Pidten^aJ] XL. LEGUMINOS^. 113 



Stipules minute. Flowers not numerous, nearly sessile in small dense heads 

 within the last leaves. Bracts imbricate, usually deciduous, the inner ones 

 often at least 2 lines long, Bracteoles linear or oblong, concave, inserted on 

 the middle of the calyx-tube. Calyx about 2 lines long, silky -villous ; lobes 

 ^ lanceolate, shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broader and united to the 

 middle. Petals deciduous ; standard nearly twice as long as the calyx ; lower 

 petals shorter, the keel obtuse. Ovary villous ; style slightly thickened to- 

 wnrds the base. Pod triangular-ovate, acute, about 3 lines long, silky- 

 pubescent.— DC. Prod. ii. Ill; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 974; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Tasm. i. 86 ; P. caj>itellata, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 112. 



N. S. Wales. Port Jacksou, Sieb. n. 413 ; Bargo Brush, Backhouse. 

 Victoria. Creswick Creek and Dandenonsr ranaes, and Grampian Hills, F. Mueller ; 

 mouth of the Glenelg,^//z«. 



Tasmania. Port Dalryinple, R. Brown; abundant in various localities, on moist peaty 

 'ol, /. B. Hoolcer. 



S. Australia. S. E. interior, F. Mueller. 



3. P. retusa, 8m. in Ann. Bot. i. 502, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 247. 

 A slirub with the slender virgate branches of P. stricta, often angular and 

 usually silky-pubescent. Leaves linear or linear-cuneate, very obtuse or more 

 • J'«q"ently emarginate, and sometimes dilated at the end, 2 to 4 lines or rarely 

 2 m. long in the normal form, flat, pale underneath, but usually glabrous on 

 'wth sides. Stipules very small. Flowers few, in small tenninal heads 

 sessile within the last leaves. Bracts imbricate, the inner ones often 1 \ lines 

 jong, hut very deciduous, the puter ones smaller. Bracteoles broadly linear, 

 inserted on the calyx-tube. Calyx about 2 lines long, silky-hairy, the 2 

 iipper lobes broader, but scarcely more united. Standard not twice as long 

 as the calyx. Ovary villous ; style filiform almost from the base. Pod 

 " ^ "'■oadly ovate, almost triangular, about 3 lines long, rather flat.— DC. Prod. 

 "• il2; Bot. Mag. t. 2081 ; Bot. Beg. t. 378. _ . 



^ ' i'. i?"^//^^^*^*" S^oalwater Bay, 11. Brown ; Glasshouse mountains and Brisbane river, 



p/",",.*; ^Vales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Tt. Brown, Sleher, n. 415, and 

 Twnf M „"• ^^^ : northward to HastiuKS and Clarence rivers, Beckler; and southward to 

 « ofold Bay, F. Mueller. 



ictona. Snowy and Broadribb rivers, F. Mueller. .. . . i 



ratW. 1 ■^'^^^^«- iiianclies more pubescent, and scarcely angular or quite terete leaves 



^ her longer usually about \ in., rardy nearly 1 in., flowers larger, the calyx often 2i lines 



SI 'f ^." "^°^« ^"•"erous in lart/er heads.-P. linophi/Ua {P. W.^/« on the plate). 



- S2 «''[• "'""°^- 1- 18 ; Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. h. 247 ; DC. Prod^n 112 ; F.fflau- 



W ?'' ^'''^- ^'- Exs. .n. 417 . and Fl. iMixt. n. .5fil.-Port Jackson. Sieber s specimens 



' the tw^T"''' ^^- Exs.Tlu, and Fl. Mixt. n. 559. appear to be intermediate between 



benS '^fr"?'^' ^'^tl^°^t fl««"-^. from Burnett river, Queensland, F. Mueller ajrpear to 

 '"'"margins' ^° ^- ''^"'''' ^""^ '^'^^ '"'^ '''''"''' '"'^''' "^'""'^ 



Benthaixiii, F. Muell 



A rigid 



C w''^' ^^*^ y°^"g branches slightly angular and silky-pubescent. Leaves 

 ;^ folate or oblong-hncar, rigid, acute or pungent-poiuted, mostly about \ 

 J. oi,g ,nd rarely exceeding 8 lines, flat or with recurved margms, glabrous 



Mh?' P'^', °' «%-pubcscent underneath. Stipules small. Flowers few to- 

 ™' rather large, in terminal heads, sessile within the last leaves. Bracts 



II. 



