Stcainsona.] . xL. legumixos.e. 221 



claw; wings nearly as long; keel produced into an obtuse spirally involute 

 beak. Pod nearly sessile, oblong, acuminate, above i in. long, but not quite 

 npein our specimen, pubescent, the seminal suture much intruded and pro- 

 duced into a double dissepiment, completely dividing the pod into 2 lono-itu- 

 Qinal cells. ^ ^ o r a 



Ja^' ■^!l**^f^^*' Bmmmond. The only specimen seen, raised many years since in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society from Drammoud's seeds. 



• ^?"i^: ^ca^escens, F. Muell. Tragm. iii. 46. Stock woody, with erect, 

 ngKl, but herbaceous stems of 1 to 2 ft., softly tomentose-pubescent. Leaf- 

 lets 9 to lo, obovate or oblong-elliptical, obtuse or retuse, \ to ] in. long, 

 nearly glabrous above, softly pubescent or silky underneath. Stipules broad, 

 iierbaceous Kaceraes many-flowered,' on long silk\^ villous peduncles. Flowers 

 Dearly sessile, blue or violet-purple, variegated with pink, and a green blotch 

 at tUe base of the standard. Calyx about 2^ lines long, silky-Lairy, the lobes 

 sDout as long as the tube. Standard about \ in. diameter, on a very short 

 flaw, without prominent callosities; wings short; keel much curved, obtuse, 

 Jtitli a thick callous appendage on each side of the tip. Ovary shortly stipi- 

 «e; style much curved, involute at the end. Pod almost sessile, oblong, 



ery softly tomentose-villous, in our specimens 7 to 8 lines long, rather coria- 

 ^ous with an indented upper suture, but not quite ripe. — Cyclogpie canescens, 

 ^euth. m Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 16 ; Paxt. Mag. Bot. vii. 199, with a fig. 



Pod nf" (v'***''*^^*" ^"'"^ ^Ivtv, Drummond, 1st Coll. The general aspect, style, and 



fhev species are so different from those of the few Swainsonas originally known, that 



iiscov''''Tl *° warrant the establishment of a distinct genus ; the species subsequently 



ered have, however, connected it by so manv gradations with the others, that Ci/clo- 



■ fS-ie can no longer be maintained even as a section. 



Muell 



^jj, -. , ^ . ^„.... in S. Austral. Reg. 1850. A perennial, 



bra ' l'^^^'"^"''? ^^ erect stems, often exceeding 1 ft., and sometimes much 

 or'aT "^"^% hoary or white with short hairs, giving it sometimes a silky 

 acut™°^^ "*^% appearance. Leaflets usually 7 to 11, linear or narrow-oblong, 

 ones^' T- 1 "'^'"^^ °^ emarginate. Stipules broad, especially the upper 

 dun 'l ^^1 ^''^ °''*^" toothed. Flowers few in the raceme, on long pe- 

 liairs Y^*^^ ^^^^^ "' ^- ^esseriiifoUa. Calyx hoary or rarely with black 

 abo \ '^^^ ^ ^^"^^^ ^^"&' *^^^ ^"^'^^ ^^^^^ °^ subulate-acuminate, usually 

 claw !^ -^ ^^ *^^^ ^"^^- Standard thin at the base, with a broad short 

 but U "'^^^'°"* «"y callosities as in S. lesseriiifoUa ; keel much incurved, 

 ffiorp^ • -^1 ' ^"'°® '''^ ^^"S 'IS the keel. Ovary sessile, villous ; style much 

 hook ^A-a ^^^^" ^" ^- ^''^^ertiifoUa, flattened in the lower portion, distinctly 

 near! 1 -^^^ O'" almost involute at the end. Pod narrow-oblong, \ to 

 nulJ- ^' '°"^> of*^en incurved, the upper suture slightly indented.— *S. sti- 

 ^«^«*.F. Muell. in Linna>a,xx;. 393.^^ 



iiliol^^' "^^^^s- Darling river, Victorian Ej-pedition ; Flinders range, Eoicilfs Expc 

 »^;;jj'^*'*'*l»a. Akaba, F. Mueller; between Stokes range and Cooper's Creek, 



siore 



cur / ' *"^^ largei- llovvers, give it a ver 

 "'^^ea, and the broad rigid style is peculiar. 



