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nata, orbiculari-rhomboidea, breviter petioli. subobtusa, 
integerrima, hirsuta precipue ad margines subrevolutas, sup. 
virescentia, inf. pallidiora v. glauca, nervo rubro. Flores 
axillares, penduli, rosei, magni. 7. glandulose. Pedunculi 
arcuati, setoso-glandulosi, fics calycem turbinati. Calycis 
segmenta late ovata, ciliato-glandulosa. Petala obovata, 
spathulata, marginibus preefloratione involutis. Stamina 8. 
Ovarium ellipticum, glandulosum. Styli longi. Capsule 
. Magne, obovato-spathulate. 
A very distinct and beautiful species. 
PITTOSPOREÆ. Br. 
1. Billardiera mutabilis, Lab.— Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. p. 
.. 275.— B. scandens, Bot. Journ. p. 249. Mr Lawrence (1831). 
Mr Gunn (n. 11). 
` 2, B. longiflora, Lab.— Hooh. Bot. Journ. p. 249. Comp. 
Bot. Mag. p. ST. Mr Gunn (n. 169, 650, 310, and 
.31 0 ?) 
— A very variable plant in the length of the leaf And size of 
the parts of the flower. 
1. Bursaria spinosa, Cav.—DC.—Hook. Bot. Journ. p. 
249. Comp. Bot. Mag. p. 275. Dr Scott. Mr Gunn (n. 15). 
— Beautiful specimens of this plant, now sent by Mr Gunn, 
prove that the var. 8. Hook., is a form depending upon the 
age of the plant. Mr Gunn says of it: ** At Circular Head, 
it sometimes attains the height of 30—40 feet, with a trunk 
three feet in circumference; when young, the plant is very 
'Spinous, and the leaves almost round, but its whole aspect 
changes as it becomes older.” 
1. Pittosporum bicolor, Hook. Bot. Journ. p. 249. Mr 
Lawrence (1831).—Mr Gunn (n. 154, 650, and 651). 
2. P. procumbens; pumilum, glabrum, ramis procumbenti- 
bus, foliis sparsis erecto-patentibus oblongis mucronatis laevibus 
marginibus revolutis, floribus terminalibus subsessilibus, pe- 
talis. acuminatis rectis. Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. v. i. p. 275. 
Mr Gunn (n. 151). 
3. EE nanum; pumilum, erectum? pubescenti-scabr um, foliis eu 
