The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 10 [of 10]

Volume 10 — PLATE DCXI. DAVIESIA CORYMBOSA. Corymbed Daviesia.

Reading edition

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx angulatus, simplex, quinquefidus. Corolla papilionacea. Stylus subulatus. Stigma simplex, acutum. Legumen compressum, monospermum.

Cup angled, simple, 5-cleft. Blossom butterfly-shaped. Shaft awl-shaped. Summit simple, acute. Pod compressed, one-seeded.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

D. corymbosa, foliis lineari-oblongis, planis, muticis; pedunculis axillaribus, geminis, corymbosis, multifloris; calyce regulari. Smith in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. 8. p. 258.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. Empalement. 2. The standard. 3. One of the wings. 4. The keel. 5. The chives and pointal. 6. The seed-bud and pointal. 7. A half-ripe seed-vessel.

This showy species is a native of New Holland, and was raised from seed by Mr. Gibbs, last year, in his nursery at Brompton, and is not as yet, we believe, in any other collection.

It may not be improper to observe, that the calyx of this species appears a little bilabiate, and the germen two-seeded, although one of the seeds in the fruits we have examined was always abortive.

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