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Base of Inglis' Gap, King Leopold Ranges (W.V.F.). 



Height l-2ft. ; leaves l-2in. long. ; stipules 2-3 lines 

 long ; flowers pale-yellow, copiously dark-spotted ; calyx 

 8 lines long ; standard 4 lines across ; pod lin. or more 

 in height. In wet grassy spots. 



Affinity to C linifolia L. 



280. Psoralea Archeri F. v M. 



Erect, 3-4ft. ; flowers pink. This tropical species is also in 

 Papua. 



281. P. cuneata (W.V.F.). n. sp. 



A spreading, rigid, and sonaewhat intricately branched shrub, 

 very hispid, with spreading white hairs, the glandular 

 dots small and almost concealed ; leaves unifoliolate, 

 sessile or almost so ; leaflets cuneate, with short pungent 

 points and usually several acute or pungent teeth on the 

 margins of the upper half, otherwise entire, very hispid 

 on both pages ; stipules slender, recurved, persistent, 

 spinescent ; flowers on extremely short pedicels, usually 

 solitary and axillary, rarely in clusters of 2-3 ; calyx very 

 hispid with white spreading hairs, the upper and lateral 

 lobes as long as the tube, the lower lobe narrowly boat- 

 shaped and much longer than the others ; corolla as long 

 as the lower calyx-lobe ; standard glabrous ; kesl obtuse ; 

 pod included in the somewhat inflated calyx, ovate, ob- 

 tuse, glandular and very hispid, especially near the apex. 



Bases of Mts. House and Clifton ; King River (W.V.F. ). 



Height 2ft. ; leaflets Jin. or less in length. ; stipules two 

 lines long ; calyx 3 '-4 lines long ; corolla purple. 



On shady rises associated with species of Triodia (Spinifex). 



Affinity to P Archeri, F. v. M. 



282. P. balsamica F. v. M. 



Erect, 3-5ft. ; strongly scented ; flowers purplish ; ovary 

 glabrous. 



283. P. virens (W.V.F.). n. sp. 



Stems erect, slender, green and glabrous, with small brown 

 glandular dots, few-branched ; leaves on slender petioles, 

 rarely unifoliate : leaflets lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 mucronate- acute, entire, almost membranous, green and 

 f[uite glabrous on the luidrib, beneath scanty hispid, 

 gland-dots minute and copious ; stipules very small, 

 setaceous ; flowers on slender pedicles ^^hir-Ii are shorter 

 than the calyces, in globular or ovoid shortly jiedunculate 

 racemes, axillary or, through leaf sui)pression, forming 

 long terminal racemes ; the peduncles, pedicels, bracts and 

 calyces sericeous, bracts shortly and broadly ovate, hardly 

 acute and, along with the calyx copiously black glandular- 



