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XLIII. LEGUMINOS^. 
[Pultenm. 
Flowers axillary, on pedicels of 2 to 3 lines. Bracteoles linear-subulate, inserted 
close under the calyx and shorter than its tube. Calyx 3 to lines long, the 
lobes much longer than the tube, the 2 upper ones large, falcate and united 
above the middle, the lower ones narrow-lanceolate. Petals nearly equal, half as 
long again as the calyx, the keel slightly incurved. Ovary glabrous, tapering 
into the much dilated style. Pod longer than the calyx, coriaceous, turgid when 
ripe, with a flat point . — Dillwynia cuneata, Sieb. PI. Exs.; Spadostyles Sieheri, 
Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 81. 
Hab.: Near the Brisbane River, Leichhardt : Ipswich, Nernst ; North Coast Railway Line, 
Wellington Point, &c. 
16. P. IVEillari (after T. Barclay Millar), Bail. Ql. Agri. Journ. v. 389. A 
shrub of a few feet, the branches angular, silky, pubescent, with closely appressed 
white hairs. Leaves scattered on short silky-hairy petioles, cuneate, 4 to 7 lines 
long, rounded at the top and 2 to 3 lines broad, lateral nerves regular and rather 
distant, the prominent midrib ending in a minute recurved point ; bright glossy 
on the upper, pale-hoary on the under side. Stipules long as the petioles, dark 
with spreading recurved fine points and ciliate margins. Flowers in the axils 
near the ends of the branchlets on very short pedicels, solitary. Bracts none. 
Bracteoles inserted on the calyx-tube at the base, scabrous, narrow-lanceolate, 
dark, long as the calyx-tube. Calyx nearly rosy-white, silky outside, parallel- 
veined inside, about 3 lines long, the lobes of equal length with the tube, very 
narrow, the 2 upper ones united above the middle. Standard broader than long, 
4 lines broad, claw about 1 line, wings narrow with claw 3^ lines long ; keel still 
shorter, dark-purple. Ovary silky, tapering into a flattened style. No pods on 
the specimens collected. 
Hab.: Herberton, J. F. Bailey. 
16. DILLWYNIA, Sm. 
(In honour of L. W. Dillwyn, an eminent botanist.) 
Calyx-lobes short or as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones more or less united 
in an upper lip. Petals clawed ; standard broader than long ; wings narrow ; 
keel shorter, straight or scarcely incurved. Stamens free. Ovary shortly 
stipitate, with 2 ovules on short funicles ; style erect, rather thick, hooked below 
the top, with a truncate or thick stigma. Pod nearly sessile, ovate or rounded, 
turgid, 2-valved. Seeds reniform, strophiolate. — Heath-like shrubs. Leaves 
alternate or scattered, simple, narrow-linear or terete, channelled above. Stipules 
none. Flowers yellow or orange-red, few together in axillary or terminal racemes 
or corymbs, rarely solitary. Bracts small, brown, very deciduous ; bracteoles 
small on the short pedicels. 
The genus is entirely Australian. It differs from Aotus in the strophiolate seeds and in the 
leaves channelled above and not underneath, from Pultencea in the bracteoles at a distance from 
the calyx and usually deciduous. — Benth. 
Sect. I. Dillwyniastrum, DC. — Calyx distinctly turbinate at the base, the 2 upper lobes 
broad, falcate, and united to the middle. Petals deciduous ; standard on a long claw, the lamina 
above twice as broad as long. 
Keel obtuse, much shorter than the wings. 
Racemes terminal, sessile, corymbose or pedunculate 1. D. ericifolia. 
Flowers all axillary, solitary or in short racemes or clusters 2. D.Jloribunda. 
Sect. II. Xeropetalum, R. Br. — Calyx obtuse or very shortly turbinate at the base. 
Petals persistent ; standard-claiv shorter than the calyx, the lamina rather broader than long or 
rarely twice as broad as long. 
Calyx-lobes short, the 2 upper ones united in a broad upper lip, scarcely 
emarginate, and longer than the lower ones. Leaves rigid and pungent, 
keeled. Flowers mostly corymbose 3. D. juniperina. 
