Glpwe.] XL. LEGUMINOS^. 245 



tlie tube, the 2 upper ones united' to about the middle. Pod straight, glabrous 

 or villous, f to above 1 in. long, the terminal point very short, or rarely 

 rather longer and hooked. Seeds smooth or tuhermhic—Kenued^a tahacinay 

 Labill. Sort, Austr. Caled. 70. t. 70; Leptolobimn tahacinum, and Z. elonga- 

 tm, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 125 ; Desmodium Novo-Hollandiciun, F. 

 Muell. in Linneea, xxv. 394. 



Queensland. Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander ; Keppel Bay, Thirsty Sound, R, 

 Rrown; Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, C. Stuart; Rockhampton, Ballachy ; in the interior 

 on the Maranoa, Mitchell ; and Condamtne river, Leichkardt 



j'-^^W'ales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, A. Cuumngliam, 

 and others, northward to New England, C. Stuart; and Clarence, Hastings, and JMacleay 

 ris^n, Beckler i to the southward, ^. Cunningham. 



Victoria. Rocky pastures near Melbourne, Robertson, also F. Mueller, 



S. Australia. Crystal Brook and Rocky River, F. Mueller. 



-W. Australia. Port Gregory, Oldfidd. 



Itie species is also in New Caledonia, the Feejee and other islands of the South Pacific. 



he most slender and glabresccnt forms approach G. clandestina^ but may be always known 



/ff f^*^"""^^^ leaflet distinctly raised above the others; the more common hirsute variety 



liters froin G. tomentosa in the upper leaflets almost always narrow and acute, the less 



^(^eply (lividcd calyx, etc, Amone the numerous varieties the two following are. the most 



promineut :— 



Var. undnata. Very hirsute. Pod hooked at the end, aUhough not so much so as in 

 -^''^'"'^f --Rockhampton, Thbzet. ' 



^^^•latifoHa, Leaflets more obtuse and villous, almost connecting the species with G. 

 ^^enfosa.—Leptoeyamus lafifolius, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 361.— To this belong 

 ■everal Queensland specimens. Where the pod is present it appears to be always longer and 

 ^ore slender than in G. tomentosa. 1 i ^ ^ 



5. G. sericea, Benth. Stems trailing or twining, the whole plant hoary 

 or white with a close appressed silky pubescence, occasionally mixed on the 

 <^«lyx only with rust-coloured hairs. Leaflets 3, linear or linear-lanceolate, 

 ?J«te, mostly 1 to 2 in. long, the terminal one at a distance from the othcrs. 

 ^»owers rather larger than in G. tabacina, but otherwise like them. Tod 

 usually above 1 in. long, densely silky-pubescent with appressed hairs. Seeds 



.^^^^^•--Leptocyamm sericeus, F. Muell. in Hook. Kcw Journ. viii. 45, and 

 "^Traus. Phil. i,3t Yi^t i 4(j^ 



n'eelfr ^^^^^^' ^^ ^^^^ Darling, Dallachg ; between Stokes Range and Cooper's Creek, 



Vict 



oria. Sand-hills on the Murray, F. Mueller. 



^'G. tomentosa, JBenfli. Twining or prostrate, resembling the coarser 

 ^aneties of G, tabacina, but always more tomentose-viUous, and often densely 

 2 ■ T y velvety-tomentose. Leaflets 3, ovate or oblong, very obtuse, 1 to 



in long, not passing into the lanceolate acute form of the upper leaves of 

 XI T""' ^^'''''^''' ''"^'^ ^^'""^'^^y pedicellate in the raceme as m that spe- 



in nil? "^ ^^^^V ^nore. Flow^ers in the lower axils solitary or tiu^tc cu a^ 

 i' nil other Australian species except G.falcala.-Leptolobiimtomentosum, 



1^ Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 125. 



Cu 



Oup^''^*''^"*• Upper Victoria river, Z J/«^//^r; Arnhem N.Bay, 72. ^r^?"--^. 



S l^'^/J^^- Endeavour river. Banks and Solander; Broad Sound, R^ Brown ; Port 



N S lar '''"'^^'* ^"^"^^ Downs, F. Mueller. 



We hn a ■ l*^<^^een the Darling and Cooper's Creek, Neilson. 

 "^^e the same species from the Thilippine Islands and from S. China. 



