entirely wanting, or, in D. Banksii, small and very evanescent. In oe sec a a Mer, and especially in Rorella, there are single exceptional species, fro aa ts ac efinite character derived from the singular diversities m the alee E z dois Mein: IS. Planchon, in his excellent study of the genus, 1m the Annales wa shina. ek that telles, ser. 3, ix., proposes each of these anomalous species as a ae z aini a4 fourse appears to me not to tend towards clearness of method, but rat tias her mind, and I have preferred adopting, with slight modifications, the two o ng them more artificially in the following table :— E 454 _ XLIV. DROSERACEZ. Sect. I. Rorella.—Stock not bulbous, the upper end perennial. Scapes leafless (ar cept in D. indica). Stipules often present. Styles usually simple or divided into 2 simple branches, or rarely dichoto:nous. No stipules. Stems elongated. Leaves alternate, linear. Racemes several- flowered. Styles divided to the base into 2 filiform branches Stems short, covered by the sheathing bases of the linear leaves. Peduncles or scapes 1-flowered. Styles short, simple, with capi- A tomate Glick Bi Cele, ice 1st kes Stemless, Leaves obovate, rosulate. Scapes short, several-flowered. Styles forked or dichotomous ade ena es 10368 Stipules scarions, Leaves radical, rosulate (except in D. binata), the stems or stock dying away below the rosette or rarely persisting | and densely covered with the dried remains of the old leaves and stipules. sae oe with 1 minute 4-merous flower. Styles 4, undi- vided . ee A oe eee ee ee Seape filiform, with a short loose almost corymbose raceme of 2 to 4 flowers. Leaves obovate or orbicular. i Styles 2, divided to the base into 2 branches (or 3 simple ?), with Jing papitata aim oi a A Styles 5, filiform, undivided. Stipules short, with fine lobes Styles 3, filiform, undivided. Stipules silvery-white, rather broad, densely imbricate in a prominent central bud . . +. + + Scape with a one-sided raceme of several flowers, all on short pedicels. Racemes glabrous or scarcely pubescent. Leaves obovate or orbicular, Scapes slender, rarely 2 in. high. A Racemes short, rather loose. Calyx narrow, about 1 line . . . long. Styles 8, short, with globular stigmas . . . . 8. D. nilidula. age se. Pedicels very short. Calyx not half ine long. Styles filiform. i Styles 3. Petiole not twice as long as the lamina. + 9. D. pal ars : Styles 5, rarely 4. Petiole 3 times as long as the lamina 10. D. parvuta. Scapes attaining several in. Pedicel very short. Calyx above 1 line long. je a 5, simple, fringed at the stigmatic ed aa ¿DA Styles 3 or 4, divided to the base into 2 branches, entire or al forked at the end. RA A A $ . +. 12 D. spathulata. cemes, especially the calyxes, softly villous. 3 E Styles 3 or 4, simple. Leaves oblong. Old petioles and sti- pules often persistent below the rosette. Anthers oblong, on thick filaments. Petioles closely re- D. Drummondi. Hered on the stoka psc ts ee A D. scorpioides. Anthers small, on slender filaments. Petioles not ss 14. P: Styles 3, dichotomous. Leaves orbicular, the petioles long, solaris. woolly-hairy as well as the stipules. . . + + + + * 15. D. peto Scape tall, with a loose cyme. Leaves linear, forked or diehoto- D. tinals: mous. Styles divided into a dense tuft of numerons lobes - + 16. L. ‘ oak e Sect. IT. Ergaleium.—Stock short, slender, pnl: a or sath ran ds of old petioles, forming (usually if not always) a bulb at the tower en Stipules the upper end a rosette of leaves and leafless scapes, or leafy stems or bre pcr into very none (or in D, Banksii small and evanescent). Styles dichotomous or numerous filiform branches, forming a dense tuft. Rootstock bearing a simple rosette of leaves, with leafless scapes or peduncles, . D. indica. . D. Arcturi. . D. glanduligera. à D. pygmea. . D. platystigma. z D. pulchella. . D. leucoblasta. [Drosera. oducing a . Drosera.] XLIV. DROSERACEA. Leaves semicircular or almost reniform, cuneate at the base, on a or patioles s 0 0000 io A A Leaves orbicular obovate or oblong, tapering into a very short pe- tiole. Peduncles, usually several, all 1-flowered. Leaves small, thick, oblong, not half as long as the peduncle . 18. D. bulbosa. Leaves obovate, penniveined, nearly as long as or longer than the peduncle... S cia bi sores E 19. D. rosulata. Leaves obovate, several-nerved, nearly as long as the peduncle 20. D. Whittakeri. Peduncles' several, filiform, 2- or 3-flowered. Leaves obovate, A a5 a ans es Se a Peduncles solitary, bearing a cyme of many flowers. Leaves all reduced to lanceolate membranous scales. . . . 22. D. squamosa. Leaves broadly obovate or orbienlar . > . e p + +. + 23 Rootstock bearing a rosette of leaves, and either leafy flowering-stems, or leafless scapes and leafy side-branches. Leaves not peltate. Stem-leaves opposite or whorled. Central scape usually leafless, bearing a cyme of several flowers. ; Leaves of the primary rosette scarcely petiolate, above 4 in. long. ; Scape (with the cyme) 3 to 6 in. long or more . . +. + 24, D. stolonifera. ves of the primary rosette distinctly petiolate, orbicular, under 2 lines diameter. Scape (with the cyme) 2 to 4 in. . 25 Stem-leaves alternate. Central scape leafless, 1- or 2-flowered, 4 to $ in. long. Leafy side-branches short, usually barren. . + + + * * » * 26. D. ramellosa. E Stem leafy, with a many-flowered terminal cyme . - + + +. 27. D. flabellata. a Rootstock terminating in a single or branched leafy flowering-stem. Lower leaves reduced to short linear-subulate or linear-lanceolate seales or (in the first 2 species) rosulate and not peltate. Stem- leaves peltate, on filiform petioles, often clustered in the axils. Stem-leaves lunar-peltate, i.e. broadly crescent-shaped or at least with 2 prominent angles. * Lower leaves, when present, rosulate, not peltate. Racemes simple, the pedicels all short. ; Sepals entire, ibi: Seeds narrow-linear . + a y 98. D. auriculata. Sepals toothed, villous or nearly glabrous. Seeds ovoid . . 29. D. peltata, Lower leaves not rosulate, all reduced to small narrow acute scales. Racemes branched or the lower pedicels long. Flowers large, red or yellow, few, in a short loose Tr "yó D, Nani 17. D. zonaria. . D. humilis. Uuk O ee aae EPE icle. rie small, white, in a go ss PES 81. D. gigantea. Stem-leaves orbicular-peltate, without angles, the lower ones not rosuldte, often reduced to narrow acute scales. .-. 40. D. heterophylla. Flowers solitary or very few, mostly 8-merous . Flowers few, small, in a simple raceme, lower pedicels short. A Stipules often po appi ya Styles not much divided. 41.-D. Banks. es. Stipules none. owers 5-merous, in cymes or loose racer e Styles not much divided. Flowers very small, in many- bti Uond ama e o aa ea a ee . 32. D. myriantha. Styles divided nearly to the base into very numerous filiform, mostly simple branches. ea : Flowers sic da the eyme, white. Calyx-segments meee 33. D. pallida. Flowers in cymes, red. Calyx-segments ciliate-toothed, villous or nearly glabrous . AAA AR Flowers few, in short, loose, simple nl dea ere om racemes. Calyx-segments ciliate- > ee slightly sitio egm ia E S stich 35. D. filicaulis. . 21. D. macrophylla. . D. erythrorhiza. 34. D. penicillaris. 456 i XLIV. .DROSERACEÆ. [Drosera. Styles divided into very numerous dichotomous branches. Flowers in a loose eyme or- corymbose panicle. si Glabrous; usually simple and erect. Leaves rather large 36. D. Huegelit. More or less glandular-pubescent, usually flexuose or twining. Leavessmall. ... . .-. . + +. + 87. D. macrantha. Flowers few, in a simple or very rarely once-forked loose a mates Le o ga de od oe 00 DAI Styles divided into very numerous very short branches, form- img a dense globose mass. Filaments dilated upwards. Se- : pals rather large, usually glabrous and entire. . . . . 39. D. calycina. Sect. I. RORELLA, DC.—Stock not bulbous, the upper end perennial. Scapes leafless, except in D. indica. Stipules often present, scarious. Styles usually simple or divided into 2 simple branches, rarely dichotomous. 1. D. indica, Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 319. Leafy stems, from a few in. to 1 or nearly 2 ft. long. Leaves linear, acuminate, often several in. long, fringed with the glandular cilise of the genus, either quite to the base or leaving a short glabrous petiole, often half stem-clasping, but not sheathing. Stipules none. Flowers in loose, lateral, often leaf-opposed racemes, short an few-flowered, or long with more numerous flowers, glabrous or glandular- pubescent. Pedicels longer than the calyx. Sepals narrow, about 7% lines long in flower, 2 lines in fruit. Anthers oblong-linear. Styles 3, divided to thie base, each into 2 filiform branches, dilated and stigmatic on the inner side at the end. Seeds obovoid, with a’ close testa.—Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 204; Wight, Ill. t. 20 C.; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. i. 58; D. serpens, Planch. 1. c. E N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller ; Port Essington, Armstrong ; Attack Creek, M'Douall Stuart's Expedition. Queensland. Endeavour river, R. Brown, A. Cunningham ; Shoalwater Bay, Keppel Bay, R. Brown ; Port Curtis, M‘Gillivray ; Rockhampton, Thozet ; Broad Sound, Bow- mun. rare, F, Mueller. W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. Common in East India and the Archipelago, extending as far as Amoy, in China, and also Victoria. Moist gravelly places round freshwater lakes, near Eustone, on the Murray, ` iu various parts of tropical Africa. The Australian specimens are usually larger, with longer E 4 . racemes and larger flowers than the Indian ones, but not always 80, and there is no 0 difference. 2. D, Arcturi, Hook. Journ. Bot. i.247, and Ic. Pl. t. 56. Stoo tufted, sometimes slightly elongated and covered by the sheathing bases 9 the old leaves, the plant otherwise stemless. Leaves linear, obtuse, gs or rarely nearly 3 in. long and 1 to 2 lines broad in the larger specimens, others not half that size, the glandular ciliæ extending from the wl wards, narrowed below into a glabrous petiole, sheathing at the base. Soape 1-flowered, usually exceeding the leaves, bearing occasionally a sm ther bract above the middle. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long. Petals obovate, poe large. Styles 3, undivided, short and thick, each with a broad capitate 2 d. reniform stigma.—Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 1895 pete E Tasm. i. 28; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. i. 57. N. S. Wales. Mount Kosciusko, F. Mueller. XLIV. DROSERACER. 457 Victoria. Boggy places or mossy banks of rivulets and ponds, at an elevation of 5000 to 7000 ft.; alps of the Bogong and Munyang ranges, F. Mueller, Tasmania. Table Mountain, near the Derwent, R. Brown ; bogs, at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 ft., Mount Wellington, and Western Mountains, J. D. Hooker ; Mount lapeyrouse, Oldfield. Found also in New Zealand. F. Mueller describes the leaves as some- times 4 in. long and 3 in. wide. I have never seen them anything near that size, 3. D. glanduligera, Lehm. Pugill. viii. 37, and Pl. Preiss. i. 252. Leaves all rosulate, broadly obovate or orbicular, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines diameter, narrowed into a short petiole or the inner ones rounded at the base or almost peltate. Stipules none. Scape leafless, 3 to 14 in. high, including a loose raceme of 6 to 10 flowers, rarely reduced to 2 or 3. Pedicels recurved, about as long as the calyx, glandular-ciliate as well as the rhachis. Sepals 1 to Tylines long. Petals red (or orange ?), not large. Styles 3, very slender, divided to about the middle into 2 branches, sometimes again forked. Seeds ovoid.—Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 206; F. Muell. Pl. Vict, 1. 55. N. S. Wales. George’s river, R. Brown ; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. Victoria. Heaths and pastures, scattered over the colony, F. Mueller. Eo ustralis. Near Adelaide, Lynedoch valley, Barossa and Bugle ranges, ete, P. er, W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 35; near Perth, Preiss, n. 1976; Hill er, Oldfield ; Hampden, Clarke. ; 4. D. Pygmea, DC. Prod. i. 317. A minute species, said to be annual, Sut evidently forming a hybernating bud in the centre of the rosette, like the other species of the section. Leaves rosulate, orbicular, El to nearly 1 line aeter, on slender petioles, forming tufts of about 4 in. diameter. Stipules Sarious, deeply lobed. Scapes glabrous, filiform, 1 to nearly 1 in. long, bearing a single minute terminal flower. Sepals 4, about 3 line long in tower, nearly 1 line in fruit. Petals rather larger. Styles 4, slightly club- aped and stigmatic at the end. Capsule 4-valved. Seeds few, nee tge in proportion, ovoid.—Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 289 ; Hook. | po i. 29; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. i. 56. | a q: S. Wales. matta, R. Brown ; Jervis's Bay, s oia. > Sandy heat around, occasionali wet, ae of the Serra Range, Port > Ce., F. Mueller; ne bourne, Adamson, Robert A Abundant ja ee and sandy soil along the N.W. coast, J. D. Hooker. $ Australia, Encounter Bay, F. Mueller. “tso in New Zealand. ; 5. D. platystigma, Lehm. Pugill. viii. 87, and Pl. Preiss. i. 249. A Small cits pets. ‘Leaves ronal, nearly orbicular, 13 to 2 lines cer Meter, the petiole longer, broad and flat. Stipules scarious, finely a A e central tuft not exceeding the leaves. Scapes filiform, 3 to 15 oe ong, ng at the end 2 or 3 comparatively large flowers or rarely one 0 y E ort pedicels. Sepals green, about 1 line long. Petals 3 times oA ~ ading, of an orange colour. Anthers small. Styles according to Lehman Simple ; according to Schlotthauber 2, simple; I find however, m = Wer of Preiss’s and 2 of Oldfield’s, 2 styles, each divided to the base sd $ branches, with rather large capitate stigmas. Placentas 2, w1 Tather numerous ovules. e Australia, King George’s Sound, Oldfield, Preiss, n; 1994. 458 XLIV. DROSERACEZ. [Drosera. 6. D. pulchella, Zehm. Pugill. vii. 38, and Pl. Preiss. i. 250. A small species, resembling at first sight D. platystigma. Leaves rosulate, or- bicular, 1 to 2 lines diameter, on a much-dilated oblong petiole, 2 or 3 times as long and often as broad as the Jamina. Stipules scarious, divided into filiform segments, the central tuft much shorter than the leaves. Scape fili- form, 1 to 14 in. long, bearing at the end 2 to 4 or rarely more white or pink flowers, on pedicels at length nearly as long as the calyx. Sepals minutely - glandular-pubescent, about 4 line long in flower, 1} lines in fruit. Petals spreading, scarcely twice as long as the calyx. Anthers small. Styles 5, filiform, undivided, longitudinally stigmatic on the inner side towards the end. Placentas 5; ovules not numerous. ; W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Preiss, n. 1992, Drummond, lst Coll. and 3rd Coll. n.3. Tt varies much in the breadth of the sepals, rather narrow in Preiss’s specimens, very broad in some of Drammond's, intermediate in others. Those spe- cimens of Drummond’s which Planchon had referred to D. micrantha, Lehm., appear to me to belong to this species. 7. D. leucoblasta, Benth. A small species, with the aspect and compa- ratively large flowers of D. platystigma, but usually rather stouter and at once known by the stipules and styles. Leaves rosulate, orbicular, 1 to 2 lines diame- ter, on a petiole usually much longer than the lamina and slightly flattened, but not near so broad as in D. pulchella. Stipules scarious, silvery-white, the lobes much broader than in the adjoining species and densely imbricate 11 an oblong or conical bud in the centre of the rosette, 2 to 4 lines long at the time of flowering. Scape filiform, 1 to 2 in. long, with 2 or 3 flowers at the summit on very short pedicels. Sepals broad, nearly 1 line long at the time of flowering, somewhat enlarged afterwards. Petals spreading, 3 times 38 long as the calyx. Anthers small, Styles 3, filiform, longitudinally stig- matic on the inner side towards the end. Placentas 3. W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 14; dry sandy flats, Kalgan river, Oldfield. 8. D. nitidula, Planch. in Ann. Se. Nal. ser. 3, ix. 285. A very small species, but much more rigid than D. platystigma. Leaves densely the upper ones rosulate, but the old tufts forming stocks of nearly $ in. under the rosette, densely covered with the old leaves and stipules ; lamina orbi- cular, rarely above 1 line diameter, on a scarcely dilated petiole often twit = long. Stipules scarious, brown, the lobes filiform, shorter than the pen Scapes about 1 in. high, including a short one-sided raceme 0 flowers, nearly glabrous. Pedicels as long as the calyx. Sepals very en rather rigid, about 1 line long at the time of flowering. Petals pa Anthers small. Styles 3, skort, each with a globular capitate stigma. a 3 ing calyx narrow, erect, nearly 2 lines long. Capsule nearly as long, wi valves and placentas. W. Australia, Drummond. 9. D. paleacea, DO. Prod. i. 818, according to R. Br. Herb. AYA small species. Leaves densely tufted, the upper ones oF all in the yO 4 plant rosulate, but the old tufts forming stocks of } in. or in one peroo nearly 1 in. long, densely covered with remains of old leaves and stipules > lamina obovate, oblong or almost orbicular, 4 to 1 line diameter ; pura longer, scarcely dilated. Stipules scarious, cut into fine filiform Drosera.) XLIV. DROSERACEZ. 459 ing a prominent erect bud. Scape filiform, 4 to 1 in. or rarely 2 in. high, the slender, rather dense, one-sided raceme of minute flowers oecupying some- times nearly one-half of it, rarely short and few-flowered. Pedicels erect, Nearly as long as the calyx. Sepals nearly glabrous, not 3 line long when in flower, and not much above 3 line when in fruit. Petals longer. Anthers very small. Styles 3, filiform, rather thickened and stigmatic on the inner ‘Side towards the end. Capsule ovoid, with 3 valves and placentas and few seeds.—D. micrantha, Lehm. Pugill. viii. 39; D. pyymea, Lehm. in Pl. ‘Preiss. i. 250, not of DC.; D. minutiflora, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, Ix. 286. W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown; saudy places near Perth, Preiss, 1.1995 ; also Drummond. 10. D. parvula, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 287. A small plant, evidently allied to D. paleacea, but probably distinct. We have, how- ‘Wer, only the single specimen described by Planchon. Leaves and stipules a in D. paleacea, and the stock covered with the remains of the old leaves below the rosette, nearly 1 in. long, as in that species. Scape filiform, 1 in. “ong, with a short loose raceine. Pedicels longer than the calyx. Sepals rà- “et more than 4 line long. Styles and placentas, according to Planchon, 5 ‘ sometimes 4, 2 "w. Australia, Drummond. I have been unable to detach any flower for re-examina- E tion, without destroying the specimen, OLD. Burmanni, Vahl; DC. Prod. i.318. Leaves all radical, rosu- ate, obovate-spathulate, about 3 or 4 lines diameter, narrowed into a petiole lot so long. Stipules scarious, cut into narrow lobes, not so long as the pe- tiole, Scapes solitary or 2 or 3 from the same tuft, slender, attaining 5 o 6 it. and rarely under 3 in. long, the upper portion occupied by a slender one- ned raceme of several flowers. Pedicels short. Sepals glabrous, 13 to 2 ‘nes long. Anthers small. Styles 5, undivided, filiform, not branched but ‘lightly dilated and fringed towards the end.—Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. % IX. 190; Wight, Ic. t. 944. : N. Australi i LW. coast, A. Cunningham; Upper Victoria river, Providence Hill, aa ae idas Nicholson river, Gulf of Carpentaria, P. Mueller. poe cnsland Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Brisbane river, F. Mueller, ne ©. Stuart, ies is wi i i i S. China. Was, SDecies is widely spread over E. India and the Archipelago, extending to Without examining the sites it is very difficult to distinguish it from D. spathulata. R. D. spathulata, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 19, t. 106, f. 1. A stem- on Species, not very easy to distinguish from the coarser specimens of D. Burmanni, without examining the styles. Leaves rosulate, obovate or spathu- late, hot usually so broad as in D. Burmanni and often 4 in. long, sometimes 5 U8-spathulate and narrowed into a rather long petiole. Stipules S > cut into narrow lobes. Scapes usually 3 to 6 in. high, including the Simple or rarely forked, 1-sided raceme. Pedieels short, glabrous as well as the calyx or minutely glandular-pubescent. Sepals about 13 lines long, often tuted at the base. Petals pink red or white, as long as or rather exceeding the calyx, Anthers oblong. Styles 3 or rarely 4, but divided to the base 460 i XLIV. DROSERACEÆ. [Drosera. into 2 branches either entire and filiform or slightly dilated, emarginate or ` shortly forked at the end. Seeds numerous, small.— DC. Prod. i. 318; Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 193; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 29; Bot. Mag. t. 5240; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. i. 66. Queensland. Brisbane river, F. Mueller, C. Stuart. N. S. Wales. Common about Port Jackson, R. Brown and others ; northward to Hastings river, Beckler. Victoria. Boggy soil towards Brighton, Howitt ; Mount Abrupt, Wilhelm. Tasmania. Wet marshy hollows, Rocky Cape, J. D. Hooker. re The species is also in New Zealand. Some specimens of Cuming’s, from the Philippine Islands, are also referred to it by Planchon, and do not in fact appear at all different. They are, however, probably the same as the S. Chinese D. Loureiri, Hook. and Arn. Bot. Beeck. 167, t. 31 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 130, which must in that case be united with D. spathulata. Among the Australian specimens there appear to be two slightly different forms, one with larger deeper-coloured flowers, and the style-branches usually dilated and emarginate at the end, the other more slender, with paler and smaller flowers, the style-branches divided some way down into two slender forks, 13. D. Drummondii, Lehm, Pl. Preiss. ii. 235. Variable in aspect according to age, bat readily distinguished from the preceding species by the woolly hairs of the raceme. Leaves all in the young plants, the upper ones in the older tufts, rosulate, the stock under the rosette lengthening out to above 1 in., covered with the remains of old leaves and stipules ; lamina from narrow-oblong to almost obovate, rarely above 9 lines long, the petiole much longer and closely reflexed over the old leaves. Stipules scarious, finely cut, but much shorter than in D. scorpioides. Scape 1 to 3 or 4 in. long; nearly glabrous or woolly hairy, the raceme simple, short aad few-flowered oF lengthening to above an inch. Pedicels short, covered as well as the calyx with woolly hairs. Sepals from 1 line long when in flower to 2, lines in fruit, often denticulate and ciliate. Petals rather large. Filaments thick, wit oblong anthers. Styles 3 or 4, simple and filiform. Ovules 4.—D. barbigert, Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 287. W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 34. 14. D. scorpioides, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 28 8. Very near D. Drummondii and perhaps a variety, the stock lengthening out somel to 2 or 3 in., and the scarious stipules much more prominent. aves oblong, 2 to 3 lines long, or rarely a few of the inner ont” almost obovate, the petiole longer than the lamina, but not so refl D. Drummondii. Scape 1 to 2 in. long, woolly or nearly glabrous, ceme short dense and few-flowered. Sepals often very woolly, but n m : much ciliate as in D. Drummondii, and rather smaller. Petals apparen a twice as long as the calyx. Filaments slender, with small anthers. a 3, filiform. . ca W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Baxter, Wakefield, and == 3 from thence to the eastward, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 125, and 5th Coll. n, 2835 Arid and near S.W. Bay, Maxwell. eo e Var. (2) brevipes. Leaves smaller, from oblong to almost obovate, the petioles S pana Scapes short, flowering from below the middle, nearly glabrous. Stamens as 2 mal D. scorpioides.—Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 284. he k short, densely 15. D. petiolaris, R. Br. in DC. Prod. i. 318. Stoc Drosera.) XLIV. DROSERACEZ. 461 tufted, with long silky or rusty hairs covering the persistent bases of the old leaves and stipules. Leaves rosulate, orbicular or broadly obovate, rarely above 2 lines diameter, on a rather broad petiole of $ to 1 in. in the ordinary form, the under side of the lamina and the petiole clothed with long silky hairs. Stipules scarious, but not prominent. Scapes in the largest speci- mens 1 ft. high but usually about half that, including the rather loose, often long, 1-sided raceme, the calyx, pedicels, and rhachis more or less villous with soft silky or velvety hairs. Pedicels rather shorter than the calyx, often reflexed. Sepals above 1 line long in flower, 2 lines in fruit. Petals broad, “rather large. Anthers small. Styles 3, repeatedly dichotomous, the last branches short and stigmatic.—D. fulva, Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, ix, = N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne; Goulburn Island, 4. Cunningham ; Port Essington, Armstrong ; M'Adam range, F. Mueller. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, R. Brown. Banks’s specimens are remarkable for their petiole 1 to 2 in. long and less dilated, with a lamina of 1 to 2 lines diameter, which induced Planchon to consider them as belonging to a distinct species ; but R Brown’s carefully-selected series of specimens show every gradation from the longest to the shortest petioles, $ „Planchon describes the styles of this species as twice bifid ; 1 find them 3 or 4 times It is, however, exceedingly difficult to trace their ramifications from dried specimens. Ih the bud they form a dense mass which requires great care in unfolding. and after flower- -ingthey are so mixed in the withered petals, that it almost impossible to extract them whole, The leaves are, as observed by Planchon (l. c. 289, 290) not peltate, and the association of _ the species with the very dissimilar D. Banksii into one section (Lasiocephalum), proposed dy Planchon (1. c.-94), and founded partly on this character, can scarcely be admitted. 16. D. binata, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 18, t. 105. Stock small, ap- - pearing sometimes to emit creeping stolons. Leaves radical, on long petioles, lamina divided to the base into 2 long linear lobes, sometimes again once or twice forked, and often 2 or 3 in. long, elegantly fringed by the glan- ular cilia of the genus, glabrous underneath as well as the petioles. Sti- pules short, broad, brown and scarious, slightly jagged. Scapes exceeding the leaves, often 1 to 13 ft. high, bearing a loose cyme of large white flowers, consisting usually of 2 or 3 racemose branches, rarely reduced toa simple raceme. Sepals about + in. long. Petals twice as long. Styles usually 3, divided into numerous dichotomous lobes, some very short, rs longer, clavate or forked at the stigmatic end. Capsule globular. €ds-very numerous, small and linear.—DC. Prod. i. 319; Bot. Mag. t. 3082; Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 206; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 29; B Muell. PL. Vict. i. 59; D. pedata, Pers. Syn. i. 837; DC. Prod. i. 319; p. dichotoma, Sm. in Rees’ Cyclop. xii. _N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, others ; Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson ; Illawarra, A. Wet boggy places, often growing in moss, ranges, Grampians, etc., F. Mueller. ia. Pornoa. Lawrence ; abundantly on the coast from Rocky Cape to Wool- Fy Gunn ; South Port, C. Stuart. P M aastralia. Encounter Bay, ` er. 2 di i ; i he leaves usually , the species is also in New Zealand. The Port Jackson specimens have t } | ous, in the southern ones they are more frequently 9-lobed only; but these dif- n. 177, and FI. Mixt. n, 625, and Cunningham. Wilson's Promontory, Buffalo Whittaker, F. Mueller ; cataracts near Mount Lofty, 462 XLIV. DROSERACEA. ae [ Drosera. ferences are by no means constant, and the two forms occur sometimes on the same spe- cimen. Sect. II. Ercatetum, DC.—Stock short, slender, stem-like, naked or with ragged remains of old petioles, forming usually, if not always, a bulb at the lower end, and producing at the upper end a rosette of leaves and leaf- less scapes, or leafy stems or branches. Stipules none, or, in D. Banksii, small and evanescent. Styles dichotomous or divided into very numerous filiform branches, forming a dense tuft. Nearly all the species of this section dye the paper in which they are preserved a rich car- mine or purple colour. When growing, they are said to disappear entirely after the fruit- ing is over, but I find no observation of how much of the underground stock besides the bulb persists till the next season, nor do the specimens show what relation the new shoot has area a bulb. It is, indeed, not often that collectors have gathered their specimens with the bulb. 17? D. zonaria, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3,ix.303. Only known from two barren rosettes, about 2 in. diameter. Leaves of a light green colour, broadly orbicular or almost reniform or fan-shaped, above } in, broad, shortly cuneate at the base, on a petiole usually longer than the lamina, the margin elegantly fringed by the glandular cilia of the genus, the vems scarcely conspicuous. W. Australia, Drummond. Possibly a barren state of D. rosulata. 18. D. bulbosa, Hook. Ic. Pl. 1.375. Bulbous. Leaves at the end of the slender stock rosulate or apparently verticillate, oblong, slightly spathulate, narrowed at the base but not distinctly petiolate, 3 to 4 lines or rarely z m. long, rather thick, with 1 broad nerve. Peduncles or scapes 1-flowered, few or numerous, twice as long as the leaves, glabrous or nearly so. Sepals about ae 2 lines long. Petals twice as long, apparently white. Styles deeply divided into numerous filiform branches, slightly dilated and stigmatic at the end. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. ; Murchison river, Oldfield. 19. D. rosulata, Lehm. Pugill. viii. 86, and Pl. Preiss. 3. 261. Bul bous. Leaves at the end of the slender rootstock rosulate, obovate, tapering at the base, rarely above 1 in. long including the short broad petiole, with @ broad central nerve and a few lateral veins diverging from it above the middie. Peduncles or scapes 1-flowered, slender, often filiform, rarely exceeding le leaves. Sepals scarcely above 2 lines long at the time of flowering, longer fruit. Petals white. ‘Anthers ovate. Styles 3, divided to the base into nu- merous filiform branches, slightly dilated and stigmatic at the end,—£ ian! in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 301. W. Australia. Sandy boggy places near Perth, Preiss, n. 1983 ; Champion Bay g Cape Leschenault, Oldfield ; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy ; King George's Sound, Harvey. 20. D. Whittakerii, Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 302+ bous, with rosulate leaves at the end of the stock, as in D. rosulata, W ‘ee this species closely resembles, the leaves of the same size, but showing, 9% sides the midrib, 2 or 3 lateral nerves on each side, distinct in the ‘he and diverging in the lamina. Scapes 1-flowered, not much longer a ea leaves. Sepals at least 3 lines long at the time of flowering and neary o lines in fruit, more acute than in D. rosulata. Petals white, half as long a - Drosera.] XLIV. DROSERACEZ. 463 again as the calyx. Anthers ovate. Styles 3, divided to the base into nu- merous filiform branches, slightly dilated and stigmatic at the end. Capsule - shorter than the calyx. Seeds ovoid.—F. Muell. Pl. Vict. i. 57, t. suppl. 6; _ D. rosulata, Behr, in Linnea, xx. 628, not of Lehm. y oe Rather frequent in the southern parts of the colony, F. Mueller ; Wimmera, llachy. i S. Australia. Rich boggy flats, entirely disappearing after the cessation of the winter - Tans, Behr. - ___ The species is scarcely to be distinguished from D. rosulata, except by the venation of the es, : 21. D. macrophylla, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 20. Bulbous with a slen- der more or less scaly rootstock. Leaves at the end rosulate, obovate, taper- ing at the base, thin, glandular, the veins few, diverging from the central _ herve much above the base, as in D. rosulata, and slightly reticulate, varying from 3 to 2 in. long, including the very short petiole. Scapes or peduncles several, each with 2 or 3 flowers, apparently white and rather large, on Slender pedicels. Calyx glabrous, 2 to 3 lines long in flower, longer in fruit. | Styles 3, deeply divided into numerous filiform branches. Seeds nearly glo- | bular—Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 376; Lehm. in Pl. Preiss. i. 251. _W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll, and 3rd Coll. n. 40; Princess Royal Harbour, Preiss, n. 1986. . 22. D. squamosa, Benth. Bulbous, the old scales on the short slender į Yootstock often numerous. Leaves forming a tuft at the end, as in the allied Species, but all reduced to erect or scarcely spreading, lanceolate, membranous - Sales of 2 to 4 lines, acute or obtuse and scarcely ciliate, without any true ‘mina. Scape solitary, 1 to 2 in. long, leafless, bearing a compact cyme of ‘Mumerous flowers, rather smaller than those of D. erythrorhyza, but otherwise Tsembling them. _,W. Australia, Between Perth and King George’s Sound, Preiss (Herb. Sonder), : Haro ; towards the Great Bight, Marwell. It is possible that this may prove to be a Yariety of D. erythrorhiza, bearing the same relation to.it as D. bulbosa to D. rosulata, with eloped leaves, but the difference appears constant in all the specimens seen from dif- a collectors. 98. D. erythrorhiza, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 20. Bulbous, the stem- dike rootstock slightly sealy. . Leaves rosulate at the end, very broadly obo- ‘Yate or almost orbicular, tapering at the base, thin, penniveined, but one vein nerve at each side starting from near the base, mostly 4 to 1 in. long, in- g the very short petiole. Scape solitary, 1 to 3 in. long below se in- florescence, bearing a rather loose cyme of numerous flowers apparently white. ls glabrous, not 2 lines long when in flower, above 3 lines in fruit.. Pe- tals longer. Anthers ovate. Styles divided to the base into numerous fili- tm branches.—Lchm. in Pl. Preiss. i. 251; D. primulacea, Schlotthaub. in Mplandia, iv. 110. pe ) W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll., Preiss, n. 1987, Collie; King George's Sound, Maclean ; between Perth and King George’s Sound, Harvey. 24. D. stolonifera, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 5. Bulbous, with few scales the stem-like etilo Radical leaves rosulate at the end, gata nng at the base, rarely above } in. long, including the very short petiole. 464 XLIV. DROSERACES. [Drosera. From this rosette, in the ordinary form, proceeds a leafless scape of 3 to 6 in., bearing a loose cyme of rather numerous flowers of the size and form of those of D. erythrorhiza, and 3 or 4 barren branches shorter than the scape each with several whorls. of 2 to 4 leaves with a broadly obovate or orbicular lamina, on a petiole sometimes longer than the lamina and very narrow, some- times shorter and dilated. In other specimens the stem is continued beyond — the first rosette, producing a second or even a third rosette or tuft of leaves ` 3 with a more orbicutar lamina and longer petiole than the lowest, the scape and barren branches proceeding from the uppermost rosette. In others again the lateral leafy branches terminate in a small cyme, or 2 or 3 scapes each with a cyme proceed from the primary tuft, or rarely the side-branches are again branched, but in all the forms assumed the leaves are all opposite or in - a whorls or rosettes. Calyx mostly under 2 lines long in flower, nearly 3 lines in fruit. Styles 3, with very numerous filiform branches and seeds ovoid as in the preceding species. —Lehm. in Pl. Preiss. i. 253; Hook. Ic. t. 389; D. porrecta, Lehm. Pugill. viii. 41, and Pl. Preiss. i. 252; D. purpurascens, Schlotthaub. in Bonplandia, iv. 111. W. Australia. Wet sandy places, Swan River, Preiss, n. 1984, 1985, Drummond, — 3 1st Coll., and 3rd Coll. n. 45, Oldfield, and others ; near Mount Wuljenup, Preiss, t. 1977; Stirling Terrace, Maxwell, d 25. D. humilis, Planch. in Ain. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 300. This may prove to be a small variety of D. stolonifera. It is much more slender, usually 2 to 4 in. high including the cyme. All the leaves including those of the primary rosette have a rather long petiole, with a small orbicular lamina about l to 14 lines diameter, and the scapes are generally several from the t Flowers as in D. stolonifera, but rather smaller, and the variations in the de- velopment of the lateral leafy branches are the same. W. Australia, Drummond; Murchison river, Oldfield. 26. D. ramellosa, Lehm. Pugill. viii. 40, and Pl. Preiss. i. 252. Bul- bous, with a slender rootstock. Leaves at the end rosulate, broadly obovate, tapering at the base, 3 to 6 lines long including the broad petiole. Scapes solitary or several, rarely above } in. long, 1- or 2-flowered, with 2 or 3 eA ral leafy shoots, very short at the time of flowering, but lengthening out to or 3 in. Leaves on these shoots all alternate, broadly orbicular, not peta, 2 to 3 lines diameter, narrowed into a petiole about as long as the lamina. Sepals 14 lines long when in flower, 2 lines in fruit. Petals longer, white. E Styles 3, divided into very numerous filiform branches.—D. perdubj0ra — Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 301. a W. Australia. Sandy wet places near the lake in Rottenest Island, Preiss, %- 19; Swan River, Oldfield, Drummond. 27 . D. flabellata, Benth. Bulb not seen, but probably as m the aliet 2 species. Stems in our specimens simple or slightly branched, leafy, 209 3 ft. high or rather more. Lower leaves rosulate, stem-leaves alternate, broadly fan-shaped, not peltate, 2 to 4 lines diameter, narrowed into A E broad petiole. Flowers rather small, numerous, in a termina hean cyme. Sepals attaining 2 lines or rather more after flowering, " toothed, glabrous. Styles divided nearly to the base into very MEET" Se - Drosera.) XLIV. DROSERACER. 465 filiform branches. Seeds not very small, globose or slightly angular, tuber- - culate. a = W. Australia. Towards Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 281. __ 28. D. auriculata, Backh. ; Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 295. - Bulbous, with a slender stock. Leafy stem erect, simple or slightly branched, 3 to 1 ft. high, glabrous. Lower leaves at the summit of the stock either dll reduced to short linear scales, or forming a small rosette, with orbicular almost reniform or peltate laminæ and short petioles. Stem-leaves scattered, peltate, broadly crescent-shaped or at least truncate on one side, the 2 angles more or less produced into glandular-ciliate appendages, the petiole filiform. _ Flowers several, white, in a terminal simple raceme. Pedicels at length ex- ceeding the calyx, the lower ones not much longer than the others. Sepals attaining 2 lines or rather more in fruit, glabrous, entire or scarcely glandu- lar-toothed. Styles divided from a little below the middle into a dense tuft of short dichotomous linear lobes. Seeds very numerous, narrow-linear, the se testa extending beyond the nucleus at one or both ends.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 30; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. i. 61. N.S. Wales. Port J ackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 176 (with D. peltata), and others ; northward to Clarence river, Beck/er ; southward to Twofoid Bay, F. Mueller. Victoria. Sandy poor pasture land and sterile ridges, not rare, F. Mueller. "cig id Abundant in rocky grassy heathy places throughout the island, J, D. ooker, E i ; ‘Ss. Australia. Bugle Range, F. Mueller ; Encounter Bay, Whittaker. : _Also in New Zealand. This species scarcely differs, except in the seed, from those forms of D. peltata which have nearly glabrous sepals. 29. D. peltata, Sm. in Willd. Spec. Pl. i. 1546. Bulbous, with a nder rootstock. Leafy stem erect or flexuose, 3 to lè ft. high. Lower leaves at the summit of the rootstock usually rosulate, -ọrbicular or reniform, hot peltate, 2 to 3 lines diameter, on a broad petiole often longer than the lamina ; stem-leaves peltate, semiorbicular or broadly crescent-shaped, on ror filiform petioles. Flowers white, in loose e poda lig “els usually exceeding the calyx. Sepals attaining about 2 lines, or more the large-flowered specimens, ciliate-toothed, and more or less clothed with ther long soft hairs. Styles short, densely dichotomous from below the middle, the ultimate branches shortly linear-clavate. Seeds very numerous, Small, ovoid or globular, the testa not produced beyond the nucleus.—Sm. Exot. Bot. i. 79, t. 41; DC. Prod. i. 319; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 30; F. Muell, Pl. Vict. i. 60; D. petiolaris, Sieb. Pl. Exs, (which includes also D. riculata) ; D, lunata, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 54, and probably also Hamilt, Wuchan.) in DC, Prod. i. 319. l a Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 176, and Fl. Mixt. n. 523 (partly), Sd others, : 7 ia. Ferti adows, not rare, F. Mueller. Tasmania, SMe ad ais gon te dat not so common + aurieulata, J. D. Hooker. ae j Var. gracilis’ h smaller.—D. gracilis, Hook. f. in Planch, . Se. Nat. : Poe PENA nd 30, t. 5.—Paramatta, Woolls ; mountain gl Tasmania, J. D. Hooker. This form is represented by Labillardiére, P1. Noy. Holl, Yar. foliosa, Short and stout, with larger leaves and fewer flowers. —D. foliosa, Hook. f. You, 11. 2H 466 ; XLIV. DROSERACES. [Drosera: in Planch. Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 298, and Fl. Tasm. i. 30, t. 6.—Grassy plains near Ballarat, F. Mueller ; marshy places, Tasmania, J. D. Hooker. The species appears to extend over E. India and the Archipelago to S. China, for I can find no character whatever to distinguish the common D. lunata, Ham., of that country. The rosulate leaves are indeed less frequently present at the time of flowering, but are to be found in some specimens, and are not always constant in the Australian ones. The sepals and styles are the same in both. 30. D. Neesii, Lehm. Pugill. viii. 42, and Pl. Preiss. i. 254. Bulbous, - with a slender rootstock. Leafy stem erect flexuose or perhaps sometimes twining, 1 to 14 ft. high, glabrous or slightly glandular-pubescent under the inflorescence. No rosulate leaves ; lower leaves reduced to small scattered linear acute scales; stem-leaves on slender petioles, peltate, broadly crescent- shaped, with 2 acuminate ciliate angles, sometimes small, but often 3 lines broad. Flowers rather large, red or purple in the original form, not numerous, in a loose cyme or in a once-branched or simple raceme, with the lower pedi- cels long. Sepals above 2 lines long in flower, often 3 lines in fruit, slightly toothed, glandular-ciliate, villous outside. Styles deeply divided into very numerous filiform slightly dichotomous branches. Seeds very numerous, narrow-linear. N W. Australia. Princess Royal: Harbour, -Preiss, n. 1978 (not geen); Hill river, Oldfield ; between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 113; Champion Bay, Oldfield. ; Var. sulphurea. Flowers yellow or straw-colour, but without any other difference. —D. sulphurea, Lehm. Pugill. viii. 43, and Pl. Preiss. i. 254.—King Georges Sound and ad- joining districts, R. Brown, King, Preiss, n. 1981, Oldfield ; Vasse river, Oldfield. 31. D. gigantea, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 20. Probably bulbous ; the stock slender at the base, usually thickened at the crown and often cov with a dense mass of old remains of leaves. Leafy stem tall, erect, bra ing upwards, glabrous. Lower leaves reduced to lanceolate-subulate scat- tered scales ; stem-leayes on slender petioles, peltate, broadly crescent-s small, white, in a large loose divaricately branched terminal panicle. . longer than the calyx. Sepals 1 to 14 lines long, entire, glabrous. short and thick, shortly divided into numerous branches forming 4 almost globular mass. Seeds obovoid or almost globular, with a close 122 —Lehm. Pl. Preiss. i. 255; Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 298. - Y. Australia. Wet bogs and swamps, Swan River, Drummond, \st Coll, n. 1991, Oldfield ; Blackwood river, Oldfield. 32. D. myriantha, Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 291. Bulbous, with a slender rootstock. Leafy stem slender, simple or slightly brane™ under 1 ft. high, glabrous. Lower leaves few, reduced to small narrow de scales ; stem-leaves on filiform petioles, peltate, orbicular, not 2 nt o Preiss, meter. Flowers apparently white, smaller than in any other lealy ga pals rather numerous in a branched eyme, Pedicels as long as the calyx. scarcely 1 line long, acute, minutely glandular-notched. Petals twice as long" Styles 3, divided to the base into 2 forked branches or into 3 or 4 ad ine d ones. Seeds numerous, oblong-linear, the testa produced beyo! nucleus. ; ` W. Australia, Drummond. ‘ Drosera.] XLIV. DROSERACEA, 467 - 83, D. pallida, Lindi. Swan Riv. App. 20. Bulbous, with a slender = Tootstock. Leafy stem flexuose or twining, often 1 to 2 ft. long or even more, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. Lower leaves few, reduced to linear _ acute scales; stem-leaves on slender petioles, peltate, orbicular, often above 2 a lines diameter. Flowers apparently white, several in a loose cyme, larger than MD. myriantha, but usually smaller than in the following species. Sepals - from under 2 lines to at least 3 lines long, glabrous and entire or very shortly - glandular-ciliate. Styles divided to the base into extremely numerous very : slender and acute branches, stigmatic a considerable way down.—Lehm, Pl. Preiss, i. 253. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, ist Coll., and 3rd Coll. n. 46, Preiss, n. E 1996, Oldfield; Murchison river, Oldfield ; King George’s Sound, Harvey, Oldfield. _ $4. D, penicillaris, Benth. Bulbous, witha slender rootstock. Leafy stem slender, flexuose or twining, usually glabrous. Lower leaves reduced to r acute scales; stem-leaves on slender petioles, peltate, orbicular, rather small. Flowers apparently red, rather large, several in a loose cyme or short branched raceme. Sepals pubescent or villous, ciliate-toothed, 2 to 3 lines long. Anthers oblong. Styles divided, as in D. pallida, into exceedingly numerous very slender branches, stigmatic a considerable way down. Seeds ` _ Mmerous, linear.—D. Drummondii, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 293, Mot of Lehm. |W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll., and 3rd Coll. n. 44; between : Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 112; Oldfield river, Maxwell. This may possibly prove to be a variety of D. filicaulis, with the inflorescence rather of D. pallida. 35. D, filicaulis, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 6. Bulbous, with a slender tootstock. Leafy stem slender, flexuose, glabrous, usually simple and under lft, long. Lower leaves few, reduced to narrow acute scales; stem-leaves on slender petioles, peltate, orbicular, rarely 2 lines diameter. Flowers rather "ge, apparently red, few in short loose simple racemes, very rarely once- branched. Sepals glabrous or more frequently slightly villous, ciliate-toothed, fom about 2 to nearly 4 lines long when in fruit. Anthers oblong. Styles úvided, as in D. pallida, nearly to the base into extremely numerous slender pA branches, stigmatic a considerable way down.—Lehm. Pl. Preiss. 3, -— W. Australi . ; marshy places, Swan River, Preiss, n. a 1088 ; King a pcia Be nte Ana at Maawel. This species has quite the : . Menziesii, except that the leaves are usually smaller and the calyx less soan e style-branches are quite different, being the same as 1n D. pallida, but it remains to Scertained how far these differences in the style are really good specific characters. Mio 9 la, Endl. iu Hueg. Enum. 6, is known only from A pt segues in ich there is nothing to distinguish it from D. filicaulis, nor from several allied species. 36. D, Huegelii, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 6. Bulbous, with a slender rootstock, ti pt erect or sia slender but rigid, usually simple, Sir LR: high, glabrous. Lower leaves few, reduced to very small fine ‘ales ; stem-leaves few, on slender petioles, peltate, orbicular, very e _, st campanulate and reflexed, rather large. a Flowers large, apparent y ed, ina loose cyme. Sepals fully 3 lines long, fringed at the a > long EF 468 XLIV. DROSERACEZ. [Drosera. cilia. Styles 3, repeatedly dichotomous, with short almost clavate branches, shortly stigmatic at the end.—Lehm. in Pl. Preiss. i. 253. - W. Australia. King George’s Sound and neighbourhood, Huegel, Preiss, n. 1980, Collie, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 280; between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 111. I have not seen either Huegel's or Preiss's specimens. 37. D. macrantha, ‘Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 6. Bulbous, with a slender rootstock. Leafy stem erect flexuose or climbing to the length of 2 ft. or more, glandular-pubescent or hirsute. Lower leaves few, reduced to fine scales ; stem-leaves ou slender petioles, peltate, orbicular, mostly 2 to 3 lines diameter, flat or slightly concave. Flowers often large, but variable in size, in a loose cyme, but not usually numerous, white or pink. Sepals about 3 lines long, fringed at the end with long cilia. Styles repeatedly branched, the ultimate branches extremely numerous and slender, but short, Seeds linear.—Lebm., in Pl. Preiss. i. 254. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll., Oldfield ; Vasse river, Mrs. Mol- loy; near Guildford, Preiss, n. 1982 ; between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6éh Coll. n, 108; Kojonup and Cape Arid, Maxwell. Var. minor. Leaves and flowers much smaller, but the other characters the same.—D. per pi Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 8, ix. 292.— In Drummond's and in Burges’ d collections. 38. D. Menziesii, E. Br. in DO. Prod. i. 319. Bulbous, with a slen- der rootstock. Leafy stem slender, erect flexuose or almost twining, gla- brous or nearly so. Lower leaves few, reduced to small slender scales ; stem- leaves on slender petioles, peltate, orbicular, usually small. Flowers rather large, pink or red in the original form, few in a short simple raceme Very rarely once-branched. Sepals 2 to 3 lines long, pubescent or villous or very rarely nearly glabrous, more or less ciliate. Filaments not dilated. Styles pe at divided into very numerous slender dichotomous branches. near. ham, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 5, and others. y s = flavescens. “Flowers pale-yellow.—D. intricata, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat, Set: 5, ix. 299.: W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd. Coll. n.1; Hill and Vasse rivers, Oldfield. | sy, Var. albiflora. Flowers white.—D. Planchoni, Hook. f.-Fl. Tasm..i. 295 Plançh. ms" Se. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 294; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. i. 62. Victoria. In many localities towards the Murray, F. Mueller. -—"Pasmania. N. coast, Rocky Cape, George Town, etc., J. D, Hooker. Flinders S. Australia. Throughout the greater part of the colony as far north as Ranges, F. Mueller. - wers. 1 can see no difference whatever-between the three varieties, except the colour of the eter The styles of the white variety are precisely the same as in the true D. Menzies, al different from those of D. filicaulis, which had been confounded with it. 39. D. calycina, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. Lower leaves few, reduced to small slender scales ; stem-leaves on petioles, peltate orbicular or rarely slightly truncate and 2-angled om side. Flowers apparently red or white, few in loose simple or forked racemes. Sepals herbaceous, thin, very obtuse, 3 to 4 line flowering, entire or scarcely denticulate, glabrous. Petals usually W. Australia. King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, Menzies, Á. Cunning- s00. B a with a slender rootstock. Leafy stem usually erect and slender, ae +4 . * x . - Drosera.| XLIV. DROSERACES. . 469 ceeding the calyx or not half as long again. Filaments more or less dilated under the anthers. Styles short, divided from the middle into exceedingly numerous short dichotomous branches forming dense globular tufts, often not longer than the entire portion. = _W. Australia. King George’s Sound, Collie; between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 109. The specimens from both localities very similar. = Var. minor. Leaves and flowers much smaller, but the same style; filaments rather less - dilated.—Between Moore and Murchison rivers; Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 110. = 40. D. heterophylla, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 20. Bulbous, with a - slender stock, usually enclosed in numerous old’ scaly remains of leaves. Leafy stem simple, slender, glabrous, the short narrow-linear or subulate = Seales or leaves at the base more numeroús than in other species; stem-leaves on slender petioles, usually small, peltate orbicular or slightly truncate and | 2angled'on one side. Flowers solitary or rarely 2 or 3 in a simple raceme, 3 large. Calyx-lobes usually 8, 2 to 3 lines long, nearly glabrous, fringed with Prominent’glands, but not ciliate: Petals 8, twice as long as the calyx-lobes, Narrow, not so readily twisting up together after flowering as in other species. Styles repeatedly forked into very numerous short slender branches, stigmatic at the end, forming a short very dense tuft.—Sondera Preissii, Lehm. Pugill. q falo. and Pl. Preiss. i. 256- (in flower) ; -S. macrantha, Lehm. 1. c. (in fruit. | _ W. Australia. From King. George’s Sound to Swan River and Champion Bay, E Drummond,-1st Coll. and 2nd Coll. n. 18, Preiss, n. 1989; Oldfield, and others. 41. D. Banksii, R. Br. in DC. Prod. i. 319. Stem filiform, leafy, glabrous, 2 to 4-in. long, very slender at the base; but possibly forming a bulb M8 10 the preceding species. Leaves all scattered, peltate, orbicular, on slen- Mer petioles; the lower ones with a lamina of 3 line diameter, on a petiole of ‘to 2 lines, the upper ones twice as large or rather more. Stipules to some the upper leaves very thin, narrow, scarious and deciduous. Flowers few, Small, in a simple raceme like the smaller specimens of D: peltata. Pedicels Nearly as long as the calyx. Sepals villous, 1 to 1), lines- long. p Spreading, longer than the calyx. Styles (not seen by myself and imperfectly ‘observed by Planchon) 3, divided to the base into 2deeply 3-fid branches.— —“lanch. in Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 8, ix. 291. i Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander. 2. BYBLIS, Salisb. Calyx-segments or sepals 5. Petals 5, broad, oblique, united in a ring at ase, contorted-imbricate. Stamens 5, hypogynous, often declinate ; thers attached by the base, opening at the end in-oblong pores or short = Ovary 2-celled, with several ovules in each cell attached to the e ment; style undivided, with a terminal oblong- or- capitate stigma. Vap- = Somewhat compressed, 2-celled, opening in 2 valves, bearing- the a in their centre. Seeds oblong, albuminous: Embryo . . -—Herbs, re or less glandular-pubeseent. Leaves linear-subulate, A m- verna- tion, without stipules. Peduncles axillary, bearing a single blue flower. The genus is limited to Australia. It is very anomalous in the Order; with which it is 470 : XLIV. DROSERACER. [Drosera. chiefly connected by the glandular pubescence and the leaves involute in vernation. The flowers, especially those of B. gigantea, have a remarkable resemblance in structure to those of Cheiranthera in Pittosporee. Stems slender. Leaves filiform, not above 2 in. long. Petals under 3 in. Anthers oblong or almost ovate, nearly M o ee E Stems stout. Leaves often above 6 in. long. Petals 4 to l in. Anthers oblong-linear, often unequal. . +. + Nee ee 1. B. liniflora, Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 95. Glabrous or viscid with a ps pubescence, sometimes copiously so. Stems slender, rarely 6 in. igh and often only 2 or 3 in. Leaves filiform, 1 to 2 in. long. Peduncles slender, usually exceeding the leaves. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 2 to 3 lines long. Anthers varying from 4 line to 14 lines in length, the filaments longest where the anthers are shortest.—DC. Prod. i. 319; Endl. Iconogr. t. 113 (incorrect as to the anthers); B. filifolia, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 305. _N. Australia. N.W. coast, Bynoe; Hooker and Sturt’s Creeks, Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; adjoining mainland, F. Mueller. Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Port Denison, Herb. F. Mueller. . B. cerulea, Planch. in Aun. Se. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 306, is founded on Bauer’s drawing lished by Endlicher of R. Brown’s specimens, in which the short anthers are represented as attached by the middle of the back, and Planchon thought he recognized these anthers inthespe- cimen glued down in the Banksian herbarinm. The excellent specimens in Brown’s own her- barium show however that this is a mistake. The anthers are often as short as figured by Bauer, sometimes as long as figured by Salisbury, bùt always attached by the base, varying mueh in intermediate lengths in different specimens. 2. B. gigantea, Lindl: in Swan Riv. App. 21. More or less glandular- pubescent and viscid. Rootstock hard. Stems erect, stout, 3 to in 2 ft. high. Leaves linear-subulate, terete or channelled above, often 6m. e 1 ft. long. Peduncles mostly shorter than the leaves. Flowers much larger than in B. liniflora, sometimes twice as large, but otherwise like them and variable in size. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 3- to 7-nerved, either much shorter than the petals or produced into a glandular point sometimes eX ng . petals. Anthers usually linear, declinate, unequal, the shorter ones lines, 2 the longer 3 lines long, but variable in size and proportion, sometimes nearly ee equal and very little longer than the longest forms of B. liniflora —Lehm. 5 Pl. Preiss. i. 257; Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 306; B: legen Planch. 1. c. 307. W. Australia, Drummond, ist Coll. ; es, Canning river, P! j ‘a Port Gregory, Oldfield ; Hampden, 85 un = no prey in the numerous spe A mens in different herbaria, except in the size as well of the plant as of the parts of the 1. B. liniflora. 2. B- gigantea, Oxver XLV. HALORAGEÆ. a + Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; lobes 2, 4 or none, OF rarely 9- 2, 4 or none, valvate induplicate or slightly imbricate. Stamens 2 i rarely 1 or 3; filaments short ; anthers erect, 3-celled, opening longit th 1 Ovary inferior, flattened or angular, either 2- or 3- or rarely 4-celled, W yles : pendulous ovule in each cell, or 1-celled with 1 to 4 pendulous ovules; Fruit a. as many as ovules, quite distinct, with papillose or plumose stigmas: XLV. HALORAGER. 471 inferior, small, indehiscent, with 1 to 4 cells and seeds, or divisible into 2 to 4 - l-seeded indehiscent carpels. Seeds pendulous, with a membranous testa ; embryo cylindrical, in the axis of a fleshy albumen ; radicle long, superior ; cotyledons small.—Herbs, often aquatic, or undershrubs. Leaves opposite = whorled or alternate, without stipules. Flowers small, often unisexual or - incomplete, axillary or rarely in terminal corymbs racemes or panicles. he Order is dispersed over nearly the whole globe. Of the Australian genera, 2 small | ones are endemic ; the principal one is also chiefly Australian, but two or three of the spe- | cies extend also into Eastern Asia, or are, with a fourth genus, widely spread over the extra- tropical regions of the southern hemisphere. The three others are aquatic plants, represented nearly ail over the globe. _ A. True Haloragée.—PFlowérs with petals, at least in the males, answering to the ordinal characters given above. ‘Petals, at least in the males, induplicate, keeled. Fruit a nut-like Or rarely’spongy, undivided drupe. _ Flowers in densé terminal corymbose panicles, 2- 3- or 4-merous. Dissepiments of the ovary evanescent . + + +s nont - Flowers solitary or clustered within each bract, aloug the rhachis of simple or paniculate terminal racemes. IAE Dc or4enibrouss A nes meee tiowers Zo merous: o. EA IA Petals in the males imbricate. ‘Fruit separable into 2 or 4 nut-like - Carpels, Aquatic or mud plants... «e eo +. totos B. Anomalous genera of ‘a very reduced type allied to Haloragee, E Monochlamydes:” Flowérs unisexual. - I Calyx-teeth minute. Petals (in Australian species) none. Stamens = È Ovary L-celled, with 1 ovule. Styles 2 or rarely 4. Terres- -_ trial stemless plants, with broad radical leaves and radical scapes 5. GUNNERA. rerianth none. Flowers surrounded by bracts. Stamens several. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 ovule. Styles 2. Floating plant, with: verticillate dichotomous leaves. . > «+. 6. CERATOPHYLLUM. *enanth none, Flowers with or without y pes bean > A Ovary 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each ce tyles 2. Aquatic OF” mud plant, with “opposite entire leaves. e + + + eot otot 7. CALLITRICHE. 1. LoupoNIA. 92, HALORAGIS. 3. MEIONECTES. . 4. MYRIOPHYLLUM. but often referred to A. True HALORAGEZ. — 1. LOUDONIA, Lindl. - (Glischrocaryon, Endi.) e angles ; lobes 2 to _ Calyx-tibe or ovary with 2 to 4 lon itudinal wings or } 4, short, aternating with the’ wings. ” Petals as many as calyx-lobes, indu- - Plicate, deciduous. Stamens twice as many as petals ; filaments filiform, per- - Sistent ; anthers'oblong or linear, deciduous. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 to 4 pen- Gulous ovules, or imperfectly divided into as many cells ; styles short, rather thick, with terminal obtuse stigmas. Fruita small 1-seeded nut, the adnate calyx winged’ or inflated.—Glabrous' herbs, with a perennial rootstock ‘and erect stems. Leaves alternate, linear. Flowers yellow, in dense terminal aia — Haloragis more in habit and intl - ‘The genns is limited to “Australia. - It differs from Haloragis more it Tall’ an. Att cence than in floral characters. The characters by'which the species aré ‘distinguished from ^ other may possibly not be found to be really constant. : 5 2-merous, rarely 3-merous A os Be ee 2. L. Behrii. . 472 ‘XLV, HALORAGEZ. [Loudonia. Flowers 4-metons. : ; Calyx and epicarp closely adnate to the endocarp, with 4 prominent EA A ee tt Calyx and epicarp inflated and connected with the endocarp by a loose spongy substance, with 4 scarcely prominent wings or angles . . . 8. L. Roei, 1. L. aurea, Lindl. Swin Riv. App. 42, with a woodcut. Quite gla- brous. Rootstock woody. Stems erect, simple or slightly branched, 1 to 2 or even 3 ft. high, glaucous or yellowish, often turning black in drying. Leaves linear, quite entire, distant or more crowded towards the base of the stem, rarely 2 in. long and often much smaller, sometimes 1 to 2 lines broad and flat, sometimes very narrow and thick, almost terete. Flowers golden- yellow, in terminal corymbose panicles. Calyx-tube 4-winged, about 2 lines long in the ordinary form, the lobes short and broad. Petals about as long as the calyx-tube. Stamens in the perfect flowers 8: Styles 4, short, thick, club-shaped, with ovoid stigmas. Ovules 4, but only 1 enlarges after flower- ing. Fruit varying from 2 to 3 lines in length, the wings usually broad. In some specimens the flowers are smaller and mostly females, without any or with very few stamens.—Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 159; Z. flavescens, J. Drumm. in Hook. Lond. Journ. i. 396 (with smaller flowers) ; L. citrina, F. Muell. in Linnæa, xxv. 385. S. Australia. Rocks and gravelly banks of streams, Flinders range and near Cud- naka, F. Mueller. I am unable to discover any difference between these specimens „some of Drummond’s. : W. Australia. Swan River, Darling range, etc., Drummond, 1st Coll., Collie, Preiss, . 2087, 2068, 2079; Champion Bay, Oldfield; Eyre, Phillips, and Fitzgerald rango» 2. L. Behrii, Schlecht. Linnea, xx. 648: Very near the poorer speci- mens of L. aurea, with the same habit. Stems generally shorter. Leaves je 3 narrow and small, often few and distant, rarely crowded. Panicles small al dense. Flowers of the size of the smaller varieties of Z. aurea, usually 2 wings tò the calyx-tube, 2 petals, 4 stamens, 2 styles and ovules, and a broadly 2-winged fruit, but sometimes a third part is added to each, ro Mount Corong and N.W. desert to the Murray, F. Mueller; Wimmer, allachy. : A S. Australia. Gregarious in barren sandy soils, Behr; Mount Barker Creek, Gawler- town, ete., F. Mueller ; Kangaroo Island; Waterhouse. 3. L. Roei, Schlecht. Linnea, xx. 648. Stems erect, simple and gla- brous, as in the other two species. Leaves few, small, linear, distant. r nicle small and dense. Flowers of the size of the smaller varieties © aurea, or still smaller. Calyx-tube with 4 narrow shortly decurrent woe 4 Petals as in Z. aurea, but smaller. Stamens 8 (or sometimes 12 P): ds q not much longer than the filaments. Fruit yellow, almost globular, in b l prominent angles or nartow wings, about 3 lines diameter, the inflated cuy tube and epicarp connected with the endocarp by a very loose, spongy 4 almost fibrous substance. Seeds as in Z. aurea. i a W. Australia. Fitzgerald range, Maziell. Endlicher’s description of Glischrocar re Roei, Endl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 210, agrees precisely with Maxwell’s specimens (persis- petals and anthers have fallen away, except that the number of “ stamina able pone tent filaments after the anthers have fallen) is 12 instead of 8. The remar a inflated fruit, if really normal, is very characteristic of the species. MAA A h e “hi, Hor ik ade MES > XLV. HALORAGEA. : 473 2. HALORAGIS, Forst. (Cercodia, Murr, ; Goniocarpus, Ken.) Calyx-tube or ovary with as many or twice as many nerves as lobes, those alternating with the lobes occasionally expanded into angles or wings ; lobes 4, rarely 3 or abnormally 5, short. Petals as many as calyx-lobes, induplicate and boat-shaped or hood-shaped, deciduous, often wanting in female flowers. Sta- mens twice as many as petals or fewer, those opposite the petals and enclosed in them always present in complete or male flowers, one or more of the alter- nate ones occasionally wanting, and female flowers usually without any ; anthers oblong or linear, deciduous; filaments short. Ovary 2- to 4- or rarely 5-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell; styles short and thick, stigma- tic at the top, often plumose in the female flowers. Fruit a small, 2- to 4- or rarely 5-celled drupe or nut, the adnate calyx either smooth or variously tibbed, angled, winged, or muricate.—Herbs or undershrubs, glabrous sca- brous or hispid. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire toothed or lobed. Flowers small, solitary or several together in the axils of the floral leaves or : ts, forming leafy or leafless racemes, either simple or in a branching ter- ‘minal panicle. Pedicels usually very short, with two small opposite often deciduous bracteoles under the flower. = _ The genus is chiefly Australian, but a few species are also found in New Zealand, in _ Eastern Asia, in S. Africa, and extratropical S. America. Of the 36 Australian species, 1 _ extends to New Zealand and the island of Juan Fernandez, 2 to New Zealand and Eastern _ Asia, Lto New Zealand only, the remaining 32 are.eudemic.. The characters derived from — _ the ribs and wings of the fruit, upon which the genus had been divided into three, are either too little in accordance with other distinctions, or too variable in certain species, to be avail- _ able even as sectional. Most of the species are moucecious, the female flowers various] Mixed in with the males, and although 1 have frequently had specimens with the flowers of one or the other kind, I have not been able to ascertain that any species is constantly cious. ‘The males have never plumose stigmas, but I always find small obtuse styles and their corresponding ovules, which appear often to come to perfection. The females have Usually smaller petals or none at all, fewer stamens or none or filiform filaments only. As the differences between the two are probably the same in nearly all the species, I have not alluded to them in the specific characters. - Serirs 1, Alternifólice.- Leaves all alternate or rarely here und there irregularly posite, or (in some specimens of H. hexandra and H. teratophylla) a few of the lower nes, or those of barren shoots only, opposite. - 3 eer hn. S mall, Flowers soli abroús, small and slender. aves very small, > ‘ tary, minute. Styles and ovules4 . + + + s+ - + * * 22. H. pusilla. rous. Flowers mostly clustered. Fruit not ribbed. ka Styles and ovules 2, rarely 1. Fruit globular. . - + + + 1. H. digyna. Styles and ovules 4 or sometimes 8: Fruit ovoid . . . - 2 H. mucronata. mta with a few hairs. Flowers solitary or 2 together. it 8-ribbed. t Si Calyx-lobes ovate. Petals deciduous. - + ue ga E = e: Calyx-lobes cordaté. Petals reflexed, persisten oe 8 E H. veg ert: ] ly hirsute. Fruit ovoid, hieste" - - + + + + 8 + a . : Leaves linear or lanceolate; the larger ones with a few coarse teeth _ or pinnatifid. estern species. y ro ovules 1, 2, or 3: i i Ebr is osually $ rous. Calyx-lobes, petals, styles, an: i , wre stamens 6. Pruit smooth bes Ti ee os 6. H. tenuifolia. 474 XLV. HALORAGEA. [Haloragis. Glabrous. Calyx-lobes and petals 4; stamens 8 ; styles and ovules] or 2. Fruit 8-ribbed . . - - + + +s + Leaves bordered with minute tooth-like points. Calyx-lobes and petals 4; styles and ovules 2 or 3. “Fruit smooth . 8. H. aculeolata. Styles and ovules 4. Slightly hairy. Calyx-lobes cordate. Ovary acutely 4- A ES Ses ey ee eee a Glabrous. Calyx-lobes almost cordate. Fruit depressed- globular, almost spongy, not angled. Flowers minute . 10. H. platycarpa. Glabrous. Leaves linear-lanceolate, the teeth short . . . 2 H. mucronata. Eastern species. Glabrous or scabrous. Styles and ovules 4. Leaves nearly sessile. Flowers mostly solitary. Fruit ovoid-globular, often muricate, not angled . . . + 11. H. ceratophylla. Fruit acntely angled - - . . «+. s+ + + +s . 12, H. acutangula. Leaves lanceolate, distinctly petiolate. Flowers clustered. Fruit muricate and’ angled . «© . . + . F 8 Se + 14. H. odontocarpa. Leaves linear to oblong, entire or minutely toothed; those of barren branches often opposite. Calyx-lobes, petals, styles, and ovules mostly 3; stamens 6 . + 13. H, hexandra. Calyx-lobes, petals, styles, and ovules 4; stamens 8 . . « « 11. H. ceratophylla. SERIES 2. Oppositifolice.—Stem-leaves all opposite or rarely the uppermost alternate (or nearly all in H. pusilla), Floral-leaves or bracts alternate or rarely the lowest oppo- site. i Styles and ovules 2. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers mostly clustered. isiva seria a ds ie aes See E Leaves bre A e 7. H. scoparia. 9. H. foliosa. = 15. H. serra. . 16. H. glauca. Styles and ovules 4. : Leaves distinctly petiolate, lanceolate or oblong, sërrate. Flowers mostly clustered. Leaves broadly lanceolate or oblong. Fruit ovoid, not inflated, terete or 4-winged = . ee te ee +. + > i . 19. H. alata. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, Fruit 4-angled, the epicarp inflated and connected with the endocarp by a loose network. . . 18. H. racemosa. Leaves nearly sessile (except in H. nodulosa). Flowers soli- tary or rarely 2 together (clustered in H. stricta and H, lanceolata). Western species. Flowers minute. Racemes paniculate (ex- E cept in H. lanceolatay. irsute with spreading hairs. > PFS Leaves broadly ovate-cordate, regularly toothed . -D A rotundifolia. Leaves obovate-oblong or lanceolate, almost entire. » - 20. H. tudis. Glabrous or with a few scattered hairs. Leaves few, uarrow-linear, scarcely toothed. Bracts mi- Tall and creck, Leaves è to T ia. log. Racemes and ere aves $ to 1 in. long. emes pä: . F es See ES . e a DN oì. H. paniculata. Small and slender. Leaves small and few, mostly alter- _ * ; nate. Racemes simple. . = + + + + 25 + 92. H. pusilla. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong, deeply toothéd. Ra- cemes flexuose. Bracts often as long as the flowers. Pratt globie bss ook nt at eo ed grie petiolate, oblong, obscurely toothed. sg uose. Bracts petiolate. Fruit urceolate, muricate, Fh vet ee BE as ee om 24. H. nodulosa . ves oblong or cuneate, nearly entire. Racemes ili- - nostachya> form, paniculate. Bracts minute or none > . + + > 25. H. trichos 4 Leaves lanceolate or oblong, entire. Racemes slender, 3 simple. Bracts longer than the minute flowers - - 6. H. lanceolate =—— 93. H. intricala. Haloragis.) XLV. HALORAGER. 475 Eastern species. Glabrous or neariy so. Leaves ovate or orbicular. Flowers minute, in filiform leafless panicles. . +... + + 27. H. micrantha. Scabrous or hirsute. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, eutire or with small Giatant teeth... | coos: spaans Bae se Sage eee H. stricta. Lower leaves divided into narrow linear lobes. Lobes above the middle of the leaf almost digitate . . 29. H. heterophylla. ` Lobes pinnately disposed along the rhachis , +. + - 30. H. pinnatifida. Leaves broadly toothed or crenate. Leaves oblong, often 1 in. long. Fruit small, narrow. Diieteminate: | aii eee a de acanthocarpa. Leaves ovate or oblong, under 3 in. long, narrowed at the base. Fruit small, nearly globular. Upper bracts emote: 29, eo A AP ee Leaves broadly ovate, rounded or cordate at the base. Fruit globular. Bracts exceeding the flower . Serres 3. Oppositifloree.—Floral leaves and flowers all or nearly all opposite, as well as the stem-leaves. Flowers solitary in each axil. se Stems hirsute. Leaves deeply serrate, ovate or oblong - + + > 34. H. scordioides. ately scabrous. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, small, entire . or slightly toothed . ad to Ae heute OS Nearly glabrous. Leaves narrow-linear or terete, mostly entire. . 36. a salsoloides. a H. cyathiflora, Fenzl, in Hueg. Enum. 44, described from a Swan River specimen he Huegel's es male flowers only, which I have not seen, can searcely belong to this apn’ the habit and foliage must be “nearly that of H. digyna, but with a disk-shaped, 5- “i calyx, twice as many stamens as calyx-tecth, and neither petals nor rudiment of the both of which exist in the male flowers of all the other species. punt SÓ, dde te, all filiform are alter- 32. H. tetragyna. 32. H. teucrioides. 1. H. digyma, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 101, t. 129. Tall and glabrous, With terete branches. Leaves alternate, linear, usually : pon a minute white callous point, rarely exceeding 1 in. in length, EREE , = tite or very obscurely toothed, the floral ones 5 or EEEN ils fowers. Flowers shortly pedicellate, pendulous, clustered in the SPE At ing terminal leafy racemes. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, not cordate. rs . E “ olabrous or slightly ciliate on the ttals 4, at least 1 line long, hood shaped, gla pS a rarely 1 only. eh. Stamens 8 or occasionally 6. Styles and é 5 nearly globular, smooth; not ribbed, crowned by the small erect calyx . probably from King George's W. Australia, Labillardiére, Maxwell, in both cases Sound or to the eastward. te entire, $ to etimes broader, o | i 7 ly sessile, teeth. ` Flo labrous, much smaller than in H. digyna, near red in e aii forming leafy racemes. Calyx-lobes short, 476 XLV. HALORAGER. [Haloragis. triangular. Petals 4, not 4 line long. Stamens usually 8. Styles and ovules 4 or rarely 3. Fruit small, ovoid, glabrous, smooth or slightly 8- ribbed, crowned by the small: erect calyx-lobes.—Goniocarpus mucronatus, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 225. Victoria. Heaths near Fitzroy river and marshes near Portland, Robertson. S. Australia. Kangaroo Island, R. Brown; Murray serub and Onkaparinga river, F. Mueller. W. Australia. Bald Head, King George’s Sound, R. Brown ; muddy soil near Vasse river, Preiss, n. 1221. I can find no difference between the S. Australian and western specimens. It is possible they may both prove to be varieties of H. digyna ; but in the latter, although the flowers are considerably larger, they appear never to have more than two styles and ovules. 5 3. H. pithyoides, Benth. Slender but rigid, erect; with numerous virgate branches, 4 to 1 ft. high, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs, usually of a glaucous or blackish tint when dry. Leaves alternate, narrow- linear, thick or semiterete, rarely above 3. in. long, entire, the floral ones small and mostly reduced to bracts shorter than the flowers. Flowers small, usually solitary, in slender racemes, forming a terminal panicle scarcely leafy at the base. Calyx«tube turbinate, 8-ribbed, usualiy hispid ; lobes ovate, not cordate, quite glabrous. Petals 4, hood-shaped, about line long, ciliate on the keel, not reflexed. Stamens 8: Styles and ovules 4. Fruit small, ovoid-globular, with $ prominent ciliate almost aculeate ribs, and crowned by the glabrous calyx-limb.—Goniocarpus pithyoides, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 225. W. Australia. Swan River, Preiss, n. 1224, Drummond, Clarke. - 4, H. cordigera, Fenzl, in Huey. Enum. 45. Erect, with slender but rigid terete branches, attaining T ft. or more, sprinkled with a few hairs. Leaves alternate, narrow-linear, thick or semiterete, under 1 in. and O under 3 in. long, entire or rarely obscurely toothed, the floral ones reduced to - minute bracts. Flowers mostly solitary, pendulous, on short pedicels, 1n slender racemes, forming a terminal leafless panicle. Calyx-lobes rather large, remarkably cordate and almost peltate, erect. Petals 4, above 1 line long, hood-shaped, ciliate on the: keel, reflexed immediately on expanding and > maining long persistent. Stamens usually 8: Styles 4, longer than in mM species. Young fruit nearly globular, 8-ribbed, but not seen ripe.— Ic. Pl. t. 598; Goniocarpus cordiger, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii, 226. W. Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, 1st Coll. and 4th Coll e = paros n. 1223. I have not seen Huegel's own specimens, but the description is very 2 5. H. elata, 4. Cunn.; Fenzl, mn Hueg. Enum. 45. Rather coarse, with erect or ascending branches, 3-to 14 ft: high, hitsute with sprea 8 no Leaves alternate, or a few very rarely irregularly opposite, linear, mg acuminate, 4 to 1 in. long, with revolute ‘margins, entire or rarely with a tew short teeth, the floral ones smaller but mostly exceeding the flowers. bie solitary, not very small, in terminal racemes, forming a narrow ens ; Calyx hirsute, the lobes not cordate. Petals 4, ciliate on the keel. Stal vat usually 8. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit small, ovoid, prominently mune" —Schlecht. Linnea, xx. 648. © N. S. Wales. Barren rocky ridges, W. from Wellington valley, A. Cunninghame ` Haloragis.] XLV. HALORAGER. 477 : A Australia. Barossa range, Behr ; Mount Lofty ranges and near Lake Torrens, F: Mueller, 6. H. tenuifolia, Benth. Tall, glabrous, and erect, from a shortly —treeping base; branches terete and smooth. Leaves alternate, narrow-linear, the larger ones 1 to 2 in. long with a few narrow-linear lobes, the floral ones gradually reduced to small bracts. Flowers on very short pedicels, mostly in dusters of 2 or 3, forming terminal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes 8, broad but scarcely cordate, Petals 3, above 1' line long. Stamens 6. ‘Styles and ovules 3. Young fruits ovoid, above 1 line long, not ribbed, crowned by the calyx-lobes, 3-celled or very rarely 2-celled. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 86. With the habit of H. scoparia, this species has a more slender foliage, almost approaching that of Meionectes, with the ternary fowers of H. hezandra, and the fruit apparently of Æ. aculeolata. “4. H. scoparia, Fenzl, in Hueg. Enum. 45. Tall, glabrous, and erect ; branches terete and smooth. Leaves alternate, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, the larger ones 1 to 2 in. long with a few remote very prominent teeth or lobes, the upper ones entire, the floral ones gradually reduced to small bracts. Flowers on very short pedicels, in clusters of 2 or 3, forming ong loose terminal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes short, broad, almost cordate. Petals 4, about 1 linelong. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules | lor 2, the stigmas apparently not plumose even in the females. Ovary after flowering prominently-8-ribbed. Fruit not seen. | W, Australia, Huegel, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 82. Ihave not seen Huegel’s speci- en, but the deseription leaves no doubt as to its identity. 8. H. aculeolata, Benth. Erect, virgate, about 1 ft. high in our spe- ens, the stem terete and glabrous or with slightly prominent ciliolate or iculeolate angies. Leaves alternate, narrow-linear, mucronate entire or more uently with a few distant prominent teeth or lobes, as in H, scoparia, but Also bordered with very short, rigid, cartilaginous points or minute teeth, the floral leaves smaller, but all much exceeding the flowers. Flowers apparently Solitary or 2 together, in loose terminal leafy racemes, but not seen perfect. Fruit ovoid, almost corky, above 1 line long, quite glabrous, without eh ‘Tent ribs, crowned by the 4.connivent, triangular, not cordate calyx-lobes ; cells 2 or very rarely 3. A W. Australia its The specimens are not good, but T.cannot mai em wii My of the allied species. The foliage is nearly that of H. scoparia and H. ¿pr a Of the fruit and calyx-lobes that of H. tenuifol a, but with a different number of pa _ 9. H. foliosa, Benth. Tall and erect, sprinkled with a few short spread- Mg hairs. Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, acute, mostly ¿ to 13 in. long, Jud a few remote, acute, very prominent teeth, or the upper ones ee ‘Narrowed at the base but scarcely petiolate, the floral ones shorter .. ae lanceolate, but nearly all exceeding the flowers. Racemes pao a ao tather dense. Flowers usually clustered in the axils, nearly sessi 4 mAN s cordate, acutely acuminate. Petals 4, above 1 line long, often ci Mm the keel. Stamens 8 or sometimes 6 only. Styles and ovules 4. Ovary ‘iter floweri - . Ripe fruit not seen. ring acutely 4-angled ES : Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 82. om Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, 478 XLV. HALORAGEZ. [ Haloragis. 10. H. platycarpa, Benth. Erect, glabrous, under 1 ft. high in our specimens, the branches rather slender, terete. Leaves alternate, linear or lanceolate, acute, the larger ones $ to 2 in. long, with a few remote prominent teeth or lobes, narrowed at the base into a short petiole, the floral ones gra- dually reduced to small bracts. Flowers very small, pedicellate, solitary or 2 or 3 together under each bract, in slender terminal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, almost cordate. Petals 4, scarcely above line long in the females, 3 line or rather more in the males. Stamens usually 6. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit depressed-globular, nearly 2 lines diameter, with a loose almost spongy epicarp and a crustaceous endocarp, 4-nerved, the top almost disk-like, with the small connivent calyx-lobes in the centre. Rarely - the parts of the flowers and fruit are in fives instead of fours. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. and n. 705. 11. Hi. ceratophylla, Andi. Atakta, 16, t. 15. Glabrous and glau- cous or scabrous, with minute rigid hairs, rather coarse but not usually tall, the decumbent or ascending angular stems rarely exceeding 1 ft. Leaves al- ternate or rarely a few of the lower ones or those of barren side-shoots oppo- site, either linear or linear-lanceolate with coarse distant teeth or lobes, or shortly pinnatifid, or sometimes nearly all entire, linear-oblong, and obtuse, usually rather thick with very scabrous margins, from 4 to 1} in. long, the floral ones gradually reduced to small bracts. Flowers nearly sessile, solitary or 2 together, usually much larger than in H. tetragyna and H. heterophylla, m long terminal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes lanceolate-triangular. Petals 4, about 1 line long, the keel scabrous-hirsute. Stamens usually 8. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit ovoid or. globular, much larger than in H. tetr g gyn, scarcely ribbed but sometimes very rugose. or muricate.—H. aspera, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 306 ; H. pinnatifida, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i, 119, but not of A. Gray. Queensland. Bargoo (Victoria) river, Mitchel; Rockhampton, Dallachy ; Warwick, N. S. Wales. From the Darling to Cooper’s Creek, Victorian Expedition ; Vey ‘common in all the swamps of the interior, Fraser. . _ Victoria. Scrub of the N.W, parts of the colony towards the Murray, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy. i A S. Esk river, Tasmania. Herdsman's Cove, Derwent river, R. Brown ; N. coast and J. D. Hooker. : tee: able S. Australia. Frequent on the Murray, Gawler river, Cudnaka, Mount Rema etc., F. Mueller ; Spencer's Gulf, Warburton ; Port Lincoln, Withelmi. e I have not seen authentic specimens of Endlicher's plant, but the figure appena (ee represent this species rather than M. heterophylla, which is also in R. Brown's col and of which some coarse specimens, not well in flower, resemble the more slender ones H. ceratophylla. =. A 12. H. acutangula, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 125- sad glabrons, glaucous, rather coarse species, with the habit, narrow sta leaves, inflorescence, and flowers of H. ceratophylla, of which it may prove i be a variety, differing in the fruit prominently and acutely 4-anglet, Sri smooth between the angles. z 4 S. Australia. Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi. .13. H. hexandra, F. Muell. Fragm. iii, $1. Glabrous, diffuse, ™ E Haloragis.] XLV.. HALORAGEA. 479 branched, some specimens under 2 ft., others-above 1 ft. long, the branches slightly angular. Leaves alternate, or a few of the lowest or on some barren ~ shoots opposite, from oblong-lanceolate to linear, acute, 4 to 1} in. long, entire or with a few minute remote teeth, narrowed at the base but scarcely - petiolate, rather thick, the floral ones smaller and narrower, but all much ex- _ ceeding the flowers. Flowers very small, pendulous, usually 2 together in each axil, forming slender terminal leafy racemes. Pedicels usually short, - but sometimes longer than the flowers. Calyx-lobes 3 or rarely 4, ovate- triangular. Petals usually 3, even where the calyx is 4-merous, little more than $ line long. Stamens 6. Styles and ovules 3. Fruit very small, ovoid, with 6 ribs, occasionally prominent and tubercular-rugose. = W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 84; bogs near Wilson's Inlet, Oldfield. _ 14. H. odontocarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 108. Apparently tall, glaucous and nearly glabrous or loosely haiiy. Leaves alternate, distinctly E plate, lanceolate, mostly 1 to 13 in. long, coarsely serrate and rather thick, e floral ones very small, mostly reduced to bracts shorter than the flowers. Flowers clustered, in terminal racemes, smaller than in H. ceratophylla. -Calyx-lobes short, acute, ciliate. Petals 4, scarcely 1 line long. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules 4. - Fruit ovoid, above 1 line long, prominently 4-angled almost winged, more or less muricate, and often with 1 or 2 thick promi- Nent conical or tooth-like protuberances on each of the 4 sides. N.S. Wales. Kulkyne on the Darling, Goodwyn and Dallachy. The habit and - Detiolate leaves are those of H. alata, but the leaves appear to be all alternate, and the - tchinate points, if constant, are quite characteristic. 1. H. se Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. t. 69. Erect, branching, quite glabrous or ties of the Sige edges of the leaves minutely scabrous. - Stem-leaves opposite, lanceolate, acute, regularly and sharply serrate, nar- Towed at the base but scarcely petiolate, the floral ones alternate, mostly re= duced to small bracts. Flowers glabrous, rather small, distinctly pedicellate, - Mostly clustered, in slender racemes, leafy at the base, Calyx-lobes short. Petals 4, nearly 1 line long. Stamens 8 or fewer. Styles and ovules 2. fruit small, 2-celled, smooth or obscurely rugose. N.S. Wales. Common about Clifton, New England, C. Stuart; near Castlereagh, $ Moore ; Liverpool range, Leichhardt. i A ; wH, uca, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 91. Apparently annual, tall and an slightly branched, quite glabrous and glaucous with terete E stems, Stem-leaves opposite, lanceolate, acute, entire or slightly serrate, nar- Tower than in H. serra, the floral ones alternate and gradually reduced to Mall bracts. Flowers glabrous, pendulous but scarcely pedicellate, mostly E clustered, in terminal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes lanceolate or oblong, Petals 2 “Stamens 6 to 8. Styles and ovules 2. Fruit globular, GA sá hell (Herb. Lindley). Very near H. N. ix arran, ite. er . an d ta d E a . terra, borro a dee at the ioe too dissimilar to justify the uniting it without *eing intermediate specimens. 17. H. alata, Jacq, Tc. Pl. Rar. i. 7, t. 69. A tall erect species, appa- tently So Ag ii có with minute asperities only visible under a lens, 480 XLV. HALORAGER. [Haloragis the branches acutely angular. Stem-leaves opposite, distinctly petiolate, from ovate-lanceolate to oblong, $ to 14 in. long, or the lower ones sometimes twice that size, regularly and sharply serrate, the floral ones mostly alternate and small. Flowers shortly pedicellate, clustered and drooping, forming ter- minal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes broad. Petals 4, about 1 line long, glabrous. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit rather small, glo- bular or ovoid, with 4 ribs scarcely prominent in most of the Australian spe cimens, more or less dilated into wings in most of the New Zealand ones, but variable in both countries, smooth or rugose between the ribs.—Hook. f. Fl. N. Z. i. 62; Cercodia erecta, Murr. ; DC. Prod. iii. 67. N. S. Wales. Grose river, R. Brown; Nepean river, Woolls; Castlereagh river + C. Moore; Clarence and Richmond rivers, Beckler ; New England, Leichhardt (the latter — doubtful, leaves narrower and almost entire). Victoria. Port Phillip, Gunn. Also in New Zealand and in the island of Juan Fernandez. ` 18. H. racemosa, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 100, t. 128. A glabrous erect herb or undershrub attaining 5 or 6 ft., with the acutely angular branches _ and general aspect of H. alata. Stem-leaves opposite, distinctly petiolate, narrow-lanceolate, regularly and acutely serrate, often above 2 in. long, the floral ones alternate, gradually reduced to bracts. Flowers pedicellate, clus- tered in the upper axils, forming terminal leafy thyrsoid panicles. Calyx-tube acutely 4-angled, the lobes broad and short. - Petals 4, about 1 line long, mucronate. Stamens 8. Styles 4, rather long; ovules 4. Fruit 3 or even 4 lines long, acutely 4-angled or winged, crowned by the short corinivent — calyx-lobes, quite smooth, the thin somewhat inflated epicarp connected with the endocarp by a loose network or spongy substance as in Loudonia Roet.— Cercodia racemosa, DC. Prod. iii. 67. ` sane: ema S. coast, Labillardióre, R. Brown; dry sandy places, Nornalup 4 19. HI. rotundifolia, Benth. Apparently annual, erect, branching from the base, attaining 1 ft. or rather more, hirsute with spreading hairs. Stem- leaves opposite, nearly sessile, ovate-orbicular, mostly 4 to $ in. long, regt- — larly crenate-serrate, cordate at the base, the floral ones and minute bracts alternate. Racemes filiform, in a terminal panicle, leafy only at the base, Flowers minute, solitary and distant, glabrous or minutely pubescent. Calyx- lobes broadly ovate, almost cordate. Petals 4, about 4 line long. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit ovoid-oblong, not + line long, 8-ribbed, smooth or 09- scurely rugose. : W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Col. ; Flinders Bay, Collie. . 20. H. rudis, Benth. Low and diffuse but coarse, densely hirsute with ; spreading hairs, the stems hard and almost woody at the base, but perhaps annual. Stem-leaves opposite, from obovate-oblong to almost lanceo! ms ; entire or with a few small teeth, under 4 in. long, narrowed at the base, rah E thick, hispid on both sides, the floral ones small narrow and alternate as we? as the minute bracts. Racemes short and slender, in small termi ae leafy at the base only. Flowers very small, the males not seen. Calyx- i 4, ovate-triangular. Styles and ovules4. Fruit very small, nearly globular, slightly constricted under the persistent calyx-limb. i W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. . 81. l Haloragis.] XLV. HALORAGEA, 481 | 21. H. paniculata, R. Brown, Herb, Erect, very slender, and but little branched below the inflorescence, glabrous or slightly hairy. Stem-leaves opposite, few in distant pairs, linear, obtuse, 3 in. long or more, entire or } obscurely crenate, narrowed at the base but not petiolate, the floral ones re- _ } duced to minute alternate bracts. Racemes slender, divaricate, in a loose ter- } minal panicle. Flowers very small, solitary or 2 together. Calyx-tube 8- _ Mbbed, shortly ciliate, the lobes ovate, not cordate, glabrous. Petals 4, about i 3 line long. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit only seen when 7 young. = W. Australia. King George’s Sound, R. Brown, Harvey. 22. H. pusilla, R. Br. Herb. A small slender annual, branching at . $ the base only, most of the specimens not above 2 or 3 in. high and quite A ‘glabrous, Lower leaves opposite, linear, entire, 2 to 3 lines long, upper ones Smaller and alternate, the floral ones reduced to minute bracts. Flowers Solitary under each bract, very small and distant, sometimes scarcely forming aterminal raceme. Petals 4, not above 3 line long. Stamens 8. Styles “and ovules according to R. Brown’s notes 4. Fruit as small as in H. mi- _ @antha, nearly globular, 8-ribbed. = W. Australia. To the E. of King George’s Sound, R. Brown (Herb. R. Br.) Var. (?) subaphylla. Stems slender and wiry, 3 to 6 in. long, almost leafless. Flowers _ few and very distant.—S. coast, R. Brown. 23. HL intricata, Benth. Diffuse or ascending and very much branched, glabrous or sprinkled with a few rather rigid hairs, branchlets filiform, very flexuose. Stem-leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acutely and Coarsely serrate, under + in. long, the floral ones alternate, mostly reduced to Small narrow bracts often as long as the flower. Racemes filiform, flexuose, forming very much branched terminal panicles leafy at the base. Flowers minute, solitary, distant, hispid with a few stiff hairs. Calyx-lobes small, cordate. Petals 4, scarcely + line long. Stamens usually 8. Styles and (ules 4, Fruit minute, globular, obscurely angled, but not seen ripe. - W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 39. 24. H. nodulosa, Walp. . v. 672. Apparently annual, much nched, rarely ser duf y da with a few short rigid hairs, ranches slender, flexuose. Stem-leaves opposite, oblong, entire or obscurely toothed, under 4 in. long, narrowed into a distinct petiole; the floral ag “ternate, small, yet all petiolate and exceeding the flowers. _Racemes slen = flexuose, paniculate, leafy at the base. Flowers minute, solitary, distant, an : y sessile. Calyx-tube urceolate, about 3 line long, lobes small, not cor- date, Petals 4, scarcely + line long. Stamens in the flower examined 4 only, Styles and ovules 4. Fruit about ¿ line long, globular and muricate At the base, with a narrow smooth neck crowned by the calyx-lobes.— Gonio- carpus nodulosus, Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 158. W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll., Preiss, n. 2378. The urceolate R distinguishes this from all the other species ; the reduction in the number of stamens May not be constant. » ae 25. H. trichostachya, Benth. A small, rather rigid, erect species, Probably annual eres e the base, not 6 in. high including > panicle, oi, I 482 XLV. HALORAGES. [Haloragis. sprinkled with a few short appressed hairs. Stem-leaves rather crowded at the base of the branches, opposite, linear-cuneate or oblong, entire or nearly so, mostly about + in. long, narrowed into a short petiole, the floral ones all reduced to minute alternate scale-like bracts. Racemes filiform, forming much branched leafless terminal panicles more slender than in any other spe- cies. Flowers very small, distant, nearly sessile, pendulous. — Calyx-lobes broad but scarcely cordate. Petals 4, about 2 line long, glabrous, hood- shaped. Stamens 6 in the flowers examined, but perhaps sometimes 8. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit small, 8-ribbed, sometimes 4-angled by the pro- minence of + of the ribs, and quite glabrous and smooth, sometimes hirsute and nearly globular. WN. Australia, Drummond, n. 205. 26. H. lanceolata, R. Brown, Herb. A diffuse glabrous annual, with the habit nearly of the smaller forms of H. hexandra, the slender ascending branches rarely above 3 or 4 in. high. Stem-leaves opposite, oblong oF lanceolate, from under 4 in. to nearly 2 in. long, quite entire, narrowed at the base, rather thick, the floral-ones alternate and much reduced, but all longer than the flowers, which, however, I have not seen perfect. Fruiting racemes slender, terminal, leafy, the fruits as small as in H. micrantha, shortly pedi- cellate, 2 or 3 together in each axil, reflexed, very small, ovoid, 4-angled but otherwise smooth, crowned by the 4 calyx-lobes. W. Australia. Marshes, King George’s Sound, R. Brown (Herb. R. Br). 21. H. micrantha, R. Brown in Flind. Voy. App. 550. Glabrous or — slightly scabrous, much branched and diffuse or slender and erect, usually under 6 in. high, but when very luxuriant twice that height, the greater pat occupied by the panicle. Stem-leaves opposite, orbicular-cordate or very broadly oyate, serrate-crenate, 3 to 4 lines or rarely 2 in. diameter, the flo ones reduced to minute alternate bracts. Racemes filiform, in a loose term! panicle. Flowers minute, solitary. Calyx-lobes short, not cordate. Petals 4, about 3 line long. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit small, nearly globular prominently 8-nerved, otherwise smooth and shining.— Hook. É Fl. Tasm. 1 121; H. tenella, Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. t. 68 B; Goniocarpus micranthus, : Thunb. ; DC. Prod. iii. 66; G. microcarpus, Thib.; DC. Prod. iii. 66 (from the diagnosis). | N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown and others; New England, C. Stuart; e. rence and Hastings rivers, Bechler. t Use- : Victoria. Dandenong and Haidinger ranges, Ovens river, Mount Buller, Monnt 12 ful, F. Mueller; Portland, Alitt. . Ji parts Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant in moist sandy soil in several ie of the colony, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Mount Lofty range, F. Mueller. 5 Also in New Zealand, Khasia, and Japan. e 28. H. stricta, R. Br. Herb. Erect, rigid but slender, rather talh nearly glabrous in appearance but very scabrous. _ Stem-leaves opposite, ones or linear-lanceolate, acute, entire or with small distant teeth, the larger ee 1 to 2 in. long, the floral ones alternate, mostly reduced to al Flowers clustered within each bract, shortly pedicellate, forming ca about minal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes small, acute. Petals 4, A lil ie | Haloragis.] XLV. HALORAGEZ. : 483 _1line long. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules (according to R. Brown’s notes) 4. Fruit small, but not seen ripe. Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown (Herb. R. Br.) The inflorescence is that of _ H. serra, but the foliage is different and the pistil 4-merous. 29. H. heterophylla, Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. t. 68 A. A rather Slender species, usually small, but sometimes 1 ft. high, glabrous or minutely Scabrous, with erect or ascending stems, Stem-leaves all or mostly opposite, deeply divided above the middle into 3, 5 or 7 linear or rarely lanceolate acute lobes almost digitate; a few of the upper ones often alternate linear entire or nearly so, the floral ones smaller, the uppermost reduced to small bracts. Flowers like those of H. tetragyna, small, solitary, or 2 together within each bract, in slender terminal leafy racemes. Calyx scabrous, with short lobes. Petals 4, in the males oblong, boat-shaped, about 1 line long, Present also in some of the females, but shorter and hood-shaped. Styles ind ovules 4, Fruit small, globular or nearly so, tubercular-rugose. Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Burdekin river, F, Mueller; Moreton Bay, C. Stuart ; Warwick, Bechler. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown and others; New England, C. Stuart; Arne Tiver, Beckler, also in Leichhardt’s collection. _ Victoria. Portland, 4//itt; Snowy River, F. Mueller (rather doubtful). 8. Australia. Barossa range, Behr, A Var. () Jiliformis. More slender, with narrower leaf-lobes.—H. filiformis, A. Gray, Bot. i Amer, Expl. Exped. i. 628.—Hunter’s River, American Exploring Expedition. 1 have not Sen these specimens, but some of our N. S. Wales ones agree well with the description. Generally speaking, this species is readily distinguished from H. ceratophylla by its slender abit, Opposite stem-leaves only divided above the middle, and by the small flowers of le ak ‘agyna ; but some specimens, mostly in an imperfect state, appear almost to connect le two, -30. H. pinnatifida, 4. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 627. Tall ‘nd glabrous or minutely scabrous on the angles of the stem and margins of the leaves. Stem-leaves opposite, deeply divided from nearly the base into Mear lobes not broader than the rhachis, the larger leaves 1} to 2 in. long, lobes 4 to 2 in. or even nearly 1 in. long; the floral leaves alternate, ‘ther larger, solitary within each bract or floral leaf, forming terminal leafy Fruit only seen young. „N. S. Wales. Hunter’s River, American Exploring Expedition ; near Cassilis, a “ore, a single specimen in Herb. F. Mueller, agreeing well with the description given by Gray, whose specimens I have not seen. 3l. H., acan ocarpa, Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. t.70. Stems decum- Deut or br no ft. he: aoan bil as well as the leaves. Stem- ‘aves Opposite, sessile or shortly petiolate, oblong or broadly lanceolate, ‘Mostly + to 14 in. long, regularly and acutely serrate as in H. alata and H. ‘ra, rounded at the base. Flowers very small, alternate along the filiform es of a long loose terminal panicle, with small leaves at the base of the branches, the others reduced to small bracts. Calyx-lobes short. 4, glabrous, rather above + line long. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules ruit nearly 1 line long, narrow-oblong, muricate with 2 z 3 A I = 484 XLV. HALORAGEZ. [Haloragis. - rows of tubercles, crowned by the small smooth calyx-limb.—H. leptotheca, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 32. N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller; Port Essington, Armstrong ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Sims Island, A. Cunningham; Gould Island, M Gilli- vray. 32. H. tetragyna, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1. 63, and Fl. Tasm. i. 120. Rootstock apparently perennial, more or less scabrous with appressed hairs; stems branching, diffuse decumbent or ascending, sometimes all under 6 in., rarely above 1 ft. long. Stem-leaves all or mostly opposite, linear-lanceolate, elliptical or the lower ones ovate, rarely above 4 im. long, except in tall luxu- riant forms, not cordate, and usually narrowed at the base; the floral ones all or almost all alternate and mostly reduced to small bracts shorter than the flowers. Flowers small, nearly sessile, solitary within each bract, m slender usually one-sided terminal racemes, often branching into narrow panicles. Calyx-tube not 3 line long. Petals in the males rather above 1 line long, smaller or none in the females. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules ae Fruits nearly globular, 4-angled, transversely rugose, attaining about 3 line diameter. —F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 26; Goniocarpus tetragynus, Labill. PL Nov. Holl. 39, t. 53; DC. Prod. iii. 66; Haloragis gonocarpus, Spreng. Syst. 1. 261; Goniocarpus tenellus, DC. Prod. iii. 66. eensland. Moreton Si i ama Wales. Port hb de Blue Mountains, R. Brown and others; New England, C. Stuart; Head of the Gwydir, Leichhardt ; Hastings and Macleay nvers, Beckler. w d Victoria. Australia Felix, F. Mueller ; Creswick, J; 3. Whan ; probably over the whe ony. she Common in dry stony places, fields, etc., J. D. Hooker. ; S. Australia. Barossa and Mount Lofty ranges, F. Mueller. ath: Var. micrantha. Leaves longer than in the southern specimens, and mostly lancon d racemes more slender and more branching, flowers nearly as small as in A. dd ee this belong most of the northern specimens, and Goniocarpus scaber, Ken. H 3 seabr q de TER 139), from Khasia, the Indian Archipelago, and China, appears 7 not to be specifically distinct. A Var. hispida, More isali Flowers small. Leaves rather broad, but all narrowed at 3 the base, —Mount Mitchell, Clarence river, Beckler ; head of the Gwyair, Leich ae The southern form of the species is also in New Zealand. i a 6%. A $ 33. H. teucrioides, 4. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. bi ps oe perennial, usually much coarser than H. tetragyna, scabrous-pu le ves op- d hispid with decumbent or erect stems often 1 to 2 ft, long. Stem- iah ad posite, ovate or orbicular, deeply and acutely serrate, rounded ESE Y the base, the larger ones 4 in., but mostly not above 3 in. long $ ract, the a Flowers rather larger than in H. detragyna, solitary under each x ee eter’ d lower ones often opposite, the upper ones alternate, forming pp bracts | racemes and a much more leafy panicle than H. tetragyna, usually} usually exceeding the flowers. Fruit of H. tetragyna, but the angles 1 tuberculate and smoother between them.— Goniocarpus tenorioiden a. Cums; f iii. 66; H. elata, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 475, not OF ©" H. Gunnii, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 120. Leichhardt, 4 gon S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 544, ers. i Haloragis.] XLV. HALORAGER. 485 Victoria. Australia Felix, without the precise station, F. Mueller. ‘Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; abundant in wet shady places, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. S. coast, R. Brown, with smaller leaves. = _ W. Australia. Princess Royal Harbour, R. Brown, Preiss, n. 2087, the specimens Tn both cases imperfect and scarcely in flower, and therefore doubtful. Preiss’s are referred by Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 158, to Gontocarpus tetragynus, together with Preiss’s specimens 2. 2390, which are also bad, but do not appear to be of the same species. The whole Species is united by F. Mueller with H. tetragynus. ; = 834. H. scordioides, Benth. Rather a coarse species, probably tall; branches loose, hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves opposite, the lower - ones petiolate, oblong, deeply and sharply serrate, mostly 4 to above 1 in. E long, glabrous or nearly so; the floral ones much smaller and ovate, but all - Opposite in the specimens seen. Flowers nearly sessile and solitary in the - axils of the floral leaves: Calyx-tube globular, slightly 4-angled ; lobes = ovate-lanceolate. Petals 4, attaining nearly 14 lines, oblong, ciliate on the keel. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit not seen. W. Australia. Thomas river, Matwell. _ 85. H. depressa, Walp. Rep. ii. 99. A small species, diffuse or pro- - stiate, very much branched, glabrous in appearance, but scabrous with minute - asperities. Leaves all opposite, ovate, often cordate, usually broad, under 4 In. and often not 4 in, long, the upper floral ones gradually smaller, but all - Opposite or very rarely the upper ones of side-branches alternate. Flowers _ almost sessile, forming-short interrupted terminal racemes, and similar to those of the smaller forms of H. tetragyna, except that the calyx-tube and fruit are Smooth and shining, with 4° or 8 prominent nerves, not tuberculate.—Hook. fF Tasm. i. 120. : socia. Mount Useful and Mount Cobberas, at an elevation of 4500 to 5000 ft., » Mueller. : Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, Table mountain, and Cataract river, R. Brown ; abun- dant in alpine and subalpine situations, J. D. Hooker. __ Also in New Zealand. E There are two forms of this species: 1. serpyllifolia. Leaves mostly under 3 lines long and rather narrow.—Goniocarpus serpyllifotius and G. verntcosus, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl.t, 290 and 311, H, serpyllifolia and H. vernicosa, Walp. Rep. ii, 90;—and 2. montana, _ Leaves roader, often cordate, 3 to 5 lines long.—H. montana, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond, Tourn. vi, 475, united with 27. depressa in Fl. Tasm. i. 120. 36. H. salsoloides, Benth. Erect, often much branched, 3 to 1 ft. high, nearly glabrous or scabrous with minute hairs, branches terete or nearly _ 80, the short flowering summits almost always nodding. Leaves all opposite, - Narrow-linear, almost terete, rarely above 5 in, long, quite entire, or obscurely and minutely toothed. Flowers opposite and solitary in the upper axils, Tather larger than in: H. tetragyna. Calyx-lobes short. acute. Petals 4, about 1 line lone; Stamens 8, usually persistent long after the -fall of the petals, the Slenehis exceeding the calyx+lobes. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit Not seen: —Goniocarpus salsolvides, Reichb. in Sieb; Pl. Exs., and in Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2. al S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 249, and thers, 486 XLV. HALORAGEZ. 8. MEIONECTES, R. Br. Calyx-tube or ovary somewhat compressed, lobes 2. Petals 2, induplicate and boat-shaped. Stamens 4; filaments short. Ovary 2-celled with 1 pen- dulous ovule in each cell; styles 2. Fruit small, 2-celled.—Diffuse herb with alternate once or twice pinnatifid leaves, and the inflorescence of Halo- ragis. i . The genns is limited to a single species endemic in Australia, only differing from Halo- ragis in the binary not ternary or quaternary numbers of the parts of the flower. ` 1. M. Brownii, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 306, and Fl. Tasm. i. 123. A-glabrous slender herb, creeping and rooting at the base, the branches ascending sometimes to the height of 6 in., or when luxuriant to 1 ft. Leaves alternate, deeply pinnatifid with linear lobes not broader than the common rhachis, the larger ones often again lobed, the upper floral leaves smaller and more entire. Flowers in clusters of 2 or more in the upper axils, the upper ones forming a more or less leafy raceme. Calyx-lobes short. Petals gla- brous, about 1 line long. Fruit ovate, slightly compressed, 13 to 2 lines long, including the erect connivent persistent calyx-lobes, more or less rugose and usually with the 2 ribs prominent on the edge.—M. Preissii, Nees in PL Preiss. i. 224. : i gare Wet pastures and swamps in various parts of the colony, F. Mueller and otners. Tasmania. Pools of fresh water at Circular Head and other places in the northern parts of the island, J. D. Hooker. : S. Australia. Valleys of Mount Lofty ranges where inundated in time of rain, F. Mueller. 7 > W. Australia, Swamps, King George’s Sound and to the eastward, R. Brown; — Swen River, Preiss, n, 2385; Flinders Bay, Collie. These western specimens are gè A coarser and rather larger in all their parts than most of the Tasmanian and Victorian eee but some of F. Mueller’s are almost if not quite as large as Preiss's, and some of Browns are quite as slender as those from ‘Tasmania. 4. MYRIOPHYLLUM, Linn. : Flowers mostly unisexual. Male fl.: Calyx-tube very short or scarey — any, lobes short, petal-like or scarcely any. Petals 4, concave, imbricate OF half induplicate. Stamens 4, 6 or 8. Styles minute and rudimentary, Wi" out any ovules. Female fl.: Calyx-tube ovoid, lobes minute or none. etals E. usually none. Ovary 2- or 4-celled, with one pendulous ovule in each cel; styles as many as ovules, ustially short and stigmatic from the base; OWE plumose. Fruit small, usually furrowed between the 2 or 4 carpels, k de at length separate into as many small 1-seeded nuts. Aquatic herbs, se lower leaves when submerged often pinnately divided into capillary PL those of the flowering extremities usually less divided or entire. pet i] very small, in the axils of the exserted flowering leaves or rarely also ae a tirely in the submerged axils, the upper ones usually males, the dowe = females, sometimes dicecious, but perhaps not constantly so in any The genus is found in fresh waters nearly in every part of the globe. Of tralian species, 3 are also in New Zealand, and one of these extends to ex America, the remaining 9 are endemic. Aus the 12 0% Myriophyllum.] XLV. HALORAGER. 487 Leaves all in whorls of 3 to 8, the submerged ones pinnatisect with capillary segments, the emerged floral ones entire toothed or shortly lobed. Leaves usually more than 4 in the whorl, the emerged ones nar- row-linear, Calyx-lobes conspicuous Pease oe dost Leaves usually 4, the emerged ones oblong or broadly lanceolate, sessile, Calyx-lobes minute. a Emerged leaves entire or slightly toothed. Plant rather large 2. M. elatinoides. Emerged leaves pinnatifid. Plant small or slender . . . . 3. M. verrucosum. ves usually 3, the emerged ones linear-lanceolate, above 3 in. Te i long, serrulate, narrowed into a petiole. . . . . . + + 4. M. latifolium. Leaves all opposite or rarely in whorls of 3, pinnatisect with capil- | lary lobes. Male flowers 1 or 2 together on a distinct peduncle, each enclosed in a hood-shaped bract . . . . . + T Leaves all opposite, entire. Small plants creeping in mud, A Leaves oblong. Carpels smooth a a 6. M. amphibium. = _ Leaves linear. Carpels tuberculate or muricate. > . + . + 7. M. pedunculatum. _ Leaves all alternate. Submerged leaves pinnatisect with capillary segments. Sta- mens 8, Emerged floral leaves entire, linear. ; Carpele 2, smooth- -ere are am A ka M. dicoccum. Carpela 4, tuberculate < e soo e sec . bo. M. trachycarpum. Leaves all pinnatisect with fine segments. Carpels4 . . . 10. M. gracile. ves all linear and entire, or rarely with a few lobes in M. Drummondii. Minute filiform plauts. tg Stamens 8, with oblong anthers longer than the filaments . . 11. M. filiforme. Stamens 4 or fewer, with ovate anthers much shorter than the filaments. . i z Ap e Leaves all entire. Carpels smooth > . . + + + + +12 M. Topon- ; Leaves occasionally with a few lobes. Carpels muricate . 13. M. Drummondu. _ 1l. M. variæfolium; Hook. f. in Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 289, and Fl. Tasm. 1122, Usually a rather large species, the erect flowering summits sins almost the aspect of Hippuris. Leaves in whorls of from 4 to 8, mel Ad 01 6, the lower submerged ones divided into capillary lobes, the emerged flo Ones narrow-linear, all entire or the lower ones toothed, i to above 2 in. Apa a fl.: Calyx-lobes conspicuous and sometimes above + e: : i * 1} to 14 lines. Stamens 8. Female fl. small without apparent — eel = petals. Carpels 4, small, tuberculate or almost echinate, or y quite - Smooth. ; : a: S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, ee Brenes river, 4. Cunningham ; : ; i : ings river, er. i : ere, pacing a Mueller ; Glenelg and Wendu rivers, Robertson. asmania. Abundant in fresh waters throughout the colony, J. D. Hooker. a al Torek iran a Line Ud Sound, Drummond, tst Coll., 4th Coll. — 2.15, Harvey, Oldfield. X Also in New Zealand. pæd . M. variafolium. . M. Muelleri. * cu . . . . . py e o or scarcely toothed, quite sessile, / teeth pe e poble Petals about 1 line long. Stamens 8. Female 488 XLV. HALORAGEA. [ Myriophyllum. fl. very small, without apparent calyx-teeth or petals. Carpels 4, small, smooth or slightly tuberċulate.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 121. Victoria. Australia Felix, F. Mueller; Wendu river, Robertson. Tasmania. Fresh and brackish waters, Georgetown and in the Derwent, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Murray river, Lake Victoria, pools on Mount Barker, F. Mueller, Also in New Zealand and in extratropical S. America. 3. M. verrucosum, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 384. Usually much smaller and more slender than the last two species. Leaves mostly in whorls of 4, the lower submerged ones divided into capillary lobes, the emerged floral ones sessile, oblong or lanceolate, all pinnatifid with short obtuse lobes, more or less glaucous, mostly about 2 lines long. Flowers rather smaller than in M. elatinoides. Calyx-lobes very small, but perceptible in both sexes, very deciduous in the females. Petals in the males under 1 line long. Sta- mens 8. Females without petals. Styles 4, very short. Carpels 4, rarely above 4 line long, obtuse on the back, more or less tuberculate. N. Australia. Victoria river, Bynoe ; Albert river, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller. Queensland. Balonne river at St. George’s Bridge, Mitchell ; Moreton Bay, C. Stuart, N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Moutitains, R. Brown aud others; water- eo ia the Severn, Leichhardt ; in the interior towards the Barrier Range, Victorian Ex- COn. : Victoria. Waters on the Grampians, muddy places by the Barwan, etc., F. Mueller. S. Australia. S. coast, R. Brown. W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. ?, n. 186, 4th Coll. n. 80; pools, Murchison river, Oldfield. $ : The species has some affinity to the northern M. verticillatum as well as to the Asiatic M. indicum, but besides the differences in the floral leaves, the fruit is much smaller than » in the former, much less furrowed between the carpels than in the latter. As in the allied species, flowers are occasionally found also in the axils of the submerged leaves. 4. M. latifolium; F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 87. A large species. Leaves in whorls of 3, the lower submerged ones divided into capillary lobes, but m the specimens seén always few, those of the tall erect emerged summits lan- ceolate, serrulate, $ to 1 in. long, narrowed into a petiole. Flowers rather large, all sessile. Male fl.: Calyx-lobes small. Petals 14 lines long. Sta- mens 8. Female fl.: Calyx-teeth inconspicuous. Carpels 4, styles short, very plumose. Fruit not seen. N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown ; Clarence river, Beckler. 5. M: Muelleri, Sond. Herb. The plant appears to be entirely sub- merged. Leaves opposite or rarely in whorls of three, all pinnately divide into capillary lobes, those of the upper floral leaves however not quite so fine. Flowers moneecious in the upper axils, the males rather large, solitary or 2 to- gether, on a peduncle of about 2 or 3 lines, each one enclosed before expand- - Ing in an almost petal-like hood-shaped bract, the bracteoles remaining sma Calyx-lobes very small. Petals above 1 line long. Stamens 8. Rudimentary, styles conspicuous. Female fl. sessile. Calyx-teeth almost imperceptible. Pe- tals none. Styles 4, erect, usually as long as the ovary, papillose from the base, but not plumose. Fruit-carpels about 4 line long, smooth. Victcria. Watery inarshes, Melbourne, Adamson. S. Australia. Near Holdfast Bay, F, Mueller. W. Australia. King George’s Sound or to the eastward, Barter. Myriophyllum.] XLV. HALORAGER, 489 The glands observable in the axils of the submerged leaves of many Myriophyllums are particularly conspicuous in this species. 6. M. amphibium, Zabill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 70. t. 220. A small _ Plant, creeping in the mud, without capillary-lobed leaves. Leaves opposite, - oblong or sometimes almost obovate, entire, mostly 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers - Solitary in the upper axils. Males: Calyx-lobes + to 3 line long. Petals About 1 line long, narrower than in the other species. Stamens 8. Female _ flowers very small, the minute calyx-teeth scarcely perceptible. Styles often = Yather long, plumose at the extremity. Fruit about 3 line long; carpels ovoid, smooth or scarcely punctate.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 122. _ Tasmania. Wet places about Recherche Bay, J. D. Hooker. ae 7. M. pedunculatum, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi: 474, and Fl, - Tasm.i. 122, £. 23 B. Very closely allied to M. amphibium, and perhaps a E variety, differing in the leaves from narrow-linear to linear-oblong, rarely 3 lines long, the flowers rather smaller, the males sonietimes, but not always, shortly pedunculate, the styles in the females very short, the carpels rather _ Smaller, covered with prominent tubercles. Victoria. Boggy pastures, Australian Alps, F. Mueller, Tasmania. King's Island, R. Brown; shallow parts aud inundated water-banks, as- cending to 4000 ft:, J. D. Hooker. W. Australia, Drummond, n. 204. Also in New Zealand. 8. M. dicoccum, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. iii. 41. A rather - slender species. Léaves all alternate, the submerged ones pinnatisect with ca- - Pillary segments, the emerged floral ones linear, entire, + to 4 in. long, nar- _ Towed at the base. Upper flowers male or perhaps hermaphrodite, but not - Seen perfect. Calyx-teeth inconspicuous. Petals about + line long. (Sta- Mens 4?) Female flowers very small, with a 2-celled ovary and 2 short plu- _ Mose styles. Carpels 2, rather above 3 line long, very smooth; NN. Australia. Robinson river, F. Mueller: ane á 9. M. trachycarpum, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 87. A slender species with the habit A i kee Leaves al. alternate, the submerged ones pinnatisect with capillary segments, the emerged floral ones linear, entire = - Scarcely toothed, 2 to 3 lines lorig, narrowed at the base. Flowers small, ai tary, the upper ones male, but not seen very perfect. Calyx-teeth very ener ‘ etals under 1 line long. Stamens apparently 8. Female caged an : yx-teeth quite inconspicuous. Carpels 4 or rarely 3, about 5 line long, _ “Onspicuously verrucose. _ „N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, opposite Groote Island, 2. Brown ; ponds near ~ Macadam Range, F. Mueller (Herb. R. Br. and F. Muell.). 10. M. gracile, Benth. A small slender almost filiform species, nearly - Allied to M. trachycarpum, and perhaps a variety. Leaves alternate, all, even innati innati ith few (3, 5 or E uppermost floral ones, deeply pinnatifid or pinnatisect, w1 3 ¿2 Narrow, rather short lobes. Viowers and fruit of M. trachycarpum. Stamens mthe males 8. Carpels 4, small, tuberculate. — - Queensland, Bowman ; Moreton Bay, F. Mueller. ll. M. filiforme, Benth. Stems filiform, simple or scarcely branched, 490 XLV, HALORAGEZ. [Myriophyllum. about 2 in. or rarely 3 in. long. Leaves all alternate, linear-subulate, entire, 1 to 2 lines long. Flowers minute, mostly 2 or 3 together, the upper ones male. Petals about 3 line long. Stamens 8, with oblong anthers and short fila- ments as in all the preceding species. Females very minute. Styles scarcely any. Carpels 4, about 4 line long, muricate. N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, mainland opposite Groote Island, R. Brown (Herb. R. Br.). With some resemblance to M. Drummondii, this species is much more slender, and has the male flowers quite different. E 12. M. integrifolium, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 123, t. 23 A. A minute, slender, simple or branched plant, rarely exceeding 1 in. in height. Leaves all alternate or here and there irregularly opposite, linear-subulate, entire, 1 to 2 lines long. Flowers minute, sessile in the upper. axils, the uppermost 2 usually males. Calyx-teeth inconspicuous. Petals 4, scarcely 4 line long. Stamens 4, often persistent after the petalg have fallen, and differing from all others of the genus, except M. Drummondii, in their filiform filaments, much longer than the small ovoid anthers. Females without calyx-teeth or petals. Styles scarcely prominent, with papillose stigmas. Carpels 4, when ripe 4 to nearly 4 line long, ovoid, separated by deep furrows, smooth or minutely papil- lose. —Pelonastes integrifolia, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 475. Victoria. Wet places on the Murray, Darebin Creek, Emu flats, etc., F. Mueller. Tasmania. Wet places, lagoons, etc., frequent, J. D. Hooker. S. Australia. Murray river, Plenty Creek, ete., F. Mueller, W. Australia, Drummond, n. 686. 13. M. Drummondii, Benth. A little plant of about 1 in. in height, closely resembling M. integrifolium. Leaves alternate, narrow-linear, entire or here and there with a few linear lobes. Flowers entirely of M. integrifolium, the uppermost 2 males, with 4 stamens, long filaments, and small anthers. Carpels 4, of the same size as in that species, but prominently tuberculate or muricate.—Pelonastes tuberculata, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 474. W. Australia, Drummond, n. 18; G he Bay, Oldfield. Perha a variety only of M. integrifolium. eographe Bay, Oldfe ps B. ANOMALOUS GENERA. 5. GUNNERA, Linn. ; (Milligania, Hook. f.) Flowers mostly unisexual. Male fl.: Calyx of 2 or 3 minute teeth, often scarcely perceptible, without any tube. Petals none in the Australian species. Stamens 2, with very short filaments. Female fl. : Calyx-tube terete or an- cular; lobes 2 or 3, very small. Petals none. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 pen- dulous ovule; styles 2, linear, stigmatic from the base or rarely 4 styles, more or less connate in pairs. Fruit-a small nut-like drupe, the seed often a Gs ring to the pericarp. Embryo very minute.—Stemless herbs, with a tulk . creeping rhizome. Leaves radical, usually broad, in some S. Americé species attaining an immense size. Flowers small, in clusters or in exotic species spikes or racemes, crowded along the rhachis of a radical scape. The genus is spread over the cooler regions of the southern hemisphere, exten ward along the Andes to the Gulf of Mexico. The only Australian species is endemic, is uearly allied to some others from New Zealand and Antarctic America. Pic Pies eee yy) he AN Ege Ci eee a ne OENE S VOTEN eee ding north- : Gunnera.] XLV. HALORAGEZ. 491 1. G. cordifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 125. A small succulent fleshy herb, with a tufted rootstock, emitting creeping stolons, loosely hairy on the scapes and the edges and ribs of the leaves. Leaves radical, broadly ovate or orbicular, } to 1 in. diameter, crenate and sometimes obscurely lobed, on pe- tioles nearly as long as the lamina. Scapes usually unisexual, the males at- taining 2 or 3 in., bearing in their upper half clusters of flowers, which appear to consist each of 2 thick ovoid anthers, about 1 line long, surrounded by 4 or 5 linear or spathulate, slightly jagged bracts, the calyx-teeth so minute as to be difficult to find. Occasionally there are a few female flowers below the rhachis, but usually the females are upon separate scapes, nearly sessile, in a short dense almost globular head. Calyx-tube narrow, about 4 line long, the lobes short. No petals or stamens. Styles almost filiform. Drupes ovoid, - slight'y compressed, about 1 line long, with 4 ribs of which 2 more prominent. —Milligania cordifolia, Hook. f. in Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 299. a. Abundant about springs and in marshes in alpine situations, J. D. ker, 6. CERATOPHYLLUM, Linn. Flowers unisexual, without any perianth, the males consisting of several (12 to 20) almost sessile anthers, the females of a 1-celled ovary, with 1 pen- dulous ovule and a simple filiform style. Fruit an oval nut, tipped by the per- sistent style and often bearing 2 or 4 reflexed prickles or surrounded by a toothed or crest-like wing.—Aquatic floating herbs. Leaves whorled, divided - into linear dichotomous segments. Flowers small, axillary, each one sur- - Tounded by a whorl of minute bracts. sare The genus is found in fresh waters in most parts of the world, and like Callitriche, is con- idered by some as containing but one species, by others divided into several, charac __ by the exerescences on the ripe fruit. The Australian form is one frequent both in Europe = and E. India. l. C. demersum, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iii. 78. A glabrous perennial, floating like the submerged species of Myriophyllum, and the leaves whorled in the same manner, but dichotomously, not pinnately, divided into linear segments either fine and subulate or rather broader and denticulate. Flowers Small, sessile in the axils; Anthers of the males oblong, mucronate. Fruit In the Australian specimens ovoid, slightly compressed, 2 to 3 lines bong; More or less covered with minute tubercles, the margin not winged, a sr ing below the middle 2 to 4 reflexed prickles, very variable in length.—C. sub- mersum, Linn.; DC. 1. c. | Queensland. Suttor and Burdekin rivers, F. Mueller. S. Australia. M river, F. Mueller. : The very few fruits pens seen correspond to a form not uncommon m the northern isphere, and figured in Wight, Ic. t. 1948, f. 3, as C. tuberculatum, Cham. 7, CALLITRICHE, Linn. : ae a Flowers unisexual, without any perianth, the males consisting of a sing _ Stamen, EE paps mes. miaa and small 4-celled anther, the females of -— Asessile or stalked 4-celled ovary, with 2 filiform erect or recurved styles, stig- - Matic from the base; ovules 1 in each cell, laterally suspended from near the 492 XLV, HALORAGES. - [Callitriche. summit of the cell. Fruit small, more or less flattened, notched at the top, 4-eclled and 4-lobed, that is surrounded by a double edge, the edges obtuse acute or winged, and consisting of 2 2-celled disk-shaped carpels, united by their inner faces. Embryo in the axis of an oily albumen.—Slender aquatic herbs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers axillary, solitary or a male and female from the same axis, each one between 2 small bracteoles; which are sometimes wanting. The genus is found in almost every part of the globe, and, according to some botanists, con- sists but of a single species, others divide it into two, the Australian one belonging in that case to the one which has the most universal geographical range. Those who variously extend the genus to from 13 to 20 species, describe the commonest Australian form as endemic. 1. C. verna, Linn.; DC. Prod. iii. 70. A glabrous slender perennial, either floating in water or creeping and rooting in mud; flowering young so as to appear annual, varying iri length according to the depth of the water. Leaves either all obovate-orbicular or oblong, 1 to 6 lines long or the lower submerged ones narrow-linear and obtuse or notched at the end, the upper ones obovate and spreading in little tufts on the surface of the water, or all submerged and linear: Flowers minute: Fruit from 3 to 1 line diameter, with obtuse acute or winged edges.—C. autumnalis, Linn: ; DC: 1. c., partly at least. Queensland. Brisbane river, F. Mueller. N. S. Wales: Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, and others. Victoria. Abundant in pools, Adamson, F. Mueller, and others. _ Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; common in still freshwater, margins of rivers, etc., J: D. Hooker: : a S. Australia. Plenty river, towards Mount Disappointment, F. Mueller: W. Australia, Drummond, n. 185, 2nd Coll. n. 99 (or 66). The Eastern specimen’ have generally tlie wings of the fruit broader than in almost any Northern or tropical specimens, and constitute the C. macropterya, Hegelm. Monogr. Callitr. 59; the Western and sonte of the Tasmanian specimens cannot be distinguished from some ve our European forms; in Brown’s Tasmanian ones the fruit lobes are quite obtuse on the ge. Orver XLVI. RHIZOPHOREZ: Calyx-tube usually adnate to the ovary, sometimes prolonged above it or rarely quite free; the limb of 4 to about 12 lobes, valvate in the bud. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes, alternate with them, notched cut or jagged or rarely entire, the margins usually induplicate and embracing the anthers. Stamens as many or twice as many as petals or more, inserted with them at the base of the free part or lobes of the calyx; anthers erect or versatile, 2- celled, opening longitudinally. Ovary more or less inferior or rarely quite superior, 2- or more-celled, with 2 or few pendulous ovules in each cell, or rarely 1-celled by the obliteration of the partition ; style individed, with an entire or lobed stigma. Fruit inferior or enclosed in the calyx. Seeds soli- tary or few, with or without albumen—Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, entire or slightly toothed, coriaceous. Stipules often large, very de- ciduous. Flowers axillary, solitary, clustered or in cymes. A small Order, almost entirely tropical, and chiefly Asiatic or African, with a few Ame- rican species. The four Australian genera are all Asiatic, one only extending also to Africa XLVI. RHIZOPHOREA. 493 ‘and America. The Order is divided into two distinct tribes, by some considered as inde- pendent families: —1. Rhizophoree proper, including the following genera: Rhizophora, Ceriops, and Bruguiera, consists of the Mangroves, all maritime evergreen trees, the seeds without albumen, and almost always germinating before falling off, the thick radicle enlar- ging rapidly, and protruding to a great length from the summit of the capsule. 2. Legno- tidez, trees or shrubs, not strictly maritime, with usually smaller flowers, and the seeds albu- minous, not germinating before they fall. To this tribe belongs the genus Carallia. Calyx-segments longer than the tube. Seeds without albumen, germi- nating before falling. Calyx-segments and petals 4. Stamens 8 to 12. Fruit more than half superior E ag O AA A Calyx-segments and petals 5 or 6. Stamens twice as many. Fruit moré than half superior... 1.10. ee A Calyx-segments and petals 8 to 15. Stamens twice as many. Fruit E E a ik a eae ce A o, Calyx campanulate, with short teeth, Petals 5 to 8. Stamens twice as many. Fruit inferior. Seeds albuminous, not germinating before — og IS OA BOR a a a TORA, 1, RHIZOPHORA. 2. CERIOPS. 3. BRUGUIERA. 1. RHIZOPHORA, Linn. Calyx-tube adnate, segments 4. Petals 4, entire. Stamens 8 to 12 ; fila- ments short ; anthers long, acuminate, connivent. Ovary half-inferior, 2-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell ; style filiform ; stigma 2-toothed. Fruit ovoid or conical, the persistent calyx-segments reflexed from near the base. Seed solitary, without albumen, the rapidly enlarged radicle penetrating through the summit of the fruit.—Trees. Leaves entire. Cymes axillary. The genus consists of three species only, ranging over tropical seacoasts, two, including the Australian one, in the Old World, the third in America. 1. R. mucronata, Lam. ; DC. Prod. iii. 32. A glabrous evergreen tree, with thick branches. Leaves from broadly ovate to oblong-elliptical, obtuse, with a projecting point (often worn off from the old leaves), 3 to 4 in. long in the Australian specimens, but sometimes longer and narrower, prea - entire. Stipules rather large, oblong, obtuse, very deciduous. : ‘asta axillary dichotomous cymes shorter than the leaves, with a pair of s p A ic concaye bracts, connate at the base under each fork and under eac sahi Calyx sessile within the bracts, about + in. long, the segments e 3 down to the adnate part. Petals shorter than the calyx, the zi cnt ls - margins fringed with long hairs, Anthers 8, nearly sessile, 4 = E the petals, 4 between them. Style rather thick, nearly as es er petals. Fruit ovoid, 1 to 14 in. long.—Arn. m Ann. Nat. Hist. 1. ; Wight, Ic. t. 238. N. Australia. Port Essington, taria, F, ; : da Sans alia the coast and islands within the tropics, R. Brown, F. Mueller, and others. The species extends over the tropical shores of Africa and Asia. ; 2. CERIOPS, Am. E | inate Calyx-tube adnate; segments 5, rarely 6- Petals as many, emargl and usually with 1 or Be clavate setee at the top. Stamens -twice as many Leichhardt ; shores and islands of the Gulf of Car- 494 XLVI. RHIZOPHOREZ. : [Ceriops. as petals ; filaments filiform, longer than the oblong or linear anthers. Ovary half-inferior, 3-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell; style filiform ; stigma undivided. Fruit ovoid or conical, the persistent calyx-segments sur- rounding it below the middle. Seed solitary, without albumen, the rapidly enlarged funicle penetrating through the summit of the fruit.—Trees or shrubs, with the habit and inflorescence of Rhizophora, but usually with smaller leaves and smaller more numerous flowers. A small genus, limited to the tropical seacoasts of the Old World, the Australian species being the commonest one in Asia. Although the genus appears to be universally adopted, it can scarcely be considered as more than a section of Rhizophora. 1. C. Candolleana, 4rn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. i. 364. A tall evergreen glabrous shrub or small tree. Leaves obovate or broadly oblong, 1} to 2 in. or in luxuriant specimens 3 in. long, coriaceous, entire. Flowers in small dense almost capitate cymes, on short recurved axillary peduncles, with a pair of small short thick concave bracts under each ramification, and rather larger ones under each flower. _ Calyx sessile within the bracts, about 3 lines long, divided down to the adnate part. Petals shorter than the calyx, emarginate, with 2 to 5 clavate sete irregularly placed in the notch or on the lobes. Sta- mens alternately inserted opposite the petals and between them, but the an- thers embraced in pairs by the induplicate margins of the petals. Fruit conical, about 3 in. long.—Wight, Ic. t. 240; Rhizophora Timoriensis, DC. Prod. iii, 32. qe N. Australia. Careening Bay, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; mangrove beach of the Victoria river, F. Mueller; Arnhem N. Bay, R. Brown; Port Essington, Armstrong. Queensland. Islands of the N.E. coast, F. Mueller, and others. e The species extends over the seacoasts of E. India and the Archipelago. 3. BRUGUIERA, Lam. Calyx-tube turbinate or campanulate, adnate at the base to the ovary, the upper portion free, lined by the disk; lobes 10 to 15 or rarely 8 or 9, narrow and thick. Petals as many, 2-lobed, with or without sete at the top. Sta- mens twice as many as petals; anthers linear, but ‘usually shorter than the filaments. Ovary inferior, 2- to 4-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell; style filiform, with 2 to 4 minute stigmatic lobes. Fruit turbinate, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes. Seeds solitary, without albumen, the rapidly enlarged radicle penetrating through the summit of the fruit.—Trees, with the habit of Rhizophora. Flowers solitary or few. together, on short ax- illary recurved peduncles. The genus is widely spread along the tropical seacoasts of the Old World. The two Australian species are both common Asiatic ones. : Flowers above 1 in. long. Petals with several setee at the end. 1. B. Rheedit. _ Flowers under 1 in. long. Petals without sete at the end . . . . 2 B. gymnorrhiza. 1. B. Rheedii, Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. 92. A glabrous evergreen tree. Leaves ovate or oblong-elliptical, very shortly acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long, nar- rowed into a rather long petiole, coriaceous. Stipules oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, very deciduous. Flowers solitary, on short recurved axillary peduncles, out bracts. Calyx very thick and rigid, from a little more than 1 in. to in. long, the narrow turbinate tube about one-third the whole length, | ; 3 Off as the radicle protrudes, the latter assuming a narrow spindle-shaped _ form, obscurely notched, with about 6 prominent angles.—Arn. in Ann. Nat. Bruguiera.] XLVI. RHIZOPHORES. 495 angles scarcely prominent or sometimes quite obscure, the lobes usually about 12, but variable in number. Petals shorter than the calyx, densely hairy at the base, and the induplicate margins more or less hairy to the end; sete ‘Usually 1 in the notch and 3 or 4 at the end of each lobe. Anthers embraced in pairs by the induplicate margins of the petals. Ovary very short and wholly inferior. Fruit at first crowned by the calyx-limb, which often falls Hist. i. 367; B. australis, A. Cunn. in Arn. l. c.; B. Rheedit and B. Rum- phi, Blume, Mus. Bot. i. 138. `- N. Australia. Port Essington, 4. Cunningham (rather doubtful) ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Henne. Queensland. Shoal Bay passage, R. Brown; along the coast, from Moreton Bay to Torres Straits, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller, and others, Sor . Wight’s figure of B. Rheedit, Ic. t. 239 A, as well as his specimens, differ in some slight respects, and are considered by Blume as constituting a distiuct species. The sete of the petals appear to be pretty constant in the Australian specimens, but it remains to be proved far their presence and number are really good specific characters. + 2. B. gymnorrhiza, Lam.; Blume, Mus. Bot.i. 136. An evergreen tree, clorely resembling B. Rheedii. Leaves usually smaller. Flowers as In that species, solitary on short recurved axillary peduncles, but smaller, varying from 4 to nearly 1 in. in length. Calyx-tube marked with very pro- minent acute angles; lobes usually 8 to 10. Petals shorter than the calyx, iry on the margins, the lobes obtuse, without sete, but a very short seta, often, although not always, in the notch between them. N Australia. N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; N. coast, R. Brown ; Roper river, F, Mueller ; Port Essington and Limmen Bight river, Leichhardt. Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown. 4. CARALLIA, Roxb. Calyx-tube adnate at the base, campanulate above the ovary, lined by the thin disk, with 5 to 8 very short lobes or teeth. Petals as many as calyx- » Clawed, orbicular, jagged or slightly toothed. Stamens twice as many as petals, inserted with them at the base of the calyx-lobes round the undu- margin of the disk. Ovary inferior or adnate as high as the insertion of the ovules, 4-celled or rarely 3- or 5-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell. Fruit succulent, globular. Seed solitary, with a copious albumen ; em- bryo curved, not growing before the seed falls.—Trees or shrubs. Flowers * Small, in axillary, pedunculate, usually trichotomous cymes. A small genus, extending over tropical Asia, the Australian species the commonest over “le whole range of the genus, . l C. integerrima, DC. Prod. iii. 33. Usually a tree, glabrous in all ts parts, eevee sessile, obovate, elliptical or oblong, in the-Australian spe- - “ens obtuse or obtusely acuminate, thinly coriaceous, 3 to 5 in. long, in E ad istene btuse _ Asiatic ones very variable in breadth and consistence, and often very o 9 much oda Cymes axillary or from old leafless nodes, on short pe- uncles, each ing 3 to 5 sessile flowers. Calyx shortly and broadly ee are oe diameter. Fruit globular, about 3 lines 496 XLVI. RHIZOPHOREX. [Carallia. diameter, crowned by the short connivent teeth of the calyx.—Benth. in Journ. ` Linn. Soc. iii. 74, with the synonyms there adduced; O. zeylanica, Arn. ; Wight, Illustr. t. 90. | N. Australia. Brunswick Bay and York Sound, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; N. coast, R. Brown ; Upper Roper river, M‘Adam Range and Nicholson river, F. Mueller, Queensland. Endeavour river, R. Brown. Widely spread over E. India and the Archipelago, extending to S. China, Orpen XLVII. COMBRETACEZ. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary at the base, narrowed above it and some- times elongated; limb usually campanulate, with 4 or 5, rarely more, teeth lobes or segments, valvate or very rarely induplicate or imbricate. Petals none or as many as calyx-lobes, usually small, imbricate or valvate. Stamens as many or twice as many as calyx-lobes, rarely irdefinite, inserted on the calyx; anthers opening in longitudinal slits or (in Gyrocarpee) in 2 valves. Ovary inferior, 1-eelled, with 2 or more pendulous ovules, or (in Gyrocarpea) with 1 only; style filiform or scarcely any, with an entire terminal stigma. Fruit coriaceous, chartaceous or drupaceous, indehiscent (except in a few species not Australian). Seed solitary, pendulous, without albumen ; coty- _ ledous convolute or folded, very rarely flat inside and furrowed outside; ra- dicle short, superior.—Trees shrubs or woody climbers. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire, without stipules. Flowers in axillary or terminal racemes spikes or heads, or (in Gyrocarpea) in cymes. Bracts usually small; brac- teoles sometimes larger, often wanting. The Order is distributed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World, a very few species extending beyond the tropics in S. Africa or in N. India. Of the four Austra- lian genera, three are common to America, Africa, and Asia, one of them restricted to sea- coasts, the fourth is endemic. Anthers opening in slits. Ovules 2 or more. Flowers in ra- cemes spikes or heads (Combretaceze proper). Calyx-tube not produced above the ovary. Petals none. Sta- mend Ier i A a a Calyx-tube produced above the ovary. Petals 5. Stamens 10 or fewer. Bracteoles small. Ovules 2 to 5. Maritime shrubs. . . 2. LUMNITZERA. Bracteoles enlarged and forming wings to the fruiting-calyx. Ovules 10 to 12. Silky or tomentose shrubs ‘ore Anthers opening in 2 valves. Ovules solitary. Flowers small, in cymes, Petals none (Gyrocarpee)........ 1. TERMINALIA. 3. MACROPTERANTHES: 4. GYROCARPUS. 1, TERMINALIA, Linn. (Chuncoa, Ruiz and Pav.) Calyx-tube not produced above the ovary; limb campanulate or urceo 5-cleft. Petals none. Stamens 10, longer than the calyx. Style iform; Ovules 2, rarely 3. Fruit ovoid, terete, angular, compressed or with 2 or (in species not Australian) 3 to 5 longitudinal wings. Cotyledons convolute— = =— Trees or erect shrubs. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, usually map with minute pellucid dots, often only visible under a strong lens. F hermaphrodite or polygamous, small, green, white or rarely coloured, sessile m POEET E late, ] Terminalia.] XLVII. COMBRETACE. 497 : loose spikes, rarely contracted into dense heads, either axillary or clustered on | the old nodes. Calyx-tube usually small and narrow, the limb much broader. The genus extends over nearly the whole range of the Order, but is most abundant in, Africa and Asia. The Australian species appear to be all endemic, with the exception: of E Microcarpa, which is also in Timor. Several of them however are as yet insufficiently 1 wn. They are often not to be distinguished without the fruit, which, when succulent . | and not winged, is rarely perfect in herbarium specimens, and we do not as yet know how 1 the fruit may vary in the-same species. Some with broadly winged fruits have precisely | the foliage and flowers of others which have wingless fruits. The circumscription of species | here given may therefore require much revision when more perfect materials are obtained. The subdivision of the genus into sections, or with some botanists into distinct genera, has been founded on the fruit alone, and although the line of demarcation is often very in- j linite, no better character has as yet been found. The Australian species are included | m Chuncoa, with 2 or 3 distinct wings to the fruit, Calappa with 2 wings, confluent above | ind below so as completely to encircle the drupe, and Myrobalanus without wings; but in Z. volueris the wings are often slightly confluent so as to do away with all real distinction ween Chuncoa and Catappa, and even between that and Myrobalanus, the acute angles of | the fruit of 7, melanocarpa almost pass into the wings of Catappa. The section Pentaptera : with 4or5 wings to the fruit, is as yet unknown in Australia. Among the following spe- Cies several are only known from yery imperfect specimens, and may henceforth require 3 aa os in their cireumscription, although I do not think they will be much reduced | tum i IZ . > Secr, I. Catappa.—Fruit with 2 longitudinal membranous or coriaceous wings, or Mrely, in the first 3 species, with a third narrow wing or prominent nerve. 3 Fruit, including the wings, much broader than long. rutt, including the wings, three times as broad as long; wings „Wte distinct. Leaves velvety-pubescent underneath, . . . 1. T. platyptera. _ *Tuit, including the wings, not twice as broad as long ; wings often E confluent above and below. Leaves nearly glabrous. Spike slender, interrupted. z y - Leaves obovate, much reticulate, Frnit-wings scarcely confluent 2. T. volueris. + Leaves cuneate-oblong, much reticulate. Fruit-wings shortly con- A E SAO 3. T. oblongata. Fruit, including the wings, rather longer than broad and quite sur- > ; rounded by the confluent wings. ilky- . Spikes elongat ves lanceolate or oblong, silky-pubescent Spikes elongated, DO ` dense, Frnits mder $-in: long 634 sic. e A ee Leaves lanceolate or oblong, mostly silky-pubescent. Spikes = a ot Sense, Fruits 4 to above 1 in. long... p-e- = >. 2 Leaves : . Fruits 3 to above ay - a ER > r ; P die se E » 6. T. pterocarpa. Ait orbicular, quite surrounded by a narrow wing. Leaves obovate, AR - Much reticulate, glabrous. Spikes slender . . > - + + + + T. T. Z a Skcr. IL SA a. more frequently ovoid, terete or slightly 6 Myrobalanus.— Fruit globular or ra at AI] winged. pressed, or surrounded by a prominent acute angle, 5 Very obtuse, usually broad. Flowers rather small; stamens -, Hot above 3 lines long. “aves quite glabrous. i - Leaves large, narrowed into a short petiole. 'alyx-tube white, with appressed hairs. Drupe glabrous, sur- 8. T. melanocarpa rounded by a very prominent angle. . + + + + + +. 9. T Muelleri, — Te tye tube quite glabrous. Drupe ovoid, without any sape eh E e y ves large, with a short broad flat petiole. Calyx im E 10. 7. latipes. VOL. q ovoid, without a angle «6 ==... sit : 2 K 498 XLVII. COMBRETACER. [Terminalia. Leaves large with a petiole of 2 to 3 in. Drupe acuminate, with 2 slightly prominent angles á Leaves minutely hoary underueath. Drupe ovoid-globular, without : . . . 12. T. discolor. 11. 7. edulis. . A A A E, oe Leaves loosely tomentose-pubescent, at least underneath, : IU Ovid glabróas °F ee E T. porphyrocarpa. Drupe ovoid or oblong, often acuminate, tomentose . . + . 14. T. platyphylla. Leaves mostly shortly acuminate. Flowers rather small. Stamens not above 3 lines long. ; Leaves ovate. Leaves three or four times as long as the petiole, the pellucid : dots very conspicuous underalens. . . . . + +. + - 15 T. microcarpa. Leaves not twice as long as the petiole, the pellucid dots quite 2 en ea ee a T. petiolaris. Leaves lanceolate or narrow oblong-elliptieal. Drupe acuminate +. 17. 7. erythrocarpa. Leaves narrow, obtuse. Flowers large. Stamens 5 to 6 lines long . 18. T. grandiflora. Section I. Catappa, DO.—Fruit with 2 longitudinal membranous or coriaceous wings, or rarely with a third narrow wing or prominent nerve. 1. T. platyptera, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 151. A tree, the young branches and petioles hoary-pubescent or almost velvety. Leaves crowded at „the ends of the flowering branches, obovate or obovate-oblong, very obtuse, 1} to 22 in. long in our specimens, on a rather long petiole, velvety-puves> cent on both sides when young, at length nearly glabrous above, the reticulate: veins prominent, Spikes tomentose, slender, interrupted, exceeding the leaves. Calyx softly tomentose inside and out, the adnate tube about as long as the broad campanulate limb ; lobes short and broad. Filaments glabrous. Style villous. Fruit 2-winged, tomentose-pubescent, about 1 in. long and a in. broad, including the horizontally divaricate wings, which are quite ; broadly obovate, plicately veined. AA eu Australia. Arnhem's Land, F. Mueller (in flower) ; Lynd river, Leichhardt (ia a i i e se a Var. (?) glabrata. Minutely hoary or nearly glabrous ; leaves more coriaceous and rather larger.— Gilbert river, F. Mueller. : aa shoots 2. T. volucris, Herb. R. Br. Branches divaricate, the young * En very minutely hoary or silky-pubescent. Leaves from broadly pe E oval-elliptical, 13 to 3 in. long, narrowed at the base and often decurrent ue the rather long petiole, thin, pale underneath, the primary vems Me] merous and less oblique than in 7. pterocarpa, which this species An e withont the fruit, and much and finely reticulate between them. Spika a der, interrupted, usually longer than the Jeaves, especially when the ! ‘ile are chiefly males, the more female spikes shorter and denser. Calyx ie nts pubescent, the broad limb as long as the ovary. Disk villous. F 3 in. glabrous. Style glabrous or hairy at the base. Fruit 2-winged, about ia long, and twice that breadth including the broad wings, which are ae ; tinct or slightly continuous above or below the drupe or both ; there are e” frequently on one face of the drupe 1 or 2 prominent longitudinal angles. WN. Australia. Port Keats and Cambridge Gulf, N.W. coast, A. Cunminghan sid, toria river, F. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; ahs specl- Henne ; in the interior, lat. 18° 35’, M'Douall Stuart's Expedition. | ™- ‘alte mens are the only ones in good fruit, and are those alluded to by him in Terminalia.] XLVII. COMBRETACEE, 499 Flinders’s Voyage under the name of Chuncoa. I have little doubt of A. Cunningham’s and F. Mueller’s specimens belonging to the same species ; the others are very imperfect. Queensland? Some specimens from Broad Sound and Endeavour river, R. Brown, Without fruit, appear to belong to the same species. State Var. (?) coriacea. Leaves larger, broader, more coriaceous; spikes long ; lowest bracts nes leafy.—Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. Specimens not in fruit and therefore tíul. : 3. T. oblongata, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 152. A small tree with spread- ing branches, glabrous or the young shoots minutely hoary-pubescent. Leaves often clustered at the old nodes or on the short branchlets, cuneate- oblong, very obtuse or emarginate, 1 to 2 or rarely 3 in. long, narrowed into a short petiole, thin and much reticulate. Spikes slender, interrupted, shortly exceeding the leaves. Calyx minutely hoary-pubescent outside, very hairy inside. Stamens and style glabrous, not 3 lines long. Fruit 2-winged, about 8 to 9 lines long and twice as broad, including the wings, which are very shortly continuous both above and below the drupe ; drupe in the centre flat- tened on one face, the other with a projecting longitudinal angle sometimes dilated into a third narrow wing. N. Australia? A specimen, in leaf only, from the scrub, lat. 17° 30', in M-Douall | E Stuart’s collection, a pears to belong to this species. E Queensland. Mary: Suttor, Dawson, and Burdekin rivers, F. Mueller; Rock-. pton, Zhozet. T. grandiflora has much the foliage of this species, but the flowers are much larger and fruit is not winged. 4. T., bursarina, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 149. A shrub or-small tree, the young branches and foliage softly silky-pubescent. Leaves usually - Crowded, mostly narrow-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, l to 12 in. long, but - Occasionally passing into obovate or ovate, narrowed into a short petiole, the _ primary veins very oblique and reticulate between them, Spikes pedunculate, - dense, exceeding the leaves and sometimes 3 to 4 in. long, the rhachis and flowers softly silky. Calyx-tube about 1 line long, the limb about as long, - hot so broad and more deeply divided into narrower lobes than in the allied - Species, Drupe, according to F. Mueller, 2- or rarely 3-winged, rather longer than broad, 23 to 4 lines long. ba —¿N. Australia. Dry gravelly banks of Victoria river and frequent in low places round : the Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller. 5. T. circumalata, 7. Muell. Fragm. iii. 91. Closely allied to 7. pte- _řocarpa, with the same flowers and fruit, and perhaps a narrow-leayed variety With the foliage and inflorescence more or less clothed with a soft silky pubes- nce. Leaves oblong-cuneate or elliptical, 1 to 2 or sometimes nearly 3 in. q long, with very oblique primary veins, the reticulate veinlets few and scarcely Prominent, Flowers very silky, crowded in short pedunculate spikes. Fruits including the wings, obovate, 3 to above 1 in. long, the drupe entirely sur- tounded by a continuous wing. N ia, Cape Pond, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; Depuech Island, Bynoe ; a Maritime rocks, Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition ; in the interior, lat. 18° 35", M‘Douall Stuart's Expedition. The latter specimens and some of A. Cunningham’sare less pubescent ith broader leaves, and seem to connect the species with 7. pterocarpa. Other specimens from the islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, may belong to 7. circumalata, but 4 oe 2x2 500 XLVII. COMBRETACEZX. [ Terminalia. 6. T. pterocarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 152. A small tree, perfectly glabrous or the young shoots very minutely pubescent under itan ; i obovate, of a pale somewhat glaucous hue, very obtuse, about 15 to 2 m. long, narrowed at the base and shortly decurrent on the petiole, the very oblique primary veins and reticulate veinlets few and not very prominent. E short, pedunculate, very minutely pubescent or glabrous. Calyx-limb mu shorter than the adnate tube. Disk hairy; styles and stamens ce Fruit 2-winged, about 2 to 14 in. long and } to 2 in. broad idea a wings, which are confluent above and below, completely surrounding the ha almost dry drupe. i N. Australia. Copeland Island, A. Cunningham ; sandstone table-land between the Upper Victoria river, Alligator river, and Macadam Range, F. Mueller. 7. T. Thozetii, Benth. Of this I have only seen a single eer resembling 7. volucris in foliage, except that it is perfectly glabrous, es ed fruit is very different. Leaves narrow-obovate, crowded at the ends o: a branches, 2 to 3 in. long, reticulate as in Z. volucris. Flowers not pr Fruiting-spikes slender, glabrous. Fruits quite smooth and glabrous, nea só orbicular, about 3 in. diameter including the two narrow confluent wings, which completely encircle the drupe. They may not, however, be pete ripe in the specimen. Queensland. Rockhampton, Thozef. Section If. Myropatanus, DC.—Fruit globular or more freget ovoid, terete or slightly compressed, or surrounded by a prominent .. angle, but not distinctly winged. - There is no difference whatever in inflorescence or flowers in the two sections, aud ro: stant one in foliage, although in general there is a greater tendency to dry black in My ió balanus than in Catappa, and the primary veins diverging from the midrib are more pI minent parallel and distant. . £. T. melanocarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 92. A tree, ae hoe brous, except the silky-white young buds and the flowers. Leaves O = ve very obtuse or rarely obscurely and very obtusely acuminate, stos tiole, 8 in. long and sometimes above 6 in. broad, narrowed into a shot sed coriaceous, the primary veins prominent underneath and rather distant, versely reticulate between them. Spikes loose, about as long as the leaves, the rhachis nearly glabrous. Flowers numerous but not crowded. d sia tube or ovary white with appressed hairs ; limb nearly glabrous outs! gies pes 2 lines broad, densely woolly inside. Stamens and style glabrous. sur- ovoid, somewhat compressed, obtuse or acuminate, about 1 m. rie dri rounded usually by a prominent acute angle, which sometimes 1m pe other state almost assumes the appearance of a narrow thick wing, but m specimens is scarcely prominent. N. Australia. Shaded valleys, islands of the N. Coast, R, Brown. Queensland. Snapper Island, 4. Cunningham ; Port ‘Denison and Edgecombe Bal» * Fitzalan, Dallachy. + 9. T. Muelleri, Benth. A small tree in the scrub, growing va per derable height in the ranges, glabrous or the young buds pci Li oth Leaves undistinguishable from those of 7. melanocarpa, broadly oboval Terminalia.] XLVII. COMBRETACEA, 501: tuse, usually 3 to 4 in. long, narrowed into a short petiole, rather coriaceous, the primary veins prominent underneath and rather distant. Spikes loose as in T. melanocarpa, flowers rather larger, and the calyx-tube as well as the limb glabrous outside. Drupe ovoid, said to be blue when fresh and rather’ acid, about $ in. long, without wings or angles. —T.. microcarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 92, not of Decaisne. Queensland. Islands of Howick’s Group and off Cape Bedford and Cape Flattery, F. Mueller ; Cape York, M ‘Gillivray ; Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy. Var, minor. Leaves narrower. Fruit smaller. — 7% glabra, R. Br. Herb., but scarcely of ~Roxb.— Endeavour river, Banks and Solander + islands of Carpentaria (no fruit), R. Brown. 10. T. latipes, Benth. Branchlets glabrous with a loose bark. Leaves broadly obovate, 3 to 5 in. long, very obtuse, coriaceous, glabrous and glau- cous, abruptly narrowed into a very short petiole, which as well as the midrib ls very broad and flat, with the primary veins prominent and very divaricate. = Spikes rusty-tomentose, about as long as the leaves. Flowers small, rather numerous, tomentose. Drupe ovoid, straight, without wings or angles. _ N. Australia. Victoria river, Bynoe. A. Cunningham’s herbarium contains specimens of a species apparently allied to the above, but with longer and more slender petioles and Slender glabrous spikes. They cannot, owever, be determined for Want of the fruit. s ii. T. edulis, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 151. A tree, the fruiting specimens quite glabrous. Leaves very broadly*ovate, very obtuse at both ends, 4 to 8 In. long, coriaceous with prominent distant primary veins, on petioles of 2 or Sin. Flowers unknown. Drupes ovoid-oblong, acuminate, sometimes sur- - Younded by aslightly prominent angle and said tö be yellowish when fresh. N: Australia. Victoria, Fitímaúrice, and Alligator rivers, F. Mueller; South Goul- burn Island, 4. Cunningham. The specimens are insufficient for distinguishing them satis- _ factorily from Z. melanocarpa and several others ; the petioles are, however, longer than in- any other Australian species except 7. petiolaris, which has very differently shaped leaves. - 12. T. discolor, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 92. A tall shrub, the branches and young leaves hoary with a very minute pubescence. Leaves ovate or Qbovate, obtuse or shortly and obtúsely acuminate, mostly 2 to 3 in. long, More narrowed at the base than in 7. Muelleri and the primary veins less Prominent, coriaceous and at length shining above, pale or whitish with a ‘Minute tomentuin underneath. Flowers not seén, but from the scars on the old rhachis the spikes are probably loose. Fruit only seen imperfect, ovoid- ‘globular, without wings or angles. = N. Australia. Hearson Island, Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expedition, The speci- Mens are much too imperfect for a satisfactory diagnosis. | 13. T. porphyrocarpa, F. Muell. Herb. A handsome tree, the young branches and petioles densely totnetitose. Leaves crowded on _the short branchlets, obovate, 2 to 3 in. long; on petioles rarely exceeding 4 in., loosely and softly tomentose-pubescent on both sides or becoming glabrous above When old, the primary veins prominent underneath.- Spikes usually shorter than the leaves, rather dense. Calyx glabrous outside, the adnate tube about 12 lines long, the limb fully 2 lines diameter, densely woolly Anside. Fruit ovoid, glabrous, without wings or angles, said to be blue or Purple, 502 : = XLVII. COMBRETACES. [ Terminalia. ensland. Mount Archer, Rockhampton, Dallachy ; Fitzroy river, Bowman. Var. (?) eriantha. Ovary and calyx densely silky-tomentose.—Mount Archer, Da/lachy. - These specimens are in flower ouly, and resemble in foliage 7. platyptera as much as -T. por- phyrocarpa, but have the larger flowers of the latter species. 14. T, platyphylla, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 150. A moderate-sized tree, the young branches and petioles more or less hoary or rusty with a short soft tomentum or sometimes densely tomentose and almost woolly. Leaves broadly obovate or ovate, very obtuse, 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 4 in. broad, shortly nar- rowed into a petiole never exceeding 1 in. in some specimens, rather longer in others, coriaceous, softly pubescent on both sides or nearly glabrous above. Spikes usually shorter than the leaves, with numerous rather small flowers, loose or crowded. Calyx silky-pubescent or villous outside, densely villous inside. Drupes tomentose, ovoid or oblong, obtuse or acuminate, not winged. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne ; Victoria, Fitzmaurice, and Roper rivers, F. Mueller; Port Essington, Armstrong. The species appears to be chiefly distinguished amongst other large obtuse-leaved ones by its soft pubes- cence and by the tomentose drupes. From the few specimens seen, the latter appear to be variable in shape. In R. Brown’s specimens they are ovoid-oblong, obtuse, often surrounded by a slightly prominent or obscure angle ; in one of F. Mueller’s from Roper river, they are obliquely acuminate, with a prominent angle, and shortly contracted at the base; in another of F. Mueller's, they are straight, quite terete, oblong, rounded at both ends, but terminating abruptly in a narrow straight beak of about 2 lines. A specimen “from the N.W. coast, Bynoe, has the foliage of 7. platyphylla, but the Sn in long loose glabrous spikes. It caunot, however, be determined for waut of the, 15. T. microcarpa; Dene. Herb: Tim. Deser. 129. Young shoots mi- nutely pubescent. Leaves: broadly ovate-elliptical, rarely slightly obovate, shortly and obtusely acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long, narrowed into a petiole about 1 in., glabrous or slightly hoary underneath with a miriute pubescence, thinly coriaceous, with distant primary veins and copious reticulations, the pellucid dots although small, yet more conspicuous than in most species. Spikes attaining the length of theleaves. Flowers numerous but not densely crowded. Calyx rusty outside with a minute tomentum, densely villous m- side, but not seen fully expanded. Drupe, according to Decaisne, olive- shaped, acuminate, glabrous. _ N. Australia ?, Baudin's Erpedition. Also in Timor. I have not seen the Austra- lian specimens mentioned by Decaisne as having been gathered on the S. coast, probably from one of those mistakes in the labels which occur in so many instances in the Australian collections iu the Paris Herbarium, owing in a great measure to the illegible handwriting an absurd orthography of the original labels of the gardener who accompanied Bandin’s Expedi- tion. The above description is taken from a Timor specimen communicated by Decaisne. The species may possibly prove to be a variety of T. Belerica, Roxb., which extends over E. India and the Archipelago. The leaves are ovate, as stated in Decaisne’s descri rather than obovate, as they are said to be by some mistake in the diagnosis. 16. T. petiolaris, A. Cunn. Herb. A tree, closely resembling T. m- erocarpa in foliage and inflorescence, but the petioles are much longer in pro- portion to the lamina, the pellucid dots are quite microscopic, and the smaller reticulations appear pellucid when seen against the light. Young shoots Mi- nutely pubescent. Adult leaves quite glabrous, broadly ovate, shortly obtusel» acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long, narrowed into a petiole of from 1} to Terminalia.] XLVII, COMBRETACER. 503 2 in. Spikes slender, with numerous flowers, only seen in bud. Fruit un- known. N. Australia. Point Cunningham, Cygnet Bay and York Sound, N.W. coast, 4. Cun- ningham. ; 17. T. erythrocarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 150. A tree, the fruiting specimens quite glabrous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or narrow-elliptical, shortly acuminate, 4 to 6 in. long, narrowed towards the base into a petiole of + to 1 in., penniveined and finely reticulate, the midrib very prominent underneath. Spikes shorter than the leaves, but not seen in flower. Drupes _ ted, ovoid, glabrous, ending in a long beak, but not yet ripe in our spe- cimens. N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. 18. T. grandiflora, Benth. Branches and foliage silky or the leaves at length glabrous. Leaves linear-oblong or cuneate, obtuse or retuse, 13 to 3 in. long, coriaceous, very obliquely veined and reticulate, narrowed into a short petiole. Spikes usually exceeding the leaves, with flowers much larger than in any other Zerminalia known to me. Calyx-tube or ovary above 2 lines long, and the limb of the calyx as much in diameter, the lobes acumi- E nate. Stamens 5 to 6 lines long. Drupe nearly globular, about 1 in. Jong, | tapering into a conical beak of about + in., smooth and glabrous, without - Wings or angles. E N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria and Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown ; Port Essington, Armstrong : between Fitzmaurice and Victoria rivers, F. Mueller. There are two forms, one with long narrow leaves, quite glabrous except when very young, the = spikes glabrous or slightly silky, and the stamens fully + in. long; the other much more _ silky, the leaves broader shorter and more cuneate, and the silky flowers rather, but not ES much, smaller. 2. LUMNITZERA, Willd. = Calyx-tube produced above the ovary but scarcely contracted, the limb = tampanulate, shortly 5-lobed or 5-toothed. Petals 5, spreading. Stamens 10 or fewer. Ovules 2 to 5; style filiform, with a minute stigma. Fruit ovoid-oblong, crowned by the persistent calyx, narrowed and flattened at the base, hard and almost woody. Seed linear, with convolate cotyledons.— Maritime trees or shrubs. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, obo- Yate or cuneate, thick, entire or slightly crenate. Flowers in short racemes. - Bracteoles 2, adnate to the base of the calyx-tube, persistent but not enlarged Alter flowering. AA The is limi e two following species, both of them widely ispersed along El fedcousta of piesa extending jak E. Africa to the Pacific Islands: ES Mowers scarlet; in térmiñal racemes. Calyx folly Fi long. Stamens y, oeiioa | | Wice aa Jong as the petab 603 8s tt Jon Gih oio j _ flowers white, in axillary racemes. Calyx about 4 lines long. Stamens "© scarcely exceeding the petals. » se rt ce tt Tt 1. L. coccinea, Y. and Arn. Prod. 316." A glabrous bushy shrub or «small tree. Leaves obovate or oblong-cuneate, very obtuse, often 2 in. long, thick and fleshy. Flowers scarlet, in dense terminal racemes, of which occa- - sionally 2 or 3 form a small corymb. Calyx m the Australian specimens fully 2. L. racemosa, 504 XLVII. COMBRETACEZ. [Lumnitzera, 4 in. long at the time of flowering, continuous with and narrowed into a some- what flattened pedicel of 2 or 3 lines; lobes of the limb short, broad and obtuse. Petals exceeding the calyx-lobes by about 2 lines; stamens twice as long. Fruitirig-calyx above 1 in. long. sid. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; edges of mangrove swamps, Cape York, M'Gillivray. We have precisely the same form from the Feejee Islands; the common Malayan specimens have usually rather smaller flowers. 2. L. racemosa; Willd.; DC. Prod. iii. 22. A glabrous tree or tall - shrub, with the foliage of L. coccinea, but the racemes are all axillary, usually about as long as the leaves, and the flowers are smaller and white. Calyx at thé time of flowering about 4 lines long, and not above 2 in. when in fruit, the lobes or teeth very short. Petals about 13 lines long, and the stamens very little longer. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Heane. Queensland. Cairncross Island, Torres” Straits, M‘Gillivray, Henne ; Fitzroy river and near Keppel: Bay, Thozet. _ This appears to be the commonest of the two species on the coasts of tropical Asia. 3. MACROPTERANTHES, F. Muell. Calyx-tube produced above the ovary and scarcely contracted, the limb rather broader, shortly 5-lobed or 5-toothed. Petals 5. Stamens 10 or fewer. Ovules 10 to 12, pendulous; style filiform, with a minute stigma. Fruit (oblong?) crowned by the persistent calyx. Seed . . —Silky-white or tomentose shrubs or smiall trees. Leaves opposite*or clustered at the nodes, small obovate or oblong, entire. Flowers in pairs on axillary (or terminal ?) peduncles. Bracteoles adnate in the centre to the base of the calyx ; the nor gg free, much enlarged after flowering, forming wings to the fruiting calyx. The genus is endemic in Australia, It is very closely alied to Zumnitzera, differing in the wings of the fruiting-calyx and in the number of ovules, and the species are not strictly maritime, Leaves almost sessile, clustered at the nodes, oblong, silvery-white. Bracteoles or calyx-wings much shorter than the fruiting-calyx - 1. M. montana. Bracteoles or calyx-wings as long as or longer than the fruiting- De ; . . 2. M. Kekwickit. . 8. M. Leichhardt. a a a e a ea Leaves distinctly petiolate, opposite, obovate, tomentose a 1. M. montana, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 91. A small tree, with rigid divaricate branchlets, occasionally spinescent. Leaves clustered at the nodes, narrow-oblong, obtuse, narrowed into a very short petiole, silvery-tomentose on both sides. Flowers only seen loose and not perfect. Calyx after flower- ing attaining nearly l in. but not yet ripe, densely silky-pubescent outside, - with short lobes. Petals apparently oblong or obovate, about } in. long. Stamens longer. Bracteoles about two-thirds as long as the calyx, ™ y orbicular, the broad almost scarious free margins folded back.—Lu. montana, F. Muell. Fragm, ii. 149. : - Queensland. Arid hills, Newcastle Range, F. Mueller. - 2. M. Kekwickii, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 151. Branches rigid, probably spinescent, and leaves small, oblong, silvery-white, clustered at the nodes; a$- Macropteranthes.] XLVII. COMBRETACEZ. 505 in M. montana. Flowers in pairs, sessile at the end of axillary peduncles, _ rather shorter than the leaves. Calyx silky-white, scarcely 4 lines long at the time of flowering, with the orbicular bracteoles about half as long, enlarged - after flowering to 6 or 7 lines, with the bracteoles reticulate, almost searious, and quite as long as the calyx, or even exceeding it. Petals ovate, exceeding - the calyx-lobes by about 1 line. Stamens rather longer. _ WN. Australia. Newcastle Water, lat. 17° 30', M‘Douall Stuarts Expedition. 3. M. Leichhardtii, 7. Muell. Fragm. iii. 91. Apparently more - branched and not so rigid as the other two species. Leaves less crowded, all - opposite, obovate, very obtuse, mostly 3 to 2 in. long, narrowed into a pe- - tiole of 1 to 2 lines, softly silky-tomentose on both sides, but not so white as = inthe other species, and becoming nearly glabrous above with age. Pedun- eles shorter than the leaves, bearing at the end 2 pedicellate flowers, of which = Thave only seen the calyx, enlarged after flowering to from 4 to 6 lines, with _ the adnate bracteoles nearly as long. - Queensland. Ruined Castle Creek, Leichhardt. 4. GYROCARPUS, Jacq. si Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, or none in male flowers ; limb 4- to 7-cleft. Petals none. Stamens 4 to 6, alternating with as many club-shaped stami- nodia, or fewer or none in the female flowers. Ovary inferior, with 1 pendu- - lous ovule and a sessile stigma; abortive in the male flowers. Drupe dry, crowned by 2 much elongated, erect, spathulate, wing-like calyx-lobes. Seed oblong, pendulous, without albumen ; cotyledons petiolate, convolute round the radicle.—Tall tree. Leaves alternate, broad, entire or lobed. Flowers _ polygamous, very small, crowded in dense corymbose cymes. The genus consists of a single species common to the tropical regions of Central America = and tropical Asia. It forms one of the small group of Gyrocarpee, Dumort., or Iligerea, Blume, associated by many botanists with Laxrinee, chiefly on account of the dehiscence of the anthers, but which Lindley is no doubt more correct in adding as a suborder to Combre- tacee, The same dehiscence of the anthers is exemplified in Berberidee and Hamame- lidece, without being constant in either Order, The fruit and seeds are quite those of Combretacee, and there is considerable affinity in many other respects between 1/ligera and Combretacee on the one hand and Hamamelidee on the other. l. G. Jacquini, Roz). Pl. Corom.i. 2, t. 1, copied into Lam. Ilustr. E 850. A tall tree. Leaves deciduous, crowded at the ends of the thick branchlets, broadly ovate or orbicular, on young trees often 8 to 10 in. long and broad and deeply 3-lobed, on older trees usually smaller and entire or = broadly and shortly lobed, usually more or less acuminate, truncate or cordate at the base, glabrous or tomentose underneath or on both sides, the petioles Varying from 1 to 4 in. Peduncles in the upper axils or close above the last leaves, rarely exceeding the petioles, bearing each a repeatedly branched cyme With densely crowded exceedingly small flowers, forming little globular heads before expanding, sometimes entirely males, sometimes with a few herma- ite or female flowers scattered in the cyme or chiefly in the forks. pes ovoid, usually about + in. lung, the wings erect, oblanceolate, rounded at the end, much narrowed below the middle, varying in the Australian speci- ‘Mens from under 2 in. long and about 4 in. broad to 2} in. long and about 506 XLVII. COMBRETACEZ. [ Gyrocarpus. 5 lines broad.—Pers. Syn. i. 143 ; G. americanus, Jacq. ; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. 247; G. asiaticus, Willd.; Meissn. l.c. 248; G. acuminatus, Meissn. l.c.; G. sphenopterus, R. Br. ; Endl. Iconogr. t. 43 ; Meisan.l. c.; (. rugosus, R. Br.; Meissn. l. c. N. Australia. Victoria river, Bynoe, F. Mueller. Queensland. Gilbert river, F. Mueller ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ? Also in Columbia and Central America, in tropical Asia, the eastern Archipelago, and islands of the Pacific. All the writers who, unwilling to believe that the same species should have so wide a geographical range, have distinguished several species of Gyrocarpus, have expressed some hesitation in doing so, for the characters assigned all break down when ap- plied to other specimens than those actually described. The differences in the indumentum and shape of the leaf are often much greater in different specimens from the same locality than between those gathered at the greatest distances. None are more striking than in two specimens from the Feejee Islands which, according to Seémanu’s notes, represent the young and the old trees. In the former the leaves are large, broadly cordate and deeply 3-lobed as figured in Jacq. Ic. Amer. t. 178, f. 80, and loosely tomentose on both sides ; in the latter they are quite entire, glabrous, more acuminate and more acute at the base than in the form characterized as G. acuminatus, Meissn, The fruit-wings are usually longest in the Ame- rican, shortest in the Australian specimens, but not uniformly so even in the comparatively _ few specimens preserved in herbaria. Glabrous and more or less hairy filaments occur in India as well as in Australia. The tomentum of the leaves is even more inconstant than any other character. R. Brown’s specimens have been unfortunately mislaid, but from End- licher's figure engraved from Bauer’s drawing, and from the variety of Australian specimens I have seen, I have no doubt that he was right in the suspicion he expressed that his species might not be different from the common one. A. ¿0 507 INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECTES. —— A The synonyms and species incidentally mentioned are printed in italics. Page Abrophyllum. + . . 437 ornans, Hook. f.. . 437 a. A ee pauciflorus, Desv. . 270 precatorius, Zinn. . 270 squamulosus, E. Mey. 270 i . 301 abietina, Willd. . . 371 acanthoclada, F. Muell, 352 acicularis, R. Br. . 332 acinacea, Lindl, . . 353 E aciphylla, Benth, . 399 acuminata, Benth. . 404 _ adenophora, Spreng. 415 adunca, A. Cunn. . 372 alata, R. Br, . . . 320 alpina, F. Muell.. . 397 amblygona, A. Cunn. 378 amentifera, F. Muell. 392 amæna, Wendi. . . 366 amena, Sieb.. . . 366 Cepa, DC. . .... DDD anceps, Hook. . . 390 aneura, F. Muell. . 402 angulata, Desv. . . 415 angustifolia, Lodd. . 398 angustifolia, Wendl. 369 apiculata, Meissn. . 369 arceuthos, Spreng. . 332 arcuata, Sieb.. . . 389 argyrophylla, Hook. 373, =. 374 arida, Benth. . . 402 armata, R. Br. . . 347 asparagoides, 4. Cunn, 332 aspera, Lindi.. . . 347 Asperulacea, F. Muell. 342 Astringens, A. Cunn. 362 Ataxiphylla, Benth. . 328 Mlacoc: A. Cunn. 410 auriculiformis, 4.Cunn.411 auronitens, Lindl, . 328 Page axillaris, Benth. . . 335 barbinervis, Benth. . 327 basaltica, F. Muell. . 422 Baueri, Benth. . . 342 Baxteri, Benth. . . 328 Baxteri, Mcissn. . . 346 Benthamii, Meissn. . 324 bidentata, Benth. . 352 Bidwilli, Benth. . . 420 biflora, R. Br. + . 351 biflora, Paxt.. . . 351 biglandulosa, Meissn. 417 binervata, DC. . . 390 binervosa, DC. . . 380 bivenosa, DC.. +. . 380 Blomei, Ohlend. . . 364 bombycina, Benth. . 374 bossieoides, 4. Cunn. 320 Bossieoides, Seem. . 320 botrycephala, Desf. . 414 brachybotrya, Benth. 373 brachyphylla, Benth. 387 brachyptera, Benth. . 322 brachystachya, Benth. 403 brevifolia, Benth. . 395 brevifolia, Lodd.. . 373 brevipes, A. Cunn. . 389 Browniana, Wendl. . 419 Brownii, Steud. . + 332 bruniades, A. Cunn. . 343 Burkittii, F. Muell. . 400 buxifolia, 4. Cunn. - 372 Bynoeana, Benth. calamifolia, Sweet - 339 Caleyi, A. Cunn.. + 374 calyculata, A. Cunn.. campylophylla, Benth. 326 Candolleana, Meissn. 419 cardiophylla, 4. Cunn. 415 cedroides, Benth. . 341 celastrifolia, Benth. . 377 chordophylla,Y. Muell.338 Page chrysobotrys, Meissn. 413 ciliata, R. Br. . . 419 cinerascens, Sieb. . 406 élavata, Schlecht. . 358 cochlearis, Wendl. . 324 cochliocarpa, Meissn. 397 colletioides, 4. Cunn. 325 colletioides, Y. Muell. 322 complanata, 4. Cunn. 390 conferta, A. Cunn. . 343 tongesta, Benth.. . 346 conspersa, F. Muell. 403 continua, Benth.. . 322 coriacea, DC. . . 385 costata, Benth. . . 327 crassicarpa, A. Cunn. 410 crassistipula, Benth. . 349 crassiuscula, Wendt. . 872 Cunninghamii,G. Dou 325 cuspidata, A. Cum. . 333 eyanophylla, Lindl. . 364 cyclophylla, Schlecht. 353 eyclopis, 4. Cunn. . 388 Cyenorum, Benth. . 417 Cycnorum, Hook. . 418 Cygnorum, Meissn. . 417 cyperophylla, F. Muell. 400 Daintreana, F. Muell. 390 Dallachiana, F. Muell. 397 daphnifolia, Meissn. 364 dasyphylla, A. Cuun. 354 dealbata, Zink. . 415 dealbata, A. Cann. . 373 decipiens, R. Br.. . 351 decora, Reichd. . 372 decurrens, Willd. 414 decussata, Ven. 398 508 INDEX OF. GENERA AND SPECIES. Page Page Page delibrata, 4. Cunn. . 404| floribunda, Willd. . 398 juncifolia, Benth. . 339 deltoidea, 4. Cunn. . 378 Fraseri, Hook. . . 374 juniperina, Willd. . 331 densifolia, Benth. . 347 furcifera, Lindl. . . 347 lanigera, 4. Cunn. . 324 * dentifera, Benth.. . 360| furfuracea, G. Don . 373| laricina, Meissn. . . 330 denudata, Lehm. . 417| galivides, Benth.. . 342| lasiocarpa, Benth. . 417 ens, A. Cunn. 398| genistifolia, Link. 325,332 latescens, Benth.. . 391 dermatophylla, Benth. 346 genistoides, 4. Cunn. 330 latifolia, Benth. . . 411 dictyocarpa, Benth.. 374 | Gilberti, Meissn.. . 417| latipes, Benth. . . 324 dictyophleba, F: Muel/.388 gladiiformis, 4. Cunn. 365 Latrobei, Meissn. . 353 diffusa, Lindl.. . . 332 glaucescens, Willd. . 406 Leichhardtii, Benth. . 372 dilatata, Benth. . . 352| glaucifolia, Baum. . 375 | letophylla, Benth. . 364 dimidiata, Benth. . 412 | glaucoptera, Benth. . 320 leiophylla,var. Meissn. 363 dineura, F. Muell. . 391 glutinosa, F. Muell.. 387 lenticellata, F. Muell. 420 diptera, Lindi. . . 321 Gnidium, Benth.. . 359 leprosa, Sieb. . > + 358 discolor, Willd. . . 414| gonocarpa, F. Muell. 401 | leptocarpa, A. Cunn. 407 dissitiflora, Benth. . 399 gonoclada, F. Mue? 396 leptoclada, 4. Cunn. . 416 divergens, Benth.» . 350 gonophylla, Benth, . 340 leptoneura, Benth. . 337 dodoneifolia, Wil/d. . 359 graminea, Lehm.. . 340 leptoneura,var-Meissn.399 dolabriformis, Colla. 351 | grandis, Hiuk. . -. 417 leptopetala, Benth. . 370 dolabriformis, A.Cumn.412 | graveolens, A. Cunn. 358 — leptophleba, F. Muell. 395 dolabriformis,Wendl. 84 | Gregorii, F. Muell. . 348 | leptophylla, Y. Muell. 337 doratoxylon, 4. Cunn. 403 Gunnii, Beuth. . . 350| leptospermoides, Bth. 383 doratozylon, Meissn. 404 | hakevides, A. Cunn. . 367 leptostachya, Benth. . 406 drepanocarpa, Y. Muell. 402 | harpophylla, F. Muell. 389 | leucadendron,A.Cunn.406 Drummondii, Lindl. 419 Harveyi, Benth. . . 368 leucophylla, Lindl. . 384 dura, Benth. . . . 356 hastulata, Sm. . . 349 ligulata, A. Cunn. + 367 dysophylla, Benth. . 356 | hebecephala, A.Cunn. 382 ligustrina, Meissa. . 354 echinula, DC. . .332| hemignosta, F. Muell, 385 | limbata, F. Muell. . 395 eglandulosa, DC. . 324| hemiteles, Benth. . 369| linarioides, Benth. . 393 data, 4. Cunn. . . 413| heteroclita, Meissn. . 881 Lindleyi, Meissn.. - 370 elata, Roxb. . . . 422| heteroneura, Benth. . 387 linearis, Sims. . - 399 ` elliptica, A. Cunn. . 380| hippuroides, Heward 842 lineata, 4. Cunn.. . 358 elongata, Sieb. . . 381 | Aispidissina, DC. . 417 lineolata, Benth:. + 384 - emarginata, Wendl. . 359 hispidula, Willd. . 355 linifolia, Willd. +. - 371 ~ Endiicheri, Meissn. . 419 | holcocarpa, Benth. , 408 | longifolia, Willd.. . 397 ephedroides, Benth. . 399 | holosericea, A. Cunn. 411| longifolia, Paxt. . - 361 ericifolia, Benth.. . 340| homalophylla, 4. Cunn. 383 longispicata, Benth. . 407 - erinacea, Benth. . ..345 | homomalla, Wendl, . 406 | Zongissima, Wendl. . 3 erioclada, Benth., . 829 | Hookeri, Meissn. . 841| lophantha, Willd. - 422 erythrocephala, A. horridula, Meissn. . 350 loxocarpa, Benth, + 409 Cunn. . . . . 3847| Huegelii, Benth.. . 345 | loxophylla, Benth. . 319 erythropus, Ten. . . 385 | humifusa, 4. Cunn. . 412 Ludwigi, Ohlend. . 377 excelsa, Benth. . . 390 hybrida, Lodd. . . 348 lunata, Sieb. - + + 373 extensa, Lindi. . . 340 idiomorpha, 4. Cunn. 348 lycop-difolia, A.Cunn. exudans, Lindl, . . 358 imbricata, F. Muell. 354 | lysiphlcea, F. Muell. 393 fagonioides, Benth. . 417 | implexa, Benth. . . 389 | macradenia, Benth. . 362 falcata, Willd. . . 361 impressa, F. Muell. . 380 Maitlandi, F. Muell. 330 falciformis, DC, . . 362 | impressa, Lindl. . . 362 marginata, R. Br. + 377 ‘faleinella, Meissn. . 365 | incrassata, Hook. . 351 maritima, Benth. - 414 falcinella, Tausch. . 373 incurva, Benth, . . 322 |: megalantha, F. Muell. 395 farinosa, Lind’, . . 386 | ingrata, Benth. , .331| Meissneri, Lehm. . 354 farnesiana, Willd. . 419 intermedia, A. Cunn. 398 melanoxylon, 2. Br. 388 fasciculifera, F. Muell. 861 | — intertezta, Sieb. . . 398 | micracantha, Dietr. - 34 filifolia, Benth. . . 400 | irrorata, Sieb. . .415| microbotrya, Benth. . 363 Yinbriata, A. Cann. . 371| iteaphylla, F. Muell, 363 | microcarpa, F. Muell. 357 Havescens, A; Cunn. . 391 | ixiophylla, Benth, . 387 | mieroneura, Meissn. . 400 > fexifolia, 4. Cunn. . 356 | - julifera, Benth, . . 405! Mitchelli, Benth. -+ 47 E Piss += mesta, Lindl. . . 334 -= mollissima, Willd. . 415 ; montana, Benth.. . 357 + mucronata, Willd. . 398 ` Muelleri, Benth.. . 355 multinervia, DC.. . 325 - multispicata, Benth. . 400 myriobotrya, Meissn. 363 myrtifolia, Willd. . 376 _nematophylla, Y. Muell. Bes, 337, 339 nerjifolia, 4. Cunn. . 363 | Nernstii, F. Muell. . 378 “nervosa, DC. . . . 346 _ neurocarpa, A. Cunn. 412 nigricans, R. Br.. . 418 nitidula, Benth. . . 381 nodiflora, Benth... . 344 - notabilis, F. Muell. . 365 nyssophylla, F. Muell. 326 obliqua, A. Cunn. . 353 “obovata, Benth. . . 346 «obscura, 4. DC. . . 418 obtusata, Sieb. . 366 obtusifolia, A. Cam. 898 Oldfieldii, F. Mueil. . 404 oleafolia, A. Cum. . 373 oligoneura, F. Muell. 405 omalophylla, A.Cunn. 383 oncinocarpa, Benth. . 409 oncinophylla, Benth. 401 - ornithophora, Sweet. 348 orthocarpa, Y. Muell. 401 Oswaldi, F. Muell. . 384 ovoidea, Benth. . . 335 . 884 341 . 408 paradora, DC. . patens, F. Muell. . 329 Pawlikowskiana, Ohlend. P 877 pendula, 4. Cunn. . 383 penninervis, Sieb. 362 pentadenia, Lindl. . 417 pentaedra, Regel. -~ petiolaris, bebm > ós pilosa, Benth... + 348 pinifolia, Benth.. . 339 pityoides, F. Muell. .. 400 E. Murrayana, F. Muell. 370 t INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. Page plagiophylla, Spreng. 361 plagiophylla, F. Muell. 356 platycarpa, F. Muell. 391 platyptera, Lindl. . 321 plectocarpa, 4. Cunn. 408 podalyrieefolia, 4.Cunn.374 polybotrya, Benth. . 414 polystachya, A. Cunn. 407 pravifolia, F. Muell. 378 pravissima, F. Muell. 375 Preissiana, Lehm. . 418 procera, Willd. . 422 promineas, Æ. Cuan. 371 prostrata, Lodd. . . 333 pruinosa, 4. Cunn. . 413 pterigoidea, Seem. . 364 pteroclada, F. Muell. 322 ptychophylla, F. Muell. 394 pubescens, R. Br. . 416 pugioniformis, Fendi. 338 pugioniformis, Wendl. 332 pulchella, R. Br, . . 416 pulverulenta, A.Cumn. 339 pungens, Spreng.. . 332 pycnantha, Benth. . 365 pycnophylla, Benth. . 368 pyeuostachya, F Muell.396 pyrifolia, DC. . - 376 quadrilateralis, DC. 338 quadrisulcata, F. Muel?. 328 ramosissima, Benth.. 360 ramosissima, Benth. . 368 reclinata, F. Mùell. . 358 restiacea, Benth.. . 336 retinervis, Benth. . 410 retinodes, Schlecht. . 362 retivenia, F. Muell. . 392 retrorsa, Meissn.. . 331 rhigiophylla, F. Muell. 333 Riceana, Hensl. . . 335 rigens, A. Cunn.. + 337 _ rostellifera, Benth. . 368 rostellifera, Seem. . 364 rotundifolia, Hook. - 353 rubida, 4. Cunn.. - 366 runciformis, A. Cunn. 354 rupicola, F. Muell. . 333 ruscifolia, A. Cunn. . 334 rutafolia, Link. . . 418 salicina, Lindl. . 867 endl. . . 364 scapuliformis, A.Cunn.375 schinoides, Benth. scirpifolia, Meissn. . 339 selerophylla, Lindl. . 386 -Simsii, A. Cunn. . 509 Page semiverticillata,Kuwl. 334 sentis, F. Muell. . 360 sericata, 4. Cunn. . 391 sericophylla, F. Muell. 385 sertiformis, A. Cunn. 358 sessilis, Benth. . 331 setigera, A. Cunn. . 356 setigera, Hook. . . 335 setulifera, Benth. . 379 Shuttleworthii, Meissn. : 348 siculiformis, A. Cuna. 329 Sieberiana, Scheele . 414 Sieberiana, Tausch. . 372 signata, F. Muell. . smilacifolia, Field. . 377 Solandri, Benth. . Sophore, R. Br. . . 398 spathulata, F. Muell. 356 spathulata, Tausch. . 398 spectabilis, 4. Cunn. 413 sphacelata, Benth. . 331 spinescens, Benth, . 323 spinosissima, Benth, . 344 squamata, Lindl.. . 336 squamata, Morren . 336 stenophylla, 4. Cunn. 385 stenoptera, Benth. . 321 stereophylla, Meissn. 404 stigmatophylla, 4. Cunn. 394 strigosa, Link. . . 418 suaveolens, Willd. subbinervia, Meissn.. 368 subceerulea, Lindl. . 369 suberosa, 4. Cunn. . 420 subfaleata, Meissn. . 364 sublanata, Benth. . 378 subporosa, F. Muell. 382 subternata, F. Muell. 343 subtilinervis, F. Muell. 396 subulata, Bonpl. . . 370 sulcata, R. Br. . sulcipes, Sieb.. . taxifolia, A. Cunn. . taxifolia, Lodd. . . tenuifolia, F. Muell. . 332 tenuissima, F. Muell. 401 teretifolia, Benth. . 326 tetragonocarpa, Msn. 336 -510 INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. Page Page : Page tetragonophylla, F. Achyronia lanigera, 4. Cunn. . 92 well. 5 A 0 090 villosa, Wendl. . . 7 mollis, Benth. . . 91 Thozetiana, F. Muell. 422 | Ackama . . . +. . 444 passerinoides, Meissn. 93 torulosa, Benth. . . 405 | Muelleri, Benth.. . 444 | phylicoides, F. Muell. 92 translucens, 4. Cunn. 379 | Acrophyllum . . 443 Preissii, Meissn.. . 91 triangularis, Benth. . 351 venosum, Benth.. . 443 procumbens, Meissn. 92. trigona, A. DC. . . 3877 trigonophylla, Meissn. 322 trinervata, Sieb. . . 325 trineura, F. Muell. . 381 triptera, Benth. . . 323 triptycha, F. Muell.. 337 triquetra, Benth.. . 354 trissoneura, Y. Muell. 381 tristis, Grah. . , . 348 tumida, F. Muell. , 409 ulicina, Meissn. . . 345 umbellata, 4. Cunn. . 394 umbrosa, A. Cunn. . 391 uncifera, Benth. , . 874 uncinata, Lodd. . . 356 uncinella, Benth.. . 341 undulata, Willd.. . 348 undulifolia, A. Cunn. 355 uniglandulosa, Seem. 321 urophylla, Benth. . 377 varians, Benth. . , 367 *venulosa, Benth.. . 388 vernicifina, 4. Cuan. 358 verticillata, Wil/d. , 334 verticillata, Sieb. . 332 vestita, Ker . . . 375 Victoriæ, Benth. . . 360 virgata, Lodd. . . 358 viscidula, 4. Cunn, . 387 visciflua, Y. Muell. . 359 viscosa, Schrad. . . 359 visnevides, Colla. . 319 vomeriformis, 4. Cunn. 350 Wattsiana, F. Muell: 374 —Whanii, F. Muell. ~ 386 Wickhami, Benth, . 392 Wilhelmsiana, F. Muell. . . 337,339 Willdenowiana, Wendl. ; 321 xanthina, Benth. . 380 xylocarpa, A. Cunn. . 401 Ama.: 2 + 433 Behriana, Schlecht. . 433 echinata, Nees . montana, Hook, f. montevidensis, Hk. f. 434 | ovina, 4, Cunn. . . 433 sanguisorbe, Vahl . 434 sarmentosa, Carmich. 434 Accorombona, Endl, . 7 verticillatum, Hook. 444 Adenanthera, Linn. . 298 Aschynomene . , . 226 cachemiriana, Camb. 227 coluteoides, A. Rich. 226 falcata, DC. «227 indica, Linn. . . . 226 micrantha, DC. . . 227 Agati coccinea, Desy, . . 212 - formosa, F. Muell. . 212 grandiflora, Desv. . 212 Albina ao At basaltica, Benth. . . 422 canescens, Benth. . 423 Lebbeck, Benth. . . 421 lophantha, Benth. . 421 procera, Benth. . . 422 Thozetiana, F. Muell. 422 Alchemilla . . . . 432 arvensis, Scop. , . 432 vulgaris, Linz. . 432 Alysicarpus . . . 238 cylindricus, Desv. . 240 Heyneanus,W.& Arn. 240 longifolius, W. $ Arn. 239 nummulariefolius, DC.239 rugosus, DC. . . , 289 styracifolius, DO. . 240 vaginalis, DC. . . 239 Wallichii, W, & Arn, 240 Amphodus ovatus, Lindl. . . 249 ‘Ancistrum, Forst. . . 433 Anodopetalum . . 440 biglandulosum, 4.Cun.440 Anopterus . . . . 439 glandulosus, Labill. . 439 Macleayanus, F. Muell.439 Db oe ee BD carinata, Meissn.. . 93 cordifolia, Benth. . 93 cordifolius, Lindl. and Past. cuerda dillwynioides, Meissn. 150 ericoides, G. Don . 91 ericoides, Paxt. . . 148 Jerruginea, Labill. . 91 genistoides, Turca. , 92 gracillima, Meissn. , 90 intermedia, Meissn., 90 Argophyllum . Atylosia Barklya.. . villosa, Sm... i . 90 virgata, DC. . . . OL Wiirthii, Regel 90, 149 1 Aphanopetalum . . . 44 occidentale, F. Muell. 441 resinosum, Endl.. . 441 EE Lejourdanii, F. Muell. 437 ¿ weri 208 cinerea, F, Muell. . 264 grandifolia, F. Muell. 264 marmorata, Benth. . 263 pluriflora, F. Muell. . 264 reticulata, Benth. . 263 scarabæoides, Benth. 263 syringifolia, F. Muell. 275 dera... AO Billardieri, D. Don . 447 capitata, Ser. . i galioides, Sieb. . - 448 humilis, Sweet microphylla, Sieb. rubiafolia, Salisb. rubioides, Andr.. . 447 sessiliflora, F, Muell. 448 Bauhinia . . 204 Carronii, F, Muell. . 295 Cunninghamii, Benth. 295 Hookeri, F. Muell. . 296 Leichhardtii, ¥. Muell. oe Bossizea , aculeata; F: Muell. . 170 Aquifolium, Benth. . 157 biloba, Benth. . 160 bracteosa, F. Muell. 166 Brownii, Benth, . - 163 buxifolia, 4. Cunn. + 163 calycina, Benth. + + 159 carinalis, Benth. . - 161 cinerea, R. Br. « + 160 coccinea, Bonpl. - concinna, Benth. . cordifolia, Sweet - 160 cordigera, Benth. - 157 decumbens, Y. Muell. 163 dentata, emt ee disticha, Lindl. .« distichoclada, Muell. 7 divaricata, Turcz. . 15 lanceolata, Bot. Mag. 165 lenticularis, Sieb. . 157 lenticularis, Lodd. . 164 linneoides, G. Don . 163 linophylla, R. Br. . 162 microphylla, Sm. . . 164 nervosa, Meissn. . . 159 nummularia, Endl. . 163 ornata, Benth. . 158 ovalifolia, Endl.. . 159 ovata, G. Don . 165 ovata, Sm. . . 163 oryclada, Turez.. . 166 paucifolia, Benth, . 166 peduncularis, Zurez. 165 phylloclada, F. Muell. 168 - Preissii, Meissn. . . 161 prostrata, R. Br. . 162 _ pulchella, Meissn. . 164 rhombifolia, Sieb. . 164 rigida, Turez. ¡161 riparia, 4. Cunn. . 166 rosmarinifolia, Lindl. 160 scolopendria, Sm. spinescens, Meissn. . 166 stenophylla, Y.Muell. 169 strigillosa, Benth, . 157 sulcata, Meissn. . + 171 tenuicaulis, Grah. . 160 virgata, Hook. . 166 Walkeri, F. Muell. . 167 . 437 2 a TA E 9 aphyllum, Hook. . 12 bossizeoides, Benth. . 12 bracteolosum, F. Muell. 11 celsianum, Lemaire . 10 —Rossii, Y. Muell.. . 171 rotundifolia, DC. . 164 O A 105 rufa, Maund . + 167 rupicola, A. Cunn. . 162. Callistachys Chambersii, F. Muell. 13 | australis, A, Cunn. . 495 gymnorhiza, Lam. . 495 Rheedii, Blume . . 494 Rumphii, Blume . . 495 Bulliarda, DC.. . . 450 Burgesia homaloclada, F. Muell. 13 Dúrtoma: 2-6 49 conferta, DC. . 52 diosmifolia, Benth. . 142 - foliolosa, Benth. . . 50 Hendersonii, Benth. 51 minor, DC. . . . 45 polyzyga, Benth. 51 pulchella, Meissn. 52 scabra, R. Br., > 51 sessilifolia, DC. . . 52 subalpina, F. Muell. . 128 subulata, Benth. . 50 tenella, Meissu. « 142 villosa, Meissn. . 51 Byblis. . . 469 cerulea, Planch.. + 470 filifolia, Planch.. . 470 gigantea, Lindl. . . 470 Lindleyana, Planch, 470 liniflora, Sadish. . . 470 Cuesalpinia . . + + 277 arborea, Zo. . . 279 ferruginea, D. Dene. 279 nuga, dit... -277 paniculata, Desf. . 277 sepiaria, Rorb. . + 277 Caithea, Guill. and Perr. 299 Callicoma . + . 440 erruginea, D. Don . 440 „rdis er Andr. . 440 carinata, Meissn. . 18 cuneifolia, Sm. + 39 elliptica, Vent. + 17 lanceolata, Vent. . 16 linariafolia, G. Don 18 linearis, Benth. « + 18 INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES.’ ; 511 Page Page age egena, F. Muell.. . 170 daviesioides, Benth. 13 longifolia, Paxt. . 16 Endlicheri, Meissn. . 159 lanceolatum, Meissn. 10 ovata, Sims... 16 ensata, Sieh. . . 167 latifolium, R. Br. 10 oxylobioides, Meissn. 28 ensata, Hook. f. . . 166 macrocarpum, Benth. 13| parviflora, Benth. 18 ensata, Meissn. . 166 melanopetalum, Muell. 11 retusa, Lodd.. . 16 . eriocarpa, Benth. . 159 oxylobioides, Benth. 12| sparsa, A.Cunn.. . 20 . foliosa, 4. Cunn.. . 160| premorsum, Meissn. 10| spathulata, Meissn. . 18 Gilberti, Yurez... . 159 subcordatum, Benth. 11 tetrayona, Turez. . 22 heterophylla, Vent. . 165 | tomentosum, Benth. 13 | Callitriche 7001 humilis, Meissn. . . 163 undulatum, Ker. . 11 autumnalis, Linn. . 492 kiamensis, Benth. . 158 | uniflorum, R. Br, . 12| macropteryz,Hegelm. 492 lalagoides, F. Muell. 159 | Bruguiera . . 494 verna, Linn. . . 492 Callotropis, G. Don . 7 Calycomis, R. Br. . . 440 verticillata, D. Don. 444 Canavalia . i . 255 obtusifolia, DC. . . 256 Cantharospermum pauciflorum, W. & Arn. 263 Carallia . . 495 integerrima, DC.. . 495 zeylanica, Arn. . 496 Carpodontos lucida, Labill. . 446 Cassia. . i . 279 Absus, Linn... . . 290 acclinis, F. Muell. . 285 aciphylla, Benth. * . 286 artemisioides, Gaud. 288 australis, Sims . 285 Barclayana, Sweet . 283 Barrenfieldii, Colla . 285 Brewsteri, F. Muell.. 282 canaliculata, R. Br. 287 Chatelainiana, Gaud. 286 circinata, Benth. . . 286 concinna, Benth.. . 291 eoronilloides, A. Cunn.285 desolata, F. Muell. . 289 eremophila, 4. Cunn. 287 Fieldit, Colla . . 285 glutinosa, DC. -. . 286 heteroloba, Lindl. . 287 levigata, Willd. . . 282 laxiflora, Benfh. . + 283 — leptoclada, Benth, . 290 magnifolia, F. Muell. 283 mimosoides, Linn. . 291 nemophila, A. Cann. 287 notabilis, F. Muell. . 284 oligoclada, F. Muell. 289 oligophylla, F. Muell. 289 phyllodinea, R. Br.-. 287 platypoda, R. Br. . 288 pleurocarpa, F. Muell, 284 pruinosa, F. Muell. . 286 pumila; Lam.. + 290 512 pumila, F. Muell. . 2¥1 retusa, Soland. . . 285 revoluta, Y. Muell. . 286 schinifolia, DC. . . 283 Schultesii, Colla. . 285 Sophera, Linn. . 283 Sturtii, R. Br. . . 288 - suffruticosa, Ken. . 285 teretifolia, Lindl. . 288 teretiuscula, F. Muell. 288 umbellata, Reichb. . 285 venusta, F. Muell. . 284 zygophylla, Benth. . 288 ` Castanospermum . . 275 australe, 4. Cunn. . 275 Cathartocarpus Brewsteri, F. Muell. 282 Cathormion moniliferum, Hassk. 424 Cephalotus . ...* . 448 follicularis, Labi/l. . 449 Ceratopetalum . . . 442 apetalum, D. Don . 442 gummiferum, Sm. . 442 montanum, D. Don . 442 Ceratophyllum . . . 491 demersum, Linn. . . 491 submersum, Linn. . 491 tuberculatum, Cham. 491 Cercodia erecta, Murr. . . 480 racemosa, DC. . . 480 Ceriops - . 493 Candolleana, Arn. . 494 Cheilococca apocynifolia, Salisb. 154 Chithonanthus restiaceus, Lehm. . 336 Chorizema. + i . » angustifolium, Benth, ‘Baueri, Benth. . + Baueri, Meissn. . 31 Baxteri, Grah.. . . 20 callistachys, Y. Muell. 16 capillipes;Turcz. . 29 cordatum, Lindl. . 28 cordifolium, F.Muell. 19 coriaceum, Sm. +. ». 22 costatum, Meissn. . 27 cytisoides, Turez. . 31 daviesioides, Meissn. 38 denticulatum, Turcz. 29 Dicksoni, Grah. . . 27 diversifolium, 4. DC. 29 ellipticum, F. Muell. 17 : ericifolium, Meissn. . 32 28 flavum, Henfr. . . 3 Page Henchmanni, R. Br. 31 heterophylium,Vurez, 25 humile, Zurez. . +. 30 ilicifolium, Labil?. 28 Leichhardtii,Y. Muell. 40 lineare, F. Muell. 18 magnifolium, Y. Muell. 34 nanum, Sims.» - 28 nervosum, 7. Moore. 27 ovatum, Lindl. 29 parviflorum, Benth. . 30 parvifolium, Turez. » 27 platylobioides, DC. . 34 pubescens, Turcz. 18 Pultenea, Y. Muell. 31 reticulatum, Meissn. 30 rhombeum. Xi. Br. 28 rhombeum, Lodd. 29 rhynchotropis, Meissn. 31 scandens, Sm. _ + 20 sericeum, Sm. . . 11 spartioides, Lodd. . . 39 spectabile, Lindl. 29 superbum, Lemaire . 28 triangulare, Lindl. . 28 trigonum, Turez. . 30 trilcbum, Sm. 25 varium, Benth. . 28 Chuncoa .". 496 Clianthus . . : 214 Dampieri, 4. Cunn. . 214 Oxleyi, A. Cunn. . 214 Clidanthera psoraleoides, R. Br. . 225 A pee. australis, Benth. . . 242 Colutea galegifolia, Sims. . 217 Copisma, E. Mey. . 265 Crotalaria =. . + +» 178 afinis, DC. . . . 183 anthylloides, D. Don 180 calycina, Schranck . 180 crassipes, Hook. . . 182 crispata, F. Muell. . 179 cubensis, DC.. . . 183 Cunninghamii, R.Br. 182- dissitiflora, Benth. . 184 eremæa, F. Muell. . 184 herbacea, Schweigg. . 183 incana, Linn... . . 183 juncea, Linn... . . 179 laburnifolia, Linn. . 184 linifolia, Linn. f. . 180 medicaginea, Y, Muell. 183 melanocarpa, Wall. . 180 Mitchelli, Benth. . 181 INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. Page Mitchelli, Y. Muell. 182 Nove-Hollandie, DC. 181 oblongifolia, Hook. . 182 quinquefolia, Zinn. . 184 ramosissima, F. Muell. 179 retusa, Linn. . . + 181 Schimperi, A. Rich. . 183 stenophylla, Voge + 180 Sturtii, R. Br... + 182 trifoliastrum, Willd. 183 verrucosa, Linn. . . 179 Cryptosema pimeleoides, Meissn. 9 :Cyclogyne : pac Benth. . 221 procumbens, F. Muell, 220 swainsonioides, Benth. 220 Cynometra A bijuga, Span.» . + 296 ramifiora, Linn. . » 296 Dalbergia. . . + - 270 densa, Benth. weal scandens, Roxb. . . 272 Dasystemon calycinum, DC. . + 451 Daviesia . . +». - + 68 abnormis, F. Muell. . 141 acanthoclada, Turcz. 174 acicularis, Sm. . »- 8l adnata, ¥. Muell. . 86 alata, Sm. i dicas alternifolia, Endl. . 13 anceps, Zurcz. . + 89 angulata, Benth. «+ 86 aphylla, F. Muell. . 88 Benthamii, Meissn. . 84 brachyphylla, Meissn. 84 brevifolia, Lindl.. + 84 buxifolia, Benth. . 75 calystegia, Turez. . 13 cardiophylla, F. Muell. 79 chordophylla, Meissn. 78 colletioides, Meissn. » 83 „colletivides, A. Cunn. 82 concinna, R. Br.. + 75 condensata, Turcz, . 151 scordata Se, 4 mole corymbosa, Sm. + + 76. - erenulata, Zurcz. .. - 12 daphnoides, Meissn. - 79 decurrens, Meissn. + 87 denudata, Vent.» + 68 divaricata, Benth. . 88 Drummondii, Meissn. 80 egena, F. Muell. . + EN elongata, Benth. . +! INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. Page . epiphylla, Meissn. 87 ericoides, Pers. Hee euphorbioides, Benth. 88 filipes, Benth. 80 flexuosa, Benth. . 86 genistifolia, 4. Cunn. 82 genistoides, Lodd. 81 glauca, Lodd.. . 76 hakeoides, Meissn. . 82 horrida, Meissn. . 77 humifusa, Sieb. . 20 incrassata, Sm. 83 incrassata, Meissn. . 86 juncea, Sm. 88 juncea, Pers. . 68 lancifolia, Turez. 75 latifolia, R. Br. . 76 latipes, F. Muell. 87 leptophylla, A. Cunn. 77 linearis, Lodd. . . 77 longifolia, Benth. . 78 macrophylla, Endl. . 76 microphylla, Benth.. 86 - mimosoides, Bot. Mag. mimosoides, R. Br. . 77 T mollis, Zurcz. . +. 74 _ Rematophylia, Muell. 78 = nudiflora, Meissn. 79 obovata, Turcz. . . 78 obtusifolia, F. Muell. 77 oppositifolia, Endl. . 73 ovata, Benth 72 pachylina, Zurez 85 pachyphylla, F. Muell. 82 paniculata, Benth 88 Parifolia, F. Muell.. 73 pectinata, Lindi. 87 pedunculata, Benth.. 74 physodes, A. Cunn. . 84 polypbylla, Benth. . 86 eissii, Meissn. . . 84 Prionoides, Meissn. . 87 pubigera, A. Cunn. . 75 quadrilatera, Benth. 85 racemulosa, DC 75 ramulosa, Benth 38 Teclinata, 4. Cunn TT reticulata, Sm 119 reversifolia, F, Muell. 88 rhombifolia, Meissn. 79 ruscifolia, A. Cum. 81 Spinosissima, Meissn. 85 squarrosa, Sm. . . 80 striata, Zurez, . 85 teretifolia, R. Br. 82 ternata, Endl. . . 73 trigonophylla, Meissn, 87 Page ulicifolia, Andr.. . 81 ulicina, Sm. . . . 81 umbellata, Labill. . 81 umbellata, Sieb. . 20 umbellalata, Sm. . 75 umbellulata, Hook.f. 81 villifera, A. Cunn. . 80 virgata, A. Cunn, 77 Dendrolobium umbellatum, W.& Arn. 231 Parii: a . 272 scandens, Benth. . 272 uliginosa, Benth. . 272 Desmodium . +. +. . 229 acanthocladum, F, M. 231 australe, DC. . . 231 biarticulatum, Muell. 231 brachypodum, 4. Gray 232 campylocaulon, Muell. 233 flagellare, Benth.. . 233 gangeticum, DC. Gunnii, Hook. f.. . 233 Muelleri, Benth. . 235 nemorosum, F. Muell. 234 neurocarpum, Benth. 234 Novo-Hollandicum, F. Muell . . . . 245 parvifolium, DC. . 235 polycarpum, DC. . 235 pulchellum, Benth, . 231 rhytidophyllum, F. Musli t 1009 spartioides, DC. . . 233 trichocaulon, DC. . 235 trichostachyum, Bth. 234 umbellatum, DC. 230 varians, Endl. . . 232 Dicerma biarticulatum, DC. . pulchellum, DC. . Dichosema microphyllum, Turcz. multicaule, Turcz. . racemosum, Meissn. + spinosum, Benth. subinerme, Meissn. . Dichrostachys cinerea, W.§ Arn. . Muelleri, Benth.. + Dillwynia. . + + acicularis, Meissn. . acicularis, Sieb. . adenophora, Endl. . brunioides, Meissn. - cinerascens, R. Br. . cinerascens, DC.. clavata, Paxt. . . 232, Page cuneata, Sieb. . . 136 divaricata, Benth. 151 elegans, Endl. 149 ericifolia, Sm. . 147 ericifolia, Sims . 149 ericoides, Sieb. 148 filifolia, Endl. 148 tloribunda, Sm. 149 glaberrima, Sm. . . 149 glycinifolia, Sm. 29 hispida, Lindl. . . 147 hispidula, Sieb. . . 149 juniperina, Sied. . . 150 laxiflora, Benth.. . 151 microphylla, Sieb. . 148 myrtifolia, Sm. . . 144 obovata, Labill. . . 144 parvifolia, R. Br. . 148 patula, F. Muell. . 151 peduncularis, Benth. 148 phylicoides, A. Cunn. 148 pinifolia, Sieb. 148 Preissii, Benth. . . 149 pungens, Mackay 150 ramosissima, Benth. 148 rudis, Sieb. . . 149 scabra, Schlecht. . 147 sericea, A. Cunn. `. 149 seriphioides, Endl. . 148 speciosa, Paxt. . . 148 subaphylla, Colla . 147 tenuifolia, Sieb. . . 148 teretifolia, Sieb. . » 149 tenerioides, Sieb.. . 135 Diplolobium ES Walcottii, F. Muell. 220- Dolichos . +. + . 260 arillaris, E. Mey. . 261 biflorus, Linn. . +. 261 gibbosus, Thunb.. . 261 lignosus, Zinn. . + luteolus, Jacq. . + luteus, Swartz = reticulatus, Ait. . . 264 rhynchosioides, Miq. 262 rhynchosioides, Schlecht. : 261 uniflorus, Lam. . e ant O E Novee-Zelandie, Hk.f. 450 Doma formosa, Don a . 214 speciosa, Don. +. . 214 Drosera - a. AOG Arcturi, Hook. . . 456 auriculata, Backh. . 465 Banksii, R. Br. . . 469 2 L 514 INDEX UF GENERA AND SPECIES. Page Page Page barbigera, Planch. . 460 stolonifera, Endl. . 463 virgata, Benth. . . 144 binata, Zabili. . . 461 subhirtella, Planch. . 468 |. i : bulbosa, Hook. . . 462 sulphurea, Lehm. . 466 | Flemingia. . . + + 268 Burmanni, Vahl . . 459 Whittakerii, Planch. 462 capitata, Zoll. . + 269 — calycina, Planch. . 468 |. zouaria, Planch.. . 462 involucrata, Benth. . 269 dichotoma, Sm: . . 461 | Dunbaria . . . . - 261 lineata, Rozb.. . . 268 Drummondii, Lehm. 460 conspersa, Benth. . 262 parviflora, Benth. . 269 Drummondii, Planch. 467 pauciflora, Benth. - 269 erythrorhiza, Lindl. . 463 Entada . . +. filicaulis, Endl. . . 467 Pursatha, DC. . . 298 | Galactia . . + + > flabellata, Benth. . 464 seaudens, Benth. . 298 Muelleri, Benth.. . 255 foliosa, Hook. f.. . 465 | Eremosyne 449} tenuiflora, Willd. . 255 fulva, Planch. . . 461 pectinata, Endi. . . 449 | Galega gigantea, Lindl. . . 466 | Eriosema . “+ . + - 267 tricolor, Hook. . + 7 glanduligera, Lehm. . 457 | chinense, Voy. . . 268 | Gastrolobium. > - » 96 gracilis, Hook. f. . 465 | Ervum acutum, Benth. . . 24 heterophylla, Lind/,. 469 hirsutum, Lian. . . 241 axillare, Meissn.. . 23 Huegelii, Ezdi. . . 467 | Erythrina . . . « 252 bidens, Meissn. . +. 106 humilis, Planch.. . 464 biloba, F. Muell.. . 253 bilobum, R. Br. . . 107 indica, Linn. . . . 456 indica, Lam. . . . 253 Brownii, Meissn. +. 99 intricata, Planch. . 468 vespertilio, Benth. . 253 Callistachys, Meissn, 105 leucoblasta, Benth. . 458 | Erythrophleum . . . 877 calycinum, Benth. . 104 * Loureiri, Hook. . . 460 Laboucherii, F. Muell. 297 cordatum, Benth. . 21 lunata, Ham. . . 465 Euchilus corymbosum, Turez. . 107 macrantha, Endi. . 468 calycinus, Turcz.. . 121 crassifolium, Benth. . 105 macrophylla, Lindl. . 463 | — erinipodus, F. Muell. 121 crenulatum, Vurez. - 98 Menziesii, R. Br. . 468 cuspidatus, F. Muell. 122 cuneatum, Henfr. < 106 micrantha, Lehm. . 459| linearis, Benth. . . 68 Drummondii, Meissn. 104 microphylla, Endl, . 467 obcordatus, R. Br. . 121 emarginatum, Turez. 106 minutiflora, Planch. 459 | purpureus, Turcz. . 119 | epacridioides, Meissn. 101 myriantha, Planch. . 466 | rotundifolius, Turez. 121 grandiflorum, F. Muell.103 Neesii, Lehm. ` . . 466 | _ spinulosus, Turez, . 122| hamulosum, Meissn.. 106 nitidula, Planeh. . 458 | Eucryphia . 446| Hookeri, Meissn. + 99 paleacea, DC. . .458| Billardieri, Spach . 446 | Huegelii, Henfr. « 122 pallida, Lindi. . . 467 Milligani, Hook. f. . 447 ilicifolium, Metssn. - 101 parvula, Planek.. . 459 Moorei, F. Muell. . 447 Lehmanni, Meissn. - 98 pedata, Pers.. . . 461 | Entaxia . . 142| lineare, Meissn. . - 105 peltata, Sm. . . . 465| Baxter, Knowl.. | 143| microcarpum, Meissn. 104 penicillaris, Benth. . 467 cuneata, Meissn.. . 143 obovatum, Benth. . 101 penduliflora, Planch. 464 densifolia, Zurez.. . 145 ovalifolium, Henfr. - 102 petiolaris, R. Br. . 460 diffusa, F. Muell. . 146 oxylobioides, Benth. 104 etiolaris, Sieb. . . 465 dillwynioides, Meissn. 145 parvifolium, Benth. . 106 lanchoni, Hook. f. 468 divaricata, Turez. . 151 plicatum, Turcz. . - 100 platystigma, Lehm. . 457 | empetrifolia, Schlecht. 145 polycephalum, Turez. 98 porrecta, Lehm. . . 464| epacridioides, Meissn. 144 polystachyum, Meissn. 102 primulacea, Schlotth. 463 | ericoides, Meissn. . 144 | — Preissit, Meissn.. - 103 pulchella, Lehm.. . 458 leptophylla, Turez. . 146 pulchellum, Zurez. + 98. purpurascens, Sehlott. 464 myrtifolia, R. Br. . 144 pyenostachyum, Bnth. 103 pygmea, DC.. . . 457 obovata, Turez. . . 145 pyramidale, 7. Moore pygmea, Lebm. . . 459 parvifolia, Benth. . 145 reticulatum, Benth. + ramellosa, Lem. . 464| patula, F. Muell. . 152| retusum, Lindl. . - 22 rosulata, Lehm. . . 462| punctata, Turcz.. . 99 rotundifolium, Meissn. 104 rosulata, Behr. . . 463 pungens, Sweet . . 151 spathulatum, Benth. 100 scorpioides, Planch... 460 | reticulata, Meissn. . 99 spinosum, Benth. . 103 serpens, Planch. . . 456 sparsifolia, F. Muell. 152 stenophyllum, Purcz. 105 spathulata, Labill. . 459 Strangeana, Turcz. . 143 stipulare, Meissn. squ-mosa, Benth. . 463 | uncinata, Turez.. . 152, tricuspidatum, Meissn. 100. 3 INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. Page ~ trilobum, Benth. . 101 | . truncatum, Benth: . 99 velutinum, Lindi. . 106 verticillatum, Meissn. 102 villosum, Benth. . ‘ Geissois . . <. . 445 rubifolia, E. Muell, . 445 Geum ; . 427 renifolium, F, Muell. 428 = urbanum, Linn. . . 428 - Glischrocaryon E Boei, Endl. > e- «472 Glycine . 242 bimaculata, Curt. . 246 clandestina, Wendl. . 243 coccinea, Curt. . 250 ` Compteniana, Andr. . 247 falcata, Benth. . 243 Latrobeana, Benth. . 244 minima, Willd. . 244 rubicunda, Curt.. . 249 sericea, Benth. . 245 -— tabacina, Benth. . . 244 tomentosa, Benth. . 245 Glycyrrhiza . . «> 224 = _ psoralioides, Benth. . 225 Gompbolobium . . + 40 aciculare, Reichb. . . 47 - amplexicaule, Meissn. 42 = aristatum, Benth. 46 45 barbigerum, DC. 43 Baxteri, Benth 46 bartonioides, Meissn. 46 capitatum, 4. Cuna: 47 Drummondii, Meissn. 46 ellipticum, Labill. 17 Jimbriatum, Sm. + 43 Joliolosum, Benth 51 Jurcellatum, Bonpl.. 57 glabratum, DC. . 48 glaucescens, A. Cunn. 45 grandiflorum, Sm. 44 grandiflorum, Andr. 44 Hendersonii, Paxt.. 51 heterophyllum; A.Cunn. 49 Huegelii, Benth. . 43 Knightianum, Lindl: 49 lanatum, A. Cunn. . 47 latifolium, Sm. 42 latifolium, Labill. + 43 maculatum, Andr. 45 marginatum, R. Br. . 44 Minus, Sm. . 45 nitidum, Soland.. . 48 oþcordatum, Zurcz. . 44 42 ovatum, Meissn. . + . 102 | “ Page pedunculare, DC. . 44 pedunculare, Lodd. . 43 pinnatum, Sm. . . 48 polymorphum, R. Br. 43 polymorphum, Sieb. . 48 polyzygum, F. Muell. 51 Preissii, Meissn. . 47 psoraleefolium, Salisb. 43 scabrum, Sm... 52 setifolium, Sieb. . . 45 Shuttleworthii, Meissn. 49 spinosum, Labill.. .. 56 stenophyllum, F. Muell. 50 subulatum, Benth, . 50 tenue, Lindl. . 44 tetrathecoides, Sieb. 45 tomentosum, Labill.. 47 uncinatum, A: Cunn. 46 venulosum, Lindl. 44 venustum, R. Br. 49 versicolor, Lindl. . 44 virgatum, Sieb. . : 43 viscidulum, Meissn. . 48 Goniocarpus oe cordiger, Nees 476 micranthus, Thunb. . 482 microcarpus, Thieb:. 482 mucronatus, Nees 476 modulosus, Nees : 481 pithyoides, Nees. . 476 salsoloides; Reichb. . 485 scaber, Kæri.. . . 484 serpyllifolius, Hk. £. 485 tenellus, DC. . . . 484 tetragynus, Labill. . 484 tetragynus, Nees. . 485 teue.t ides, DC. . 484 trifidus, Nees. -~ 475 vernicosus, Hook. fı 485 Goodiñ is o 16 lotifolia, Salisb. . . 177 medicaginea, Y. Mu 177 polysperma, DEA TT pubescens, Sims. 177 retusa, Mackay > + 177 simplicifolia, Spreng. 175 subpubescens, Sweet . 177 Grymania 427 salicifolia, Presl . Guilandina . +. + Bonducella, Linn. + A . Gunnera jae te cordifolia, Hook.f. - Gyrocarpus - - acuminatus, Meissn. americanus, Jacq. . asiaticus, Willd. : 515 s Page Jacquini, Roxb. . . 505 rugosus, R. Br. . . 506 sphenopterus, R. Br. 506 Haloragis. . +. + -473 acanthocarpa, Brongn. 483 aculeolata, Benth. . 477 acutangula, F. Muell. 478 alata, Jacq. . 479 aspera, Lindl. . . 478 ceratophylla, Endl. . 478 cordigera, Fenzl . . 476 cyathiflora, Fenzl. . 475 depressa, Walp. . . 485 digyna, Labill. . 475 elata; A. Cunn. . . 476 elata, Hook. f. . 484 filiformis, A. Gray + 483 foliosa, Benth. . 417 glauca, Lindi. . 479 gonocarpus, Spreng. 484 Gunnii, Hook. f. . 484 heterophylla, Brongn. 483 hexandra, F. Muell. . te 4 intricata, Benth. . lanceolata, R. Br. . 482 leptotheca, F. Muell. 484 micrantha; R. Br. . 482 montana, Houk. f. . 485 mueronata, Benth. . 475 nodulosa, Walp, - - 481 odontocarpa, F. Muell. 479 paniculata, R. Br. + 481 pinnatifida, A. Gray - 483 pinnatifida, Hook. f. 478 pithyoides, Benth. . 476 platycarpa; Benth. . 478 pusilla, R: Br. > » 481 racemosa, Labill; . 480 rotundifolia, Benth: . 480 rodis, Benth. . + - 480 salsoloides, Benth, + 485 scabra; Benth. . 484 scoparia, Fentl 477 scordioides, Benth. + 485 serpyllifolia, Walp. 485 serra, Brongn. . 479 stricta, R. Br. ¿ 482 tenella; Brongn. . « 482 tenuifolia, Benth: 477 tetragyna, Hook: f. 484 teucrioides, A. Gray 484 trichostachya, Benth. pe trifida, Walp. . vernicosa, Walp. . + 485 ‘Hardenbergia. . . + 246 Comptoniana, Benth. 247 516 INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. Page cordata, Benth. . . 246 : digitata, Lindl. . . 247 Page haplophylla, F.Muel?, 196 reticulata, DC. hirsuta, Linn. . . 198 scoparia, R. Br. . . 59. Huegelii, Benth... 247 lasiantha, F. Muell.. 201 sericea, Benth. . . 58 Lindleyi, Meissn. . 247 Leschenaultii, DC. . 197 spinosa, R. Br. . . 56 : Makoyana, Lemaire 247 linifolia, Retz. . . 195 Sternbergiana, Hueg. 58 monophylla, Benth. . 246 | monophylla, DOs 109 stricta, Meissn. . . 56 © ovata, Benth.. . . 246 oxycarpa, Y. Muell. . 198 thesioides, 4. Cunn.. 59 retusa, Benth . + 247| parviflora, Heyne . 197 | — ulicina, Meissn. . - 57 Hedysarum pratensis, F. Muell.. 198 | umbellata, Turcz. — - 61 rugosum, Willd. . : 240| rugosa, Benth. . 199 velutina, Benth. . . 60 tuberculosum, Labill. 235 saxicola, F. Muell. . 199 vernicosa, F. Muell.. 58 varians, Labill. . 233 sylvatica, Sieb. + . 200 viminalis, A. Cunn.. 38 Hovea. . 171 timoriensis, DC. . .197|Jansonia . . ~ - + 8 acanthoclada, Muell. 174 trifoliata, Linn. . 197 formosa, Kipp. + - 8 acutifolia, A. Cuan. . 174 trita, Linn. f.. 197 apiculata, A. Cunn. . 173 viscosa, Dam. . 198 | Kaleniczenkia Beckeri, F. Muell. . 173 | Inga daviesioides, Turcz.. 14 Celsi, Bonpl. . . . 175 | monilifera, DC. . . 424 | Kennedya . . 247 chorizemifolia, DC. . 174 | Isotropis . . . . 38| arenaria, Hueg. . - 250 crispa, Lindl. . . > 176 atropurpurea, F. Muell. 40 Baumanni, Meissu. . 249 elliptica, DO.. . . 175 | 5iloba, Benth. . . 39| - bracteata, Gaud.. . 250 elliptica, Meissn... . 176 Drummondii, Meissn. 39 coccinea, Vent. . . 250 heterophylla, A. Cunn. ilicifolia, A. Cunn. 172 . 175 filicaulis, Benth... . 40 juncea, Turez.. . . 39 Comptoniana, Link. . 247 cordata, Lindl. lanceolata, Sims. . 173 parviflora, Benth. . 40 dilatata, A. Cunn: - 251 lanigera, Lodd. . .178| striata; Benth. . +. 39} eximia, Lindl. 250 latifolia, Lodd. . . 175 | Wheeleri, F. Muell.. 40| glabrata, Lindl. . . 252 leiocarpa, Benth. . 174 heterophylla, Mackay 251 linearis, E. Bro + -172 | Jacksonian. . .. . -82| — inophylla, Lindl... 251 longifolia, R. Br. . 172| alata, Benth. . . 61 lateritia, F; Muell: . 252 longipes, Benth. . . 174 angulata, Benth.. . 62 longiracemosa, Lodd. 246 -Manglesii, Lindl. . mucronata, A. Cunn. pannosa, A. Cunù. 176 173 . 173 capitata, Meissn.. . 61 capitata, Benth. . . 61 carduacea, Meissn, . 55. macrophylla, Benth. 252 parr Lindl. . 247 Marryatte, Lindl. + 250 pungens, Benth. . . 176 | compressa, Turez. . 59| microphylla, Meissn. 251 purpurea, Lodd. . . 173 cupulifera, Meissn, . 60 monophylla, Vent. - purpurea, Sweet . . 173 | densiflora, Benth. . 54 nigricans, Lindl.. - 249 racemulosa, Benth, . 173 dilatata, Benth. . , 54 ovata, Sims . +. + 246 ramulosa, A. Cunn. . 173 dumosa, Meissn. . . 57 arviflora, Meissn. + 251 rosmarinifolia, A.Cun. splendens, Paxt. . . stricta, Meissn. . . 173 176 176 fasciculata, Meissn. . 57 floribunda, Endi.. . 55 floribunda, Meissn. . 55 P haseolifolia, Hoffm. 249 physolobioides, Walp. 252 procurrens, Benth. - 249 trisperma, Benth. .175| foliosa; Zurcz.. . . 56| prostrata, R. Br.. - 250 ulicina, Meissn. . . 176 furcellata, DC, . . 57 rubicunda, Fent.» - 249 villosa, Lindl.. . . 173| gracilis, Meissn.. . 58 splendens, Meissn. - 249 4 .| grevilleoides, Turez. 55 stipularis, Desv. - > 250 Indigofera . . . : 194 | hakeoides, Meissen. . 57| Stirlingii, Lindi.. - 252 acanthocarpa, Lindl, 22 | horrida, DC... . 57| tabacina, Labill. < 245 angulata, Lindl. . . 200 | juncea, Turez. . . 61 australis, Wild, << 190 VS Loiano, Moto. 60,68. | Labiohos «5 00 0° + Be brevidens, Benth. . 200| macrocalyx, Meissn.. 62| bipunctata, Paxt. 293 cordifolia, Heyne + 196| macrocarpa, Benth.. 59| cassioides, Gaud.. - 292 coronilleefolia, 4. Cunn. 201 odontociada, F. Muell. 55 digitata, Benth. - + 293 deflexa, Hochst. . . 198 piptomeris, Benth. . 62 | diversifolia, Meissn. enneaphylla, Linn. . 196 | - racemosa, Meissn. . 60| lanceolata, Benth. . 293 ervoides, Meissn.. . 200 ramosissima, Benth.. 56 nitida, Benth.. +. > f Willd. . 196° restioides, Meissn. . 60| punctata, Benth. > . 294 INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. Page rupestris, Benth.. . 293 : tephrosiafolia, Meissn. 293 _ Laboucheria = chlorostachys, Muell. 297 — Lalage acuminata, Meissn. . 159 angustifolia, Meissn. 158 — hoveefolia, Benth. . 158 ornata, Lindl. . . 158 stipularis, Meissn. . 159 Lamprolobium 202 fruticosum, Benth. . 202 Latrobea . . . . . 140 Brunonis, Meissn. . 141 = diosmifolia, Benth. . 142 = genistoides, Meissn. . 141 —hirtella, Benth. . 142 pungens, Benth. . . 140 tenella, Beath. . 141 Leptocyamus clandestinus, Benth. 244 latifolius, Benth. 245 sericeus, F. Muell. . 245 = Tasmanicus, Benth. . 244 _ Leptocytisus hirtellus, Turez. . . 142 tenellus, Meissn. . 142 Leptolobium clandestinum, Benth. 244 elongatum, Bentb. microphyllum, Beuth. tabacinum, Benth. tomentosum, Benth. . Leptosema ; bossiæoides, Benth. . 12 Chambersii, F. Muell. 18 ` oxylobioides, F. Muell. 12 Lespedeza . . «240 cuneata, Don. . . 240 juncea, DC. . . . 241 lanata, Benth, . : 241 iparia badocana, Blanco . 190 Lonchocarpus . . 271 - Blackii, Benth. 8A Moba o a e A albidus, Lodd. . 188 australis, Andr. . . 188 coccineus, Schlecht. . 189 corniculatus, Linn. . 188 levigatus, Benth. . 188 _ tetragonolobus, Linn. 188 Loudonia . goa ett flavescens, J. Drumm. 472 aurea, Lindl. í . 472 Behrii, Schlecht.. . 472 | citrina, Y. Muell. . 472 Page Roei, Schlecht. . 472 e E E DOS obcordata, Desv. . . 238 reniformis, DU. . . 238 Lumnitzera ee arbos coccinea, W. and Arn. 503 montana, F. Muell. . 504 racemosa, Willd.. . 504 Macrostigma australe, Hook. . . 427 Macropteranthes . 504 Kekwickii, F. Muell. 504 505 504 Leichhardtii, Muell.. montana, F. Muell. . Medicago denticulata, Willd. . 186 lupulina, Linn. . - 186 sativa, Linn. . . 186 Meionectes . . . . 486 Brownii, Hook. f. . 486 Preissii, Nees . + 486 Meladenia densiflora, Turez. + 190 Melilotus parviflora, Desf. . . 186 Mezoneurum . ese Y E brachycarpum, Benth. 278 Millettia «+. . 211 Blackii, F. Muell. . 272 megasperma, F.Muell.211 Milligania cordifolia, Hook. f. . 491 Mimosa binervis, Wendl. . botrycephala, Vent. . cochlearis, Labill. . 824 decipiens, Keen. . + 351 decurrens, Wendl. . 415 discolor, Andr. 414 distachya, Vent. - -~ 422 dodoneifolia, Pers. . 359 elegans, Andi. .- 422 bunda; Vent... = 398 hispidula, Smee 355 juniperina, Vent. - 832 linearis, Wendl. + + 371 linifolia, Vent. - 371 longifolia, Andr.. + 398 myrtifolia, Sme e 376 nigricans, Labill.. + 418 obligua, Lam... 369 obliqua, Pers... a: - 319 obligua, Wendl. . - 361 } , Wendl. . 414 517 Page . 422 . 416 . 364 . 298 . 398 procera, Roxb. . pubescens, Vent. . saligna, Labill. . scandens, Linn. . Sophore, Labill. stricta, Andr. . . 359 suaveolens, Sm. . . 369 ulicifolia, Salisb.. . 332 ulicina, Wendl. . . 332 verticillata, L'Hér. . 334 Mirbelia . . . . . 82 angustifolia, Grah. . aotoides, F. Muell. . aphylla, F. Muell. . aspera, Turez, . + Baxteri, Lindl. . daviesioides, Benth. . dilatata, R. Br. . . floribunda, Benth. . 36 grandiflora, Ait. . Meissneri, Hook. - microphylla, Benth. . multicaulis, Benth. . ovata, Meissn. . - oxyclada, F. Muell. . oxylobioides, F. Muell. pulchella, Meissn. pungens, 4. Cunn. . racemosa, Zurcz. . reticulata, Sm. - rubiæfolia, G. Don + speciosa, Sieb. . + ciosa, Sweet ; spinosa, Benth. . + subcordata, Zurcz. . Mucuna . pis po gigantea, DC.. . + © yriophyllum . + + 486 amphibium, Zabill. . 489 dicoccum, F. Muell. 489 Drummondii, Benth. 490 elatinoides, Gaud. + 487 filiforme, Benth. . . 489 gracile, Benth. . + 489 integrifolium, Hook. f. latifolium, F. Muell. 488 Muelleri, Sond. . . 488 pedunculatum,Hook.7.489 trachycarpum, Muel/. 489 varieefolium, Hook. f- = verrucosum, L2? Nematophyllum Hookeri, Y. Muell. . 170 Neptunia . + - + 30 518 Page spicata, F. Muell. . 299 Neurocarpum, Desv. . 242 Nicolsonia, DC. . . 229 Nomismia, W. and Arn. 265 Ononis Natrix, Linn. . . 186 Ormocarpum . . 225 oblongum, Desv.. . 231 —sennoides, DC. . . 226 Orthotropis pungens, Benth. . . 31 Orycladium semiseptatum, F. Muell. 38 Oxylobium . . . . 14 aciculiferum, Benth.. 25 acutum, Benth. . +. 24 alpestre, F. Muell. . 17 angustifolium, A.Cunn. 17 arborescens, R. Br. . 17 argenteum, Kunze . 17 atropurpureum, Turez. 22 batillum, Hook. . . 102 Callistachys, Benth. . 16 capitatum, Benth. . 23 carinatum, Benth. . 18 cordifolium, Andr. « 19 cuneatum, Benth . 23 dilatatum, Benth. . 24 Drummondii, Meissu. 24 ellipticum, R. Br. . 16 genistoides, Meissn.. 30 hamulosum, Benth. . 20 heterophyllum, Benth. 25 lineare, Benth. . . 17 microphyllum, Benth. 19 nervosum, Meissu. . 23 obovatum, Benth. . 24 obtusifolium, Sweet . 18 ovalifolium, Lindl. did- Partiene cai 98 ovalifolium, Meissn.. 22 parviflorum, Benth.. 24 procumbens, F. Muell. 20 Pulteneæ, DC. . . 19 Pultenee, Lodd. . 17 reticulatum, Meissn. 23 retusum, R. Br.. . 22 scandens, Benth.. . 20 sericeum, Benth.. . 11 spathulatum, Benth. 18 spectabile, Endl.. . 21 spinosum, DC. . . 122 staurophyllum, Benth. 26 tricuspidatum, Meissn. 21 trilobatum, Benth. . 25 virgatum, Hort.Kew. 22 Page Parinarium . +. . . 426 Griffithianum, Benth. 426 Nonda, F. Muell. . 425 Pelonastes integrifolia, Hook. f. 490 tuberculata, Hook. f. 490 Peltophorum . . 279 ferrugineum, Benth. . 279 Pentadynamis . 185 incana, R. Br. . 185 Petalostyles . . 291 labichoides, R. Br. . 292 Petrocarya, Jack. . 426 Phanera Blancoi, Benth. . . 296 Cunninghamii, Benth. 295 Phaseolus . . 256 Maz, Linn. . 258 Mungo, Linn. . . 257 radiatus, Roxb. . ,. 258 rostratus, Wall. . . 257 Roxburgh, W. and AS naa O trinervius, Heyne . 258 truxillensis, H. B.K: 257 verillatus, Linn. . . 259 vulgaris, Linn. . 257 Phyllodiúm pulchellum, Desv. -~ 231 A AS 98 asperi a; Benth. acu DD: barbata, Benth. . . 94 Baueri, Benth. . . 95 Biliardieri, Benth. . 95 comosa, Benth. . . 95 diffusa, F. Muell. gracilis, Turcz. . + 94 grandiflora, Benth. . 95 humifusa, A. Cunn.. 95 phylitoides, Benth. . 95 pilosa, Benth. . . 95 pleúrandroides, Muell. 96 squarrosa; Benth. . 95 Sturtii, Benth. . . 95 villosa, Turct. . . 94 Physolobium carinatum, Benth. . 251 elatum, Hueg. . + 252 macrophyllum, Meissn. 252 Stirlingii, Benth. . 252 Piptomerts : aphylla, Turez. . . 62 Pithecolobium . . -. 423 grandiflorum, Benth. 424 Junghuhnianum, Bth. 424 moniliferum, Benth. 424 pruinosum, Benth. . 423 INDEX OF GENER AND SPECIES. Page Plagiolobium chdrizemifolium, Sw. 175 ilicifolium, Sweet . 175 Platychilum Celsianum, Delaun. . 175 Platylobium +. . +. +» 152 formosum, Sm. . 153 lanceolatum, Andr. . 165 macrocalyx, Meissn. 153 microphyllum, Sims . 165 Murrayanum, Hook. 153 165 153 obcordatum, Vent. . obtusangulum, Hook. ovatum, Andr. . 165 ovatum, Sieb. . . 154 parviflorum, Sm... 154 reticulatum, Sieb. . 34 scolopendrium, Veut. 167 spinosum, Turcz.. - 159 triangulare, R. Br. . 152 triangulare, Sims + 153 Platyptelea clematidea, J. Drum. 441 Plectrotropis, Schum. + 258 Pleurandra : reticulata, Hook. +. 17 Podolobium aciculare, DC. . + 31 aciculiferum, Y. Muell. 25 goriaceum: DO o. 23 08 humifusum, Don. - 20 obovatum, A. Gray . 20 scandens, DC. + >» 20 sericeum, DC. «+ + 11 staurophyllum, DC. . 26 trilobatum, R. Br. + 25 Poiretia , . elliptica, Sm. . 175 linearis, Sm. . . 172 . 438 Polyosma . + +. + Cunninghamii, Benn. 438 Pongamia . ae glubra, Vent. . 273 uliginosa, DC. 273 Potentilla . , 429 anserina, Linn. 429 Poterium Sanguisorba, Linn. - Psoralea . - + °° 189 acanthocarpa, Muell. 225 adscendens, F. Muell. 193 Archeri, F. Muell. . 190 australasica, Schlecht. 192 badocana, Benth. » 1 balsamica, F. Muell. 191 cephalantha, Y. Muell. 190 cinerea, Lindl. > > 192 INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. | Page Drummondii, Meissn. 192 eriantha, Benth.. . 192 Gunnii, Hook.f. . 194 _ lachnostachys, Muell. 191 Leichhardtii, Muell. 196 leucantha, F. Muell. . 193 parva, F. Muell.. . 194 patens, Lindi. . 192 plumosa, F. Muell. . 191 pustulata, F. Muell. . 191 E tenar, Lindl. . . «19 = Pterolobium . . 278 = nitens, F. Muell. . 279 = Ptychosema . r ES = pusillum, Benth... 201 Pultenza . 07 acerosa, R. Br. . . 131 aciphylla, Benth. . 119 adunea, Zurez. . . 130 altissima, F. Muell. . 123 amina, Sieb.. , . 113 argentea, A, Cunn. . 126 aristata, Sied. . < 126 aspalathoides, Meissn. 120 aspera, Sieb. . + + 95 beckeoides, A. Cunn. 116 Benthamii, F. Muell. 113 biloba, R. Br. . - 117 brachyphylla, Turez. 129 bracteata, Schrad. . 113 Brunonis, Benth. . 141 calycina, Benth. . . 121 canalienlata, F. Muell. 139 candida, Lodd. . . 139 canescens, A. Cunn. . 126 capitellata, Sieb. . 113 comosa, Sieb.. . - 95 conferta, Benth. . . 118 cordata, Grah. . . 131 cordifolia, Benth. . 131 crassifolia, Lodd. . 112 cuneata, Benth. . . 117 _ daphnoides, Wendl. , 112 , deltoidea, Sey. 317 densifolia, F. Muell. . 136 dentata, Labill. . . 125 -— diemenica, Turez. . 118 diffusa, Hook. f.. + 119 Drummondii, Meissn. 117 echinata, Spr. . . 127 echinula, Sieb. . . 127 elliptica, Sm. . . + 136 empetrifolia, Meissn. 129 epacridea, F. Muell. . 123 . 129 Page euchila, DC. . . - 135 fasciculata, Benth. . 139 ferruginea, Rudge . 134 filifolia, Y. Muell. . 140 flexilis, Sm. . 135 foliolosa, 4. Cunn. . 135 fuscata, F. Muell. . 133 genistoides, Meissn. . 141 glabra, Benth. . 125 glaucescens, Sieb. . ] 13 Gunnii, Benth. FITO hibbertioides, Hook.f. 127 hispidula, R. Br. . 133 humilis, Benth. . . 131 hypolampra, Sieb. . 137 ilicifolia, Andr. . . 25 incarnata, Mackay . 112 incurvata, 4. Cunn. . 124 involucrata, Benth. . 138 , juncea, Willd. . . 68 juniperina, Labill. - 131 lanata, A. Cunn. . 134 lanata, Sieb. . . . 135 largiflorens, F. Muell. 134 lara, Kunze . Bairi laxiflora, Benth. . . 133 linophylla, Schrad. . 113 mycrophylla, Sied. - 117 mollis, Lindl. 178 montana, Lindl. . < 117 mucronata, F. Muell. 114 mucronata, Lodd. . 115 Muelleri, Benth. . . 138 myrtoides, 4. Cuna, 114 mana, Andr. . . > 28 neurocalyx, Zurez. . 130 obcordata, Benth. . 120 obcordata, Andr.. + 112 obovata, Benth. . + 123 ochreata; Meissn. . 120 oxalidifolia, A. Cunn. 122 | THS Wi poaa . 182 phylicoides, Sieb. . 98 imeleoides, H pinifolia, Meissn. plumosa, ied. lifolia, 4. E g = lygalifolia, ge a pari sakes A. Cunn. ed 18 prostrata, Benth. . . 125 protevides, Sieb. . psoraleoides, Sieb. . 125 pteronioides, = . 128 pycnocephala, Muell. 114 Pycnospora . . . 519 Page racemulosa, Sieb. . 135 reticulata, Benth. . 119 retorta, Wendl. . . 148 retusa, Sm. . "110 rigida, R. Br. . . 130 rosea, F. Muell. . . 128 rosmarinifolia, Find), 115 rosmarinifolia, Lindl. 115 rosmarinifolia, Sieb. 91 rotundifolia, Benth. . 121 rubiefolia, Andr. . 35 scabra, R. Br. 116 selaginoides, Hook. f. 136 setigera, A. Cunn. . 133 setulosa, Benth. . + 132 spinulosa, Benth.. . 121 squarrosa, Sieb. . . 95 staphyleoides, Don . 122 stenophylla, A. Cunn. 117 stipularis, Sm. . + 125 stricta, Sims . . + 112 strobilifera, Meissn. . 128 styphelioides, 4. Cunn. 122 subspicata, Benth. . 137 subumbellata, Hook. . 124 Sweetii, Don. . . 135 sylvatica, Sieb. . . 19 tenella, Benth. . . 122 tenuifolia, R. Br. . 139 ternata, F. Muel/. . 122 thymifolia, Sieb. . . 137 tuberculata, Pers. . 137 uncinata, A. Cunn. . 117 urodon, Benth. . . 124 verruculosa, Zurez. . 129 verticillata, Turcz. . 130 vestita, R.Br. . . 132 villifera, Sieb. . . 137 villosa, Willd. . . 134 villosa, Andr.. . . 91 virgata, Sieb.. . . 91 viscosa, R. Br. . . 127 hedysaroides, R. Br. . 236 nervosa, W. and Arn. 23 Pyrrhotrichia tuberosa, W. and Arn. 268 Quintinia . . . + - 487 Sieberi, A. DC. . . 438 Verdonii, F. Muell. . 438 Rafria retusa, Vent. . . . 169 Rhizophora. . . - 493 mucronata, Lam.. . 493 Timoriensis, DC.. . 494 520 -Page Rhynchosia . . +. . 265 acutifolia, F. Muell. 266 australis, Benth.. . 267 Cunninghamii, Benth, 266 ervoidea, DC. . . 267 laxiflora, Camb.. . 267 medicaginea, DC. . 267 minima; DC... .. . 267 nuda, DC. . Ol punctata, DC. . . 267 rhombifolia, DC. : 267 rhomboidea, F. Muell. 265 rostrata, Benth. . . 266 scarabæoides, DC. : 263 virgata, Hamilt.. . 268 Roea linophylla, Hueg. 64 nudiflora, Meissn. 64 Rosa _ rubiginosa, Linn. . 432 E SE eS UE S _ trifoliata, Pers. . . 185 E A a eglanteria, Tratt. . 431 Gunnianus, Hook. . 430 Hilli, F. Muell.. . 430 macropodus, Ser. . 431 moluccanus, Zinn. . 430 Moorei, F. Muell. . 431 parvifolius; Linn, . 430 ribesifolius, Sieb. . 431 roseefolius, Sm. , . 431 Zahlbrucknerianus, Endl. . "0 lc 401 Schizomeria . . 442 ovata, D. Don . 443 Selerothamnus microphyllus, R. Br. 146 Scottea angustifolia, Lindl. . 157 dentata, R. Br. . . 156 < levis, Lindl. . . . 156 Scytalis anomala, Vog. 259 retusa, E. Mey. . . 259 Sesbania (=... . 218 aculeata, Pers. + 218 eegyptiaca, Pers.. . 212 australis, F. Muell; . 213 coccinea, Pers. . . 212 grandiflora, Pers. . 212 picta, Pers. . . , 218 simpliciuscula, Muell. 213 Sieversia, R. Br. . . 427 PS: capitata, Desv. . . 228 conferta, Sm.. . . sensitiva, B, W. & A. Sondera macrantha, Lehm. Preissii, Lehm. . eT eee Fraseri, Benth. . Juncea, Schrad. . 68 tomentosa, Linn. . 274 Spadostyles Benthamii, Endl, 132 concolor, Endl. . . 135 Cunninghamii, Benth. 122 Huegelii, Endl. . . 132 ramulosa, Endl. . 135 Siebert, Benth. 136 ternata, F, Muell. . 122 Spheridiophorum abyssinicum, Spach . 195 linifolium, Desv. . 195 Sphærolobium 63 acuminatum, Benth. 66 alatum, Benth. 65 crassirameum, Meissn. 67 daviesioides, Zurez. . Drummondii, Turcz. euchilus, Benth. . 67 Joliosum, F. Muell.. 64 fornicatum, Benth. . 66 gracile, Benth. . 64 grandiflorum, R. Br. 66 linophyllum, Bent.. 64 macrantham, Meissn. 67 medium, R. Br. . . 66 medium, Meissn, . 66 minus, Labill.. . 65 nudifloram, Benth. . 64 pulchellum, Meissn. . 67 racemulosum, Benth. 65 scabriusculum, Meissn. 66 stenopterum, Meissn. 65 vimineum, Sm. . . 65 Strophostyles, E. Mey. 258 Stylobasium . . . , 427 lineare, Nees. . . 427 spathulatum, Desf. . 427 Swainsona . . . 214 albiflora, G. Don. 217 brachycarpa, Benth. . 217 Burkei, F. Muell. . 218 Barkittii, F. Muell. 218 campylantha, Muell, 219 canescens, F, Muell, 221 coronillefolia, Salisb, 217 Drummondii, Benth. 220 Fraseri, Benth. . . 224 Froebelii, Regel . . 216 INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. Pago galegifolia, R. Br. . 217 gracilis, Benth. . . 220 grandiflora, R. Br. . 216 Greyana, Lindi, . . 216 laxa, R. Br. . 224 lessertiifolia, DC. . 222 luteola, F. Muell. . 223 microphylla, 4. Gray 223 monticola, A. Cunn. 223 occidentalis, F. Muell. 219 oligophylla, F. Muell. 219 oroboides, F. Muell. . 222 Osbornii, T. Moore . 217 parviflora, Benth. . 223 phacifolia, F. Muell. 221 phacoides, Benth. . 217 procumbens, F. Muell. 220 stipularis, F. Muell. 221 tephrotricha, F. Muell. 222 viciæfolia, F. Muell. 222 violacea, Henders. . 220 Tamarindus . . 294 indicus, Linn.. . ». 294 Templetonia . . 168 aculeata, Benth. . . 170 Drummondii, Benth. 169 egena, Benth. . 170 glauca, Sims . . 169 Hookeri, Benth.. . 170 Muelleri, Benth.. . 169 retusa, R. Br,. . n 109 sulcata, Benth. HE E Tephrosia. . . . -. 202 astragaloides, R. Br. 208 Baueri, Benth. . . 210 Bidwilli, Benth. . . 210 brachycarpa, F. Muell. 207 coriacea, Benth. . . 204 crocea, R. Br. . 205 eriocarpa, Benth. . 207 filipes, Benth. . 208 flammea, F. Muell. . 204 minifolia, F. Muell. 206 Pai R. Br. . . 208 leptoclada, Benth. . 207 macrocarpa, Benth, . 209 oblongata, R. Br. . 205 oligophylla, Benth. . 209 pheeosperma, F.Muell. 208 polyzyga, F. Muell. . 206 porrecta, R. Br. . . 206 purpurea, Pers. - + 209 remotiflora, F. Muell. 209 reticulata, R. Br. . 205 rosea, F, Muell. . + 211 simplicifolia, F.Muell. 206 > -l Pago Stuartii, Benth. . . 207 Teramnus i clandestinus, Spr. . 244 Terminalia . . 496 bursarina, F. Muell. 499 circumalata, F. Muell. 499 discolor, F. Muell. . 501 edulis, F. Muell.. . 501 erythrocarpa, Muell. 508 glabra, R. Br. . 501 grandiflora, Benth. , 503 latipes, Benth. . . 501 melanocarpa, F.Muel?. 500 - microcarpa, Dene. . 502 microcarpa, Y. Muell. 501 Muelleri, Benth. . . 500 oblongata, F. Muell. 499 petiolaris, 4. Cunn. . 502 platyphylla, F. Muell. 502 platyptera, F. Muell. 498 porphyrocarpa, Muell. 501 pterocarya, F. Muell. 500 Thozetii, Benth. . . 500 volucris, R. Br. . . 498 Tétracarpea . M5 Tasmanica, Hook. f. 445 Tetracheilos -— Meissneri, Lehm. -~ 336 leen 0. 06 adscendens, Nees . 451 colorata, Nees . 451 intricata, Nees . 452 macrantha, Hook. f. 452 minima, Miers . 451 _pedunculata, Sieb. . 451 purpurata, Hook.f. . 451 INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOUN Page recurva, Hook. f. . 452 verticillaris, DC.. . 451 verticillaris, Hook. . 452 Trifolium agrarium, Linn, . . 186 pratense, Zinn, . . 186 procumbens, Zinn. . 186 repens, Lina. . - 186 Trigonella Sia ROG suavissima, Lindl. . 187 Uns aoo eS 206 cercifolia, Desv. . . 238 cylindracea, Benth. . 237 lagopoides, DC. . . 237 picta, Desv. . . . 287 Urodon capitatus, Turez. . 125 dasyphyllus, Tarez. . 125 Vachellia 4 Farnesiana, W. & A. 420 Vicia _galegifolia, Andr. . 217 hirsuta, Koch. . 241 sativa, Linn. . . 241 Vigna os -208 anomala, Walp. . - 259 glabra, Savi . 260 hirta, Hook. . . 259 lanceolata, Benth. . 260 lutea, 4. Gray . 259 luteola, Benth. . 260 retusa, Walp.. . . 259 suberecta, Benth. . 260 tuberosa, A. Rich. . 259 orvon ~ JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, PRINTER, Pago vexillata, Benth. 258 villosa, Savi . 260 Viminaria. = . 68 denudata, Sm. 68 lateriflora, Link . 59 Preissiz, Meissn. . 68 Weinmannia . . 444 australis, A. Cunn. . 443 paniculata, F. 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