Ler/uwinosa.] FLORA of TASMANIA 09 
South Africa. About ten Australian species are known, chiefly natives of the s 
tropical and South-west Australian. The majority of the species are glandular and shrnbln ; hut all the . 
ones are herbaceous.— Leaves alternate, pinnate-trifoliolate. or with hut one leaflet, ftowtn Q .araliy capitate, or 
spiked. Calyx live-cleft. Stamen* diadelphous. Ocan, onc-ovuled. Pod small, included within t) 
branous, indehisee.it. one-seeded. (Name from + apt A fOS , scurfy ; in illusion to the hair, on .!, 
1. Psoralea Gunnii (Hook, ill.) ; caulibua gracilibus elongatis prostratis glabris v. pare* pilosis, 
stipulis ovato-lanceolatis, petiolis gracilibus, foliis trifoliolatis, foliolis ellipticis v. oblongis v. laneeolatis 
lineari-oblongisve acutis atro-punctulatis, pc-dmu-ulis axillaribus elongate gracilibus sulcatis supcrnc pilosis, 
capitulis ovoideis densifloris, calyce glanduloso strigoso-piloso, pilis atris. {(Junn, lOftl.) 
Hab. Woolnorth, Gunn.—(FL Dec.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
A slender straggling plant .—Stems a foot long and upwards, sparingly branched, decumbent, striate, glabrous 
or covered with small black hairs. Petioles 2-1 inches long, slender. Leaflets three, sessile, cllipii. 
linear, glabrous, entire, covered with small black glaudular dots, 1-1 J inch long. Peduncle* u-ry long, slender, 
and deeply grooved, 6-10 inches long. Capitala aboul an inch long, ovoid or oblong. Plovers crowded. Calyx 
covered with rigid black hairs, divided beyond the middle into live narrow loins; bracts broad h. ovale, acii- 
Calyx parvus, urceoL I 
Anthem conforrnes v. altenue sterile* 
rectum v. falcatum, 2-polyspermum, intus septis membranaccis niultiloculare. Semka cubica.— II< 
frutices, pilis ■ ttijwts; stipulis 
inferne adnatis ; pedunculis 
purpureisve. 
Averyext ;. ound in a blue cc 
matter. About twelve an . several being also natives of India. — Ii 
shrubs, with arte] or one leaflet. . 
usually racemose, pedicelled with a bfad a: the base ■ :' thi p seL ( \. - bn ad, oreedate, five-toothed, 
with a recurved standard. Pod many-seeded, rarely few- or on -- 
into many loculi by transverse septa, 8eed» angular, cubicaL N 
1. Indigofera australis (Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1235} ; frutex crectus, foliolis t 
lulatis lineari-oblongis obtusis retusisvc v. apice bilohis subtafl 
bus multifloris nutantibu>, bract is parvis, p diet Ilia 
seminibus opacis punctatis. — DC. Prodr. ii. 220. I. australis el I. gnu 
t. 3000. [Gunn, 403.) 
Hab. Abundant in many places throughout the Island. — (Fl. Sept. Oct.) [v. v.) 
Distrib. Subtropical Eastern Australia, throughout New South Wales and South-eastern Au 
(Cultivated in England.) 
A very common and handsome shrub, 2-3 feet high. Stems and branches erect, brittle, glabrous, 
Leaves 2-4 inches long. Leafets in six to ten pairs, shortly petiolulate, linear-oblong, \-\\ inch long, blunt 
