82 .XL. LEGUMINOS^. [Daviesio. 



Series YI. Teretifoli.e. — Leaves terete or slightly compressed or rarely 

 vertically dilated towards the top, at length articuhite on the stem and not 

 decurreut, usually short or pungent-pointed, and never horizontally flattened. 

 Flowers solitary, clustered, or shortly racemose. 



30. D. pach3rphylla5 F.MuelL Tragm. iv. 15. Veiy rigid, glabrous, 

 and often becoming very glaucous, the branches thick and terete. Leaves 

 numerous, divaricate, thickly oblong-conical, tapering into a pungent point, 

 ^ to f in. long, nearly three lines diameter at the base, terete or slightly 

 compressed laterally, quite smooth, without 'ribs or veins, of a dense pithy 

 consistence. Plowers several, in loose racemes, shorter than the leaves. Pe- 

 dicels nearly as long as the calyx. Bracts minute. Calyx 1^ lines long, in- 

 cluding the narrow turbinate base, the teeth minute. Stautlard half as long 

 again as the calyx; keel very obtuse. Pod about | in. long, of the sam6 

 blue-glaucous colour as the rest of the fruiting specimens. 



. '^^' Australia, Diummond, ^ih Coll. n, 45 ; mountains near Gardner and Phillips 

 nvers, MaxwelL 



31. D. teretifolia, R. Br. Herb. . A glabrous shrub, of 2 to 3 ft., with 

 numerous, erect, terete branches. Leaves erect, cylindrical, f to 1^ in. long, 

 about 1 line diameter, with a short pungent point, smooth or obscurely cil'ate. 

 Racemes loose, few-flowered, not exceeding the leaves. Pedicels longer than 

 the calyx. Bracts very small. Calyx above 2 lines long, including the nar- 

 row turbinate base, the teeth short, the 2 upper ones connate. Standard 

 nearly twice as long as the calyx ; lower petals shorter, the ke*el much iu- 

 curved, almost rostrate. Pod f in. long or rather more, very coriaceous. 



• W. AustraUa. King George's Sound, Baxter; Phillips Eans^es and Cape Arid, 



Maxwell llie species is evidently allied to the eastera B. genistifolia, but readily dis^ 



tiDgmshed as well by the foliage as by the loose inflorescence, larger flowers, and large 

 thick pod. ° 



33. D. genistifolia, J. Cunn.; Benth. in Ann. Wlen. Mas. ii. 75. A 

 glabrous shrub, with slender, slightly sulcate branches. Leaves linear-terete 



01 



to 



r very slightly laterally compressed, divaricate, pungent-pointed, mostly \ 



) 1 111. long, smooth or sulcate. Pedicels slender, li to 2 lines long, iri 



clusters or exceedingly short racemes. Bracts small, obovate. Calyx U 



lines long, lucludmg the narrow, almost stalk-like, turbinate base; the teeth 



very short, the 2 upjier ones broad, truncate, and united. Petals twice as 



long as the calyx, of nearly equal length, the keel obtuse. Pod about 4 Hues 

 long. 



" Qaeensland. Moreton Bay, Fraser. 



1.^' ^'\^^^^\- Po'"' Jaclvson, i2. i5yo«;« ; Paramatta, Woolls ; Williams river, 5^^*' 

 ^use; Hunters River to the south-west of Mount Cunningham and open forest laud at 

 Jila«arra. A. Canmnyham ; New England, C. Stuart. 

 Victoria. Wimmeva, DaUachy. 



■ v;r'^^/^*J-!f ■ ^'■^'*'^ ^'"^^ '^"^ ^°'''^'^^^ ^fo'i'it Remarkable, T. Mueller. 



ip^;™v S f -1 '^'"T """''i ^"^''i^ "'="■ ^''^'^"'■^t, A. Cunningham. Both forms of tbi3 

 specie, may be readily distinguished from D. ulicina by the calyf. as well as by the leaves 



33. D. hakeoides, Mcmn. in Pi Preiss. i. 47. A glabrous, erect, 



