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leaflets, or of 1 or 3 pinnately-arranged entire or toothed leaflets, or in species 
not Australian pinnate with several leaflets. Stipules attached by a broad 
base. Flowers purple, pink, blue or white, usually small, and in the Australian 
species in axillary spikes or racemes. Bracts membranous, deciduous, each usually 
with 2 or 3 flowers in its axil. 
A large genus, widely distributed over various parts of the globe, but most abundant in S. 
Africa and N. America. 
Leaves all 1-foliolate. Leaflets entire or toothed. 
Calyx lower lobe much longer than the others. 
Plant softly pubescent or silky-villous. Stipules subulate. Leaflets 
entire 1 . P. badocana. 
Plant velvety. Stipules broad, triangular 2. P. cephalantha. 
Plant hispid. Leaflets toothed 3. P. Archeri. 
Calyx-lobes nearly equal in length. Plant very dark and rough, with 
glandular dots, glabrous or slightly hoary. Flowers small, in loose 
elongated racemes 9. P. leucantha. 
Leaves all pinnately 3-foliolate, or the lower ones rarely 1-foliolate. 
Calyx lower lobe much longer than the lateral ones. Leaflets entire. 
Flowers in dense heads. Calyx very hispid, the lower lobe long- 
lanceolate. Petals shorter than the calyx 4. P. plumosa. 
Flowers in interrupted spikes. Petals longer than the calyx. Calyx 
pubescent . 5. P. pustulata. 
Calyx lower lobe scarcely exceeding the upper ones. Leaflets usually 
toothed. 
Calyx softly silky-villous or black, 2 to 4 lines long, completely con- 
cealing the pod. 
Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, the lateral lobes short. Plant usually white- 
tomentose 6. P. eriantha. 
Calyx about 2 lines long, the lobes nearly equal. Plant hoary or 
pubescent 7. P. patens. 
Calyx hoary- tomentose or slightly pubescent, 1 to line long, open 
when in fruit, and scarcely exceeding or shorter than the pod. 
Leaflets ovate or elliptical, mostly § to lin. long 8. P. cincrea. 
Leaflets oblong or lanceolate, 1J to 3in. long 9. P. leucantha. 
Leaves digitately 3 to 7-foliolate. Leaflets entire. Racemes slender. Calyx 
1 to 1J line long, slightly pubescent, about as long as the pod 10. P. tenax. 
Leaves 3-foliolate. Leaflets obovate on very short petiolules, quite entire. 
Flowers purple 11. P. Testarice. 
1. P. badocana (a Philippine name), Benth. Fi. Auxtr. ii. 190. “ A-ma-ga,” 
Moreheacl River, Roth. An erect stout undershrub or shrub of 2 to 3ft., softly 
tomentose or silky-villous all over and strongly scented, the black dots mostly 
concealed by the indumentum. Leaflet single, on a petiole articulate near the 
top, ovate to lanceolate, obtuse or scarcely acute, 2 to 3in. long, entire, softly 
villous on both sides and usually silky underneath. Stipules linear-subulate, 
often |in. long. Flowers in dense heads or short spikes, all axillary or sessile or 
very shortly pedunculate. Calyx softly villous, fully 5 lines long in the normal 
forms, including the lower lobe, which is much longer than the others and boat- 
shaped. Petals shorter than the lower calyx-lobe. Pod small, reticulate, 
glandular. — Liparia badocana, Blanco, FI. Filip. 597 ; Melailenia densiflora, Turcz. 
in Bull. Mosc. 1848, i. 576. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Morehead River, Roth. 
Roots eaten, Roth, l c. 
2. P. cephalantha (flowers in heads), F. r. M. Fraym. iv. 35 A shrub 
with velvety-tomentose branches. Stipules broad, triangular, very shortly 
acuminate. Leaves simple, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, quite entire, shortly 
tomentose pubescent, 1^ to 2£in. long. Spikes or flowerheads globular. Calyx 
rather smaller than in P. badocana, the lowest scarcely as long as the petals. 
Petals bluish. Pods not seen in the ripe state. — Benth l.c. as a (?) var. of 
P. badocana. 
Hab.: Mt. Elliott, J. Dallachy and E. FiUalan (F. v. M., l.c.) 
