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solitary or clustered, the pedicels very short. Calyx \\ to nearly 2 lines long, 
the turbinate base very short, the 5 teeth nearly equal, lanceolate, and scarcely 
shorter than the tube. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel shorter, obtuse. 
Pod 4 to 5 lines long, acuminate. — DC. Prod. ii. 114 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2679 ; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 1234 (leaves much less crowded, but probably the same species). 
Hab.: Parts of the colony. 
10. X). genistifolia (broom-leaved), A. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 
75 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 82. A glabrous shrub, with slender, slightly sulcate 
branches. Leaves linear-terete or very slightly laterally compressed, divaricate, 
pungent-pointed, mostly \ to lin. long, smooth or sulcate. Pedicels slender, 1| 
to 2 lines long, in clusters or exceedingly short racemes. Bracts small, obovate. 
Calyx 1£ line long, including the narrow, almost stalk-like, turbinate base ; the 
teeth very short, the 2 upper ones broad, truncate, and united. Petals twice as 
long as the calyx, of nearly equal length, the keel obtuse. Pod about 4 .lines long. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay, Fraser, and many other southern localities. 
12. AOTUS, Sm. 
(From a, without, and ous, an ear; calyx having no bracts at its base.) 
Calyx, 2 upper lobes broader and more or less united in an upper lip. Petals 
rather long-clawed ; standard nearly orbicular, longer than the lower petals ; 
wings oblong ; keel incurved. Stamens free, ovary sessile or stipitate, with 2 
ovules on short straight funicles ; style filiform, with a minute terminal stigma. 
Pod ovate, flat or turgid, 2-valved. Seed reniform, without any strophiole (Ql. 
species). — Shrubs, with branches often virgate. Leaves simple, scattered or 
ternately whorled, the margins recurved or revolute. Stipules none. Flowers in 
axillary clusters, often in threes, on short pedicels, or rarely in short terminal 
racemes. Bracts small and very deciduous ; bracteoles none. Ovary villous. 
The genus is limited to Australia. It differs from Pultenaa chiefly in the want of stipules and 
bracteoles, and in most cases in the want of any strophiole to the seeds. It is, in most cases, 
readily distinguished from Dillwynia by the recurved, not incurved, margins of the leaves, 
independently of the seeds. — Benth. 
Leaves scattered or imperfectly whorled, narrow, with much revolute margins. 
Calyx usually above 1J line long. 
Leaves linear, obtuse or with recurved points. Keel purple. 
Calyx under 2 lines, the upper lobes falcate or truncate, united above the 
middle. Plant tomentose, hoary or nearly glabrous. Seeds not 
strophiolate 1 A. villosa. 
Calyx nearly 2 lines, the lobes nearly equal. Leaves softly tomentose . . 2 .A. mollis. 
Leaves mostly lanceolate and almost acute. Branches villous. Flowers 
large. Keel yellow. Ovary stipitate 3 A. lanigera. 
1. A. villosa (hairy), Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 504, and in Trans. Lin. Soc. ix. 
249 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 90. A bushy heath-like shrub, the branches terete, 
often long and virgate, usually densely tomentose or softly villous, rarely hoary 
or almost glabrous. Leaves narrow-linear or rarely oblong, obtuse or with 
recurved points, 3 to 6 lines long, the margins closely revolute, glabrous or 
pubescent above when young, the under surface pubescent, but usually concealed. 
Flowers yellow, with a purple or dark-coloured keel, axillary, solitary or in clusters 
of 2 or 3, often forming long leafy spikes or racemes below the ends of the 
branches. Pedicels short, without bracts or bracteoles. Calyx pubescent or 
villous, line long or rather more, the lobes as long as the tube, the 2 upper 
ones broader, falcate and united to the middle. Standard twice as long as the 
calyx, emarginate ; lower petals nearly as long, the keel incurved, very obtuse. 
Ovary stipitate. Pod 2 to 2£ lines long, somewhat turgid. Seeds not strophio- 
late. — Bot. Mag. t. 949; DC. Prod. ii. 108; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1353; Hook. f. 
