92 



XL. LEGXJMINOS.^, '[JotnS. 



Bracts 1 line long, very obtuse, very deciduous. Calyx very villous, above 2 

 lines long, the lobes longer than the tube, all acute, the 2 upper ones falcate 

 and united to the middle. Standard nearly | in. long ; lower petals shoiler, 

 the keel broad, much incurved, pui-ple. Ovary distinctly stipitate. Pod not 



seen. 



*W. Australia. Swan River, Drutnmond, 2nd (mid Srd f'J ColL n. 95. 



Var. leiophulla, Meissu. in PI. Preiss. ii. 215. Leaves rather broader, glabrous and 

 shnnng above ; A. procumhens, Meissn.in PL Preiss. i. 60.— Swan River and southern inte- 

 rior, Preiss, n. 845 and 882 ; Robertson's Brook, MaxpjeiL 



The species is very near A. viliosa, differing chiefly in the longer and more deep]y-cleft 



^ 5. A. phylicoides, F. Mudl. Ilerh. Apparently a stragoHng slirub, the 

 branches clothed with a whitish toinentum, usually close and dense, but some- 

 times loose and woolly. Leaves linear or slightly lanceolate-linear, obtuse or 

 iPith recurved points, i to ^ in. long, with recurved orrevolute margins, nearly i 

 glabrous and shining above when full-grown, toraentose miderneath. Flowers 

 in short, dense, terminal, leafless racemes. Pedicels rather shorter than the 

 calyx. Bracts, as in other species, veiy deciduous. Calvx about 3 lines 

 long the lobes as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones much broader, very 

 much falcate, and usually united to the middle. Standard about half as long 

 agam wmgs and very broad keel not much shorter. Ovary nearly sessile. 

 Pod broadly ovate, almost orbicular, about 3 lines diameter, the valves 

 slightly convex. Seeds reniforin, very strongly pitted, not strophiolate. 



W. Australia. Murchison river and Port Gregory, Oldjield. The inflorescence is 

 quite exceptional in the geuas, and the calyx shows au approach to that of Spharolohium, 

 but the other characters, as ^yell as the foliage, are quite those of Actus. 



6. A. lanigera, A. Cumi. ; BentJi. in Ann. JFien. Mns. ii. 78. A 

 stouter shrub than A. vMosa, the branches tomentosc and villous, with soft 

 spreading hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, mostly acute, \ to f in. 

 long, the_ margins revohite, hairy when young, at length glabrous, smooth 

 and shining above, hoary underneath. Flowers axillarv, as in A. villosa, 

 but much longer, and all yellow. Bracts above 1 line long, very deciduous, 

 though not so very early as in A. vilhsa. Calyx villous, 2^ lines long, the 

 lobes acuiuinate, the 2 upper ones rather broader and slightly falcate. Standard 

 a m long ; lower petals rather shorter. Ovary stipitate. Pod veiy villous, 

 much flattened, very obtuse, above 3 lines long. Seeds not strophiolate. 



Bn?'^ff^''^!f"^" f'^?^'',' °^ **°'"''"" ^"^y' ^- Cunningham, Fraser, F. llaeller i TVide 

 J3a>', Bidwill; also Leichhardl. 



"Wale 



A 



Port Macquarrie, Backhouse. 



Mosc. 1853, i. 268. Branches 



erect, virgate, minutely hoary-pubescent. Leaves mostly irregularly verticil- 

 late in threes, lanceo ate and almost acute. 4 to 8 lines long, the margins re- 

 volute, coriaceous, glabrous or scabrous above, hoaiy-tomentose underneath, 

 blowers axillary, as in A vinosa, but larger. Bracts exceedingly deciduous. 

 Calyx silky-pubescent, 2 lines long, the lobes shorter than the tube, all acute, 

 the 2 upper ones broader, very falcate, and united to the middle. Standard 

 iully twice as long as the calvx ; lower petals shorter, the keel purple. Ovary 

 sessile or scarcely contracted at the base, and much shorter than in the other 



