GompMoLium,'] XL. legumIxNOs^. . 43 



b 



' Linn, Soc. ix. 249, not of LahilL A glabrous slirulj, with erect virgate, 

 branches. Leaflets 3, on a very shoi*t common petiole, linear linear-lanceolate 

 or Imear-cnneate, acute or truncate and mucronale, 1 to 3 in. long, the 

 margins ^flat or slightly recim^ed, the veins fine nnd almost longitudinal; 

 stipules inconspicuous. Flowers large, yellow. Peduncles (or leafless flower- 

 ing branches) solitary in the upper axils, nearly as long as or longer than 

 the leaves, with a pair of small 3-foliolate bracts about the middle, or some- 

 times growing out into leafy branches with a terminal flower. Calyx i to | 

 in. long. Standard broad, usually above 1 in. long; lower petals nearlv 

 -as long; keel incurved, very obtuse, denselv fringed on the inner edge with 

 short white woolly hairs. Ovary with about 20 ovules. Pod ovoid, \ to f 

 m. hr\g.~G, frndriatinn, Sm. Exot. Bot. t. 58 ; G. psoral€(P folium, Salisb. 

 I ™1- Lond. t. 6 ; G. barbigcrnm, DC. Prod. ii. 105 ; Bot. Mag. f. 4171 ; 



Paxt. Mag. xiv. 221, with a fig. 



Queensland. Glasshouse mountains, F, Mueller (from a specimen in leaf onlv). 

 W. S. Wales. Port Jackson, E, Brown, Sieber, n, 8G1, and FL Mixt, n. 577, and 

 others ; Port Stevens, Fraser, M^JrihHV. 



name 



to the following species 



79*' ^* Huegelii, Benth, in Ilueg. Enum. 29, and in Jmi.,JFien. Mns. ii. 

 7". A low, diffuse or inucli branched, glabrous shrub, rarely above 1 ft. 



Jgh. Leaflets usually 3, on a veiy short common petiole, linear or the lower 

 oues oblonn^-cuneate, or rarely almost obovate, mostly about \ in. long, but 

 occasionally very narrow, and f or even 1 in, long, obtuse or mucronate, tlie 

 ril^'^r^ ^^^' recurved or rarely re volute. Flowers yellow, solitary or 2 or 3 



ogether ; pedicels always longer tlian the calyx, attaining sometimes 1^ or 

 ^h\ '^^ 4 to 5 lines long. Standard 6 or 7 lines long; wings rather 

 snorter; keel as^ long as the wings and rather broader, very obtuse, usually 



ordered on the inner edge with minute white hairs, which sometimes almost 

 fnsnppear. Ovaiy ^vith 15 to 20 ovules. Pod ovoid, longer than the calyx- 

 '^^^'J^ folium, Labill. PL Nov. IIoll. i. 105, t. 133 ; DC. Prod. ii. 105 ; 

 r?A" I" ^^' '^^^^"^^ i- 82, not of Sm. : G. pedimcnlare, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t- 1639? (from the figure). 



. Ne^F^'i'^*^^^- ^*^^^ Jackson, to the Blue Monntni 



-'nglaud, C. Sfnnrt, and to the sonthwaril, Ihfrgef, LacAr^uff^c 

 pfp ^ iJ^*" ^^"S's Island, Port Phillip. R. Brown; Gipps Land, Dandenoug ranges, 

 i ^^f filler, 



DWnT^^^^^' ^^^^ Dalrymplc and Dcrwcnt river, R, Brown: abundant in heathy 

 places throughout the colony, J. J). Hooker. 



ns, R, Brown, A, Cunningliam ; 

 Backhouse. 



Mountains of Victoria 

 Beckler,\iyx\ the latter 



and Z'^^'^%^^^^^^^"' I^^^^^^ts very fine, often 5 in. long or more, 

 snenlm ^^"ghnnd, also a])parcntly Mount Mitchell, Clarence rirer, 



specimens arc past flower. . 



forn.T^f ?f ^^^ decmnbeut loose-flowercd snecimcns of this species come very near to some 



^^^®^^i'ii ^' jpolg7norj)hum. 



A da- 



^^us shrub or nndershrub, truly polymorphous in aspect and leaflets, btcnis 



a:,S'^."""''^'^^^^> slender, either decuuibent and i to H ft. long, or long 



"u twuiing, or more or less erect and virgate. I^aflots 3, rarely 5 or even 7 



^^ ^I'gitatc on a common pctiolr, usually short, but sometimes 3 or 4 lines 



m 



