170 XL. LEGUMlNOS^, [Temijkt'jnia. 



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Queenslaad. "Wide Ray, Bidwil/, LelchharcU. 



N. S. "Wales. Hawkesbury river, R, Brown; Gugeegong riverj A. Cunnimjliam \ 

 Now England, near Teuterfield, C. Stuart. 



Victoria. Murray river, Prince Paul Wilhelm ; "Wimmera river and Mount Arapiles, 

 near Lake Hindmarsh, Ballachj ; Milton, near Port Phillip, Weidenbach, 



* 4. T, Hookeri, Beuth. A tall slender shrub with erect branches, gla- 

 brous or slightly pubescent. Leaves rather crowded, linear-terete or ahiiost fili- 

 form with a short recurved point, 1 to 3 in. long or even more, glabrous, usually 

 articulate near the middle, showing that the lower portion is a petiole, with 

 which the leaflet is occasionally continuous. Stipules miiuite. Pedicels fili- 

 form, often 1 in. long, with small bracteoles near^the top. Calyx 5 to filioes 

 long, the 4 lobes acuminate, longer than the tube, the uppermost with aniu- 

 flexed point, the lateral ones shorter, the lowest considerably the longest. 

 Petal-claws short; standard broad, 6 to 7 lines longj keel about as long; 

 wings much smaller. Ovary stipitate, with about 6 ovules. Pod | to above 

 1 in. long, about 4 lines broad, on a stipes longer than the calyx, oblique 

 when young, but scarcely so when full grown; valves coriaceous, slightly 

 convex. — Nematoj)7iylluM Hookeri, F. Muell. iu Hook. Kew. Journ. ix. 20. 



N. Australia. N.W. coast, Bynoe ; Islands of the Gulf of Carpentana, 'R, Brown; 

 Hooker's and Sturt's Creeks, F. Mueller. 



5. T« actileata^ Benth. A low rigid shrub or undershrub, with a tliics 

 rhizome and numerous simple or branched often tiexuose stems, rarely exceed- 

 ing 1 ft. in height, sulcate-striate and glabrous or nearly so. Leaves fe\vor 

 sometimes none, the lower ones obovate or oblong, the uppermost linear, \ to 

 1 in. long, rigid and glabrous. Stipules rigid, recurved, prickly, and often 3 

 lines long. Pedicels short, the bracteoles about the middle. Calyx about 3 

 lines long, the 4 lobes of nearly equal length, rather shorter tlmn the tube, 

 the uppermost rather broader and the lowest rather longer than the lateral 

 ones. Standard broad, reflexed, twice as long as the calyx ; keel about a3 

 long as the standard; wings shorter. Ovary stipitate, with about 6 ovules. 

 Pod about f in. long, on a stipes longer than the calyx ; valves coriaceous, 

 but nearly ?ii\L—Bu8sirea acideata, F. Muell. Fra;^m. ii. 120. 



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6. T. egena, Bc-uth. A tall glabrous leafless shrub, with numerous 

 erect terete sulcate branches, the nodes bearing only minute protuberances. 

 Pedicels solitary or 2 together, rarely 1 line long, witli small orbicular brac- 

 teoles close under the calyx. Cal.vx 1^ Hues long or rather more, with 5 

 nearly equal broad obtuse teeth, much shorter than the tube, the lowest wther 

 the longest. Petals on rather long claws, scarcely twice as long as the en yx. 

 the standard ratlier longer than the others. Ovary shortly stipitate, with 

 to 8 ovules. Pod nearly sessile, obliquelv oblong, 6 to 8 lines long and about 

 4 broad, the valves very coriaceous and'slightly convex.— '/>ai;<V*i« egf^nij- 

 Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 118 ; Bosutea erjena, F. Muell. in Hook. M 

 Journ. viii. 43 ; Fragm. iii. 94. 



N.Australia. Hooker ami Sturt's CroeVs, J'.il/«e//<'r. ' , ,a 



N. S. Wales. Deserts of the Murray and Darling, Victorian £.rj)edilion ; nortti«^ 

 to Mount Alton, A. Cunningham. 



Victoria. Clayey and sandy, somewhat saline deserts of the Murray and Murriim- 

 Didgee, F. Muelhr. 



S. Australia, Barren bushy places along Spencer's Gulf to Lake Torrcns, f. iV«#''""- 



