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XL. LEGUMiNOSJE. • {JacksoHia. 



Calyx fully 4 liiies long, silky-pubescent. Standard nearly as long as the 

 calyx, wings and keel shorter. Pod shortly stipitate, oblong, turgid, some- 

 what falcate, shortly acuminate, 3 to 5 lines long.— Meissn. in Pi. Preiss. i. 

 45; ii. 212. 



"^^" Australia, King George's Sonne! and adjoiuing districts, B, Brown, Fmser, 

 Drummond, ^rd Coil, n, 79, Preiss, n. 1080, and others; Point Possession, ColHs ; Tone 



river. 



Var. (?) te}j?ds. Branches much more slender and inflorescence nearly that of j; .^«^<f*926ff^, 

 but the branchlets much more angular.— Gardner and Salt rivers, 3Ia.Twell. The habit is 

 .almost that of J. splnosa, but the flowers are larger, the caljx more silky, etc. 



Var. {^)rac€mosa. Racemes elongated, many-flowered. Champion Bay, Oldfield, a single 

 small specimen, »> j > ^ 



13. J. sericea, BeulJi. in Ilneg. Ennm. 31, and in Ann. JFlen. Mhs. ii. 

 74. A large shrub, decumbent ascending or tall with pendulous branches, 

 angular striate or flattened, either unarmed or the pungent phyllodincous 

 branchlets linear, spreading, 2 to 4 lines long, simple or rarely with 1 or 3 

 short forks. Flowers either solitary near the base of some of the smaller 

 branches or m loose terminal irregular racemes. Pedicels shorter than the 

 calyx mth very minute bracteoles. Calyx 3^ to 4^ lines long, silky-p.bes- 

 cent. Petals all shorter than the calyx. Pod nearly sessile, broadly ovate, 

 more or less tiu-gid, very villous, 3 to 4 lines long.— Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 

 44, and u. 211 ; /. gracilis, Meissn. 1. c. i. 44, and ii. 211. 



^y^,' ^fv}^,f^\^ ^^"S George's Sound, Hupr/eJ, Barrier; Swan Ri-yer, Traser,Drum- 

 mond, ZrdCol. «. 92 ; Preiss, n. 1073 and 1158 ; southern districts, Oldfield. 



y^v robusta. Braaches thick, with very prominent angles, i)/-««;«o«^, 2>rd Coll. n. 85. 



ihe species is very nearly allied to J. horrida. 



Stembergiana 



An erect shrub, at- 



. . . . = 3 ^^-.y. .^ui,. ^luinv. I. o. Jill erect smuu, "• 



taiiung many ft. m height, with pendulous branches prominently angled or 

 flattened, glabrous or rarely minutely pubescent, the smaller branchlets rigid 

 and pungent but usually rather slender and divaricate. Plowers few, shortly 

 pedicellate along some of the longer branchlets, but scarcely racemose. Calyx 

 nearly g-l;^,rous, 5 to 6 lines long. Standard nearly as Ion- ■ lower petals 

 shorter. Ovary stipitate. Pod oblong, often slightly falcate, fully i in. long, 

 pubescent, on a stipes of about 2 lines. -Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i 43 and ii. 



W'. Australia 



slennp-W?^*9*^^ 7?''''^^'''^^' ^'■''^^'■' ^''"'^'^' ^>-»^^ond, 1st Coll. and n. 260 (my 

 1st hi, r ■ ^- ^^^' ^'■^"^' ""■ ^^''^' ^^^>'^^^' "^^^ ^^^^'^- The pungent branch- 



lets in this- flft in -/ c-^i*!/*^^ -riT-r. -r.«^«^r n_- -• 1 o 



lets m this, as in J. sericea, are occasionally wanting. 



Serim IV. ScoPARi.^.— Flowering branches usually virgate or rush- 

 nltl o""^ ^"''° n"' branchlets. Barren stems or branches usually similar, 



or pungent. 



sti.tw 1 ^^?/- ^^'i/- ^"'^- ^--""^^^^ ^e'-y Diirnerous, slender, 



St late but scarcely angled, usually glabrous, the young shoots apparently some- 



vvhat gluUnous. Flowers not numerous, in terminal nicemes, on very short pc 



tnl\v, t:r^'t' ""'T'^f/ i'f' *« t'^'^ 1>«^« of the calyx. Cal^x 4 lines 

 n.P°'l 1^^ 1 ^' P"^<;.sccnt. he lobes not twice as long as thJ tube, the 2 upper 

 ones bioader and falcate, the tube campanulate, lO-ribbed, lined nearly to the 



