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XLIII. LEGUMINOSiE. 
[Daviesia. 
often 2 in an axil, about lin. long, bearing 8 or 9 golden-coloured flowers on long 
slender pedicels ; bracts minute ; calyx about 1 line long, with ciliate teeth ; 
petals with dark markings, the standard about 3 lines long; pod small. 
Hab.: District of the Logan River. 
In general appearance this tree resembles one of the narrow-leaved Wattles. The above 
specific name seems first to have been attached to it by Mr. Walter Hill; it was afterwards 
noticed by the late Rev. B. Scortechini. There is little, however, except size, to separate it from 
D. corymbosa, Sm. 
Wood of a pinkish colour, with numerous reddish longitudinal streaks, and beautifully 
mottled, fragrance peculiarly agreeable; a strong, useful cabinet wood. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods 
No. 114. 
6. D. filipes (pedicels thread-like), Bentli. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 363, 
and FI. Austr. ii. 80. Branches slender, terete, virgate, softly hirsute 
as well as the leaves. Leaves oblong or oval-oblong, shortly pungent-pointed, 
under fin. long, veinless except the midrib. Flowers solitary or 2 together, on 
filiform pedicels about as long as the leaves. Bracts very small. Calyx If to 
If line long, the turbinate base rather short, the teeth short, the 2 upper ones 
broad, truncate, and united. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel rather 
shorter, incurved, obtuse. Pod only seen young. 
Hab.: On the Maranoa River, Mitchell. 
7. D. squarrosa (squarrose), Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 507, and in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 257 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 80. A glabrous or pubescent shrub, 
with slender terete or slightly angular branches. Leaves numerous, sessile, 
spreading or reflexed, cordate or ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a pungent point, 
mostly 3 to 4 lines long, veinless except the prominent midrib. Flowers small, 
solitary or 2 together, on pedicels of 2 to 3 lines, with a few minute bracts at 
their base. Calyx about 1 line long, the turbinate base very short, the teeth 
rather short, the 2 upper ones broader and shortly united, but not forming a 
truncate upper lip. Standard twice as long as the calyx ; keel rather shorter, 
much incurved, obtuse. Pod about 5 lines long. — DC. Prod. ii. 114. 
Var. villifera. Branches and younger leaves pubescent or villous. — D. villifera, A. Cunn.; 
Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 76. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser, F. v. Mueller, and others. 
Flowering in September. 
8. D. ulicina (Furze-like), Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 506, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
ix. 256 ; Benth. Ft. Austr. ii. 81. A rigid, bushy shrub, attaining sometimes 
several feet, the branches more or less angular, the smaller ones generally ending 
in short thorns, glabrous or hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves from broadly- 
ovate to lanceolate or linear, ending in a pungent point, usually under fin., but 
occasionally attaining lin. when narrow and luxuriant, very rigid, veinless, 
except the midrib. Flowers solitary or clustered or rarely in umbels of 3 or 4, on 
a short common peduncle. Bracts very small. Pedicels short. Calyx 1 to If 
line long, the turbinate base very short, the 2 upper teeth rather broader than 
the others, but scarcely united at the base. Standard very broad, more than twice 
as long as the calyx ; keel shorter, much incurved, obtuse. Pod 4 to 5 lines 
long. — DC. Prod. ii. 114 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 44 ; Paxt. Mag. iv. 29, with a fig.; 
D. ulicifolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 304 ; I). umbellulata, DC. Prod. ii. 114 (partly) ; 
Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 82, not of Sm.; D. genistoides, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1552. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay and Burnett River, F. v. Mueller ; Stradbroke Island, Bailey. 
Var. angustifolia. Glabrous. Leaves linear, but flat, not terete nor laterally compressed, 
as in D. genistifolia, and the calyx quite that of D. ulicina. Hab.: Southern parts of the colony. 
9. D. acicularis (needle-like), Sm. in Ann. Bot. i. 506, and in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. ix. 255 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 81. An erect shrub, with virgate branches, 
glabrous or pubescent. Leaves crowded, linear, pungent-pointed, mostly about 
lin. long, the margins revolute, the midrib conspicuous at the base only. Flowers 
