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leaflets, which are narrow-lanceolate, rather acute, mu- 

 cronulate, with entire or slightly repand or denticulate 

 margin, and thin lateral nerves ; racemes on short pe- 

 duncles, axillary, solitary or 2-4 together, at last as long 

 as the leaflets ; bracts broad- or lanceolate-ovate, acumi- 

 nate ; fruit bearing pedicels nearly as long as the calyx ; 

 teeth of the calyx acute, those of the upper lip short ; 

 pods brown, kidney-shaped, ovate, rostellate, compressed, 

 wrinkled by sessile glands, longer than the appressed 

 calyx, connate with the seed. 



On the sandy, sometimes inundated, banks of the Victoria 

 River, and its tributaries. 



A strong-scented plant, several feet high, closely allied to 

 the preceding species. Corolla white ; the keel with a blueish 

 spot at the apex. 



Psoralea balsamica. 



Shrubby, erect, covered with innumerable small brown 

 glandular warts ; petioles about half as long as the leaf- 

 lets ; stipules from a broad base linear-subulate ; lower 

 leaves trifoliate, upper ones simple ; leaflets oblong or 

 ovate, blunt, emarginate, ribbed by prominent lateral 

 nerves, terminated in a short mucro, irregularly denti- 

 culate, as well as the branchlets and petioles scantily 

 downy ; corymbs hardly as long as their peduncle, axil- 

 lary and terminal with several crowded pedicels ; the 

 latter ternate and much shorter than the calyx, as well 

 as their axis clothed with soft spreading down, almost 

 glandless; bracts small, glandulous, ovate-roundish, 

 acuminate ; calyx downy, tubercled ; its upper lip deeply 

 bifid, a little longer than the lower one ; teeth all nearly 

 lanceolate, acute ; pods broad-ovate, velvet-silky, com- 

 pressed, not rostellate, laxly enclosed in the calyx, con- 

 nate with the seed. 



On the margin of rocky creeks flowing into the Nicholson 

 and Van Alphen rivers. 



A shrub, 4-8 feet high, not spreading, of a strong balsamic 

 odour. Leaflets 1-1^ inch long, densely conspersed with 

 glandular tubercles and subtile dots. Peduncles \-\\ inch 

 long, bearing flowers only towards the summit. Calyx nearly 

 3 lines long. Flowers blueish. Anthers cordate-ovate. Fila- 

 ments diadelphous, connate to almost the apex. Style 1 line 

 long, glabrous. Pods measuring scarcely 2 lines. 



