Jachotfia.] , XL. LEGUMINOSiE. 55 



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sometimes intermixed with a few small phylloclita cither barren or bearing 1 

 or 2 flowers. Bracts and bractcoles linear-subulate, deciduous. Pedicels 

 very short. Calyx villous, about ^ in. long, the angles very prominent in the 

 uud. Standard nearly as long as the sepals, lower petals shorter. Ovary 

 very shortly stipitate. Pod ovate, included in the calyx. — /. Jloribimda, 

 Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 43, not of Endl. 



W. Australia. Swan River, Drurnmondy \st ColL 



Var. laxlfiora. Racemes loose and rather less villous, the flowers distant. — Brunmoud, 

 m Coll. n. 24. 



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_ 3. J. carduacea, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 25! An erect shrub with 

 vu-gate chistercd bniiichcs, iin<,adar or somewhat compressed, silky or softly 

 Villous. Barren phyllodiueous branchlets numerous, flat, sessile, cuncate- 

 oblong, I to 1 in. long, prickly-toothed or sometimes forked, thick, usually 

 3-nerved, glabrous or silky-pubcsceiit. Flowers in terminal heads within the 

 uppermost phyllodiueous branchlets and shorter than them. Pedicels very 

 short. Eracts and bractcoles subulate- acuminate. Calyx about ^ in. long, 

 loosely clothed with long silky liairs, the lobes with long subulate points. 

 I etals nearly equal in length, shorter than the calyx. Ovary veiy shortly sti- 

 P'tate. Pod not seen. 



W. Australia. Between IMoore and Murchison rivers, Brummond, (Sth Coll. n. 14. 



4. J. floribunda, Endl. Stirp. Decad. in Ann. Wlen. Mus. ii. 197 {from 

 ' the deHcription) . A rigid erect shrub with forked branches, more or less sdky- 

 pubescent, or at length glabrous, more or less flattened or at length terete, 

 flijilodiucous branchlets flat, cuneate oblong or linear, irregularly divided 

 into deep divaricate rigid teeth or lobes, which are obtuse or terminate in a 

 swall scale, or the terminal ones almost pungent ; most of these branchlets 

 Jie narrowed as it were into a petiole, and when broad are strongly reticulate, 

 Jue upper ones passing sometimes into forked racemes. Flowers mostly soli- 

 ^^ on some of the tooth-like lobes of the bianchlets. Pedicels very short. 

 Jiacts and bracteoles minute. Calvx 5 to 7 lines long, silky-pubescent., 

 isiaadard and wings much shorter than the calyx ; keel longer than the stand- 

 , ^^^ shorter than the calyx. Pod nearly sessile, ovate, shorter thau the 

 ^^^^^—J. f/revilleoidcs, Turcz. in J3ull. Mosc. 1853, i. 259. 



RielT' ,t''^*^^l^*' Jirummond, Uh Coll. n. 32; b.twccn King George's Sound and Cape 

 ^'^^ Harvey; Vo\ni TIenry and Stirling Range. Oldfield. Endhche* describes the flov c s 

 ^^ her larger than I find then in our rpecinreus, with the keel not e.ceed.ug the or 

 gg i tut the characteristic reticulate phyllodia and inflorescence are not found in any other 



i\lT^^ "• "fiAMosissiM^.-Barren branchlets subphyllodineous, but nei- 

 iSfgJ^J^noi- pungent, crowded, Uncav, angnlar-striate, with projectmg tooth- 

 loo!: f •• ^'loatoclada, T. Muell. Herh. Pubescent or villous fff'^'^ 

 «ose hau-s and densely branched. Barren branchlets short, crowded, Imcar 

 S r "' ^o^ewhat' flattened, the minute scales confluent withtooth-like 

 P ^J-^^tions at the nodes. Flowers sessile or nearly so in dense enama^ spikes 

 th I'u : , ^»''^'^^"les lanceolate, adnate to the base of the calyx, and longer 

 '^''' Its lube. Calvx denselv hi sute, 4 lo nearly 5 lines long, the tube under 



