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Gompholobiim.'] XL. leguminos.!:;. 41 



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lower petals; wings dhhng, more or less folcate; keel usually broader than 

 the wuigs, obtuse. Stamens free. Ovaiy usually shortly stipitate or nearly 

 sessile ; style incurved, filiform or slightly thickened from the middle upwards ; 

 ovules several, usually 8 or more, rarely 4 or 6, the funicles long and thick, 

 all curved or folded downwards. Pod broadly ovoid or nearly globular, 

 usually oblique, inflated. Seeds small, without any strophiole.— Shrubs or 

 rarely nndershrubs, glabrous pubescent or hirsute witli spreading hairs. 

 Leiives simple or more frequently compound, the leaflets usually narrow, 

 digitate or pinnate with the teruiina! leaflet sessile between the' last pair. 

 . Stipules small, lanceolate or subulate, or none. Flowers yellow or red, ter- 

 I minal or rarely in the upper axils, solitary or 2 or 3 together or in short 



racemes. Bracts and bracteoles small, sometimes minute or none. Ovary 

 glabrous m all except G. Baxteri, where the style is also exceptionally 

 thickened at the base. 



The genus is limited to Australia. It is rearlily distinguished from all except Burfoma 

 y the calyx aud pod, and is separated from that genus by the more numerous ovules, with 

 tne regularly-packed funicles all turned downwards. The ovules in both genera are usually 

 sc-arcely larger than the breadth of the funi<Je. 

 ledicels longer than the calyx, solitary or 2 or 3 together in a 



very loose raceme. Plant glabrous: - .... 



•Leaves all simple, sessile, coriaceous. 



leaves broadly ovate or orbicular 1. ^. ovahun. 



Leaves cordate-lanceolate 2- G. amplexicaule, 



-Leaflets 3, very rarely 5 or more, digitate, the common petiole 

 usually very short. 



Keel not ciliate (western species). 

 Leaflets linear, or, if broad, truncate, mucronatc, and veined 



above. Flowers large 5. G.polymorphum. 



Leaflets small, obcordate, not mucj-onate, the veins very ob- 

 scare ^Q^ obcordatum. 



Leaflets obovate or cuncnte-oblong,mucronatc with thickened 



Jnargius, the reins obscure. Flowers small .... 7- 0. marginatum. ^ 

 i^eei cihate or fringed at the edge (eastern species). 



Au 1 erect shrub. Leaflets 1 to 2 in. long. Standard above 



i m. diameter. Keel densely friuijed ...;.. 3. tf. latifoUum. 

 JJiffuse or much bratirhed. Leaflets under \ in. Standard 

 i to fin. Keel (often very shortly) ciliate .... 4. G. UuegeliL 



p^'^P'^^ate, with several leaflets . 21. G.pinnalum, 



'o ' ^'^^{ '*»^''^ 0'^ not longer than the calvx, solitary or 2 or 



!.!« ?^o .^ "' ^''''^'' ^^^0^ corymbs or heads, 

 -leaflets 3, digitate. ^ 



Flant quite glabrous. Leaflets above \ in. long, 

 i^eatlets with revolutc margins. Calyx i in. long. Stan- 

 <3ard I in "^ ^ .... . . . . ' • 8. G. grandifiorum. 



Leaflets usually flat or recurved. ' Calyx 4 to 5 lines. 



• Mandard 6 or 7 lines long . . 9. G. virgaH 



■branches pubescent or villous. Leaflets under i in. lon.s:, 



^aiyx glabrous. 



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3 ^"- *""i3 



Stipules inconspicuous (eastern species). 

 Howers yellow, rather large. Ovules 12 to 20 . .10. G. minus. 



Flowers red, smalL Ovules about 6 11. G.uvanaUm 



otipules setaceous, persistent (western species) . , . 12. G. Baxten 

 j^ ^^-Jyx villous. ......,,....-. 13. G.amtatam, 



^es pinnate. Leaflets more than 3 (the petiole sometimes 

 so sliort that (hry appear digitate). 



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