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4. S. racemulosum, Bcnth. Stems apparently lierbaceous, slender, 

 wiry, terete, above 1 ft. long, all quite leafless in our specimens. Eaccraes 

 lateral, slender, 1 to 2 in. long, with occasionally a few minute bracts near 

 the base. Pedicels short, slender, solitaiy at each scar or bract. Calyx ra- 

 ther above 2 lines long, the tube, including the narrow turbinate base, longer 

 than the lobes. Standard fully twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals 

 shorter than the standard, about equal in length, the keel much incurved, 

 broad and very obtuse. Style much incurved, folded in at the end as in 

 -ttoea but with a very broad longitudinal appendage under the stigma, as in 

 J^ntspharolobium, Pod stipitate, ovoid or nearly globular, 2 lines long. 



W. Australia, Lrummond, Zrd ColL n. 76 ; Phillips river, Maxwell, This species 

 amf '%T'^ f*^^^^^^-^ to connect the Hocas with the true SphierolobiumsM'^'xw^^^^^ ^^^"^^ 

 from b fch ^^^ ^^^i'Kitii' with the style nearly of the latter, and an inflorescence different 



5. S. alatum, Bentl. in Hneg. Enum. 32, and in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 76. 

 T^^. ^^^ct. slightly branched, 2 ft. hig-h or more, very angular or winged, 



e wings of the lower portion occasionally 4 or 5 lines broad, the others very 



narrow or reduced to prominent angles. Leaves none on any of our speci- 



^f^ns. Racemes lateral towards the ends of the branches, sometimes very 



snort and 3- or 4-liowered, sometimes f in. long, with 8 to 10 flowers. 



aiyx rather more than 2 lines long, usually marked with black streaks or 



ciies, the tube rather shorter than the uuper lip. Standard * in. broad ; 



teel obt 



J ootuse, as long as the wings. Style curved, with a short, broad, mem- 

 ranous vertical wing under the stigma. Pod about 2 lines diameter.— ^S. «/e- 



'Vm,;«.Meissn.inPl.Preiss.i."57. 



W. Australia. 



viminevun 



slend • f "«^*^"uing or erect, trom a few inches to above 55 n. nign, wmi 

 few T' ff ^?' ^^'''^' ^I'iiiiches, all leafless or the barren branches bearing a 

 len<'fl,^ ri ' ''"^'^^' °*" narrow-lanceolate leaves, rarely exceeding \ in. m 

 smallp," {^^"^^ numerous, usually clustered 2 or 3 together along the 

 very «l f^^^''^^, forming dense or interrupted terminal racemes. Pedicels 

 upper r S'^^^ ^^ ta nearly 2 lines long, the tube about as long as the 

 very o! t ' ''^^ '^^^^ ^"^'^^^ ^^ ^o"K as the calyx ; keel somewhat incurved, 



^ith 1 ^^' ^^ ^'^^^ '^^ ^^'6 ^^Jngs, Style much curved from near the base, 

 ter^-R .'^'."'"^"'o^^ wing along the inner edge. Pod scarcely 3 lines diamc- 

 Ho'ok f ^w5- t. 969; DC. Prod. ii. lOS; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1753; 

 » S «r' '"■ ^- ^^ 5 S- minm, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. i. 108, t. 138. 



""• ; 'an j ^fu ^^- !*"'•* Jackson, H. Brown and others; Blue Mountains, Mhs Alkm- 



Victor 'xf^ *" ""'^'"g^ "^■"' ^''^^''- • . 1 



^andeuonVvr ^"'^^ P^^^^^s "i the southern districts, Adamon, Robertson ; moist places, 



">^ colouv Pn ■ ^'•''«'-« •■ al^ui'-Iant, nsually in marshy or grassy places, in many parts of 



Vol. ii'*^^*" •^»^o"nter Bay, WhUtalcer ; Lofty Ranges, F. Mueller. 



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