34 ^ XL. LEGUMiNOS.^. [Mi7'6elia. 



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vvitli 8 to 10 ovules. Pod about ^ in. long*, oblong'-elliptical, 'glabrous, cori- 

 aceous, the longitudinal dissepiment splitting as in other species but more 



pithy, tlie endocarp not separating.— CltGrizema magni folium, Y, Muell. Fraj^m. 

 iv. 18. 



Vr. Aiistralia, Dntmmond, hth CoIL 7i. 59 ; Bremer Bay and MiJtlle Moimt Barren, 

 Ma.rweIL 



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A shrub or un- 



derahrub with diffuse or ascending- branches of ] to 2 ft., more or less silky- 

 piibcscent. Leaves alternate or opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or 

 almost obtuse, f to IJ in. long, coriaceous, glabrous shining and strongly re- 

 ticulate above, silky-pubescent or villous underneath, the margins recurved. 

 Flowers bright yellow and red, nearly sessile in axillary or terminal clusters, 

 or rarely solitary. Calyx silky-villous, about 4 lines long, the lobes acute, as 

 long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. StandiU'd large, 

 deeply emarginate; wings nearly as long; keel much shorter, obtuse. Ovary 

 sessile, very villous, with 10 to 15 ovules. Pod thicklv oblong, hoary with 

 appressed hairs, about f in. long, very obtuse.— Flaii/Mimu reticiilatum, Sieb. 

 PI. Exs. ; Chorizema (?) platyhbloides, DC. Prod. ii. 103. 



* -^' ?' y''"*^^^- ^°i't Jackson, Sieber, n. 371, 373, and Fl. Mirt. n. G07 ; Bhic Moun- 

 taius, A. Cumungliam ; lUawarra, Backhouse, M' Arthur. 



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283. A much- 



branched apparently small shrub, the branches terete, pubescent with very 

 short spreaduig or reflexed hairs. Leaves mostly verticillate in threes, ovate- 

 lanceolate with a small almost pungent point, rarely above \ in. long, glabrous 

 shinmg and reticulate above, pubescent miderneath. Flowers very shortly 

 pedicellate in the upper axds or in terminal clusters or short racemes. Calyx 

 pubescent, 2^ to nearly 3 lines long, deeply divided into lanceolate acuminate 

 obes, the upper ones scarcely more united than the others. Standard rather 

 longer than the calyx, emargiuate; wings and keel nearly as long the latter 

 somewhat curved, obtuse. Ovary nearly sessile, verj' villous, with 4 to 6 

 ovules. Pod oblong, villous, not seen full grown. 



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5. M. ovata, Melmi. in PL Preiss. 1. 77. A diffuse or divaricate much- 

 branched shrub, the young branches terete and tomentose or shortly villous. 

 Leaves opposite or in threes, ovate, obtuse, under i in. long, with recurved or 

 revolute margins, coriaceous, reticulate, glabrous above or scabrous-pubescent 

 when young, more or less pubescent underneath. Flowers nearly sessile, 3 or 

 i together at the emls of the branches, or in 2 or 3 distant pairs or threes in 

 a erimnal mceme. Calyx silky-pubescent, about 21 lines long, deeply divided 



as m that species Ovary nearly sessile, villous, with 6 to 8 ovules. Pod 



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r.L^\'''7^f^'°'^^^f.' ^--f"^^- ■^'■"^'"- "• 154, and iv. 12. A rigid di- 

 Tancate shrub of several ft., with rather slender branches, the short branchlets 



