1?2 XL. LEGUiiiNOS^. [PuUenm. 



a very sliort stipes. Yoxing pod oblon(>-- falcate, acuminate, but not seen ripe. 

 Euchilus sjjiuulosKS, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 275. 



IrtT. Australia^ Drummond^ ^th Coll. n, 'Jl, 



26. P» tenella, Benth, Stems slender, much-branched, diffuse or pro- 

 cumbent, the smaller branches silky-pubescent. Leaves in whorls of 3, oblong- 

 linear, obtuse, narrowed at the base, 2 or rarely 3 lines long, coriaceous, the 

 margins involute, glabro*us above, convex and sprinkled with a few silky hairs 

 underneath. Stipules very small. Pedicels axillary, often longer than the 

 leaves. Bracts minute. Bracteoles small, linear, inserted close under the 

 calyx but scarcely adnate to it. Calyx abont 3 lines long, slightly silky-pu- 

 bescent or glabrous, the 2 upper lobes broad and falcate, the lower ones nar- 

 row, but nearly as long. Standard nearly twice as long as the calyx, lower 

 petals shorter, all apparently yellow. Pod sessile, flat, nearly orbicular, about 

 3 lines long. 



Victoria. Haidinger range at an elevation of 50^0 ft., F, Mueller, 



27. P. temata, F, MuelL Iragm, i". 8, and iv. 21. An erect, usually 

 glabrous, often glaucous shrub, the branches terete. Leaves all in whorls of 



"three, in the original form broadly rhomboidal, truncate, or shortly tapering, 

 the midrib produced into a more or less pungent point, from 2 or 3 lines to 

 I in. long, and usually rather broader than long, flat or concave, often 3- or 

 5-ncn^ed at the base. Stipules small. Flowers in the upper axils on pedi- 

 cels of 1 to 2 lines. Bracteoles subulate, inserted on the base of the calyx. 

 Calyx above 3 lines long, the lobes longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones 

 broad, falcate, acute, united above the middle, the lower ones lanceolate-subu- 

 late. Petals nearly of equal length, twice as long as the calyx ; keel large, 

 almost hood-shaped, very obtuse. Ovaiy sessile, glabrous, tapering into the 

 flattened style. Pod ovate, turgid, about 3 lines long.—SpadodijIes Ciinnhf 

 hamii, Benth. in Ann. AVien. Mus. ii. 81; Gastrolobium Hut^fjelii, Henfr. in 

 Gard. Mag. i, with a fig. ; Joins conVfoIins, Lindl. and Paxt. FL Gard. i. % 

 not of Benth. ; Spadodijles temata, F. Muell. Fii-st Gen. Eep. 12; PM^n^tf^ 

 oxalidifoUa, A. Cunn. in Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2. 



^' S- 'W'ales. Williams river, R, Brown; Blue Mountains, A. Cnnningham; NaT- 

 gas, 3r Arthur. 



Victoria. Stony scrubby hills, Buffalo ranges, P. Mneller. 



Var. ^ntbescens. Branches more or less pubescent. Leaves broad but with long pungent 

 points. Pedicels very short.— Xewca&tle and Ruiued-Castle Creek, Leichhardi ; Hunter* 

 river ?, Ficary ; Clarence river, Beckler, 



Var. cuspidata. Branches slender, pubescent. Leaves small, tai)cr!ng into V^n^. 

 points. Pedicels slender, as long as or sometimes lon-er than the cixXsyi-^Oxi/Iobiunif' 

 nosum, DC. Prod. ii. 104; Euehiius cuspidalus, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. n. BS. 



Queensland. Bui-nett and Brisbane rivers, I\ Mueller; Wide Bay, Bidtvill; IpsfficH, 



NerusL 



;typhelioide 



Cumi. in G, Pot. 



Gen. Sj/atAl 124.^ A tall mueh-branched shrub, softly pubescent or liir?"^J 



with spreading liairs. Le 



alternate, ovate or lanceolate, tapering into a rigid almost pungent poiut, » '» 

 3 or rarely 4 lines long, concave or with involifte margin?, sometimes Tccx\rm 

 at the end, the midrib aud sometimes also oblique lateral veins proncinent- 

 Stipules small. Flowers axillary on slender pedicels of 1 to 2 lines. 13ruc- 



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