192 - IL. LEGUMINOS^. [PsoraltQ. 



7. p. eriantha, Benth, in Mitch. Trop. Amir. 131. A perennial with 

 a woody rhizome and prostrate or ascending stems of 1 to 2 ft., hoar)' or 

 white with a short or soft tomentum. Leaves pinnately 3-folio!ate; leaflets 

 ovate obovate or almost orbicular, toothed, hoary or white-tomentose, the ter- 

 minal one usually f to 1 in. or rarely 1| in. long, the lateral ones smaller. 

 Stipules short. Spikes pedunculate, sometimes dense and 1 to 2 in. long, 

 more frequently rather loose and 2 to 3 or even 4 in. long. Flowers bluish, 

 almost sessile. Calyx 3 to nearly 4 lines long, clothed with a soft white to- 

 mentum or pubescence, the lowest lobe rather longer than the 2 uppermost, 

 the lateral ones much shorter. Petals rather longer than the calyx. Pod 

 ovoid, obtuse, tomentose or villous, shorter than the calyx. 



Queensland. In the bed of the Balonne river, near St. George's Bridge, MikJieU. 

 ^ N. S. "Wales. Near the Darling river, Dallachy and Goodwin; saudliills near 3Ie- 

 nindce, Victorian Expedition. 



Victoria, Along the Murray from the junction of the Murrumbidgee to the western 

 h'mits of Ihe colony, F. Mueller, 



S. Australia, Along the Murray, F. Mueller ; Mount Kingston, M'Botiatt Stuart. 



W. Australia, Dnminond, Uh Coll. n, 138, hlh ColL n. 96. 



The species is neai-ly allied to, although not identical with, P. Jaubertiana, Feuzl, from 

 the E. Mediterranean region. 



• 8. P, patens, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. li. 9. A perennial with a 

 woody rhizome and erect or ascending branches of 1 to 2 ft., hoary-touientose 

 or puhesr-ent. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, Leaflets from ovate-rhomboid 

 to broadly lanceolate, obtuse, us^ually rounded at the base, mostly 1 to H ^"• 

 long, denticulate, green or minutely'hoary-tomentose. Spikes at first dense, 

 but afterwards elongated and interrupted, on veiy long peduncles. Flowers 

 nearly sessile, the bracts small. Calyx softly silky with white or black hairs, 

 about 2 lines long, the lobes about as long as the tube, the lowest nmch 

 broader but not longer than the others. Standard and wings half as long 

 again as the calyx; keel shorter, obtuse. ' Pod tomentose, much shorter than 

 the calyx.— P. anstralaslca, Schlecht. Linna^a, xx. 668. 



N. Australia, Victoria river, F. Mueller; Attack Creek, M'Donall Sjnarfs Ej-pedithn- 



Queensland. ----- 



Itf. S. Wales 

 near Wellington, C. Moore. 

 • Victoria. On the Murray river, F. Mueller . 



S. Australia. S. coast, R, Brown ; common about Bethatiie, Behr ; Lofty Ra"^ ' 

 F. Mueller; about Adelaide, W hit taker ; Spencer's Gulf, Warburion. , 



This plant, P. eriantha and P, cinerea, are all considered by F. Mueller as forms <)to 

 species; they belong to the same group as P.plicata, Delile, from Africa and the E. ^l^^^^V 

 ranean region, and are all nearly allied to that species, although none are quite identical witn • 



9. P. cinerea, Lindlrin Mitch, Three Exped, ii. 65. A perennial ^itj 

 ascending or erect branching stems as in P. patens, but more slender, nunuteij 

 hoary as well as the leaves. Leaves pinnately 3.foliolate; leaflets ovate or 

 elliptical, cuneate at the base, mostlv f to 1 or 1^ in. long, mucronate an 

 irregularly denticulate. Kacemes pedunculate, slender, loose and much longe 

 than the leaves. Flowers verv smnll «hortlv npdicpllate. Calyx scarcey 



. V ictona river, Jf. Mueller; Attack Creek, M'Douatl mnan s x^/yt'«— ■ 



On the Bnruekin and near Port Douison, Bowman, Dallachy. 

 . On and near the Lachlan river, A. Cunninyham, Fraser^ MitcheU; 



than the leaves. Flowers very small, shortly pedicellate. Calyx scaitc; 

 above 1 line long, rather open, the teeth short broad and nearly equah leta 

 but little longer than the calyx, the keetvery obtuse. Pod about as long 

 the calyx, slightly hair}%— P. Brummondii, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855, ^^' 



