daviesia:} XL. LEGUMlNOS^. . 85 



nfi'L^^i "n"" ^^''f' F"^ ''''^"^*' -^'■'^"*' «-1153; Vasse river and Gordon ranges, 

 (f fn K /" ^^"^"'Sham s specimens the leaves are vertically 1 to 2 lines broad; in others 

 irom Baxter?) they are thick and almost terete ; in Drummoud's the lower ones are flat- 

 tened and striate, the upper ones terete.as in I), incrassata. 



39. D. spinosissima, Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 51. A rigid glabrous 

 slirub, TMtli thick terete sulcate branches. Leaves crowded, linear, almost 

 terete or laterally compressed, thick and rigid with pungent points, mostly 

 iiearly ^ in. long, divergent and often somewhat recurved, the base broad, 

 apparently almost decurrent wlien young, but at length articulate. Flowers 

 sohtary or rarely 2 together, the pedicels 2 or 3 lines long. Calyx with a 

 striate turbinate base, nearly 2 lines long, the teetli broad, obtuse cr almost 

 acute, the 2 upper ones shorter but not truncate. Standard fully 5 lines dia- 

 meter ; keel twice as long as the calyx. Incurved but scarcely rostrate. Fi- 

 Jnraents much dilated, cohering in a tube, but readily separable. Pod about 



i m. long, thickly turgid. 



« irV'^ r^t*"*^^*' ^™S George's Sound, Baxter, Harvey ; near Mount Wuljeunp, Freiss, 

 wolvded 1 • °™ "^"' ^^'^fi^''^' "^^"^ species dift'ers chiefly from D. Preissii in its short 



L 



^^40. D. pachylina, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc, 1S53, i. 263. A low glabrous 



■ ' ^^^^'^% pubescent shrub, with numerous slender somewhat angular and 

 ^ " tlexuose brandies. Leaves vertically compressed, narrow-linear, pun- 

 C tt^^^^-^^''^^^*^^^ I to 1 in. long, the edges much thickened. Flowers few 



■ ^^]j -n"^ }^^.^^ pedunculate racemes or almost solitary. Bracts few, veiy 

 liiali. Pedicels short. Calyx 1^ lines long, the teeth all narrow-acuminate 



t\™ ^^ "^ ^^ ^^^^ *^^^' *''^ ^ ^PP^^ ^^^^ ^^*^^^^^ *^ *'^^ middle. Standai-d 

 &sT^ ^^|^"a/'*^ the calyx and not so broad as in some species; lower petals 



W^iif?, keel incuiTed. Stamens free. Pod only seen young. 



-D anr ^^^T^^^^J ^yammond, 5/A ColL n, 43. This species bears much resemblance to 

 , • Cf^ps m Its flowers and peculiar calyx, but the habit and foliage arc quite dilferent. 



riowers soli- 



Tibi-^I^i^ ^'II- Verticales. — Leaves vertically flattened, often attached by 

 Ur.^^ '^®^ ^^^ scarcely decurrent, usually pungent-pointed, "^^^i-"-'*^ °^^'- 

 ^'^' <^I»^stered, or umbelhite-rnccmose. ^ ^ ° ' 



"plat!" ^* ,^^^*^^ilatera, Baifh. in Lindl. Stcan Riv. App. 14. 

 ei-ect^'w^ ^^'^' with rigid branches, terete or nearly so. L« 

 half ■ Y "o-''^^""iboi(lal, from about ■!■ lines to nearly 1 in. long, and about 

 at th''^ '^' rounded at the iijjper end towards the stem with an erect point 

 ■an„. ^ T^' *'"»'^' truncate at the base with a reflexed point at the outer 

 ne^e'f] P^ sessile or slightly decurrent.'thicklv coriaceous, obscurely several- 

 flnw.. . .^""'icles about as lonj? as the leaves, bearing an umbel of 3 to 6 



A glabrous 

 Leaves vertical. 



ort raceme. Bracts minute, 

 ate base, the teeth very short 



^'«lyx li -^ '"^^^'''y breaks out into a very sho 



and ne "^^^ ^°"ff' i'lcluding the narrow turbiiu' 



au,!, "''^i' fq"=il- Petals nearly equal, twice as long as the calyx, the keel 

 IJ^ curved. Pod above \ in. long.-Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 52. 



«lnW,W„'^"V[f^**- Swan River, Drummond, \d Coll. and n. 228, Prem, n. 1139; Mar- 

 "" > IV er, Oldjield. 



tMck'r- * t ?.*^*^taj ^'"'^2. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 2G4. Glabrous, with long 

 "yia branches, terete and striate or slightly angular. Leaves crowded. 



