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296. T. stipuligera (W.V.F.) n. sp. 



A diffuse rigidly-branched shrub, the branchlets and foliage 

 hirsute and the young shoots white-tomentose ; leaves 

 petiolate ; stipules persistent, erect, rather rigid ; leaf- 

 lets 5-7, line ar-cune ate to narrow-oblanceolate, with a 

 small recurved point, very shortly petiolulate, the veins 

 very oblique and occasionally anastomosing ; flowers 

 small, pedicellate or in leaf-opposed clusters of 2-3 ; 

 bracts small, setaceous ; calyx pubescent, the lobes linear, 

 obtuse or subacute, the lower about as long as the tube, 

 the upper connate to the middle ; standard tomentose 

 without ; wings shorter ; keel incurved, very obtuse, 

 shorter than the wings ; ovary densely tomentose ; style 

 glabrous, much compressed ; pod linear, obliquely acute, 

 straight or sUghtly falcate, the valves flattened, pube- 

 scent ; seeds orbicular. 



King River (W.V.F. ). 



Height 2ft. ; leaf-petioles 1-2 line ; leaflets ^-fin. long ; 

 flowers red ; pedicels 1 line long or less ; Calyx 1^ lines 

 long ; standard 2^ hnes diameter pod fin. long. On 

 basaltic hills. 



The foliage is readily eaten by stock. 



Aifinity to T. remotiflora F. v. M. 



297. T. filipes Benth. 



Of straggling habit ; stems l-3ft. long ; leaflets 3-5 ; racemes 

 3 to above 6in. long, with numerous pairs of pink or 

 purplish flowers. 



298. T. remotiflora F. v. M. 



Leaflets narrow, to above IJin. long ; flowers pale pink. 



299. T. maorocarpa Benth. 



N.W. coast (Bynoe) ; Lennard, Fitzroy, Isdell, Adcock, Ord, 

 Denham and King Bivers ; Mt. Leake, DiUen's Springs 

 (W.V.F.). 



Diffuse, 3-5ft. high and across, the whole plant sometimes 

 sericeous ; disagreeably scented ; leaflets occasionally 

 solitary ; flowers often in axillary clusters, the standard 

 and wings orange-red to red, the keel always yellowish. 

 In sandy soil. 



300. T. phaeosperma F. v. M. 

 Dillen's Springs. (W.V.F.) 



An erect shrub, 4^6ft. ; racemes often bead-like ; flowers 



reddish-purple. 

 In moist sandy loam. 



