38 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



style smooth ; stigma pmictiforra ; germina five, distinct, narrow, pube- 



r ulcus. 



Hab. Interior of New Soutli Wales, 



44. Boronia algida, 'F . MMelh ; fruticose, much branched; branch- 

 lets spreading or divaiicate, velutiuous, somewhat compressed ; leaves 

 on very short petioles^ with two pairs of leaflets and a terminal one ; 

 leaflets small, coriaceous, glabrous, obcordate or cuneate-ovate, with 

 entire, hardly recurved margins ; flowers solitarj^ twin, or rarely several 

 together, without a common peduncle ; pedicels on the base bracteolate, 

 of nearly equal length wath the ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous 

 sepals ; petals much longer than the glabrous filaments ; style smooth, 

 very short ; stigma depressed-capitate. 



Hab. On the highest stony declivities of the Australian Alps, Mount 

 Hotham, Mount Latrobe, and Mount Kosciusko. 

 A charming bush, allied to JB. rubiffmosa, 



45, Boronia clavelUfoUa, F. Muell. ; fruticose, diifuse, much branched, 

 smooth ; branches tuberculate ; leaflets small, ternate, short-stalked, sub- 

 clavate, terete, blunt; flowers axillary and terminal, solitary, geminate 

 or ternate, octandrous ; pedicels shorter than the flower ; sepals ovate- 

 triangular, ciliate, less than half as long as the corolla ; filaments smooth, 

 glandulose. 



Hab. On sandy, loamy plains in the scrub near Lake Albert, and 

 towards the mouth of the Murray Eiver, 



46. Boronia ccerulescens, F. Muell. ; suffruticose ; stems upright, 

 branched, terete; leaves thick, sessile, oblong-linear, obtuse, chan- 

 nelled, beneath glandulose-tuberculate ; pedicels axillary and terminal, 

 solitary, thickened at the apex, nearly equal in length to the leaves ; 

 flowers octandrous ; sepals oblong or lanceolate, scarcely half as long 

 as the bluish petals ; filaments ciliate ; seeds reticulate-venose. 



Yar. a, glahrescens ; branches, leaves, and pedicels somewhat smooth, 

 or slightly scabrous ; flowers small, sepals acute, 



Hab. In bai-ren places, from the Mallee Scrub, on the Murray Eiver, 

 to Spencer's Gulf. 



Var. j3, piibescens; branches, leaves, and pedicels short-pubescent; 

 flowers larger, sepals oblong, obtuse. 



Hab. On the rocky hills on the Grampians, and in the desert to- 

 wards Guichcn Bay. 



47, Boronia veronicea, ¥. Muell. (Zieria vcronicca, F, Muell. coll.) ; 



