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with a longitudinal wing-like membrane, or with an unequal ring 
below stigma. Legume stipitate short, globose or compressed-l, 
2-seeded.—Glabrous shrubs or undershrubs; branches often rush- 
like ; leaves narrow or filiform, small, alternate opposite or verticil- 
late, more rarely 0; flowers’ solitary, axillary or lateral, more 
frequently in terminal or lateral racemes; bracts small (Australia’). 
252. Viminaria Sm.‘—Calyx gamosepalous; teeth much shorter 
than tube, subequal. Corolla and stamens nearly of Burtonia. 
Germen subsessile ; ovules 2 (of Jacksonia) ; style slender, apex minute 
stigmatiferous. Legume sessile ovoid-oblong; pericarp thin subin- 
dehiscent ; seed usually filling pericarp, minutely arillate-—A shrub, 
branches rush-like ; leaves alternate, 1—-3-foliolate or more frequently 
reduced to slender elongated petiole; flowers‘ in terminal slender 
racemes ; bracts minute caducous; bractlets 2 small, inserted at top 
of pedicel under flower ( Australia’). 
253. Daviesia Su.'—Receptacle minutely obconical, truncate 
horizontally at apex, glandular within. Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth 
5, subequal, or 2 superior connate broader. Petals with slender 
claws ; standard broadly reniform or orbicular; wings falcate-oblong 
or obovate; keel a little smaller than wings, incurved. Stamens 
10, free or only coherent at base ; 5 filaments often broader. Germen 
stipitate, 2-ovulate; style subulate; apex not thickened, stigmati- 
ferous. Legume stipitate much compressed, unequally 1-3-angular 
acute; placentary suture straight; dorsal curved at nearly a right- 
angle. Seeds 1,2; funicle dilated into an aril—Shrubs or under- 
shrubs; leaves alternate simple, horizontal or vertical, sometimes 
terete spinescent, sometimes prickle-like, more rarely very small or 
0; flowers’ usually small, in short, lax or umbelliform corymbiform, 
axillary or terminal racemes; bracts minute, rarely enlarged and 
protecting fruit ; bractlets 0 (Australia’). 
1 Yellow or red. 5 Species 1. V. denudata Sm., loc. cit.—R. 
2 Species 13. Lapitt., Nouv.-Holl., t. 1388.— 
R. Br., in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iti. 14.— 
Bentu., Fl. Austral., ii. 63.— Bot. Mag., t. 
969.—Watp., Ann., ii. 811; iv. 455. 
3 In Amn. of Bot., i. 507; Exot. Bot., 51, t. 
27; in Trans. Linn. Soc., ix. 261.—DC., Prodr., 
ii. 107.—Ewp3., Gen. n. 6436.—B. H., Gen., 
469, n. 18. 
4 Orange-yellow, small. 
VOL. II. 
Br., in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 138.— Bot. 
Mag., t. 1190.—Dariesia denudata VENnt., Ch. 
de Plant., t. 6.—Sophora juncea ScHRAD., Sert. 
Hannov., t. 3. 
6 In Trans. Linn. Soc., iv. 220.—DC., Prodr. 
ii. 113.—Enpu., Gen., n. 6435.—B. H., Gen., 
469, n. 19. 
7 Yellow, orange, or red, usually small. 
8 Species about 55. Lasrn., Nouv.-Holl., t. 
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