276 . ,xi. LEGUMiNos^. [Barkhja. 



panicles. Pedicels short. Calyx about 2 lines long. Petal-claws ratlier 

 longer than the calyx, the lamina about as long. Ovary glabrous, with 3 or 

 * ovules. Pod oblong-lanceolate, oblique or slightly falcate, 1| to 3 in. loug 

 and about \ in. broad, narrowed at the base, with 1 or 2 seeds. 



Queensland. Woods near Brisbane, JF, Bill, fitzalan ; I^ockhampton, i>^/te%; 

 "Wide Bay, Leichhardt. 



SuBOUDEK 11. CJISALPINIE.^. 



Flowers usually 5-raerous, very rarely 4-uierous or 3-merous, the sepals 

 united at the base into a short tube, lined by the disk, bearing at its margin 

 the petals and stamens, rarely forming a campanulate or tubular calyx with 

 the stamens near the base, as in Fapilionacea^ the free part of the sepals or 

 lobes of the calyx, imbricate or rarely valvate. Corolla irregular or nearly 

 regular, either with the 5 (or 4 or 3) petals variously imbricate in the bud, 

 but the upper one never outside and usually quite inside, or, in genera not 

 Australian, some or all of the four lower petals wanting. Stamens 10 or 

 fewer, or, in genera not Australian, indefinite, free or rarely more or less 

 united, all perfect or several of them reduced to staminodia. Ovules anatro- 

 pous or nearly so. Kadicie of the embryo short and straight. 



■ The tropical genera of this suborder are numerous, and have bceu distributed into severa 

 tribes, but these are not sufficiently marked to render it necessary to apply them to the teff 

 genera found iu Australia. B-arklj/a amongst Sophorea has the regular corolla ot some 

 Ccesalpiniees, but with the s^stivation pf Paj)i!ionacecB, and Erythrophlc^um. amotigst Mmosea 

 has the imbricate aestivation of Casalpiniea, but iu a very slight degree, with the uiflores- 

 cence characteriistic of Mimosem, 



the 



74. GUILANDINA, Linn. 



Sepals 5, shortly united at the base, much imbricate, nearly equal or 

 lowest rather larger and n\ore concave. Petals 5, nearly equal, sessile, sprea - 

 ing. Stamens 10, free; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, with 2 ojules, 

 style subulate, with a small stigra^. Pod ovate, compressed, cavercd wi ^ 

 prickles, 2-valved, thickly coriaceous. S^eds ovoid or globular, with a ver) 

 thick hard fleshy testa and no albumen.— AVoody climbers, armed witn 

 prickles. Leaves twice pinnate. Flowers yellow, iu simple of paincula 

 racemes. Bracts very deciduous. 



A geuus of 2 species, both of them dispersed over the tropical regions of the New an 

 Old World, one only hitlierto fouud iu Australia. 



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1. G. Bonducella, Linn, Spec, 545, A shrub, with loose spre 



ading 



or climbing branches, pubescent or villous in all its parts, armed with nurn 

 - ..X ..„.! !._ 1. / -11 ' ,1 .1 . _.-*:i.' i^« T.^nvM with ^ 



reus scattered hooked prickles, especially on the petioles. Leaves 

 common petiole of 1 to 1^ ft. ; pinnse in 4 to 6 distant pairs, each 4 to b ^^ 

 long; leaflets 8 to 12 pairs, oblong, i to 1 in. long or rarely nearlj t^^^ 

 that size. Stipules lobed and leafy, deciduous. Racemes 4 to 6 m. ^^^^j 

 simple or branched in the upper axils. Flowers shortly P^^^^^, !^|,out 

 crowded in the upper part. Bracts with a lang recurved point. Calyx a ^^ 

 4 lines long, petals scarcely longer. Pod 2 tg 3 in. long, about if^ ■ 

 broad. Seeds large, of a bluish-grey or lead colour. — Lara. Illustr. t. ^^ 



Queensland. Cumberland lAnaHs, R, Broton ; Barnaid UlmA, M' GilUvray ; ^o 



