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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS 
FROM NEW SOUTH WALES. 
By J. H, Maiden, F.L.S., and R. T. Baker, F.L.S. 
(Plates l.-liii.) 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Daviesia recurvata, sp.nov. 
(Plate l.) 
A small shrub with erect branches, hirsute, branchlets terete, 
not slender. 
Leaves very rigid, small, appressed, numerous, lanceolate, articu- 
late, thick with recurved margins, the midrib only showing at the 
base on the underside, acuminate, gradually tapering to a straight 
rigid pungent point; usually about 2 lines long, rarely 4 lines, 
mostly under a line in breadth, often glabrous on the underside 
which has a scurfy appearance; the hairs on the upper surface 
have a basal gland. 
Flowers solitary or clustered on filiform pedicels, either shorter 
or longer than the leaves. Bracts prominent. 
Calyx under 1 line long, the turbinate base short, teeth not 
long, the two upper ones truncate and rather broader than the 
others, united at the base. Standard about times as long as 
the calyx, dark coloured. Keel short, incurved. 
Pod not seen. 
Analysis showing its relation to cognate species : — 
D. filipes. Branches hirsute. Leaves oblong or oval-oblong, 
not reticulate, straight-pointed, under J in. Shortly pungent- 
pointed. Bracts very small. 
D. recurvata, sp.nov. Branches hirsute; leaves lanceolate, much 
acuminate, recurved margins under 4 lines (mostly 2); bracts 
prominent. 
