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EUTAXIA pungens.
Pungent-leaved Eutaxia.
Linnean Class and Order. DEC AND RIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. LEGUMIN OS Æ. DC.prodr. 2.p.93.
Subordo I. PAPILIONACEÆ.—Tribus I. Sophoreæ. Supra fol. 5.
EUTAXIA. Calyx bilabiatiis, labio superiore emaiginato, inferiore 3-fido. Corolla
vexilli laminàpanlô latiore quam longâ. Ovarium dispermum. Stylus uncinatus.
Stigma capitatum. Legumen inodicè ventricosiim. Semina stiophiolata. DC.prodr.2.
p. 109.
E. pungens, raceinis axillaribus pancifloris congestis, ovario villoso, ramis pedicellis ca-
lvcibnsque adpresse canesçentibus, foliis sparsis vertieillatisve acicularibus sub-
recurviâ mucronato-pungentibus glabris margine revolutis.
Dillwynia pungens. Mackay Mss. catal. Swt. hort. brit. add. p. 474.
A small evergreen Heath-like shrub, with long slender branches,
which are thickly clothed with dark green leaves: branches
weak, more or less bent with their own weight at the points,
thinly clothed with close-pressed canescent hairs. Leaves numerous,
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. Racemes
axillary, crowded, 3 or 4-flowered. Bractes small, ovate,
deciduous. Peduncles, 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 laciniae oblong, blunt, with afringed white margin. Vexillum
broader than long, undulate, emarginate, with a broadish unguis,
of a bright yellow, with a dark orange circle surrounding
the w’ings. Alee 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 unguis
on the other, of an orangy yellow colour. Keel very short,