Paoralea,'] XL. leguminos.^. 



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coarse annual of 1 to 3 ft., hirsute with much more rigid and spreading hairs 

 than in that species. Leaves similarly 1-foliolate, tlie leaflet ovate or oblong, 

 obtuse, 2 to 3 in. long, but always toothed. Flower-heads sessile and very 

 hispid. Flowers of F. budocaua, but the calyx-lobes more subulate. Pod 

 ovate, almost acute, very hispid. 



N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. 



3. P. balsamica, F. Muell. in Trans. Fid. Inst. iii. 55. A tall under- 

 slmib, softly pubescent or villous, or at length nearly glabrous, the bi-aiiches 

 very rough with numerous prominent tubercular glands. Leaflets single, on 

 a petiole articulate at the top, elliptical-oblong obtuse or mucrouate, denti- 

 culate, \\ to 3 in. long, slightly pubescent, the black or brown glandular 

 dots numerous. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in nearly globular short ra- 

 cemes, in the upper axjls or at the ends of the branelics. Calyx shortly vil- 

 lous 2 to 2| lines long, open when in fruit, the lobes shorter than the tube, 

 . the loivest bi-oader but not longer than the others. Petals rather longer than 

 the calyx; keel shorter than the others and obtuse. Pod obovate, very 

 obtuse, pubescent, nearly as long as the calyx. 



N. Australia. Van Alphen river, F. Mueller; Attack Creek, M'Botiall Stuart. 



*. P. plumosa, F. Mnell. Frar/m. iv. 22. Apparently an annual, erect, 

 neaily simple, 6 to 9 in, high, veiy hispid with long spreading rigid hairs. 

 •L^eiives pinnately 3-foliolate ; leaflets obovate or elliptical, acute or nnicro- 

 nulate, quite entire, | to 1 in. long, the lateral veins few. Flower-spikes 

 dense, short, shortly pedunculate, very hispid. Bracts broad. Calyx-tube 

 ^'fiy short, the lowest lobe lanceolate, acuminate, nearly 4 lines long, the 

 ^Pper ones scarcely half as long and narrow. Petals shorter than the lower 

 «al.vs-lobe ; keel with a short erect point. Pod ovate, slightly hirsute. 



N. Australia. Hooker's Creek, F. Mueller. 



.^- P« pustulata, F. Mnell. in Trans, rid. Inst. iii. 54. An undershrub 

 ^fb stout rigid erect branches attainin": 5 to 10 ft. in height, loosely pubes- 

 cent and sprinkled with large almost scale-like glands. Leaves pinnately 3- 

 oljolate; leaflets obovate or oblong, very obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long, entire, softjy 

 Piiuescent. Stipules broad, rigid, striate. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in 



at ler loose axillary racemes of 2 to 4 in., flowering almost from the base. 



"ijx about 3 lines long, slightly pubescent and s))rinkled with prominent 

 f^,^'> tlie lobes rather broad, the 4 upper ones very short, the lowest nearly 

 br'^^l ^®tJ'^"S- Petals half as long again as the calyx, the standard rather 



oad. Pod enclosed in the somewhat inflated calyx, ovate-oblong, slightly 

 ^="7. very glandular. 



^. S" ^z*^^*^*^'*" "^''ctoria river, and sources of Nicholson river. Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 «*'''«■'•; Nichol Bay, F. Gre^ori/'s Ej-jjedition. 



fn ^- ^^c^^ostachys, F. Mndl. Fragm. iii. 105. From the single 

 l,:r.'"*^"t of this plant in F. Mueller's herbarium, it would appear to have the 

 the fl '^^^' "^florescence, and floral characters of P.pudulata, except that 

 I "°/^'^''« are ratlier larger, and the rhachis of the racemes, the pedicels, and 

 'Calyxes are densely clothed with soft, very white, woolly hairs. 



■ Australia. NicLl Bay, F. Gngor>/'s Expedition. 



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