&4i XL.* LEGUWiNOSiE. [JacksQiiia. 



usually rmiiuled at the end and narrowed into a kind of petiole at the base, 

 the marjjins undulate, sinuate, with pungent teeth or short lobes. Baccmes 

 or flowering branches either terminal or in the axil of a small scale under the 

 phyllodia, always very villous, 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers dense or distant, 



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Poll broad, turgid, S to 4 liucs long. Branches usually 



anpjiilar * , 13. /. sericea. 



Pod on a long strpes, about ^ iu. long. 



Flowers racemose. Calyx 2i to 3 lines long . . . . 18. */l scoparia. 



Flowers tew. Calyx 5 to 6 lines long I4i. /. Bternhergiana. 



Branches terete or sulcate. 



Flowers distant or racemose. 



Calyx villous. Standard large, exceeding the calyx. 

 Flowers few, distant. Calyx 5 lines long. Keel much 



shorter than the wings 19. J. resiioides. 



Flowers in lateral clusters. Calyx about 4 Hues. Keel 



as long as the wings 20. /. velutina. 



Calyx silky-pubescent. Standard shorter than the calyx ; 

 keel as long as the standard. 

 ^ Ovules 2. 



Calyx 4 to 5 lines long. Pod acumiuate, on a stipes 



of 1 line 21. J. Lehman ni. 



Calyx 3 lines long. Pod scarcely acute, almost sessile 22. /. racemosa. 



Ovules 4 to 6 ...*., i 26. /. pijjiofneris. 



Flowers small, in terminal heads or umbels. Calyx-lobes 

 persistent. 



Flowers distinctly pedicellate. Keel long 23. /. umbellaia. 



Flowers almost sessile. Keel short . . ... , . 24, J". capUala, 

 Calyx-lobes persistent. Buds prominently angled. 



Branches flat. Calyx 2 to 2J liues long 25. J. afaia. 



Branches terete, sulcate. 

 Calyx about 4 lines long. 



Ovules 2. Keel very short 27- J. angulafa. 



Ovules 4 to 6. Keel as long as the standard . . • . 26. J. pijdomeris. 

 Calyx about 6 lines long. Keel as long as the standard . 28, J. macrocalyx. 



Series I. Peyllodine^. — Branclilets, either baiTen or flower-bearing, 

 pliyllodineous, flat, rigidly coriaceous, toothed or lobed, often pungent. 



1. J. dilatata, Bentl, in Ann. Wien. Mas, ii. 74. An erect shrub, silkyr- 

 pubescent or tomentose, more or less rust-coloured under the inflorescence. 

 IJranclilets leaf-like, flat, lanceolate, 2 to 4 in. long, the nodes forming tooth- 

 like notclies on the edges with an arched nerve from the midrib to eacli node. 

 Flowers sessile in oblong spikes or heads at the ends of some of the leaf-like 

 branchlets, wliich taper more to the end than the barren ones. Bracts ovate, 

 scale-like, 1 to 1^ lines long, bracteoles often longer and lanceolate, all very 

 deciduous. Calyx villous, about 3 lines long. Standard about as long as 

 the calyx, lower petals shorter. Ovary very shortly stipitate. Pod ovate, 

 shorter than the calyx. 



N. Australia. Melville Island, Fraser ; Victoria river, Bf/yioe ; Islands of the Gulf of 

 Carpentaria, R. Brown; Port Essiugton, Armstrong; Arnhem's Land, F. Mueller. \ 



2. J. deusiflora, Benth, in Lindl Swan Rlv, App, 13. A stout erect 

 or procumbent shrub, the young shoots and inflorescence densely rusty-villous, 

 older brandies terete or slightly compressed, glabrous or minutelv pubescent. 

 EuiTcn Icaf-hke branchlets flat, obovate oblons? or lanceolate, 1| to 3 in. long, 





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