Oxylohium.'] XL. leguminos^. 



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Mag. t. 3249; GompJwIohlum elUpticum, Labill PI. Nov. HolL i. 10r3. t. 

 135; Callidachys elliptica. Vent. Jard, Malm, under n. 115; Chorizerda 

 eUipticum, P. Muell. PI. Vict. ii. 39 ; Pleurandra (?) reticulata, Hoolc. Journ, 

 ^ot. 1. 245 ; Oxylohimn argerdenm, Kunze, in Linnsea, xx. 61 : 0. PultenefS, 



Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1947, not of DC. 



N- S.Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Hastings nver, Fraser ; Clarence river, 

 /ieMer; Argjle couBty, J. Cunningham; Illawarra, Backhouse, 



Victoria. Sources of the Avon and Macalister rivers, F, Mueller. 



Tasmania. Derwent river, K Brown ; abundant in heathj places in the soutliern 

 part ot the island, ascending iu the mountains to 4000 ft,, /. D, Hooker, 



"W. Australia. East Eiver Flat, Stokes Inlet, Maxwell. This specimen (a small 

 young one), and a few mountain ones, both from Victoria and from Tasmania, are silky- 

 pubescent only on the young shoots and inflorescence, and come very near to 0, alpestre, 

 but the stipules arc very sraaU or quite inconspicuous, and the pod appears to be alwavs quite 

 glabrous and smooth inside. ' in . i 



Var. angusiifolium. Leaves long and narrow. I find no other character; the distance of 

 the bractcoles from the calyx is very variable.— 0. arhoresceus, R. Er. in Ait. Hort, Kew. 



^44:^ ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 81 ; 0, Pulteuea, Paxt. Mag. ix. 149, with a fig., not of ^C, ; 

 U. a7igusHfohtim, A. Cunn. Herb., erroneously referred in Ann. Wien. 3Ins. ii. 70, to 0. 

 obtusifohum, Sweet, a species.which I had then mistaken. N. S. Wales and northern parts 

 ot lasmama. Port Dalrymple, S. Brown. 



3. O. alpestre, i^. MuelL Trans, Phil List. Fid. i. 38. A busLy or 

 diftuse shrub, attaining sometimes 3 or 4 ft., the young shoots silky-pubes- 

 cent, at length nearly glabrous, much resembling the more glabrous varieties 

 or 0, ellipticum. Leaves mostly opposite, occasionally in whorls of 3, oblong 

 or lanceolate, obtuse or mucronate, f to H in- long, the margins recurved, 

 coriaceous, reticulate. Stipules narrow-lanceolate or linear-subulate, recurved, 

 small but conspicuous at the upper leaves, at length deciduous. Eacemes 

 shortly coiymbose, terminal or in the upper axils. Pedicels 1 to 3 lines long, 

 Bractcoles linear, deciduous. Calyx silky-pubescent, about 3 lines long, the 

 lobes acute, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Standard half as long 

 again as the calyx; wings and keel rather shorter. Ovary nearly sessile with 

 about 6 ovules. Pod ovoid-oblong, acuminate, very villous, opening to the 



^ase, lined with a loose pithv substance or scale-like hairs. Seeds not stro- 

 phiolate. 



Victoria. Cobberas Mountains, Macalister river, Mount Butler, Timbertop, etc., F, 

 Vm ^ ^^^ inclined to consider this as a variety of 0. enipdcumj but, as observed by 



^' ^lueller, the stijjules are much more conspicuous, and iu all the specimens I have seen 

 tile pods are slightly pithy inside. The whole plant is also usually much more glabrous. 



Series II. Eacemosj^;. — Leaves mostly alternate (more frequently verti- 

 culate in 0. oUnsifoUum). Eacemes terminal, loose. Ovules about 10 to 

 30. Seeds not strophiolate. 



4. O. lineare, Benth. An erect shrub of 6 to 10 ft., with long and 

 slender branches, minutely silky-pubescent when young. Leaves mostly alter- 

 nate, linear or linear-lanceolate, 2 to 6 in. long, obtuse or mucronate, flat or 

 ^ith the margins recurved, reticulate, glabrous or silky underneath when veiy 

 young. Flowers yellow or of a dull red, in rather loose terminal racemes or 

 sometimes in the upper axils. Pedicels very short. Bracts nan-ow, very de- 

 ciduous. Calyx 3^ to 4 lines long, silky-villous. Petals of 0. CallistachyH 



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