( 



PuUencea.l 



. XL. LEGDMINOS^. 131 



long, the lobes subulate-acuminate. Pod very turgid, ovoid, 3 to 3 lines 



long. 



S. Australia. Memory Cove, R. Brown {Hb. Br.). 



1 ^^i ^* J.^,'^^P«"»a, Labill. PL Nov. Holl. i. 102, t. 130. A mucli- 

 w anclied prickly slirub, attaining several feet, the young branches terete and 

 usually villous. Leaves bnear or linear-lanceolate, spreading, rigid and pun- 

 gent-pointed under J in. long, concave or with involute margins, darker- 

 coloured underneath, usually glabrous. Stipules subulate or those of the 

 norai leaves broader. Flowers in the uppermost axils, usually 3 or 3 to- 

 gether at the ends of the smaller branches, with occasionally 1 or 3 leafless 

 snpular bracts, shorter than the very short pedicels. Bracteoles inserted 

 unaei the calyx, lanceolate. Calyx glabrous or pubescent, about 3 lines long 

 or rather more ; lobes lanceolate, rather shorter than the tube, the 3 upper 

 hZ ,, "■' ^"^^^^^^ and united to the middle. Standard fully twice as 

 g as the calyx; lower petals rather shorter. Ovary pubescent, tapering 

 to a subulate style. Pod obliquely ovate, shortly acuminate, often above 3 

 Imes long.-DC. Prod. ii. 113 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 90. 



^ndk°^'^^' •^'■^1"''"* in rocky places ia the Australian Alps, also in the Grampians, F. 

 kU>,j *'*3'nia. Port Dalrymple and Derwent river, B. Brown : aLundant throughout the 



iwrirKf' • y^ ^^' I^^^aves lanceolate, rounded or sometimes almost cordate at the base, ta- 

 Mair t ^Iaao ^W^ P""g^Tit point.-- P. cordata, Grah. in Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1836 ; 13ot. 

 Tit \f ■-' . ^^^- ^" ^^1- 1'asm. i. 90 ; by a clerical error, P. cordifolia, Beuth. in Ann. 



Some T * "' ^^-^^'"^^^^^^ ^- ^rowl and others. ^ 



Mween if ^"1^°'^'*^ specimens, as well as others from the Grampians, are quite intermediate 

 variable ^o™s; and in the true P^junlpe^ina the breadth of the leaves is very 



21'^^* ^" ^cerosa, R. Br. Jlerh. A rigid iTiiich -branched shrub of 1^ to 

 Lea' r ^'^^^^^^^^ divaricnte or spreading, loosely pubescent or tomentose. 

 Puiir% -^^'"^^^'^^^^^ ^^ trigonous, channelled above, rigid with more or less 

 Jj p^^^P^^"ts, croAvded on the smaller branches and 3 to 5 lines long, diva- 

 Dninf 1^ ^T^ ^^"Ser brandies, and nearly ^ in. Stipules appressed, subulate- 



^tii^jL auout z-^ nnes long, giauiuus ui i^inai.., *-ixv. .^^.^^ 

 unit I c ^ subulate points, the 2 upper ones rather broader and more 

 subid f p^"^'^^'^ ^'^^^ «s long again as the calyx. Ovaiy villous ; style 

 ^ e- Pod ovoid, very turgid, about as long as tl 



^' Australia. 



the calyx. 



counte/r ^^^*" Memory Cove, R Brown ; Lofty Range, Whiiiaker, K Mueller ; En- 



^ay, c. Stuart; Poii Lincoln, WilkelmL 



shnit V^^^'^^ilis, BentJi. in. EooL f FL Tasm. i. 91. Either a low 

 of fro 1 ^ ^^^^'^^ ®^°^^ ^^d decumbent ascending or scarcely erect brandies 

 tescp.^ ^ *° 1 ft., or erect with spreading branches and several feet high, pu- 

 obtus "^ ^^^^^*^ ^^^^^ spreading hairs. Leaves linear- or elliptical-oblong, 

 invoht °*^ ^^^^^^ ^^^*^' ^'ar^ exceeding \ in., rather thick, concave or with 

 cuous 1 -"""'"S"^^' °^^*^" ^^'■^e^' coloured outside, the midrib scarcely conspi- 

 narr ' "'^^^^e ^vith long soft hairs when young, at length glabrous. Stipules 

 ^' except those of the floral leaves. Flowers axillarj^ but crowded uito 



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