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silky-pubescent, the lobes all tapering to fine points, the 2 upper ones broad, 
falcate and united above the middle, the lower ones shorter and much narrower. 
Standard scarcely twice as long as the calyx. Ovary very villous. Style 
glabrous, flattened at the base. Pod ovate, shorter than the calyx. 
Hab.: Broadsound, Bowman. 
13. P. villosa (hairy), Willd. Spec. PL ii. 507 ; Benth. FI. Aastr. ii. 134. A 
low or spreading much-branched shrub, pubescent or villous, rust-coloured when 
dry. Leaves usually oblong or somewhat cuneate, but varying from linear to 
obovate, obtuse or scarcely pointed, 2 to 3 or rarely when narrow nearly 4 lines 
long, concave or with incurved margins, tubercular or hirsute underneath, the 
midrib slender. Stipules small, narrow or broad. Flowers usually entirely 
yellow, solitary in each axil, but sometimes forming short terminal leafy racemes. 
Pedicels short but slender. Bracteoles inserted on the calyx- tube, but sometimes 
very near its base, linear, with occasionally 1 or 2 set* in their axil. Calyx from 
14 to above 2 lines long ; lobes acuminate, longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones 
broad, falcate and united to the middle, the lower ones narrow. Petals nearly 
equal in length, twice as long as the calyx. Ovary more or less hairy ; style 
subulate. Pod scarcely exceeding the calyx. — Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 503, and in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 248; Bot. Mag. t. 967 ; DC. Prod. ii. 113 ; P. polygalifolia, 
Rudge in Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 303, t. 25; DC. Prod. ii. Ill; P.lanata, A. 
Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 83 (a small-leaved form). 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser, F. v. Mueller. Flowering about 
August. 
Var. latifolia. Leaves small, very pubescent, from narrow-euneate to broadly obovate. 
Flowers rather large. — P. ferruginea, Rudge, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 300, t. 23 ; DC. Prod. ii. 
Ill; P. lanata, Sieb. PL Exs.; Spadostyles ramulosa, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 21 (from the 
description, no specimen having been preserved). 
Var. glabrescens. Leaves linear or narrow-oblong, 2 to 4 lines long, glabrous or slightly 
pubescent. Flowers of the common variety. Spadostyles concolor, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 20, 
of which no specimen has been preserved, is probably, from the description, this variety. 
P. racemulosa, Sieb. PL Exs. n. 594; DC. Prod. ii. Ill, is not in any of the sets of Sieber’s 
plants which I have seen ; from the character given it is probably one of the numerous forms of 
P. villosa. 
I give all the varieties mentioned by Bentham in the Flora Austr., for the plant is very 
variable, and doubtless all could be obtained in southern Queensland. 
14. P. flexilis (flexuous), Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 502, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
ix. 248 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 135. A shrub either quite glabrous or with a few 
appressed hairs on the young shoots and backs of the leaves. Leaves linear or 
linear-oblong, often slightly cuneate, obtuse or mucronate, | to lin. long, flat or 
concave, the under side darker-coloured, with a prominent midrib. Stipules very 
small. Flowers solitary in the upper axils, shortly pedicellate. Bracteoles 
inserted on the calyx near its base, small, lanceolate. Calyx glabrous or slightly 
ciliate, about 2 lines long ; lobes rather broad, acute, shorter than the tube, the 2 
upper ones broader and falcate. Standard fully twice as long as the calyx; lower 
petals not much shorter. Ovary with a few long hairs at the top ; style dilated 
downwards. Pod obliquely ovate or ovate-oblong, turgid, about 3 lines long. — 
DC. Prod. ii. Ill ; Bot. Reg. t. 1694; Dillwynia teucrioides, Sieb. PL Exs.; P. 
Siveetii, Don, in Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2. 
Hab.: Helidon. 
Allied in habit to P. euchila, but the calyx-lobes are less disproportioned, the bracteoles are 
not under the calyx, the style less dilated at the base, &c. — Benth. 
Var. mucronata. Leaves narrow, with a fine pungent point. — Southern parts of the colony. 
15. P. euchila (prominently lipped), DC. Prod. ii. 112; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 
135. A glabrous shrub, with rather slender branches, nearly resembling at first 
sight P. flexilis , but differing in bracteoles, calyx, and style. Leaves linear- 
cuneate, obtuse, 5 to 9 lines long, flat or slightly concave, of a darker or a more 
silvery colour underneath than above, the midrib slender. Stipules minute. 
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