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BiUardiera.] xii. FirrospoREiE. 123 



Pubescent or silky-villous. Flowers usually several . . . 4. -B. cymosa, var. 

 Pedicels several, clustered or corymbose (as iu Marianthus), \serico})hora[ 



Sepals lanceolate-subulate, flowers corymbose. 



Corymbs distinctly i^eduuculate. Petals about 5 lines long . 6. -B. Lehmanniana. 

 Corymbs sessile, or very shortly pedunculate. Petals 7 or 8 

 lines. 



Sepals glabrous or silky pubescent LB. cijmosa. 



Sepals hirsute h. B. variifoiia. 



Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate. Flowers in sessile clusters, 

 usually nodding or pendulous. 



Glabrous. Flowers solitary or very few ,.,.,.. S. B, coriacea. 



Pubescent or silky villous. Flowers usually several . , . . 4. J5. cymosa, var. 



{sericophora. 

 {B, To^mariwfoUa, DC. Prod. i. 345, described from specimens in leaf only, appears to 

 KB to be a Mirheiia.) 



1. B, longiflora, lahilL PL Nov, IIoll, i. 64. L 89.— Stems twining, 

 sometimes very short, but often mnny feet long^ glabrous or silk}^ pubescent 

 when young. Leaves from ovate and not above \ in. lon^, to lanceolate or 

 linear, and 1 to \\ in. or rarely 2 in. long, obtuse or rarely acute, entii'e, ta- 

 pering into a very short petiole or almost sessile. Plowers greenish-yellow, 

 often changing to purple, pendulous on solitary terminal pedicels of ^ to 1 in. 

 Sepals lanceolate, finely pointed, 2 to 3 lines long. Petals linear-cuueate, 1 

 to nearly 1^ in. long, erect and shortly spreading at tiie top, forming an al- 

 most tubular corolla. Ovaiy glabrous or slightly pubescent, with a long snbu- 

 late style. Berry from nearly *gh)])u];ir to narrow-ovoid, turgid, becoming 

 iinilocular from the disappearance of the half-dissepiment. Seeds numerou 

 not enveloped iu pulp.— DC. Prod. i. 345 ; Bot. J\lag. t. 1507; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Tasm. i. 37 ; F. Muell. PI. Vict, i, 78 and 225 ; B. ovalis, Lindl. Bot. 

 Eeg. t. 1719 (with short badly developed tlowers) ; -ff. macranf/ia, Hook. f. 

 ri- Tasm, i. 37 (with remarkably long flovvers). 



N. S. "Wales. Twofold Bay, F. ^lueller, 



Victoria. Along shady rivulets and in damp mountain fore:^ts, ascending to subaJpine 

 elevations, F, Maeller. 



Tasmania, U. Broim ; abundant tlirousrhout the island in thidets, etc., ascending io 

 ^mtt,^ J, D: Hooker, 



2.^ B. scandens, Sm\ Sot. Nov. TIolL 1 1. 1. Stems twining, often to a 

 considerable extent, or short and flexuose, nearly glabrous or more or less 

 s^ilky or velvety-pubescent, or liaiiyr. Leaves from ovate-lanceolate to lan- 

 ceolate or linear, obtuse or with a recuiTed point, usually 1 to 2 in. long, 

 entire or often with uudidate margins, usually narrowed into a short petiole. 

 Flowers from greenish or pale yellow to violet or purple, pendulous on slender 

 terminal pedicels varying from a line or two to above i in., solitary or very raix-Iy 

 2 together. Sepals lanceolate or lanceolate-subulate, Pcials spreading from 

 sbove the middle, so as to form a narrow-campanulate corolla, 8 to 10 lines 

 or rarely 1 in. long. Ovaiy glabrous or pubescent, 2-cdlcd, with a very short 

 style and broad hollow stigma. Berries cylindrical or ovoid-oblong, 2-celled, 

 glabrous or downy. Seeds numerous, in a close double row in each cell and 

 embedded in pulp.— DC. Prod.i. 345 ; Bot. ]\lag. t. 801 1 Sweet, Fl. Austral. 

 J- 54 ; P. Muell. PL Vict, i, 70 ; B. latifoUa, Putterl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 47, 

 '^ut not of Klatt, Linna^a, xxviii. 570; 5. nramUJlora, Putterl. I.e. 48 (all 



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