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Petals clawed ; standard orbicular ; wings narrow ; keel broader, incurved, 

 obtuse. Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side ; anthers all 

 versatile, alternately smaller. Disk annular between tlie stamens and ovary. 

 Ovary stipitate, with 2 to 4 ovules ^ style subulate, incurved ; stigma small, 

 tenninal. Pod stipitate, flat, valves thin with a nerviform edge. Seeds stro- 

 phiolate.— Shrubs. Leaves pinuatelv 3-foliolate, with entire leaflets. Flowers 

 yellow mixed with purple, in terminal or Icaf-op])osed racemes. Stipules 

 bracts and bracteoles membrauous, but so deciduous as to be rarely seen but 

 m very young branches or racemes. 



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The genus is limited to Australia, and although uearly allied to BossL^a lo its flowers and 



riiit has the inflorescence of Crotalaria, and differs from all other Genhfea in its pinuateiy 



cCi ""^^ ^^ "'""^'^ therefore be equally well placed uudtr Galeyea, next to P/y- 



Glahrous or the yonng shoots minutely pubescent I. G. lotJfolia. 



Softly imbescent all over %, G, puLcens. 



O-Cn polifsperma, DC. Prod. ii. 117, is Argyrolohium Andrewsianum, Steud., a South 

 Afncaa, not an Australian plant. 



<?. rf/^j^, Mackay, and G, suhpnhescens. Sweet, in Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2, are uupub- 

 ^^^Dea garden names, probably of some varieties of G. lolholia. 



1. G. lotifolia, Salisb. Farad. Loud. L 41. A tall much-branched shrub, 

 either quite glabrous or the young shoots "minutely pubescent and often glau- 

 cous Leaflets ovate or obovaie, very obtuse, ^ to i in. long, the hiteral ones 

 usually at a considerable distance from the terminal one, tlie petiole slender, 

 ^icemes loose, many-flowered, 2 to 4 in. long. Calyx 2^ to 3 lines long, 



e lower lobes linear-lanceolate nearly as long as the tube, the upper lip very 

 oroad. mn.-P .. !..„ o ....^^ .... . Standard about twice as long as 



the I ""^^"^ ^^" ^^^^ 2-toothed at the top. 



^i^lyx,^ notched, yellow with a purple base; lower petals rather shorter. 



,^^0'^"o ft'otn 2 to nearly 1 in. long and 3 to 4 lines broad, on a stipes 



wi^hV ^^^^^ than the calyx, the upper suture often dilated, the valves thin 



tiansverse reticidations sometimes very prominent, sometimes scarcely 



P^rceptihle.~I)C. Prod. ii. 117 ; Bot. Mag. t. 958 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 696; 



«ook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 97.; Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 88. 



yj ' y*les. Hastings river, Fraser, 



Tas °''**- ^" ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ the interior, Jl Mueller; near Portland, Robertson. 

 mama. Common in various parts of the island, /. />. Hooker. 

 'Mudi^''^^^^' ^'*"*^^ers range, Guichen and llivoli Bays, Crystal Brook, etc.. P. 

 '^n Onkajiaringa ra«ge» Whittaker, 

 Q ' "^^stralia, Drummond, hth CoiL m. 89 ; Hay district, Preiss, n. 1014. 



^^ism f^^^^^^^' ^' "^^"^*^- ^^^^^"^^ i- 10, the prevailing Continental form, with shorter 

 oother pods, passes gradually into the more common Tasmauian form. 



, .. Most probably a variety 



fi/'oha, differing in being softly pubescent all over, the leaflets usually 



Maf/ 



aarr . "^ ' uuienng in Demg sottlv pubescent an over, xne leaueis u:5uaity 



ower and uiore approximate at the end of the shorter petiole, the liowerS . 

 "'"er smaller. — J)n p..r..i v. im, tj^^i. ^ i:.^i Tocm i Q7 



yictoria. 

 *^*«inaaia. 



r— DC. Prod. ii. 117; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 97. 



Dandenong monntains, F. Mueller. 



Mia hv'^^^r** . Common throughout the islaud, /. D, Hooker. 

 vr.Muell. Fragm. i. 10. 



It is united with <?. loti' 



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