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tibus, calycis labio supero lenissime emarginato semiorbiculari, 
labii inferi paulo longioris lobo medio cymbeo-ovato acutiusculo 
lobos laterales deltoideo-orbiculares paulo superante, vexillo eari- 
nam latam imberbem zquante alas superante, filamentis alte con- 
natis, pistillo glabro, germine plurigemmulato. 
á t arenosis ad rivum Culjong Australizw occidentalis. .A. Old- 
eld. : 
Fruticulus, e fragmentis suppetentibus, debilis, Rami indu- 
Inento cano appresso breviter vestiti. Stipule aculeiformes, cir- 
citer 2" longz, inferne appresso-puberule et parum compresse, 
superne glabrz et rufescentes, diu persistentes. Folia sepe un- 
eialia, nervo medio subtus prominulo supra vix in eonspeéctum 
veniente, subtus plus minus venosa. Bractez ad basin pedicel- 
lorum parve, amplexantes. Bracteole oppositz, l" longs, uni- 
nerves, apiculatz v. imperfecte mucronulatz, apice barbatz. Calyx 
glaber, circiter 22" longus, extus parcissime pilosulus ; lobi cilio- 
lati sstivatione imbriceati. Vexillum complicato-obcordatum, sti- 
patum, Als 3" longs, oblique ovato-cuneatz, lobo basali perbrevi 
obtuso, ungue 1" longo angusto. Carinz petala apicem versus 
connata; lamina vix 4" longa, semiorbiculari-cuneata, basi hinc 
iruncato-obtusa, ungue gracili vix 13" longo. Antherz oblongs, 
J" metientes. Pollen luteum. Stylus fere 4" longus, adscendens., 
Stigma minutum, depressum. Germen lineari-falceatum. Legumen 
incognitum. 
Stipularum mole a congeneribus longe diversa. 
Desmodium biarticulatum. 
Dicerma biartieulatum, Cand. Prodr. ii. 339; Wight & Arnott, Prodr. 230 ; 
Wight, Icon. ii. 419; Hedysarum biarticulatum, Linn. Spec. Plant. 1054. . 
Suffruticosum, multicaule, erectum vel decumbens, subappresso- 
pubescens, ramis teretiusculis, foliis trifoliolatis longiuscule petio- 
latis, stipulis in solitariam trifidam setaceo-laciniatam concretis, 
foliolis parum inzqualibus lanceolato- vel ovato-oblongis in basin 
sensim angustatis planis brevissime petiolulatis, stipellis lanceolato- 
subulatis perminutis, racemis terminalibus breviter peduneulatis 
pauci-plurifloris, pedicellis solitariis vel geminis braeteas 3 lanceo- 
lato-subulatas calycemque vix equantibus, calycibus basi bibraeteo- 
latis, leguminis articulis 1-3 rotundo-ovatis compressis sericeo- 
pilosis seminibusque minutis. n 
Ad ripam arenosam fluvii Nicholson, inde usque ad flumen 
Burdekin. ing zo e 
Suffrutex 2—3'. Petioli semiteretes, 3-6" longi. Stipulz petiolo 
opposite, 4" longs, ramo appresse. Stipelle petiolulo waren. 
Foliola 1—1" longa, 2-3" lata, utrinque parce pubescentia. tacemi 
florentes breves, tiferi ad 6" longi. Calyces 2' longi, minutim 
puberuli, labio superiore acute breviterque PUR inferiore 
