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XLIII. LEGUMINOSiE. 
[Jacksonia. 
Prod. ii. 107; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 427; <7. macrocarpa, Benth. in Ann. Wien. 
Mus. ii. 74 (the filaments erroneously described as toothed) ; Viminaria lateriflora, 
Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 403 ; DC. Prod. ii. 107 (from the short description 
given). 
Hab.: Sandy Cape, Broadsound, It. Brown; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Burnett River, F. v. 
Mueller ; Barcoo River, Mitchell ; Brisbane River and Moreton Bay islands, F. v. Mueller ; Pine 
River, Fitzalan ; Rockhampton, Dallachy. Flowering in September. 
Wood yellowish, brown towards the centre. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 113. 
In some localities these shrubs are much infested by Raestelia polita. 
8. J, Stackhousii (after Captain Stackhouse, R.N.), F. v. M. I'roc. L.S. 
N.S.W. vi. 791. Plant dwarf, procumbent or ascendent, not pungent. Branches 
very thin, finely or scantily silky, gradually glabrescent, slightly furrowed. 
Flowers in pairs along the upper part of the branches. Calyx silvery-silky, 
slightly longer than broad, very angular from the prominent edges of the lobes ; 
upper lip divided only to about one-tliird of its length into 2 deltoid teeth ; lower 
lip slit to the base into 3 ovate-lanceolate segments ; tube suddenly narrowed, 
three times shorter than the segments. Petals equally yellow, all of about the 
same length. Ovary sessile. Pod shorter than the calyx, almost ovate, com- 
pressed, silky outside, nearly smooth inside. Seeds 1 or 2, grey, minutely 
blackish-dotted. In habit and ramification similar to J. angulata, a West 
Australian species ; in the deeply divided upper lip of calyx it approaches J. 
odontoclada. — F. v. M. l.c. 
Hab.: Given as a Queensland plant in F. v. M. Census of Austr. PI. 
9. J. purpurascens (purplish), F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 161. A shrub of about 
4ft., very much branched. Branches angular, hoary-silky, at length almost 
glabrescent. Flowers on short pedicels, almost racemose. Bracts minute, 
lanceolate-subulate. Calyx bibracteolate, slightly silky outside, the lobes scarcely 
over 1 line long. Petals purplish or bluish ; standard about 2 lines, 3-lobed, 
wings obtuse, keel petals somewhat acute. Ovary 2-ovulate. Pod 2 lines long. 
Seeds slightly kidney-shaped, about 1J line long, smooth, brown, exalbuminous. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M.) 
9. SPHvEROLOBIUM, Sm. 
(From sphaira, a sphere, and lulus, a pod — form of pod.) 
(Roea, Huey.) 
Calyx-lobes imbricate, the two upper ones larger, falcate, united into an upper 
lip. Petals with short claws ; standard orbicular or reniform, emarginate ; wings 
rather shorter, oblong, usually falcate ; keel longer or rather shorter than the 
wings, straight or curved. Stamens free. Ovary stipitate ; style much incurved, 
subulate or dilated at the base, usually with a longitudinal membrane or a ring of 
hairs under the stigma ; ovules 2, with short thick funicles. Pod small, stipitate, 
oblique, globular or compressed. Seeds 1 or 2, not stropliiolate. — Glabrous 
shrubs or undershrubs, with rush-like stems, often leafless. Leaves, when 
present, narrow, entire, alternate or irregularly opposite or whorled. Flowers 
yellow or red, in terminal racemes or in lateral racemes or clusters. Filaments 
of the outer stamens often somewhat dilated below the middle. Ovary always 
glabrous. 
The genus is limited to Australia. It is readily known by its habit, by the small stipitate 
nearly globular pod, and, in the Queensland and many other species, by the appendages of the 
style. — Benth. (in part). 
1. S. vimineum (twiggy), Sm. in Ann. But. i. 509, and in 'Frans. Linn. Sue. 
ix. 261 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 65. Stems ascending or erect, from a few inches to 
above 2ft. high, with slender, terete, wiry branches, all leafless or the barren 
