Spharolobium.] 
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branches bearing a few scattered linear or narrow-lanceolate leaves, rarely exceed- 
ing Jin. in length. Flowers numerous, usually clustered two or three together 
along the smaller branches, forming dense or interrupted terminal racemes. 
Pedicels very short. Calyx l\ to nearly 2 lines long, the tube about as long as 
the upper lip. Petals about twice as long as the calyx ; keel somewhat incurved, 
very obtuse, as long as the wings. Style much curved from near the base, with 
a long narrow wing along the inner edge. Pod scarcely 2 lines diameter. — Bot. 
Mag. t. 969 ; DC. Prod. ii. 108 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1753 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 
84 ; S. minus, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. i. 108, t. 138. 
Hab.: Swampy land, south Queensland. 
10. VIMINARIA, Sm. 
(Branches broom-like, twiggy.) 
Calyx-teeth short, equal. Petals on rather long claws. Standard- orbicular ; 
wings oblong, shorter than the standard ; keel slightly curved, about as long as 
the wings. Stamens free. Ovary nearly sessile ; style filiform, with a small 
terminal stigma ; ovules 2, with short funicles. Pod sessile, ovoid-oblong, 
usually indehiscent, the pericarp thickly membranous. Seed usually solitary, 
filling the cavity, with a very small annular strophiole.- — Shrub, with rush-like 
stems. Leaves alternate, mostly reduced to a long filiform petiole. Flowers 
small, in terminal racemes. 
The genus is limited to a single species, with the flowers nearly of a Daviesia, but very distinct 
in the fruit, which is almost that of a Melilotus. — Benth. 
1. V. denudata (leaves wanting), Sm. Exot. Bot. 51, t. 27, and in Ann. Bot. 
i. 507, and Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 261 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 68. A glabrous shrub, 
sometimes erect, attaining 10 to 20ft., with long, wiry, pendulous branches, more 
rarely low and decumbent. Leaves reduced to filiform petioles, of from 3 to 8 or 
even 9in., the lower ones or those of luxuriant branches occasionally bearing at 
the extremity 1 to 3 oval-oblong or lanceolate, herbaceous leaflets, of J to ljin. 
Flowers small, orange-yellow, in long terminal Kacemes. Pedicels rarely as long 
as the calyx, in the axils of small scale- like bracts, without bracteoles. Calyx 
nearly 2 lines long, including the short, turbinate, disk-bearing base. Petals 
about twice as long. Pod 2 to 3 lines long. Albumen rather thicker than in the 
other Podalyriece where it has been observed. — DC. Prod. ii. 107 ; Bot. Mag. t. 
1190; Meissn. in PL Preiss. i. 57 ; Paxt. Mag. xiv. 123, with a fig.; Sophora 
juncea, Schrad. Sert. Hannov. t. 3 ; Pultencea juncea, Willd. Spec. ii. 506 ; 
Daviesia denudata, Vent. Choix, t. 6 ; D. juncea, Pers. Syn. i. 454, not of Sm. 
Hab.: Fraser’s Island, Miss Lovell. 
11. DAVIESIA, Sm. 
(After the Rev. H. Davies, F.L.S., a Welsh botanist.) 
Calyx-teeth short, either all equal or the 2 upper ones united in a truncate 
upper lip, the disk-bearing base either shortly turbinate or elongated and stalk- 
like. Petals on a slender claw ; standard orbicular or reniform, emarginate ; 
wings falcate-oblong or obovate, not longer than the standard ; keel more or less 
incurved, obtuse or almost acute, not exceeding the wings. Stamens free, the 
5 outer filaments often flattened and sometimes cohering in a tube, although 
readily separable. Ovary shortly stipitate, tapering into a subulate style, with a 
small terminal stigma ; ovules 2, with short funicles. Pod nearly sessile or 
stipitate, more or less flattened, acute, triangular, the upper suture nearly straight, 
the dorsal or lower suture much curved, forming almost a right angle. Seeds 
solitary or rarely 2, with a rather large strophiole. — Shrubs or undershrubs. 
Leaves alternate, simple, entire, coriaceous or rigid, either flat and horizontal or 
