l32 ■ XL. LEGUMiNOS^. [Pulfema, 



short leafy spikes at or near the ends of the branches, often with a fe^v broad 

 stipuhnr leafless bracts. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx near its base, linear- 

 subulate, ciliate, often 2-stipulate. Calyx villous or ciliate with long hairs, 3 to 

 4 or even 5 lines long ; lobes acuminate, much longer than the tube, the 2 upper 

 ones broad and united to the middle, tbe lower ones very narrow. Petals not 

 much longer than the calyx-lobes ; keel dark-coloured. Ovary with a few 

 long hairs; style much dilated downwards. Pod not sem.—Sj/adostj/ks 

 Huegelii and S. Benthamite Endl. Nov, Stirp. Dec, 3. 



N. S* Wales, On the Murrumbidgce, 3P Arthur. 



Victoria. In the Grampians, F, Mueller; Wimmera, Ballachj ; mouth of the 



Glenelg, Allitt, 



The aspect is 



Tasmania. Eppinir Forest, Launccston and HuLarton road, Giinn. The aspect is 

 sometimes nearly thatof>.^/«>A"(?a, bnt differs in the calyx, the iasertion of the bracteoles, 

 etc., characters which bring it nearer to P. villosa, 



54. P, parviflora, Sieh, in DC. Frod, ii. 111. Branches numerous, 

 slender, pubescent with greyish appressed hairs. Leaves oblong-cuucate, 

 obtuse, 1 to 2 or rarely 3 hnes long, concave or with incurv(;d margins, darker- 

 coloured underneath with a slender midrib, glabrous or sprinkled with a feu' 

 hairs when young. Stipules appressed. llowers few, small, in the upper 

 axils. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube near its base, hnear-subulate, 

 ciliate, 2-stipulate. Calvx about 2 lines long; lobes acuminate, longer than 

 the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, falcate and united at the base. Ovary 

 hairy at the top \ style dilated downwards. 



N. S. VTales. Port Jackson, R, Broiiii, Sieber, n, 399; FL MixU n. 589; near 

 Penrith, Backhouse, . t t 



Var. angxistifolia. Leaves narrower and more acute or mncronate, sometimes aluio 

 terete and channelled above. Bracteoles usually shorter. — To this helaiig the Murrum- 

 tidgee specimens, and some from Strinsiy Bark Eorest, F, Mueller ; Creswick aiggiog"' 



W. S, Whan, ^ . ' K f tkV 



The aspect of the broader-leaved forms is sometimes nearly that of P. elHptica, but ^: 

 always differ in the calyx, the insertion of the bracteoles, etc. As the leaves become nar- 

 rower they are at the same time more rigid, acute, and spreading ; hut in some specuncus 

 we see a passage from the one form to the other. 



55. P. setulosa, Benth. Apparently procumbent, ^Yith silky-pubescent 

 branchlets. Leaves hnear, terete or trigonous, channelled above, mucroua e, 

 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long, glabrous or silky-pubescent. Stipules appressed 

 with long, fine, erect or spreading points. Flowers axillary, nearly ^^^^^' 

 fomiing leafy heads or clusters at or below the ends of the branches. ^^^ . 

 none besides the floral leaves. Bracteoles linear, inserted on the base oi 

 calyx-tube, often 2-stipulate. Calyx 3 to 3| lines long, slightly silK}- 

 pubescent, the lobes all tapering to fine points, the 2 upper ones broad, lai- 

 cate and united above the middle, the lower ones shorter and mnch ti^^'^''^^^|' 

 Standard scarcely twice as long as the calyx. Ovary very villous. ^^) 

 glabrous, flattened at the base. Pod ovate, shorter than the calyx. 



Qneeusland. Broad Sound, Bowma^i. Certainly allied to P. humiUs, >vith ^^^^/^^^j^^*' 

 same calyi ; but the small leaves not at all opened out, and the fine points to the stifi^ j 

 leaves, and calj'X-lobes give it a peculiar aspect. 



56. P. vestita, 72. Br, in AiL IIorL Kew. ed, 2, iii. 19. A shrub of W *J 

 2 ft., with spreading dift'use or virgale branches, completely covercci 

 young by the long closely-imbricate stipules^ each pair united almost to 



