Mirielia.] XL. LEGUMINOS/E. 35 



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terete, tomentose-pubesccnt. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3 or scattered 

 ovate, 1 to lA or rarely 2 lines long, obtuse or with a minute recurved pohit' 

 the margins recurved, scabrous above, silky-pubescent underneath. Tlowers 

 tew together at the ends of the short branchlets, on pedicels of about 1 line, 

 liracteoles small, narrow, deciduous. Calyx silky-pubesccnt, about 2} lines 

 long. _ Standard very broad ; keel broad, deeply coloured. Ovary nearly ses- 

 sile with about 12 to U ovules. Pod ovoid, turgid, shortly acute, about i 

 m. ong, deeply lurrowed on the upper side, divided by a dissepiment pro- 

 ceeding from the lower suture, but the endocarp not separatiuir from the 



epicai-p. 



N- S. Wales. 



A "««•/* ^^^^^^^ ^^'^^^ "'^ *^^^ boundary of the marshy plains, Argyle county, 



Victoria. ^ Deep rocky valleys, Haidina;cr range, Dandcnonsr ranges, Snowy river. Mount 

 ■i^igar, and adjonnng ranges, generally at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 ft., F. Mueller. 



2rl" ^' ''®*^culata, Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 511, andin Trans. L'lnii. Soc. ix. 

 -^00. A low shrub with slender but rigid angular branches quite glabrous or 

 ^•>? '"t!""^^^^ pubescent. Leaves mostly verticillate in threes, oblong-linear 

 ^utli short pungent points, | to f in. long, the margins recurved, glabrous, 

 sniiung above with raised transverse reticulations, occasionally bordered by 

 smjll tooth-like glands. Flowers small, bluish -purple, shortly pedicellate in 

 axu.ary clusters or short terminal corymbose racemes. Calyx minutely pu- 

 bescent, about li lines long, the teeth much shorter than the tube, the 2 

 upper ones broad truncate and united nearly to the top. Standard about 4 

 lues long, slightly emarginate; wings nearly as long; keel very short, obtuse. ' _ 

 ^<iry shortly stipitate, glabrous, with 2 ovules. Pod ovoid, acute rarely 

 above 2 hues long.— Yent. Jard. Malm. t. 119 ; DC. Prod. ii. lU; Bot. 

 ^lag t. 1211; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1371 ; PuUencea ruhio'foUa, Andr. Bot. 

 ^ep. t. 351 ; Mirbelia ralicEfoUa, G. Don. Gen. Syst. ii. 126 ; il/. amjudifolia, 

 wall, in Ldinb. N. Phil. Journ. 1838 Cfrom the descr.^. 



"^ S. Wales. 



(from the descr.) 



Port Jacksou, ^. Brown, Sieher, n. 3G8, and others. 



iv ^j,^*f °*?ides, F. Mnell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. iii. 53, and Fragm. 

 ■ ,• A rigid shrub with divaricate terete ])ubescent branches. Leaves 



|"ostly alternate, narrow-linear, obtuse or with a small recurved or straight 



n,\.. 1 -' '"""'V ot^ssiie, axillary 



th ^T V. ^^"^^ ^iQvX 2 lines long, pubescent with minute appressed hairs, 

 bro 1 ^^^^- ^^"^'*' *^^ "PP'^^ °"^^ truncate and united. Standard very 



?o'dT ' 1 ^^ I'ather shorter, obtuse." Ovary sessile, glabrous, with 2 ovules, 

 p] 1 ?'^ ^^' ^^'°^^' ^«^'y obtuse, shortly exceeding the calyx, separating into 2 

 ovoid ^'^^^'^^'P^^^' the endocarp remaining attached to the epicarp. Seeds 



K «*'«^'i^' Burnitt ranges, J'. J/M^//m " , . , 



pistil' ■ ,^^^^- Mount Mitchell, Chirence river, BecUer. In one flower I found the 

 monstrous, with 3 carpels more or less developed. 



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Or iin, 



A small shrub 

 nches rather 

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