Laravel is not accepting files in request

I'm trying to do a simple HTML file upload.

<form accept-charset="utf-8" name="gallery" method="POST" action="/gallery">
    <input type="hidden" name="_token" value="fQ7arteCHmBFVfvQARWxxK3dXNgUJF40FdsaD3R">
    <label class="btn btn-default">
        Browse <input type="gallery[]" hidden multiple>
    </label>
</form>

I've traced it with Xdebug and I can see that $request->gallery shows an array of file names but the file count is still zero:

if (!$request->files->count()) {
    return redirect()->back()->with('error', 'Empty file list.');
}

The PHP global variable $_FILES is also empty.

This works fine when submitted over AJAX using something like Dropzone.js, but when I do it using a standard HTML5 form element it doesn't work.

Feel like I'm missing something obvious here.

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