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Tas. 4244. 
DAVIESIA puysopes. 
Hatchet-leaved Daviesia. 
Nat. Ord. Leauminos#.—DEcANDRIA MonoeGynIa. 
Gen. Char. Calye angulatus ebracteatus 5-dentatus interdum subbilabiatus. 
Corolla carina vexillo breviore. Ovarian pedicellatum dispermum. Stylus 
strictus. Stigma simplex. Legumen compressum angulatum elastice dehiscens 
at suturam infer. dilatatum, fere semitrapezoideum. Strophiola seminis postice 
integra.—Frutices Australasici glabri, spinosi aut inermes. Folia simplicia aut 
nulla. Pediculi basi bracteolati awillares. DC. 
Daviesta physodes; glauca, ramis erectis sulcatis, foliis linearibus teretibus 
superioribus versus apicem precipue verticaliter dilatatis securigeriformibus 
utrinque binervibus oblique mucronatis, calyce brevi campanulato, carina 
subrostrata alis longiore. 
Davresta physodes. Cunn. in Don, Gard. Dict. v. 2. p. 125. Benth. in Hug. 
Enum. p.31. Walp. Repert.v.1 p.570. Lehm. Plant. Preiss. v. 1. p. 49. 
A very singular species of the very pretty genus Daviesia, in 
habit, as Mr. Bentham well remarks, resembling Genista Scorpius ; 
but why named physodes by Mr. Cunningham is not apparent ; 
for (unless it be in the fruit, which is, however, not noticed by 
Mr. Cunningham) there is nothing inflated or bladdery about the 
plant. The whole is rigid and glaucous, the lower leaves often small 
and terete, the upper ones oblong and obliquely cuneate, so that 
the shape a good deal resembles a hatchet, more dilated at the 
upper angle, mucronated on the other and marked with two 
nerves on each side. The flowers are exceedingly handsome, 
variegated with several colours, orange, red, green and black, 
produced copiously on the branches, and they continue a long 
time in perfection ; so that the plant is highly ornamental to the 
greenhouse in the months of April and May. It is a native of 
Western Australia. The precise locality where Mr. Cunningham 
discovered it is not recorded ; but Mr. Drummond and Mr. Preiss 
have detected it in the Swan River settlement, and from seeds 
sent by the former of these two botanists, our plants were reared 
at the Royal Gardens of Kew. 
Desc. A glaucous shrub, two to three or four feet high, with © 
JULY Ist, 1846. 
