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calyx and shorter tlian its tube. Calyx 3 to 3|- lines long, tlie lobes much 

 longer than the tube^ the 2 upper ones large, falcate and united above the 

 middle, the lower ones narrow-lanceolate. Petals nearly equal, half as long 

 again as the calyx, the keel slightly incurved. Ovaiy glabrous, tapering into 

 the much dilated style. Pod longer than the calyx, coriaceous, turgid when 

 ripe, with a flat point. — Dillwynia cimeata, Sieb. PI. Exs. ; Spadost^ks Sie* 

 beri, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus, ii, 81. 



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Queensland. Near the Brisbane, Leichhardt ; Ip&wich, Nernst. 

 N. S, Wales. Port Jacksou, Sle5er, n. 422, aud others ; Hunter's River, E. Brown; 

 Clarence river, Bechhr, 



65. P. selaginoides. Hook, f. FL Tasm. i. 87. An erect glabrous 



shrub, with the habit of a Diosma. Leaves numerous, obovate- or oblong- 

 cuneate, almost imbricate, obtuse or with a short thick point, rarely above 3 

 lines long, thick, concave above, very convex and almost nerveless under- 

 neath. Stipules reduced to minute tubercles. Flowers axiUary, forming a 

 leafy head or tuft, at or below the ends of the branchlets. Bracts small, ob- 

 long. Pedicels short. Bractcoles lanceolate, concave, immediately under the 

 calyx, but free from it. Calyx about 3 lines long, the lobes as long as tk 

 tube, obtuse, the 2 upper ones rather broader and united to the middle. 

 Standard fully twice as long as the calyx. Ovary sessile, silky-villous. Style 

 slender. Pod not seen. 



Tasmania. Eastern parts of the island, St. Paul's River, Avoca, Gann, C. Stuart 

 In foliage this is certainly allied to P. siihumheUata, ohovata, etc., but the inflorescence i3 

 quite different. Although the flowers are sometimes apparently in terminal heads, the heads 

 are always interspersed with leaves, and the new shoots continue the a\i3, instead of growing 

 out from under the heads, as in P. siilumheUata, 



66. P. densifolia, F. Maell. hi Trans. Vict. Inst. 119. A rigid shnib, 

 the branches diffuse or divaricate, tomentosc-pubescent, but long concealed by 

 the closely-appressed imbricate stipules. Leaves numerous, broadly obovate, 

 obtuse or scarcely acute, rarely above 2 lines lou"-, rigidly codaccous, concave 

 or conduplicate, but with recurved squarrose ends, glabrous on both sides, 

 faintly pennivcined underneath. Flowers axillary, sessile, forming leafy tufts 

 belmy the suuimits of the branches, the stipules of the floral leaves large and 

 iinbricate, and with the broad scarious bracts and bracteoles concealing the 

 calyx, the bracteoles inserted close under the'calyx, but free from it. Caljt 

 2 to 21 lines long, slightly-pubescent or ciliate, the lobes broad with short pun- 

 gent pouits, the 2 upper ones rather more united. Petals not miTch longer 

 than the calyx. Style villous aud slightly lliickeuea below the middle. Pod ob- 

 liquely ovate, shortly acute, silky-pubescent, scarcely exceeding the calyx. 



Victoria. In the Murray desert, F. Mueller 



S. Australia. Port Liucola, Wilhelmi ; Encounter Bay, C. Stuart. 



67. P. eUiptica, Sm. in Tram. Linn. Soc. ix. 246 Branches rirgate. 

 terete pubescent, softly villous or at length glabrous. Leaves crowded, e • 

 Iiptical-oblong or when small often oblong-cuneate or almost obovate, rarely 

 above J m. long except when very luxuriant, and in some specimens not j 

 in., obtuse or minutely mncronate, concave and glabrous above, darker co- 

 loured underneath, the slender midrib sometimes (luite inconspicuous, the 

 upper ones often ciliate with long hairs. Stipules closely apprcsscd, often 



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