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188 XL. leguminosa:. [Lotui, 



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Flowers yellow. Calyx-lobes about as long as the tube I. L. cornicuktiit. 



Flowers pink or white. Calyx-lobes usually longer than the tube . . 2. L. austra/is. 



L. tetragonolohui, Linn., an annual with deep pnrple-red flowers, belonging (o the section 

 Tfiragn-nolobus, with the pods winged, a native of Southern Europe, has been introduced m 

 a weed of cultivation in the Bugle Jlange, S. Australia, F. Mueller. 



1. If. corniculatus, Linn. ; Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 214. A perennial, 

 with prostrate, decumbent, ascending or almost erect stems, from a few in. to 

 •ly 2 ft. higii, the Australian specimens usually glabrous or somewhat 

 glaucous, but often hairy in other countries. Leaflets usually obovate or 

 ovate, acute, and rarely much above \ in. long, the 2 stipular ones broader 

 nnd very oblique, but sometimes all are narrow. Flowers yellow, often 

 tinged with b.ight red, from about 5 to near 10 in the umbel.' Calyx 3 to 

 2>\ lines long, usually slightly hairy, the lobes narrow and subulate-acuminate, 

 about as long as the tube.' Standard fully 5 lines diameter; wings nearly 

 as long ; keel with a long straight beak. Pod linear, terete, straight, rather 

 slender, 1 to 1^ in. long. Seeds globular, separated by thin transverse par- 

 titions.— Hook, f. Fl. Tasm. i. US. 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and others ; New 

 England and Clarence river, Beckler. 



Victoria. Wimmera, Ballachy. 



Tasmania. Port Dalryrnple,'^. Brown; abundant in rich soils and marshy places, 

 affwding good pasturage and ascending to 4000 ft., /. L. Hooker. 



S. Australia. Near Ikthanie, ¥. Mueller. 



The species is widely spread over Europe, temperate Asia, and the mountainous districts 

 of East India. i i . 



2. L. australis, Andr. Bot. Rep. I. 624. A perennial, sometimes 

 almost shrubby at the base, with diffuse ascending or erect stems, either gla- 

 brous and glaucous or more frequently pubescent on the voung(;r bmnchea 

 nnd peduncles, and in some Queensland specimens softly villous all over. 

 Leaflets usually narrower than in L. comiculatua, and the stipulary ones le^3 

 dissiradar, but varying from obovate and all under i in. long, to linear anJ 

 1 to li in. long. Inflorescence and pod of L. cornicMlifii.i, and the flowers 

 scarcely to be distinguished except by the colour, which is usually pink, but 

 varies from white to a purple-red ; they are also very variable in si'ze, in some 

 forms much smaller, in others much larger than in L. comic ul at us ; the 

 tube of the calyx is also shorter, and the lobes longer than In that species.- 

 Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 212; Eot. Mag. t. 1365; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. SSj 

 L. Iceviyatufi, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 62 ; L. albidus, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t. 1063; Maund, Botanist, t. 211. 



• "• '^'^f*T*^^*- ^- t"^Litaries of Victoria river, F. Mueller; Nichol Bay andDe Gre/ 

 river, Ridley s E.rpe .'idou. 



Queensland. Keppd Bay, R. Brown; Vori Qyxvih, M'GUUvrag ; Moreton Bay, 

 • n ^^"""'"'Jham; near Mount Faraday, Mitchell; Edgecombe Bay, Itockharoptoii, etc., 



^" ^", ?^^?"' ""°^"'s K'ver. R. Brown, Ohlfield; Macquarrie river, Wc^ji 

 northwards to Clarence river, Beckler; New England, G. Htuart ; and in the interior to tw 

 Murray. ° ' ' 



Victoria. Pasture land, frequent on the coast and on several ranges in the interior, F. 

 Mueller; Wiminera, Dallachy. 



Tasmania. Port Dalrymple. R. Brown ; sandv shores of the N. coast, /• D- ^"O^^ 

 8. AuBtraha. Near Adelaide, Wkittaker ; Lofty and Bugle ranges, Mount Bem^rt- 

 »bk, etc.. 7. jtfa*^//^,.; Kangaroo hknd, ra/^-r-^^jw/ ^ . ■ 



