J9S XL. LEGUMIKOS.E. [Lidlf/o/h'a. 



glabrous, linear, with thickened sutures, 1 to 1-^ in. long, straight except an 

 incurved or hooked end.—/. d(fexa, Hochst. in A. Kicb. Fl. Abyssin. i. 178; 

 /. oxycarpa, F. Muell. Fragin. iii. 1C3. 



W. Australia. Nicliol Bay and De Grey river, Ridley s Expedition ; stony hills and 

 .gravelly banks, Victoria river and Start's Creek, F. Mueller. 

 Queensland. Walloon, Bowman. 

 The species is comniou in the E. Indian peninsula, also in Abyssinia and Cordofan. 



9. I. viscosa^ Lam.; I)C. Prod, ii. 227. A slender wiry annual or 

 perennial, witli much-branched decumbent or erect stems of ^ to 1 ft., more 

 or less clothed with spreading glandular viscid hairs, mixed with the onlinaiy 

 pubescence of {\\q genus. Leaflets 9 to 15, ovate or oblong, sometimes all 

 under 2 line.^, sometimes 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers very small, distant, in 

 slender racemes rather shorter than the leaves. Calyx-lobes much lou^^er 

 than the tube, but not exceeding the chnws of the lower petals. Standard 

 almost sessile, about 1^ lines long ; keel obtuse, the lateral spurs very short. 

 Pud slender, straight, spreading or pendulous, Ho f iii. long, torulose, with 

 viscid hairs mixed with the ordinary pubescence.— AV. and Arn. Prod. 200; 

 Wight, Ic. t. 404 ; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 104, 



W. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller; Brinklcy's Bluff, M'Bouall Stuart; is- 

 lands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, E. Broivn ; Port Essington, Armdrong, 



Queensland. Endeavour river. Banks and bolander, R. Broivn ; Port Curtis, M'GiU 

 Iwray I E. coast, A. Cunningham; Port Deuison, Fitzalan ; llockhamnton, Bowman; 

 Comet river, Leichhardt. 



The species is widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa. 



10. I. hirsuta, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 22S. A decumbent or ascending 

 branching annual, 1 to 2 ft. high, remarkable for the spreading hairs which 

 clothe the branches, petioles, inflorescence, and calyx. Leaflets 7 to U, 

 obovate or oblong, ^ to 1 in. long, with stiff appressed hairs. Eacenies 

 ■usually dense, shortly pedunculate, 1 to 4 in. long. Calyx with scarcely any 

 tube, the subulate lobes often nearly as long as the petals. Standard fully 

 3 hues long, narrowed into a distinct claw. Pod about I in. long, straight, 

 quadrangular, reflexed on the peduncle, vcrj^ hirsute.— W. and Arn. Prod. 

 204; i-look. Comp. Bot. JIag. ii. t. 24; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 76; F. Muell. 

 Fragm. iii. 105. 



• N. Australia. N. coast, R. Brown ; Victoria river and Arnhem's Land, T. Mueller i 

 Tort Essington, Armstrong ; islands off the coast, A. Cannhigltam, Ilenne. 



Queensland. Bay of Inlets, Banks and Solander ; Keppcl l^nv, R. Bromi lort 

 \^\\\%^xi Fdzalan; llockhainpton. Bowman; Taylor*9 llauffe, Traser ; Brisbane river, 

 jt, Mueller, 



KT. S. V(7"ales. Hunter's River, Leichhavdt, 

 ^ The species is widely distributed over tropical Asia and Africa, aud now introduced also 

 into soiue parts of tropical America. 



11. L pratensis, F. Muell. Rep, BnrdeJc. Exped. 10. A diffuse peren- 

 nial, pale or hoary with the ordinary pubescence of the genus, the branches 

 angular, ascending to 1 or 2 ft. Leaflets about 13 to 21, from broadly oval- 

 oblong to narro;v-oblong, obtuse with a fine straight point, i to 1 in. J^"?' 

 the pinnate veins usually conspicuous underneath. Stipules setaceous, otteu 

 8 to 4 hnes long, and small setaceous stipelli© usually present. Flo^J*^"^ 

 rather large, in pedunculate racemes longer than the leaves, the pediceU 3 to 



