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^Oks.] ] XL. LEGUMINOSjE. S3 



species. Style long and very slender. Pod ovate, very obtuse, tnrgid, about 

 •2 lines long. Seeds not strophiolate. 



W. Australia, Lnimmotid, 5M Coll. n. 61 and 63, 



8. A. carinata, Meissn, in PL Preks, ii. 215. An elegant shrub, the 

 brandies and foliage densely clothed with long, soft, silky hairs. Leaves 



. Bracts ininute, ovato. Calyx not 1 line long, membranous, the lobes 



much shorter than the txxbe, the 2 upper ones rather broader and rajre united, 

 btandard fully 4 lines long; wings shorter; keel still shorter, purple, in- 

 curved. Ovary small' and sessile ; style very slender. Pod not seen. 



W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd ColL n. 102, also (3rd ColL ?) n, U. 



.9. A, passerinoides, Mehm. in PI Prelss. i. 61. Stems erect, 

 simple or slightly branched, 1 to 1^ ft. high, densely and softly villous. 

 Y'^ves almost all in whorls- of 3, oval-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or 

 almost acute, under \ in, long, the margins recurved or slightly revolute, 

 sottly silky-villous on both sides, or at lengtli glabrous above. Flowers axil- 



^I'J: clustered, the pedicels very villous, about \ line long. Calyx membra- 

 rious, about 1 line long, the lobes somewhat obtuse, the 2 upper ones broad, 

 ™e and united above the middle. Standard about 3 lines long ; keel 

 shorter, purple. Ovary sessile ; style filiform, hirsute. Pod not seen. 



Near Albany, Preiss, n. 8C8, 



.'•/«■ An erect shrub of several ft., the branches terete, loosely pubescent, and 

 >ilious with fine spreading hairs. Leaves in whorls of 3, ovate-cordate, acute 

 %U] 1.?™'''^^'"^^ almost pungent, 4 to 8 lines long, herbaceous, the margins 



iglitly recurved, undulate and almost denticulate, finely reticulate, hirsute or 

 t length glabrous. Plowers axilhirv, solitary or 2 or 3 together, the pedi- 

 ^ s very short. Bracts small, ovate, concave. Calyx slightly pubescent, 

 membranous, 1 to IJ lines long, the lobes rather shorter than the tube, the 

 hll^^l ^""^s truncate and united above the middle. Standai-d 3 to H lines 

 1 o' '^^^er petals rather shorter, the keel incurved, obtuse. Ovary stipi- 



r^ i'od small.-Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. Gl. 



% in'-n^'^^**'*^*- Swan River, Hueael, Dnmmond, \st Coll. and n. 251, Freiss, 



aud others. 



14. PHYLLOTA, DC. 



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p , f y'*' 2 upper lobes broader, and sometimes united into an upper lip; 



idis clawed ; standard nearly orbicular, longer than the lower petals ; wings 



^^^o'lg; keel much incurved.' Stamens either all, or at least the 5 outer 



with (1'°'"'^ ^^ ^*^^^ adnate to the petals at the base, and _ 



fiini 1 ^^ ^ ""= ^^ ^^'"^J"*^ t"'^^- Ovary sessile, wiiu t^ y.^i^- -■• 



^ ucies ; style dilated or thickened at the base, incurved and subulate up- 

 5^;s; stigma small, terminal. Pod ovate, somewhat turgul, 2-valved. 



Shrubs, usually heath-bke. _ Leaves 

 Stipules none, or very minute iu 



sometimes all united 

 iih 2 ovules on short 



Seerl ::'»'"'* smaii, terminal, rod 



^^atteS H?"' '"'i^™* '''"^ strophiole.- 

 ^'eu, linear, with revolute mari-ins. 



