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leaves, either axillary, solitary, or collected in terminal few- 

 flowered heads ; bracteoles ovate, keeled, shorter than the tube 

 of the silky calyx; standard siu^passing considerably the 

 length of the keel, but httle that of the wings; style below 

 the middle appressed - hairy, unbearded on the apex; pod 

 somewhat hairy, ovate, slightly compressed; seeds destitute 

 of a strophiola. 



In arid plains, at the foot of Mount Abrupt, in Kangaroo 

 Island, and Encounter Bay. 



18. Burtonia suhaljnna. 



Twigs almost silky, soon glabrescent; leaves crowded, 

 undivided, filiform, channelled, awnless, smooth, scabrous; 

 stipules longer than the petiole; flowers sessile, terminal, 

 capitate; calyx and germen villose-silky ; corolla purple; 

 style below hardly broader. 



On the rocky summit of Mount William, at an elevation 

 of about five thousand feet. 



Not dissimilar to B. diosmifolia, from which it differs as 

 well as from all other Western AustraUan species of the 

 genus in producing stipules. The pod is yet unknown. 



19. Bossiaea distichoclada. 



Erect, unarmed ; branches and twigs in two rows, terete, 

 grey-velutinovis, densely foliate; leaves small, on very short 

 petioles, bifarious, assurgent, coriaceous, nearly kidney-shaped, 

 at the top awnless and divided into two very short lobes, 

 their margins recurved, above scabrous, on both sides, with 

 the exception of middle rib, glabrous; stipules ovate- or 

 lanceolate-subulate, long persistent, at length reflexed, often 

 of the length of the leaves ; pedicels short, axillary, solitary, 

 with rounded or ovate ciliate bracteoles ; upper lip of the 

 somewhat silky calyx bifid, lower lip three-parted ; pod much 

 compressed, roundish-rhomboid, covered with rusty downs, 

 containing from one to three brown black-spotted seeds. 



In the Australian Alps from the Mitta Mitta to the tribu- 

 taries of the Snowy River, as well between rocks as along 

 the peaty margins of the rivulets. 



This singular and beautiful plant descends never to regions 

 lower than four thousand feet ; and being at five thousand for 

 many months during the year covered with snow, it will, 

 like the new previously mentioned Burtonia and many other 

 of our alpine plants, form an exquisite addition to the garden 

 flora of colder countries. 



