312 XXVIII. KUTACE.T.. [^Boronia. 



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5. B. alata, Sm, in Tm?is. Linn. Soc. viii. 283. A shrub, usually quite 

 glabrous and somewhat glaucous, but occasionally sprinkled with a slight 

 pubescence, especially on the under side of the leayes. Branches angular. 

 Leaves pinnate; leaflets usually 7, 9, or 11, obovate or broadly oblong, often 

 \ in. long, very obtuse, entire or crenate. Flowers large, in tenninal cymes 

 not exceeding the last leaves. Sepals small, lanceolate. Petals attaining 

 5 lines, acute, valvate in the bud, glabrous outside without prominent mid- 

 ribs, minutely tomentose with a ciliate midrib inside, the young buds very 

 angular, Tilaments ciliate, obtuse and glandular at the top. Anthers 

 minutely apiculate. Ovaiy pubescent. Seeds opaque but smooth. — Sweet, 

 Fl. Austral, t. 48 ; Bartl. in PL Preiss, i. 169 ; Zanthoxylum oj}posit!folium, 

 DC. Prod. i. 728. 



W. Australia. Kinp: George's Sound, E. Brown, Fraser, and others; Charnpion 

 Bay, Bowen ; Bald Island and Harvey river, Oidjirld; Mount Mauypeak, Maxwell; 

 Rocky Bay and Eotteuest Island, Treks, n, 2012 {Barilivg). 1 hnve not myself seen 

 Preiss's specimeas. • 



6. B. algida, I. MuelL in Trans. PhiL Soc. Fief. I 100. A glabrous 

 stunted shrub, with numerons dichotomo\is or divaricate branches. Leaves 

 pinnate, with a. very short common petiole ; leaflets usually 5, the lowest pair 

 close to the stem, obovate, rarely 2 lines long, thick and rigid. Flowers soli- 

 tary at the ends of the branches or in the forks, on very short pedicels. Sepals 

 small, acute. Petals ovate-lanceolate, valvate, attaining nearly 3 lines. Fila- 

 ments glabrous or nearly so, thickened and glandtdar upwards ; anthers 

 minutely apiculated. Stigma globular. 



N. S. V^ales. Upper Clarence river, also Mounts Latrobe, Hotham, and Kosciusko, 

 F. Mueller. 



7. B. Edwardsii^ Benlli. A dichotomous shnib, nearly allied to B. 

 algida, and possibly a variety. Branches pubescent. Leaflets 3, almost 

 sessile, obovate or oblong, obtuse, attaining sometimes 3 lines, glabrous 

 or slightly pubescent, pale underneath. Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together, 

 terminal or in the forks of the branches, on distinct slender pt dicels. Petals 

 valvate. Filaments glabrous. Anthers tipped with rccuiTcd points or appen- 

 dages. Stigma globular. 



S. Australia* Mount Barker, Edwards. I have seen only a siaele small specimen, 

 {Hb. F. MuelL) ^ 



_ 8. B. calophylla, T/crcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1852, ii. 160, A glabrous, 

 rigid, imicli-branched shrub. Leaves 3-foliol;ite or rarely simple, the conunon 

 petiole exceedingly short ; leaflets sessile, obovate, very obtuse, 2 or rarely 

 nearly 3 lim^s bug, },'labrou3, thick aud rigid. Flowers Vat Iter large, hoaiy- 

 tomeutose, on 1 -flowered peduncles, louger than the leaves, hoarv-touicntose 

 as well as the bratichlets. Sepals small, ovate. Petals altaiuing 3 lines or 

 rather more, valvate in the bud, with the midrib prominent outside, l^ila- 

 ments slightly ciliate, obtuse and glandular at the top; anthers minutely 

 fipiculate. Ovules almost collateral. Cocci glabrous. Seeds smooth but opaque. 



IV. Australia^ Drummond, ath Coll. n. 205. 



9 ? B. temata^ Endl.Nov. Stlrp. Dec. G. Branches ri<^id, with a minute 

 ashy piibcscence. Leaflets 3, sessile, obovate, very obtuse', not above 2 lines 



