Daviesia.] .XL. lequmtnosje, 81 



Tilicina 



^— — _____ _ — _ _ ___ .. , .. - -r , ^ ^ -^ .__ ^ ^ ^ .^^ ^ 



256. A rigid, bushy shrub, attaining sometimes several feet, the branches 

 more or less angular, the smaller ones generally ending in short thorns, gla- 

 brous or hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves from broadly ovate to lanceo- 



late 



or inienr, ending in a pungent point, usually under ^ in., but occasionally 

 attaiuirig 1 in. when narrow and luxuriant, very rigid, veinless, except the 

 miarib. Flowers solitary or clustered or rarely in umbels of 3 or 4, on a 

 short common peduncle. Bracts very small. Pedicels short. Calyx 1 to 

 I4 lines long, the turbinate base very short, the 2 upper teeth rather broader 

 than the others, but scarcely united at the base. Standard very broad, more 

 than twice as long* as the calyx; keel shorter, much incurved, obtuse. Pod 

 4 to 5 hnes long.— DC. Prod. ii. 114; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t, 44; Paxt. Mag. 

 nn ' ^^ith a fig. ; D. nUci/olia, Andr. Bot. Eep. t. 304; B. umhdlulata, 

 ^t> Prod. ii. 114 (partly) ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 1. 82, not of Sm. ; D. germ- 

 <^^^^*,Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1552. 



r 



Queensland. Moretoii Bay and Burnett river, F. Mueller, 

 yi v^^^^* Port Jackson. R. Brown, Sieber, n, '^^0^, and others; northward to 

 ^ewiLngland, (7. Sluart ; and southward to Twofold Bay, R 31ueller. 



Victoria. From Ginijs' Land and Watsou's Promontory to the Murray and the Glenelg, 

 ^- Mueller, Roberiso77, and others. 

 bZT^^^^^' Derwent river, R. Brown; most abundant throughout the island, /. D. 



rf",.^^®*^*^*- I-ynedoeh Valley and Crystal Brook, F. Mueller; Encounter Bay, 



If ^f^r^ Mount Serle, JFarhurfon. 

 erad r ^ ^^^*"^ forms appear iu their extremes very distinct, but are connected by mauy 



a- lubumheUata. Glabrous aud luxuriant. Leaves narrow, \ to 1 in. long. Common 

 Fduncleoften 1 or even 2 lines long.-D. umbellata, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. i. 107, t. 137- 



Victoria and Tasmania, 

 verv f '"""""''• Glabrous or hirsute. Leaves lanceolate, mostly under \ in. Pedicels 



e ;"""<; uttered.— From N. S. Wales to Tasmania. ^ ^, 



kavp , ^7^- Glabrous or hirsute, with the inflorescence of the common form, but the 



Ciinn n^^'^^.'"' mostly ovate, ahvays pungent and under i in. long.— i?. ruscifoha, A. 



ami s '*""•• '" ^"n- ^Vieu. Mus. ii. 75 : Schlccht. Linntes, xx. 605.— Victoria, Tasmania, 



""! ^. Australia. 



„ i„ "Wifolia. Glabrous. Leaves linear, but flat, not terete nor laterally compressed. 

 Wales Semstifolia, and the calyx quite that of D. undna.—quccnshud and N. H. 



acictdaris 



h ;; u* ^^^ V^^'^'^^h very short. Calyx U to nearly 2 lines long tne lur- 

 tw ^f ' '''y «hort, the 5 teeth nearly equal, lanceokte. and scarcely 

 Ob . *^^" ^^'' t"l^«- Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel shorter, 

 r fi?n y 4 to 5 lines long, acuminate.-DC. Prod. ii. 114 ; Bot. Map 

 ;f 79 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1234 (leaves much less crowded, but probably 

 '^e same species). 



Wales 



kson, R. Broun, Sieber. n. 347, and others ; ^id bi^hy 

 Cunningham. lu young specimens, 1 or 2 of the lov,e9t 



^^are occasionaUy obloug-lanccolate, IJ to 2 fa. long, and not pungeut 



G 



