76 XL. LEGUMiNos.^; . {Btimem. 



lines long. Cnlyx about 1 line long, with short teeth, the 2 upper ones 

 broad, truncate and united. Standard fully twiee as long as the calyx. 

 Lower petals rather shorter. Pod about 5 lines lonii^. 



N, S. "%Vales. Between Wombim river and False Bay, Mossman, 



Victoria. Avon Ranges, Macalistcr an J Genoa rivers, F, Mueller. 



■W. Australia. " King George's Sound" (probably to the eastward), Baxter, 



F- Mueller had formerly proposed this as a species, under the name of D, cordifoHa, 



Mfhich I have not adopted, oo account of tlie older i). cordata, Sm. ITe now considers it as 



a variety of D. latifolia. If so, the specimens show it to be a very well-marked and distinct 

 form. 



12. p. latifolia, U. Br. in Ait. Ilort. Km. ed. 2, iii. 20. A glabrous 

 shrub, of 2 to 5 ft. Leaves ovate-elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, usually termi- 

 iiatiiig iu a callous point, rarely almost piing-ent or quite obtuse, mostly 2 to 

 3 in. long, or smaller only on elougated side-branches, naiTowed into a petiole, 

 rigid, but strongly reticulate. Flowers small, orange-yellow, numerous, iu 

 racemes of 1 to 2 in. flowering often from near the base. Bracts ovate or 



oblong, 1 to 2 lines long, densely imbricate before the flowers are full-grown. 

 Pedicels rarely exceeding the bracts till after iiowering. Calyx 1 line Ions, the 

 teeth very slioit, the two upper ones broad, truncate and imitcd. Standard 

 fully twice as long as the calyx, the lower petals nearly as long. Pod about 

 5 hues long.— Andr. Bot. Eep. t. G38 ; Bot. Mag. t,' 1757 ; DC. Prod. ii. 

 113 ; Hook. f. PI. Tasm. i. 83 ; Paxt. Mag. iv. 223, with a fig. 



H. S. "Wales. Blue Mountains, Fraser, A. Cvnmvnham, Sieler, n. 349, and others, 

 andiioithward to New England, 0. Stuart; Clarence river, Beckler. 



Victoria. Port Phillip, R. Brown; coininou in the wet forest valleys, often forming 

 au unpenetrable jungle, F. Mueller, and called "native Hop," Mossman and others. 



Tasmania. Derwent river and Port Dalryniplc, li. Brown; common throughout tlic 

 colony, /. B. Hooker. ° 



\^r. parvi/olia Leaves oval-ohlong, often under 1 in. long, more rounded at the base 

 and less vcnicd. To this variety belong some of the most northern as well as of the southern 

 speciracns ; they may be only lateral branches of large-leaved shrubs. They may at fir.'t 

 Bight ajipcar to connect the species with D. buu-ifolia, but in the latter, the leaves on the 

 main stems arc always orbicular-cordnte, and qnite sessile, whilst the larger leaves of 

 U. taUfoha are always narrowed at the base into a petiole. 



^ 13. D. corjrmbosa, Sr,i. in Ann. Bot. i. 507, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 IX. 258. A glabrous shrub, of 2 to 4 or 5 ft., the blanches slightly angular. 

 Leaves usually lanceolate or linear, rarely broader and oblong, with a short 

 callou3_ point or rarely quite obtuse, li to 3 in. long or sometimes almost 4 

 in., rigid 1-uerved, and when broad more or less reticulate. Eacemes usually 

 shorter than the leaves, and flowering from above the middle or from the end 

 only, with ong slender pedicels, the bracts small, obovate, spreading under 

 tlie pedicels, with numerous others crowded at the base of the peduncle 

 without flowers, but occasionally the racemes flower more reo-ularly from he- 

 ow tlie middle. Calyx about 1 line long, the teeth short, the 2 uj^per ones 

 broad, truncate and united. Standard 3 times as long as the calyx ; keel 

 rather shorter Pod nearly i in. long.-DC. Prod. fi. 113 ; Andr. Bot. 

 Itep t G 1 1 ; D mimosoides, Bot. Mag. t. 1957 ; D. glauca, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t. 43 (from the figure); D. macrophjlla, Eiull. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 15 (a luxu- 

 riant garden specimen with the lower leaves broad, above 4 in. long). 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, to the lUue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber^n. 350, and 



