* BILLARDIÉRA -ovalis. 
Oval-leaveil Billardiera. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Prrrosrongz. R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 138.) 
BILLARDIERA. Smith. Sepala 5, acuminata. Corolla tubuloso-campa- 
nulata, petalis 5; unguibus margine convolutis approximatis. Stamina petalorum 
longitudine ; antheris liberis, linearibus, longitudinatiter dehiscentibus. Ovarium 
rectum, 2-loculare, polyspermum. Pericarpium molle, spongiosum, subbaccatum, 
loculis inflatis. Semina plurima, pulpâ nullâ obducta, rotunda, compressa. 
«Frutices volubiles (Australasici) foliis integris serratisve, floribus sub-solitariis, 
viridi-lutescentibus, axillaribus, pendulis. 
B. ovalis ; ramis junioribus pubescentibus, foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis utringue 
concoloribus, pedunculis 1-foris glabris flori subegualibus, petalis rectis 
obtusiusculis. 
A native of Van Diemen's Land, whence it was introduced by Mr. 
owe, of Clapton, who furnished us with the specimen for our figure. 
It is nearly related to B. longiflora, from which it chiefly differs in 
its smaller and shorter flowers, and more oval obtuse leaves; with the 
Tuit we are unacquainted. Its flowers change from greenish yellow 
to dark purple, and appear in May. 
. Ttis probable that it will be quite hardy enough to live in this 
Country trained to a west wall, if protected from wet in winter; at 
all events a cold pit would be ample covering for it, and for all the 
other species. The beautiful Sollya also (figured at tab. 1466 of this 
Work) grows with all its native luxuriance in such a situation. 
With regard to the latter plant, we avail ourselves of the present 
opportunity of making a few remarks touching its differences from 
illardiera. Atthe time when we described Sollya, we were acquainted 
only with its flowers ; but their structure was so different from that 
of Billardiera that we had no doubt of its constituting a distinct genus. 
ts inflorescence opposite the leaves, short somewhat campanulate 
corollas, short stamens, with the anthers adhering in a cone round the 
style, and opening by two pores at their points, were obviously cha- 
Tacters of importance when contrasted with the axillary inflorescence, 
ong corollas, whose petals roll together into a tube, and the long sta- 
qns with widely distant anthers of Billardiera. Upon such. marks, 
then, the genus was formed ; and when we afterwards ascertained 
that Labillardidre had described the fruit of Sollya as a dry papery 
* So named in compliment to the French Botanist La Billardiére, who 
ein D’Entrecasteaux in his Voyage in search of La Pérouse, from 1791 
4. 
