142 ' XL. LEGUMiNOSiE, [Latroka. 



rigid, narrow-linear, acute with a prominent midrib. Petals rather longer 

 than the calyx-lobes. Ovary shortly stipitate, pubescent; style filiform. 

 Pod flattened, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3 to 4 lines long. Seeds usually 2, 

 oil very short funicles. — Burtonia (1) tenella, Meissn. iu PI Preiss. 1.42; 

 Leptocjftkiis teuellus^ Meissn. 1. c. ii. 211. 



VSr. Australia. Swan River, Preiss, n. 178, also Brummond, 2nd Coll. «. 133, 3rrf 

 Coll. n. 94. 



Var. platf/carpa. More rigid. Leaves broader and more ohtuse. Flowers rather larger. 



Pod obliquely ovate-lanceolate, about twice as long as broad. — Kiii"; Georn-e's Sound, Harm, 

 Urummond. 



V 



Var. grandifiora. Foliage of the preceding variety. Flowers still larger, deeplj co- 

 loured. Calyx-lobes often not luucb longer than the tube, sometimes slightly ciliate. Stao. 

 dard about 4 lines long. Pod not SQQ\\.—Drummo}id,A:th Coll. n, 79, ^l/i CoILn.l^ 

 Kocky Ranges, Middle Mount Barren, and towards Cape RicLe, Maxwell, 



5. Li. hirtella, £enfk. An erect slirul) of 1 to 2 ft., very closely allied 



to L.diosmi/olia, but with fewer less villous flowers and much less conspicu- 

 ous bracteoles. Branches virgate, shortly pubescent when young. Leaves 

 oblong-linear or slightly cuneate, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long, thick, but flatter 

 and rather broader than in L. dlosmi/olia, glandular-papillose and sprinkled 

 with a few hairs, which soon wear off. Plowers few, in dense terminal co- 

 rymbs, similar to those of L. diosmifoUa in structure and proportions, but 

 rather smaller. Bracts and bracteoles very small and deciduous. Calyx ra- 

 tlier under 2 lines long, silky-pubescent. Standard not above 3 lines long. 

 Pod only seen young, when it is not so broad as in X. diosmifolia.~Lef(^- 

 cytisus hirtellm, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 258. 



6. L. diosmifoUa, Beuth. Stems or brandies virgate, glnbrous or 

 clothed with rather long silky hairs. Leaves numerous, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, obtuse 01- with a short callous point, about 3 or rarely nearly 4 hues 

 long, glabrous, rather thick. Flowers in dense terminal corymbs or heads on 

 very short villous pedicels. Bracteoles rather small, linear. Calyx about 2 

 lines long or rather more, liirsute, tlie tube prominently 10-nerved; lol)«« 

 lanceolate, rather longer tlian the tube, each with a prominent midrib. Stan- 

 dard about 4 lines diameter ; wings considerably shorter ; keel almost as long 

 as the standard. Ovary nearly sessile or very shortly stipitate, densely Y' 

 lous With long hairs ; style subulate. Pod broadly ovate, longer than the 

 calyx, very hirsute. Seeds shining, on very short funicles.— i?«rtow (/'f 

 mj/b/^a.Benth. in Hueg. Enum. and in Ann. " ' " " 



PI. Preiss. i. 42, ii. 211. 



Wien 





W « 8^*7 A^" ^- "° ^d"'^''' ^°""'^' ^- ^'•^^^«. ^^^''O^h and otLers ; near Ai ' J 

 P.S f SSmT.-^:^.^ ^""^ '''''^'' glabrous or nearly so.-Ki.g George's Sc^, 



18. EUTAXIA, B. Br. 



(Sclerotliainnus, R. Br.) 



Calyx 5-lobed the 3 upper lobes more or less united into an upper HP' 

 1 etals on rather long claws ; standard orbicular, longer than the lower petal'- 



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