* made of firm young ch. 
448 THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Davidsonia—continued. 
covered with short stiff hairs, and furnished between and below 
the pinne with a narrow, lobate, biserrated, hairy wing. When 
young, the leaves are of a bright red colour. Australia, 1877. 
DAVIESIA (named in honour of the Rev. Hugh 
Davies, a Welsh botanist ). ORD. Leguminose. А 
large and elegant genus of greenhouse shrubs or under- 
shrubs, containing fifty-five species, all natives of Aus- 
tralia. Flowers orange-yellow, or red, usually small, 
in axillary or lateral racemes or pedunculate umbels, 
Hy reduced to short clusters, or тате! soli 
calyx teeth short; petals on a dante: aoe, 
ц simple, entire, coriaceous or rigid, either 
aval or vertical, or terete and spinescent: 
or very minute. They require a compost 
A peat, with a little sand, and delight in an 
situation in the , Propagated by cuttin 
gs, 
d placed in sand, under a 
obtainable, which should 
FIG. 628. DAVALLIA REPENS (see page 447). 
| chemist). Orp. Melastomacee. This genus is synonymoU*- 
Daviesia—continued. 
be sown in a slight hotbed, about March. The two species 
here given are probably amongst the ones most generally 
grown. 
D. latifolia (broad-leaved). fl. orange-yellow, small, numerous, 
in racemes of lin. to 2in., often flowering from near the base; 
bracts ovate or oblong, densely imbricate before the flowers are 
full grown; pedicels rarely exceeding the bracts till after flower- 
ing. May. l. 2in. to 3in. long, ovate-elliptical or ovate-lanceo- 
late, usually terminating in a callous point. A. 2ft. to 5ft. 1805. 
A glabrous shrub. (B. M. 1757.) 
D. umbellulata (small-umbelled). 7, racemes in some spect - 
mens shorter than the leaves, in others twice as long, flo oe 
from the middle upwards, or at the end only; calyx about ero 
line long, the teeth short and obtuse ; petals twice as long 5 gin. | 
calyx. April. l. lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, i. oe. 
long, one-nerved, flat, not reticulate. Branches sulcate. 
to 4ft. 1816. A slender, much-branched shrub. : 
DAVYA (named after Sir Н. Davy, an eminent | 
with Meriania (which see). 
