MrheUa.] ' XL. leguminos^. 37 



longer than tliemselves^ but in young shoots the leaves are solitary and alter- 

 nate, without thorns. Flowers pink or pui-ple (yellowish when dry), axillary, 

 sessile. Calyx pubescent with appressed hairs, about 3 lines long, the lobes 

 -narrow, acuminate, nearly as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united at 

 least to the middle. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx, eniarginate; 

 wings shorter; keel still sliorter, obtuse. Ovary sessile, glabrous, with 6 to 

 8 ovules. Pod not seen,— BicJioseuia spino-sumy^Benih. in Hueg. Enum. 85 ; 

 Meissn.in PI .Preiss. i. 77; I),si^l^iHenne,Mei$snA.cA. 78; Moore,in Card. 

 Couip. i. 129, with a fig. copied into Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 350. 



j'^" Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Dnimmondy Ist Coll. and n, 191, Preiss, «. 

 00^; nortliward to Murchison river, nnd southwai'd to Kalgaa river, OldfieJd, towarrls the 

 l«reat liiglit, Maxwell, The spiiibs iu this species appear to be abortive branches proceeding 

 from the centre of the tufts of leaves. In M. microphylla they are mostly siipra-axillary. 

 Jn JH. muHieauhs they are lateral or quite away froai the nodes yet they ha\e no appearance 

 ot being epidermal productions. 



13. M. multicaulis, BeulJt. Our specimens show a thick rootstoclc, 

 with numerous, erect, simple or slightly-branched stems of | to 1 ft., glabrous 

 or slightly hoary. Leaves alternate, mostly solitary, ovate or oblong, obtuse, 

 2 to 3 lines long, the margins flat, coriaceous and reticulate. Spines subu- 

 njte, often recurved, longer than the leaves, not usually arising from the nodes. 

 I lowers axillary or clustered at the base of the spines', very shortly pedicel- 

 ate, apparently purple. Calyx minutely pubescent, about 2 lines long, the 

 globes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones truncate and united. Standard 

 twice as long as the calyx ; wings nearly as long ; keel much shorter, although 

 exceedmg the calyx, broad, incurved, obtuse. Ovary on a long stipes, pu- 

 trescent or villous, with 12 to 15 ovides. Pod not seen.— Dic/mema mulli- 

 <^««^^, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc, 1853, i, 283. 



^V- Australia, Bmmmond, Mh ColL «. 34. 



M 



A diffuse or divaricate shrub, with 



slender glabrous or slightly hoary branches. Leaves usually verticillate and 

 Clustered round or a little below subulate thorns, oblong or linear-cuneate, ob- 

 Tuse not 2 lines long, flat or folded lengthwise. Flowers small (yellow and 

 P^i'ple ?), axillary and very shortly pedicellate. Calyx miuutely pubescent, 

 A to nearly 1^ Hues loui-, the teeth much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper 

 oijes broad, truncate, and united. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; 

 J^ngs nearly as long; keel short, obtuse. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with 6 

 to 8 ovules. Pod not ^een,~DlcIwsma microMUtm, Turcz. in BulL Mosc. 

 ^So3, i. 283. 



^' -^^stralia, Brummond, ol/i ColL «. 85. 



13. M. daviesioides, Uoil/i, An erect rigi*^ ^^^^^^^ shrub, glabrous 

 or the young shoots slightly pubescent, the branches numerous, terete, stnate 

 ^^ suleate, the smaller ones divaricate and abi.ost all splnescent, sometunes 

 snial, fiue, and phvUodineous. Leaves replaced by minute scales. Flowers 

 «'»'», shortly pedicelhite, in racemes either termuial or close under the 

 smaller phyllodincous branchlcts. Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes much 

 ^'lorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones truncate and united. Standard twice 

 JJ ^^"g as the calyx ; wings rather shorter ; keel much shorter, broad, obtuse. 

 ^"^^^y stipitate, villous, witli about 15 ovules (in Drummond's specimens). 



