^^^ XL. LEGUMiNOs^i^:. [DiUwpia. 



the tube veiy shortly turbinate at the base ; lobes short, the 2 tipper ones 

 united into a broad truncate eniarginate upper lip, longer than the lower ones. 

 Petals persistent; standard nearly twice as long as the calyx and rather 

 broader than long, with a short claw ; wings nearly as long as" the standard; 

 keel much shorter, obtuse or very shortly and broadly acuminate. Pod onlv 

 seen young.— Eutaxia nncinata, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 269; E.sps'r- 

 Wo^f,y- Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. i. 118 ; E. patula, F. Muell. in Dietr. 

 Fl. Univ. N. Ser. t. 17. 



S. Australia. Near the Murray river, F. Mueller. 

 _ W. Australia, Drummond, hth Coll. n. 49. /. S.Roe; Vasse river, Olcljield ; Phiilips 

 river aud tu the eastward, Maxwell. 



_ Tribe II. G en iste.?^.— Shrubs or herbs, veiy rarelv small trees. Leaves 



simple or vvith 1, 3 or more digitate leaves (pinnatelv'S-foliolate in Goodia). 



btnmens all united in a sheath, open on the upper side in all the Australian 



genera (except in one species oi Uovea, where the upper stamen is free), or in 



a closed tube in several European and African genera. Pod dehiscent, not 

 articulate. ° 



+1,.''^'' *?f i' '^'"'^^^ ''"'"^ *° P<"^^'l/riece, from which it is technically distinguished bj 

 .tne monadelphous staniei.s, and in the Australian genera there is no difficulty in separating 

 inem or mthose species of Daviesia aud Phyllota where the stamens are united at the 

 han!i 7^ "!)'°"i'' J" r' ,'-"^ '° ^^ confounded with the sheath of Genistece. On the other 

 Ss;d1re1rh;Xfhe ^^''' '°''"'''' ^''"■"'^'^ "''^ ^''''9e<^^ ^"'^ "^^^ ^' "^""^^ '" 



PLATYLOBIUM 



Calyx : 2 upper lobes very large, free or shortly united ; the lower oues 

 ^all and narrow. Petals clawed ; standard orbicular or reniform, wings 



l0n""-ol)n\'ntp miir.1, ol,^,.*..,. i_. 1 , . , . .1 _-.;„.,!, 



— - ..„..„„. ^ctuia t;iaweu; Standard orbicular or renitorm, nuiji^ 

 oblong-obovate, much shorter; keel obovate, nearly as long as the wings, 

 btamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side ; anthers uniform. 

 Uvary sessile or stinitntP wliK o»,„.,.„i ^.. \K , ,' .^ .- „^a uirh 



--rt^--. ■^--..^, ui^cuiiig eiasucaiiy in a valves, rolled back but not separati"! 

 irom the wing. Seeds strophiolate.— Slender shrubs. Leaves opposite, en 

 Ivf] '''" '^ Pi^"Sent angles, reticulate. Flowers yellow, solitary, in opposite 

 axils. -Bracts brown and scarious, imbricate, in 2 or 3 pairs at the base of 

 the pedicels ; bracteoles siiuCar but longer, under the calyx. • 



S J«-lf Tfri'; ^^'t'i *° ^f ^"'■° Australia. It is eloselv allied to the opposite-leav^d 

 m^stcBas differing chiefly m the pod, and generally in the proportion of the petals. 



Pedicl'St^ '"^r '^fl "1''^ puagent-pointed angles. 

 */ll' 1™"'^ ^''"g" ^^^"^ tte bracts. Pod stinitate. Ind 



times W;r tT^ '''" '"'^''*'- ^«J stipJi^te, and several 



time. longer than calyx \ ' j p triawjulare- 



tt;^:c\sTn']1f il "T'^' '^ ^^^ ^-^^^- Pod s'essUe, 'not ' ' 



twice as long as the calyx ' « V oUusanguhn. 



Lcav^^all ovate, cordate or lanceolate, the la'tcrd angl. or ^uride; , '' "^^ ' 



pScl^XK!nT^f '^'^ ''^' *^^^'-"'=*^- Pod sessile. . / 1. P. obiusangum- 

 rediCLls longer than the bracts. Pod stipitate 3. P.formosum. 



<?;i; ^* /^a^S^are, R. Br. in Jit. Uort. Km. ed. 2, i v. 266, not of 

 ^ms. A straggling or procunabent shrub, with slender glabrous or villous 



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