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DAVIESIA UUCINA. 
(furze-like DAVIESIA.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER, 
LEGUMINOS^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx angular, five-tootlied. Keel shorter than the vexillum. Ovary stalked, 
two-seeded. Style simple. Legume compressed, angular, opening with elasticity. Appendage of 
the seed entire behind. 
Specific Character. — Plant a greenhouse evergreen shrub, growing from two to three feet high. Leaves 
lanceolate, or linear, with smooth margins, and are, as well as the branches, spinescent at the apex, 
spreading; flowers axillary, solitary, on very short pedicles. Don. 
The number of beautiful plants that have been added to our collections from 
the fertile soil of New South Wales since the introduction of the one now fig-uredj 
must be surprising, for we learn that this was introduced among- some of the first 
from that prolific country. 
It has a neat pleasing aspect, and when in flower is remarkably striking ; the yel- 
low of each blossom relieved by the brown pencil marks on each of the back petals, 
forms a pretty contrast with the green sharp-pointed furze-like leaves by which the 
branches are amply beset in alternate order. The flowers are solitary, and produced 
in profusion towards the extremity of the branches, each expanding on a short foot- 
stalk in succession about April and May. 
Among greenhouse plants it is considered tolerably hardy, and not very diflScult 
to cultivate ; but, like most others from the same country, it requires that peculiar 
nicety in its management, without which it does not grow or flower freely. It should 
be potted in loam and peat mixed, the latter not made very fine, observing to drain 
the pots well with shreds, and not give the plants much water unless growing, when 
they may have a pretty good supply. The plants should enjoy an abundance of air 
