Dar'ma.] • XL. LEGUMlNOSyE. 79 



the 2 upper ones triuicate and united. Petals twice as long as the calyx; 

 Ifeel obtuse, not mncli curved. Pod only seen young. 



W 



Series V. FAScicuLAXi^, — Flowers in axillary clusters or very short 

 compact racemes. Leaves flat, horizontal, pungent-pointed. 



21. D. daphnoides, Meiasn. hi PL Prem. i. 54. A rigid, ghibrous, 

 somewhat glaucous shrub, of 2 or 3 ft., the branches prominently angled. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, pungent-pointed, 1 to 3 in. long, narrowed into a 

 petiole, very thick and rigid, obscurely veined. Flowers few, small, in axil- 

 lary clusters or exceedingly short racemes. Bracts very small. Pedicels very 

 snort, besides the narrow, stalk-like, turbinate base of the calyx. Broad tube 

 of the calyx scarcely 1 line long, the teeth very short, the 2 upper ones broad, 

 tnincate and united. Standard about twice the length of the calyx i keel 

 rather shorter, obtuse, and little curved. Pod not seen. 



lY' Australia. Swan River and to the nortliwai'd, Dnonmotid, w. 225, a7id Uh CoIL 

 .*• i); sandy plains of Quaugcu, Preiss, n, 1144<. Allied on the one baud to i>. oUtisifolia 

 and on the other to D, nudljhra, it has the stalk-like hase of the calyx of the former, with 

 ttiepuugeut leaves and truncate upper calyx-teeth of the latter. 



22. D. nudiflora, Meimu in PL Pretss. i. 53. An erect glabrous 

 Shrub, of 2 to 3 ft., the branches sulcate, but scarcely angular. Leaves 

 oblong-laiiceolate or sometimes almost ovate, tapering into a long pungent 

 point, 1 to 2 in. long, narrowed at the base, rigidly coriaceous, with a pro- 

 itmient midrib and pinnate veins. Flowers clustered or very shortly racemose 

 «t the leafless lower nodes of the upper branches or rarely axillary. Bracts 

 small. ^ Pedicels 2 lines long or more, conspicuously thickened below the ar- 



ic'uation. Calyx 1^ lines long, the turbinate base exceedingly short the 



<^etli short, somewhat acute, the 2 upper ones truncate and united. Standard 



l^^ly twice as long as the calyx; keel rather shorter, much incurved, dis- 



^^nctly rostrate. Ovary longer than in most species. Pod 6 to 7 lines long. 



3^' Australia. Swan Wwcr, Preiss, w. 1143, Drummond, iu 22G, Oldfield. ^ 

 ]^^\ ^''''<^*^oIa(a, Brauehes elongated. Leaves narrow-Janceolate, almost vemless. 

 enng nodes less destitute of hnves.—Dnmtnondy n. 133. 



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.ow 



23 D. rhombifolia, Afehsn. in Fl. Freks. i. 56. A glabrous shrub, 

 I h to 2 ft., with long, rigid, apparently divaricate or ascending brauehes, 

 ^'"^re^or less angular m.d sukate. Leaves broadly ovate or rhomboidal. 



•-vm.iiy Clusters, on slender pedicels ot z w o uu<^o- --v" - 



g, including the narrow turbituite base, the lower teeth ve^ small, 

 ;e 2 upper ones larger, broad, truncate and united. Petals about twice as 

 'P^ as the ealyx, the keel not much shorter than the others and very obtuse. 



the 2 



wot seen. 



P^; "^^^t^^W*- Swnn River, Drurmnond, n. 224 ; Sussex district and Darling Ruasc 

 ' "• ■'l'*5 and 1146 ; Mount Yulagan, Old/eld. 



24. D. 



Mnell. Fragm. ii. lUi,. Apparently a low, 

 I,, quite glabrous, the branches scarcely angu- 



