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Australian Plants. 



scantily clotlied with short grey hair ; germina silky ; pods 

 stalked, many-seeded. 



On wooded hills; for instance, at Mount Disappointment, 

 in the Goulburn Ranges, on the Delatite, in the Black 

 Forest, at Balaarat, &c. 



^ This plant and several allied species tend to show, that the 

 distincLions drawn between the genera Chorizema, Podolobium 

 and Oxylobium are merely artificial. 



15. Oxylobium alpestre. 



Fruticose, diffuse or erect ; leaves ternate or opposite, 

 oblong-lanceolate, entire, sharp-pointed, soon glabrous, on 

 the margin recurved; stipules linear - setaceous, reflexed; 

 umbels terminal, pedunculate, few-flowered, sometimes com- 

 pound; bracteoles affixed to the base of the calyx, deciduous; 

 calyx short grey-hairy; germina densely silky; pods villose, 

 short-stalked, few-seeded. 



Not unfrequent in the higher parts of the Australian Alps. 



16. PultencBa Benthamt. 



Kobust, erect; twigs angular, somewhat silky; stipules 

 lanceolate - subulate, concrete at the base; leaves nearly 

 flat, coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong, awnless or ending in a 

 sharp point, either smooth and even on both sides, or below 

 silky; petiole very short ; heads terminal, few- flow ered, 

 surrounded at the base by imbricate brown, ovate, or round- 

 ish ciliolate bracteas; bracteoles navicular - lanceolate, with 

 exception of the margin, smooth, brown, scarious, affixed to 

 the tube of the whitish silky calyx ; upper-lip of the calyx 

 short - bilobed, considerably shorter than the lanceolate 

 subulate lacinite of the lower lip; germen, together ivith the 

 basis of the style silky. 



On springs and rivulets in the Grampians, and amongst 

 rocks on the top of Mount Abrupt. 



This elegant species, \\^ich stands nearest to P. myrtoides 

 All. Cunn., has been named in honour of Mr. George Bentham, 

 the eminent monographer of this class of plants. 



17. Phyllota pleurandroides. 



Twigs pubescent; leaves recurved, spreading, linear, sharp 

 pointed, scabrous, with refract margin, the floral ones crowded 

 and below the middle villose; flowers concealed between the 



