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7. M, Drummondianus, Benth. A slender twiner, the young slioots 

 and leaves clothed with long, spreading:, very soft, and rather rusty hairs, or 

 rarely glabrous. Leaves fromobovate to oblong-lanceolate, mostly acute or with 

 a smnll recurved point, i to 1 in. long, coarsely toothed or almost entire, sessile 

 or narrowed into a very short petiole, the lowest ones sometimes deeply cut. 

 Pedicels terminal, 1 to 3 together, filiform, hairy, \ to \ in. long. Sepals 

 lanceolate-subuhite, hairy. Petals about ^ in. long^ spreading above the 

 middle. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, with a slender style and 3 to 6 ovules in 

 each cell. Capsule ovoid, very turgid, nearly | in. long. Seeds small, glo- 

 bular, ^vaooili—- Oncolpdrum Drummoudlaumu, Putterl. in PL Preiss. i. 194. 



vV. Australia, Gmvell)' places, Swan Kiver, Preiss, n. 1288, Drammotid, \st ColL ; 

 Gordon river and Ironstone hills, Tone uygv, Oldjield ; S.W. interior, Maxwell (the speci- 

 nien almost completely glabrous). 



8. M, tenuis, Benth, A slender twiner, the young shoots with a few 

 soft sprending hairs, but soon glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or oblong or 

 the lower ones almost ovate, acute, 1 to \\ in. long, entire or with a few coarse 

 distant teeth, narrowed into a distinct petiole. Flowers small, axillaiy, soli- 

 tary or in short corymbs of 3 to 5, on pedicels of not above 1 line at the tiu^e 

 of flowering. Sepals subulate, hairy. Petals 5 or 6 lines long, spreading 

 from above the middle. Ovary glabrous, with a slender style. Fruit not 

 ^^^n,~Blllardicira paroijlora, DC. Prod. i. 346. 



W". Australia. Geographer Bay, LeschenaiiH ; Flinders Bay, Collie ; Cape Naturaliste, 

 Oldjield, 



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^ 9. M. (?) laxiflorus, Benth. A twiner, with the foliage nearly of Billar' 

 diera variifolia, the^ flowers and ovary more nearly those of M. Candidas 

 and its allies. Leaves sessile or nearly so, oblong or lanceolate, the lowest 

 toothed, the others entire, seldom above' 1 in. long, glabrous as well as the 

 stem. Flowers apparently white, in loose pedunculate corymbose racemes, on 

 slender pedicels, 2 or 3 times as long as the calyx, and much fewer in number 



- - --V4,4v.x CiUUXH^i Liiil 11 111 



pubescent; Fruit unknown. 



M. candlJus. Ovary glabrous or very slightly 



"W 



SouiiJ, Harvey; near Kalgaii Bridge, Mount Barker, and Pej-ono-erup raa^ejlerb. Mueller. 



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• 10. M. coeruleo-punctatus, KMzsch, in Link, Kl. and Otto, Ic. PL 

 28, t. 12. Yery nearly allied to M. camliJus, and perlia])3 a small blue- 

 flowered variety. Foliage the same, but usually more i)ubescent, at least on 

 the under side of the leaves. Sepals smaller "and more slender, and always 

 clothed with long brown hairs. PetaU as in M. candidus, but rather smaller, 

 Ijliie, the upper ones generally, but perliaps not always, spotted in the lower 

 pnrt witb a darker colour. Style slender. Capsule oblong, with aliout 6 

 smoolh glo!)uIar seeds in each cell, but not seen quite ripe.— Putterl. in. I'l. 

 I'r^Mss. i. 19G. 



"W. Australia. S«-an River, Brummoud, Cull. 1843. «. 81, Preiss ; also, apparently 

 <'ie same, but perhaps without spots, Cape Naturaliste, Oldjield. 



11. M. candidus, Hueg. Enum. 8. A tall twiner, either glabrous or 

 with a slight pubescence on the young shoots, under side of the leaves, and in- 

 florescence. First leaves occasionally toothed or lobed, all the others finite 



