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EXPLANATION OF PLATE 87. 
A. clecurrens var. normnlis, a—l. 
„ var. Leichhardtii, M—p. 
(N.B.—Var. Leichhardtii is closest to var. pauciglandulosa , and has been put on Plate 87 as a matter 
of convenience.) 
Variety nor malts. 
A. Flowering branch. Note the compound, bipinnate leaf. Pinna, plural pinnae (Latin, a 
feather), is a primary division of a pinnate leaf. Its leaflets are sometimes themselves 
pinnate, as in this case. 
b. Portion of leaf (pinna), much magnified, showing the individual pinnules or leaflets, or 
secondary pinnae. 
Note the glands in a. and b. They vary a good deal in A. decurrens, and the glands 
depicted in the various drawings in Plates 87 and 88, while taken from average specimens, 
must not be looked upon as absolute as regards either number or position. 
c. An individual bud removed from a head of flowers. 
d. Flower, showing — 
(а) Calyx. 
(б) Corolla. 
(c) Stamens. 
( d ) Style. 
e. Flower, opened out, showing — 
(a) Calyx. 
( b ) Corolla. 
(c) Stamens. 
(d) Pistil. 
Bentham gives the necessary caution in this genus: “ The characters derived from the united or 
free sepals must be used with caution, for the petals, at first united, often separate as the flowering 
advances.” 
f. Stamens, front and back view. 
G. Pistil. 
h. A bract or scale enclosing the calyx of each individual flower-bud in the head. Speaking of 
bracts in this genus, Bentham (B.F1. ii, 301) says: “The brae's are almost always narrow, 
closely packed in with the flowers, and more or less dilated at the end, sometimes quite 
peltate ; generally the outer ones of each head are flatter, the inner ones more slender, and 
proportionately more dilated at the end, where they are usually ciliate and sometimes 
acuminate.” 
k. Ripe pod. 
l. Seed. 
All parts, except pod, much enlarged. 
A fine coloured drawing of var. normalis will be found in Illustrated Flowering Plants and Ferns, 
No. 13, Maiden and Campbell (Government Printer, Sydney). 
Variety Leichhardtii. 
M. Leaf. 
x. Portion of leaf much magnified. Note the comparative absence of hairs from the pinnules. 
The hairs on the rhachis are hardly sufficiently accentuated. 
o. Ripe pod. This is the smallest pod of all the varieties, but, as I have them from only one 
locality, T should not like to say that the pods are always so small. 
P. Seed. 
