Cassia.] XL. leguminos.e. 287 



all pliylloclliieous without leaflets, linear-terete, often almost filiform or very 

 slightly vertically flattened, 1 to 1| in. long, often clustered on the nodes of 

 the previous year's wood, and then' sometimes not half so long ; gland none, 

 or very ohsciu-e at or above the middle of the phyllodium. Peduncles short, 

 axillary, l^earing 1 or 2 flowers on slender pedicels. Bracts minute. Sepals 

 ohtuse, 2 to 2| liiies long. Petals twice as long. Anthers 3 or 3 rather 



larger than the others and on longer filaments. Pod fully 5 lines broad, very 

 flat and thin as in the rest of the section, but usually curved into a complete 

 circle.— E. Br. in App. Sturt, Exped. 15. 



Queensland. Balonne river, Mitchell i Burdekin river, F. Mueller i Suttor river, 

 H'Orsay ; Edgecombe Bay, Ballachi/. 



N. S. V^ales. Mount Flinders, A. Cunnhijliam i Darling river to Barrier Range, 

 Victorian Exploring Expedition. 



16. C. pliyllodinea, R. Br. in App. Sturt, Hxped. 15. An erect rigid 

 Dushy shrub, hoary or white with a close silky tomentum. Leaves all phyllo- 

 dineous, linear, vertically compressed but thick, obliquely obtuse truncate or 

 even shortly 2-lobed at tlie end, 1 to 1| in. long, narrowed at the base ; gbind 

 none, or a faint one ou the upper edge. Peduncles short, axillary, beariug a 

 verj- short raceme of several flowers on slender pedicels. Bracts very small. 

 Sepals obtuse, 2 to 2^ lines long. Petals twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 ra- 

 ther larger than the others. Pod stipitate, straight or slightly curved, 5 to 6 

 lines broad, obtuse. 



W. S. Wales. Laehlnn and Darling desert to Barrier Range and Cooper's Creeic, 

 ricknan Exploring Expedition, Dallackg and Goodwin, and others. 

 p- ^'^stralia. ^. co^%i, K Brown ; YMniem&n^G, F. Mueller. 

 .'• -^lueller is disposed to consider this and the preceding phyllodineous species, together 

 Wh the five following ones as forms of one species, and it is true that we occasionally meet 

 *ith specimens apparently connecting them, but so it is with the whole of the section from 

 y-glauca to C. eircinata, which we certainly should not be justified in uniting. Those spe- 

 «"nens of C. eremophila, var. platypoda, in which the lower leaves are phyllodineous without 

 w«et3 can generally if not alwavs be distinguished from C. phyllodinea by the glands at 

 we end of the phyllodia where the leaflets have aborted. 



17. C. eremophila (by a clerical error nemophila), A. Cunn. in Vog. 

 ^pi.Cass. 47. An erect bushy shrub, glabrous or slightly hoary but never 

 so white as some of the allied species. Leafl(-ts 1 or 2 pairs, very iiarrow- 

 'inear, thick, terete and channelled above or slightly flattened out, sometimes 

 J.ery short, usually about 1 in. long, and often more, the petiole terete or ver- 



'cally flattened ; gland depressed between the lowest or the only pair j the 

 J«^er leaves sometimes reduced to a flattened phyllodium with the gland at 

 he end where the leaflets have aborted. Peduncles short, or rarely as long 

 as the leaves, bearing a short almost corymbose raceme of several flowers ou 

 slender pedicels. Bracts very small. Sepals obtuse, rarely 2 Imes long, 

 petals usually more- than twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 lower ones rather 

 ff", or on longer filaments than the others. Pod straight or slightly curved, 

 ^.to 4 hues broad or rarely more.-R. Br. in App. Sturt. Exp. 14; ^ ^«;««- 

 ^^"iata, R. Br. 1. c. ; C. Meroloba, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. n. 122. . 



^3j'r^ •*''^" O'^ t^^ Maranoa, Mitchell ; desert of the Suttor and Burdekin, F. 

 ^S- Wiaes. Near Port Jackson, Eeri. F. Mueller; New England, C. Stuart; 



