93 • XL. LEGUMINOS.E. [Phyllok, 



Tlowers few, axillary, below tlie ends of the branches, on very short pedicels. 

 Bracteoles leafy, linear, longer than the calyx-tube. Calyx about 2 lines 

 long, the lobes short, with subulate points, the 2 upper ones broader at the 

 base. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter, 

 the keel purjile and much incurved, but obtuse. Filaments mostly adnata to 

 the petals at the base. Ovary tapering into a thickish style, attenuate and 

 curved upwards. Pod not seen. 



N. S. ^Vales, "VVombal Brush, Argyle county, A, Cunningham,, 



6. p. pleurandroides, -F. MnelL in Trans. PJdL Inst. Vict, i. 38. 

 Branches virgate or difiuse, pubescent or villous. Lefives scattered, few along 

 the branches, but often crowded at the ends, nan^ow-linear, obtuse or with a 

 short recurved point, under \ in. long, the margins closely revolute, glabrous 



scal>rous or hirsute when young, the broad midrib alone appearing under- 

 neath, riowers small terminal or on very short axillary shoots, sessile in a 

 dense tuft of floral loaves, ciliate and imbricate at the base. Bracteoles broad, 

 obtuse, shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx pubescent, ly to nearly 2 lineS 

 long, the lobes short, the 3 upper ones truncate and more united. Petal- 

 claws nearly as long as the calyx-tube, more or less adnate to the stamens at 

 their base ; standard fully twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals rather 

 shorter, the keel much incurved, but obtuse. Ovary tapering into the style, 

 which is dilated downwards and slightly pubescent, but without any longitu- 

 dinal row of hairs. Pod broadly ovate, shorter than the calyx. . 



Victoria. In the Grampians, F. Mueller, 



S. Australia. Mouut Barker, Whitlaker ; Kangaroo Island, Z Sfuelier ; Spencer'3 

 Gulf, mi/ieimi. 



15. GASTROLOBIUM, K. Br. 



. Calyx 5-lobed, the 2 upper lobes usually broader and united higher up. 

 Petals clawed. Standard orbicular or reniform, emarginate, longer than tlie 

 lower petals ; Avings oblong ; keel broader than the wings and usually shorter. 

 Stamens free. Ovary stipitate or rarely sessile, with 2 ovules on straight 

 and filiform funicles. Style incurved, filiform, witli a small terminal stigma. 

 Pod ovoid or nearly globular, turgid, continuous inside, the valves coriaceous. 

 Seeds (where known) strophiolate. — Shrubs. Leaves on very short petioles, 

 more or less distinctly verticillate or opposite, or occasionally scattered, sim- 

 ple and entire, usually rigid. Stipules setaceous, rarely wanting. Fimvers 

 yellow or the keel and base of the standard purple-red, in terminal or axillary 

 racemes, eitherloose or contracted into corymbs or whorl-like clusters. Bracts 

 and bracteoles usually very deciduous, in a few species the brown rigid bracts 

 persist nearly till the flowers open. Staminal disk usually very short. Ovary 

 very villous. 



The genus is luniteJ to West Australia. It is closely allied on the OTie hand to tie stro- 

 phiolate species of Ojri/lobium, only differing from them in the number of ovules constantlj 

 2, and on the other to Fulteniea, from which it is distinguished by the habit, the coriaceous 

 leaves, the bracteoles either deciduous or inconspicuous and the more coriaceous turgid pod- 

 Several of the species are sent as the Poison-plant of W. Australia, especially G, bilohuf^ 

 and G, Callhiachys. 



. Sekies I. Axillares,— i?flc7^/«^j contracted into clusters or keads^ all or ^^^^'i 

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