Tultencea,'] xu leguminos^. 117 



villous, tapering into a subulate style. Pod ovate, pubescent, nearly 3 lines 

 long. Seeds ovate, the hilum at the broad end with a fringed strophiole. 



N. S. "Wales. Fort JacksoQ to the Blue Moimtains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 386, IL 

 Wixt 563, 564, and 592, and others. 



Victoria. la the Grampians, Mitchell ; Mount Disappoiutment, the Grampians, etc., 

 L Mueller; Wimmera, Ballachy. 



*ar. montana. More tomentose. Leaves frequently obovate, very retiise, scarcely mu- 

 cronate.— P. montana, Lindl. ia Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 178.— 'J'o this form belong the 

 Hctorian specimens. 



Var. hiloha, Tomentum short and often hoary or even silveiy on the under side of the 

 leaves. Leaves narrow-euneate, dilated and 2-lobed at the end, with a short recurved point. 

 —P. hiloha, R. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 2091 (a starved speciracii) ; DC. Prod. ii. 110; Lodd. 



Bot. Cab. t. 550 ; P. deUoldea, Sieb. PL Exs.— Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sleber, n, 388, 



etc. 



13. P. microphyUa, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 112. A dwarf, diffuse, 

 wuch brauclied slimb, the brandies slender, hoary silky-pubescent or villous. 

 Leaves linear-cuneate, usually narrow and 3 to 4 lines long, truncate or re- 

 tuse, with a recurved point and re volute margins ; sometimes longer and flatter, 

 rounded at the end, with a recurved point, but never exceeding ^ in., usually 

 glabrous above and hoary tomentose underneath, rarely softly villous when 

 F^ing. Stipules very small, spreading or recurved. Flowers in the ujjper 

 axils on very short pedicels, or 2 or 3 together at the ends of the short branch- 

 ets Bracts very small or none besides the stipules of the floral leaves. Brac- 

 teoles inserted on the calyx-tube, smaU, linear. Calyx scarcely 2 lines long, 

 Iioary or silky-villous, the lobes nearly as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones 

 oroad and united above middle. Standard about twice as long as the calyx ; 

 lower petals shorter. Ovary villous. Pod broadly and obliquely ovate, not 

 scummate, about 3 lines long.— P. slempJtylla, A. Cunn. in G. Don, Gen. 

 »^jst.u. 12^; p. nncinata, A. Cuuii. ; Beiith. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 88. 



Queensland. Brisbane river, i^/cw^r. ,,. ^, 



Hit '^^^^^- Tort Jacksoti to the Blue Mountains, E. Brown, Sieber, n. 418, II. 



«• ». 502, and others ; Goulburn, Backhouse ; Laclilan river, Fraur. 

 in k' '^^f'^^"- I'Cfivcs bi-oaJly cuncate-tniucute, 3 to 4 lines long.— P. cuneata, Benth. 

 r",""' Wien. Mus, ii. 83.— To this belong the Queensland specimens, and some from New 

 ™glaad, C Stuart. When the leaves are nearly flat, it has some resemblance to P. largi- 

 J'OHm, ^,»-h,ch, however, besides the usually iucurvcd margins of the leaves, may be readily 



di,t;„ T .' lowever, besides the usually .^v,, 

 "'stmguished by the large upper lip of the calyx. 



^''^iigated, pubescent when \ 



linear iinM. 1 . . *^ 



Brandies slender, 

 appressed hairs. Leaves 



""ear, with revolute margins, obtuse or with recurved points, under \ in. long, 

 p scabrous above, pale and more or less hairy underneath. Stipules ap- 

 sU?r ^^°'^'^i"s 3 to 6 together, sessile in heads either terminal or on very 

 snor lateral shoots, so as to a])pear axillary, surrounded by a few broad, bifid 

 tracts. Bracteoles ovate, concave, inserted immediately under the calyx and 

 rou T^, ^' ^^'^ t"^'^- Ca]>x pubescent. 3 lines long, the 2 upper lobes 

 hnn '^ ^°fl united into a broad emarginatc upper lip, the 3 lower ones much 

 r.- 7' '''"*^- Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel much shorter, 

 tjp '°'it- Ovary villous ; style scarcely thickened at the base, hooked at the 



