Dfitiesia,] XL. leguminos.e. 77 



ethers: northward to New England, C. Stuart; Macleav, IIastiuQ;s, and Clarence rivers, 

 Beckkr, and southward to lllawarra, Shepherd. 



Victoria. Port Phillip, R. Brown and others: frequent from Gipps Land to Mel- 

 bourne and the Grampians, F. 31ueller and others. 



S. Australia. Loftjj Flinders, and Bngle ranges, F. Miietter and ot*hers. 

 ^^x,mimo8oldes. Leaves usually narrow, with more pinnate and less reticulate veins, 

 xlowera smaller, the racemes flowering from below the middle; bracts smaller and less 

 spreaJing,-i). mimosoides, K. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 20; DC. Prod. ii. 114. 

 ^. mgata, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag, t. 3196. B. linearis, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1615. B. lep- 

 ^hjlla, A. Cuun. in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 125.— This appears to be the most common 

 form over the whole range, from the Blue Mountains to Victoria and S. Australia. The 

 onjpaal J), corymhosa is probably limited to Port Jackson and the Bine IMountains. B. vir- 

 ^ ' "?ifarw, and leptophi/lla represent a remarkably uarrow-lcavcd form, from the barren 

 parts ot the Blue Mountains, whi(*h appears, however, in our numerous specimens to pass 

 very gradually into the common mirnosoides variety, 



1-i. D, horrida, Mem?i. in PL Preiss, i. 54. An erects glabrous, often 

 glaucous, rigiJ shriil) of several feet, the smaller branches usually leafless, 

 paniculate, divaricate and spinescont, as in i). divaricata, but scarcely striate, 

 ^ves chiefly on the main branches, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or 

 shortly pointed, rarely pungent, 1^ to 4 or even 5 in. long, very rigid ami 

 Piiyllodia-like, the midrib scarcely prominent, and the lateral veins inconspi- 

 ciious. Eacemes almost always on leafless spincscent branclilets, rarely axil- 

 ^J-0'3 usually loose, the rhachis often nearly 1 in. long, but sometimes very- 

 short. Bracts small. Pedicels slender, as long as the calyx or longer. Calyx 

 about 2 lines long, including the stalk-like narrow-turbinate base, the teeth 

 SQort but all acute and distinct. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel 

 small, obtuse. Pod only seen youn 



othT"^'^^*^^^^^- ^^"" ^i^^v, Drnmmovd, n, 230, Prel^s, n, 1142 and 

 ^P beop-aphe iky, Gordon, and Kalgan rivers, etc., Oldfield. \Vhen leaflc 

 dist n't ^^T^^ ^'^"^^^^^^ resembles D. dicaricata, but it may he readily'kuowu I 



'tinct caljx-teeth. 



Branches elon- 



15 D. reclinata, J. Citm. IlerL Quite glabrous. 



W acutely angtdar. Leaves linear, obtuse or mucronate, 2 to 3 or rarely 

 ZvK^ ni. long, liaeemes not so long as the leaves, but with few distant 

 P^^^cels of 2 or 3 lines, each in the axil of a miirutc brr.ct. Calyx nearly 3 

 mes Ion. including the stalk-like turbinate base, the teeth acuminate, nearly 

 ,' /7'? as the tube, ,the 2 upper ones broad, truncate and united. Standard 

 jot wioe as long as the calyx ; wings and keel shorter. Filaments alternately 

 ^^^^^'Uilated. Pod not seen. 



*• -^^stralia. Arnhera N. Bay, ii!. Brown ; Sims Island, A. CunningJiam. 



vir^^; ^* °^*^sifolia, F. Muell. Tragm. ii. 104. A glabrous slirub, Hntli 

 ^^i^% somewhat angular brandies. Leaves broadly or naiTOW-oblouj,^ very 



rowed into a petiole at the 



sftl '^^''^- ^-^^^mes axillary, very short and few-flowered, iiracts very 



if f^'^^^els short, thickened unde? the ealyx. Calyx very smooth, nearly 



obt T '°"^' including the slender, turbinate, stalk-like base, the young bud 



'^sely acmiiinaie, the lower teeth very small, the 2 upper ones longer, vei-y 



