32 WATTLES OR ACACIAS. 
Style very short. Stigma depressed. Fruit flat, narrow-oblong ; 
its two sides of thin consistence, separating from each other 
longitudinally (bivalved), without complete internal divisions 
(septa). Seeds on short funicles placed transversely, almost 
oval, compressed, strongly contracted at the base, dark-brown, 
shining, turning with their sides (not their edges) to the walls of 
the fruit, marked on each side with a linear-oblong impression. 
Albumen more spacious than the straight embryo and of hard 
consistence. Cotyledons stretching through nearly the whole 
length and width of the seeds, flat, roundish-oval, twice or three 
times as long as the conical radicle. 
In the north-western desert-country of our colony, thence 
widely distributed through most of the lowland-scrubs of the 
arid regions of the Australian continent. 
The wood-engraving illustrates only the narrow-leaved and 
the leafless form of this protean plant. The species is particu- 
larly interesting, as demonstrating the extreme variability, to 
which some plants are subject. Only one other Cassia occurs in 
our colony as the sole representative of the Cesalpinee. The 
tribe however of the Papilionacez, so called from some fancied 
resemblance of the flowers of these kinds of plants to a butterfly, 
or the pea-flowering tribe,is largely represented in Victoria, and 
indeed in nearly every other part of the globe, both in the hot 
and cold zone, though extremely rare in New Zealand, where 
Mimoseze and Cesalpinez are totally absent. For brevity’s 
sake only the following plant of this tribe is adduced in these 
pages, but our brilliant flowered Kennedyas, the well known 
Indigofera, the widely dispersed Pultenzeas and Dillwynias 
(which latter are always simple-leaved) are familiar samples 
of this tribe, full information about which may be sought in the 
second volume of the Flora Australiensis. 
Glycyrrhiza psoraloides, or the native Liquorice (Fig. XIV.). 
—A procumbent or adscendent perennial herb, somewhat woody 
at the base, more or less glandular-viscid. Leaves simply pin- 
nate, consisting of 7-11 leaflets. Stipules triangular-lanceolate. 
Leaflets, except the terminal one, in pairs, lanceolar, rarely 
linear, or those of the lower leaves oval, 3-1 inch long. Flowers 
