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

Volume 10 — PLATE DCXXXVIII. DAVIESIA LATIFOLIA. Broad-leaved 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.

Daviesia spicis multifloris, axillaribus: foliis late lanceolatis, undulatis: calyce regulari.

Daviesia with spikes of many flowers, axillary: leaves broadly lance-shaped, and undulated. Cup equal.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The empalement. 2. The standard. 3. One of the wings. 4. The keel. 5. The chives spread open. 6. Seed-bud and pointal.

This little shrub from New Holland is both new and beautiful, well adapted to grace any collection, being of easy culture, small in size, with abundance of brilliant little flowers growing from the axils of every leaf. The specimen we have delineated was communicated to us by Mr. J. Milne, from the Font Hill gardens, in fine bloom, in the month of April 1811.

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