182 XL. LEGUMlNOSiE. * [Crotakm. 



long, more or less distinctly articulate or geniculate above tlie middle. Flowers 

 yellow, rather numerous, in terminal racemes, variable in size. Bracts small 

 and narrow. Calyx about 3 to 3^ lines long, the lobes all acuminate, nenrly 



equal and scarcely longer than the tube. Standard 6 to 8 lines diameter, 

 'ghibrous. Ovary sessile, pubescent or villous, with 15 to 20 ovules or even 



more. Pod 1 to 1^ in. long, tomentose-pubescent, or at length nearly gla- 

 brous. — C. oblo7igifaUa, Hook. Ic. PI. under n. 830; 0. Milchelli, F. MueU. 



Fragm. iii. 50, not of Benth, 



N. Australia. N.W. coast, Bynoe ; Nichol Bay, F. Gregory 8 Expedition; Upper 

 Victoiia river and Alligator Point, F. Mueller ; Gulf of Carpentaria, ^^/m^, Landsborough f 

 near Monut Humphries, M'Bouall Stuart, 



The above specimens comprise the 3 following rather marked forms : — 



a. parvijiora. Leaves glabrous above. Rowers small. Pod oblona:, about J in. long. 



b. ohlon(jifolia. Leaves glabrous above or slightly pubescent. Flowers rather large. 

 Pod above 1 in. long, much inflated. 



c. ladophylla. Leaves softly pubescent on both sides. Flowers rather large. Bracts 

 closely reflesed. 



9. C. crassipes, nool\ Ic. PL L 830. Apparently a tall and erect 

 plant, closely allied to (?. Nov(2- Holla ndi(e, with the same oblong or elliptical 

 obtuse leaves on articulate or geniculate petioles, but the whole plant is per- 

 fectly glabrous, and the subulate stipules, and the back of the petiole are 

 continued below the hisertion of the leaf into raised angles shortly decurreut 

 on the stena. The inflorescence is that of C. Novm-HollandicB, the flowers rather 

 larger and the calyx-lobes rather longer. The ovary is as glabrous as the 

 rest of the plant. 



N, Australia. N.W, coast, Bynoe, 



10. C. Ctmninghamii, R, Br. in. App. StuH Exped, 8. A shrub, of 

 '% to 3 ft., with softly tonientose terete or slightly angular branches. Leaves 

 ovnte, usually broad, very obtuse, \\ to 3 in. long, densely and softly toaieu- 

 tose-pubescent or villous on both sides, the petiole i to | in. long, articulate 

 or geniculate above the middle. Stipules and bracts softly subulate, some- 

 times rather long, but very deciduous, llaceines terminal, usually short and 

 dense, sometimes reduced to a sessile cluster, rarely 4 to 5 in. long- Flojvers 

 very lar^je, of a yellowish -green colour, more or less streaked with darkh^ies. 

 Calyx tomentose, the tube about 3 lines long, the lobes varj^iug from t ha 

 length to twice as long, all nearly equal. Standard ovate, acuminate, ahou 

 li in. long when fully developed ; keel rather longer; wings shorter. Ovary 

 shortly stipitate, villous, with 20 or more ovules. Pod coriaceous, tomentose, 

 li in. long.—^Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 829 ; P. Muell. Fragra. iii. 52. 



N. Australia. Common on the saiuly shores of the N.W. coast, Bynoe ; from Cj^n 

 Bay, A. Cuvnivgham, to Victoria river, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, F. MueUf, l'^ 

 hardt; sandy ridges of the Hamraersley Range, F, Gregorys Ej-jjediiion ; N»c"oi ^. 

 and De Grey river, R'dleys Expedition ; Mount Humphries, 3rDotiall Stuart. 



S. Australia. Towards Spencer's Gulf, lFar6urton ; ue^ar Cooper's Creek, f^ l'^^ ' 

 Howitfs Expedition, 



V/. Australia. Sharks Bay, M. Brown, . og» 



a Sturtii, R. Hr. iu A pp. Sturt Exped: 7. gathered hy D. Sturt between latitude ^^^ 

 1 26^ which I have not seen, is believed both by Hooker and by F. ^lueller to ^^^^ 

 same as C, Cunningkamii, the specimen of the latter seen 



V/. Australia. Sharks Bay, M. Brown, 



gathered 1 



by R. Brown havi.ig been I J^j^ 

 feet as to inflorescence, and there is nothing in R. Brown's dia^juoses of C Sttirtih 



and 



