246 XL. LEGUMINOSiE. 



52. HARDENBERGIA, Benth. 



Calyx-teeth sliort, the 2 upper ones more or less united. Standard broadly 

 ovbicukn', emarginate, without indexed auricles ; wings obovate-falcatej ad- 

 hering to the keel; keel obtuse, shorter and usually very much shorter than 

 the wings. Upper stamen quite free, the others united in a sheath ; an- 

 thers reniform. Ovaiy sessile, with several ovules ; style short thick, incurved, 

 attenuate at the end, with a terminal stigma. Pod linear, compressed or tur- 

 gid. Seeds ovoid or oblong, laterally attached to a short funicle, strophiolate. 

 • — Glabrous t^vining herbs or undershrubs. Leaves of 1, 3 or 5 entire sti- 

 pellate leaflets. Stipules small, striate. Flowers small, violet white or pink- 

 ish, with a yellowish or greenish spot on the standard, in axillarj^ racemes, 

 the pedicels usually in pairs or small clusters. Bracts small, deciduous, or 

 rarely persistent. Bracteoles none. 



A small genus limited to Australia and distinguished from Kennedf/a by the sliort calys- 

 tectli and (except the doubtful H. retusa) by the small keel, and still more by the habit and 

 numerous small flowers of a very dilfereut colour, giving it more the aspect of a Gljjdne than 

 of a true Kennedya. 



Leaflets cordate ovate lanceolate or linear. Keel much shorter than 

 the wings. 



Leatlets solitary. Pod flat, with dry pulp inside l. H. monoflyl^^^' 



Leaflets 3 or 5. Pod turgid, clear inside 2. -ff. Comptonia7ia» 



Leaflets obovate truncate obcordate or broadly 2-lobed. Keel rather 



shorter than the wings 3. -ff. retusa, 



1. H. monophylla, BentL in Ilueg. Emm. 41. Leaflets always soli- 

 tary, usually ovate or lanceolate, 2 to 3 or even 4 in. long, obtuse or rather 

 acute, often coriaceous and strongly reticulate, but varying from broadly cor- 

 date-ovate to narrow-lanceolate, more or less cordate or rounded at the base, 

 articulate on a petiole of \ to 1 in. Flowers usually numerous, about 5 lines 

 long, on pedicels rather longer than the calyx, in pairs or rarely 3 together, 

 the upper racemes often forming a terminal panicle. Calyx about U hues 

 long. Pod sessile, flat, attaining about 1 1 in., coriaceous, more or less filled 

 between the seeds with a pithy pulp. Seeds very oblique, abnost transverse. 

 — Mannd, Botanist, t. 84 ; Glycine bimaculata. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 263 ; 

 Kennedya monophylla, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. IOC ; DC. Prod. ii. 384; Bot. 

 Heg. t. 1336 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab, t. 758 ; K, hnr/imcemosa, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t. 1940 ; AT. ovata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2169 ; DC. Prod. ii. 384 ; X corikta, 

 Lmdl. Bot. Keg. t. 944 ; Ilardenbergia monophylla, and //. ovata, Benth. m 

 Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 124 ; Hook. f. FL Tasm. ii. 361 ; H. cordata, Beiitli. 

 m Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 124. 



Queensland, Moreton Islaad, F, Mueller, ^.g ^j 



r/^;®" '^^^^®»- "P**!"* Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sleber, «• 3^^' ^ 

 //. Mixt. «. 552, and others; northward to Hastin";s river, Beckler ; and soulhv\aia 

 Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. ° .^ 



VictoHa. Dandenong ranges, etc., F, Mueller; Bendigo diggings, where the thic 

 root IS used for Sarsaparilla, Adatmon. 



Tasmania. Rocky hills near Frogmore, Richmond, Oldfield, 



S. Australia. IVear Bethaaie, Oswald; towards Spencer's Gdf, F. Mueller. 



Til some speciuiciis from near Bathurst, Herb. F. Mueller, with broadly cordate C'**^ 

 the bracts are numerous and persistent; in the ordinary forms, including those w"^ 

 same oroad cordate leaves, the bracts are all fallen off long before the flowers eipand. 



