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each pair small and conspicuously stipitate ; stipules 

 semi-cordate-renifomi, leafy ; peduncles axillary, solitary, 

 filiform and with the short fiUform pedicels longer than 

 the leaves and bearing an umbel of a few flowers ; sepals 

 small, broadly ovate ; petals roundish ; pod shortly 

 stipitate, linear-oblong ; shghtly falcate, terminating in a 

 short straight point, very thin and flat, pubescent ; seeds 

 mostly five. 



Hills near the junction of Harm and Barnett Rivers ; Edkins 

 Range ; DiUen's Springs (W.V.F.). 



Height 1— 2ft ; leaflets |— f in. long ; stipules 2-3 Hnes diameter ; 

 petals yellow ; pod 1—1 Jin. long by Jin. across ; seeds 

 dark-brown. Among sandstone and quartzite rocks. 



PAPILIONAT^, 



265. Mirbelia oxyelada F. v. M. 



A spreading spinescent shrub, 2-3ft. high ; flowers yellow, 

 2—3 together, shortly pedicellate on lateral or axillary 

 peduncles ; calyx 2-2J Unes long, sericeous ; lobes almost 

 setaceous, much longer than the tube ; standard slightly 

 exceeding the calyx ; wings and keel shorter ; ovary and 

 fruit glabrous. In sandstone and quartzite country. 



266. Jacksonia petrophihodes AY.V.F. n. sp. 



A much-branched rigid shrub, glabrous excepting the in- 

 florescence ; barren branches rather long and slender, 

 angular and sulcate, not spinescent ; scales linear ; flowers 

 mostly on the lower portion of the plant, pedicellate, few to 

 many together, forming lateral or axillary white pubescent 

 clusters on head-like racemes ; bracts and bracteoles 

 persistent, ovate, acuminate, shorter than the flowers ; 

 calyx hirsute, the tube broad, the lobes persistent, erect, 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, much longer than the tube, the 

 upper ones shorter than the others and connate to near 

 their summits ; petals shorter than the calyx ; standard 

 shortly acuminate, wings longer than it ; keel acuminate, 

 as broad as or broader than the wings and about as long ; 

 ovary shortly stipitate, 2-ovulate ; pod ovate, turgid, 

 densely sUky-villous, about as long as the calyx and 

 terminating in an acuminate exserted point ; seeds two. 



South of the Fitzroy River (Mayo Logue). 



Height l-2ft. Scales 1-2J lines long. Pedicels 1 Hne or less. 

 Calyx 4 lines long, the tube less than 1 line long. Petals 

 yellow. Sandy, scrubby country, " Pindan." 



Affinity to J. odontoclada F. v. M. 



