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TL. LEGUMIXOSiE, \Burloniq. 



shortly clawed ; standai-a orbicular or renlfonn, longer than the lower petals ; 

 win-s oblong or obovate, more or less talcate ; keel usually broader than the 

 win°s, obtuse. Stamens free. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate ; style ui- 

 curved, moie or less dilated towards the base ; ovules 2, the fuuieles long and 

 thick, one curved or folded upwards, the other downwards. Pod broadly 

 • ovoid or nearly globular, usually oblique, inflated. Seeds small, without any 

 strophiole.— Shrubs or rarely undershrubs, glabrous or hirsute with spread- 

 ing hairs. Leaves simple or compound, digitate, or pinnate with the tenm- 

 nal leaflet sessile between the last pair. Stipules minute or none. 1 lowers 

 yellow, orange-red or bluish-purple, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves 

 or forming terminal racemes. Bracts small ; bracteoles also small, usually 

 below the middle of the pedicel. Ovary glabrous or villous. 



The genus is limited to Australia, It is closely allied to Gomphololjiiim, with the same 

 diversity of foliage, valvate calyx, etc. ; ditfering chiefly in the ovules, always 2 oiily^ ^j^^ 

 the funicles very long and thick, as in Gompholobium, but oue always curved or toUlea 

 upwards, the other downwards, not all downwards, as in that genus. The style is also laucn 



thicker at the base. 



Leaves pinnate. Racemes terminal. 



Plant glabrous. Kacemes 1- to 3 -flowered. 



1. B. subuJaia, 



Leaflets few, subulate ..,,.. rt -p }• i 



Leaflets numerous, very small, obovatc or obcordate . . . • 2, ^. foUolosa, 

 Plant very hirsute. Racemes elongated, many-flowered. Leaflets 



very numerous, small, ovate %. B. poI^Z}/ga. 



Leaflets"^, liuear-revolute, sessile (the common petiole not produced). 

 Pedicels in the upper axils. 



Calyx and ovary villous 4. ^. villosa. 



Calyx and ovary glabrous. 



Branches tomentose. Leaflets rigid, often shorter than the in- 



ternodes. Pedicels long _ 5. J?. Ilendenoniu 



Branches glabrous. Leaflets longer than the intcruodes and pe- 

 dicels . . . ' ^.B.scahra. 



Leaves simple, linear or subulate. Racemes umbeblike, terminal . 7- B. cojiferia. 



1. B. subulata, Benth. An erect, glabrous shrub, of 1 to i ft., with 

 slender, rigid branches. Leaves pinnate, with a commou petiole of 3 or 4 

 lines; leaflets 5, 7, or rarely 9, liiiear-subulate, with revolute margins, niu- 

 cronukte, ^ to f in. long. Flowers few, in very short, terminal, almost 

 corymbose racemes, or often quite solitaiy ; pedicels usually longer than the 

 calyx. Calyx glabrous, about 4 lines long. Petals nearly equal in length. 



slightly exceeding the calyx. Style more slender than in most Burionias, yet 

 somewhat dilated at the base. Pod compressed-globular, scarcely exceeding 

 the cnlxK.—GomphoIobium subulatim, Benth. in Ann. "Wien. Mus. ii. 73 ; fr. 

 stenophi/llum , F. Muell. Fragra. iii. 30. 



o 

 N. Australia 



of the Gulf of 

 Mueller, 



ia. Regent's River, Brunswick Bay, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; isla^^^ 

 Carpentaiia, R. Brown; Port Easingtoa, Armstrong; Arnhem's Land, £- 



2. B. foliolosa, Bmth, An elegant little shrub, quite glabrous and 

 somewhat glaucous, with slender terete branches. Leaves pinnate, the com- 

 mon petiole rarely above \ in. long; leaflets 11 to 21 or even more, oboyate 

 or obcordate, very obtuse, 1 to 1^ lines long. Plowers small, few. together, 

 in loose, terniinal, almost corymbose racemes, the pedicels rather longer than 



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