Chorizema^ XL. LEGUMiNOSiE. 29 



with a few hairs underneath. Flowers few and distant^ on long terminal pe- 

 duncles, forming loose racemes. Calyx 4 lines long or rather more, usually 

 pubescent with appressed hairs, the upper lobes rather broader, united above 

 the middle. Standard rather more than half as long again as the calyx ; keel 

 ^ about the length of the calyx, erect and obtuse, but narrowed towards the 

 top. Ovary shortly stipitate, with 20 or more ovules ; style short, incurved, 

 with a very oblique stigma. Pod more or less compressed, above ^ in. long, 

 acuminate.— DC. Prod. ii. 103 ; C. ovatiim, Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t 1528 ; Paxt! 

 Mag. iv, 153, Avith a fig. ; Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 219 (an unusual garden 

 form); Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 32. 



^IV. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, and others, Dnimmond, 2nd ColL 

 «. 125 ; Cape Naturahstc, Gordon river, etc., Oldjield ; Mouut Manypeak river. Maxwell, 



7. C. diveraifolium, A. BC.PLRar.Jard. Gen. 7e Not. (1836), 44, 

 t. 8. A tall shrub, with weak, slender, often climbing branches, slightly pu- 

 bescent or at length glabrous. Leaves from ovate to narrow^lanceolafe, 1 to 

 2 in. long or rather more, obtuse acute or mucronate, narrowed at the base, 

 flat and not so rigid as in C, rJwmheum, glabrous or slightly pubescent under- 

 neath. Flowers often numerous, in loose racemes. Calyx 4 lines long, gla- 

 brous or nearly so, the lobes acute, the 2 upper ones much falcate and united 

 above the middle. Standard half as long again as the calyx ; keel very ob- 

 tuse, not exceeding the calyx. Ovary nearly sessile, with above 30 ovules ; 

 style slightly curved, with -a capitate slightly oblique stigma. Pod much 

 flattened, about f in. long, acuminate, transversely veined. Seeds numerous. 



C. spectabile, Lindl. Bot. lleg. 1841, t. 45 ; Meissn. in PL Preiss. ii. 209 j 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3903 ; C. rJwmbeum, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1G19 (from the figure), 

 not of R. Br. 



"W, Australia. Flinders Bay, Collie ; Swan River, Drummond, ColL 2, n, 120 j 

 Cape Naturaliste, Oldfield. 



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8. C. angnstifolmm, Benth. in Iltieg, Emm., 28, and in Ann. Wien. 

 Mhs, ii. 71. A low slender shrub or undershrub, witli ascending branches 

 of from I to IJ ft., slightly pubescent wlicn young. Lower leaves often 

 ovate or lanceolate, acute, and almost pungent, like those of C. r/iombeum, but 



upper 

 iDucro- 



more rigid, and sometimes borJcjed with a few small prickly teeth ; 



leaves, and sometimes all linear or linear-lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. long, 



nate, the margins recurved, glabrous and reticulate above, usually silky-pu- 

 bescent underneath. Flowers usually smaller than in C. rJiombeum, in slender 

 racemes. Calyx 2^ to nearly 3 lines long, glabrous or minutely pubescent, 

 the lobes acute, the upper ones broader, but straight and separated below the 

 middle. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx ; keel scarcely as long 

 fs the calyx, obtuse or with a short erect point. Ovary shortly stipitate, with 

 15 to 20 ovules; style much incurved, with a small terminal stigma. _ Pod 

 i to nearly | in. long, slightly compressed.— Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 33 ; 

 ^lllwynia glydnifoUa, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 264 ; DC. Prod. ii. 109 ; 

 ■^t. Peg. t. 1514: Chorizma capillipes, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. J 853, i. 



rigid) . 



ipecimens 



^V. Australia. King George's Sound, 3Ienzies, Baxter, and others; Drummond, 

 ^tk Coll. n. 25 and 26 ; Stirling Terrace, Preiss. n. 1047, 1127, Maxwell; Mount Clarence, 

 Oldfield ; Bremer Bay and Cape Riche, Maxwell. 



