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and divaricate, gLibrous or pubescent. Leaves numerous, rather slender, 

 usually J to I in. long, hut sometimes nearly | in. or under 2 lines, terete or 

 scarcely keeled, straight or spirally twisted when dry, obtuse, with a very 

 short recurved or straight, but scarcely pungent point, rarely quite obtuse. 

 Plowers yellow, in very short racemes or clusters, sometimes several together, 

 ahnost sessile in a terminal leafy corvmb, sometimes each one on a terminal 

 or rarely axillary long or short peduncle Calyx glabrous, silky-pubescent, 

 or shortly scabrous-hirsute, 2 to 3^ lines long, distinctly turbinate at tk 

 base, the lol)es shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broadly rounded and 

 falcate, united to the middle. Petals deciduous ; standard with a clawusually 

 as long as the calyx, the lamina more than twice as broad as long ; wings 

 much shorter; keel still shorter, obtuse. Pod ovate or nearly globnlar, 

 slightly exceeding the calyx. — PnUenaa retorta, WendL Hort. Herreuh. t. 9. 



Queensland, Moreton Island, F, Mueller. 



N. S. "Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and others; and 

 northward to IJastiiiijs and Clarence rivers, Beckler. 



Victoria. Low ^tony scrubby hills, Buffalo Hangc. 



Tasmania. Common n poor wet saudy soils, especially in the northern parts of toe 

 island, /. B. Hooker. 



Various forms assumed by tliis plant Lave been generally recognized as species, but the 

 differences are so slight, dcpciiding chiefly on indumentum, length, and degree of twisting ot 

 the leaves, or length of peduncles, and the passages from the one to the other so gradual, 

 that it is often vejy difficult to sepirate them even as varieties. The following are the most 

 prominent: — 



a. nonnalis. Branches pubescent. Leaves mostly 4 to 6 lines long, spreading, twiste » 

 with stj-aight or slightly recurved points. Flowers rather large, usually rather numerous, m 

 sessile terminal leafy corymbs.— i). ericifoHa, Sm., as above; DC Prod. ii. ^08; ^<'^- 

 Eot. Cab. t. 1277, Beuth. in Ann. "VVien. Mus. ii. 78. The commonest Port Jac^^ott 

 form, including D. ericoides.^x^h. PL Exs. n. 412, and Fl. Mixt. n. 585, D-W^''^' 

 Sieb. n. 424, D. serlphioides, Endl. ^ow. Stirp. Dec. 14, and probably Aotus ericoides, mi- 

 Mag. V. 51, with a tig. * . • i, • 



b. 'phuUcoides. Branches foliage and calvx scabrous, pubescent with short "^^J* . !^ 

 Leaves mostly 2 to 3 lines long, spreading, twisted, with strain;ht or slightly recurved poi 

 and less slender than in other forms. Flowers nearly sessile, but not so numerous as lu 

 normal form.— Z). 'phyHcoides, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S.AVales, 347 ; Beuth. in ^^""' ^Vn 

 Mus. ii. 78. Rocky hills in the Blue :\Tountains, A, Canningham, Fras^- ; Mount 31itc^ _, 

 Beck!er.~D. specwsa, Paxt. Mag. vii. 27. with a tig., raised from Baron Hucgel s seeus, 

 probably this variety or very near it. v^^- 



c. parvifofirr. Glabrous' or nearly so. Leaves mostly 2 lines long or under, sp^^J |^;| 

 often twisted, with straight or slightly recurved points. Howers rather small, ^^^^^fL^V 

 the clusters sessile or shortly pedunculate.— jD. parvlfolia, K. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. l ' 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 559 ; DC. Prod. ii. 108 ; Benth. in Ann. -W^ien. Mus. ii. 79 ^J^'^'Z,. 

 phyUa, Sieb. PI. Exs. ii. 410, and 553, and FI. Mixt. n. 586. Port Jackson, R.J^^^' 

 Blue Mountains and southward to the Murray river and Victoria. 



^.v.,,.w.. w. V4 I.W Lut; .'luiiay liver aiiu viciuiici. , , .Qlf^ 



d. tmmfolia. Branches slightly pnhescent. Leaves 2 to 4 lines long or rarely _ 

 ■eadimr or crcnt. iiHunllv etrrinrlif witK ^(....,*,,t.* ,«.i ,.^;..*^ onrl rtinre slender 



ots 



e. peduncufaris. Branches glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves 3 to 6 l'"^y(,j! 



usually slender. Flowers middle-sized, in loose clusters of 2 or 3, on peduncles "^''^^^^jf 

 cceding the leaves and sometimes several times as long. Calvx usually glabrous «r ^^.^ 



90.— i>. ;j,-rf//,vr///^m, Beuth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 78; D' flifolia, ^^'^^'"^^ \,\\lx^^ 

 Dec. 13.- Port Jackson, Slebrr, n. 553, in part, and others, and northward to ^J 





