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Davidsonia continued. 



covered with short stiff hairs, and furnished between and below 

 the pinnae with a narrow, lobate, biserrated, hairy wing. When 

 young, the leaves are of a bright red colour. Australia, 1877. 

 DAVIESIA (named in honour of the Rev. Hugh 

 Davies, a Welsh botanist). OBD. Leguminoaoe. A 

 large and elegant genus of greenhouse shrubs or under- 

 shrubs, containing fifty-five species, all natives of Aus- 

 tralia. Flowers orange-yellow, or red, usually small, 

 in axillary or lateral racemes or pedunculate umbels, 



Daviesia continued. 



be sown in a slight hotbed, about March. The two species 



here given are probably amongst the ones most generally 



grown. 



D. latifolia (broad-leaved). /. orange-yellow, small, numerous, 

 in racemes of lin. to 2in., often flowering from near the base ; 

 bracts ovate or oblong, densely imbricate before the flowers are 

 full grown ; pedicels rarely exceeding the bracts till after flower- 

 ing. May. I. 2in. to Sin. long, ovate-elliptical or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, usually terminating in a callous point, h. 2ft. to 5ft. 1805. 

 A glabrous shrub. (B. M. 1757.) 



FIG. 628. DAVALLIA REPENS (see page 447). 



occasionally reduced to short clusters, or rarely solitary 

 or terminal; calyx teeth short; petals on a slender claw. 

 Leaves alternate, simple, entire, coriaceous or rigid, either 

 flat and horizontal or vertical, or terete and spinescent ; 

 stipules none, or very minute. They require a compost 

 of loam and peat, with a little sand, and delight in an 

 airy situation in the greenhouse. Propagated by cuttings, 

 made of firm young shoots, and placed in sand, under a 

 bell glass ; or by seeds, when obtainable, which should 



D. umbellulata (small-umbelled). fl., racemes in some speci- 

 mens shorter than the leaves, in others twice as long, flowering 

 from the middle upwards, or at the end only ; calyx about one 

 line long, the teeth short and obtuse ; petals twice as long as the 

 calyx. April. I. lanceolate or linear -lanceolate, iin. to Jin. 

 long, one-nerved, flat, not reticulate. Branches sulcate. A. 2ft 

 to 4ft. 1816. A slender, much-branched shrub. 



DAVYA (named after Sir H. Davy, an eminent 

 chemist). OED. Melastomacece. This genus is synonymous 

 with Meriania (which see). 



