

LiUwf/nia.] XL. LECL\AirNOS.E. Hy 



r 



Island. This variety usually appears very distinct in iuiloresceuce. assuming tl.e aspcd of 

 J), hispida but witli the flowers of D. ericifoiia, aud vvh.n the peduncles are shorter it 

 passes graduaUy into the vars. temufolia or fjlaberrima. 



f. glabernma. Quite glabrous. Leaves usually crowded, rarely ^try spreading, i to ^ 

 in. long or oltemnore, rather slender, not twisted, the point recurved or rarely Waight. 

 llowers rather large, m dense terminal corymbs, sessile or shoitly pedunculate.— 2). glaU-r- 

 nma bm ,n Ana. Bot. i. 510, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix." 203; But. Ma-, t. 944: 

 lx)dd. Bo .Cab t. 582; Labill. Pi, Nov. IIoll. i. 109, t. 139; DC. Prod. ii. 108; Beuth. 

 in Ana. Wien JIus. ii. 79 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 85.— Tasmania and southern districts of 

 ictona, also Port Jackson, R. Brown, a form passing into the vars. pednucularis or tenmfolia. 



3. D. floribunda, 8m. in Ann. Bot. i. 510; Exot. Bot. t. 26, and in 

 iram. Linn. Soc. ix. 262. A tall erect heatli-like shrub, either quite gla- 

 orous or more or less pubescent, or tlie branches, foliage and calyxes densely 

 tiirsiite. Ler.ves usually crowded, i to i iu. long or rather more, obtuse or 

 JiUi a minute point, not keeled, straight, sometimes as slender as in D. erici- 

 ;«w, but usually thicker. Plowers on very short pedicels, solitary or 2 or 3 



gether, all axillary, but often crowded into leafy racemes below or very near 

 ine ends of the branches. Bracts often broad and above 1 line long, but so 

 jteciduous as to be rarely seen. Calyx 2| to 3 lines long, with a distinct 

 turbniate Ijase, the lobes short, often tipped with a small gland, the 2 upper 

 ones broad falcate and united to the middle. Petals deciduous ; standard 

 J|itu the broad claw as long as the calyx, the lamina more than twice as 



I'Oiia as long ; wings mucli shorter ; keel still shorter, obtuse. Pod scarcely 

 f^ceednig the calyx.— DC. Prod. ii. 108; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 305 ; Benth. 

 in Ann Wien. Mus. ii. 79 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 85 ; Z). erlcifoUa, Sims. 

 ^ot- Mag. t. 1545, not of Sui. ; D. rudis, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 109 ; B.Jih. 

 P^^"lamx(\ D. terdi/olia, Sieb. PI. Exs. ;" B. eleijans, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 

 ' "■'^lovata, Paxt. Mag. vii. 117. 



Queensland. Wide ^^y^ Bid will. 

 404 1 , *^^*- Port .lackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, 7i. -100, 402, 



.j5nd others; .Macqunrrle river, A. Canuhigltam ; .Hastings river, Beckler. 

 Dian f/°r*' ^"'"'•^ '""^ **<"'y "dges on the Broken River. T. Mueller; in the Gram- 

 r IS. '/ ilhehni, Balhchy, and others ; Glcnelg river, Robertson. 



asmania. Common in dry stonv places iu various parts of the colony, /. B. Hoo^n. 

 la J" ^^^''"alia. Jlouut Lofty, WhiUakcr ; Forest Creek, T. Mueller; Kangaroo Is- 



terhouse. 



bed from those of B. ericlfoUa, but the 



infln^r^ ^°"''^''* "^ '•'''* species arc not to be distinguis 



Cunn ■*%'.'"'''• B'-anches folia-e and calyxes hoarv-pnbesc^nt or hirsnte.-i). sericea A. 



«"" Blue" Mof ' ^- ^- '^^''^''' ^^^ '' ^- «^^^«^^^""-«' ^^'"^1- ^°'- ^'''■''- ^''- ^'^^ ^' '" 



acnlf '". ^^'"-^^^^. Kegel, in Bot. Zeit. 1851, 596, raised from seeds collected near Adelaide. 

 Ppears f,o„, the description to be a form of B.florihunda. No Aotus has the leaves chan- 

 ^ "We and convex underneath. 



Section TI. XEuoPETALUii, iJ. ^r.-Calyx obtuse or very shortly and 



oi> curely turbinate at the base. Petals persistent ; standard-claw shorter 



4. D. Preissii, Benih. A shrub of 4 or 5 ft., witli erect dongatcd 



/anchcs, glabrous or hoary.pid)escent. Leaves rigid, obtuse or with a minute 



'""•^■'-''1 point, mostly \ to | in. long, not keeled, usually glabrous. Ilowirs 



