J)aviesia.] 



XL. leguminosj:. 83 



ngid shrab, with terete or slightly compressed sulcata branches, allied in 

 foliage to B. geuistifoUa and B. incrassata, but with the inflorescence and 

 bracts oiB.juncea. Leaves terete or very slightly compressed, rigid and 

 pungent, in some specimens the lower ones 4 to 8 in. long and almost erect, 

 the upper ones 1 to li in., slender and divergent, in others all stout, 1 to 1^ 

 111. Jong, or 111 one variety very few, short, and divaricate or recurved, almost 

 as m D. brevifolia. Flowers usually small, in very short, sessile racemes, 

 l^racts unbncate, concave, the outer ones short, the inner ones IJ in. long, 

 concealing tlie rhachis and pedicels at the time of flowering, often fallen off 

 rom the fruiting raceme. Calyx 1 line long, with a very short turbinate 

 base and small teeth, the 2 upper ones truncate and united. Petals twice as 

 ong as the calyx, nearly equal in length, tlic keel much curved, rather acute 

 or almost acuminate. Pod 4 to 5 lines long. 



l^fi^' '^^^*^*^**- Swan River and to the northwaid. Drummond, n. 238, Uh Coll. n. 



y' "'^l"' ^°'t- «• 16, Preiss, «. 1156 and 1157 ; Murcliison river, Oldfield. 

 of *k ^"^^da. Leaves few, under ^ in. long, very divaricate or recurved, the lower onea 



each bmnch reduced to small %c-A^i.— Drummond, n. 42. 

 rl^-: T1','""' ^''^<=** and flowers considerably larger, but I fiud no other difference. 

 Granite hills north from Cape Paisley, Maxwell. 



Q^\ ^;. *^**^®*ioides, Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 48, not of A. Cunn. 



iosely allied to the terete-leaved forms of B. incrassata and to the var. col- 



^^^<^ides oi B. gmistifoUa, having the narrow base to the calyx of the latter 



iiinT?' ^^^ flowers and pods are much larger than in either. The calyx, 



J . calyx, much incurved, and almost rostrate, as in D. incrassata. Pod 



« 11. loilff. 



near Ali^^^*^*^*' ^"■'*" ^'^e''. P'''^^^'- ; south districts ?, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 101 ; 

 m\£Tl'^!Tf%''- J180, j««;-//y {and 1163?); King George's Sound, Maxwell; Geo- 

 ^ iner t^ ^* ^ doubtful whether this may not be a large-flowered variety of 



than in^T ^^ ^^^ ^'^ Drnmrnond's specimous the base of the calyx is much broader 

 form nf n "' ^°''" "• HSO of Preiss, 1 have generally found this and the terete-leaved 



cat!?' 1^' '*®^®>'sifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 145. A bushy rigid intri- 

 ^ J -branched shrub, glabrous and somewhat glaucous, veiy^ nearly allied 

 the 1 ,^°^^^^> Meissn., with the same inflorescence flowers and fruit, but 

 very if" 1^^ ai"e veiy flpxuose, and the leaves numerous, scarcely \ m. long, 

 J^ngid and pungent and remarkably reflexed. 



"^Pect" ^''**'"*^^*- F't^Serald ranges, Ma.nvelL This plant, notwithstandmg its singular . 

 , may very probably be only an accidental form of D. colletioides. 



bi ^* f^crassata, Sm.. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 255. A rigid much 

 divari ; ^^^^^°us shrub, with terete or slightly compressed branches. Leaves 

 ^tw? ' ''^>'^^*^''y"g'J antl pungent-pointed, often appearing continuous 

 1 in r ^^'^"i. ^ut at length articulate and not really decun-ent, usually | to 

 tie P.r^' ^i^^^' t^^i'ete and tapering to a point or vertically dHated towards 

 «eveSl ; ^''^"^ narrowing to the base. Pedicels 1 to 3 lines long, usually 

 la ^ '^gether on a very short common peduncle. Bracts Very small. Calyx 

 shortM"""'!^ H lines long with a very short turbinate base, the teeth _ very 

 W..X ^ "PP"^' °"es broad, trunaite and united. Petals fidly twice as 

 S as the calyx, the keel much incurved, almost rostrate. Fdaments free 



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