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XLIII. LEGUMINOSiE. 
[Aotus. 
FI. Tasm. i. 88 ; Pultencea villosa, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 309 ; Pultemea ericoides, 
Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 85 ; Daviesia ericoides, Pers. Syn. i. 454 ; Aotus ferruginea, 
Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. i. 104, t. 132 ; Aotus ericoides, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 120 ; 
Pultenwa rosmarinifolia and P. virgata, Sieb. PI. Exs.; Aotus virgata, DC. Prod, 
ii. 108. 
Hab.: Moreton Island and swampy places in southern Queensland. 
2. A. mollis (softly hairy), Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 236 and FI. Austr. 
ii. 91. Nearly allied to A. villosa. Branches densely velvety-tomentose. Leaves 
linear-oblong, obtuse, 4 to 8 lines long, the margins revolute, softly pubescent 
above, densely rusty -toinentose underneath. Flowers clustered in the axils, often 
arranged in irregular but distinct whorls, nearly sessile. Bracts about 1 line long, 
truncate, very deciduous. Calyx villous, nearly 2 lines long, the lobes nearly 
equal. Petals not twice as long as the calyx, the keel dark and very much 
incurved. Ovary shortly stipitate. Pod rather larger than in A. villosa. Seeds 
not strophiolate. 
Hab.: From the Mantuan Downs to the Maranoa, Mitchell. 
3. A. lanigera (woolly), A. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mils. ii. 78, and 
FI. Austr. ii. 92. A stouter shrub than A. villosa, the branches tomentose and 
villous, with soft spreading hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, mostly 
acute, £ to |in. long, the margins revolute, hairy when young, at length glabrous, 
smooth and shining above, hoary underneath. Flowers axillary, as in A. villosa, 
but much longer, and all yellow. Bracts above 1 line long, very deciduous, 
though not so very early as in A. villosa. Calyx villous, 2^ lines long, the lobes 
acuminate, the 2 upper ones rather broader and slightly falcate. Standard |in. 
long ; lower petals rather shorter. Ovary stipitate. Pod very villous, much 
flattened, very obtuse, above 3 lines long. Seeds not strophiolate. 
Hab.: Islands of Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser, F. v. Mueller; Wide Bay , Biduill ; 
also Leichhardt ; and swampy parts of southern Queensland. 
13. PHYLLOTA, DC. 
(Some species having ear-shaped leaves.) 
Caiyx, 2 upper lobes broader, and sometimes united into an upper lip. Petals 
clawed ; standard nearly orbicular, longer than the lower petals ; wings oblong ; 
keel much incurved. Stamens either all, or at least the 5 outer ones, more or 
less adnate to the petals at the base, and sometimes all united with them in a 
ring or short tube. Ovary sessile, with 2 ovules on short funicles ; style dilated 
or thickened at the base, incurved and subulate upwards ; stigma small, terminal. 
Pod ovate, somewhat turgid, 2-valved. Seed reniform, without any strophiole. — 
Shrubs, usually heath-like. Leaves scattered, linear, with revolute margins. 
Stipules none, or very minute in P. humifusa (a New South Wales species). 
Flowers axillary or terminal. Bracteoles often leaf-like, inserted under the calyx 
and usually closely pressed to it. Ovary small, very villous. 
The genus is limited to Australia. It differs from Dillwynia, which it resembles in habit, in 
the revolute, not involute, margins of the leaves, and in the absence of any strophiole ; from 
Aotus in the presence of bracteoles ; and from both, as well as from all other allied genera, in 
the tendency to a union of the filaments with the petals. — Benth. 
1. P. phylicoides (Phylica-like), Benth, . in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 77, and 
FI. Austr. ii. 95. An erect heath-like shrub, of several feet, the branches terete, 
glabrous pubescent or hirsute. Leaves numerous, narrow-linear, mostly about 
+in. long, but in some specimens nearly fin., in others not above 4 lines, obtuse 
or with callous usually recurved points, the margins revolute, more or less 
tuberculate, scabrous, and sometimes sprinkled with erect hairs, rarely quite 
