f^^^sia.] XL. LEGUMTNOS.E. 289 



Var. (?) iomeiifosa. Leaflets oMong or iiarrow-oLovate, very white. Sepals much lonsrer 

 aad tomeutose.- Mount Murchisou and Barrier Range. This may be a variety of C. desolata. 

 The specimens of these forms, although numerous, are often fragmentary, and rarely have 

 good fruit, or show at once the folia^^e of the barren and of the flowering braucbcs. 



20. C, desolata^ F, MuelL in Linncea, xxA^ 389. Shrubby, the young 

 parts hoary or white, becoming glabrous with age. Leaflets 1, 3 or very 

 rarely 3 pairs, ovate obovate or broadly oblong, | to 1 in. long or more, cori-, 

 aceous; gland depressed between those of the lowest or of both pairs, rarely 

 wanting. Flowers in a very short raceme, on short axillary peduncles. Bracts 

 ovate, concave. Sepals about 3 lines long, usually pubescent or tomeutose* 

 retals twice as bug. Anthers nearly equal or 2 qr 3 lower ones scarcely 

 longer. Pod not seen perfect but apparently more like thai of C, Sturtii than 



of C. oligophylla. 



N.Anstralia. Dcpuech Island. N.W. coast, Bunoe ; Victoria river, F, NiteUer; 

 tentralMount Stuart, M'DouaU Stuart 



Wales 



Barrier Range, Victorian Ea:^loring Ex2)edltio}t 



t^ -^ ? r^ 1 /> twr T 



long, nearly i in. broad, very obtuse. 



». Australia. Speneer's Gulf, Warhurfon. 



ciome of the specimens are very doubtful and may belong to C. oUgophjUa, which this 

 ' *r^^?t ^^^^ resembles in foliage and flowers ; and it would require more perfect materials 

 tnan 1 have seen to estaWish satisfactorily the distinction between this species and (7. Siurtii 

 oa the one hand and a olig.ophylla on the other. 



21. C. oligophyUa, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 49. A tall slirub, glabrous 

 w minutely pubescent. Leaflets 2 or rarely only 1 pair, broadly obovate, 

 ^ery obtuse, | to 1 in. long, coriaceous ; glands depressed and rather large 

 etweeu those of each pair. Flowers in short dense racemes, on axillary pe- 

 lincles, rather more numerous than in the preceding species, with rather 

 arger oblong or lanceolate bracts. Sepals obtuse, pubescent, about 3 lines 

 ong. Petals not twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 lower ones rather longer 

 than the others. Pod 2 to 2^ in. _.._,. __ _ 



%^\' ■*'^'*''*lia- Sandy plains, Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's EximVition. From the few 

 jptcimens gatliered, this appfcnrs to be closely allied to C. desolata, ditJering chiefly in flie 

 M ia c"^^*^ l""'^*^ ''^ '" ^- ^riemisioides ; half as broad again as in C. SlwtU, and probably 

 • aesolata ; but better specimens are required to confinn the speciea. 



J}- ^' oligoclada, F. Muell. Frwjm. iii. 49. A shrub of X to 3 ft., 



T;} pubescent in all its parts. Leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, or in slender starved 

 specimens only l or 2 pairs, elliptical-oblong, obtuse or almost acute, shortly 

 Jiucronate, f to 1 in. long ; glands none. Stipules small, setaceous. Flowers 

 Jv ''; umbellate, on slender axillary peduncles, about as long as the leavts ; 

 l^oiceis almost filiform. Bracts minute, deciduous. Sepals obtuse, the 

 gest about 2 lines long. Petals twice as long or the upper inner ones 

 ner less. Anthers 3 a little larger than the others. Pod stipitate, falcate, 



^. U^n^^'^i^'^ Cambridge Gulf, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; Upper Victoria river, 



Var f?r ■'!^/ **^ ^^'■P*="^'""ia, 72. A-o«;«. „ . ^ 



«malW ^ -^ f ff "/'*• V^^-y sl'^iider and quite glabrous. Leaflets 1 or 2 pairs. Flowers 



Th?;w"f ^ ^'-^^l^' ^'Douall SluJl. ■ . . w . .. 



Sennoi ,^ ^^^''''^ Po<i of this species reminds one at first sight of that of the 



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