G8 XL. LEGUMTNOS^. {^SpJiarolohiam, 



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villous, about 4 lines long, on a stipes of 1 line. Seeds rather large, with- 

 out any stropliiolc— AW^-;7«5 linearis, Benth. in Hueg. Enuni. 35, and ni 

 Ann. AYien. Mus. ii. 80 ; Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 72. 



^V, Australia, Haegel ; Swan River, Drummondy 1st ColL and. n. 295, Freiss, n. 

 879 and 1110; Yasse river, Oldjield ; base of Mount Melville, Maxwell. 



11. VIMINAKIA, Sm. 



Calyx-teetli sliort, equal. Petals on rather long claws. Standard orhi- 

 cular; wings oblong, shorter than the standard; keel slightly curved, about 

 as long as the wings. Stamens free. Ovaiy nearly sessile; style filiform, 

 with a small terminal stigma ; ovules 2, with short funicles. Pod sessile, 

 ovoid-oblong, usually indehiscent, the pericarp thickly membranous. Seed 

 usually solitary, filling the cavity, with a very small annular strophiole.—- 

 Shrub with rush-like stems. Leaves alternate, mostly reduced to a long fili- 

 form petiole. Flowers small, in terminal racemes. 



The genus is limited to a single species, with the tlowers nearly of a Daviesiaj but very 

 Jistinet id the fruit, which is almost that of a Melilotus. 



I. V. denudata, Sm. Exot. BU. 51, t. 27, andhi Ann, Hot. i. 507, ani 

 Trans, Lmn. Soc. ix. 261. A glabrous shrub, sometimes erect, attaining 10 

 to 20 ft., with long, wiry, pendulous branches, more rarely low and decum- 

 bent. Leaves reduced to filiform petioles, of from 3 to 8 or even 9 in., the 

 lower' ones or those of luxuriant branches occasionally bearing at the extre- 

 mity 1 to 3 oval-oblong or lanceolate, herbaceous leaflets, of ^ to 1^^ in. 

 [Flowers small, orange-yellow, in long terminal racemes. Pedicels rarely as 

 long as the calyx, in the axils of small scale-like bracts, without bracteoles. 

 Calyx nearly 2 lines long, including the short, turbinate, disk-bearing base. 

 Petals about twice as lon^. Pod 2 to 3 lines Ion":. Albumen rather thicker 



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Mueller 



than in the other Podal^riea^ where it has been observed, — ^DC. Prod. ii. 107; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1190; Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 57 ; Paxt. Mag. xiv. 123, with 

 n fig; Sop/iora juncea, Schrad. Sert. Hannov. t. 3; Fiiltencea jmicea, Wilhl- 

 Spec. ii. 506; Davieua demidata^ Yent. Choix, t. 6 ; D, jimcea, Pers. Syn. 

 i. 454, not of Stn. 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieher, n, 369, and FL Mixt, n. 553, anil 

 others; and northward to Port Macquarrie, Fraser^ A, Cunningham; Hastings river, 

 Beckler, 



Victoria. Port Phillip, E, Brown ; from Gipps' Laud to the Gleuel^. F 

 others. 



Tasmania? Although the station is given by De Candolle, the plant has never beeu 

 found in the island by Gunii or any other of its most zealous explorers. In F. ilueller's 

 herbarium are some fragments marked Tasmania, Fitzalan, but without any precise locality, 

 and there may be somQ mistake. 



8. Australia. Torreua river, Whiitaler ; Lofty Ranges, F. Mueller. 



Vir. Australia. King George's Sound, R, Brown; to Cape Leeuwin, Collie; Swan 

 River, Fret-^s, n. 1023 : and Murchiaon river, Oldjield. 



V,(rj Freissli, Mcissn. in PL Preiss. i. 57,— from saudy places inundated in winter, 

 on the Canning river, Freiss, n. 1021,— which I have not seen, is not sutneieutly described 

 to be rccognuable. Meissner himself doubts whether it may not be a Sphierolobium, 



12. DAVIESIA, Sni. 

 Calyx-teeth short, either all equal or the 2 upper ones nnltcd in a truncate 



