106 XL. LEGUMlNOSiE. [GaslroloMum, 



G. parvifolium 



A ridd, 



spreading, Epacris-like shrub, the brandies pubescent. Leaves crowded, irre;j[U- 

 larly verticillate, narrow -oblong, obtuse, with a minute point, under | in. long, 

 thickly coriaceous, convex underneath, glabrous and reticulate, the midrib 

 scarcely conspicuous. Kaceines terminal, rather dense, rarely exceeding 1 in. 

 when in flower, often 2 in. in fruit, the rhachis and short pedicels softly aiid 

 densely pubescent. Calyx glabrous and veinless, broadly canipanulate, about 

 2 lines long, the 2 upper lobes almost completely united into a truncate up- 

 per lip, the 3 lower ones much shorter. Standard twice as long as the calyx; 

 wings shorter, oblong; keel still shorter, almost as broad as long, alfon 

 rather long claws. Ovary-stipes long ; style short. Pod compressed-globu- 

 lar, oblique, very obtuse, glabrous.— Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 69. 



Australia. Swau Kiver, Drimmond^ 1st CoJL ; Mouat Bukewcll, Preiss, n. 



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hamtilosuxn 



Branches numerous, 



rather slender, hoary-tomentose. Leaves mostly vcrticillate in threes, obtuse, 

 with a small often recnrved point, about 3 or 4 lines long, rigid, glabrous 

 when full-grown, strongly reticulate, the midrib scarcely prominent. Bacemes 

 terminal, short, consisting of 2 or 3 pairs of flowers or whorls of 3 each. 

 Bracts lanceolate. Pedicels very short. Calyx villous with spreading hairs, 

 about 3 lines long, the lobes acuminate, the 2 upper ones shortly united. 

 Standard not twice as long as the calyx, the lower petals not much shorter; 

 keel deeply coloured. Ovary very sho'rtly stipitate ; style rather thick. 



n. 



30 G. velutinum, Lindi. in Paxt. II. Gard. iii. 76, with a wooded. 

 An elegant shrub, the branches rather stout, angular, minutely silky-pnhes- 

 cent. Leaves vcrticillate in threes or fours, from obovate or obcordate to 

 Imear-cuneate, very obtuse or truncate, emargitiate, about \ in. oi- i-arely I in. 

 long, the margms recuiTod, coriaceous, reticulate, glabrous above, usually 

 pubescent underneath. Flowers orange-red, in terminal rather dense ra- 

 cemes, of 1 to l\ in., the rhachis and pedicels softly villous. Bracts ovate, 

 very deciduous. Calyx pubescevit or nearly glabrous, broad, fully 3 lines 

 long, the 2 upper lobes broad and united nearly to the top. Standard twice 

 as long as the calyx ; wings shorter but considerably exceeding the deeplv- 

 co oured keel. Ovary stipitate ; style short. Pod ovoid, scarcely acute, about 



-n a very short stipes.— G. emargbtatum, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc 



1853, i. 273. 



• n, 7^T, ^' .^ruiumuna, out uoil. n. 51, and Suppl. n. 27, Maxwell; Kalgau 

 nver, Vldfidd. Turczaiiinovv s name is much (hu most appropriate, but Lindley's has the 

 T^i °J 1T°" ^' 'l«"''f'«'«. "enfr. ia Gard. Coiup. i. 49, with a tig. copied iato Lemaire, 

 Jara. i-l. t. ^o», may be the same species, although the raceme is figured as much longer. 



31. G.bideas, Me'mn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, 29. A much stouter shrub 

 than G. vdulmim, the branches terete or slightly compressed, softly tomen- 

 tose or villous when young. Leaves mostly opposite, linear-cuneate, truncate 

 and often emarginate with a minute point, or sometimes 3-pointcd, about 1 

 in. long, the margins much revolute, coriaceous, glabious, and scarcely reticu- 

 late above, softly villous, almost woolly underneath. Bacemes slender, ses- 





