200 :XL. LEGUMINOS.E. ' {ludlfjOpa. 



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and obliquely truncate, tlie teeth eitlier inconspicuous or the lower ones 

 especially slightly prominent, but always much shorter than the tube. Stan- 

 dard truncate at the base, with an exceedingly short claw, 3 to 4 lines long. 

 Pod spreading, terete, straight or nearly so, 1 to H iii- long.— Vent. Jard. 

 Malm. t. 45 ; Bot. Eeg. t. 3S6 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 149 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 

 i. 99 ; /. angulata, Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 991 ; I, syhatica, Sieb. in Hook. Bot. 

 Mao'. t. 3000; /. ervoides, Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 88. 



Queensland, Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, Fraser^ A. CfinningJiam, F. Mueller, and 



W. S. Wales. Port Jackson to llie Blue Mountains, R, Brov:n, Sieber, n. 3i9, ^m^ 

 and others; Hnnler's River, Backhouse; northward to Hastings and Clarence n\m,Beck- 

 ler; New Enn;kud, C.Stuart; and southward to Argyle county, M' Arthur ; Twofold Hay, 

 F. Mueller; and in the interior to the Darling and Lachlan rivers, A. Cunningham, mi- 

 son, etc. 1 + p 



Victoria. Grassy places uear i\Ielbournc and Port Phillip to Gipps' Land, etc., r. 



Mueller, and others. i, f fV 



Tasmania. Dcrwcnt river, R. Brown : abundant in many places throughout the 



island, /. D. Hooker. 



S. Australia. Lofty EangeSj F.Mueller, . 



V7- Australia, Drummo7id, Uh Coll. Svppl n. 44; rocks of Mount Matilda, i'mJJ, 



«. 1067. . 



Amidst all its variations, this species may he known by its gLibrous, not hoary, aspec, 

 notwithstanding the minute hairs often visible under a lens, by the very short or quue obso- 

 lete teeth of the calyx, and by the pod glabrous even when quite young. The foilowuig a 

 the principal forms it assumes, which, although they often pass one into another, are ae 

 theless sometimes considered as distinct species. 



~ a. aiigulata. Tall, with angular branches. Flowers large and showy. The most coffl- 

 mon form in our gardens, and Teceived from Port Jackson, Port Phillip, and other iiian^ 

 time districts, the only one in Tasmania, and includes Drummond and Preiss's W. A»str la 

 specimens. -, 



b. gracilis, DC. Branches terete and as well as the petioles and racemes niore skn er. 

 Tloweis rather smaller. Apparently common in Victoria, the Blue Mountains, and m 



northern districts of N. S. Wales to the Brisbane in Queensland. , 



c. minor. More scrubby and branched, of a pale colour, the branchlets short ^"^ ^^, 

 what angular. Leaflets small, with small stipellary glands. Flowers small, in ?hor 

 cemes. Chiefly in the interior of N. S. Wales and S. Australia, on the Lachlan audUarn ^, 

 etc., and northward to Clarence river. ^5 



_ d. signata, F. Muell. Rigid, very glabrous, apparently almost leafless, the ^^"^^^^^^j^ 

 rigid petioles bearing very small obcordate obovate or cuneate leaflets in *^'^!*^"^ ^i^.l^y^cn 

 \^ry prominent dark-coloured stipellary glands. Flowers as in the var. w^^^^''-^^ ^^^ 

 Ovens river and Mayday Hills in Victoria, F. Mueller; Port Jackson, Herb. Mueller, 

 Queensland, Bowman. , . n^^j 



e. plafi/poda. With the same rigid aspect and few small leaflets with P'''^"^*^!*^'., ^^j^feove 

 glands as fhe var. signaia, but the common petioles very rigid and flattened, otteii 

 1 line broad.— New England, (7. Stuart; Arue river, Beckler, 



16. !• brevidens, Benth. in Mitch, Trap. Jnslr, 385. -*^ ^H^^J 



slirub, very nearly allied to /. nustralis, of which F. Mueller consulers i -^ 

 variety, but always hoavy or silvery with the appressed forked P^^'^'^^^^f^^^gi^ 

 the gosius or white with a denser toiuentiiih. Leaflets fi'om about 9 ^^ ' 

 obovate or oulonur, obtuse or mucronate, rarely \ in. long, usually ^n\f^ ^J^^ 

 in /. aitstralis, and hoary or white en both sides, more or less P*^^^^ J.^.^^] 

 Stipules rather short and deciduous or rarely more persistent and recu 

 Flowers rather smaller than in 7. auUralis, the calyx-teeth much ^^[^^"^ i^_ 



mincnt although still vciy short, the lowest occasionally as bug as 



