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DAVIESIA alata. 
Winged Daviesia. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Leguminosz. Jussiew gen. 345. Div. IV. 
DAVIESIA. Smith in linn. trans. 4. 222, Calyx angulatus ebractea- 
tus. Corolla papilionacea, carina vexillo breviore. Germen pedicellatum, 
dispermum. Stylus strictus. Stigma simplex. Legumen compressum an- 
gulatum, elasticé dehiscens. Sérophiola seminis posticé integra. Brown 
in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3.20. — 
D. alata, ramis erecto-patentibus elongatis aphyllis, axi lignosa tereti pro- 
~  minente laté utrinque alat4; pedunculis alternis incisuris ramorum sede 
tibus brevibus inferné fimbriato-bracteatis apice fasciculato-floriferis : 
legumine compressé dolabriformi, scarioso-pergamineo monospermo; 
semine renato-rotundo, lineolis nigris super fundum melino-fuscum no- 
tato. 
Daviesia alata, caule aphyllo alato, umbellis lateralibus, calyce bracteisque 
fimbriatis. Smith in linn. trans. 9. 
Caulis brevis teres lignosus fusco-corticatus, ab apice ramorum comam nu- 
merosam fasciculato-fastigiantem elongatam erecto-patentem educens: rami 
aphylli, alati, latitudine fere 5 uncie v. circa, virentes, foliaceo-extenuatt axt 
medié tenus ad utramque marginem pro florum sedibus excist. Flores plures 
in summo pedunculo aggregatt subsessiles: bractez plures, sparse, alterna, 
herbacee, ciliate. Legumen melino-fuscescens, oblate semi-ovatum, ine- 
quilaterum, margine altero rectiori obliquato, altero latiort ventricosissimo, 
pergamineo-scariosum, apice mucronatum. Semen renato-subrotundum, 
melinum, lineolis nigris elegantissimé pictum: Strophiola funiculo brevi crasso 
umbilicali pedicellata oblonga crassa incumbens albida: umbilicus ared 
subscyaned insitus. 
Drawn at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, where the species was 
probably first raised from New Holland seed. Still a very 
rare plant. Not taken up in the Hortus Kewensis. 
The solitary oblong seed contained in the elastically 
bursting pod of this curious little shrub, reminds us of some 
sorts of bird’s egg in miniature, is of a fawn colour, brokenly 
spotted with short black lines, and scarcely bigger than a 
mustard-seed. The s¢em is short, round, and woody, with 
a rough brown bark; produces a level-topped fascicle of 
long green foliaceously winged leafless branches from its 
summit, which are indented quite to the midrib alternately 
and distantly at each edge; the indentations serve as niches 
