TuUencea.l XL. leguminos^. 135 



Prod. ii. Ill ; P. Janata, Sieb. PI. Exs. ; Spadosti/les ramitlosa, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec, 21 

 (from the description, no specimen having been preserved).— Port Jackson, R. Brown, 



Si^hsT 31 4^0 etc 



^2X. glabrelceni Leaves linear or narrow-oblong, 2 to 4 lines long, glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent. Flowers of the common variety.— Port Jackson, U. Brown. Spadost^les 

 concolor, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 20, of >Yliich no specimen has been preserved, is probably, 



from the description, this variety. . # 



P.racemulom, Sieb. PI. Exs. n. 594; DC. Prod. ii. Ill, is not in any of the sets of 

 Sieber's plaats which I have seen ; from the character ^iven it is probably one of the name- 



Tona forms of P. villosa. 



JFien. Mus. ii. 83. A 



spreading shrub, with elongated branches and very numerous short slen- 

 der branchlets, rusty-pubescent or villous. Leaves numerous and very smaU, 

 rarely \ line long, ovate or oblong, obtnse, recurved at the end but concave 

 above or with involute margins, darker-coloured and hirsute or scabrous 

 Mdenieath, the midrib not conspicuous. Stipules small. Plowers nearly 

 sessile in the upper axils. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx, small, leafy 

 with hair-like stipules. Calyx pubescent or villous, 2 hues long or rather 

 more ; lobes broad, not longer than the tu1)e, the 2 upper ones much falcate 

 and united to the middle. ■ Standard fully twice as long as the calyx ; lowei 

 petals rather shorter, apparently of the same colour. Ovary with a tew on„ 

 tairs ; style somewhat dilated downwards. Pod turgid, obtnse, shorter than 

 the calyx, which is somewbat enlarged after flowering. 



N. S. Wales. Westward of Wcllirigton valley, A . CuuninghaM ; Lachlaa river, 

 'Eraser. 

 Victoria. Barrcu hills betweea Meadow Creek aud King river, F. Miieller. ^ ^ 



63. P. flexilis, Sm. In Ann. Bot. i. 503, and in Trans. Ii««. Soc h 

 248. A shrub either quite glabrous or with a few appressed hairs «n the 

 young shoots and backs of the leaves. Leaves linear or ]i"/^'^-«^'^"f';"f^ 

 ^%l.tly cuneatc, obtuse or mucronate, i to 1 in. long, ^ ov concave the 

 under side darker-coloured, with a prominent mh Irib. ^I'P^'^;^ ,!f ^^^'^JS 

 Flowers solitary in the upper axils, shortly pedicellate. Bracteole i ejted 



"n tbe calyx near its bise, small, lanceolate. Calyx fl'-^^^^IJ, "^.^^^^^^^ 

 f^to, aboit 2 lines long ; lobes rather broad, acute, shorten ^an the tube 

 the 2 upper ones broader and falcate. Standard fully twice a. long a e 



fn; lower petals not much shorter. Ovary wdh a f'^^^l;?"^, ^ fftur^d 

 H^ ; style dilited downwards. Pod obliquely ^J'^^e <.r o^Jte-oWong t^^^^^ 

 ^'W 3 lines bng.-DC. Prod. ii. lU; 3?ot. Keg. t. im; Bdlwynia 

 <=>-^oides, Sieb. PL Exs. ; P. Sweetii, Don, in Stead. Noracncl. ed. ^. 



J- S. Wales. Port .Tackson to the Blue Mountains, R. f-f «;f- J^^J ; f.'X^t 

 fhf". Allied iu hahit to P. «<c/n7a,bnt the calp-lobes are less d.spiopoir.one , 



twles are not imder the calyx, the style less dilated at the base, et«. g^^^^^_ 



^ar. vmcronala. Leaves narrow, with a fine pungent pomt.-tlarence 



euchila 



A n-labrous sbrub, witli ratlier 



fender branrerntarlyr^embiing at flr;t sight ^-/^f^^^t^Z 

 '^^cteoles, calyx, and stvle. Leave°s linear-cuncate, obtuse, __-_^^o ^ , f^.^^ -, 



"ueo.es calyx, and style. Leaves Imear-cuuc.uc ^^ uudcrneatU 



f^t or slightly coTicave, of a darker or a more ^f f ^ '^^^^^^^ on pfdi- 

 t\«^ above, the midrib slender. Stipules minute Tloweis ^^^'^J^ ^^ J ^^^ 

 ''^' of 2 to 3 lines. Bracteoles linear-subulate, inserted close under 



