158 Ewart and Morrison : 



•cm. long X 0.6 cm. thick, the pedicel enlarged under it; funicles 

 short, seeds about 26 in pod, subreniform, astrophiolate. flattened 

 and smooth. 



Ten miles west of Eva Downs, G. F. Hill, No. 524a, 19/8/1911. 



The obtuse pod of this plant, as well as the large beaked keel, 

 ■distinguished it from the other species of Isotropis. In I. Wheeleri. 

 F.V.M., the seeds are reniform, with a strongly-marked network of 

 raised lines on the surface, and the pubescence is of a different 

 ■character, its racemes also are terminal, and its pod smaller and 

 acute, while the leaves are tubular rather than terete and channelled 

 as described by Bentham. I. Winneskii, F.v.M., has smaller 

 seeds, symmetrically reniform, and rugose over a broad band 

 round the outer margin, the funicle remaining attached in the 

 narrow sinus. 



Jacksonia anomala, Ewart and Morrison, n. sp. 



Upper lobes of calyx shorter than lower, connate to top, petals 

 somewhat shorter than calyx, standard small, shorter than the other 

 petals, pod subglobose with two seeds. Flowers small situated on 

 base of dichotomous, striate, leafless stems, with broad scarious 

 bracts and bracteoles. 



A small undershrub reaching one foot in height, with numerous 

 stems repeatedly forked from base; branches flattened angular, 

 .striate, not pungent, at first thinly pubescent, 1.5 mm. broad; 

 leaves represented by small broAvn lanceolate scales at nodes. 

 Flowers very shortly pedicellate on short dense nearly sessile 

 racemes clustered on basal rounded portions of branches, each 

 subtended by a suborbicular brown villous bract, with a pair of 

 oblong ovate mucronate bracteoles at base of calyx, in both cases 

 5 mm. in length, and persisting. Calyx densely silky villous, cleft 

 to near base, lower lobes 9 mm. oblong-linear and acuminate, con- 

 nate to top and forming a broad ovate lip 7-8 mm. long, with a 

 subulate bifid tip. Petals and pod firmly clasped by calyx, standard 

 broadly ovate, on a very short broad claw, about 5 mm. in length, 

 and fitting under the concave upper lip of the calyx, wings on a 

 very slender claw, narrow oblong, of about the same length as keel, 

 but with a transverse fold near top, keel nearly 8 mm. long, 

 ovate lanceolate. Pod ovoid or subglobose, sessile, villous, 1 cm. 

 long, including the straight and tapering acuminate beak, which is 

 nearly as long as the pod itself, and exceeds the calyx; seeds two, 

 approximately reniform, smooth, brown, 2 mm. in length. 



Lat. 18 deg. 27 min. S. Long, c 132 deg. E. G. F. Hill, No. 

 •499, 6/7/1911. 



