

XL. LEGUMINOSjE. 



107 



> 



Gaslrolobium.'] 



sile, villous 1 to 11 in. long, many-flowered. Bracts concave, acuminate, 

 persisting almost to the opening of the flowers. Calyx not 2 lines lono-, vil- 

 lous the lobes all acute, the 2 upper ones rather broader and shortly united 

 at tlie base. Ovary on a long stipes ; style short. Pod not seen. 



W. Australia. Betvveca Moore aud Murchison rivers, Lrummond, &tk Coll. n. 23. 



32. G. bilobum, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 16. A tall shrub, 

 ne young branches angular and usually silky-pubescent. Leaves mostly ver- 

 ucillate in threes or fours, from obovate to narrow-oblong, alwavs more or 

 less cuneate,^truncate or emarginate with 2 short rounded lobes, and minutely 

 miicronate, ^ to 1^ in. long or rarely smaller, thinly coriaceous, glabrous and 

 veined above, pale and often minutely silky-pubescent underneath. Plowers 

 numerous, in very short, almost umbel-like, terminal racemes rarely exceeding 

 iiie leaves. Pedicels much longer than in the preceding species. Calyx silky- 

 puuescent, 2 to 4 lines long, the 2 upper lobes broader, more obtuse, and 

 mucu to about the middle. Standard about twice as long as the calyx ; 

 wings and keel rather shorter, the latter deeply coloured. Ovary on a long 

 snpes; style slender. Pod stipitate, ovoid or oblong, rather acute, 2, 3, and 

 . --s- DC. Prod, ii.no ; Bot.Eegt. 411; Bot. Mag. t. 2212; 



^odd. IJot. Cab. t. 70 ; Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 66, ii. 216. 



79<) n '^^*^*"*" ^ifg George's Sound and adjacent districts, R. Brown, Preiss, n. 

 Ihm ■" ' ^'"^ '^''"- '^* 1^'^' an^ others ; common from thence to Blackwood and 



thp nn,- '^''V' ^^^field; and eastward to Cape Le Grand, Maxwell. Said to be the worst of 

 •■ne poison-plants. *■ 



form _^p^ f"^^^^"- I-eaves linear-cuueatc, but not otherwise differing from the common 

 • ^- cori/mbosum, Turez. in Bull. Mosc. 1S53, i. 272.— Drummoiid, Wi Coll. n. 58. 



even 4 lines long. 



halved. 



16. PULTEN^A, Sm. 



(Euchilus, 22. Hr. ; Spadostyles, BenlL ; Urodon, Turcz) 



\X ^'hJ. ^ ^PP^^' ^p^es more or less united into an upper lip, and sometimes 



Petals on rather 

 wer petals ; wings 



Pitate -fi o -....ww.o i.cc. w. c. J .voo..^ «. .arely shortly sti- 



dilii 'i r ovules on short funicles ; style subulate, often more or less 



IZ "^"■'"^"••Js ; stigma small, terminal. Pod ovate, flat or turgid, 2- 

 ODDo^-f ■ ^■'^^"'o™> strophiolate.— Shrubs. Leaves alternate or rarely 

 brown °l* "^ ^?*'*^"^s of 3, simple. Stipules linear-lanceolate or setaceous, 

 in the ^1 n ^''*"""^' closely pressed on the branch, and more or less united 

 and sn''^ 1- '^'^'^ ^^'^^' *^^^ poiuts or sometimes nearly the whole stipule free 

 the flor-Tl "^' °' *'^^ stipules minute and free, rarely quite deficient, those of 

 yellow '^^^^ "^*^^" ^^^^ enlarged whilst the lamina is reduced. Flowers 

 and 11 °^''"/^ ^^" ^^^^^ ^'^*^^i purple, rarely pink, either axiUary and solitary 

 brancl,"^" "'^l^cn^Iy collected in leafy heads or tufts near the ends of the 

 by i,fi||.-' 7 ^''"^^'^^^'^ ill terminal heads and surrounded within the floral leaves 

 Bracts '' I ^' ^^'''"^^s, brown bracts or enlarged stipules without any lamina. 

 Pinifoin i^^^^^ ^""'^^ usually small. Bracteoles persistent (except in P. 

 or r n-^r ' f. ^^°se «iittt;r the calyx or adnatc with its tube. Ovary villous 



'■■"'^h' glabrous. 



