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covered by Mr. Menzies near King George's Sound. Its whole 

 habit is thick and clumsy, its leaves and young branches being 

 apparently succulent when fresh. The insertion of the former 

 is peculiar, their base being perfectly decurrent, and, as it were, 

 incorporated with the branch, without any traces of a footstalk, 

 or any other mark of separation. They are scattered, vertical, 

 compressed, recurved, linear, more or less dilated upward into a 

 sort of protuberance or angle on the upper edge, the lower run- 

 ning in a straight line to the spinous point. The surface is every 

 where rough to the touch, but not hairy nor denticulated. Flow- 

 ers few, axillary as in the foregoing, apparently yellow. The 

 stem is woody and very much branched. 



3. D. ulicina, foliis lanceolatis planis pungentibus strictis Isevi- 

 bus, floribus axillaribus solitariis. 

 D. ulici folia. Andr. Repos. t. 304. 



A very bushy shrub, with sessile, not decurrent, small lanceo- 

 late smooth leaves. The flowers, with their stalks and bracteas, 

 are similar to those of the first species, but rather smaller. The 

 branches are roughish. 



*4. D. reticulata, foliis lanceolatis pungentibus utrinque reticu- 

 lato-venosis, stipulis intrafoliaceis geminis, floribus axillaribus 

 solitariis. 



A branching shrub, seemingly of humble growth, found by Mr. 

 Menzies at King George's Sound, and very remarkable at first 

 sight for its beautiful leaves, which are prettily reticulated on 

 both sides with yellow interbranching veins, disposed with pe- 

 culiar neatness and regularity. It is however far more remark- 

 able, when accurately examined, for the presence of a pair of 

 small intrafoliaceous stipulas, resembling those of Pultenaa lino- 



phylla 



