Dillwynia.] 
XLIII. LEGUMINOSiE. 
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1. 3D. ericifolia (heath-leaved), Sm. Ann. Bot. i. 510; Exot. Bot. t. 25, and 
in Tram. Linn. Soc. ix. 262 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 147. An erect heath-like 
shrub, usually attaining several feet, but sometimes dwarf and stunted ; the 
branches erect and virgate, or short and divaricate, glabrous or pubescent. 
Leaves numerous, rather slender, usually ^ to J4n. long, but sometimes nearly 
fin. or under 2 lines, terete or scarcely keeled, straight or spirally twisted when 
dry, obtuse, with a very short recurved or straight, but scarcely pungent point, 
rarely quite obtuse. Flowers yellow, in very short racemes or clusters, sometimes 
several together, almost sessile in a terminal leafy corymb, sometimes each one 
on a terminal or rarely axillary long or short peduncle. Calyx glabrous, silky- 
pubescent, or shortly scabrous-hirsute, 2 to 3|- lines long, distinctly turbinate at 
the base, the lobes shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broadly rounded and 
falcate, united to the middle. Petals deciduous ; standard with a claw usually 
as long as the calyx, the lamina more than twice as broad as long ; wings much 
shorter ; keel still shorter, obtuse. Pod ovate or nearly globular, slightly 
exceeding the calyx. — Pulteneea retorta, Wendl. Hort. Herrenh. t. 9. 
Hab.: Moreton Island and many other southern localities. 
Various forms assumed by this plant have been generally recognised as species, but the 
differences are so slight, depending chiefly on indumentum, length, and degree of twisting of the 
leaves, or length of peduncles, and the passages from the one to the other so gradual, that it is 
often very difficult to separate them even as varieties. The following are the most prominent. — 
Benth. This applies so fully to the species in Queensland that I thought it advisable to give 
the forms as arranged by Mr. Bentham : — 
a. normalis. Branches pubescent. Leaves mostly 4 to 6 lines long, spreading, twisted, with 
straight or slightly recurved points. Flowers rather large, usually rather numerous, in sessile 
terminal leafy corymbs. — D. ericifolia, Sm., as above; DC. Prod. ii. 108; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
1277 ; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 78. D. ericoides, Sieb. PI. Exs. n. 412, and FI. Mixt. 
n. 585, D. pinifolia, Sieb. n. 424, D. seripliioides, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 14, and probably 
Aotus ericoides, Paxt. Mag. v. 51, with a fig. 
b. pliylicoides. Branches, foliage, and calyx scabrous, pubescent with short rigid hairs. 
Leaves mostly 2 to 3 lines long, spreading, twisted, with straight or slightly recurved points and 
less slender than in other forms. Flowers nearly sessile, but not so numerous as in the normal 
form. — D. phylicoides, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 347 ; Benth in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 78. 
D. speciosa, Paxt. Mag. vii. 27, with a fig. raised from Baron Huegel’s seeds, is probably this 
variety or very near it. 
c. parvifolia. Glabrous or nearly so. Leaves mostly 2 lines long or under, spreading, often 
twisted, with straight or slightly recurved points. Flowers rather small, usually few, the clusters 
sessile or shortly pedunculate. — D. parvifolia, R. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 1527 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
559; DC. Prod. ii. 108 ; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 79; T>, micropliylla, Sieb. PI. Exs. n. 
410, and 553, and FI. Mixt. n. 586. 
d. tenuifolia. Branches slightly pubescent. Leaves 2 to 4 lines long or rarely more, spreading 
or erect, usually straight with straight or recurved points, and more slender than in other forms. 
Flowers few, middle-sized, the clusters sessile or nearly so. Calyx glabrous or silky-pubescent. 
— D. tenuifolia, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 109 ; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 79 ; D. ramosissima, 
Benth. l.c. 
e. peduncularis. Branches glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves 3 to 6 lines long, usually 
slender. Flowers middle-sized, in loose clusters of 2 or 3, on peduncles usually exceeding the 
leaves and sometimes several times as long. Calyx usually glabrous or nearly so. — D. 
peduncularis, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 78 ; D. filifolia, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 13. This 
variety usually appears very distinct in inflorescence, assuming the aspect of D. hispida, a 
Victoria and South Australia species, but with the flowers of D. ericifolia, and when the 
peduncles are shorter it passes gradually into the vars. tenuifolia or glaberrima. 
f. glaberrima. Quite glabrous. Leaves usually crowded, rarely very spreading, § to Jin. long 
or often more, rather slender, not twisted, the point recurved or rarely straight. Flowers rather 
large, in dense terminal corymbs, sessile or shortly pedunculate. — D. glaberrima, Sm. in Ann. 
Bot. i. 510, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 263 ; Bot. Mag. t. 944 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 582; Labill. 
PL Nov. Holl. i. 109, t. 139 : DC. Prod. ii. 108 ; Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 79 ; Hook. f. FI. 
Tasm. i. 85. — B. Brown, a form passing into the vars. peduncularis or tenuifolia. 
2. D. floribunda (free flowerer), Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 510; Exot. Bot. t. 26, 
and in Tram. Linn. Soc. ix. 262 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 149. A tall erect heath- 
like shrub, either quite glabrous or more or less pubescent, or the branches, 
foliage and calyxes densely hirsute. Leaves usually crowded, £ to §in. long or 
