Victorian Plants. 203 



DAVIESIA. 



964. Leaves flat ... 965 



Leaves cylindrical ... ... ... ... ... 969 



965. Leaves vertical, broadly decurrent. 



A rather small glabrous shrub ; leaves rigid, almost semi- 

 lanceolar, pungent, very spreading, adnate with broad 

 base, thickened along the upper margin, often curved ; 

 flowers in corymbous clusters or sometimes only two 

 together or solitary ; fruit much compressed, almost 

 dimidiately rhomboid-cordate. D. pectiiiata. 



Leaves horizontal, simply sessile ' ... ... ... 966 



966. Leaves usually very broad. 



A tall glabrous shrub, pervaded by a bitter principle; leaves 

 usually very large, shining, from almost broad-lanceolar 

 to ovate-orbicular or sometimes smaller and roundish- 

 cordate ; the secondary venules largely reticular-promi- 

 nent ; flowers often in elongated racemes ; fruit much 

 compressed, almost dimidiate-cordate. D. latifolia. 



Leaves usually narrow ... ... ... ... 967 



967. Leaves always exceedingly elongated, without any 



lustre. 



Tall, glabrous shrub ; branchlets acutely triangular ; leaves 

 rigid, straight, broad-linear, gradually attenuated into 

 the sessile base and the apex, their primary venule very 

 prominent, their secondary venules concealed ; umbels 

 few- flowered, conspicuously stalked, solitary or two or 

 three together ; stalklets longer than the calyx ; upper 

 lobes of the calyx disconnected ; fruit much compressed. 



D. Wyattiaua, 



Leaves very short or somewhat elongated, shining ... 968 



968. Leaves usually many times longer than broad, slightly 



pointed. 



A glabrous shrub, from somewhat dwarf to tall ; leaves 

 usually rather long, sometimes much elongated, from 

 broad-linear to narrow-lanceolar, rigid, the secondary 

 venules somewhat prominent ; flowers generally several 

 in each axillary corymb ; calyx minutely lobed ; fruit 

 much compressed. D. coryinbosa. 



