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both sides, veins very oblique, almost parallel, reticulations forming oblong 
areoles. Peduncles 1 to 3 in the axils of the upper branches, about 8 lines long, 
each bearing an umbel of usually 5 pedicellate flowers. Bracts 3 or 4 obtuse 
small ones on the lower half of the peduncle and an involucre of similar ones 
close under the pedicels. Pedicels about 6 lines long, articulate just below the 
calyx. Calyx 2 lines long, teeth nearly equal, slightly pubescent inside. Standard 
flabelliform, emarginate, yellow with purple centre, about 3 lines wide ; wings 
nearly as long as standard ; keel shorter, yellowish, purple at the tip. Pod flat, 
about 5 lines long. Seeds usually solitary, oblong, mottled, with large 
strophiole. 
Hab.: Eight-mile Plains. In flower September 
3. D. umbellulata (umbellulate), Sw. in Ann. Hot. i. 507, and in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 258; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 75. A slender much-branched 
shrub, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, the branches sulcate. Leaves lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate, f to fin. long, rigid with a pungent point, 1 -nerved, flat, not 
reticulate. Racemes in some specimens shorter than the leaves, in others twice 
as long, flowering from the middle upwards or at the end only. Pedicels usually 
2 to 3 lines. Bracts about f line long. Calyx about 1 line long, the teeth short 
and obtuse, the two upper ones broad, truncate and united nearly to the top. 
Petals twice as long as the calyx. Pod about 5 lines long. — D. racemulosa, DC. 
Prod. ii. 114 (from the character given). 
Hab.: Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Fraser, A. Cunningham; Wide Bay, Bidwill. 
4. D. corymbosa (flowers in corymbs), Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 507, and in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 258 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 76. A glabrous shrub of 2 to 4 
or 5ft., the branches slightly angular. Leaves usually lanceolate or linear, rarely 
broader and oblong, with a short callous point or rarely quite obtuse, If to 3in. 
long or sometimes almost 4in., rigid, 1 -nerved, and when broad more or less 
reticulate. Racemes usually shorter than the leaves, and flowering from above 
the middle or from the end only, with long slender pedicels, the bracts small, 
obovate, spi’eading under the pedicels, with numerous others crowded at the base 
of the peduncle without flowers, but occasionally the racemes flower more 
regularly from below the middle. Calyx about 1 line long, the teeth short, the 
2 upper ones broad, truncate, and united. Standard three times as long as the 
calyx; keel rather shorter. Pod nearly fin. long. — DC. Prod. ii. 113; Andr. 
Bot. Rep. t. 611 ; D. mimosoides, Bot. Mag. t. 1957 ; D. glauca, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
t. 43 (from the figure); D. macrophylla, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 15 (a luxuriant 
garden specimen with the lower leaves broad, above 4in. long). 
Var. mimosoides. Leaves usually narrow, with more pinnate and less reticulate veins. 
Flowers smaller, the racemes flowering from below the middle ; bracts smaller and less spreading. 
— D. mimosoides, B. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew ed. 2, iii. 20 ; DC. Prod. ii. 114. D. virgata, A. Cunn. 
in Bot. Mag. t. 3196. D. linearis, Lodd. Bot Cab. t. 1615. D. leptophylla, A. Cunn. in G. Don, 
Gen. Syst. ii. 125. — This appears to be the most common form over the whole range, from 
Queensland to S. Australia. The original D. corymbosa is probably limited to Port Jackson and 
the Blue Mountains, N.S.W. I). virgata, linearis, and leptophylla represent a remarkably 
narrow-leaved form, which appears, however, in our numerous specimens to pass very gradually 
into the common mimosoides variety. — Benth. (in part). 
Hab.: Between Stanthorpe and the border of N. S. Wales most of the forms may be met with ; 
also a long-leaved form has been received from Mrs. K. W. Garraway, Palmer Biver. 
5. D. arborea (a tree), IP. Hill, in Cat. of Woods sent to Melb. Inter. Kxhih . , 
1880. A medium-sized tree, with a dark rugged bark ; branchlets slender, 
angular. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 2 to 4in. long and about fin. broad. The 
apex glandular pointed, 1-nerved and prominently reticulate. Racemes numerous, 
