Plants Collected in Capricornic Western Australia. 53 



Crotalaria medicaginea, Lamarck. 



Lotus australis, Andrews. Now also known from New 

 Caledonia, the New Hebrides and Japan. 



Psoralea leucantha, F. v. M. 



Indigofera monophylla, De CandoUe. 



Tephrosia purpurea, Persoon. The silky variet}^ obtained ; 

 also what seems a form with very narrow leaflets, but 

 gathered without fruit. 



Sesbania grandiflora, Persoon. 



Clianthus Dampieri, Cunningham. 



Swainsona Macculochiana, F. v. M. 



Siuainsona Kingii. Slightly hairy, soon glabrous ; 

 stipules very large, semicordate-lanceolar ; leaflets of each 

 leaf in two to three rather distant pairs, somewhat glaucous, 

 nearly lanceolar, on very short stalklets, not darker above ; 

 peduncles almost capillary, fully as long as the leaves, 

 bearing at and towards the upper end two to four rather 

 small flowers ; pedicels much shorter than the calyx, not 

 much longer than the small lanceolate-linear ciliate bracts ; 

 lobes of the calyx narrow-lanceolar, about as long as the 

 hemi-ellipsoid tube ; upper petal considerably longer than the 

 others, cordate-orbicular, with two faintly prominent erect 

 lines extending from the base to beyond the middle ; lower 

 petals acute, not twisted, nearly as long as the blunt lateral 

 petals ; style towards the summit anteriorly short-bearded ; 

 ovary slender, glabrous. Between the Gascoyne- and Fortes- 

 cue Rivers ; H. S. King, Esq. 



Branches slender ; stipules mostly about f inch long ; 

 leaflets J — J inch long, but occasionally the terminal one 

 exceeding the others in size ; calyces nearly \ inch long. 

 Lamina of upper pefal measuring fully J inch, its stipes 

 tender-membranous; lateral and lower petals violet-coloured 

 towards the summit. Anthers narrow- ellipsoid. Style but 

 slightly curved. Stigma very minute. Fruit not obtained. 



This species may systematically be approximated to 

 S. oroboides, which it resembles often in foliage; but the 

 stipules in the last-mentioned congener are minute, the 

 peduncles and pedicels thicker, the calyces permanently 

 hairy, while the petals are less unequal in length, the lateral 

 two broader, the lower two blunt, the upper having very 

 prominent callosities, which terminate almost truncately just 

 above the stipes, the style is more rigid and the ovary 

 downy; in fruit S. Kingii may also prove very different. 

 The great development of the stipules, which exceed in size 



