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154 XL. LEGUMiNOSiK. [Platylobmu 



loosely liairy or at length glabrous.— Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 31 ; Bot. Mag.i 

 469 ; DC. Prod. ii. 116 ; Paxt. Mag. xiii. 195, with a fig. 



Queensland. Glasshouses, JF. EVl, F. Mueller, 



N, S. "Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Banhs and Solander, Sieber, n. 

 373, aud others; Bathurst plains, Fraser ; northward to Hastings river, Beckler, and 



southward to Twofold Bay, F. Mue/ler, . 



Victoria. Forest Creek, Dandenong and Disappointment mountains, and generally iQ 



wooded hills, Gipps' Land, F, Mueller, 



Tasmania. Plentiful about Mouut Direction, N. E. of Launceston, Gicnn, 

 Nar.parviflora. Usually distinguished from the larj>;cr N. S. Wales form by the narrow- 

 leaves, shorter pedicels, smaller flowers, more glabrous bracts, and by the ovary vdloiis near 

 the sutures only aud not all over ; but I do not fiud one of these characters constant, aud 

 some of the southern specimens are in all respects intermediate between the extreme I'ort 

 Jackson [ovm%.—P,parviJlorim, Sm. Bot. Nov. HoU. 18; Bot. Mag. t. 1520 ; DC. Iroa. 

 ii. 116; Lodd. Bot. Cab t. 1241; Paxt. Mag. xi. 219, with a fig. ; P. ovatum.'bi^^^^^ 

 DC. Prod. ii. 116.— The best characterized specimens from Port Jackson, R.Broivu, f^ieOer, 



n, 374, and others. ^ ■ u A 



The synonym of " Cheilococca apocij7iifolia, Salisb. Prod. 412," given by ^"^^/^^ ^^'^^^^ 

 Flatylobiam formomm, in Bot. Nov. IIoll. 17, and copied from him by De Caiidolle, 

 Endlicher, and many others, appears to be entirely a mistake. There is no such nanieui 

 Salisbury's work, and the page quoted is one of those of the index. 



21. BOSSI^A, Vent. 



(Scottea, i?. Br, ; Lalage, Lindl) 



Calyx: 2 upper lobes or teeth broader and usually much larger than the 

 others, distinct or united in an upper lip, 3 lower ones equal. .Petals clawea, 

 standard orbicular or reniform, usually reflexed ; wings narrow ; keel broaaei 

 and usually shorter than the wings, rarely longer or exceeding the standar . 

 Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side ; anthers uniform, 

 ovate or oblong, versatile. Ovary stipitate or nearly sessile, with sevei^ 

 ovules ; style subulate, incurved ; stigma small, teraiinal. Pod sessile 

 stipitate, flat, not winged ; valves completely separating, thin, with the t;ag ^ 

 . nerviforin or thickened. "Seeds strophiolate. — Shrubs or rarely undershruDS, 

 occasionally leafless ; branches terete or flattened, very rarely angular ^^^^ |^° 

 sulcate. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, entire or rarely toothed, ^ 

 articulate on a very short petiole. Stipules small, brown, Innceolate or sea 

 ceous. Flowers axillary, solitary or in clusters of 3 or 3, yellow orange 

 red. Bracts at the base of the pedicel, 3, 3, or more, imbricate, ^"^^f"^^^ 

 most very small and persistent, the inner ones often much longer ana j 

 deciduous ; bracteoles on the pedicel very small and persistent, or longer 

 deciduous. 



The genus is limited to Australia, and, with Plaiylohiim^ is distinguished f""^"^ ^^j^jg 

 Genisiea by the anthers all perfectly uniform, attached by the middle, vvilh a more percep 

 couaectivum. 



Series I. Oppositifolise. — Leaves opposite. Calyx upper lobes obttise. F^ ^ 

 broaSy exserted^ on a long stipes. 



Calyx upper lobes not longer than the lower. Keel and wings much 



longer than the standard. Leaves denticulate 1- -5. dentata. 



Calyx upper lobes very large. Keel and wings shorter than the 



standard. a -r runt- 



Leaves reuiform, sinuate and prickly-toothed 2. 5. Aquijo 



