Talkncm.'] ' XL. legdmINOS^. 133 



top. Leaves narrow-linear or rarely lanceolate, sliortly mucronate, under \ 

 in. long, concave or with involute margins, rigid, glabrous or minutely silky- 

 pubescent, quite nerveless. Flowers in dense leafy tei-minal heads, occasionally 

 growing out into short leafy proliferous spikes. Floral leaves or bracts with large 

 broad stipules and a smalUamina. Bracteoles inserted close under the calyx, 

 stipular, scarions, lanceolate, usually with 2 pointed lobes and a central long 

 ciliate point. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, the tube glabrous or silky-hairy ; 

 lobes lanceolate, with rigid subulate points, hirsute or ciliate, the 3 upper 

 ones broader at the base. Petals scarcely exceeding the calyx-lobes ; keel 

 almost as long as the standard. Ovary silky-villous ; style subulate. Pod 

 flattened, enclosed m the calyx.— DC. Prod. ii. 112 ; F. fuscata, F. MueU. 

 in Trans. Vict. Inst. 119. 



S. Australia. Port Lincohi, B. Brown ; Salt's Creek, F. Mueller. 

 W. Australia. Point Sherratt, Esperaiice Bay, Maxwell. 



57. P. procumbens, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, Ml. A diffuse 

 or prostrate much-l)ranched rigid shrub, the young branches pubescent. 

 Leaves obovate-oblong or lanceohate, 1 to 2 or rarely 3 lines long, mucronate 

 or fine-pointed, recurved at the end, but concave or with involute margins, 

 darker-coloured and glabroiis or slightly hairy outside, the midrib scarcely 

 prominent. Stipules rather broad. Flowers solitary m the upper axi s. 

 forming sometimes short, leafv, terminal spikes. Bracteoles msprted on tde 

 middle of the calyx-tube, small, acute. Calyx glabrous or cilia e about £ 

 '"les long; lobes 'lanceolate, fine-pointed, about as long asthe tube, tiie^ 

 upper ones broader and rather more united. Petals about twice as long as tue 

 c%x, the keel deeply coloured. Ovary bearing a few long hairs ; style dilated 

 downwards.— P. setigera, A. Cunn. j Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. »-!. 



^ K. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Cox's river, and N. of Bathurst. A. Cunningham; 

 Argjle county, HP Arthur ; rocky ridges near Miitiaoora, Ilerl. F. Muelleu 



, 58. P. hispidula, R. Br. Herb. An erect much-branched sbrub of 3 

 ? i ft. ; branches slender, terete, hirsute with rust-coloured hairs. Leaves 

 'far, obtuse or with a minute recurved point, about 3 hues !««?' ^""^J^^^ 

 Jove, scabrous or hirsute underneath, the midrib scarcely conspi-^tion.. 

 Stipules small. Flowers small, in small terminal sessile heads J^'^J^^^/^ [^ 

 ^^']'cely exceeding the short pedicels. . Bracteoles mserted ""^^he base o ne 

 ^;'y^, oval-oblou|. Calyx scarcely more than 1 Imc long the l«^es «^ ^^^^^ 

 «!><;;, the 2 upper ones nither broader. Standai^ more t^^° ^"^^^^^^ f-^ 

 "^ the calyx, Imver petals rather shorter. Ovaiy villous ; stjle fihform. rod 



„ .,, Wales. St. George's river, iZ. ^...v. 1° ^^^'^ ^'^'^/Sit ^^t^^^^^^^^ 

 I- ^'losa. hnt the flowers are umch smaller, and the iuSorescenee and braeteoies ^ 

 ^^--cnt (Z/e.a. R. Br.) 



not seen. 



P- tillo 



. '^\ P. la^iflora, Benin. A prostrate shrub, -tW -^^^^^^ 

 ^'-'"dies, silky-pubeseeut when you4- L^^^*^^ T^'^'td love convex 

 ^i'^ely acute, niostly 3 to 4 lines long, concave or ch«^"^"^j^f °; ^X.is 

 ['.^lerucath, without any prominent midrib, ^^unutely pul-.cen or ab o^^^^^ 

 ^ 'pules narrow, npprcssed. Flowers in terminal clustei;s, * « ^^ ^f^J '^ 

 ^J, ^l^ort iiubrieate l.racts, which soon fall off, and the '^l^^t^^^'^l^J,^;^ " 2 

 ^i'^fy shoot, with 3 to 6 tlowers at its base, on sdky-pabe=cent pedutls 



