Bomm'^ - XL. LEGUiMINOSiE. 167 



Victoria, ^klaneroa, F, Mueller, and possibly some specunens from other localities^ 



not determinable for want of flowers or fruit. 

 Tasmania. Derweat river, R. Brown ; abundnut throughout the islaud in various soils 



and situations, asceuding to 4000 ft., J, D. Hooker, 

 S. Australia. Port Lincolti, F. Mueller (doubtful specimens, without flowers or fruit). 



31. B. ensata, Sieb. in DC. Prod, ii. 117. An erect or procumbent 

 glabrous leafless shrub, very variable in aspect, and not always easy to distin- 

 guish from 5. scohpeudna, with which F. Mueller unites it, and of which it 

 may very likely prove a small-flowered variety, but the fruits of the different 

 forms are as yet insufficiently known. Branches flat and winged as in that 

 species, but usually narrower. Flowers smaller, the pedicels shorter andcou- 

 sequently less covered by the small bracts and bracteoles. Calyx rarely above 

 2 lines long, the keel much shorter than the standard, and glabrous as in B. 

 mlopendria. Ovary distinctly stipitate, glabrous, with about 6 ovules. ^ Pod 

 not seen fully ripe, but apparently not so broad and more stipitate than m B. 

 scohpendria, althouo;h with much more of the character of that species than 



of jB. riparia. 

 not of R. Br. 



^tfi 



Queensland. Moreton Bay, F. Mueller. _,. _ .^. „ , 



W. S, Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brov:n, Sieber, n, 4j34, ana 



others; and in the scrub in the interior, Fraser ; Port Macquarrie, Backhouse; and soum- 



*ard to Twofold Rmv. F MupJl^r. 



\}o Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 

 Victoria. Snowy River, F, Mueller. 



rf^ - ' - - - 



32, B. scolopendria^ Sm. in Trans, Linn. Soc. ix. 303. 

 Ijrous often somewhat glaucous leafless sbrnb, the branches fl:^ 



An erect gla- 



flattened, with 



^^wua uiieu somewuat glaucous leaness suruu, u»c uiuw^i.-- .- - ^^ 



coriaceous distichous wings descendino- from the nodes, the 2 wmgs with the 



Leaves 

 inches. 



■-vjiuceous aistichous wings descenclmg trora lue uuuea, uio « "-■„- 

 branch yavymg from 1 to 6 lines broad, tlie nodes scarcely indented, 

 only on young seedlings and 1 or 2 occasionally at the base ot the bruu^u... 

 flowers usually solitary at the nodes on very short pedicels, the bracteoles 

 I'luler liiue lo'ng, but almost covering the pedicel. Calyx about -J^ ^'"es 

 ong or rather more ; lobes shorter than tlie tube, the 2 upper ones very 

 froad, united in a broad emarginate upper lip, the lower ones nearly as ion j^, 

 Ifceolate, acute. Standard fully i in. broad; wings shorter i kee still 

 shorter. Ovary almost sessile, glabrous, with about 6 ovules 1*0(1 aliuosi 

 s^sile, 1 in. long or more, about 5 lines broad, the valves flat L 



vere Tni.nK ti,:„ 1 i • ,:..„„f pv^n than in xj 



but with broad 



-— -v, i i„. long or more, auout a nnes uiutiu, i»^ ,....^-.-- .„„i,„iin 



;eiy much thickened margins, more prominent even than in^. //^/^/o///y//^. 

 Jut without any cellular matter between the seeds inside.-Bot. ^i'-'f ; J" ^^;;' 

 ?,^- Prod. ii. 116; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1747; Plafr/lobmm scolojpendnum, 

 ^ent. Jard. Malm. t. 55 ; Andr. Bot. Eep. t. 191. 



, N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Broken, Sieher, n. 357, and niany others^ TUejjther 

 ^t'o"^ usually given belons, eithl^r to B. ensata, which, as ^f <^^« ^' ^l' ™7,'a S. 

 •^-flowered vaHety, or to >. rij>ana, differing more essentially both m flowers and 



Walkeri. F. Muell 



A glabrous 



f"fless shrub with flattened winged branches, usually »f'f ^%^"7^'^vdicds 

 f "ted as in 5. ,,,,«^«, but thickly coriaceous as i^,,^" */'^^'^2* sure met 

 ^fh solitary, i to \ in. long, the bracteoles all fallen from o^/ ^P "™\"^f; 

 C«Iyx about 5 lines long, ver? oblique, the lobes shorter than 5^^ .tub«; th« 

 2 "Pper ones rounded and united to the mitldle, the lower one. uanoN^ei ami 



