26 . XL. LEGUMiNOS.^. . [^Oxylohlim. 



r 



N. S. V7ales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sleber, n. 395, and Fl. Mixt. n. 571, and 



others ; and uorthward to Clarence and Hastings rivers, Beclder ; Hunter's River, Old- 



field; New England, G. Stuart ; southward to Illawarra, Shepherd; Twofold Bay, F. 

 Mueller. 



27. O. staurophyllum, Bentli. A divaricately branched, glabrous 

 shrub, closely resembling 0. trilohattm, and much better deserving that name. 

 Leaves alternate or opposite, | to l^- in. long, with pungent points and a 

 cuneate base, and deeply divided into 3 lanceolate, pungent lobes, the lateral 

 ones divaricate and sometimes again 2-lobed, all coriaceous, shining, and 

 strongly reticulate. Flowers yellow, in loose axillary racemes, rarely exceed- 

 ing the leaves. Calyx glabrous, about 2 lines long, the lobes shorter than 

 the tube, the 2 upper ones united, but not so high as in 0. trilobatum. 

 Petals fully twice as long as the calyx. Ovary on a long stipes, nearly gla- 

 brous, with 4 ovules. Pod narrow, like that of 0. trilohatmu, but glabrous. 



Podolobium dauropJii/Uim, DC. Prod. ii. 103; Bot. Keg. t. 959; Lodd. 

 Bot. Cab. t. 1177; Paxt. Mag. iv. 171, with a fig. 



N, S. "Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, B. Brown, Sieler, n. 393, and 

 others ; between Emu Plains and Lachlan Depot, A. Cunningham. 



4. CHOmZEMA, LabilL 



(Orthotropis, BentJi.) 



Calyx-lobes nearly of equal length, the 2 upper ones usually broader and 

 united higher up. Petals clawed ; standard orbicular or reniform, emargi- 

 nate, rather longer than the wings ; wings oblong ; keel much shorter than 

 the wmgs straight and obtuse or with an erect point, or rarely incurved, 

 btamens free. Ovary sessile or stipltate, with numerous or rarely 8 to 10 

 ovules ; style usually short, incurved ; stigma terminal, frequently oblique. 

 1 od ovoid, turgid 01' compressed, continuous inside. Seeds not strophiolate. 

 —bhrubs or underslirubs. Leaves all alternate (except in C. ericifollnm), 

 simple entu-e or pnckly-toothed. Stipules small, setaceous, sometimes want- 

 ing i^ lowers usually orange or red, in terminal racemes or rarelv axillary. 

 Pedicels short, with 2 small bracteoles, usually deciduous. Ovary villous 



The genus is exclusively Australian. It differs from OxyloUum chiefly in habit and in 

 the short or acunnnate keel ; the pod is also usually less turgid. 



Keel much cui-vcd, rostrate. Stigma fringed, very oblique. Erect 



rigid shrub. Leaves rigid, with pungent points \. c Hicksonii 



Keel erect, obtuse or shortly pointed. Stigma not fringed. Leaves 

 Mat or the margins recurved. 



Leaves orbicular-cordate rigid, pungent-pointed, quite entire, much 



undulate. Erect shrub a ri 



Leaves cordate, all or almost all prickly-toothed. nervosum. 



Tall erect shrub. Branches and under side of the leaves pubescent 3. G varium 

 Branches and leaves glabrous. varmm. 



TttU shrub, with weak,slenderbranches. Leaves prickly-toothed 4. G cordatum. 

 Low or diffuse shrub or undershrub. Leaves inickly-lobcd . 5 C mdfolivm 

 Leaves quite entire or a few very loosely prickly-toothed "'^ " °- ^- ^''"J'^l"'^^- 



Low diffuse or ascending shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves rounded 

 or almost cordate at the base, the lower ovate, the upper 

 narrow. Style much curved. 



Leaves mostly or all ovate. Mowers few, larp-e. Stiema 

 very oblique ^ „ 



rhombeum. 



