Sph(Brolohium,'] XL. leguminos.e. 67 



long;, !)roacIly obovate. Style slender at the base, much curved upwards, with 

 a very narrow longitudinal membrane ou the inner edge. 



W. Australia, Drummond, %id Coll. n. ] 14. 



11. S. macranthum, Meissn. in PI. Freiss. ii. 213. Stems more rigid 

 and thicker than in S. vitiilueum, erect, terete, scarcely striate, occasionany 

 spinescent at the end, but without the lateral branchlets of S. daviesioidcs. 

 Leaves on a very few barren branches only, small, subulate, and usually ver- 

 ticillate. Flowers clustered, forming rather dense racemes, and often, but 

 not always, larger than in S. vimmetm. Calyx about 2 lines long, the lube 

 scarcely half so long as the upper lip. Standard 'broad, ratlier longer than 

 the other petals ; keel broad and rounded at the top, not so incurved as in 

 o-fornicatum. Style incurved, with a narrow membranous Aving under the 

 stigma. Pod broader than long.- — S. DntmmondiL Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 

 1853, i. 267. 



yf" ^ustralia. Swan Eivcr, Drummond, \st Coll, 2iid Coll. n. 115, and Uh Coll. 

 «• */ ; from King George's Sound to Murchisou river, Oldjield. 



'^■eramrameum., Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 18.55, 28,— from between lloore and iluichisoa 

 usn^' ""^'"'"^^» ^'^f^ Coll- n. 20,— differs sliglitly iu the branches rather thicker than 



J^r.pulchellum. Of smaller stature, with smaller flowers, appearing more red in the 

 nea state.— 5'. pulchcUum, Meissu. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 28.— Between Moore and Mur- 



cnisoti rivers, Drummond, Qth Coll. n. 19. 



ifuw if"'^^''^^""''"' ^''°"'*=''^ smaller, all yellow.— Clay plains, near M'Callum Inlet, 



w'tf "t ^' ^^^^s^oides, Turcz. in Ball. Mosc. 1853, i. 266. A low shrub, 

 J. ^'^'■'^te, divaricate branches, numerous short, divaricate or recurved. 



longer barren 

 Flowers soli- 



spmescent branchlets, all leafless, and occasionally a few 



tanJ' V"^'' '' ^'''"'' ^"^'''■"' distant, linear-lanceolate leaves. 



7. ^[ 2 01" 3 togetiier, along some of the smaller spinescent brancldets ; 

 l^^iicels rather slender. Calyx rather more than 2 lines long, the tube about 

 l' V** ,^ "^ *^'^ "PPCi' lip- Standard nearly 4 lines long, very broad; 

 \]J!i ^? '■''^l'*^^' shorter, the keel broad, curved, very obtuse, yellow like 



tlie stand 



ith a rather broad lon- 



•ntn 1 1 '"'^' °'" '^^^P^y coloured. Style much curved, wi 

 6 ^inal wmg under the stigma on the inner edge. 



Graud" ij''**7/'*,' ^''"'"f>'ond, Uh Coll. n. 46 ; Phillips Ranges, Cape Arid, and Cape Le 

 ■ <^ivell. This may prove to be a variety of .S. macranthum. 



^if/"^*^^' Iir. EuciiiLoiDES.— Calyx-tube very short. Style subulate, 

 out any appendage. ' Flowerin<r-stems leafv. 



cenJ: ^•, e^cMlus, Benth. Stems from a thick rootstock, erect or as- 

 leafv' T *° ^^ ^'- ^'S^' slender, nearly terete, minutely silky-pubescent, all 

 or \:.u^ ^^'""^^s alternate or rarely irregularly opposite, narrow-hnear, obtuse 

 nutelv •^''^^'^"^ P^"^t' i to li in. long, the margins closely revolute mi- 

 in Ion ^ '^y-P^'^escent or almost silver>^ Pedicels axillary, slender, often \ 

 about f'l^'*^ a pair of minute bracteoles above the middle. Calyx glabrous, 

 alffio t i"*^' ^''"«' the t'i'>e very short, the 2 upper lobes broadly obovate, 

 IoTi» I , "^''''■' ^'CJ'.V ol^tuse, the 3 lower lobes very small. Standard 4 lines 

 vilU, c ' '°'^^''' ^I'oad, incurved, acute, almost rostrate. Ovary stipitate, 

 "'• fetyle subulate, without any appendage. Pod ovate, very turgid, 



