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pht/lla and its more immediate allies, which are of so much im- 

 portance in the present case, that I feared, at first discovering 

 them, they might, in some measure, invalidate the genus of our 

 plant. The bracteas also resemble those of a Puttctuea, being 

 silky at their backs, and closely imbricated round the base of 

 the almost sessile flower. The calyx however is simple, and best 

 agrees with Daviesia, as does the aspect of the leaves and of 

 the corolla. The stipulas moreover connect this species with 

 -D. acicularis, the only species besides in which I can find traces 

 of such appendages. The stigma is perfectly acute; and the 

 germen, in the only flower I have been able to dissect, so small 

 and round, that it evidently accords better with the present ge- 

 nus, than with the oblong many-seeded fruit of Chorozema, to 

 which I have had some suspicion that this plant might belong. 

 Those who may have an opportunity of ever seeing the ripe fruit, 

 must finally settle the point. The germen is "so beset with bris- 

 tles, that nothing can be discovered concerning its structure or 

 contents* 



5, D. squarrosa, foliis cordatis pungentibus reflexis margine sca- 

 bris, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris subsolitariis. 



The slender compound wand-like branches of this shrub are 

 furrowed and rough, densely clothed from top to bottom, with 

 small, scattered, sessile, reflexed, rigid, heart-shaped leaves, 

 having a thickened rough edge, and a spinous point. Almost 

 every leaf is accompanied by one, rarely two, slender, axillary, 

 smooth, simple flower-stalks, each about as long as the leaf, with 

 .a few concave round bracteas at its base, and bearing one little 

 flower, variegated, as it appears, with yellow and red. The ca- 

 lyx is obscurely two-lipped, inasmuch as there is rather less 

 distance between the two upper teeth than between any other 



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