Zeguminosa?.] flora OF Tasmania 83 
Var. 7; ramis spinescentibus foliisque internum pilosis. | On m, L81, L057.) 
Hab. Most abundant throughout the Colony. — (Fl. Sept. to Nov.) (r. r.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and Southern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
This is one of the most common plants in the Colony, growing in tight as w, 11 a< still' soil, and forming a harsh 
rigid spinous bush a few inches to several feet high, sometimes being absolutely prostate, ami at i I 
a short trunk.— Branches grooved, angled, and generally spinescent, glabrous or pilose. Leaves {-\ inch king, very 
woody, rigid, sessile, ovate or lanceolate, tapering to a rigid spine, glabrous or pilose. Fiowert small, blue, in 
lateral few-flowered umbels or racemes which are shorter than the leaves; ;Wi<v/j» with braeholcs at their bam. 
Pods i inch long, with an arched upper edge and much curved lower, pointed ; valves smooth and glabrous. A*rf 
kidney-shaped, red brown. 
2. Daviesia latifolia (Br. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.iii. 20) ; foliis amplis elliptic is oblongis rllipiin.-hmcn.- 
latisve mucronatis reticulatim venosis ramisque inermibus, racemis axillanbus densiiloris. — s 
1757; DC. Prodr. ii. 113. 
Hab. Common throughout the Colony.— (Fl. Oct. Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
A small evergreen bush 2-5 feet high, with slender angled ami ndeste branches.— /■ 
variable in shape, from broadly elliptical-oblong or almost orbicular to eDiptaotl-lanoeokte, hlunt. -harp, KWimilMltf 
ormucronate; margin with a thickened edge ; surfaces alike, and both strongly reticulated Rsa - 
many-flowered, usually solitary and simple. Flower* TBiy numerous, crowded, oorered in budwitii 
riaceous concave oblong blunt scales £ inch long. C/tj/.r with short bin:.: nd blue, \ inch 
long. Pods nearly § inch long, very gibbous on the lower edge ; vales* smooth. 
Gen. IV. AOTUS, Smith. 
Calyx ebracteolatus, campanulatus, bilabiatus, labio superiore 2-fido, inferiore 3-fido. VexUhm alas 
oblongas superans, unguiculatum, orbiculatum. Carina incurva, obtusa, alas subacquans. Stamina 10, 
libera; filamentis glabris. Ovarium subsessile, 2-ovulatum. Legumen coriaceum, ovoideum. Semina 
estrophiolata. — Frutices ; foliis spams v. ternatim verticil la I is, exstijmlatis ; pedicellis axillarihm ebracteatis 
1 -floris ; floribus flavis. 
An Austraban genus of about ten known species, which with very few exceptions are confined to Booth-west Aus- 
tralia. — Shrubs or under-shrubs, with alternate or whorled exstipulate leaves, and small solitary axillary yellow lowers. 
Pedicels and flowers without bracts. Calyx campanulate, two-lipped; upper lip bifid j bwer fcrifid. s 
clawed, longer than the oblong wings. Keel incurved, blunt. Stamens ten, bee. Ossvy two-oral 
two-seeded. (Named from a, without, and ovs, an ear ; in allusion to the calyx not ! : 
1. Aotus villosa (Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 949); ramis foliis subtus calycibusque torn 
sparsis oblongis linearibusve obtusis acutis mucronatisve marginibu- n 
subtus costa valida pilosa. — Smith, in 8m*u, Ami. Bot. i 
Kew. ed. 2. iii. 14 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 108. A. ferruginea, Lab. Nov. Boll. i. 1" 1. /. 1:J2. Pulti 
tent. Malm. t. 35. P. villosa, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 309. {Gimn, 212, Ml, 178.) 
Tariat insigniter ramis canis pubescentibus tomentosis villosis v. tomentosis et pilosis ;— folium t,> forma 
magnitudine et disposition, apicibus obtusis acutis mucronatisve, pagina superiore polita, opaca, pilosa v. 
scaberula, inferiore glabrata, cana, pubescente v. tomentosa; — ' ' - ' I sljfi is ft magnitudine florum. 
Hab. Most abundant throughout the Colony, and often covering many acres of ground.— (Fl. Oct. 
Dec.) (v. v.) 
