Temj}ldo}na.] ■ XL. LEGUMiNosiE. 171 



7. T. sulcata^ BentJi, A tall rigid glabrous leafless slirub, with nume- 

 rous divaricate branches much flattened, sulcate, striate, and often endiu^^ in 

 stiff thorns, notched at the nodes. Pedicels very short ; bractcoles under the 

 calyx, concave, sometimes nearly 1 line long. Calyx l\ lines long, somewhat 

 rigidj the 4 lobes broad, obtuse, nearly as long as the tube, the latei'al ones 

 rather smaller than the others. Standard scarcely twice as long as the calyx ; 

 lower petals shorter. Ovary almost sessile, with 2 to + ovules. Pod sessile, 

 very obliquely ovate, |- to | in. long, with a hooked point, valves thickly 

 coriaceous and convex. — Bo^ucEa sulcata, Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. SI; B. 

 Rmii, F. Muell. Pragm. iii. 94, 168, 



Victoria. Mallee scrub, fi-oin the junction of the Murrumbida^ee and Murray to Lake 

 Hindmarsh, F. Mueller. 



W. Australia, Dmmmond, «. 107, 108, and 144, /. S, Roe; sanJy plains of the 

 Avon, Freiss, n. 1028 ; clayey places, Phillips river, Maxwell, 



23. HOVEA, R. Br. 



(Poiretia, 5'm. ; V\iv^\Q\oV\Vim^ Sioeet ; Platycliilum, i?^//^^;/.) 



Calyx upper lobes nnited into a broad truncate upper lip, entire or slightly 

 eniargiuate, tbe 3 lower ones much smaller, lanceolate. Petals clawed; 

 standard nearly orbicular, eraarginate; wings shorter, obliquely obovate, 

 auriculate on the inner side at the^base; keel much shorter, slightly incuiTcd, 

 ootuse, the petals slightly cohering. Stamens all united in a sheath open on 

 tbe upper side and sometimes sjdit also on the lower side, or rarely the 

 Uppermost stamens, and very rarely the lowest free; anthers alternately long 

 aud erect and short and versatile. Ovary sessile or stipitate with 2 or 

 farely naore ovules ; style incurved, rather thick 5 stigma terminal. Pod 

 sessile or stipitate, turgid, very obliquely globular or ovoid, the valves at 

 *^pth entii-ely separating. Seeds reniforra on short funicles, strophiolate.— 

 shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or prickly -toothed, glabrous above, 

 Often tomentose underneath. Stipules setaceous, minute or none. Flowers 

 mt or purple, in axillary clusters or very short racemes or rarely soliti;ry. 



nf !J* ^a""""^ '^ ^^'t'^'^'^y Australian, and ensiiy recognized by the habit, the calyx, the ooionr 

 thr V. r^^' a"c! short turgid pod, although it is closely connecttd with Templeivma, 

 ^Tougjii/. longiyes. 



^■ary and poj s^gsile (Eastern species), 

 ^od glabrous or slightly pubescent. 



^tenis decumbent. Lower leaves ovate, upper ones lanceolate 

 or linear , % E, heteropfiylla. 



Stems erect. Leaves numerous' Ion ej, mostly narrow-linear . 1. B. linearis. 

 *^od tomentose or vUl...,. "- "^ 



Ova 



ose or villous. , .^ ,, 



^avesoblongjanceolate or linear, obtuse at both ends . . i. R.longrfoha. 

 wvar T ^^^'^*^^'ed at both ends 4. //. acaUfoha. 



• LeL! "^""^ stipitate, always glabrous, 



'^^es with numerous oblique parallel veins. Calyx lower lobes . 



J. ./'"^^y as long as the upper (East tropical species) . . . h, UJongq^es. 

 •ives smooth or reticulate the primaiy veins distant (when con- 

 spicuous) transverse or arcuate. Calyx lower lobes much 

 Shorter than the upper (Western species). 



^^ under i io. long, narrow, entire. Branches spines- - ,1 ? j 



cent . o> * 6, H,-a€an(nociada. 



