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XL. LEGUMIN0SJ5. [Daviesik 



" ^^- Australia- Gardener's Eange, between Moore and Murehison rivers, Brummond^ 

 Uh Coll. n. IS. 



Series IX. Aphyll^. — Leaves none. Flowers solitary, clnstered or 

 rarely racemose. 



49. p. euphorbioides, ^^/i^/^. Erect, glabrous and glaucous. Branches 

 cylindrical, not sulcate, very thick, of a pithy texture inside, the small branch- 

 lets erect, several inches long, 3 to 5 liues diameter, contracted at the base. 

 Leaves replaced by minute scattered prickly conical scales, rarely 1 line long. 

 Flowers several in very short racemes or clusters. Pedicels about as long as 

 the calyx. Bracts minute. Calyx broad, 1 line long or rather more, the 

 teeth very short, the 2 upper ones truncate. Petals and pod only seen veiy 

 imperfect, yet evidently showing the geuus. 



W. Australia, Dnmmond, '^rd Coll. n, 76. 



_ 50. D. divaricata, Benth. in Ilueg. Emm. 31, and in Ann. Wien. Mm. 

 11. 75. A glabrous tall erect shrub, quite leafless, paniculately brauched, witli 

 divancate sulcate spinesceiit branclilets, the leaves replaced by minute obtuse 

 or mucronate scales. Kacemes short and few-flowered, inserted on the smaller 

 spinescent branchlets. Bracts very minute. Pedicels slender, usually longer 

 than the calyx. Calyx about 2 lines long, including the narrow turbinate 

 stalk-like base, the teeth very short broad and obtuse, the 2 upper ones almost 

 truncate. Standard about t^vice as long as the calyx ; keel rather shorter, 

 obtuse. Pod only seen young.— Meissn. in Pi. Preiss. i. 47. 



^^fc' ■^^n^^rf^^*' ^^™° ^'^''''' ^»egel, Drummond, 1st Coll. and n. UO ; Freiss, ft. 

 1 Ibh and n 67 ; \ asse river, Point Gregory, and Mnrchison river, 0/dfield. Some almost 



the cal .^^"^'^'"''^"^ °^ ^- ^o'"^" much resemble this species, but may always be known by 



•• Vk ^r Paniculata, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 31, and in Ann. Wien. Mm- 

 u. 75. A glabrous erect leafless shrub, the branches slender, terete, panicu- 

 Me, the lower barren ones often spinescent, the flowering ones unarmed. 

 -Leaves replaced by minute scales. Flowers on slender pedicels, irregularly 

 racemose,^ formnig a loose terminal dichotomoug or trichotoraous panicle, 

 liracts niinute. Calyx about 1 Hue long, besides a narrow stallc-like base 

 scarcely distinguishable from the pedicel, but at length articulate upon it, the 

 broad tube truncate or obscurely toothed. Standard twice as long as the 

 calyx.; keel rather shorter, obtuse. Pod only seen young. 



,y^:. ''^"■,^*"'*"*.- ,Swau River, nuegel. This species, which I have seca iu uo other 

 collection, differs widely from the rest of the genus ia inflorescence. 



52. p. aphyUa, F. Muell. Herb. A glabrous shrub of 2 to 3 ft., with 

 leafless terete broom-like branches, neither furrowed nor spinescent. Leaves 

 replaced by minute, often scarcely perceptible scales. Eacemes lateral, very 

 short. Bracts very small. Pedicels slender, shorter than the calyx. Calyx 

 I2 lines long, with a short turbinate base, the teeth short, the 2 upper 

 ones broad, more or less united. Standard about twice as long as the calyx ; 

 keel shorter, broad, curved, veiy obtuse. Pod only seen young. 



ih^^ l.'^'^^T^^''"' u ?"'^'^^\"^e'-. Maxwell. Allied to some forms of B. brevifolla, bnt 

 there a, e no leaves whatever, the calyx is much smaller, and the keel not at all rostrate. 



53. D. juncea, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 260. A glabrous shrub or 



