156 XL. LEGUMiNOS^E. [Boss'm 



i 



Braucbes spiuesccut. 



Glabrous, Leaves broadly obovate or obcordate. Pedicels 



short, axillary 25. J?. MlcropJ?ylla. 



Minutely strigose-pubesceut. Pedicels slender, extra- 

 axillary 26. B, peduncular^. 



BraticKcs mucli flattened or wiuj^ed. Leaves disticlioiis or none. 

 Branches leafy. 



Keel glabrous. Pod coriaceous, the stipes much longer than 



the calyx ; 27. P^ heferophylla. 



Keel edged with a short wool. Pod thin, the stipes not ex- 

 ceeding the calyx 28. 1\ rufa. 



Branches leafless, winged. 



Keel not exceeding the standard. 



Keel edged with a short wool (Western species) . ♦ • . 28. B. rufa. 



Keel glabrous (Eastern or Northern species). 



Calvx with 5 nearly equal lobes. Flowers nearly sessile, 



with imbricate bracts . 29. ■/?. brudeosa. 



Calyx 2 upper lobes broad and uuited. Pedicels longer 



than the bracts. 

 Pod thin, with nerve-like margins 30. B. ripanu. 



Pod broad w^ith thickened margins. 



Flowers smali. Pod distinctly stipitate . . , . 31. B. ensaia^ 

 riowers rather large. Pod almost sessile .... 32. ^. scolopendna. 

 Keel more or less exceeding the standard. Flowers large. 

 Stem-wings usually narrow and slightly indented at the nodes. 



Keel much longer than the staudatd 33. -o. ivalkeru 



Stem-wings broad, with very projecting lobes or angles under 



the nodes. Keel rather longer than the standard . . • . 34. B. phylloclada^ 



Series I. OpposixrvoLiiE. — Leaves opposite, (!alyx: 2 upper lones or 



teetli obtuse, broad, free or united. Pod glabrous, on a long stipes. 



. I. B, dentata, ^e-w^A. An erect glabrous shrub, attaining 7 or 8 ft., 



although sometimes much smaller, the branches terete and often <i;laiiaua- 



scabrous. Leaves opposite, from broadly ovate-cordate or triangular to nss 



tate-lanceolate or almost linear, \ to 1 in. long, acute or obtuse, irrcg 



ularly 



dentictdate. Flowers oranere-red or vellow, more or less tinged with gre 

 Pedicels solitary. Bracts Jbroad, rigid, striate, 1 or 2 inner ones aau o^^ 

 teoles often 2 to 3 lines long, but very deciduous. Calyx 3 to 4 lines lon^- 

 the lobes or teeth sliort, obtuse, all of equal length but the 2 ^^PP^'^ S 

 broader. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel and wings nearly ' 

 times the calyx. Ovary on a long stipes,'^glabrous, with about * P^J^^^j^^ 

 Pod 1 in. long or more and about 4 lines broad, on a stipes exceeding _^ 

 calyx ; valves coriaceous, with thick margins. — Scottea dmtala. R- ^' 

 Ait, Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 2G9 ; DC. Prod. ii. 118 j Lodd. Bot. OaD. • 



1458 ; Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 87. 



"W. Australia. King George's Sound to Stirling; range, and eastward to 



^ ^wv..QV. ^ v^^^itv* ^,^J ^Lllilllj^ ItlLl^' 



the gr^>' 



Australian Bight, K Brown, Baxter, Lrummond, Oldfield, Maxwell^ and others. ^^ 



The leaves vary so miioh in aspect as to appear at first to characterize distinct ^P^?' J^i,e 

 the real difference is only in breadth, and the following varieties pass insensibly one i 

 other : — . a n^ 



a. latifolia. Leaves nearly triangular, flat, \ in. lung and hiodiA.—Brummond, 

 and other collections. ^ ^^ \ 



b. kastata. Leaves ovate-hastate or hastate-lanceolate, \ to. above 1 in- l^ngi * ,^jj 

 in. \ycq^^,— Scottea dentata, Bot. Reg. t. 1233; Maund, Botanist, t. 134; S. lavih 

 Hot. Reg. t. 1652. —P/w^ n. 1031^ and other collections. 



