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XLIII. LEGUMINOSiE. 
[Gompholobium. 
tudinal ; stipules inconspicuous. Flowers large, yellow. Peduncles (or leafless 
flowering branches) solitary in the upper axils, nearly as long as or longer than 
the leaves, with a pair of small 3-foliolate bracts about the middle, or sometimes 
growing out into leafy branches with a terminal flower. Calyx h to fin. long. 
Standard broad, usually above lin. long; lower petals nearly as long; keel 
incurved, very obtuse, densely fringed on the inner edge with short white woolly 
hairs. Ovary with about 20 ovules. Pod ovoid, J to fin. long. — G. fimbriatum, Sm. 
Exot. Bot. t. 58 ; G. psoraleafolium , Salisb. Parad. Loud. t. G ; G. barbigerum, 
DC. Prod. ii. 105 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4171 ; Paxt. Mag. xiv. 221, with a fig. 
Hab.: Many localities in southern Queensland. 
Misled by Labillardi&re, most modern botanists have transferred the name of G. latifolium to 
G. Hueglii.-— Benth. 
2. Cr. virgatum (twiggy), Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 105 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. 
ii. 45. An erect glabrous shrub. Leaflets 3, the common petiole very short 
or scarcely any, linear, the margins always recurved, although rarely absolutely 
revolute, £ to fin. long or rarely none. Flowers yellow, terminal, solitary 
or 2 or 3 together, the pedicels rarely so long as the calyx. Calyx 4 to 5 lines 
long. Standard 6 to 7 lines ; keel shorter, not fringed. Ovary with about 8 
ovules. Pod about as long as the calyx.— Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 97. 
Hab.: Sandy Cape, Ii. Brown ; islands of Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller. 
3. G. nitidum (shining), Soland. in Herb. Banks. ; Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 48. 
A much-branched, glabrous shrub. Leaves pinnate, with a common petiole of 
about ^in. ; leaflets usually about 7 to 11, oblong-cuneate or almost obovate, 
emarginate, 4 to 6 lines long, dark and shining above, glaucous underneath. 
Flowers terminal, solitary, rather large, on very short pedicels. Calyx glabrous, 
fully 5 lines long, the lobes of a thickish consistence and not separated so low 
down as in other species. Petals shortly exceeding the calyx, the keel not ciliate. 
Ovules (from R. Brown’s notes) 4. Pod sessile, shorter than the calyx. — -DC. 
Prod. ii. 106. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, R. Brown (Herb. Banks and R. Br.) — Benth. 
4. Cr. pinnatum (pinnate), Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 251; Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 48. A glabrous undershrub, with slender but rigid ascending or erect 
stems of 1ft. or rather more, simple or little branched, and usually flexuouse. 
Leaves pinnate ; leaflets few in the lower leaves, on a short common petiole, 
often above 30 in the upper ones, with a common petiole of above lin., linear or 
almost subulate, 4 to 8 lines long, mucronate or acute, the margins revolute. 
Flowers few, in short, loose, terminal racemes, or rarely solitary, the pedicels 
longer than the calyx. Calyx about 3 lines long. Standard very broad, rather 
longer than the calyx, and the lower petals nearly as long. Ovary usually with 8 
ovules. Pod ovoid-globular, rather longer than the calyx. — DC. Prod. ii. 10G. 
Hab.: Sandy Cape, R. Brown ; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Wide Bay, Bid will ; Brisbane River 
and Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller. 
7. BURTONIA, R. Br. 
(After D. Burton.) 
Calyx deeply cleft, the lobes longer than the tube, lanceolate, valvate, the 2 
upper ones often broader or more obtuse, but not connate. Petals very shortly 
clawed ; standard orbicular or reniform, longer than the lower petals ; wings 
oblong or obovate, more or less falcate ; keel usually broader than the wings, 
obtuse. Stamens free. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate ; style incurved, more 
or less dilated towards the base ; ovules 2, the funicles long and thick, one curved 
or folded upwards, the other downwards. Pod broadly ovoid or nearly globular, 
usually oblique, inflated. Seeds small, without any strophiole. — Shrubs or rarely 
