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DODON^A HIRSUTA, n.sp. 



Jennings or Wallangarra (New South Wales-Queensland border, 

 and occurring in both States). (J. L. Boorman; October, 1901, 

 and July, 1904). 



Frutex erectus, ramosus, j-ljm. altus. Folia ramulique brevi- 

 bus patentibusque pilis dense vestita, et sine visciditate quae pro- 

 pria generis est. Folia conferta, cuneata vel fere triangularia, in 

 brevissimum petiolum angustata, apice lato truncato sed dis- 

 tincte 3-denticulato, 5-6 mm. longa, et apice fere asquilata, mar- 

 ginibus recurvatis. Flores axillares plerumque solitares in pedun- 

 culis gracilibus foliis leniter longioribus. Sepala lanceolata. Cap- 

 sulas grandiusculae, tota longitudine alatse, et utrinque a3que rotun- 

 datse, rubro-brunnea3, hirtulae. Flores masculos et semina matura 

 non vidimus. 



We described this plant in these Proceedings (xxvii., 57, 1902) 

 as a variety of D. peduncularis, but we have since come to the con- 

 clusion that the characters separating it from that species are too 

 marked and constant to maintain that view, and that it fully 

 deserves to stand as a distinct species. 



It is an erect bushy shrub, 2 to 6 feet high, the leaves and young 

 branches densely covered with short spreading hairs, and without a 

 trace of the viscidity so common in the genus. Leaves crowded, 

 cuneate, or almost triangular in outline, narrowed into a very short 

 petiole, and with a broad, truncate but deeply 3-toothed summit, 

 5-6 mm. long, and nearly as broad at the top, the margins recurved. 

 Flowers axillary, mostly solitary, on slender peduncles shortly 

 exceeding the leaves. Sepals lanceolate. Capsules rather large, 

 winged from the base to the top, and equally rounded at both ends, 

 of a reddish-brown colour, slightly hirsute, as well as the sepals 

 and peduncles. Flowers of both sexes, and ripe seeds not seen. 



LEGUMINOSJE. 



Crotalaria Mitchelli Benth., var. tomentosa Ewart. 



Thurlow Downs to Berrawinia Downs in the Paroo River dis- 

 trict, New South Wales (J. L. Boorman; October, 1912). 



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