44 AXJSTKALIAN PLANTS. 



on very stort petioles, bifarious, assurgent, coriaceous, nearly kidncy- 

 shaped, at the top awnless and divided into two very short lobes, their 

 marf^ins recurved, above scabrous, on both sides, vvith the exception of 

 middle rib, glabrous; stipules ovate- or lanceolate-subulate, long per- 

 sistent, at length reflexed, often of the length of the leaves; pedicels 

 short, axiUaiy, solitary, with rounded or ovate clliate bracteoles ; upper 

 lip of the somewhat silky calyx bifid, lower lip three-parted ; pod much 

 compressed, roundish -rhomboid, covered with rusty down, containing' 

 from one to three brown black-spotted seeds. 



Hab. In the Australian Alps, fiom the Mitta Mitta to the tribu- 

 taries of the Snowy Eiver, as well between rocks as along the peaty 



margins of the rivulets- 



This singular and beautiful plant never descends to regions lower 

 than 4000 feet; and being, at 5000, for many months during the year 

 covered with snow, it will, like the new previously-mentioned Burtonia, 

 and many other of our alpine plants, form an exquisite addition to the 

 garden Flora of colder countries. 



66. Psoralea parva, F. Muell. ; sparingly pilose; stems herbaceous, 

 procumbent, almost simple ; leaves trifoliolate, on long petioles ; leaf- 

 lets narrow-lanceolate or of the radical leaves elliptical, perfectly entire, 

 dotted, ending in a sharp point, the intermediate one larger; stipules 

 streaked, ovate-lanceolate, with a subulate apex; peduncles long; spike 

 at first capitate, but generally at length interruptedly extended; brac- 

 teoles roundish-cordate ; calyces somewhat silky, nearly sessile ; pods 

 slightly hairy. 



Hab. In dry pastures on the Thompson and Latrobe Rivers, and in 

 South Australia, on the Torrens and Gawler Eivers, on the Barossa 



Eanges, near Yillunga, etc. 



It differs from P. tenax in its always trifoliolate smaller and less 

 acute leaves, in sessile, less deeply divided calyces, in the form of the 

 longer persistent bracteoles, in the whitish or pink corolla^ and in the 

 pod, which is neither black nor smooth. 



67. Psoralea adscendens, F, Muell. ; smooth or sparingly pilose; 

 stems herbaceous, diffuse adscending, at the base procumbent ; leaves 

 trifoliolate, on long petioles ; leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, entire, 

 sharp pointed, dotted, the intermediate one larger ; stipules lanceolate- 

 subulate ; peduncles long, upwards as well as the calyces somewhat 

 hairy ; racemes dense, almost spicate, many-flowered, of the length of 



