lie XL. LEGUMiKos^. [Pulknm. 



calyx-tube, concave, carmate. Calyx silky-liaiiy, about 3 Hues long, the lobes 

 lanceolate, much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones 'united above the 

 middle. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals shorter. 

 Ovary villous, gradually tapering into a long style. Pod compressed, silky, 

 longer than the calyx, and tapering into the long persistent silky base of tlie 

 style. — Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 246; DC. Prod. ii. 112; Lodd. Bot. 

 Cab. t. 291. 



N. S. "Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieher, n. 416, -F/. 

 Mixt. 71. 560, Fraser^ R. Cunnivglianiy WooUs, and otiiers ; New England, C. Stuart. 



Victoria. Upper Genoa river, F. Mueller^ the specimen in young bud only, and there- 

 fore in some measure doubtful. 



Var. oMusata, Leaves rather broader and less acute. — Hunter's "River, R, Brown; be- 

 tween Suggcrah and Lake Macquoy, Leichhardt, 



Var. sericea. Branches, under side of the leaves, and bracts, closely sillvj, but leaves 

 aciite and bracts covering the calyxes, as in the normal form. — Marshy places, near Brighton, 

 Victoria, F. Mueller ; near Melbourne, Adamson. 



• 11. P. Gnnnii, BentlAn Ann. Wien. Mus.ii. 82. An erect diffuse or 

 spreading shrub, of 1 to 3 ft., the numerous slender branches pubescent or 

 hirsute Avith spreading hairs or at length glabrous. Leaves varjing from 

 ovate and 1 to 2 lines long, to oblong or almost linear and 3 to 5 lines long, 

 obtuse, always convex or with recurved margins, often shining above, pale 

 and sometimes hairy undei-neath. Stipules small, usually spreading. Flowers 

 from 2 or 3 to about 8, in small terminal heads. Bracts imbricate, but 

 usually shorter than the very short pedicels. Bracteoles inserted on the 

 calyx-tube, small, lanceolate or linear. Calyx pubescent or villous, about 2 

 lines long or rather more, the lobes lanceolate, not acuminate, as long as the 

 tube, the 2 upper ones more falcate and united to the middle. Standard 

 twice as long as the calyx; lower petals shoiier, the keel deeply coloured. 

 Ovary villous ; style subulate. Pod obliquely ovate, acute, flat, about 3 line* 

 long, the finiiting pedicels often nearly as long as the calvx.— Hook. f. Fj. 

 Tasm. i. 88, t. 13 ; P. bceckeoides, A. Cunn. ; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. n. 

 83 (described from a very imperfect fragment). 



Victoria. Port Phillip, R. Browp, and thence to Gipps' Land and Australia Felu ; 

 comnioa in the Stringy-Bark and other ranges, F. MneUer. 



Tasmania. Port Dalrymple and Derwent river, R. Brown; abundant throughont the 

 colony, ascending to from 2000 to 3000 ft., /. D. Hooker. 



The larger-leaved forms can always be distinguished from P. driata by the very mnch 

 smaller bracts, 



12. P. scabra, R. Br, in Ait. HorL Kew, ed. 2. iii. 18. A sbrub of 3 

 to 4. ft., with divaricate branches, terete and softly pubescent or villous, the 

 down often rust-coloured. Leaves from obovate to narrow-cuncate, under j 

 in. long, truncate, eraarginate or sbortly 2-lobed, and often mucronate, the 

 margins revolute, scabrous above, tomcntose or hirsute underneath. Stipul^^^ 

 spreading or recurved. Flowers sessile in the upper axils or 3 or 4 together { 

 at the ends of the branches. Bracts very small or none besides the stipules 



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 late. Calyx bro 



calyx 



upper ones broader and united to the middle. Standard about twice as lo"3 

 as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter, the keel deeply coloured. Ovary 



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