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usually acute, mostly f to lin., rarely If or 2in. long. Stipules small. Racemes 
slender, elongated, the flowers distant, usually about 4 lines long, on very short 
pedicels ; in the lower part of the plant the flowers often axillary and solitary or 2 
or 3 together as in other species. Calyx-lobes subulate-acuminate, shorter than 
the tube, the 2 upper ones united to about the middle. Pod straight, glabrous or 
villous, f to above lin. long, the terminal point very short or rarely rather longer 
and hooked. Seeds smooth or tuberculate. — Kennedya tabacina, Labill. Sert. 
Austr. Caled. 70, t. 70 ; Leptolobium tabacinurn, and L. elonyatum, Benth. in Ann. 
Wien. Mus. ii. 125 ; Desmodium Novo-Hollandicum, F. v. M. in Linmea, xxv. 394. 
Hab.: Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander; Keppel Bay, Thirsty Sound, R. Brown; Moreton 
Bay, F. v. Mueller, G. Stuart ; Rockhampton, Dallachy ; in the interior on the Maranoa, 
Mitchell; and Condamine River, Leichhardt. Common throughout the colony. 
The species is also in New Caledonia, the Fiji and other islands of the South Pacific. The 
most slender and glabrescent forms approach G. clandestina, but may be always known by the 
terminal leaflet distinctly raised above the others ; the more common hirsute variety differs from 
G. tomentosa in the upper leaflets almost always narrow and acute, the less deeply divided calyx, 
&c. Among the numerous varieties the two following are the most prominent. — Benth. 
Var. uncinata. Very hirsute. Pod hooked at the end, although not so much so as in 
Teramnus . — Rockhampton, Thozet. 
Var. latifolia. Leaflets more obtuse and villous, almost connecting the species with G. tomen- 
tosa.— Leptocyamus latifolius, Benth. in Mitch. 'Prop. Austr. 361. — To this belong several 
Queensland specimens. Where the pod is present it appears to be always longer and more 
slender than in G. tomentosa. 
4. G. sericea (silky), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 245. Stems trailing or twining, 
the whole plant hoary or white with a close appressed silky pubescence, 
occasionally mixed on the calyx only with rust-coloured hairs. Leaflets 3, linear 
or linear-lanceolate, acute, mostly 1 to 2in. long, the terminal one at a distance 
from the others. Flowers rather larger than in G. tabacina, but otherwise like 
them. Pod usually above lin. long, densely silky-pubescent with appressed 
hairs. Seeds smooth. — Leptocyamus sericeus, F. v. M. in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 
45, and in Trans. Phil. Inst. Viet. i. 40. 
Hab.: Southern inland localities. 
5. G. tomentosa (cottony), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 245. Twining or prostrate, 
resembling the coarser varieties of G. tabacina, but always more tomentose- 
villous, and often densely and softly velvety-tomentose. Leaflets 3, ovate or 
oblong, very obtuse, 1 to 2in. long, not passing into the lanceolate acute form of 
the upper leaves of G. tabacina. Flowers very shortly pedicellate in the raceme 
as in that species, and of the same size, but usually more approximate at the end 
of the peduncle. Calyx very villous, with the lobes longer than the tube. Pod 
f to fin. long or rarely more. Flowers in the lower axils solitary or clustered as 
in all other Australian species except G. falcata. — Leptolobium tomentosum , Benth. 
in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 125. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solander; Broadsound, R. Brown; Port Curtis 
M'Gillivray ; Peak Downs, F. v. Mueller. 
We have the same species from the Philippine Islands and from S. China. — Benth. 
53. HARDENBERGIA, Benth. 
(After the Countess of Hardenberg.) 
Calyx-teeth short, the 2 upper ones more or less united. Standard broadly 
orbicular, emarginate, without indexed auricles ; wings obovate-falcate, adhering 
to the keel ; keel obtuse, shorter and usually very much shorter than the wings. 
Upper stamen quite free, the others united in a sheath ; anthers reniform. Ovary 
sessile, with several ovules ; style short, thick, incurved, attenuate at the end, 
with a terminal stigma. Pod linear, compressed or turgid. Seeds ovoid or 
oblong, laterally attached to a short funicle, strophiolate. — Glabrous twining 
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