

Eutaxia,'] XL. LEGUMINOSiE. 143 



entire or nearly so ; wings oblong ; keel nearly straight, obtuse, shorter than 

 the wings. Stamens free. Ovary narrowed at the base or stipitate, with 2 

 ovules on short or slender funicles ; style fdiform and incurved or thicker and 

 hooked at the end ; stigma small, tenninal. Pod ovate, flattened or turgid, 

 2-valved. Seeds renifonn, strophiolate.— Shrubs, usually glabrous or nearly 

 so. Leaves small, opposite, decussate, entire, concave or with involute mar- 

 gins, 1- or 3-nerved underneath, not reticulate. Stipules minute or none. 

 Mowers axillary, solitary or 2 to 4 together, sometimes crowded at the ends 

 01 the branches. Bracteoles on the short pedicel not close to the calvx, often 

 very small. Ovary villous. Strophiole usually 2-lobed. 



The genus is entirely Australian. It is closely allieJ to PuIten(Ea, difTeriiig only in the 

 decussate leaves and iu the hracteoles neither close to nor adnate to the calvx, although 

 somt;tinies very near it. F. Mueller unites it with Dlllici/nia, but the peculiar hnHt seems 

 to justify the retaining both these natural groups as distinct genera, although not very strictly 

 lumted by floral characters. d ^ o i . 



£CT. I. Eutaxia. — Ovary sessile or nearly so. Style rather ihiclcy abruptly curved 

 or hootced at the end. Pod flat or the valves convex, usually very oblique. 

 Calyx upper lip truncate or emarginate, 



leaves obtuse. Ilowcrs solitary 1. ^. cuneata, 



l^eaves (^ to f in. long) acuminate, often pungent. Flowers 2 to 4 2. E. wyrtifolla. 

 '^ai^iMohes all erect, acuminate, the 2 upper ones united to the mid- 

 «'e. Flowers solitary. 



^%x 10 -nerved. Leaves i to f iu. long , . 3.^. e^acridiojides. 



^ajyx 5- or G-nerved. leaves under i fn. long. 

 ■leaves flat or concave^ narrow-linear or slightly cuueate. 



l^eaves distant -3=. -. .w^».... 



Leaves crowded, acute 5. 2'. densi/oha, 



A^eaves linear-terete, channelled above, rather obtuse, crowded , 6. E. dillwymoidcs. 

 ^avcs obovale or oblong, 2 to 3 lines long, obtuse , . . • 7. ^. parvifoUa. 



L^a^^' ^^' ®*^^®^ot^amnus.— O^-^ry stipitate. Style suhilate, elongated, incurved. 



4. -E". virgafa. 



'■^es small. 



^^^ turgid S, K empeirifolia. 



■E Strangeana, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1S53, i. 270, said to conic fi'ora New Zealand, in- 

 /Hves some mistake. No such plant is known in New Zealand. The description apphes m 

 "y ^e&pects, but not in all, to the Tasmanian Pulteno'a prostrata. . .„. . 



. J^' BaxipA V^^r.»r^ „..itiV .._ ,. •, , ^^ ;,*„i.« f^ ,«« in Wsln. Ren. i. o73. is un- 



573, is un- 

 dens or some 



. J- , „^it, j,„L ill au, lo inc jasinanian rtuit^nau jusjoi.^v.^, _ ^ 



)./■ ^«^^^^2. Knowl. and Wcstc, attributed by mistake to me in Walp. Rep. i. o 

 "°^n to me. From the description, it is probably either OxyJoUiun scande). 

 "^'^^tema of the section EucUlus\ 



Section I. Eutaxia.— Pod flat or the valves convex. Style rather thick, 



^''ect, abniptly incurved or hooked at the end. 

 ]. E, cuneata, Mehm. in PL Preiss. i. 65. A glabrous shrub of about 



at the end or rather obtuse, 



; to i lines long, concave above, convex underneath, with the midrib slightly 

 Fominent. Flowers axiUarv, solitary, pendulous, rather larger than m K 

 ^yf'Ma. Calyx smooth or faintly ribbed, the 2 upper lobes united in a 

 »road truncate emarginate upper lip, the lower lobes lanceolate, acute. 1 etals 

 grange or red, the keel dark-purple, nearly straight. Pod sessile L.nn.nh.te. 

 ^t>er turgid, slightly hairy. 



geiT^i" A'^stralia. Rocky places in the Konkoberup HiUs, Preiss, n. 1023. 

 ea this species, and have taken the above characleis from Meissner. It appci 



I have not 

 appears to have 



