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DAVIESTA cordata. 
Cordate-leaved Daviesiua. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat, ord. LEGuminosm Tribus IL. Sophoreee. Dec. 
DAVIESTA.—Supra, vol. 9. fol, 728. 
D. cordata; foliis cordatis amplexicaulibus reticulato-venosis, pedunculis 
axillaribus aggregatis corymbosis multifloris. Dec. prodr. 2. 114. 
D. cordata. Smrth in act. Linn. 9. 253. 
Folia cordata, amplexicaulia, acuminata, glaberrima, cartilaginea, reti- 
culata, yenis primariis patentibus, arcuatis externisgue ramosissemis, costa- 
libus nullés ; yenulis propriis communibusque equalibus, intertextis. Co- 
rymbi axillares, pedunculuti, folio breviores. Calyx ebracteolatus, glaberri- 
mus, coloratus, campanulatus, labio superiore lato, truncato, emarginato, 
¢wferiore equilongo tridentato. Vexillum luteum, erectum, subrotundum, 
emarginatum, bast purpureo-fusco maculatum, ad apicem unguis calycis 
longitudine subcallosum.  Alee oblonga, fusco-lutee, carine longitudine, 
vexillo breviores, bast hinc v. utrinque cordata. Carina falcata, acuta, 
purpureo-aurantiaca. Stamina 10, bast calycis inserta, inequalia; fila- 
menta linearia, apice retusa. Antheree parve, subrotunde, innate. Pollen 
minimum, sphericum, bi-tripapillosum. Ovarium glabrum, pedicellatum, 
lanceolatum, trispermum. Stylus subulatus, glaberrimus. Stigma simplex. 
- Another new acquisition to our gardens, for which we 
have again to record the collection of Mr. Mackay, of 
Clapton, to whom it was communicated by Wm. Townshend 
Aiton, Esq., from his Majesty’s Gardens at Kew. 
A beautiful greenhouse plant, flowering in profusion in 
the month of May; native of New Holland. 
Leaves cordate, amplexicaul, acuminate, quite smooth, 
cartilaginous, reticulated; vere primarié diverging at an 
angle of about 50°, vene arcuate and evterne much 
branched; costales none; venule proprie and communes 
equal and intermingled. Corymbs axillary, pedunculate, 
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