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heJlnUiom of Hare or hiiJierlo Undescrihed Australian Plants, 



chiejfy collected within the loundaries of tJie Colonij of Victoria ; hy 



Dr, Ferdinand Mueller, Government Botanist for the Colony 



of Victoria, 



{Continued from p. 11.) 



IX, SAPINDACEiE, 



29. Dodonaea procumhens^ F. MuelL ; branches prostrate; twigs 

 hardly angnlatcd ; leaves somewhat scabrous, flat, cuneate, grossly 

 three-toothed at the top ; pedicels from the summit of the twigs soli- 

 tary, or rarely two or three together, shorter than the leaves, as well 

 as the calyx hirtellous ; flowers dioecious, peutamerous, with a long 

 style ; capsule with three broad, rounded wings. 



Hab, In subsaline flats and peaty places at the foot of Mount Stur- 

 geon and Mount Abrupt. 



30. Dodonaea deflexa^ F. Muell. ; upright, somewhat scabrous, vis- 

 cose ; twigs angulated, patent ; leaves coriaceous, nearly round or ovate, 

 repand and undulate at the margins, and sometimes remotely toothed, 

 truncate or rounded at the top ; flowers dia3cious, axillary, solitary or 

 geminate ; pedicels deflexed, shorter than the leaves ; sepals ovate, 

 nearly round ; capsule truncate, with four or five wings, which are ex- 

 panded upwards- 



Hab. In the desert scrub along the Murray River and Spencer's 



Gulf, 



31. Doiiow^^ hursaricefoUa^ F. Muell.; smooth, not viscous; twigs 

 indistinctly angulated ; leaves coriaceous, nearly opaque, flat, obovate- 

 cuneate, blunt, rarely apiculate or emarginate, always entire ; flowers 

 dicBcious, axillary and terminal, solitary or two and three together ; 

 sepals oblong-linear; anthers whitish; capsule three or four-sided, with 

 extremely narrow wings ; seeds shining black. 



Hab. In the barren scrub-country on the Murray Kiver and St. Vin- 

 cent's Gulf. 



This species agrees in many points with D. trlgona and D. aplera, 



32. DoAoxi^d.hexandra,'^ .Islvi^V', erect, glandular-scabrous; branch- 

 Jets thin, indistinctly angulate; leaves sessile, filiform -linear, acutish, 

 not furrowed, on the margins revolute; flowers dioecious, hexandrous, 

 axillary and terminal, all solitary on short pedicels, nearly droopin 



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