FuUeucsa,] XL. legumixos^. 129 



45. P. ericifolia, Benth. in Lindl. Swan Rid. App. 13. An erect 

 heath-like shrub, with terete minutely pubescent branches. Leaves linear- 

 terete, spreading, obtuse or mucronate, under ^ in. long, channelled on the 

 upper side, glabrous, usually tubcrculate or irregularly wrinkled. Stipules 

 small. Flowers in dense terminal broadly globose heads, sessUe within the 

 last leaves. Bracts niimerous, imbricate in several rows, but spreading at 

 tk top, ckeply trilid, with a subulate central, and broad lateral lobes, the 

 inner ones 3 to 4 lines long, all fringed -with long hairs. Eracteoles inserted 



under the calyx, linear or subulate, hirsute with long hairs. Calyx fully 4 



lines long, the lobes narrow, acuminate, longer than the tube, the 2 upper 



ones united above the middle. Standard not half as long again as the calyx ; 



leel not exceeding the calyx-lobes. Ovary villous, tapering into an erect 



style, hooked at the top. Pod not seen.— Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 75, and 

 ii. 219. ^ 



W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown ; Swan River, Dmmmond, \st Coll. 



^^ n.U%, Preiss, n. 1189; Konkobcrui) Hills aud near Albauy, Preiss, n. 1186 a7id 

 1187. 



46. P. verruculosa, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 278. _ An erect 

 Math-like shrub, the young branches loosely pubescent. Leaves linear-terete 

 or trigonous, obtuse or scarcely pointed, mostly 3 to 4 lines or rarely 5 lines 

 wug, channelled above, glabrous, smooth or tuberculate, incurved, spreaduig 

 or rarely recurved. Stipules subulate. Tlowers in terminal heads, sessile 

 amongst the last leaves, occasionally proliferous ; buds acute. Bracts few, 

 broadly ovate, not above 2 lines loug, entire or shortly 3-lobed. Bracteolcs 

 Jjserted under the calyx, short, lanceolate. Calyx pubescent, or villous at 

 the top with long soft hairs, about 3 lines long ; lobes shorter than the tube, 

 acuminate, the 2 upper ones broader and united nearly to the muldle 

 ^jandard half as long again as the calvx, dark with a yellow edge ; keel 

 «TO, almost acuminate. Ovary villous, tapering into an erect rather thick 

 "yle. hooked at the cud. Pod not seen. 



^^^- f^'^stralia. Kin? Gcoi-gc's Sound, Collie, Drummond, Ith Coll n. 03 ; Kalgan 

 «r, Oldjield; Stirling Kauge aud eastward to the Great Biglit, Maxwell. 



JJ-P^losa. Sprinkled with .nrcadin- hairs. Bracts rather longer and more numerous, 

 vt ^' this species with P. ericifolia.-Chcjne!^ Beach, OldjZeld. 



ntW *'''^f%%^''«- Leaves shorter, thicker, and often very shortly ^^"f'^^'-J}^!"' 



^her8„,aller,the heads oft™ proliferous .vith few leaf-like bracts.-P. brachyi^hylla^TMX^z. 



""^^Jl- Mosc. 1853. i. %Ti^.-DraHunond, m Coll. n. 68, Maxtvell. _ „ ^ •/r,//^ 



Var. recurva. Leaves more spreading, mostly recurved at the end, as m P. ffinjoha 

 gIS^o'* *'^^'=teoIes, etc.. of P. verruulosa. Flowers as in the var. hrachyphylla.~\^v.z 



''^'^e's Sound, Qollle, 



A diffuse or divari- 

 hoary-pubcscent 



^'- p. empetrifolia, Meism. in Ft. Preiss. i. 76. A 

 wie Shrub, rarely above 1 ft. high, with numerous slender ^^^.j ^»--^-- -- 

 ^■^nches. Leaves numerous, linear-terete, obtuse or ^^^^f^lv mucronate and 

 Jfy recurved at the end, in some specimens all under 2 Unes long and 

 yn scarcely 1 line and thick, in others more slender and 2 to 3 l^"^s 

 ^channelled above, glabrous and smooth or tubercular-scabrous. S ipu s 

 folate, rather broad. Flowers in smaU dense terminal heads occas ona«y 

 Sf'"'^!' b"^« acute. Bracts (or floral leaves) few, shorter han the 

 ""f' «''th 2 broad stipular lobes, and usually a central green leaf-like lobe. 



