Bossi^a.] * XL. LKGUMINOSiE, 163 



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from a few inches to about 1 fl. long, terete or slightly flattened, usually 



pubescent. Leaves distichous, ovate or oblong, obtuse or scarcely acute, } to 



i in. long or rarely more, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs, the petioles 



frequently rather long and slender. Pedicels usually much longer than the . 



leaves, pubescent, with small deciduous bracteoles. Calyx about 2 lines long. 



the 2 upper lobes broadly falcate and united above the middle, the lower ones 



short and narrow. Standard fully twice as bug as the calyx ] wings and keel 



considerably shorter. Ovary very shortly stipitatc, glabrous or ciliate, with 



6 to 10 ovules. Pod nearly sessile, glabrous, f to 1 in. long, rarely 2|- lines 



broad.-Bot. Mag. t. 1493 ; DO. Prod, ii 1]7 ; Hook. f. PI. Tasm. i. 9i ; 



f . ocala, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 303 ; B. liiinaaides, G. Don, Gen. Syst. 



"• 129; B. numMidaria, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 22 ; JS. himilis, Meissn. ia 

 PI. Preiss. i. 8 5 . 



Queensland. Wide Bay, i?;^«,.7/. 



W. 5. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 351, and 

 oineM; northward to New En-land, C. Stuart; and soutliward to Yovvaka river, F. Mueller. 



Victoria. Pojt riiillip, R. Brown ; Australia Felix and Wimmera river, /'. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Abundant in dry soil tliroughout the island. J. D. Hooker, 

 f M n^^^^^' ^'^^^Parhiga, Stringy Bark, Lofty and Bugle ranges, Rivoli Bay, etc., 



sev " !''^^°"^^^^" specimens the steins are usually short, very s'cnder, almost filiform, iu 

 flow • ■ ""'""^^'■'1 '^"ss they are longer firmer and more branclied. The size of tlie 

 .t,r ^"^^ '^/ariable, and here and there a few flowers, possibly imperfect ones, may be found 

 »bnormally ahnost sessile. 



21 B. buxifolia, J. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 318. A procumbent 



1" clmuse shrub with numerous slender terete or scarcely flattened branches, 



imutely but softly pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate or almost cordate, acute, 



J.°"*^f% 3 lines long, nearly flat, coi-iaceous, transversely wrinkled and 



jpniiked with a few hairs above, loosely pubescent underneath. Pedicels 



much longer than the leaves, with small broad deciduous bracteoles above the 



brn 1 i ^^^^'^ minutely pubescent, scarcely 2 lines long, the upper lobes 



03(1 truncate as long as the tube and more or less united, the lower ones 



^Z ^ ^""^ '""*^^^ shorter. Standard broad, twice as lon'g as the calyx ; 



• P f^d teel shorter. Ovary nearly sessile, glabrous or with ciliate edges, 



/" *'"'«^t 6 ovules. Pod usually i to 1 in. long, i in. broad, almost sessile, 



ynargins nervifonn.— ^. decmnbetis, l\ Muell. Fragm. i. 9. 



tain, ■ ?■ ^*Ies. Near George's river, R. Brown ; rocky brushy hills in the Blue Moun- 

 lo \;.T; ^^^'"'^"Sf^am, and others; northward to Clarence river, Beckler; and southward 



Mount at"*; ^" '•'^ ^"'Slier Australian Alps on the Genoa and Delatite rivers, f. Mueller ; 

 ""' ilacedon. Dallachy, ^ 



stni' ?• ^""O^^ii, JietdJi, An erect apparently stout much-branched 

 sli4tl "^^ * ^*- ^^'i^^ the habit of ^. rJwmbifoUa, the branches terete or 

 most^ ^;^°™Pi"essed, softly pubescent. Leaves distichous, broadly ovate, al- 

 base T,' ^''^^^^ 0"^ mucronulate, 2 to 4 lines long, mostly oblique at the 

 tkn'tf ' ^^'^aceous, loosely pubescent or hairy. Pedicels mostly shorter 

 . n the calyx, with deciduous bracteoles near the base. Calyx about 2 lines 

 faloL' °^' "^"'^l^ shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, rounded- 

 Stan, ; 1 ^'^^^^ ^""y twice as long as the calyx, the keel nearly as long as the 

 noard. Ovary glabrous, on a long stipes, with usually 3 ovules. Pod i 



