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llovea,] XL. legumixos.t:. 173 



smaller varieties busliy and stunted. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, ob- 

 tuse, with or without a small callous point, all under f in. long in somevarie- 

 . ties, in others all above 2 in., thickly coriaceous, with flat recurved or revo- 

 lute margins, glabrous above and smooth and shining or densely reticulate, 

 the primary veins ^vhen conspicuous transverse or arcuate, more or less rusty- 

 tomeutose underneath. Flowers very shortly pedicellate in axillary clusters, 

 which sometimes grow out into interrupted spikes or racemes, or rarely soli- 

 tary. Bracts and bracteoles small, usually obtuse. Calyx tomentose, 2 to 3 

 lines long; lobes all short, the upper broad truncate lip not much longer 

 than the lower lobes, which are usually more obtuse than in if. linearis. 

 Standard twice as long as the calyx. Staminal tube open on the upper side 

 only. Ovary tomentose. Pod sessile, 4 to 6 lines broad, softly rusty-tomen- 

 tose or almost villous. 



N. Australia. Port Essington, A, Cunningham (specimens imperfect). 



Queensland. Near Mount Owen, Mitchell; Newcastle Range and Sutter river, F. 

 Mueller; Shoalwater Bay passages, K Brovm ; Moretoii Bay, A. CunniJigham ; near , 

 ^'arwick, Beckler ; Ipswich, Nernst, 



N. S. "Vl^ales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, -R. Broicn, Sleber, and others ; 

 Macquarrie and Lachlan rivers. A, Cumnngham ; northward to Clarence xistx.Beckleiy^Ml 

 ^'ew England, C. Stuart, and southward to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 



Victoria. Gipps' Land, Mitta Milta river, Jlouut Butler, etc., ascending to 5000 ft., 

 r. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Port Dalrymple and Bass's Straits, n. Brown ; ahunJant throughout the 

 telaud, /. B. Hooker, 



S. Australia. Eocky sides of Mount Eemarliuble'and adjacent hills, F. Mueller. 

 , The fullowing forms, usually considered as distinct species, pass into each other hy such 

 ^sensible gradations, that I am unable to di^tiuguish them otherwise than as varieties. 



a. normalis. Leaves linear with revolute margins, usually U to 3 in. long, but in some 

 Jpecimens shorter. Flower-clusters often shortly racemose.— JT- lonylfoha, Bot. ]Xt%. t. 

 ;U ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 994 ; H. racemulosa, Benth. in Bot. Reg. 1 843, t. 4 (the supposed 

 J^wan River origin probably a garden mistake).— Port Jackson, K Broicn, Sieber n. ^i >, 

 *nd others, also R, Brown's Queensland specimens. Some specimens are very dithcult to 

 d'stmguish from H, linearis, t . ^ *i, 



. b. Tomarinifolia. Leaves linear, very oLtusc and much revolute, hut much shorter man 

 >a the normal form, and very much reticulate, otherwise closely connecting the sboi-t-ieaved 

 specimens of a and c-h! rosmarinifoUa, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. ^Ules, 348.-Blue 

 -^lountains. 



c. hnceolata. Leaves oblong, or lanceolate, or broadly linear, with flat or recurved 

 '^a^gins, I to 3 in. long, often rather thick, closely, hut often densely tomcutose underneath 

 :r^'fanceolata. Sims! Bot. Mag. t. 1624 j Bot' Reg. t. 1427 (a weak ^l^^^^^J^^^^^^^^ 

 ^- Prod. ii. 11 5 ; H.a^iaMl A. Cunn!, and U. mucronata A. Cnmi. in ^^Do/^' Gen. 

 Y' u. 126 ; J. purpurea, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1. 1457 ; Maund, Botanist, t. 7^ J Hook f 11. 

 l«sm 1. 93^ b,,t g^^^^^l of Sweet; H. Beckeri, F. MueU. in Lmn^a, ^^^- f l'-*^^/^^^ 

 J er the whole range of the species and the most common form. The «^f ^-f.^^^^^^/^^T 

 ^ve often elongated interrupted inflorescences, and the tomentum of the ^"^^^ f ^ f Jj 

 W thm and pale-coloured; the Tasmanian and Victorian ones especially ^^^^^ ^;;" J^^ 

 ^^^^vations, have usually smaller much more revolute leaves, and the ^0^"^"^^^" .^[^^^"^^^^^^^^ 

 J. pannosa. Leaves linear or oblong, rather large and very ^^''^'''''^^^^^^ 

 J^ t and dense, often almost woolly. Flowers rather large, in close clusters, the ca > x densely 

 {^^^"te, the lower lobes narrow and acute. Pod often rusty-wooUy.--^. f^i?^^^^^^;^;^^^^ 

 «^ Austral, t. 13 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1423 ; //. vUlosa, Lindl. in Bot. Rog. t. 1 o 2 i/^ jan^ 

 ;2' A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag" t. 3053 H, lanigera. Lodd. in Steud. Norn. Bot. ed 2 , R. 

 ramulosa, A. Cunn. in Bot Rcr. under n. 4 (a narrow-leaved form connecting it vMth the 

 J^^mal variety).^Blue Mouutarus and Queenslaud. The Port Essington specimens are al.o 

 ^^west to this variety. 



