140 ■ XL. LEGUMINOS.E, [FuUeim. 



. Victoria. Port Phillip, M. Brown ; Wilson's Promontory and Murray river, F. Mueller. 

 Tasmania. Sandy lands near the sea, /. D. Hooker. 

 S. Australia. All along the coast, E. Brown, F. Mueller, and others. 

 VSr. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, Preiss, n. 1203, and others. 



Var. glabra. Almost entirely glabrous, leaves small. Wiramera river, Dallachj ; Venus 

 Bay, Warhurton. 



Var. recurvifolia. Leaves crowded, short, linear or almost linear-cuneate, recurved, clian- 

 nclled above. Calyx-lobes short and broad.— Near Portland, Allitt. 



F-filifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 9, from Kangaroo Island, Baiinier, appears to me to bea 

 jiixiiriant form of P. fenuifolia with remarkably long slender leaves, but F. Mueller's her- 

 barium only contains a single specimen past flower, scarcely sufficient for identification. 



17. LATEOBEA, Meissn. 



(Leptocytisns, Meissn) 



Calyx S-lobed, the lobes nearly equal, ribbed, or very short. Petals shortly 

 clawed ; standard ovate or nearly orbicular, obtuse or'acuiniuate, longer than 

 the lower petals ; wings narrow, keel straight or slightly ineurved, as long as 

 the wings or rather longer. Stamens free. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with 

 2 ovnies on short funicles ; style filiform or slightly thickened at the base with 

 a small terminal stigma. Pod flattened, ovate or lanceolate. Seeds reniform, 

 strophiolnte.— Heath-like shrubs with usually virgate branches. Leaves al- 

 ternate or scattered, simple, linear, concave or channelled above. Stipules 

 none. Flowers yellow (or purplish?) terminal, or rarely apparently axillary 

 from the shortness of the flowering branch, solitary or in corymbs or heads. 

 Bracts and bracteoles none or small and inserted at a distance 'from the calyx. 



The genns is entirely Australian. It is nearly allied to Aotus, diifering in the strophio- 



Jatc seeds ami the leaves concave or with involute not revolutc margins; and to the latter 



sections of Pultencea, from which it is only distinguished by the more regular calyx and tbe 



usual absence of bracteoles. L. diosmifolia closely connects Latrobca with PMenaa mh 

 UhibeUata and P. urodon. 



Sect. I. Eulatrobea.— Ctf/y.r-/eeM shorter than the rihleas tube. Flowers snlilnrf 

 or two together. 



Plant pubescent. Leaves rigid, pungent-pointed . . . . \. L. pungeni. 



riant glabrous. Leaves obtuse. 



Flowers 5 to 6 lines long. Ovary on a long stipes 2. X. geiiistoidei- 



I'lowers 3 to 4 lines long. Ovary almost sessile 3. £. Brunonts. 



Sect. II. lMevtocyt\sM.s.—Cafyj--l»bes lonaer than the ribbed tube. Flowers sol'dar^ 

 or Jew or manij m terminal corymbs or heads. 



Cab'x glabrous. Flowers solitary or few, almost racemose. 



rod lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate ... 4 Z. tenelh- 



Calys silky-pubescent. Corymbs few-flowered .'.'''' ^. L. hirtella. 



Lalyx villous. Corymbs dense, many-flowered. Pod ovate .* .' ,' .' 6. L. diosmifol»- 



Section I. Eulatrobea.— Calyx-teeth shorter than the tnbe which « 

 carapanulate membranous, without prominent ribs. Flowers solitary or 2 

 together.— Shrubs, glabrous in every part. 



1. L. pungens, Benth. Branches rigid, apparently prociiiub'eiit or 

 spreading, very softly pubescent or shortly villous. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, 

 pungent-pointed, mostly about A in. long or rather more, concave, rigi'';./' 

 nerved, softly pubescent. Stipules none, but a small scarlous stipiile-l'l^^ 

 scale on each side at the base of each brauchlet. Flowers axillary, sohtaiy- 



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