82 FLOKA OF TASMANIA. {Leguminosm. 
with glabrous filaments. Ovary shortly stipitate, many-ovuled. Pod inflated, almost spherical. (Name from 
yofx(f)os, a tcedge, and Xo/Sos, a pod.) 
1. Gompholobium latifolium (Smith, in Ann. of Bot. i. 505 et ii. 519) ; decumbens, ramis ascen- 
dentibus, foliis sessilibus v. breve petiolatis 3-foliolatis, foliolis lineari-oblongis obovatis v. anguste lineari- 
bus, pedunculis gracilibus folio longioribus, carina fimbriata. — Smith, Linn. Soc. Trans, ix. 249 ; Lab. Nov. 
Roll. i. 105. t. 133 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 105. G. fimbriatum, 8m. Exot. Bot. t. 58. G. psoralesefoliurn, Salisb. 
Par. Lond. t. 6. G. Hugelii, Midi. Mi. PL Hiigel. {Gunn, 24, 475.) 
Yar. a ; foliolis lineari-obovatis oblongisve. 
Yar. /3 ; foliolis anguste linearibus. 
Hab. Abundant in heathy places throughout the Colony, Labillardiere, etc. — (Fl. Nov. Dec.) 
(v. v.) 
Disteib. New South Wales and South Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
Yery variable in size and habit. — Roots woody, descending, giving off many slender decumbent branches, with 
slender, ascending, glabrous or pubescent or pilose, flaccid or rigid branches, 4-8 inches long. Petioles 1-2 lines 
long ; leaflets three, |-| inch long, variable in form, from narrow linear to linear-obovate, glabrous, deep green 
above, paler below, uniform in size throughout the individual specimens. Peduncles slender, axillary, one-flowered, 
twice as long as the leaves or more, gradually thickened upwards from above the middle to the calyx. Flowers very 
variable in size, from i to 1 inch across, pale or deep yellow. Calyx-lobes blunt, margined with down. Pods broadly 
oblong, ventricose, two or three times as long as the calyx.— Gunn considers that there may be two species included 
under this, but neither Mr. Bentham nor I have been able to discriminate them ; the paler colour of the flowers of 
one is the only character Gunn alludes to. 
Obs. Gompholobium tomentosum (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. 106. t. 134) is erroneously described as a native of Tas- 
mania in De Candolle's Prodromus. 
Gen. III. DAVIESIA, Smith. 
Calyx campanulatus, angulatus, sequalis v. subbilabiatus. Fexillum longe unguiculatum. Carina alas 
subsequans, incurva. Stamina 10, libera; filamentis dilatatis. Ovarium breviter stipitatum, 2-ovulatum. 
Legumen plano-compressum, obliquum, sutura altera recta, altera valde incurva. Semina strophiolata. — 
Fruticuli et frutices habitu polymorphs ; ramis teretibus, angulatis, alatis phyllodineisve ; foliis nullis v. 
oppositis v. verticiUatis ; inflorescentia varia. 
A genus well marked by the character of the pod, which is short, flattened, and very oblique, with a 
straight upper edge and much curved lower edge, whence it is often triangular; this distinguishes it from all the 
decandrous LegnmUosa with free stamens and two ovules. The habit of the genus is very variable, and many 
Australian species assume the most singular forms, so that it is often impossible to guess the Natural Order 
to which they belong when without the flower or fruit ; this is especially the case with the South-west Australian 
ones. Upwards of forty species are known, of which about twenty inhabit the southern and eastern coast of 
Australia, and a few are tropical. (Named in honour of the Rev. H. Davies, F.L.S., a Welsh botanist.) 
1. Daviesia umbellulata (Smith, Linn. Soc. Trans, ix. 258) ; ramis angulatis rigidis, foliis parvis 
lanceolatis ovatisve pungentibus, floribus breve pedicellatis in umbellulam paucifloram dispositis rarius ses- 
silibus.— DC. Prodr. ii. 114. 
Yar. a; glabra, ramis spineseentibus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis. {Gunn, 799, 1056.) 
Yar. £ ; ramis laxioribus vix spineseentibus, foliis longioribus lineari-lanceolatis. — Var. /?. 
DC. Prodr. I. c. D. umbellata, var., Lab., Nov. Holl. i. 107. t. 137. {Gunn, 136, 1J7.) 
