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rouudisli bracts ; calyces grey-velvety outside, tomeDtose at the base; 

 petals entire; style simple, short; stigma trilobed. 



Hab. In the desert scrub on the Murray Eiver. 



Allied to T. angudifolium (Reissek in PI. Preiss. ii- p. 284). 



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XV. LEGUMINOSiE. 



55. Ox^lohmm procumbens^^ F. Muell. {PodolobiumprocumhenSy Ferd, 

 Mueller, first gen. rep. p. 12] ; fruticulose, procumbent; leaves oppo- 

 site or rarely ternate, lanceolate or round-ovate, flat, entire, prickly 

 pointed, soon glabrous ; stipules setaceous^ reflexcd ; umbels terminal, 

 pedunculate, few-flowered, sometimes compound ; bracteoles, afl5xed to 

 the base of the calyx, long persistent; calyces scantily clothed with 

 short grey hair; germens silky; pods stalked, many-seeded. 



Hab. On wooded hills ; for instance, at Mount Disappointment, in the 

 Goulburn Eanges, on the Delatite, in the Black Forest, at Ballarat, etc. 



This plant and several allied species tend to show that the distinc- 

 tions drawn between the genera Chorizema^ PodoloUum, and Oxylobium 

 are merely artificiaL 



56. Oxylobium alpestre^ F. Muell.; fruticose, diflfuse or erect; leaves 

 ternate or opposite, oblong-lanceolate, entire, sharp-pointed, soon gla- 

 brous, on the margin recurved ; stipules linear-setaceous, reflexed; um- 

 bels terminal, pedunculate, few-flowered, sometimes compound ; brac- 

 teoles afRxed to the base of the calyx, deciduous; calyx short gi'cy- 

 hairy ; germens densely silky ; pods villose, short-stalked, few-seeded. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the higher parts of the Australian Alps. 



57. Burtonia subalpina^f F. Muell. ; twigs almost silky, soon glabres- 

 cent ; leaves crowded, undivided, filiform, channelled, awnless, smooth, 

 scabrous; stipules longer than the petiole; flowers sessile, terminal, 

 capitate; calyx and germen villose-silky ; corolla purple; style below 

 hardly broader. 



Hab. On the rocky summit of Mount William, at an elevation of 

 about 5000 feet. 



Not dissimilar to B. dmrncBfolia, from which it differs as well as from 

 all other Western Australian species of the genus, in producing stipules. 



The pod is yet unknown. 



58. Phyllota ;3&2<ra»iroiies, F. Muell. ; twigs pubescent ; leaves re- 



OxyJohium splnescens, DC. 



This is probably a species of Fulten^a. — Ed. 



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