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shorter. ^ Standard scarcely twice as long as the calyx, wings about as long 

 as the standard ; keel considerably longer. Ovary stipitate, with about 20 

 ovules. Pod above 2 in. long, about 4 lines broad, on a stipes shorter tlian 

 the calyx ; valves apparently flat, with slightly thickened margins, but not 

 seen quite ripe. 



N. S. Wales. Peel Range, between the Lachlau and Murrumbidgee rivers, Walker; 

 and thence lo the Barrier Range, Victorian Hxjpedition. 



34. B. phyUoclada, F. Muell. in Trans. PJdl. Inst. Fid. iii. 52, 

 Jfracjm. u. 120. A tall glabrous glaucous leafless shrub, the brandies Hat- 

 tened and very broadly winged, the wings forming angles projecting under 

 the nodes from \ io \ in., sometimes acute and pungent-pointed, sometimes 

 shorter and obtuse. Pedicels solitary or more frequently clustered, rather 

 slender, with small narrow bracteoles about the middle. Calyx 4 to 5 lines 

 long, the 2 upper lobes as long as the tube, broadly obovate and distinct, the 

 lower ones very small. Standard not twice as long as the calyx ; wings sliorter 

 and narrow ; keel as long as the standard or rather longer, woolly-ciliate on 

 the edge. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with 10 to 12 ovules. Pod above 1 ia. 

 long, ^ m. wide, veiy flat, with slightly thickened nijfrgins. 



N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Tl. Brown; Fitzmaurice river, a chief 

 component of the scrub between Van Alphen and Nicholson rivers, F. Mueller. 



22. TEMPLETONIA, K. Br, 



(Nematophyllum, F. Muell) 



Calyx 2 upper lobes or teeth completely united or rarely distinct, 2 lateral 

 ones often shorter, lowest one the longest. Standard orbicular or obovate, 

 usually reflexed ; wings narrow, usually shorter than the standard; keel as 

 long as the standard or shorter, the petals slightly united. Stamens all united 

 in a shea h open on the upper side ; anthers alternately long and erect and 

 short and versatile. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with several ovules or rarely 

 only x5 or 3; style uicurved, filiform; stigma small, terminal. Pod sessile 

 or stipitate much flattened, ovate-oblong or linear, often oblique, completely 

 aeliiscen , the valves conaceous, without thickened sutures. Seeds stroplno- 

 late.--bIaUrous shrubs or rarely luidershrubs, occasionally leafless, the branches 

 angular or sulcate-stnate. Leaves when present alternate, simple, entire, 

 btipuies minute or spinescent. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 together, 

 red or yellow. _ Bracts 2 or 3 at the base of the pedicel as iu BosnifBa, but 

 usually very minute ; bracteoles at or above the middle. 



whlt;f'lT''-"'"^"^^°\"**'''^'^- ^t f'^* «s much variety in habit :,^ Bossic,a,^x^^ 

 Which It differs in calyx, anthers, and pod, as well as in the striate-sulcate brauches. 

 Stems leafy. Stipules minute or inconspicuous 



leaves ovate or elliptical, acute. Low undershrub 2 T. Dnmmon 



Leaves narrow-linear. 



Calyx suiall, the lobes scarcely acute, shorter than the tube . . Z. T. Murlkri. 



SfPrnf^f ? acuminnte much longer than the tube 4.. T. Uookerl 



Stems ienfy or leafless Stipules spinescent. recurved . . . T. h. T. aculeala. 

 Stems leafless Stipules mmute, inconspicuous. Howera small. 



Stems terete &. T. egena. 



blems flattened ' ^ j, J^j,„fa, 



dii. 



