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XLIII. LEGUMINOSjE. 
[Daviesia. 
vertical, or terete and spinescent, sometimes decurrent along the stem, or reduced 
to short prickles or teeth, or entirely wanting. Stipules none or very minute. 
Flowers usually small, yellow, orange, or red, in axillary or lateral racemes or 
pedunculate umbels, occasionally reduced to short clusters or rarely solitary or 
terminal. Bracts at the base of the racemes small, dry and scale-like, those under 
the pedicels similar or a few of them, in a few species, much enlarged over the 
fruit. Bracteoles none. Ovary glabrous. 
The genus is limited to Australia. The short calyx-teeth usually distinguish it from almost 
all Podalyriea except Viminaria and Latrobea (a West Australian genus), but cannot be 
absolutely relied upon ; the pod, however, is quite peculiar. It is also in most cases readily 
known by the habit, and is indeed so natural that, numerous as are the species, I have been 
unable to distribute them into distinct sections. The following series are founded chiefly on 
the foliage and on the degree of development of the inflorescence. Some species of this genus, 
when not in flower, have been occasionally mistaken for phyllodineous Acacias.— Benth. 
Series I. Umbellatae . — Flowers umbellate, at the ends of the peduncles. Bracts all small 
and not enlarging. Leaves flat, horizontal, usually small, rigid, with pungent points. 
(D. umbellulata and D. corymbosa, amongst the Bacemosce. have the flowers occasionally 
almost umbellate.) 
Leaves broadly ovate-cordate, tapering into a pungent point 1. D. concinna. 
Leaves linear, 6 to 12in. long. Peduncles 1 to 3 in the axils of the leaves of 
the upper branches. Umbels bearing about 5 flowers 2 . D. Wyattiana. 
Series II. Racemosae. — Flowers racemose, the common rliachis elongated, either flowering 
from the base or the pedicels crowded towards the end. Bracts small. Leaves flat, horizontal. 
Leaves (under lin.) linear or linear-lanceolate, pungent, not reticulate. 
Racemes flowering above the middle. Bracts very small 3 . D. umbellulata. 
Leaves narrow, elongated, the lower ones rarely ovate-oblong, not pungent. 
Branches slightly angular. Flowers numerous. Calyx 1 to 1J line long. 
Flowering branches all leafy, never spinescent 4. D. corymbosa. 
Tree. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 2 to 4in. long. Racemes numerous. Calyx- 
teeth ciliate 5. D. arbor ea. 
Series III. Fasciculatae. — Flowers in axillary clusters or very short racemes. Leaves flat, 
horizontal, pungent-pointed . 
Leaves under Jin. long, oval or oval-oblong, not reticulate, straight-pointed. 
Calyx with a truncate upper lip. Branches hirsute 6. D. filipes. 
Leaves under lin. long, cordate-ovate, lanceolate or linear. Calyx 5-toothed 
Branches not spinescent. 
Leaves cordate or ovate, much acuminate, usually under Jin. long. 
Pedicels filiform 7. D. squarrosa. 
Leaves linear, with revolute margins, about lin. long. Pedicels very 
short 9. D. acicularis. 
Branches spinescent. Leaves ovate, lanceolate or linear, pungent-pointed, 
but scarcely acuminate 8. D. ulicina. 
Series IV. Teretifoliae. — Leaves terete or slightly compressed or rarely vertically dilated 
towards the top, at length articulate on the stem, usually short or pungent-pointed. L lowers 
solitary, clustered, or rarely racemose. 
Leaves divaricate, very pungent. Upper calyx-teeth truncate. Filaments 
slender. Bracts very small. Keel not much covered, obtuse . . . . 10. D. genistifolia. 
1. D. concinna (neat), R. Br. Herb.; Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 75. 
Branches elongated, slender, slightly angular-pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate- 
cordate, tapering into a pungent point, not exceeding Jin., almost veinless except 
the midrib. Flowers small, in umbels of 8 or 4, on a common peduncle about as 
long as the leaves. Bracts very small. Pedicels slender, 2 to 4 lines long. Calyx 
about 1 line long. Petals and pod of D. umbellulata, from which the species 
differs chiefly in the broad, less coriaceous leaves and more umbellate inflorescence. 
Hab.: Rock Hills, Pine Port, R. Brown. 
2. D. Wyattiana (after Dr. William Wyatt, of South Australia), Bail., 
Papers Gardeners’ Soc. S. Austr. A tall, erect, glabrous shrub of from 5 to 10ft., 
branches acutely triangular, the faces striated. Leaves linear, 6 to 12in. long, 2 
or 8 lines broad, tapering towards the base, where the midrib is prominent on 
