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rut/iosa. 



Cama.l XL. LEGUMINOS^. 281 



Bracts small, broad, obtuse. Leaflets oblong-lanceolate or 

 linear. 



Leaflets usually 6 to 10 pairs (Eastern species) . . . . IL C. aiisiralis. 

 Leaflets usually 3 to 5 pairs (Western species) .... 12. C. Chaielainlana. 

 Wands between the leaflets sessile, flat, obscure or none (ovoid in 

 G. leptoclada) , 



Very glutinous, otherwise glabrous. Leaflets usually 4 or 5 

 V^'^^ 13. C. gluiinosa. 



Wabrous or glaucous. Stipules leafy, semicordate. Leaflets 

 usually 3 to 5 pairs 14. (7. ;^ 



Glabrous, glaucous, hoarj^, or white-tomentose. Stipules small 



subulate or none. Flowers in very short corymbose ra- 

 cemes. 



Leaves all sim]>le, phyllodineoUs. Glands none or on the 

 upper edge about the middle. 

 Leaves usually slender and gi^ea. Peduncles 1- or 2- 



flowered. Pod very much curved or annular , ... 15. Ccircinata, 

 Leaves usually thick, hoary or white, vertically compressed. 

 Peduncles several-flowered. Pod straight or slightly 

 curved ;..... i .. 16. €, ^h^Uodmea, 



Leaflets 1 or more pairs, rarely none in the lower leaves and 

 then the phyllodineotts petiolt has a gland at the end. 

 Leaflets mostly 1 or 2 pairs, terete or linear . . . . 11^ C, eremophila. 

 Leaflets mostly 3 to 6 pairs, linear-terete, channelled above 1:8, C. artemisioides. 

 leaflets mostly 3 to 6 pairs, linear-lanceolate, ciineate, 



elliptical or almost obovate . i 19. C. Siurtii, 



Leaflets 1, 2, or rarely 3 pairs, ovate, obovate^ or broadly 



oblong. Pod not above \ in. broad . . . . . . 20. C. desoiata. 



Leaflets 2 or rarely 1 pair, broadlv obovate. Pod nearly 



f in. broad, very obtuse . . \ . .- . . ^ • > 21. C. oligop/tt/lia. 

 Softly pubescent. Leaflets 2 to 4 pairs, elliptical-oblong. Sti- 

 pules small, setaceous. Flowers in an umbelof 4 to 6 . . 22. C. oVigocUda, 

 Wabrous and glaucous. Stems slender. Leaflets 2 pairs, obo- 

 vate or oblong. Glands ovoid. Stipules minute. Pedun- 

 cles 2-flowered 23. C lepiocladu. 



i^h ^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^P^e racemes, either terminal or becoming lateral hy the elongation of 



"^ branch. Stamens 5 to 10, all perfect. FodfaL (Absus.) 



Herbaceous, tea^ets 2 pairs, obovate 24. C?. Jbsus. 



5 P\^^^^'^^^^^ l-fowered, solitary or 2 or Z together in or just above the ojdh. Stamens 



^"' ^^^ perfect. Tod flat (Chamsecrista.) 

 ^flets usually under 12 pairs. Gland stipitate below the lowest 



P'lir. Sepals rather obtuse. Anthers 5. ^^ ^ ., 



^etas scarcely longer than the calvx. Stigma peltate' . . . . il, C. fumila. 



malstwiceaslong as the calyx, 'stigma small. .... . m. C.concinna 



^^ets above 20 pairs. Sepals very acute. Anthers 6 to TO . . 27- C. mtmosoides. 



Besides the above thereare in Dallachy's Queensland collection fragments of a tree appa- 

 K f^"""^^ 'P^^^i^ «f <^^^^i<^ of the sections Cathartocarpus or Chamajistula, but msuf- 

 ^'^^eat for identiiication or description. , , .,, 



C tomeniosa, Linn, f., a shrubby species allied td C, Sophera but more tomentose, with 

 Sh-ated'^ ^^^afiets and a flatter pod, occurs in some Austrahau coUections as introduced or 



Section I. Cathartocarpus.— Sepals obtuse. Stamens 10, 3 or 4 upper 

 \y small and imperfect; 5 or 4 equal, perfect, with short filaments and ob- 

 ;j];g or liuear anthers, opening in terminal pores and sometimes also in short 

 **^»^9; 2 or 3 lower ones with Ion- filaments and short ovate anthers opening 



