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prominent, scattered points, especially on the rib and the cartilaginous margin, so that they might be called denticulate. Stipulæ in pairs, very minute, triangular, membranous. Flowers pale yellow, many together in little round heads, which stand solitary, on rough axillary flower-stalks shorter than the leaves, destitute of bracteæ. Calyx in four segments, ciliated. Petals four, concave. Pod compressed, broadish in proportion to its length.


EXPLANATION of TAB. XVI.

1. Back of a magnified flower. 2. A stamen. 3, 3, Two pods, copied from a drawing done at Port Jackson. 4. A stipula magnified.