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D A V I E S I A ULICIFOLIA.
Furze-leaved Daviejta.
C L A S S X. ORDER L
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.
G E N E R I C CHARACTEK.
CALYX. Perianthium monophyllura, campanulatum
quinquedentatum ; laciniis equalibiis
ereélis.
C O R O L L A papillionacea, pentapetala.
Fexillum cordatum ereftum.
AU oblougae, vexillo duplo brevíores.
Carina dipelala, alls paulo longiora.
STAXMISA. Filamenta decera, diftinaa, affurgentia,
longitudine carina;. Anthera; firn,
plices minimae.
PisTiLLUM. Germen ovato-oblongum. Stylus
fubulatus, magnitudine et lìtu flaminum.
Stigma acutum.
P E K I C A R P I U M . Capfula triangularis, compreffa,
acuta, unilocularis, bivalvis.
SEMEN unum, reniforme.
E M P A L E M E K T . Cup one-leaf, bell-fliaped, fivetoothed;
fegments equal, upright.
BLOSSOM butterfly-lliaped, five-petalled.
Standard heart-ihaped, upright.
Wings oblong, half the length of the iiandard.
Keel two petals, a little fhorter than the
wings.
CHIVES. Threads ten, diftinft, turned upwards,
the length of the keel. Tips fimple, very
fmali.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud oblong egg-fliaped. Shaft
awl-ihaped, of the fame fize and ftation as
the chives. Summit pointed.
S E E D - V E S S E L . Capfule triangular, flat, fliarp
pointed, one cell, two valves.
S E E D one, kidney-ihape.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Daviefia foliis lanceolatis, rigidis pungentibus;
floribus axillaribus fpicatis.
Daviefia witli lance-fliaped leaves, harili and
prickings flowers grow from the infertion
of the leaves in fpikes.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement of the flower, natural fize.
1. The Empalement magnified.
3. The Standard, or upper petal of the bloflTom.
4. One of the Wings of the bloflbm. '
5. The two petals of the Keel.
6. The Chives, magnified.
7. The Pointal.
8. A ripe Seed-veflel.
T H I S divifion of the butterfly flowered plants, from New Holland, was among the firrt genera which
were raifed from the feeds of that country, in Britain. And though we have poflefled the plants fo
long, and both fpecies, or rather the two varieties, perfeft their feeds with us; yet are the plants very
fcarce, few of them are to be met with, and feldom more than a plant, or two, is to be found in any
colleaion. The Daviefias grow about a foot and a half high, and when in flower make a very pretty
appearance, as neariy the whole buili is covered with bloflbms. They are rather tender, and are impatient
of wet, which is, perhaps, the greateft enemy many of the plants from that country have to
encounter with us. It flowers about April or May; is increafed by feeds, or cuttings; ftiould be kept
in a fmall pot, comparatively with what may be ufed for the fame fized plants, and planted in fandy
peat. Our drawing was made from the Hibbertian colleftion, in the month of May 1802.
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