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ITnect. Emm, 28, and in Ann, TFien. Mus 



A perennial or uuderslirub, more or less clothed with long hairs, silky and 

 oppressed on the upper branches, under side of the leaves, and calyxes, 

 spreading on the lower part of the plant. Stems diffuse or ascending, i to 

 1^ ft. high. Leaves not niimerons, the lower ones obovate or cuneate, very 

 obtuse, truncate or broadly 2-lobed, sometimes exceeding 1 in., narrowed 

 below the middle, either nearly sessile or tapering into a rather long petiole, 

 but not articulate upon it, green on both sides, the upper ones narrower and 

 sometimes acute, and some branches ((uite leafless and dichotomous. Stipides 

 mostly falcate. Pedicels solitary in the upper axils, often 2 in. long or 

 more, bearing a single large llowcr with a pair of linear bracteoles close under 

 it. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long. Standard large, yellow with purple strcats^ 

 wings and keel purple. Ovaiy nearly sessile, with above 30 ovules. I'^^*' 

 to 1 in. long, much contracted towards the base, pubescent.— Meissn.m PL 

 Preiss. i. 31 ; P. Mucll. Pragm. iii. 16 ; CaUistadiys cuueifoUa, Sm. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 267; DC. Prod. ii. 104; Chorizema spartioides, Lodd. Bot. 

 Cab. t. 1953; Paxt. Mag. x. 127, with a fig. ; hotropk hiloha, Benth. m 

 Hueg. Euum. 29, and in Ann. Wicn. Mus. ii. 71. 



W.Australia. Kiug George's Souiul, iJ. Brown and others, a.id thence to Swan 

 nivcr, mmjd, Brummonl and oU.ers ; Vasse river, Mrs. MoUoy. The eaves va-.ynu.ch 

 inshnpe,from very much dilated and 2-lobcd to narrow and scarcely obtuse, but we no 

 find tliat all the different fonns occur sometimes on the same spccmien. _ _ 



. Var. (?) j>nrnfiom. Leaves narrow and flowers small, hut tne specimens msuflic.ent loi 



accarate detcnuhiatiou. — Murchisou river, Ohlfidd. 



3. I. Drnmmondii, Memn. in PL Preiss. i. 31. Stems several from a 

 perennial rootstock, ascending or erect, \ to 1 ft. high, glabrous or hnsute 

 toivards the base and silky-hairy upwards, sometimes entn-ely leafless, some- 

 times with a few oblong-cuncate sessile leaves towards the base, rarely above 

 i in. long. Stipules setaceous. Flowers like those of /. f'"^"'^f^^ .^ ' 

 ranged in a loose terminal raceme, the pedicels rarely much longer than lue 

 calyx and usually shorter, each in the axil of a minute bract Calyx 4 lo o 

 luics long. Standard veined, a? in /. slriaia. Ovary stipitate, with 6M 

 40 ovules or even more. Pod not seen. . .t • " -ii, 



^ W. Australia, Brummoud, n. 277. and 2.d Coll n. 95. T ^^-^':'^^' *^"^ ^''^^ 

 i- striata, but I have not seen any specimens which appear to confirm the union. 



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Stems numerous 



f;om a pcremnal 'stock, ascending or erect, ^ to 1ft. 1^"^' ^^^"^e lo « 

 'k^^th angular or compresse<l, |abrous. Leaves few, ^ J^^^^^^J^" ^r 

 m of the stem, consisting of a single leaflet, always ^vticulat e on a i at her 



'femes, but smaller. I^dicels almost filiform, shorter or ^-^tHer lo .u u. 



I'c calyx, each in the axil of a minute bract. Calyx gl'-^^'^^'^f ?" „ lo^o- 

 '-^"g, the lobes narrow, usually reflexed. Standard very ^"•«'-'^' ^,f g^„-f; 

 •"."[c or less veined ; ;iugs and keel rather shorter. Ovniy nea.l^ se..ile, 

 ^">tb about 30 ovules. Young "pod like that of /. striata. 



Yo"mg-pod like that of /. strici/a. 



W- Australia, Biummoud, W, Coll. n. 2i. 



