100 XL. LEGUMlKOSiE. [Gastrolobiunu 



hirsute witli long spreading hairs. Leaves nearly orbicular, mostly about | 

 in. long, truncate at the end, the midrib produced into a long fine point, 

 broad and often cordate at the base, the margins much undulate, scarcely 

 coriaceous, glabrous and reticidate above, pale underneath and sprinkled with 

 a few long hairs. Stipules setaceous, deciduous. Flowers small, in axillary 

 clusters of 3, sometimes borne on a short common peduncle, the pedicels about 

 1 line long, recurved, each in the axil of a small ovate or lanceolate very deci- 

 duous bract. Calyx membranous, slightly hairy, about 1| lines long, tlie 

 lobes about as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones rather more united thaa 

 the others. Standard twice as long as the calyx. Ovary shortly stipitale. 

 Pod nearly 3 lines long, shortly acuminate. 



IV- Australia, Drummond {Uh ColL ?), w. 30. The leaves of this species are much 

 thluner than usual in the genus, and recall iu some measure the foliage of Aotuscordifohns, 

 The seeds of the first pod I opened also had no strophiole, but 1 found the strophiole per- 

 fect in the seeds of several other pods, and the general habit and stipules are those of Gas- 

 irolohiuM, 



ipathulatum 



A small 



shrub, with erect virgate nearly simple stems, oftea imder 1 ft. high, slightly 

 hoary or silky-tomentose. Leaves spathulate, y to 1 in. long, 3 or 4 lines 

 broad, rounded truncate or emarginate at the end, with a minute point, taper- 

 ing at first rapidly, and afterwards gradually to the base, folded lengthwise, 

 coriaceous, much reticulate and glabrous. Flowers small, in axillary clusters 

 or short racemes, never exceeding the leaves. Calyx silky-pubescent, about 2 

 lines long, the two upper lobes united above the middle. Keel deeply 

 coloured. Ovary on a long stipes. Pod not seen ripe. — Meissn. in PI- 

 Preiss. i. 71. 



W, Australia, \st ColL and n. 72, also (according to Meissner) «. 208 ; Mount 

 Bakewell, Freiss, w. 800, mixed with Oxylolium cuneaium, which this species much re- 

 •embles, but may be distiiiguislied by the more spathulate and much more reticulate leaves, 

 besides the constant ditFerence in the number of ovules. 



^ Var. (?) laiifo/ium. Stems loosely villous. Leaves broader and not above i 'n. long, loosely 

 tomentose underneath when young. Calyx more villous. — W. Australia, Bmnmond; 

 Phillips Ranges, Maxwell. The specimens are scarcely sufTicicnt to determine whether 

 they may not rather be a variety of G, Brownii. 



9. G. plicatum, r«?*c^. mi?««. Mosc. 1853, i. 274. A stont, rigitJ 

 shrub, the young- branches toiuentose-villous. Leaves obovate-cuneate, trun- 

 cate, with a small recurved point, the angles roundedj mostly about 1 in.lon?* 

 folded lengthwise, very coriaceous, glabrous and often somewhat glaucous, the 

 reticulations fine and not very conspicuous. Stipules long. Flowers axil- 

 lary, loosely clustered. Calyx very viltous, about 3 lines long, the lobes 

 nearly equal. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel deeply coloiired. 

 Ovary on a long stipes. Pod stipitate, very hirsute, exceeding tiie calyx, 



"W*. Australia, Drummond, ^th ColL n. 50. 



10. G. tricuspidatum, Jfm^w. in PI Prehs. i. 66. A stout, rigiJ 

 shriib, the branches scarcely angular, softly villous. Leaves rather crowded, 

 cuneate, truncate, or shortly 3-lobed, with 3 short rigid points, | to 1| J"" 

 long, very coriaceous, more or less folded lengthwise, villous when young, 

 length glabrous, reticulate underneath, and drying usually of a yellowish tinge. 



Flowers axillary, clustered. Calyx loosely villous, about 3 lines long, t»^ 

 lobes rather broad, acuminate, the 2 upper ones shortly united. Ovary ses- 



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