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XLIII. LEGUMINOS^E. 
[ Glycine . 
reducible to varieties of G. clandestina or G. tabacina. They have by some been included in 
Kennedya, and supposed to have the strophiole of that genus. I have, however, never found any 
real strophiole, although the funicle, as in many other Pliaseolca, expands into a thin white 
membrane covering the hilum, fragments of which may remain attached to the seed after its 
separation from the funicle. — Benth. 
Terminal leaflets sessile between the 2 others or the 3 very shortly and 
equally petiolulate. 
Stems short. Leaflets 1 to 2in. long, very hirsute. Pods falcate, broad. 
Upper calyx-lobes free from the middle 1. G.falcata. 
Stems slender, twining. Pod linear, nearly straight. Upper calyx-lobes 
free from the middle 2. G. clandestine. 
Terminal leaflet inserted at some distance from the lateral ones. 
Pubescent hirsute or nearly glabrous. Leaflets of the lowest leaves short 
and broad, of the upper ones ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or almost 
linear 3. G. tabacina. 
Silky with closely appressed pubescence. Leaflets linear-acute .... 4. G. sericea. 
Softly tomentose or villous. Leaflets ovate or oblong, all obtuse . . . . 5. G. tomentosa. 
1. Gr. falcata (Boomerang-shaped), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 243. Stems 
short, decumbent or perhaps erect, hirsute with reflexed hairs. Leaflets 
3, the central one sessile between the others, all lanceolate or oblong, 
1 to 2in. long, villous, on a long hirsute common petiole. Stipules striate, 
larger than in the other species. Flowers all racemose, on long hirsute erect 
peduncles. Pedicels very short. Calyx silky-villous, 2 to 2| lines long, the lobes 
nearly as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones united to about the middle. 
Standard rather narrower than in the other species. Pods reflexed, very 
hirsute, falcate, 4 to fin. long and fully 2 lines broad, but not ripe in the 
specimens seen. 
Hab.: Sutton River, D'Orsay, and other inland localities. 
2. Gr. clandestina (clandestine), Wendl. Bot. Beov. 54 ; Benth. FI. Austr. 
ii. 243. Stems slender, twining, more or less hirsute with reflexed hairs. 
Leaflets 3, the terminal one inserted close between the 2 lateral ones or very 
rarely here and there slightly raised above them, those of the lower leaves often 
broadly obovate, about 4in. long, those of the upper ones narrow-lanceolate or 
linear, 4 to 14in. long or more, acute, either nearly glabrous above and pubescent 
with appressed hairs underneath, or silky- villous on both sides. Stipules minute. 
Racemes in the upper axils usually exceeding the leaves, the flowers about 4 lines 
long, scattered along the upper half of the peduncle, the pedicels either very 
short or nearly as long as the calyx ; in the lower part of the plant the flowers 
are smaller, often without any or with imperfect petals, and solitary or clustered 
in the axils, without a common peduncle. Calyx about 2 lines long, the 2 upper 
lobes united to the middle or nearly distinct. Pod linear, straight, £ to lin. long, 
with a minute terminal straight or hooked point. Seeds nearly orbicular or 
transversely oblong, smooth or rough with raised dots, often different in the 
racemose and in the axillary pods. — 1)C. Prod. ii. 241 ; Leptolobium clandestinum, 
Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 125 ; Leptocyamus clandestinus, Benth. in Hook. f. 
FI. Tasm. i. 102 ; Teramnus clandestinus, Spr. Syst. Veg. iii. 235 ; Leptolobium 
microphyllum, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 125 ; Glycine minima, Willd. Enum. 
756, from the diagnosis copied in DC. Prod. ii. 241. 
Hab.: A most variable plant common throughout Queensland. 
Var. sericea. Silky-pubescent or villous. Calyx very rusty-villous. Pedicels very short. To 
this form belong all the W. Australian, most of the S. Australian specimens, and a few only of 
those from the other colonies. — Benth. 
3. Gr. tabacina (Tobacco-like), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 244. Slender, twining, 
pubescent or villous. Leaflets 3, the lateral ones always at a distance from the 
terminal one, those of the lower leaves orbicular obovate or oblong and usually 
obtuse, in the upper leaves ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or almost linear and 
