Ox7/lobium.] XL. leguminos.'E. 21 



zome very thick and woody, emitting procumbent or ascending rigid stems.of 

 a to 1 ft,, pubescent when young. Leaves irregularly opposite or in threes, 

 ovate, with a fine pungent point, under 1 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, reticu- 

 late and glabrous when full grown, Flowers few, in short, loose, terminal, 

 pedunculate racemes, or in the upper axils. Bracts and bracteoles setaceous, 

 deciduous. Calyx about 4 lines long, slightly pubescent with appressed 

 hairs, the lobes about as long as the tube, all acuminate, the 2 upper ones 

 united above the middle. Standard ^ in. diameter; wings and keel sliorter. 

 Ovary nearly sessile, with 6 to 10, usually 8, ovules. Pod very shortly stlpi- 

 tate, oblong, obtuse, about ^ in. long. 



^; S. Wales. Maneroo, S. Mossman. 



"^^***"*- Delatite river. Mount Macedou, ranges on the Upper Genoa river, etc., F, 

 MueUer; ranges at Lexton, etc., Whan. F. Mueller now proposes to unite this with 0. 

 scandeyts, but it appears to me constantly distinct in habit and foliage, in its longer deeper- 

 coloured flowers, and, in the only fruiting specimen s5en, the pod is differently shaped. 



14, O. tricuspidatum, Memn. in PL Preiss, i. 30. A low diffuse or 

 procumbent glabrous shrub. Leaves mostly opposite, often crowded, obovate 

 or oblong-cuneate, truncate with 1 to 3 fine bristle-like or almost pungent 

 pomts, rarely above | in. long, thin but" rigid, reticulate. Flowers small and 

 few together in the upper axils or at the ends of the branches. Calyx 2 to 2~^- 

 hnes long, glabrous or nearly so, the lower lobes narrow-lanceolate longer 

 than the tube, the upper ones broader, falcate, and united above the middle, 

 all usually with fine bristle-like points. Petals scarcely half as long again as 

 the calyx. Ovary nearly sessile, with 6 to 10 ovules. Pod sessile, ovoid, ob- 

 tuse, slightly pubescent. Seeds not strophiolate. 



Ji^* Australia- Gravelly places, Hay district, Preiss, n. 1064, also Dnimmond, n. 

 *"0, J. S, Hoe, 



15. O. spectabile, IJndl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 2. Rigifl, glabrous and 

 glaucous, or the young shoots slightly silky-pubcsccnt. Leaves opposite, 

 deeply cordate, ovate or orbicular, mucronate, 1 to 1^ in. long, rigid, coria- 

 ceous, reticulate. Eacemes terminal, loose, 1 to 3 in. long. Bracts lanceo- 

 I'lte, the lower ones trifid, but all falling off before flowering ; bracteoles 

 none. Calyx broadly campanulate, 3 to 4 lines long, glabrous or nearly so, 

 the lobes rather shorter than the tube, the lower ones broad and rather obtuse, 

 the 2 upper cues broader, very obtuse, and united above the middle. Stan- 

 dard above \ in. diameter ; wings and keel rather shorter. Ovary stipitate, 

 with about 8 ovules. Pod not seen.— Gastrolobiim cordatim, Benth. in 

 Lmdl. Swan Eiv. App. 13, t. 5 B. 



"^ . '^usiraua. 



Roe. 



. Series V. Gastrolobioide;E.— Rigid shrubs. Leaves mostly oppo- 

 site or in whorls of 3, coriaceous. Tlowers in axillary clusters or short co- 

 lymbose racemes. Calvx villous. Ovules 4 or very rarely 6. Seeds stro- 

 phiolate. 



These have the 4 ovules of the PodoloUea, but differ from them, as from all other Ory- 



This character brings them 



\obiams (except perhaps 0. PuUenece), in their strophiolate seeds. 



into close affinity with Gastrolobitm, of several species of which they have the habit, dif- 



lenng only in the ovules, 4 instead of 2. 



