150 XL, LKGUMiNosiE. [DUlicpiia, 



I to 3 in each axil along llie branches. Pedicels short. Calyx villonSj above 

 3 lines long, obtuse at the base; lobes lanceolate, all acute, as long as the 

 lube, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Petals persistent; standard 

 not twice as broad as long, not above half as long again as the calyx ; wings 

 nearly as long; keel much shorter, obtuse or scarcely acuminate. Pod not 

 seen. — Aottis (?) dillwynioldes, Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. GO, and ii. 215. 



"W", Australia, Dncntmond, 2nd Coll. n. 103 ; Caimiiig river, Preiss, n, 872; Harvey 

 river, Oldfiefd. The bracts, foliage, petals and style are those of Dilhvynia, and the seeds 

 may well have a strophiole, for ia other species it canuot be seen at the time of fiowering. 



5. D. brxinioides, Mehsn. in PI. Preiss, i. 62.' A heath-like shrub, 

 witli much of the aspect oiPallencpa subumbellata or of Latrobea diosmifoHa, 

 but with the foliage and style of BUlwynia, Branches slightly hoary-pubes- 

 cent. Leaves rather crowded, mostly about \ in. long-, spreading or recurved, 

 thicker than in most Dillwynias, obscurely keeled, obtuse or very shortly 

 pointed, o-labrous, tubercular-scabrous, or the upper ones slightly hirsute. 

 Flowers 3 to 10 oi' 12 together, iu dense terminal lieads or corymbs. Bracteoles 

 occasionally rather long, but mostly small and deciduous. . Calyx villous, 

 about 3 lines long, scarcely turbinate at the base, the lobes all acute, nearly 

 as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Petals apparently 

 persistent; standard reniform, the lamina nearly twice as broad as long; 

 M'ings almost as long ; keel shorter and obtusely acuminate. Pod not seen. 



K. S. "Wales. Blue Mountains, R. Cunningltam. 



/>. p. juniperina, 8i(ih,; Benth, in Hueg. Emm. 33. A rigid shrub 

 with divaricate pubescent or loosely villous branches. Leaves ^ to | in. long, 

 very straight, strongly keeled, rigid, with strong pungent points. Flowers 

 nearly sessile, several together in terminal clusters, or rarely 3 or 3 appa- 

 rently axillary. Calyx pubescent, 2 to ^ lines loni?, scarcely turljiaate at 

 the base; lobes short, the 2 upper ones united into a 'broad upper lip, eitber 

 quite entire or minutely emarginate. Petals persistent ; standard scarcely 

 twice as broad as long ; wings nearly as long ; keel much shorter and obtuse. 

 Pod about as long as the calyx.— Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 401: D. cinerascm 

 DC. Prod. ii. 109, not of E.Br. 



Queensland, Morcton Bay, C. Stuart; near Dalhy, E. G, Molerly. 



W. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n, 411, Wooits, and others; Blue 

 Mouutams, Miss Aiki7ison ; Campdcii Kauge brushes, A. Ca^mmgham ; Glen Fiulass, 

 3V Arthur ;^ New England, 0. Stuart, BecJcIer. 



Victoria. Rocky Mountains on Macalister river and Gutter's Range, F, Mueller. 



Loddiges says that lie received his seeds from Tasmania in 1818, but I have seen no si>e- 

 cmiens from theaee- 



7. D. pungens, Mackay ; Benlh. in Jnn, Wien. Mm. ii. 79. A gla- 

 brous 01- slightly pubescent shrub, the brandies often divaricate or elousfatej 

 and pendulous. Leaves rather crowded, mostly above i in. long, rigid, with 

 a strong pungent point, as in D.Juniperina, but not keeled. Flowers in short 

 axillary racemes or clusters crowded at the ends of the branches into anf- 

 long lejfy racenie-Iike panicle, or almost coiymbose. Calyx glabrous or s"" " 

 pubescent, about 2 lines long, the base obtuse or scarcely turbinate ;_ 1 

 short and broad, the 2 up[)fr ones united into a broad truncate entire or 

 blightly cuiarglnatc u])per lip. Petals persistent ; standard uot twice as broaii 



ilky 

 lobes 



