Indigofem.'] ■ xL. leguminos.e. 



199 



3 lines long. Calyx above 1 line long, the teeth shorter than the tube as m 

 Je shrubby species. Standard nearly 6 lines long ; keel almost acuminate. 

 Pod cyhndi-ical, straight, rather thick, 1 to l^ in. long. 



Queensland. Bay of Inlets, Banks and Sulander ; Broad Sound and Keppel Bay, 

 ffjoum; along various points of the E. coast and adjoining islands, J. Cumibighm, 

 MM/ivray, Senng, and otiiers ; in the interior, Mitchell; on the Burdekin, F. Mueller; 

 Brisbane river, Fraser, F. Mueller, etc.; Mackenzie Hill, Leichhardt. 



§ 2. Shrubby species. 



12. I. monophylla, DC. Prod. ii. 223. A straggling shrub of 2 to .3 

 It., the branches and foliage very hoary or white with minute hairs. Leaflets 

 single, articulate on the petiole with a pair of minute stipellse, broadly ob- 

 ovate, 4 to 1 in. long, the parallel primary veins very prominent underneath. 

 Kacemes shortly pedunculate, at length exceeding the leaves. Calyx-teetli 

 shorter than the tube, the upper ones broad and distant. Standard sessile, 

 about 3 lines long; keel almost acute. Pod straight, above 1 in. long, softly 

 tomentose.— F. Muell. Fragm. iii. U. 



W.Australia, Baudin's Expedition; Dcpuech Island, N.W. coast, Bynoe ; Nichol 

 % and Fortescue river, F. Greyorys Ej-pedUion. 



13. I. rugosa, BentJi. A shru!) of 2 or 3 ft., the branches white with 

 a dense soft tomentum. Leaflets solitary, ovate or oval-oblong, very obtuse, 

 aoout I in. long in the specimen before me, reticulately veined and very ru- 

 gose, soft and white on both sides with a minute almost silky pubescence ; 

 t'le petiole articulate above the nnddle. Flowers in short dense nearly ses- 

 sile racemes, the petals as well as the calyx white-tomentose. Calyx about 

 3 hues long, the subidate lobes longer than the tube. Standard nearly 4 

 iines long, broad, acute, sessile; lower petals narrow and rather shorter. 

 Anthers very prominently apiculate. Ovary glabrous with about 10 ovules. 



^f^l ■^"'*^*^^*- Bed of the Fortescue river, N.W. coast, F. Gregory's Expedition 



[Herb. F. Mueller). 



14- I. saxicola, F. Mndl. Herb. A shrub of 3 or 4 fl. with spreading 

 wanehes, slightly hoary with a minute pubescence. Leaflets 5 or rarely 7, 

 ouovate or orbicular and very obtuse, mostly about 1 in. long, on petiolules of 



:° 2 lities, the pinnate veins scarcely prominent. Eaceraes pedunculate, 

 [j'ther slender, longer than the leaves. Calyx-teeth shorter than the tube, 

 lippcr ones broad and distant. Standard sessile, 3 lines long or rather 

 ^"^re ; keel acute. Pod terete, spreading, i to | in. long, straight.* 



W.Australia. Port Essington, A. CunniugJtam ; grassy stony plains, Sea Range, 

 ^■■'iueller. o > 



seen. 



the 



1'' ^ australis 



An erect branching 



t vary- . 



J'uo of 2 to 4 ft., assuming occasionally the appearance of a low under- 

 ""^u. either glabrous or slightly sprinkled with the small hnn-s of the irenus. 



eaHets usually 9 to 17, oblong, obtuse or retuse, -i to i in. long, bu ^- 



,? ^^ "loadly ovate, almost orbicular in some specimens or nearly bnear m 



f^- Stipules small ; stipellie none except minute glands. Flowers red 



;; ^ s»owy, in dense or loose racemes shorter or rather longer than the leaves, 



'''-' pedicels usually longer than the caly.^. Calyx about 1 liue long, broad 



