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Flowers nearly sessile, the bracts small. Calyx softly silky with white or black 
hairs, about 2 lines long, the lobes about as long as the tube, the lowest much 
broader but not longer than the others. Standard and wings half as long again 
as the calyx ; keel shorter, obtuse. Pod tomentose, much shorter than the calyx. 
— P. australasica, Schlecht. Linntea, xx. 668. 
Hab.: On the Burdekin and near Port Denison, Bowman , Dallachy. 
This plant, P. eriantha and P. cinerea, belong to the same group as P. plicata, Delile, from 
Africa and the E. Mediterranean region, and are all nearly allied to that species, although none 
are quite identical with it. — Benth. 
On the Georgina the natives steep the stems in water and peel off the bark, which they make 
into twine for nets, &c. — J. Coghlan. 
8. P. cinerea (grey), Ldndl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 65; Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 192. A perennial with ascending or erect branching stems as in P. 
patens, but more slender, minutely hoary as well as the leaves. Leaves pinnately 
3-foliolate ; leaflets ovate or elliptical, cuneate at the base, mostly f to 1 or l|4n. 
long, mucronate and irregularly denticulate. Racemes pedunculate, slender, 
loose and much longer than the leaves. Flowers very small, shortly pedicellate. 
Calyx scarcely above 1 line long, rather open, the teeth short, broad, and nearly 
equal. Petals but little longer than the calyx, the keel very obtuse. Pod about 
as long as the calyx, slightly hairy. — P. Drummondii, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 
1855, 81. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough, and Darr River. 
9. P. leucantha (pale or white flowers), F. v. M. in Trans. Viet. Inst. iii. 
54 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 193. A tall undershrub or shrub with spreading 
branches, minutely hoary-tomentose or glabrous. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or 
some of them 1-foliolate ; leaflets oblong or lanceolate, mucronate but otherwise 
obtuse, entire or bordered by small crenatures or prominent glands, 1\ to 3 or 
even 4in. long, hoary-tomentose or nearly glabrous. Flowers fragrant, small, 
white with a blue keel, pedicellate in rather loose pedunculate racemes of 2 to 
Sin. or sometimes longer, often clustered along the rhachis. Calyx about 1+ line 
long, the lobes of nearly equal length, the 2 upper ones united, the lowest broader 
than the others. Petals twice as long as the calyx ; standard obovate ; keel 
rather shorter. Pod nearly glabrous, exceeding the calyx, very oblique and much 
wrinkled. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborougli ; Bowen River, Bowman ; Bogie River and Edge- 
combe Bay, Dallachy ; Pioneer River, and many other localities. 
10. P. tenax (tough), Ldndl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 10 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 193. Emu grass, Darling Downs. A perennial with decumbent or 
ascending rather slender branching stems of 1 to 2ft., glabrous or minutely pubes- 
cent with appressed hairs. Leaves digitately 3 to 7-foliolate with linear-lanceolate 
or oblong-elliptical acute leaflets of f to l^in., or the lower leaves with 3 broader 
and more obtuse leaflets, all quite entire, glabrous or sprinkled underneath with 
a few appressed hairs. Flowers small, blue (or purple ?), very shortly pedicellate 
in dense or interrupted racemes of 1 to 4in., on very long peduncles. Calyx 1 to 
1% line long, the lobes acute, as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the 
middle, the lowest one broad. Standard usually not half as long again as the 
calyx ; keel shorter, obtuse. Pod ovoid, black, slightly pubescent, about as long 
as the open fruiting calyx. 
Hab.: Dawson River and Peak Downs, V. v. Mueller. 
Var. (?) major. Leaves all 3-foliolate with broader leaflets. Standard nearly twice as long as 
the calyx. Moreton Bay, C. Stuart. 
