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turned towards the branchlet, closely beset with very 

 short appressed often shining hairlets ; glandule absent 

 or inconspicuous ; flowers in very short racemes or 

 corymbs ; petals yellow ; fruit flat, rather broadish ; 

 seeds dark-brown, placed transversely. 



C. phyllodinea. 



JACK.SONIA. 



955. Thornless. 



A tall shrub, quite leafless ; branchlets angular ; flowers in 

 racemes, comparatively large ; calyx glabrous ; petals 

 yellow ; fruit on a short stipes, almost elliptical, com- 

 pressed. J. Clarkei. 



GOXttPHOXiOBX TJM. 



956. Erect. 



Tall, glabrous ; leaflets ternate, elongated, from lanceolar- 

 to broad-linear, more narrowed downward, flat or some- 

 what recurved at the margin ; flowers large, solitary ; 

 stalklets longer than the flowers ; lower petals bearded 

 at the margin ; fruits almost ovate. G. latifolium. 



Depressed ... ... ... ... ... ... 957 



957. Lower petals short-bearded at the anterior margin. 



Glabrous, or somewhat beset with hairlets ; leaflets ternate, 

 rather short, from elliptic-cuneate to linear, their margin 

 generally recurved ; flowers of moderate size, solitary or 

 two or three together ; stalklets longer than the flowers ; 

 fruit almost ovate. G. Huegelii. 



Lower petals quite glabrous. 



Leaflets ternate, rather short, from broad- to acicular-linear, 

 revolute at the margin ; flowers rather small, generally 

 two or three together ; stalklets shorter than the flowers ; 

 fruit short-exserted. G. minus. 



958. Leaves very small, mostly in whorls of three. 



Erect shrub, finally tall, much beset with minute appressed 

 hairlets ; leaves from broad- to lanceolar-ovate, slightly 

 pointed, recurved at the margin ; flowers small, mostly 

 terminal and few together, on very short stalklets ; upper 

 and lateral petals upwards yellow or orange-colored ; 

 lower petals black-purplish or red upwards ; fruit ovate, 

 depressed, small. Figure 45. M. oxylobioides. 



