Atylosia.] 
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and 4 lines wide, very villous, with long hairs, the valves coriaceous, marked with 
deep rather oblique transverse furrows between the seeds. — Dolichos reticulatus, 
Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 1, iii. 33 ; DC. Prod. ii. 400. 
Hab. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, 
A. Cunningham; Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Rockhampton, Dallachy. 
The roots, after being roasted and hammered, used for food. — Roth. 
4. A. grandifolia (large-leaved), F. v. M. Herb.; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 264. 
An erect branching, rusty-tomentose or softly villous shrub, closely resembling 
in other respects A . reticulata. Leaflets broadly ovate or rhomboidal, obtuse or 
rather acute, 2 to 3in. long, very rugose and soft. Flowers in irregular clusters 
or short racemes, pedunculate in the upper axils, the upper peduncles short, 
forming an irregular terminal leafy panicle. Pedicels at first very short, or 
rarely attaining the length of the calyx. Calyx rusty villous, about -Jin. long, 
the lobes about twice as long as the tube. Petals scarcely exceeding the calyx. 
Pod as in A. reticulata, about lin. long and 4 lines wide, very villous with long 
hairs, the valves coriaceous, marked with deep transverse furrows between the 
seeds. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Burnett Ranges, F. v. Mueller; Burdekin 
Expedition, Fitzalan; Fitzroy River, Bowman ; Port Denison, Dallachy. 
5. A. pluriflora (flowers numerous), F. v. M. Herb.; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 
264. Erect and shrubby, clothed with a soft woolly or silky tomentum, some- 
times rusty, usually very white on the branches. Leaflets 3, from obovate, very 
obtuse, and about lin. long, to elliptical-oblong, obtuse or almost acute and near 
2in. long, more or less rhomboid, very rugose and soft, the terminal one inserted 
close between the lateral ones instead of being raised at some distance above 
them as in all the other Australian species ; common petiole about 6 to 9 lines 
long, slender. Peduncles in the upper axils bearing an irregular head or umbel- 
like cluster of flowers, the pedicels at first very short, at length nearly as long as 
the calyx. Calyx softly villous, 4 to 5 lines long, the lobes not much longer than 
the tube. Petals exceeding the calyx, attaining about 7 lines. Ovary with 3 to 
6 ovules. Pod about lin. long, very villous with long hairs, the valves coriaceous, 
marked with deep transverse furrows between the seeds. Seeds oval, about 1^ 
line long, dark with somewhat light-coloured dots, strophiole oblong, 2-lobed. 
Hab.: Broadsound, R. Brown ; Burdekin Expedition, Fitzalan; Rockhampton, Thozet : near 
Princhester, Bowman : Thozet’s River, Dallachy ; Irvinebank, F. Bennett. 
65. RHYNCHOSIA, Lour. 
(Keel of flowers beaked.) 
(Nomismia, W. and Am.; Copisma, E. Mey.) 
Calyx 2 upper lobes more or less united. Standard obovate or orbicular, usually 
with indexed auricles at the base, rarely callous inside ; keel incurved, obtuse or 
rarely beaked ; wings narrower or rarely obovate, and often shorter. Upper 
stamen free, the others united ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or nearly so, with 
2 or very rarely 1 ovule ; style curved above the middle and often thickened ; 
stigma terminal. Pod flattened, oblong or falcate, 2-valved, rarely divided inside. 
Seeds ovoid, rounded or almost reniform, with a lateral short or oblong hilum, 
the funicle centrally attached, with or without a strophiole. — Trailing or twining 
herbs, or erect undershrubs or low shrubs, often tomentose and usually sprinkled 
with resinous dots. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, rarely in species not Australian 
1 or 5-foliolate, without any or with small setaceous stipellae. Stipules broad or 
linear or very small or none. Peduncles axillary, bearing a raceme or rarely 
single flowers, usually yellow, the standard often streaked with purple. Bracts 
very deciduous ; bracteoles none. 
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