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BlLLARDIERA SCANDENS. CLIMBING BlL- 

 LARDIERA, Or APPLE-BERRY. 



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Oafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia* 



Generic Characler. 



Petala 5, foliolis calycinis alterna. NecJarium o. Stigma 

 capitatum (fimplex Smith). Bacca fupera polyfperma. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



BlLLARDIERA fcandens ; pedunculis folitariis unifloris, 

 foliis fubhirfutis. Smith New Ho//. Rot. p. 

 1. t. 1. 



The name of Billardiera was given to this plant by Dr. 

 Smith, in honour of James Julian Labillardiere, M. D. 

 foreign member of the Linnean Society, author of Icones 

 Plantarum Syriae rariorum, who failed as Botanift on board 

 one of the (hips fent to the South-Seas in fearch of the un- 

 fortunate M. De La Peyrouse, of which voyage he has fi nee 

 publifhed a relation. 



It is a native of New South- Wales, and is faid by Dr. 

 Smith to be almoft the only eatable fruit that grows fpon- 

 taneoufly in that country, fo famous for feafting the eye of the 

 Botanift. 



"With us it forms a very low fhrub with varioufly twifted 

 branches, but when growing in its native country fhaded by 

 other fhrubs, along the trunks of which its branches can twine, 

 it undoubtedly afcends much higher. 



In the form of the flower and more efpecially in the length 

 of the peduncles, our plant differs from the figure given us 



by 



