Davima,] XL. LEGUMiNoSiE. 89 



undershrub, with long erect leafless rusli-like slightly branclied stems, terete 

 and smooth or slightly sulcate and not spinesccnt. Leaves replaced by minute 

 scales, very rarely forming short pungent points. Racemes lateral, distant, 

 veiy short andfew-flowered, the rhachis and pedicels concealed at the time of 

 flowering by rigid chaffy imbricate bracts, the outer ones broad and short, the 

 inner ones narrower and often 2 lines long, all very obtuse and striate. Calyx 

 1 to 1| lines long, with short teeth, the 2 upper ones truncate, united or dis- 

 tinct. Standard about twice as long as the calvx; keel shorter, curved and 

 almost acute. Pod | in. long, very acute.— DC. Prod. ii. 114; Meissn. in 

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c '^■Australia. Kiiif; George's Soand, Meiizies, R. Brown, and others, and thence to 

 Swsn Kiver, Drummond, Freiss, ». 1159, IIGO, and 1181, and others. 1 do not feel cer- 



U aI "^ ^'"'^ ""'' '^*'° ^P'''^''^* here confounded. In the King George'8 Sound specimens 

 Hiid the calyx usually 5-toothed, as described by Siniih; those from Swan River are nnme- 



tlTh f "v! ^'^^'"^'^' ^'"^ ""c '^Isc '" '''■"it ; they belong to two varieties, both with the 2 upper 

 i 11 J , ''^'•^'^ united in a truncate upper lip. In one of these forms the flowers are very 

 Wall and the calyx-teeth vtry short, and they only differ from D. hakeoides in the absence 

 tti r^^' ®^cept very rarely a few very small ones on barren branches; in the other form 

 tne flowers are rather larger and the upper lip of the calyx is very prominent. 



54. D. alata, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 259. Branches from a short 

 ^oody base, long and virgate, leafless, flat or 3-angled, with the angles more 

 or less winged and quite glabrous. Leaves replaced by minute scales. Ra- 

 cemes veiy short, almost capitate, the pedicels very short. Bracts almost im- 

 JJicjlte, the inner ones often 3 lines long, but not so rigid as in D. jiincea and 

 J-'-Meoides, and often fringed at the edge. Calyx about 2 lines long, the 

 «tli lanceolate, as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones broader but distinct. 

 |-,tandard not twice as long as the calvx, lower petals shorter. Pod 4 to 5 

 hneslong.-Bot.Reg.t. 728; DOlPiod.ii. lU. ■ ' ' ' 



«• S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, «. 55(5, and others. 



.V "^; ^- anceps, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1853, i. 26C,. A glabrous shrub, 



' , V|- hip:li. with slender leafless branches, flat but not winged. Leaves 



placed by minute scales. Flowers solitaiy or 2 or 3 together in a short ra- 



■ne at the ends of small axillary branches, the pedicels each in the axil of 



acute scale-like bract. Calyx about 2 lines long, the teeth subulate-acn- 



twi ' ^] ^""S «is the tube, the 2 upper ones united to the middle. Standard 



ce as long as the calyx ; keel nearly as long, incurved, obtuse. Pod only 

 seen youno-. j a 



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• ■"•ustralia, Drummond, 5/A Coll. n. SO ; Phillips river. Maxwell. 



P L 



13. AOTUS, Sm. 



Petl 1^ "PP^'' ^°^^^ broader and more or less united in an upper lip. 



Iietal ■^' ^<^"S-clawed ; standard nearly orbicular, longer than the lower. 



^. '''8; wmo-s nl,Ur,„. i.„.i .-.,_ j_ Stamens free. Ovary sessile or sti- 



ht funicles : style filiform, with a minute 



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JS ' TV»gs oblong ; keel incurved. 



Si: T^. 2 ""'''^'^ O'^ short straight 

 'terminal St o-T«« t>^a .... » . ". 



anv If '^.^™^- Pod ovate, flat or turgid, 3-valved. Seed reniform, without 



^^^ li-ophiole (except in ^. p-acillima) .Shnihs, with branches often 



or reu "t .^^^^^ ^''"Ple, scattered or ternntely whorled, the margins recurved 



revoiute. Stipules none. Flowers in axillary clusters, often in threes, on 



