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EUTAXTIA pungens. 
Pungent-leaved Rutawia. 
Linnean Class and Order. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Orders LEGUMINOS/, DC. prodr, 2. p.93. 
Subordo I. PAPILIONACE#.—Tribus I. SopHorem. Supra fol, 5. 
EUTAXIA. Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore emarginato, inferiore 3-fido. Co- 
rolla vexilli lamina paulo latiore quam longa. Ovarium dispermum. Stylus uncinatus. 
Stigma capitatum. Legumen modicé ventricosum. Semina strophiolata. DC. prodr.2. 
p. 109. 

E, pungens, racemis axillaribus paucifloris congestis, ovario villoso, ramis pedicellis ea- 
lycibusque adpresse canescentibus, foliis sparsis verticillatisve acicularibus sub- 
recurvis mucronato-pungentibus glabris margine revolutis. 
Dillwynia pungens. Mackay Mss. cutal, Swit. hort. brit. add. p, 474. 
A small evergreen Heath-like shrub, with long slender bran- 
ches, which are thickly clothed with dark green leaves: bran- 
ches weak, more or less bent with their own weight at the points, 
thinly clothed with close-pressed canescent hairs. Leaves nu- 
merous, crowded, scattered or in whorls, bent downwards, 
straight, needle-shaped, with a sharp pungent point, margins 
rolled back, a little roughish on the upper side, occasioned by 
numerous minute dots, not visible without the aid of a lens, of 
a dark green, and smooth, slightly pubescent when young. Ra- 
cemes axillary, crowded, 3 or 4-flowered. Bractes small, ovate, 
deciduous. Peduneles, pedicles, and calyx, clothed with a thin 
close-pressed canescence. Calyx 2-lipped, obtuse at the base ; 
the upper lip truncate, and slightly emarginate: lower one trifid, 
the laciniz oblong, blunt, with afringed white margin. Vewtllum 
broader than long, undulate, emarginate, with a broadish un- 
suis, of a bright yellow, with a dark orange circle surrounding 
the wings. Ale or wings spathulate, scarcely as long as the 
vexillum, the points curved inwards, so as to form an arch, 
having a shortish ear at the base on one side, and a slender un- 
cuis on the other, of an orangy yellow colour. Keel very short, 
