JadsoHia.] ■ xL. leguminos.I;;. 59 



top by tlie^ starainal disk. Petals shorter thau the calyx. Ovary sessile, 

 short, tapering into tlie style. Pod sessile, villous, turgid, shorter than tlie 

 calyx, hut exposed, owing to the calyx-lobes being reflexed or deciduous. 



N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, F. 3IueUer. 



16. J. thesioides, A. Cunn. ,- JBenth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 74, A 

 tall shrub, with the habit of J. scoparia. Branches numerous, elongated, not 

 «pinescent, with 2 or 3 very prominent angles, minutely silky-hoary or quite 

 glabrous. ^ Flowers yellow, smaller than in /. scopai-ia, sessile or shortly pe- 

 dicellate in terminal one-sided racemes. Bracteoles minute, just below the 

 calyx. Calyx about 2 lines long, minutely silky-hoary, the lobes a little 

 longer thau the tube, which is 10-nerved and lined at least halfway up by 

 the starainal disk. Standard and wings about as long as the calyx ; keel a 

 little shorter. Ovary sessile, tapering into' a short style. Pod oblong, some- 

 what incurved, turgid, 2 to 2^ lines long. 



N.Australia. Prince of Wales's Islands, etc., R.Brown: Victoria river and Mac- 

 adam range, F. Mueller. ■ , 



Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham, W. Hill; 

 ^^ape ilinders, ^. Cunningham; Lizard Island, WGlllivray. 



. 17. J. compressa, Tarcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1S53, i. 260. Stem erect, 

 virgat^ ; branches very flat, miiuitely silkv-pubescent, without pungent 

 orancUets.. Flowers few, very shortly pedicellate and distant along the 



"Pper branchlets. Bracteoles very small, ovate, under the calyx. 

 about 4 to 5 lines long, shortly silky-villous, the lobes deciduous. 



Calyx 



1 1 " " ""^-^ ^""d> »iiuiijy siiKy -Villous, iiic luuco ui,v.hjuk^u^. JretaiS 



SQoi-ter, the koel at least as long as the standard. Ovary sessile. Pod ses- 

 sile, oblong-lanceolate, much flattened, about f in. long, minutely glandular 

 ana pubescent with very short close hairs. Funicles slender. 



W. Australia, Lrummond, ^fK Coll. n. 35 and 36. 



18. J. scoparia, R. Br. in Ait. nod. Keic. ed. 2, iii. 13. A tall shrub 



r small tree, usually entirely leafless, but occasionally the young plants or 



.p ""se of the branches have a k\w peliolate, oblong or oval-elliptical, herba- 



eous leaves, | to 2 in. long. Brandies numerous, erect or pendulous, 



ongaled, not spinescent, angular, glabrous or minutely Loary-pubescent. 



lowers yellow, in one-sided racemes, either terminal or from the upper nodes. 



euiceis rarely as long as the calyx, without bracteoles. Calyx membranous, 



mnutely silky-hoary, 2^ to 3 lines long, divided nearly to the base. Stan- 



tl }^l '""Ser than the calyx, lower petals rather shorter. Ovary stipi- 



tinn 1 u ^'^' °^^'0"S. usually 4 to 6 lines long, on a stipes of 1 to 2 lines, 



7L by the persistent style.-DC. Prod. ii. 107 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 427 ; 



.^procarpa, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 74 (the filaments errwieously 



403 T^P ^^ ^''^^''*^^) 5 Viminaria lateriflora, Link, Enura. Hort. Berol. i. 



' "^. Prod. ii. 107 (from the short description given). 



BiSrH'^*""!- ^^""^y Cape, Broad Sound, R. Brown; Port Curtis ^'^f ^•'■^f; 

 iCl p';^' ^- ^''''^''- «»rcoo river, Mitchell; Brisbane river and Moretou Bay 

 W S '■^"'f«>-: Pine river, Fitzalan ; Rockhampton, Z)«^/«r-^y- ^^ , 



others V.u**- ^"^'^ ^^^^^^m to the Blue Mountains, R. Broicn, Sifer,n. Ai., .mU 

 Stum] '■^^'^■'''■''^ to tlie Hastings and Macleay rivers, Beckler; New England, C. 



^"■- ^«'-^'>'-«. Plowers, especially the calyx, much sTnaller.-M*acleay river, Beckler . 



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