64 . ' XL, lkguminosj:, [Spli^srolohum. 



stems leafy or leafless. — Moea, Hiieg. ; Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 34, and in 

 Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 77. 



1. S. linopliyllum, Benth, Stems numerouSj from a tliick stock, 

 ascending or erect, :J to 1^ ft. high, not much branched, terete or slightly 

 angular. Leaves narrow-linear, not numerous and sometimes very few, the 

 larger ones i- to 1 in. long and rather thick, the upper ones passing into the 

 bracts. Flowers (yellow?) in a loose terminal raceme, each one in the axil of 

 a leafy lanceohite bract of 1 to 3 lines ; pedicels rather shorter than the calyx, 

 Bracteoles small, deciduous. Calyx fully 3 lines long, the narrow turbinate 

 tube longer tlian the lobes. Standard half as long again as the calyx ; wings 

 nearly as long, much falcate; keel not exceeding the caiyx, very obtuse, the edges 

 fringed with white hairs. Outer filaments flattened. Style subulate, folded 

 inwards near the end, bearded with a ring of white hairs under the stigma. 

 Pod ovoid, inflated, very oblique, ' nearly 3 lines long. — Roea linophylla, 



1. 58. 



Wien 



"W*. Australia. King George's Sonud, K Brown^ Huegely Preiss, n. 1115 tf, and 

 1121 ; Swau River, Haeyef, I)rummo7id, 1st ColL and 7i, 252, PreisSy n. 880, 



2, Sp nudifloruniy Benl/i. A glabrous undershrub, -with the habit of 

 S. UnophifUum, Stems several from a thick stock, ^ to 1 ft. high, simple or 

 little branched, sulcate or slightly angular. Leaves more numerous than iu 

 S, Unophjlluni, lanceolate or linear-cuneate, acute or rather obtuse, rarely 

 above \ in. long, .Flowers in a terminal raceme, without bracts or bracteoles. 

 Pedicels very short. . Calyx about 5 lines long, the narrow turbinate tube 

 longer tlian the lobes. Standard much longer than the calyx ; keel about as 

 long as the calyx, obtuse, not fringed, the petals soon separating. Outer 



filaments slightly flattened. Style folded near the end, bearded with a ring 



of white hairs under the stigma. ' Pod nearly globular, 2 to 3 lines diameter. 



diflora, Meissn. in PI. Prciss. i. 59 ; Sphcerolobium folL... , 

 Muell. Fragni. i. 166. 



"W. Australia. King George's Souad, R. Brown, and, tKence to Cape RicLe, Brum- 

 moiid, Zrd Coll. «. 82, Preiss, ?i. 1018, and to Cape Arid and Cape Legraud, Maxwell. 



3. S. gracile, BeiUh. Stems from a thick rootstock; numerous, slender, 

 not above 6 in. high in our specimens, with a very few short linear leaves 

 near the base, or 9oqie quite leafless. Flowers small, distant, in a slender 

 raceme occupying more than half the stem, without any bracts. Pedicels re- 

 curved, shorter than the calyx. Calyx scarcely 2 lines long, the lobes much 

 shorter than the narrow turbinate tube, and less unequal than in the other 

 species. Standard very broad, half as long again as the calyx ; wings 

 shorter ; keel stdl shorter, broad and almost truncate. Style folded in at the 

 end, bearded with a ring of white haire round the stigma. Pod ovoid, in- 

 flated, not very oblique, scarcely 2 lines long. 



W 



Sand plains N. of Jlurchison river, Oldfield. 



Sect. H. Euspii,erolobium.— Calyx-tube short or rarely longer than the 

 upper lip. Style either With ii longitudinal membranous wing or appendage 

 below the stigma on the inner edge, or without anv appendage. Flowering 

 stems leafless, * ^ ® 



