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311. Erythrina vespertilio Benth. 



A deciduous tree to 40ft. ; trunk reaching 20ft. ; diameter 

 1-1 Pt. ; bark brown, rough and corky ; timber white, 

 soft, tough ; petals scarlet ; the standard with a dark 

 blotch at the base. A " Cork-tree." In sandy soil. 



312. Canavalia ensiformis DC. 



Base of Mt. Brennan, Adcock and Throssell Rivers (W.V.F.) 

 Near Pittard's Bluff (W. H. Brown). 

 Twines over the tops of small trees. 



313. Atylosia marmorata Benth. 



South base of Artesian Range, Isdell River (W.V.F.) 

 Stems trailing for many yards, or shortly twining ; flowers 

 yellow. In sandy soil. 



314. A. cinerea F. v. M. 



Shrubby, erect, 3-5ft. ; few-branched ; through leaf-suppres- 

 sion the racemes often form terminal panicles ; standard 

 pink^ or greenish with darker striae. Specimens from 

 near the junction of the Fitzroy and Hann Rivers (W.V.F.) 

 differ from those of the type in long slender branchlets ; 

 woolly white indumentum, that on the inflorescence 

 often glandular ; racemes sometimes above 4in. long, 

 bearing numerous flowers, on pedicels wliich are often 

 twice as long as the calyces. 



315. A. lanceolata W.V.F. n. sp. 



An erect shrub with long slender branches, closely invested 

 with an appressed white or yellowish silky tomentum ; 

 leaves petiolate ; leaflets uni-trifoliolate, lanceolate to 

 linear-lanceolate, obtuse, the terminal one shortly petiolu- 

 late, the lateral ones shorter or often suppressed, m.uch 

 reticulate beneath, rugose above ; stipules small, linear ; 

 flowers in irregular clusters on short pedunculate axillary, 

 soHtary racemes, the uppermost occasionally (through 

 leaf-suppression) forming short terminal panicles ; pedicels 

 much shorter than the calyces ; calyx closely invested with 

 yellowish silky hairs, the lobes lanceolate, longer than the 

 tube ; wings and keel shorter than the standard ; ovules 

 4-6 ; pod oblong, closely tomentose ; valves coriaceous, 

 with transverse depressions between the seeds ; seeds 

 mottled brown and black. 



Mt. Broome (W.V.F.). 



Height 4-6ft ; petioles J-|in. long ; terminal leaflets 2J— 3in. 

 lateral ones lin. or less in length ; calyx 4-5 lines long ; 

 standard 6-7 lines long, yellow, longitudinally streaked 

 with purple ; wings and keel 4-4J lines long, yellow ; 

 pod liin. long by |in. broad. Among sandstone and 

 quartzite rooks. 



Affinity to A. grandifolia F. v. M. 



