84; ^'XL. LEGUMiNOS^. - [Davlesid. 



as in most Daviesias, Pod 6 to 7 lines long;, rather turgid. — DC. Prod. ii. 

 114 ; Acacia dolabriformis, Wendl. Comrn, Acac. 55 ; D. phi/sodes, A. Cimn. 

 in G. Don, Gard. Diet. ii. 125 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4244 (a cultivated form with 

 Temarkably dilated leaves) ; Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 49 ; I), Benlhamii, Meissn. 

 in PI. Preiss. i, 48 (a slender-leaved form with small flowers) ; D. Lracliy- 

 pJiylla^ Meissn. 1. c. i. 49 (a short-leaved form), 



S. Australia. Port Lincoln, Wilhehni ; Kangaroo Island, JFaterJiouse, 

 l?^r. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown j Menzies^ and others; and thence to 

 Vasse and Swan rivers, Kueyel^ Brummond^ n. 236, 241, 242, etc., Preiss, n. 1161j 1162, 

 1164, 11G5, 1168, 1169, 1170, and eastward to the Great Bight, MaxwelL 



The species is exceedingly variable in its leaves, sometimes all terete and either mostly 

 under \ in. and recurved, or those of the principal branches 1 in. long, straight or ahuost 

 incurved ; sometimes on the same specimen a few more or less dilated upwards, very rarely 

 all dilated and scarcely ever so much so as re])resented in the plate above quoted, but all th^ 

 forms are so frequently intermixed as to prevent the characterizing any distinct varieties. 

 The slender-leaved forms come very near in appearance to D. genistifoJia, but the turbinate 

 base of the calyx is much shorter and the pod much larger and more turgid. In Druni- 

 moud's specimens, 5th Coll. n, 37, the leaves are very few, from i to J in. long, almost con* 

 necting the species with J). Irevifolla, 



i 



37. D. brevifolia, Zindl. in Mitch. Three Exped, ii. 201. An erect 

 shrub with broom-like, rigid, terete, somewhat flexuose branches. Leaver 

 few, distant, linear-conical, rigid and pungent, 1 to 3 lines long, the thick 

 base continuous with the steiu but not decurrent. Flowers usually several 

 together on very short pedicels, the common peduncle rarely 1 line long. 

 Bracts verj^ small. Calyx about \\ lines long, the turbinate base very short, 

 the teeth veiy short, especially the 2 upper ones, which are very obtuse, trun- 

 cate or scarcely prominent. Keel twice as long as the calyx, rostrate. Pod 

 \ in. long, turgid. 



Victoria. Glenelg river, Mitchell^ Rob 

 mera, Dallachy ; Grampians, F. Mueller, 



Wim 



S. AnstraUa, Encounter Bay, I, Mueller ; Mount Lofty, Wkiltaker. The species 

 is nearly allied to D. incrassatUy but the leaves, reduced to short spines, are more contiuuoii? 

 with the stem. 



Yar. (?) ephedroldes. Branches often clustered, sometimes quite leafless, but usually witb 

 a very few small spine-like leaves. 



^JV. Australia, Drummond, w. 137. The specimens are very bad, and may possibly 

 belong to a form of D. afhylla. * - 



_ 38. D. Preissii, Md^m. in Fl. Preiss. i. 50. A glabrous much braricheil 

 • rigid shrub, resembling D. incrassata and D. colletioides, but readily distin; 

 guished by the calyx and stamens. Leaves linear-falcate, vertically com* 

 pressed especially towards the base or rarely terete, straight or falcate, taper; 

 ing into a pungent point, i to 1 in. long, attached by a broad base and, when 

 flat, usually striate. Flowers 2 or 3 together, on pedicels of 2 or .3 lines oQ 

 a short common peduncle. Bracts minute. Calyx rigid, turbinate-campa'"^' 

 late, about l-^ lines long, the teeth erect, short, somewhat acute, the 2 uppff 



ones distinct, rather smaller and not truncate. Keel more than twice as lonS 

 as the calyx, uuich incurved but scarcely rostrate. Filaments much dilatea> 

 especially the outer ones, and cohering in a tube but readily separable. 1'"'' 

 probably large, but only seen youn 



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W. Australia, Kiug George's Sound, A. Cunnin gli am, Baxter?^ Brummond, 5'^ 



