Phyllota.\ 
XLIII. LEGUMINOS.E. 
853 
smooth and glabrous. Flowers almost sessile in the upper axils, forming 
terminal leafy heads or spikes, or becoming lateral by the elongation of the 
terminal shoot. Bracteoles leafy, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the calyx- 
tube, and often exceeding the lobes. Calyx 2+ to 3^ lines long, glabrous or 
villous, the lobes about as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones broad and shortly 
united, the lowest rather longer than the lateral ones. Standard 4 to 6 lines 
long ; lower petals rather shorter, the keel broader than the wings, much 
incurved, but obtuse. Filaments and petal-claws all united at the base in a ring 
or short tube. Ovary tapering into the style, which is much dilated below the 
middle, and quite glabrous. Pod ovate or shortly oblong, included in the calyx. 
Seeds without any strophiole. — Pultenaa phylicoides, P. aspera, P. comosa, and 
P. squarrosa, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 113 ; Phyllota pilosa, P. aspera, P. comosa, 
P. Billardieri, P. grandiflora, P. squarrosa, and P. Baueri, Benth. in Ann. Wien. 
Mus. ii. 77. 
Hab.: Sandy Cape, R. Brown; Moreton Island, M'Gillivray, F. v. Mueller ; and in other parts 
of southern Queensland. Flowering in March. 
The characters upon which, after De Candolle, I had endeavoured to distinguish several 
species, entirely break down when applied to the large number of specimens I have now had 
before me. I am unable to distribute them even into marked varieties, much as they differ in 
the size of the flowers, the erect spreading or recurved leaves, &e. The supposed differences in 
inflorescence depend often on the period of development. — Benth. 
14. GASTROLOBIUM, R. Br. 
(Pods of some species inflated.) 
Calyx 5-lobed, the 2 upper lobes usually broader and united higher up. Petals 
clawed. Standard orbicular or reniform, emarginate, longer than the lower 
petals ; wings oblong ; keel broader than the wings and usually shorter. Stamens 
free. Ovary stipitate or rarely sessile, with 2 ovules on straight and filiform 
funicles. Style incurved, filiform, with a small terminal stigma. Pod ovoid or 
nearly globular, turgid, continuous inside, the valves coriaceous. Seeds (where 
known) strophiolate. — Shrubs. Leaves on very short petioles, more or less 
distinctly verticillate or opposite, or occasionally scattered, simple and entire, 
usually rigid. Stipules setaceous, rarely wanting. Flowers yellow or the keel 
and base of the standard purple-red, in terminal or axillary racemes, either loose 
or contracted into corymbs or whorl-like clusters. Bracts and bracteoles usually 
very deciduous, in a few species the brown rigid bracts persist nearly till the 
flowers open. Staminal disk usually very short. Ovary very villous. 
With the exception of the Queensland species, the genus is limited to West Australia. It is 
closely allied on the one hand to the strophiolate species of Oxylobium, only differing from them 
in the number of ovules, constantly 2, and on the other to Pultencea, from which it is dis- 
tinguished by the habit, the coriaceous leaves, the bracteoles either deciduous or inconspicuous, 
and the more coriaceous turgid pod. — Benth. 
1. G-. grandiflorum (large flowers), F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 17 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 103, Fragm. x. 35 ; Bail. A Gord. PI. Rep. Pois. Stock, PI. 13. 
Apparently a tall shrub, the young branches and inflorescence softly 
silky-pubescent, the full-grown foliage nearly glabrous and glaucous. Leaves 
opposite or the upper ones alternate, from ovate to oblong, obtuse or emarginate, 
1£ to 3in. long, flat, coriaceous. Racemes short, loose, axillary and terminal, 
with few, large, pedicellate flowers. Calyx softly pubescent, 4 to 5 lines long, 
the lobes much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, falcate, and united 
nearly to the middle. Standard fully fin. diameter, lower petals rather shorter, 
the keel much incurved and deeply coloured. Ovary very hairy, on a long 
glabrous stipes. Pod ovate, acute, turgid, 3 or 4 lines long, stipitate, villous, with 
minute strophiole to seed. 
Hab.: Flinders and Cape Rivers, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Peak Downs, and many 
other tropical inland localities. Usually flowering about March. 
The most poisonous to stock of any in the Queensland Flora. 
