2j3 Dr. Smith's Specific Characters of 



two. I have not seen the ripe legume, nor any living specimen 

 of this or the five following species. 



6. D. umbellulata, foliis lanceolatis planis pungentibus, pedim- 

 culis axillaribus solitariis umbellatis subquadrifloris, calyce 



, truncato. 



Akin to the last in habit, but the leaves are much longer and 

 not reflexcd ; they are also nearly, if not quite, smooth. Each 

 is accompanied by one axillary flower-stalk, shorter than the 

 leaf, clothed with a few minute scattered bracteas, and bearing 

 an umbel, with several larger bracteas at its base, of generally 

 4 flowers, much like the foregoing, except that the upper lip of 

 the calyx is singularly truncated and not cloven. 



7. D. corymbosa, foliis lineari-obiongis planis muticis, pedunculis- 

 axillaribus geminis corymbosis mukinoris, calyce regulari. 



The leaves are 5 or 6 inches long, resembling those of several 

 simple-leaved New Holland Mimosa, somewhat oblique, smooth, 

 entire, acute, but without any terminal spine. I am not very 

 clear whether there be any rudiments of stipulas or no. Flower- 

 stalks axillary, in pairs, corymbose, rather unequal, one being 

 earlier than the other, neither of them so long as the adjoining 

 leaf. They bear a few scattered concave bracteas, as well as 

 one under each partial stalk, and they terminate in 10 or 1% 

 such single-flowered stalks, somewhat scattered, a few of the 

 uppermost only being umbellate, and all together forming a sort 

 ofconjnibus. The flowers are, in a dry state, white variegated with 

 purple ; but their original colours are, probably, like those of 

 other species of Daviesia, yellow and crimson. The calyx-teeth 

 are short, and all as nearly equal and regular as they can be in 

 a papilionaceous flower. This plant was found by Col. Paterson, 



near 



