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The Legiiminosse (with the exception of Psoralea jnnnata, a 

 plant introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, and found also near 

 Sydney) have species of each genus in N. S. Wales, but not identical 

 with any in the west. Fhyllota barbata does not appear so 

 variable as our P. j)hyliGoides, and it is well distinguished by its 

 fringed style. Jacksonia horrida and J. spinosa differ very much 

 from our J. scojKtria (which is leafless and grows to be a small tree), 

 and they are rigid shrubs with angular and striate branches. In 

 the Flora 28 species are described, all, with one exception, western. 

 But since the publication of that work, the Baron has recorded 

 seven new ones in his Fragmenta, three of which occur in the 

 eastern part of Australia. Daviesia divaricata is a leafless plant 

 with sulcate spinescent branches. Of 55 species of Daviesia, only 

 13 occur in N. S. Wales. The specimen of Bossicea being only in 

 leaf is doubtful, but in that genus the species are more numerous 

 in the west than in the east, nor are any of them identical. Of 

 the large genus Acacia, numbering about 300 species, A. alata 

 and A. pidchella are remarkable, the one for its bifariously 

 decurrent phyllodia, and the other for its minute pinnate leaflets. 

 Both of these plants were collected by Brown and named by him . 

 Of the Acacise 122 occur in W, Australia, and less than 100 in 

 N.S.W. Yery few species are common to all the Australian 

 Colonies. 



The Proteaceso belong to eight genera, six of which extend to 

 the east, but the species are different. Petrophila riyida is similar 

 to some of ours, but more rigid in foliage. Gonospev'mwm flexuosum 

 is an under-shrub with divaricate angled branches, and unlike our 

 species in aspect. Persoonia longifolia and Grevillea Broiunii are 

 similar in character to some of the eastern species, but Hakea 

 trifurcata has two kinds of leaves varying very much in shape. 

 Of the three Banksias, B. gra^idis is distinguished by its large 

 pinnatifid leaves, B. coccinea is remarkable as being one of the 

 species flgured by F. Bauer, and B. Broivnii, Baxt., for its long, 

 narrow whorled leaves. Adenanthos cuneata and Franklandia 

 fucifolia belong to genera exclusively western, the one having 

 cuneate silky leaves, and the other terete ones repeatedly forked. 

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