52 XL. LEGUMiNos^. \Biaiovw. 



Ovary sliortl)^ stipitate, glabrous or pubescent; style flattened towards the 

 base. Pod glabrous or shortly pubescent, scarcely exceeding the calyx. 



c/^ 



lifolia 



Prod. ii. 106 5 Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 61 (with the leaflets rather shorter and 

 slender) ; B. pHlcJiella, Melssn. in PL Preiss. i. 41 ; Pot. Mag. t. 4392. 



W. Australia. King George's Sound, R, Brown and others ; near Albany, Preiss^ n, 

 1177: and eastward to Stokes \\\\tij Herb. F, Mueller ; Swan River, Drummond^ n. 19D, 

 Preiss^n, 1173, and others. 



7. B. conferta, DC. Prod. ii. 1C6. A heath-like, glabrous shrub, with 

 erect, virgate branches. Leaves crowded, all simple, narrow-linear or subu- 

 kte, with closely reflexed margins, obtuse or shortly mucronate, rarely ex- 

 ceeding ^in. in length. Flowers bluish-purple, usually nuuierous, in a short, 

 dense, umbel-like, terminal raceme, the pedicels rarely longer thari the calyx. 

 Bracts small, subulate; bracteoles minute. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, gla- 

 brous." Petals nearly equal in length and rarely exceeding the calyx; keel 

 strajghter than iu the other species and shortly acuminate. Ovary sliortly 

 stipitate, glabrous ; style flattened towards the base. Pod not exceeding 

 the calyx, as broad as long.— Bot, Keg. t. 1600 ; Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 42 ; 

 Paxt. Mag. xii. 54, with a fig. 



'^^^ Australia, From Kin^ George's Sound, E, BrowUy and Cape Kiche to Swan River, 

 Dnmmond, \st CoIL and n. 197 and 198, Freiss^ n, 1174, 1175, 1176, 1179, and others; 

 eastward to Bremer Bay and F.ast Mount Bnvreu, Maa:welL 



It varies much in the leaves; in some specimens rather thick, very obtuse, and about 

 i m. long; la others slender, attaining sometimes above Jiu. 



9. JACKSOTfIA, E. Br. 



(Piptonieris, Turcz.) 



Cal^YX deeply cleft, the tube usually very sliort, lobes valvate, tlie 2 upper 

 ones broader, sometimes falcate, rarely connate. Petals shorter thau the calyx 

 or rarely exceeding it, nearly equal in length, the claws very short ; standard 

 orbicular or renifonn, usually emarginate ; wings oblong ; keel nearly straight, 

 obtuse, broader than the wings. Stamens free. Ovary sessile or stipitate; 

 style subulate, incurved, with a minute terminal stigma ; ovules 2 (except in 

 J. piptonieris) attached by short funicles. Pod sessile or stipitate, ovate or 

 oblong, flat or turgid. Seeds usually solitary, without anv strophiole.— Shrubs 

 or undershrubs, rigid and leafless, or rarely with a very few 1-foliolate leaves; 

 branches rigid, terete, angular or winged, the brauchlets often phyllodineous or 

 leaf-like flat or terete or angular, very much branched and spinescent. Leaves 

 replaced by very minute scales at the nodes. Flowers yellow or with an ad- 

 mixture ot purple, either in terminal or lateral racemes or spikes, or scattered 

 along the branches. Bracts small and scale-like. Bracteoles small, decidu- 

 ous or persistent. Ovary villous. 



The geniis is limited to Australia. It is ullicd to GompJwlobium and Burtonia iu Ihfi 

 deeply lobed valvate calyx, but very different jn habit, in the short slender funicles of the 

 ovules, m the pod, etc. Iu the two species {J.veniicom and J. thesioides) where the calyi- 

 tnbe IS longer m proportion to the lobes, it is lined, at least halfway up by the staniiual 



