134 XL. LEGUMiNOS^. ' * [PuUenm. 



to 3 lines. Bractcoles close under the calyx, linear-Innceolate, with 2 stipu- 

 lar lobes. Calyx slightly silky-pubescent, about 2 to 2| lines long ; lobes all 

 acute or acuminate, the 3 upper ones broader and united at the base. Stan- 

 dard half as long again as the calyx ; lower petals rather shorter, the keel 

 deeply coloured. Ovary villous^ taperhig into a subulate style. Pod not seen. 



Victoria- Near the Western frontier, Hohertson ; Grampians, F, Mueller. 

 S. Australia. Oukaparinga river and Eucountcr Bay, F, Mueller. 



60. P. largiflorens, Z Muell. Herb, A rigid apparently divancate 

 shrub, the young branches minutely hoary or almost silky-pubescent. Leaves 

 from broadly obovate and 2 or 3 lines long, to linear-cuneate and \ in. 

 long, obtuse or truncate, more or less concave and glabrous above, silky- 

 pubescent or at length glabrous underneath, with a prominent midrib. Sti- 

 pules very small. Flowers nearly sessile, in axillary or terminal clusters, 

 suiTounded when young by a few short broad imbricate bracts, wdiich usually fall 

 off before the flowers expand. Bracteoles inserted near the top of the calyx- 

 tube, small, lanceolate. Calyx silky-pubescent, 2 lines long or rather more; 

 lobes scarcely so long as the tube, the 2 upper ones broad and united nearly 

 to the middle. Standard twice as long as the calyx; lower petals nearly as 

 long, the keel almost acuminate. Ovary villous ; style filiform. Pod ob- 

 liquely ovate, acute, silky, scarcely exceeding the calyx, more or less flat- 

 tened. 



Victoria. Forest Creek and Mount M'lvorj F. Muf'Jler. 



S. Australia. Encounter Bay, Whitlaker ; Lofty Range, F. Mueller. 



The Victorian spcdmens have generally much narrower leaves than the S. Australian 

 ones, although some branches of the latter have also sometimes the narrow lenves of tlie 

 former, 



61. P. viilosa, Willi. Spec. PI. ii. 507. A low or spreading mucj- 

 branched sbrnb, pubescent orvillouSj rnst-coloured when dry. Leaves usually 

 oblong or somewhat cuneate, but varying from linear to^obovatc, obtuse or 

 scarcely pointed, 2 to 3 or rarely when narrow nearly 4 lines long, coucaTe 

 or with incnrved margins, tubercular or hirsute underneath, the midrib 

 slender. Stipules small, narrow or broad. Tlowcrs usually entirely yelloj^, 

 solitaiy in each axil, but sometimes forming short terminal leafy racemes. Pedi- 

 cels short,^but slender, Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube, but sometimes 

 very near its base, linear, with occasionally 1 or 2 sctie in their axil. Calvx 

 from 1\ to above 2 lines long ; lobes acuminate, longer than the tube, tlie I 

 upper ones broad, falcate and united to the middle, the lower ones narroff- 

 Petals nearly equal in length, twice as long as the calyx. Ovary more or less 

 hairy ; style subulate. Pod scarcely exceeding the calyx.— Sm'. in Ann.Bot- 

 i. 503, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 24.8 ; Bot. Mag.'t. 9G7 ; DO. Protl u- 

 113; P. pohjgaUfoUa, Kudge, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 303, t. 25; J^y' 

 Prod. 11. Ill ; P. lanata, A. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ih S^ ^^ 



,smal]-lcaved form), 



Queensland. Bris])ane river, Moreton Bav, A, Cunmnr^Jiam, Fraser, F. Mueller- 

 W, S- "Wales. Port Jackson to the BIuo Mountains. R, Jirow7i, Sieber, «. ^'^h^' 



M'txt. n. 58S, anj others; northward to Hastings and Clarence nvnr?,', Beckler. 



Victoria. Australia Felix, near Mount Zero, F. Maailer. _fe 



y^.Ud^fuUa. leaves small, very juii^esccnt, from Tuirrow-cmieate to broadly ohova- 



Flowers rather l^v^t^.—F.ferritf^iKca, Rudgc, iu Traus. Liuiu Sue. xi. 300, t. 23; t^ ' 



