Budonk.] XL. leguminos^e. 51 



the calyx. Calyx nearly 2 lines long, less deeply divided than in most other 

 species, although the lobes are longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones more 

 obtuse. Standard at least half as long again as the calyx; wings and keel 

 shorter. Ovary sessile, glabrous ; style slightly flattened towards the base. 

 Pod not sm^,—GompMo6iumfoliolosu7n, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 348. 



Queensland. Sandy forests, Warrego river, 31 it c hell ; Dogwood Creek, Leickhardf, 



ft 



3. B. polyzyga, Benth. An erect shrub, tbe branches, leaves, and in- 

 florescence densely clothed with long, spreading, white, almost woolly hairs. 

 Leaves pinnate, with a common petiole, of 1 to 2 in. or rather more ; leaflets 

 29 to 51, oval ohovate or oblong, rarely exceeding 2 lines. Flowers yelloAV, 

 ID long, loose, terminal racemes ; the pedicels longer than the rnlyx. 'Bracts 

 and bractcoles filiform. Calyx about 4 lines long. Petals ratheV longer, all 

 ofnearly equal length. Ovaiy almost sessile, hirsute with long wliite hairs. 

 1^0(1 not seen.— GompMobium j)oIi/zt/ffum, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 29. 



K. Australia. Between Mount Morpliett and Bonny river. H'Douall Stuart. 



4 B. villosa, Meissn. in PI. Treiss. i. 41. A rigid, heath-like, erect 

 surub, with virgate branches, villous with short spreading hairs. Leaflets 3, 

 sessile on the stem, narrow-linear, with revolute margins, obtuse or with a 

 short, callous point, mostly about ^ in. long and much longer than tbe inter- 

 iioaes, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs. Flowers large, pale pui-ple, 

 ^olitary m the upper axils, on pedicels usually shorter than the leaves. .Calyx 

 Jirsute, 4 to 5 lines long. Standard fidly | in. long ; wings rather shorter ; 

 Keel shorter than the wings, incur\'ed. Ovary nearly sessile, villous ; style 



flattened 



towards the base, ciliate on the inner edge. Pod somewhat com- 



^fanches 



pressed, shortly exceeding the calyx, as broad as long.— Bot. Mag. t. 4410. 



M^JT* w '?i'*^*^'*- ^'"g George's Sound, 7?. Brown, Dnminoiid ; sandy woods near 

 °«Dt Wuljenup, Preisi, «. 1172; Mount Barker, OlJfidd. 



5. B. Headersonii, Benih. A stout, rigid, divaricate shrub, the 

 3.'"^,? "terete and tomentose when young. Leadets 3, sessile on the 

 lin/'l "' ^^^^^^ revolute margins, obtuse or with a hooked point, 2 to 3 



es long, and scarcely covering the internodes, rigid, glabrous, but appear- 

 Q.^,/^™ff y g'»iHlular under a lens. Flowers orange-red, solitary m the 

 abS f r ' *''^ Pcflicels longer than the leaves. Calyx glabrous outside, 

 lose . ^^ ^°"«' ^^'^ l«^^s ciliate on the edge, whitish but scarcely tomcii- 

 inAr i' ^^""-'"I'd very broad, above \ in. long; wings scarcely esqeed- 

 near r -^ ' ^^^^ ^'^^^^^^' \on^Qr, dee])ly coloured, much incurved. Ovary 

 Ma? ^-^Tft ^^'^^^'ows. Pod not seen.— Gomjiliolobiim Ileudersoiai, Paxt. 



V XI. 103, with a fig. (from the figure and description). 



•Australia. From the interior, /. ,S. J2<;^. 



shl^' ?;^abra, H. Br. in Ait. IIorL Kett>. ed. 2, iii. 12. A heath-like 



ses^iiL ^ n Slabrous or the young branches mhiutcly hoar5% Leaflets 3, 

 .'^''SUeont.liP .♦ ,. J o ... ,. ----IS, obtuse or with a 



from 4 to 8 lines. 



l>ooked°" ^-^^ ^*^™^' ^^I'l'ow-linear, with revolute margins, 

 Slower, f°^°*' "^^^^'y a^"i't i in. long, but varying frc 

 Ws nf ' P^^^^*^' solitary in the upper axils; pedicels shorter than the 

 bescpnt -T "^"■'^ 4 lines long, glabrous outside, sometimes slightly pu- 

 ""' inside. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; wings and keel shorter. 



. 15 2 



