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190 XL, LEGUMiNOS^. ^ \_Fsondea. 



Plant pubescent or villous. Flowers iu nearly globular short 



racemes 3. P. lahamka. 



Plant glabrous or slightly hoary. Plovvers small, in loose elon- 

 gated racemes .7 • 10. F, leucaniha. 



Leaves all pinnately 3-foliolate, or the lower ones rarely 1-foliolate. 

 . Calyx lower lobe much longer than the lateral ones. Leaflets 



entire. 

 Flowers in dense heads. Calyx very hispid, the lower lobe 



long-lanceolate. Petals shorter than the calyx • ... 4. P. plunwsa. 

 Flowers in interrupted spikes. Petals longer than the calyx. 



Calyx pubescent , , , . . 5. P. pustulafa. 



Calyx densely clothed with soft white woolly hairs . . . 6. P. lachnodaclijjs. 

 Calyx lower lobe scarcely exceeding the upper ones. Leaflets 

 usually toothed. 



Calyx softly silky-villous or black, 2 to 4 lines long, com- 

 pletely concealing the 2)od. 

 Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, the lateral lobes short. Plant 



usually white-tonientose . . 7. P- eriantha. 



Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes nearly equal. Plant 



hoary or pubescent . , 8. P. patens. 



Calyx hoary-tomcntose or slightly pubescent, 1 to li lines 

 long, open when in fruit, and scarcely exceeding or shorter 

 than the pod. 



Leaflets ovate or elliptical, mostly |- to 1 in. long . , . . 9. P. cinerea^ 



Leaflets oblong or lanceolate, H to 3 in. long 10. P. leucantha. 



Leaves digitately 3- to 7-foliolate. Leaflets entire. 



Spikes dense. Calyx 2 to 2i lines long, bl ick or silky-villous, 



much longer than the pod 12. P. adscendens* 



Racemes slender. Calyx 1 to li lines long, slightly pubescent, 



about as long as the pod ]1. T.tenax, 



1. P. badocana, Benth. An erect stout underslinib or shrub, of 2 to 

 3 ft., softly tomentose or silky-villous all over and strongly scouted, the black 

 dots mostly concealed by the indumentum. Leaflet single, on a petiole arti- 

 culate near the top, ovate to lanceolate, obtuse or scarcely acute, 2 to 3 in. long, 

 entire, softly villous on both sides and usually silky underneath. StipuB 

 linear-subulate or broad and subulate acuminate, often \ in. long. Flowers in 

 dense heads or short spikes, all axillary or sessile or very shortly peduuculate. 

 Caiyx softly villous, fully 5 lines long in the normal forms, 'including? the 

 lower lobe, which is much longer than tlie others and boat-sbaped. Petal* 

 shoiter than the lower calyx-lobe. Pod small, reticulate, gUindular.— iv^'"*'^ 

 bndocnna, Blanco, Tl. Filip. 597 ; Meladenia demUkra, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 

 1818, i. 576. 



'.Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, ^. Brown; N. coast, A, Ountdngliami^^f' 

 Essiiigtou, Armstrong. Also in New Guinea, M'GUlivrau, aud the Philirpi"e islii"5^' 

 Cuming, n. 1149 and 1649. 



y^T.grandl/lora, Spikes crowJed aud often 1 to \\ in. long. Calyx fully 7 H^es lon|- 

 Pod tomentose.— P. Archeri, ¥, Mutll. Fragm. iv. 21, partly.— Regent's River, JN. "' 

 coast, A. Cunningham ; Upper Victoria river, F, Muefler. 



X^i-^cephala^tka. Rather less villous. StipuLs broad, triangular, very shortly acurm- 

 nale. Spikes or flower-heads globular. Calyx rather snialltr than in the norma! iorm, ifl 

 lowest lobe scarcely so long as the petals.—/^, cejjkaiantha, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 35. 



Queensland. Mount Elliott, Dallachg, ^ 



Very nearly alH^ 



Archeri 



to p. badocam, with which F. Mueller unites it, but apparently an er 



