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Comesj?er/?ia.] xiv. polygale.e. 1 43 



like those of C. vohthile, but ratliev broader, owing to a membranous wing 

 whicb borders them more or less, especially towards the summit, 



W. Australia. Swan Eiver, Brurnmond ; Geographer Bay, King river, and Black- 

 wood river, Oldjield. 



7. C. integerrimum, Fndl. in Haeg, Emm. 7. Veiy near C. voluhile, 

 with similar twining sulcate branches and few oblong-linear or lanceolate 

 leaves, but the young shoots racemes and pedicels are usually minutely 

 hoary-pubescent, the racemes are denser, with shorter and firmer pedicels, and 

 the flowers yellow and rather smaller. Outer sepals broad and obtuse as in 

 C, voluhile. Petals similarly shaped, except that the lateral lobes of the keel 

 are rather deeper, but I have in vain sought for the small additional petals 

 described by Steetz. Capsule 8 to 9 lines long, 1^ lines broad at the top, 

 with a veiy prominent obtuse acumen, gradually narrowed into a stipes at 

 the base. Seed 4 to 5 lines long, tapering almost to a point, otherwise nearly 

 iereie, the hairs of the coma proceeding from all over the surface. — Steetz, in 

 PL Preiss. ii. 305 ; C. scandens, Steud. in PL Preiss. i. 211. 



iq"^^' Australia. Botteiiest Island, J. Cunninghams Swaa J{i\ ev, Drummond, CoIL 

 1843, n. 48G ; near Mount Desraond, Herb. F. Jliieller. 



^ 8. C. secundum, Sajih, in DC, Prod. i. 334. A low, much -branched, 

 rigid shrub, with the habit of some Epacriders, the branches softly pubescent. 

 Leaves crowded, spreading, ovate, niucronate, 2 to 3 lines long, rigidly '-nvL 

 aceous, rough with minute tubercular hairs. Flowers very small au( 



con- 

 1 nu- 



iuav 2 in. Jong, truncate, 3-tootlied, ; 

 tapering into a slender stipes twice as 

 gated, without any appendage, the Ion 



part. 



J .,^.^...^..Q., .,. g coma apparently very deciduous, but 



not seen quite ripe. 



W. Australia. Islands of the noiih coast, R. Bmcn. 



Queensland. Endeavour river, R. Brown; Cape Flinders, A. Cunnmgham, 



9. C. Drummondii, Steetz, in Fl Preiss. ii. 301. Shrubby, with 

 short rigid branches, and all over glaucous, with a minute pubescence only 

 visible under a lens. Leaves narrow-oblong, mostly obtuse, 3 to 4 lines long, 

 very thick and rather concave, the midrib rarely conspicuous. Racemes many- 

 flowered, short rud ahnost corymbose, although the pedicels are rather long. 

 Flowers of C. rdusum. Capsule, according to F. Mueller, narrower, with a 

 sliorter stipes. 



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raiitres to West Mount Barren, Maxwell, 



10. C, retusum, Lahlll. PL Nov. Holl ii. 22, /. IGO. Glabrous, erect, 

 shrubby and much-branched, often several feet high, the branches mostly 

 erect and not sulcate. Leaves oblonir, obtuse, rarely above ^ in. long, flat 

 l>ut rather thick, the midrib not prominent. Racemes short and dense, 

 usually several in a terminal, leafy, flat corj^mb or pyramidal panicle. Outer 

 sepals ovate, obtuse, about 1 line long; inner sepals nearly 3 lines. Petals 



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