SUPPOSED POISONOUS PLANTS—WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 915 
The prevailing colour of the flowers in the above species of 
Gastrolobium is yellow, but the keel (lower petals) and base of 
the standard (upper petal) are often purplish-red. 
Templetonia retusa, R. Br.— Poison Bush.” 
A tall, glabrous, glaucous shrub, with angular, furrowed 
branches. Leaves variable, thick, and leathery, and about | inch 
long. The flowers, arranged in the leaf axils, are usually red, 
but sometimes white. The oblique pod is about 2 inches long, 
and about half an inch wide. 
Goodia lotifolia, Salisb.—* Yellow Pea,” or “ Yellow Indigo.” 
This a rather tall-growing straggling shrub, with pinnately 
three-foliate leaves, and many-flower red racemes of yellow flowers. 
The pods are nearly an inch long, and about one-quarter of an 
inch broad. 
Crotalaria cunninghamii, R. Br.— Poison Plant.” 
A shrub, growing about 3 feet high, and covered all over with 
a dense, soft tomentum. The leaves are usually broadly ovate, 
and from 14 to 3 inches long. The very large flowers are of a 
yellowish-green colour, more or less streaked with dark lines. 
They are arranged in terminal racemes. The tomentose, leathery 
pods are about 13 inch long. 
Lotus australis, Andr.—“ Poison Trefoil.” 
A perennial plant of rather variable habit. Sometimes it forms 
a dense little bush of about 2 feet high, while in other situations 
it has weak, straggling growths. The leaves are composed of five 
leaflets, three at end of the stalk and two close to the stem. 
Flowers usually pink and fragrant, but varying much in colour 
from white to purplish, with a leaf close under each umbel of 
flowers. Pod cylindrical, about 14 inch long. 
Indigofera australis, Willd.—* Wild Indigo.” 
This is an erect branching shrub of from 2 to 4 or more feet 
high, with leaves composed of numerous, small leaflets—usually 
nine to seventeen—and pink or purple ftowers arranged on 
axillary racemes. The pods are about 14 inch long, terete, and 
nearly straight. 
DROSERACES. 
Drosera gigantea, Lind].—‘ Sun Dew.” 
This plant has tall, branching, leafy stems, with variable leaves, 
the lower ones reduced to lanceolate scales, but the upper ones 
are generally broadly crescent-shaped. The small white flowers 
are borne on large, loose, branched, terminal panicles. 
