102 XL. LEGUMiNos^. \_Gastrolobmn, 



Standard hvice as long as tlie calyx ; keel deeply coloured. * Ovary stipitate. 

 Pod broadly ovoid, rather longer than the calyx. 



IV 



The 



species approaches sometimes in foliage OxijJoUum iricuspidaiuniy but the leaves arc more 

 toothed and the ovary different. 



Var. lohaitim. Leaves narrow, with revolute margins, divided above the middle into 1, 

 2 or 3 pairs of opposite, divaricate, short, broad, divaricate lobes, all ending in pungent 

 points, and there are often small pungent teeth in the undulate sinuses. — (?. verticillatum, 

 Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 28. — Between Moore and Murchison riyevB, Druwmo?id, (jih 

 Co/L n. 24. Different as this appears at first sight, there are specimens in which the leaves 

 pass from the one form to the other, and the inflorescence and flowers are the same in all. 



Series II. EACEMOSi*;. — Eacemes terminal or occasionally axillarjs elon- 

 gated, cylindrical or 1-sided, or reduced to a few distant pairs of flowers. 



15, G. villosum, JBenlL in Lindl, Swan Riv. Jpp. 13. A decumbent 

 shrub, with ascending stems, the branches in our specimens above 1 ft. long, 

 softly tomentose, and hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate, 

 broadly oblong or almost ovate-lanceolate, very obtuse, truncate or emargi- 

 nate, with or without a small point, 1 to 2 in, long, the margins undulate, 

 the base broad, truncate or slightly cordate, coriaceous, glabrous or slightly 

 hirsute underneath. Eacemes terminal, pedunculate, often 3 or 4 in. long, 

 Bracts brown and rigid, lanceolate-subidate, often persisting till the flowers 

 expand. ^ Calyx about 3 lines long, villous, the 2 upper lobes connate about 

 to the middle. Standard twice as long as the calyx, orange-red, lower petals 

 shorter, purple-red, the keel shorter than the wings. Ovary stipitate. Style 

 short, incurved. Pod broadly ovoid, stipitate, about 4 lines long.— Bot. Eeg. 

 1847, t. 45 ; Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 68. 



■W.Australia. Swan Eiver, Lrummond, Isi ColL and n. 194; Darling Kange, 

 Preiss, n. 810. 



polystacliyTi 



An erect or 



spreading shrub, the branches tomentose-villous. Leaves mostly opposite 

 broadly oblong, often more or less cuneate, truncate at the end* | to 1 in. 

 long or rarely more, the margins undulate, the base rounded, coriaceous, gla- 

 brous above, softly pubescent or villous or rarely at length glabrous under- 

 neath. Eacemes axillary or terminal, scarcely pedunculate, and rarely above 

 1 in. long. Bracts brown and rigid, ovate, concave, rather acute. Flowers 

 much smaller than in G, villosum. Calyx villous, about 2 lines long, the 

 tipper lobes scarcely united at the base. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; 

 wuigs as in G. villosum, shorter than the standard and longer than the keel 

 Pod shortly stipitate, ovoid, acute, scarcely 3 lines loivr—Oxuhbium bat'dhm^ 

 Hook. Ic. PL t. 612. ^ ^ 



W 



71, 32. 



17.^ G, ovaHfolium, Henfr. in Gard. Comp, l 41, wllh a fg., copied ^^ 

 Lemaire, Jard. FL t. 247. Apparently a low, diffuse or procumbent shrub, 

 the young branches villous. Leaves mostly opposite, ovate, orbicular or 



- . -. -, . ^......^, I to 1 in. lon„ 



the margins thickened and nerve-like, not undidate, coriaceous, glabrous 

 above, reticulate and villous or at length glabrous underneath, llaceines 

 nearly sessile, rather slender, 1 to J5 In. long. Bracts brown, rigid, acumi- 



