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XL. LEGUJllNOS.i:. . [Gasfrololitiw. 



Calyx glabrous, fully 5 lines long. Eracts large membranous . 24. ^. cahjcinmn. 



Leaves with lateral pungent lobes or angles 13. G^. tniobum. 



Leaves narrow or cuueate, obtuse or emarginate. 



Leaves linear, 1 to 2 in. long, scarcely verticillate, ^ r^ n iv t i 



Leaves flat or the margins reciirved. Eacenies long . . .25. G, Cat list achj/s. 



Leaves folded lengthwise or involute. Kacenies short and 



dense , 2^^ G. sie^iojphyUum. 



Leaves oblong. . 



Leaves opposite or verticillate, strongly keeled, about 1 in. long 27. <^. crassijolium. 



Leaves under J in. long, the midrib scarcely prominent. 



Leaves crowded, scarcely verticillate. Calyx glabrous . . 28. G. farvifolum. 



Leaves verticillate. Calyx villous. Racemes very short . 29. G, hamulosnm. 

 Leaves, emarginate. 

 Racemes cylindrical. 



Leaves mostly \ in. long, the margins sli^^htly recurved . . 30. G. vehdinim. 



Leaves mostly 1 in. long, the margins revolute . . . . 31. 6^. bidens. 

 Racemes contracted almost into an umbel 32. G- bilooim. 



Series I. Axillahes. — Eacemes contracted into clusters or lieads; all or 

 mostly axillary, assuming tlie appearance of whorls. 



1. G. pyramidale, T. Moore, in Gard. Comp. i. 81, icitU a fig. A tall 



stout handsome shrub, the young branches softly pubescent or loosely vuloiis. 

 Leaves mostlyverticillate in threes, ovate or rarely broadly obovate-oblong, 

 very obtuse truncate or emarginate, with or without a small point, 1 to laO^ 

 in cultivation 2 in. long, rounded or broadly cordate at the base, rigidly coria- 

 ceous, reticulate, glabrous, the margins often thickened and nerve-like, oti- 

 pules usually long. Tlowers bright yellow with a red keel, in dense snoi 

 umbels or heads, on short peduncles, axillary or terminal. Calyx 3 to 4 luies 

 long, very villous, the lobes nearly equal. Ovary very shortly stipitate. xo 

 not seen. — Oxijlobium ovalifoUnm, Linfll. and Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii. f>3, t. ^^^ 

 not of Meissn. ; Gaslroloh'mm polycepjiahwi, Turcz- in Bull. Mosc. 18oo, i' 

 274 ; G. cremdulum, 1. c. 273 (with rather narrower leaves and smaller flowers]. 



IV. Australia, Brummond, Uk CoU. n. 54 and 55 ; Cheyncs beach, S. const, J/^^' 

 welL The species very closely resembles some specimens of Oxijlohlnm retusnnh ^^^ 

 indumentum is not silky, and tbe ovary 2-ovulate. 



2. G. Lehmanni, Meissn. in Fl Preiss. i. 70, and li. 217. An erect 

 shrub, probably of several ft., the branches softly tomentose-pubescerit^ 

 Leaves oblong, very obtuse or emarginate, mostly 1 to 2 in. long, or sma ^ 

 on the side-branches, rounded at the base, very coriaceous, the thickened nen 

 like margins often minutely crenulate, glabrous above, the reticuiati 

 scarcely visible there, and quite concealed underneath by a soft whitish ^^^^, 

 turn. Flowers rather small, in axillary clusters. Calyx silky-tomentose, 

 lobes rather narrow^ about equal to the tube, the 2 upper ones a little mo 

 connate than the others. Ovi:iy shortly stipitate. Pod acuminate, ratne 

 longer than the calyx, , 



V^. Australia- In the interior, Pveiss, w. 806, Brummond^ Srd CoIL n. So- 



3. G. pulchellum, Turcz. in Bull Mosc. 1853, i. 274. Branches silky- 

 pubescent, much more slender than in G, Lehmanni, which this ^P^^^^5/*^g 

 sembles in some respects. Leaves oblong, obtuse or emarginate, "^vit 

 minute recurved point, under 1 in. long, rounded at the base, coriaceous, re 

 culate, ghibrous. Flowers rather small, clustered in the upper axils or la 



