104 ^ XL. LEGUMINOS^. [Jjastrolobiuvi. 



angles. Flowers smaller, the racemes looser aud more peduaculate. — Stony places. Port 

 Gi-egoij, Oldjield. 



21. G. rotundifolium, Meissn. in PL Preiss.ii. 216. An erect, rigid 

 shrub, of about 1 ft., the youug- branches loosely villous or woolly, at length 

 glabrous. Leaves mostly opposite, broadly ovate or orbicular, tapering into 

 a pungent point, f to 1 in. long or rarely more, the margins somewhat undu- 

 late in our specimens, the base rounded, coriaceous, glabrous or loosely vil- 

 lous underneath. Racemes short and sessile. Bracts brown and rigid, broad, 

 concave, rather obtuse, imbricate and persistent till the flower opens. Calyx 

 softly villous, under 3 lines long, the lobes all acute, the 2 upper ones rather 

 broader, but not more united. Standard not twice the length of the calyx; 



keel as long as the wings. Ovary almost sessile; style rather dilated. Pod 

 not seen. 



"W 



microcarpum, Meissn 



oxi/lobioides). A rigid shrub, the branches minutely silky-hoary when young. 

 Leaves mostly in whorls of 3 or 4, elliptical-oblong", tapering into a pungent 

 point and narrowed at the base, | to 1^ in. long, very rigid, coriaceous, and 

 reticulate, glaucous or hoary underneath. Racemes loose, 1 to 3 in. long, 

 pubescent or villous. Bracts brown and rigid, but very deciduous. Calyx 

 slightly villous, about 2 lines long, the upper lobes broad, truncate, and 

 united nearly to the top. Keel shorter than the wings. Ovary on a long 

 stipes. Pod (according to Meissner) scarcely 2 lines long, on a stipes as long 

 as the calyx. 



X. ^- "^'*^*^*^^a* Drummond, n. 203, Preiss, n. 816, 817. This may be, as susjested 

 by Meissner, a variety of G. oxylobioides, but the flowers are much smaller and more nu- 

 merous, and the stipes of the pod and ovary much longer, 



23. G. oxylobioides, Btnth. in Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 13. An erect 

 shrub, of 1 to 2 ft., not much branched, glabrous or the young shoots and 

 racemes slightly silky-hoary. Leaves opposite or in threes, elliptical -oblong, 

 broad or narrow, tapering to a pungent point, 1 to \\ or rarely 2 in. long, 

 coriaceous, hgid, reticulate, and often folded lengthwise. Racemes terminal 

 or in the upper axils, consisting of few flowers in distant pairs or whorls of 

 3. Bracts ovate, acuminate, brown and rigid, but very deciduous. Pedicels 

 short. Calyx about 3 lines long, silky-pubescent, the lobes broad, the 2 up- 

 per ones united above the middle. Standard about twice as long as the 

 calyx ; keel rather shorter than the wings. Ovary rather shortly stipitate. 

 Pod about 3 lines long, on a stipes vei-y much shorter than the calyx. 



W. Australia Swan River, Dmmmond, \st Coll., Oldjield; S. ITntt river and Mur- 

 chison nver, Oldjield. One of the poison-plants. ' J ' 



G. Brummondii Meissn. in PI. Prciss. i. 69, appears to me to be referable to the form 

 ongmaly described oi 0. oxylobioides, and the var. microcarpum, Meissn. I.e. 70, to be a 

 narrow-leaved form, sufficiently constant to be considered as a distinct species, as tar as can 

 DC judged from our specimens. 



24. G. calycinum, Benth. in Lindl. Sican Riv. Arm. 13. An erect 

 shrub, nearly allied to G. oxylobioides, but quite glabrous. Leaves opposite 

 or in threes, oblong-elbptical or more frequently from ovate-lanceolate to lan- 

 ceolate. With a pungent point, 1 to 2 in. long, coriaceous, rigid, reticulate, 



