286 • XL. LEcrMiNOSJi:. [Cassia. 



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N. S. "VITales. Paramatta, Woolls ; Blue Mountains and Hunter's Tliver, K Brown, 

 A. Cunningham, and others; New England, C Stuart ; Hastings, Macleay and Clarence 

 rivers, Beckler ; Boyd river, Ldchhardt, 



Victoria. Gipps* Land, P. Mueller. 



Var. revoluta. Leaflets narrow-linear and acute, the margins much revolute, glabrous or 

 pubescent. — C. rewhita, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Itist. 1852, 120; C aciphylla, Benth. 

 in A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Expcd. i. 465. To this belong most of the southern and 

 several of the N. S. "Wales specimens from the interior. 



A''ar. pedunculata. Peduncles much lojiger than the l^ves. — St. George's Kiver, ^. 

 Brown ; Blue Mountains, A. Gunniyigham^ and others. 



Var. (?) glaucescens. Slender and glaucous. Leaflets few. 



W. Australia. Hooker's Creek, F. Mueller. , 



13. C. Chatelainiana, Gaud, in Treyc. Voy. 485, t. 111. An erect 

 glabrous shrub of several ft. Leaflets 3, 4 or 5 rather distant pairs, linear, 

 obtuse, about f to 1 in. long, rather thick, flat ; gland usually long and subu- 

 late between those of the lowest pair only, but sometimes also of the next 

 pair, or rarely wanting, Plo.wera ];athcr large, iu umbek at the end of short 

 axillary peduncles with sometimes 1 or 2 pedicels below the umbel. Bracts 

 ovate or oblong, very obtuse. Sepals nearly 3 lines long. Petids broad, \ 

 to f in. long. Lower stamens rather larger than t^lie others. Pod straight, 

 often I in. broad.— Vog, Syn. Cass. 47. 



"W. Australia. Sharks Bay, Gandichmid ; Murchison River, Oldjield; also Dnm^ 

 mond. _ Very nearly allied on the one hand to C. aastralh, iu which, however, the leaflets 

 when linear are usually revolute, and on the other to C. eremkola, which has fewer leaflet 

 without the subulate gland. 



13. C. glutinosa, Da Prorf. ii. 495. An erect glabrous shrub, the 

 specimens very glutinous and brittle. Leaflets usually 4 or 5 pairs, oblong- 

 linear, rather obtuse, ^ to 1 in. long or rather more, 'flat and rather thick; 

 gbnd flat and broad between the leaflets of the lowest 1 or 2 pairs. Flowers 

 umbellate on axillaiy peduncles usually shorter than the leaves. Sepals co- 

 loured, obtuse, 3 to 3i lines long.' Petals twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 

 lower ones upon rather longer filaments than the others. Pod straight, about 

 4 hues broad, as glutinous as the rest of the plant.— Yog. Syn. Cass. 47. 



Wr. Australia. Attack Creek, M'Douall Sinarfs Expedition, Described by DeCnn- 

 dolle probably from specimens gathered on the N. coast in Baudin's Expedition, but I hiive 



, Muell.Irarjm.mA^. A tall erect slu'ub, glabrous 

 but often more or less glaucous. Leaflets 3 to 5 pairs, oblong-cUiptical, rather 



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not seen them. 



to 5 pairs, oblong-cUiptical, rather 

 at ; gland small and flat, usually 



obtuse, I to I in. long, rather thick and flat , ^ „ . 



between the leaflets of the lowest 1 or 2 pairs. Stipules broad, leafy, semi 

 cordate. Flowers rather large, 2 to 5 together in umbels on axillary pedun- 

 cles usually shorter than the leaves. Sepals colom-ed, obtuse, the inner ones 

 fully 3 lines long. Petals twice as long. Anthers 3 or 4 rather longer than 

 the others. Pod stipitate, straight, apparently about 4 lines broad, but not 

 seen perfect, 



N. Australia. N.W. coast, Bynoe ; Rocky Hills, Nichol Bay, F. Gregorys Ejyedidon. 



XVaJie 



Between Stokes Range and Cooper's Creek, Wheeler. 



15. C. circinata, Benth. in Milch. Trop. Austr. 384. An erect bushy 

 shrub of several ft., glabrous or hoary with a minute silky tomentura. Leaves 



