J 



R\jllota!\ XL. LEGUMiNoSii!;. ' 95 



or ciliate along the inner side above the middle. Pod ovate, obtuse, about 2 

 lines long, minutely pubescent. Seed without any strophiole. 



W. Australia, Brummondt 4M Coll. n. 91. 



3. P. Sturtii, Benth. A shrub, with the habit apparently of P. barbata 

 and F phyhcoides, tlie branches usually minutely tomentose-pubescent: 

 Leaves 3 to 4 lines long, obtuse or mucronulate, the uiargins closely revolute 

 more or less tuberculate and sprinkled with rigid hairs when young. Flowers 

 crowded m short leafy spikes at the ends of the branchlets. Bracteoles leafy, 

 keeled very acute, almost pungent, as long as the calyx. Calyx about 's 

 lines long the lobes acuminate, almost pungent, the 2 upper ones rather 

 proader the lowest one very narrow. Standard ovate, complicate j keel much 

 lucurved, almost acute, but scarcely rostrate, nearly as long as the standard ; 

 ^igs shorter and narrower. Stamens adnnte to the petals at the base. Style 

 Slender, hairy to the middle, but not bearded. Ovary sessile, slightly hairy. 



that " fP^i'^}^^* ^' ^^'"'^- '^^''^ ®'*^P*' *^^ *''*^ flowers is as it were intermediate between 

 oj r. barbata aud P. pki/licoides, the st.vlc is ratlier dilTcrent from either. 



\ \ rJ P*^y^^*^oides, Benth. in Jnn. men. Mm. ii. 77. An erect 

 fleath-iike shrub, of several ft., the branches terete, glabrous pubescent or 



irsute. Leaves numerous, narrow-linear, mostly about \ in. long, but in 

 some specimens nearly f in., in others not above 4 lines, obtuse or with 

 g T^^ usually recurved points, the margins revolute,. more or less tuberculate, 



caorous, and sometimes sprinkled with erect hairs, rarely quite smooth and 

 glabrous. Flowers almost sessile in the upper axils, forming 



head 



upper axils, forming terminal leafy 



g or 



eaas or spikes, or becoming lateral by the elongation of the terminal shoot, 

 acteoles leafy, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the calyx-tube, and often 

 loh i"^ ^°^^^-' ^''^'^'^ 2i to 3i lines long, glabrous or villous, the 



lowe''^ t Z"*''*^^ ^^^n'^*' t^i^'i'i ^lie lateral ones. Standard 4 to 6 lines long; 

 but ""w " fi'tlier shorter, the keel broatlcr than the wings, much incurved, 

 short fJ^^' -^'^'""^^'its and petal-claws all united at the base in a rin^ 

 middl '^^•""^ tapering into the style, which is much dilated below the 



calyx ^' T \ ^^''•^'^ gl-'i'ji'ous. Pod ovate or shortly oblong, included in the 

 «mn ' J without any strophiole. — Fi/Hnio'a phijUcoules, P. aspera, P. 

 mZ'v ^' *^««'''-««'^. Sieb. in DC. Pi-od. ii. 113 ; Fhr/llota pilosa, P. 

 ' B^Mi • ■ ?'"''*'^' ^' BMardieri, P. aramMora, P. sauanosa, aud P. Bauerl, 



"^»^t.mAnn.Wien.Mus.ii. 77. -^ -^ ' ' 



ga^nsland. Sandy Cape, JR. Brown ; Moreton Island, M'GilHvray, F. Mueller. 

 *07 408 ^t ^""^ J-icksou to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 405, 406, 



The ch'^ 7 " ^'■^^•»- 583, and others, Tllawarra, Shepherd; near Go.ulburu, C. Moore. 

 species err 1 1"!^°" "'^''''i> ^''ter De Candolle, I had endeavoured to distinguish several 

 ••efore me t ^ '^''' ''"^^'^ ^'^len applied to the lartre number of specimens I have now had 

 in the size Au'" ^"''^^''^ ^° distribute them eveu into niaikcd varieties, much as they differ 

 ''^»«es in infl • °^^"s. tl»e erect spreading: or recurved leaves, etc. The snpposed diffe- 



nnorescence depend often on the period of development. 



With sTp ^^^^^sa, A. Cunn. Herb, (under Bilhcynm). Stems prostrate, 

 linear nKf ^^^^"'^i'lg branches, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves narrow- 

 lute se 1 ^"^ ^^'^^'^ ^ recurved point, 2 to 3 lines long, the margins revo- 

 ' ^'^"rous or glabrous. Stipules very minute or quite inconspicuous.' 



