RhjncJtoda,'] XL. leguminos^. 267 



5. R. minima, DC. Prod, ii. 385. Slender, trailing or twining, minutely 

 toraentose or nearly glabrous. Leaflets broadly ovate-rliomboidal, mostly 

 about 1 in. long when full-grow'n but often much smaller, with minute or 

 without any stipellse. Stipules also very small or none. Eacemes mostly 

 longer than the leaves, bearing in their upper portion scattered pendulous 

 yellow flowers rarely exceeding 3 lines in length, on very short pedicels ; in 

 the lower axils the peduncles are sometimes very short and few-flowered. 

 Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes rather longer than the tube, the 2 upper 

 ones united to the base or to the middle. Standard obovate, without callosi- 

 ties; keel obtuse. Style slightly thickened upwards. Pod falcate, shortly 

 acuminate or acute, narrowed at the base, \ to nearly | in. long, shortly to- 

 mentose-pubescent. Seeds without any strophiole. — Mart. Fl. Bras. Papil. 

 t. 54. f. 2 ; K punctata, DC. Mem, Leg. t. 56, and Prod. ii. 385 ; K mda, 

 £. enoidea, B. medicaghea, and 11 rhomhi/oba, DC. Prod. ii. 385, 3SG ;_ K 

 laxiflora, Camb, in Jacquem. Voy. t. 54; and numerous other synonyms cited 

 in Mart. Fl. Bras. Papil. 204. 



N.Australia. Nichol Bay, F. Gregorys and Ridley's Expeditions; Victoria river, 

 F.Mueller ; Goulbiini Islands, J, Cminingham ; New Year's Island, i2. Brown. 



Queensland. Broad Sound, Keppel Bay, jR. Brown; Bowen and Burdekin rivers, 

 Bomnan, Ballachy ; iM oreton Bay, C. Stuart. ^ 



^. S. Wales. Hastiiigs and Maclcay rivers, Beckkr ; between the Darling and Coo- 

 per's Creek, Neilson ; Mount Goninirbcri, Beckler, 



The species appears to be abuudaut iu almost all tropical or subtropical countries. 



6. R. anstralis, BentJi. Slender with trailing or twining stems as in 

 ^. minima, with the same foliage and inflorescence, ijut the flowers are much 

 larger, usually nearly 5 lines long, bright yellow, without streaks on the 

 standard, CaIyx4obes all narrow, subnlate-acnminate, rather longer than the 

 tube, the 2 upper lobes more united than in R. minima. Pod falcate, acu- 

 miiiate, narrowed at the base, above i in. long, hirsute with long hairs besides 

 toe minute tomentum of R. minima. Seeds not strophiolate. 



N. Australia, Port Essiugton, Jrmsfivr,g. r. „ r n 



Queensland. Morcton Bny, Bid will ; llockliainpton, Thozet. Dallacl,y, Bowman, 



**■ S. Wales. Clarence river, Berklpr. . „„„„„j 



la vanetj of R. minima, this is yet different from any of the Tunncrous forms ass inrd 



J /^ther couutries by that ubiqidtoHS species, approaching in some respects the^b. Alncaa 



64. ERIOSBMA, DC. 



^ Calyx 2 upper lobes usuallv free. Standard obovate or oblong, with in- 

 fl«ed auricles at the base, rarely callous inside j \^\ sligMly incurved ob- 

 t'l^e; wings usually longer, narrow. Upper stamen free, the others united; 

 J"thers uniform. Ovarv sessile, with 2 ovules ; style filiform, incurvexl above 

 the middle and sometim'es slightly thickened. Pod flattened, obliquelv orbi- 

 f="lar or broadly oblon-, 2-valyed, not divided inside. Seeds oblong, obliciue, 

 ?ot strophiolate, the 'f.micle attached t« one end .of a long linear hilum.- 

 Herhs or undershrubs, erect prostrate or rarely twining, tonientose or glabrous, 

 ;f>e resinous dots less conspicuous than in Rhjnckosia. Leaves pinnately 

 S-foliolate or 1-foliohite, usually without stipellaB. Stipules lanceolate, free 

 ^^ united opposite the leaf. Tlowers usually yellow, in axdlary racemes, or 



