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XLIII. LEGUMINOSjE. 
[ Dillwynia . 
rather more, obtuse or with a minute point, not keeled, straight, sometimes as 
slender as in D. ericifolia, but usually thicker. Flowers on very short pedicels, 
solitary or 2 or 3 together, all axillary, but often crowded into leafy racemes 
below or very near the ends of the branches. Bracts often broad and above 
1 line long, but so deciduous as to be rarely seen. Calyx 2 J to 8 lines long, with 
a distinct turbinate base, the lobes short, often tipped with a small gland, the 
2 upper ones broad falcate and united to the middle. Petals deciduous ; 
standard with the broad claw as long as the calyx, the lamina more than twice as 
broad as long ; wings much shorter ; keel still shorter, obtuse. Pod scarcely 
exceeding the calyx. — DC. Prod. ii. 108 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 305 ; Benth. in 
Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 79; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 85; D. ericifolia, Sims, Bot. 
Mag. t. 1545, not of Sm.; D. rudis, Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 109 ; D. hispidula and 
D. teretifolia, Sieb. PI. Exs.; D. elegans, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 13 ; D. clavata, 
Paxt. Mag. vii. 117. 
Hab.: Frequent in southern localities. 
The flowers of this species are not to be distinguished from those of D. ericifolia, but the 
infloresenee appears to be constant. — Benth. 
3. D. juniperina (Juniper-like), Sieb.; Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 33, and 
FI. Austr. ii. 150. A rigid shrub with divaricate pubescent or loosely villous 
branches. Leaves J to Jin. long, very straight, strongly keeled, rigid, with strong 
pungent points. Flowers nearly sessile, several together in terminal clusters, or 
rarely 2 or 3 apparently axillary. Calyx pubescent, 2 to 2J lines long, scarcely 
turbinate at the base ; lobes short, the 2 upper ones united into a broad upper 
lip, either quite entire or minutely emarginate. Petals persistent ; standard 
scarcely twice as broad as long ; wings nearly as long ; keel much shorter and 
obtuse. Pod about as long as the calyx. — Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 401 ; D. cinerascens, 
DC. Prod. ii. 109, not of R. Br. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay; near Dalby, and other southern localities. 
17. PLATYLOBIUM, Sm. 
(From platy, broad, and lobos, a pod.) 
Calyx, 2 upper lobes very large, free or shortly united ; the lower ones small 
and narrow. Petals clawed ; standard orbicular or reniform, wings oblong- 
obovate, much shorter ; keel obovate, nearly as long as the wings. Stamens all 
united in a sheath open on the upper side ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or 
stipitate, with several ovules ; style subulate, incurved, with a small terminal 
stigma. Pod sessile or stipitate, very flat, winged along the upper suture, 
opening elastically in 2 valves, rolled back but not separating from the wing. 
Seeds strophiolate. — Slender shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or with pungent 
angles, reticulate. Flowers yellow, solitary, in opposite axils. Bracts brown and 
scarious, imbricate, in 2 or 3 pairs at the base of the pedicels ; bracteoles similar 
but longer, under the calyx. 
The genus is limited to Eastern Australia. It is closely allied to the opposite-leaved Bossiceas, 
differing chiefly in the pod, and generally in the proportion of the petals.— Benth. 
1. P. formosum (handsome), Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 350, and Bot. Nov. 
Holl. 17, t. 6 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 153. A handsome shrub, attaining often 
4 or 5ft., the branches more robust than in the preceding species, glabrous or 
slightly pubescent. Leaves from broadly heart-shaped to ovate or rarely ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, with a small rigid point but without lateral angles, 1 to 2in. 
long, strongly reticulate and rather coriaceous, glabrous or slightly pubescent 
underneath. Pedicels hairy, often fully Jin. long, always exserted from the 
bracts at their base. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long, very hairy. Standard nearly twice 
as long ; wings and keel shorter. Ovary stipitate, villous all over or near the 
