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pedicels. Bracts very small. Sepals obtuse, 2 to lines long. Petals twice as 
long. Anthers 2 or 3 rather larger than the others. Pod stipitate, straight or 
slightly curved, 5 to 6 lines broad, obtuse. 
Hab.: Bulloo and Wilson Rivers, F. C. Weale : Charlotte Plains, IF. A. E. Ivory. 
F. v. Mueller is disposed to consider this and the preceding phyllodineous species, together with 
the five following ones, as forms of one species, and it is true that we occasionally meet with 
specimens apparently connecting them, but so it is with the whole of the section from C. glauca 
to G. circinata, which we certainly should not be justified in uniting. Those specimens of C. 
eremophila, var. platypoda, in which the lower leaves are phyllodineous without leaflets, can 
generally if not always be distinguished from C. phyllodinea by the glands at the end of the 
phyllodia where the leaflets have aborted. — Benth. 
17. C. eremophila (a desert species) (by a clerical error nemophila), A. 
Cunn. in Yoy. Syn. Cass. 47 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 287. An erect bushy shrub, 
glabrous or slightly hoary but never so white as some of the allied species. 
Leaflets 1 or 2 pairs, very narrow-linear, thick, terete and channelled above or 
slightly flattened out, sometimes very short, usually about lin. long, and often 
more, the petiole terete or vertically flattened ; gland depressed between the lowest 
or the only pair ; the lower leaves sometimes reduced to a flattened phyllodium 
with the gland at the end where the leaflets have aborted. Peduncles short, or 
rarely as long as the leaves, bearing a short almost corymbose raceme of several 
flowers on slender pedicels. Bracts very small. Sepals obtuse, rarely 2 lines 
long. Petals usually more than twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 lower ones rather 
larger or on longer filaments than the others. Pod straight or slightly curved, 3 
to 4 lines broad or rarely more. — R. Br. in App. Sturt Exp. 14 ; C. canaliculata, 
R. Br. l.c.; C. heteroloba, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 122. 
Hub.: On the Maranoa, Mitchell; desert of the Suttor and Burdekin, F. v. Mueller; St. 
George, Jos. IVedd ; Blackall, It. A. Ranking; Diamantina, Dr. T. L. Bancroft. 
A very variable species, of which specimens occur occasionally with here and there an 
additional pair of leaflets, showing an approach towards C. artemisioides, and some of the western 
ones with the gland rather more prominent are at first sight like reduced forms of C. 
Chatelainiana. The two following varieties, which have been distinguished as species, are very 
inconstant ; they both occur mixed with the common form. — Bentli. 
Var. platypoda. Petioles vertically compressed, the lower ones often without leaflets. — C. 
platypoda , R. Br. in App. Sturt Exped. 15. 
Var. zygophyllu. A shrub of about 6ft. Leaflets 1 or 2 pairs, linear, flat, often 1 to 2 lines 
broad. — C. zyyopliylla, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 288. 
18. C. artemisiodes (Southernwood-like), Gaud, in DC. Prod. ii. 495 ; 
Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 288. An erect bushy shrub, hoary or white with a minute 
silky tomentum. Leaflets 3 to 6 pairs, linear-terete and more or less channelled 
above, slender but rigid, usually f to lin. long, but sometimes longer or shorter; 
glands small and flat between those of the lower 1 or 2 pairs. Flowers in a short 
dense raceme on peduncles much shorter than the leaves. Bracts small, ovate. 
Sepals obtuse, 2 to 2f lines long. Petals about twice as long. Anthers 2 or 3 
longer than the others on longer filaments. Pod straight, 2 to 3in. long, about 
4 lines broad. — C. teretifolia, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. i. 289 ; C. teretiuscula, 
F. v. M. in Linnaea, xxv. 389. 
Hab.: Dawson River, F. v. Mueller ; Mt. Maria, Warrego. 
Nearly allied to C. eremophila and C. Sturtii, this differs from the former chiefly in the more 
numerous leaflets, from the latter in their shape and in the narrower pod. If the three were 
united, it is the name of C. artemisioides that has the priority. — Benth. 
19. C. Sturtii (after Capt. C. Sturt), 11. Br. in App. Sturt F.rped. 14 ; 
Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 288. A bushy shrub, glabrous or more frequently glaucous 
hoary or white with a close tomentum. Leaflets usually 3 to 5 pairs, linear, 
lanceolate, cuneate, elliptical or almost obovate, 1 to lin. long, thick, flat or 
concave, sometimes all small and almost ovate, the lower leaves rarely with only 
2 pairs ; glands small between the leaflets of the lowest 1 or 2 pairs. Stipules 
