Jachonia.] • XL. LEOrMiNOS.E. •. • "61 



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striate, more frequently more or less sulcate, all leafless and unarmed, or with 

 a few simple or branched, spinescent, barren branchlets near the base. 

 Flowers usually numerous on short pedicels, in terminal racemes either short 

 and dense or long and interrupted. Calyx about 3 lines long, silky-pubes- 

 cent, with deciduous lobes, the bud terete. Petals rather shorter than the 

 calyx, the deeply-coloured keel as long as the yellow standard. Ovary very 

 shortly stipitate! Pod ovate, less turgid thim in many species, though not so 

 flat as in /. scoj)aria, scarcely acuminate, 3 to 4 lines long, on a very short 

 stipes. ■ 



W. Australia, Brummond, Zrd Coll. n. 78 ; Stirling rauge, Phillips river. Cape Aiid, 

 and W. Mount Barren, Maxwell ; Tone river, Oktjleld. 



Var. pubijlora. Pulesucnce of the jouiig hninches, iunorescencc, and calyx less appressed, 

 and more dense. Barren braneiilets more spinescent.— iJ™;«?«o»(sf. 



tuabellata 



A shrub or 



tindershnib, with creel or ascending-, rush-like stems, in some specimens under 

 1 ft. and much blanched, iu others more simple and \\ to 2 ft. high, silky- 

 pubescent when young, terete or slightlv compressed and rarely sulcata. 

 Barren branchlets sometimes none or few, small, and simple, sometimes short, 

 "lucli branched, busliy, and almost spinescent or much incurved. Flowers 

 several, in terminal umbels, with rarely 1 lower down. Pedicels shorter than 

 the calyx. Bracteoles very small. Calyx silky-pubescent, H to nearly 4 

 lines long, the buds acuminate, scarcely angular, the lobes persistent. Pe- 

 tals rather shorter than the calvx, the keel deeply coloured and at least as 

 wng as the standard. Ovary shortly stipitate. Pod nearly sessde, ovate, 

 acute, about as long as the calyx.—/, cai/data, Benth. in Ann. \^len. JSlus. 

 "• 74, not of Meissn. (with rather shorter pedicels) ; /. jmcea, lurcz. m 

 M. Mosc. 1853, i. 261 (floweriu-r branches elongated, barren branches often 

 wanting. v o 



B' w "^^^tralia. S. coast, R. Broicn, also Dnmmond, lih Coll. «• 33 and U ; Cape 

 K'eheto Kalsran river, Oldjield ; Stokes lulet aud Cape Legrand, Maxwell. It vanes mueU 



in tlie size of the flowers. 



Memn. in PL Prelss. i. 45 and ii. 212, not of 



fn erect shrub or umlcr.hrub, with virgate rush-like or broom-hke stems, f 

 t;.H ft. high, silky-pubescent when young, the barren bronches ng'^ and 

 often recurved, bu"t rarely spinescent. Flowers nearly sessde, "^ J^'^y ^ ' 



enmnal heads or spikes, with very rarely 1 or 3 lower down. Bracts and 

 bracteoles ovate or' ovate-lanceolate, sometimes nearly 1 hue long. Calyx 



l^out 3 lines long, pubescent or almost villous, the buds not ^^^f^^'^StZ 

 ^ than in .nost species, the lobes persistent. Standard about a bug 



the cal'x ' ^''^ '^'°'^'''- ^'"^ '''" ^""^ ''' 



ranT t''**"^"*' J)ru..>no.d, Zrd Coll. n. 88 ; Peel district, Pre^^'';-fJ^ ' ^'''^""" 

 ^Dges, Herb. F. Mueller ; between Eyre ranges and Oldfield ranges, Oldfield. 



ji I'- J. alata, B..lL in Uueg. Enum. 30, and in f[^-Ji'l ^J^*! 

 Lm ' ^" ^''^'^t luuch-branched shrub or undershrub, of 7 «> -^ . ' ^ 

 ;5« or the iiouug parts slightly silky-pubescent, the ^-""f^^^/tmeu 

 *'th 2 narrow win^rl l.«..n.i;,7,. fVn.n tl.e distant tooth-Ukc nodes, baneu 



