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272. Templetonia Hookeri Benth. 



N.W. Coast (Bynoe) ; Isdell, Charnley, Calder, Deaham, 

 and King Rivers ; Paokhorse, Synnott, Artesian, Edkins 

 and Harding Ranges, Sunday Island, Dillen's Springs 

 (W.V.F.). 



An erect graceful shrub, 6-lOft. ; flowers j'ellow. Usually 

 among sandstone and quartzite rooks. 



273. Crotalaria punicea L. 



May. Lennard, Pitzroy, Isdell, Charnley, Barnett, and Hann 



Rivers (W.V.F.). 

 In sandy loam. 



274. 0. alata Hamil. 



Paradise Creek (J. Bradshaw and Allen) ; Isdell River, near 



Grace's Knob, Synnott Creek (W.V.F.). 

 Of stragghng habit ; stems to 2ft. long ; flowers bright yellow. 



In damp grassy spots. 



275. C. medicaginea Lam. 



Stems erect, 2-3ft. ; flowers yellow. 



276. C. verrucosa L. 



Erect, 2-4ft. ; flowers purple. 



277. C. hnifolia L. 



Often an erect slightly branched annual of 2-4ft. in height. 



278. C. crassipes Hook. 



Stems erect 4-6ft. ; leaflets 3-5in. long, rarely 2in. ; flowers 

 bright yellow ; pods much inflated. 



279. G. membranacea AV.^'.F. n. sp. 



An erect much-branched annual, the stems and branches 

 terete, and, along with the foliage and inflorescence, 

 closely invested with long spreading pale or yellowish 

 hairs ; leaves membranous, simple, almost or quite sessile, 

 ovate to lanceolate, rounded at the apex ; stipules lance- 

 olate, narrowed upwards ; flowers in loose terminal or 

 axillary racemes of usually 2—i flowers only ; peduncles 

 and pedicels rather short ; bracts linear, shorter than the 

 calyx ; calyx densely invested with long spreading hairs, 

 lobed nearly to the base, the two upper lobes much broader 

 than the others, the lateral ones and the lower one shortly 

 united, all scarcelj' acute ; petals about as long as the 

 calyx, the standard ovate, silkj' tomentose, without 

 tomentum on the upper portion ; wings and keel equal, 

 the latter terminating in a straight or slightly twisted 

 beak, ciliolate on the margins ; ovarj' sessile, glabrous ; 

 ovules numerous (30-40) ; pod nauch inflated, sessile or 

 shortly stipitate. 



