118 XL. LEGUMiNOS-K. [PiiUenm. 



15, P. pinifoliay MemnAfi PL Freiss. ii. 220. An erect slirub, ^vitll 

 virgate loosely pubescent or villons branches. Leaves narrow-linear, with 

 very short callous or recurved points and revolute margins, 1 to 1^ in. long, 

 glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs above, pale or hoary underneath. Sti- 

 pules spreading. Flowers rather large and nuinerous, in terminal umbels or 

 heads, sessile within the last leaves, although each flower is distinctly pedicel- 

 late. Bracts apparently imbricate, rather narrow and bifid, but mostly fallen 

 off from our specimens. Bracteoles linear, inserted under the calyx and very 

 deciduous. Calyx silky-pubescentj broad, 3 lines long ; lobes broad, acute, 

 about as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones slightly larger and more imited. 

 Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel niuch incurved, but very obtuse. 

 Ovary villous, shortly tapering into the style. Pod very villous, obliquely 

 and broadly ovate, turgid, 4 to 5 lines long. 



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Australia, Dnmmond, 2nd ColL n. 109. This species differs from tlie rest of 

 the geiiu3 in the veiy deciduous bracts, but the habit, inflorescence, strophiolate seeds, and 

 other characters, are quite those of Paltenaa, 



16. P. pedunculata, Hooh. Bot. May. t. 3359. A prostrate much- 

 Branched shrub, often forming large patches, the branchlets slender, but rigid, 

 terete, loosely pubescent or villous. Leaves linear or oblong-lanceolate, 

 narrowed at both ends, the margins recurved or revolute, 2 to 3 lines or rarely 

 \ in. long, rigid, with fine almost pungent points, which at length wear off, 

 glabrous or scabrous above, pale and often hairy underneath. Stipules erect. 

 Plowers small, solitary or 2 together at the ends of the branchlets, on filiform 

 pedicels, longer than the leaves. Bracteoles linear, inserted at the base of tlie 

 calyx, free or scarcely adnate. Calyx 1^ lines long, very open; lobes all 

 acuminate, spreading, the 2 upper ones broader and shortly united. Standard 

 twice as long as tlie calyx; lower petals rather shorter,' the keel incurved, 

 dark coloured. Ovary villous ; "stvle scarcely thickened at the base. Pod 

 obliquely orate, obtuse or with a recurved point, turgid, about 3 lines long- 

 —Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 91; P.diemenica, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 

 277. 



W. S. V/ales. Port Jackson, R. Brown. 



Victoria. Port Phillip,^. Brown; Glenelg river, MitcheU ; Windu Valley, Twhcrtm: 

 Forest Creek, F. Mueller; Winitnera, Ballachy. 



Tasmania. Dcrvvent river, U. Brown ; coinmou in sandy plains, near Hobarton, and 

 probably throughout the island, /. D. Hooker. 



■ ®- -^^^st^alia. Mount Lofty, Whitlaker ; Port Lincoln, Wilhehni ; Lofty and Bugl* 

 ranges, F. Mueller. , > ^ 



' ^ 17. P. conferta, Beni/i. Much branched and apparently diffuse, the 

 Bhort ascendmg branchlets glabrous or nearly so. Leaves cro'wded, but not 

 opposite, linear, obtuse or with recurved poiuts 2 3 or rarely 4 lines Ion?, 

 rather thick, the margins closely revolute, glabrous or the upper ones sligWly 

 hairy. Stipules lanceolate-subulate, imbricate on the branchlets. Flowers 

 axillary on short pedicels. Bracteoles lanceolate-subulate, inserted imme- 

 diately under the calyx and free from it. Calyx pubescent, with appressed 

 hairs about 3 hues long, the 2 upper lobes large, obloii"-, scarcely acute, free; 

 the lower ones shorter, narrow-lanceolate, falcate. Petals all reddish when 

 .dry; standard not half as long again as the calyx; lower petals rather 



