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Stem prostrate, creeping, or shortly erert. Leaves simple or 

 with 3 leaflets. Flowers large^ usually solitary. Anther- 

 tips very short ,.,... 2. C. gentianoides, 



Autlicrs short, without any appendage. 



Leaflets ternate, rather large, loosely pubescent unJenicath . 3. C. glycuioideSt 



var. submutica. 



Leaflets mostly twice ternate, small or narrow, glaLrous or 



closely pubescent . • 4. <7. micro^^hylla, 



1. C« aristata, R. Br. in DC. Syd. Teg. i. 147. A woody climber, 

 trailing over rocks and bushes, or ascending into tall trees, glabrons, or softly 

 pubescent, especially on the inflorescence. Leaves mostly on long petioles, 

 and divided into 3 peliolulate segments or leaflets, varying from ovate-cordate 

 to narrow-lancfolate, obtuse or acute, 1 to 2 or even 3 in. long, usually 

 irregularly toothed when large, entire when small, and of a firm consistence 

 when full gi'own, but some of the leaves near the base of the flowering | 

 branches are occasionally simple, and others have often twice ternate leaflets. 

 Plowers white or yellowish, usually in short panicles or clusters in the upper 

 axils. Sepals 4, or very rarely 5, oblong or linear-lanceolate, usually f to \ 

 1 in, long when fully out, glabrous or pubescent. Anthers oblong-linear, ' 

 tipped by a Subulate appendage, often as long as the cells, usually rather \ 

 shoi-ter, but seldom so short as in the two following species, the outer anthers 



on long filaments, the inner ones almost sessile. Achenes numerous, ovate \ 

 or lanceolate, pubescent or glabrous, with a plumose tail often attaining 1^ in. ^ 

 F. Muell. PI. Vict. i. 3 ; Bot. Reg. t. 238. 



N. S. 'Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieher, n. 273, and others, and southnurd 

 to lUawara, Backhouse aud others ; Twofold l^ay, F. Mueller, 



Victoria- Moist forest localities, chiefly along baiilvs of rivers aud rivulets as far west 

 as the Grampians, i^.J/?^*?//^';'. - 



Tasmania- Abundant throughout the island, /. D. Hooker, \ 



\V. Australia. Swan "River, Huegel, Lrutnrnond, Freiss, n, 1344, 1345, aud 1346, 

 and others- from King George's Sound to the northern j^arts of the colony, Herh.F. 

 Slueller. 



The different forms assumed by the numerous specimens we have of this species may be 

 classed under the following principal varieties : — 



a, coriacea. Leaflets large, usually ouce ternate. Flowers often pubescent or villous. 

 Carpels pubescent.— C. coriacea, DC. Syst. Veg. i. 146; Hook. f. EL Tasm. i. 2.— From 

 Port Jackson to Tasmania. 



h. hlanda. Leaflets usually small and often twice ternate (sometimes incompletely so, the 

 leaves appeanng at first sight simply pinnate with 5 leaflets), blowers and carpels glabrous. 

 G clitorloldes, DC. Syst. Veg. i. 158; (7. hlanda. Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 241; Hook. f. Fh 

 Tasm. 1. 3.— South coast of Victoria and Tasmania. 



c, occideyitafh. Like a, but usually more pubescent, with narrower sepals and shorter 

 appendages to the anthers; some western specimeas cannot however be di^^tlngTu'shcd from 

 some of the Port Jackson ones.— C. paheseem, Ilucg. Enura. 1 ; C, elllptica, EuJl. in 

 Hueg. Lc.; C. indhisa, Stcud. iu PI. Preiss. ii. 2G2, not Willd.; C. discolor, Stcud. I.e. 

 a cognata, Steud. I.e. 263; C, Gilhertiana, Turcz. iu Bull. Mosc. 1854, ii. 273.— West 

 Austrah'a. 



2. C. gentianoides, 1)0. Sy$L Veg, i. 159. Believed by P. Mueller 

 to be a variety of C. aridata, but, if so, it is so strongly marked a one as to 

 bave nU tbe appearance of a distinct species. The stem creeps underground, 

 throwing up short tufts of flowering branches, or lies prostrate on the ground, 

 to the length of 3 or 4 feet at most.. Leaves usually simple or with 3 seg- 



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