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Befinitions of Rare or hitherto Undescribed Australian Plants, 

 chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria ; by 

 Dr. Eeudinand Mueller, Government Botanist for the Colony 



of Victoria. 



(fiontinued from p. 169.) 



XXXVIII. Myoporin^. 



Pholidia, B, Brown. (Sect, Sentis.) 



Leaves alternate. Calyx four-parted. Drupe bony, hard-beaked, 

 with imperfectly divided cells. 



138. VhoMiei divaricata, P.Muell.; twigs spreading, spinescent, gla- 

 brous or with a row of white short hairs ^ axils of the leaves somewhat 

 bearded ; leaves glabrous, linear-oblong, blunt, gradually tapering into 

 the base, entire ; flowers axillaiy, solitary, nearly sessile ; segments of 

 the calyx narrow-lanceolate, long-acuminate, ciliated; corolla outside 

 starry-velutinous, its upper lip with two very short lobes, lower one 



three-parted. 



Hab. In bushy plains, subject to inundations, on the banks of the 



Murray Eiver, the Darling, and Murrumbidgee. 



An ornamental shrub, several feet high, with purple or white gene- 



rally spotted flowers. 



{Sect, Eremicola.) 



Leaves alternate, deciduous. Calyx five-parted. Drupe dry, acu- 

 minate, with almost entirely divided cells. 



139. Pholidia polyclada, F. Muell.; glabrous; branches and twigs 

 spreading, not spinescent ; leaves linear, somewhat channelled, blunt. 



entire, sessile ; pedicels axillary, solitary, upwards thickened, longer 



than the calyx ; axils glabrous ; segments of the calyx nearly cordate, 

 acuminate, with minute, ear-like appendages at the base, indistinctly 

 ciliate at the margin; corolla outwards glabrous, very wide, surpassing 

 many times the length of the calyx, upper lip bifid, lower one three- 



parted. i. Tk r 



Hab. In sandy, loamy, desert plains at the junction of the Darling 



and Murray. , 



A shrub with intricate branches, about six feet high. Flowers large. 



white. 



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