24J. XL. LEGUMINOS^. ■ [Glycine, 



or silky-villous on both sides. Stipules minute. Eacemes in the upper axils 



usually exceeding the leaves, the flowers about 4 lines long, scattered along 



the upper half of the peduncle, the pedicels either very short or nearly as long 



as the calyx ; in the lower part of the plant the flowers are smaller, often 



without any or with imperfect petals, and solitary or clustered in the axils, 



without a common peduncle. Calyx about 2 lines long, the 3 upper lobes 



united to the middle or nearly distinct. Pod linear, straight, i to 1 m. long, 



with a minute terminal straight or hooked point. Seeds nearly orbicular or 



transversely oblong, smooth or rough with raised dots, often difterent m the 



racemose and in the axillary pods.— DC. Prod. ii. 241 ; Leptolobiurti clandes- 



tinum, Bcnth. in Ann. Wieu. Mus. ii. 125 ; Lej)tocyamus clandesiirm,3ei\\b. 



in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 102 ; Teramnns daudedinus, Spr. Syst. Veg. m. 235_; 



Leptolohium microphjllum, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 135 ; Glyme mi- 



mma, Willd. Enura. 756, from the diagnosis copied in DC. Prod. u. 241. 



Queensland. Keppel Bay, Broad Sound, E. Brown j near MoretoQ B'Ay,Leichhardt. 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Jlountains, R. Brovm, and otf""*' "''"°' 



ward to New England, C. Stuart; Clarence river, Beckler ; and southward to iwoloiu db), 



F. MuellSr. fir ii rnp to 



Victoria. Port Phillip, R. Brown ; common from the neighbourhood ot iielbourne 



Gipps' Land, Adamson, F. Mueller, and others. ,.♦ of the 



Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; common in all the northern parts oi 



island, ascending to 3000 ft., J. D. Hooker. sjnPTiccr's 



S. Australia. Gawler town, Behr. ; Buffalo range, Mount Remaiiable, apeu 



Gulf, etc., F. Mueller. , n ,i to. 



W. AustraUa. Gairdner river. Maxwell ; and prohahly also from ttie &■ 



wards the east, Brummond, ith Coll. n. 39, 5/A Coll. n. 92. ^j^^jj 



Var. sericea. Silky-pubescent or villous. Calyx very rusty- villous. Pedicels v erj - ^^^ 

 To this form belong all the W. Australian, most of the S. Australian specimens, anu 

 only of those from the other colonies. 



3. G. Latrobeana, Bmth. Considered by F. Mueller as a form of^^- 

 clandest'ma, and much resembles the undeveloped states of that species. ^^^ 

 short, prostrate or scarcely twining at the ends. Ijcaflets all obova e ^^ 

 bicular, or very few of the upper ones narrow. Stipules larger i' jj 

 dandestina.. Flowers rather larger, the racemose ones more crowdea 



the end of long peduncles. Upper lobes of the calyx united to near t ^^. r 

 Standard broader than in G. daudedina. Pod the same as in that J ^^^^^ 

 —Zidnja Latroheana, Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 94 ; LeptocijaMm usm 

 Benth. in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 102. t. 17. ' . ^i^^ie, 



Victoria. Sandy pastures and meadows. Port Phillip to the Grampian*-) 

 Adamson, F. Mueller, and others. • , 



Tasmania. Pastures in the northern parts of the island, /. J). Moofcer, 

 S. Australia. Mount Gambier, Rivoli Bay, F. Mueller. 



4. G. tabacina, Benth. Slender, twining, pubescent or ^^^^"Jj^^^g ^f the 

 lets 3, the lateral ones always at a distance from the terminal one, tii^^^ ^^^^^ 

 lower leaves orbicular obovate or oblong and usually obtuse, m ^^^^^ 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or almost linear and usuall} aci ^> ^j^^_ 

 f to 1 in. rarely U to 2 in. long. Stipules small. Eacemes s^e"" ' j^^,,. 

 gated, the flowers distant, usually about 4 lines long, on very ^stio^ p ^ ^^ j 



\ih 



'ers distant, usually about 4 lines long, on very suoi r ^ 

 in the lower part of the plant the flowers often axillary and ^o^^^'^^^ter tli»» 



together as in other species. Calyx-lobes subulate-acuminate, s 



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