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Hab. In tranquil beads of the Murray Eiver, Murrumbidgee, and 

 Mitta Mitta, and in tbe nearest lakes and lagoons. 



A most handsome, and, with regard to its crenate leaves and the 

 structure of the stigma, equally singular species. 



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125. Bolanum ve^cum^ P. MuelL; fruticose, unarmed, erect, smooth; 

 twigs winged ; leaves large, sessile, long-lanceolate, undivided or fur- 

 nished towards the middle, on both sides, with one or two lanceolate 

 segments; calyx of the corymbose flowers to the middle five-cleft, 

 with thick, subdeltoid, cuspidate, unkeeled lobes ; corolla smooth, some- 

 what folded, violaceous, alniost bell-shaped, with five very short lobes ; 

 filaments thread-like, equal in length to the yellow, oblong anthers ; 

 berries large, green, nearly globose. 



Has. The Gunyang has been found, as far as I know, only yet in 

 Gipps' Land, where it occurs on sand-ridges around Lake Wellington, 

 on the coast towards the mouth of the Snowy River, on grassy hills at 

 the Tambo, the Nicholson's Eiver, and Clifton's Morass, on the rich 

 shady banks of the Latrobe Eiver, and near the Buchan Eiver. 



A shrub, with spreading branches, sometimes more than six feet high, 

 but already in the first year producing flowers and fruits, by which 

 means the plant appears then to be herbaceous. Branches woody, 

 covered with a brownish-grey, wrinkled, and fissured bark. Leaves 

 decurring along the twigs, hardly shining, beneath a little paler, gene- 

 rally somewhat scabrous i middle rib of the leaves and their segments 

 above sharply prominent, beneath yet more protruding, and these semi- 

 terete; the lateral nerves numerous, patent, and conjoined by veins- 

 Corymbs axillary, few-flowered, either solitary or twin, sometimes cy- 

 mose, sometimes racemose. Peduncles terete, often slightly angulate, 

 from 1-2 inches long, rarely wanting. Pedicels as long as the pedun- 

 cles, terete, solitary, gradually passing into the calyx. Calyx nearly 

 campanulate, in age camulent; the teeth at length 2-3 lines long. 

 Corolla tender, lilac-blue, nearly all times of an equal colour, but rarely 

 outside with exception of the wing-like part greenish, undulate at the 

 margin ; the lobes either rounded or emarginate. Stamens considerably 

 shorter than the corolla; fiilaments veiy thin; anthers IJ line long, 

 opening at the apex, but also bursting more or less longitudinally. 

 Style white, longer than the stamens. Stigma capitclUte, bilobed. 



