^'iviesia.] XL. leguminosj;, 87 



Pedicels rarely as long as tlie calyx. Calyx al)Out IJ lines long, sliortly tur- 

 binate at the base, the teeth shoi-t, the upper ones truncate and united. * Fila- 

 ments rather flat, but free. Keel much incurved but obtuse. Pod about f 

 in. long.— Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 51. 



..,^- Australia. King George's Sound, Huegel and others ; Diummond, Uh Coll. n. 

 43: Sterling Terrace, Freiss, m. 1180 [Injjart). 



■ 46._ D. pectiaata, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 151. Glabrous and 



TV""'" ■^'"^'^^^^s '^^1 ^'6^7 prominently angled with the decurrent bases 

 of the leaves and not flexuose. Leaves vertically flat, lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, tapering from the broad decurrent continuous base to the pungent 

 point, the lower ones often above .1 in. long, the upper ones under \ in., ho- 

 rizontally divaricate and straight or falcate and recurved, more rarely incurved, 

 yaiying in breadth at the base from 1 to nearly 3 lines. Flowers very small, 

 in dense axillary clusters or very short racemes. Bracts ovate, concave, longer 

 tlian in the preceding species but not imbricate. Pedicels exceedingly short, 

 ^alyx about 1 Hue long, obtuse at the base, the teeth very short, the 2 upper 

 .ones truncate. Keel scarcely twice as long as the calyx, incurved, ol)tuse. 



■ Ko^ *° ^ ^^'^^^ long.— 2). decurrem and D. prioiwides^'Meissn. in PI. Preiss. 

 »• 52; D. latipes, F. Muell. in Linnsea, xxv. 390. 



Victoria. Near Mount Hope, Mitchell; "Wimmera, Dallachy. 

 , ?: ■^^stralia. Dombey Bay, WUhelmi. 



2^. -Australia. Troin Kiug George's Sound to Swan River, Drvmmond, n. 234 and 

 „„?■ ^"f'^^' "■■ 1141, 1147, and 1148, and others; northward to Murchison river, Oldjield; 

 ana eastward to Cape Kuobb and Cape Le Grand, Maxwell. 



tnn H *™"'""*^ of specimens the leaves are recurved-falcate, but in some they are all or 

 Jin u j'f^^ '"' ifx^urved. In a few of Bastci's. froiu King George's Sound, they are oc- 

 rasionally dilated upwards or oblong-falcate. 



■ |7. D. trigonophylla, Meissn. in PI. Preiss. ii. 213. A rigid shnib, 

 glabrous or minutely and densely pubescent, the branches broadly winged by 

 «e decurrent bases of the leaves. Leaves under \ in. long, continuously de- 

 ..'^''J^*' ^i^'aricate, recurved and tapering into a pungent point as in D. pec- 



"xita, but the upper edge dilated into a horizontal concave or channelled 



'J"ina, the midrib on the back forming the prominent decurrent wing. 



cowers few, in little axillary clusters or very short racemes, with very small 



Jits. Calyx Ii lines long, the upper teeth truncate and united. Keel 



^1? '^^^ed- Pod fully I in. long, very turgid. 



■ Australia, Drummond, Zrd Coll. n. 77, and ofh Coll. n. 42. 



d^" ■°- fPipIiylla, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. 1855. 27. A glabrous, very 

 lobpr+? "'"^' '"^'^ •^^^d thick flat phyllodineous branchlets, pmnately 

 ^a> the lobes (or decurrent vertical leaves) triangular or lanceolate, j to a 



m. lo 



1 



from "' *^P^™g to a pungent point, and occasionally branchlets proceet 



°^ cue of the faces instead of the edges of the branches. Flowers not seen 



Cn!"^ P'^l^'"^" 2 to 4 lines long, solitary or 2 or 3 together on a very short 



mrnon peduncle, usually inserted in the centre of one of the_ faces of the 



r^ JUoclineous branch. Br'acts several, small, the lower ones imbricate. Iniit- 



aboutT-^''^^^ '''"^ «^l«l"e. «^out 4 lines long, including a turbinate base of 



tuse VT' "'' *''t^ sl'ort and broad, the 2 upper ones distinct but vciy ob- 



' *^^ coriaceous, more than 1 in. long. 



