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dular at the top ; anthers scarcely apiculate. Cocci glabrous. Seeds smooth 

 but not shining. 



N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Caq)eiitaria, R, Brown; Port Essington, Jrm- 

 sirong^ Leichkardt, Stouy places in Aruhem's Land and Carpentai-ia, F, Mueller. 



16. B, Fraseri^ Hook, BoL Mag. t 4052. A shmb of 3 or 4 ft., the 

 branches glabrous, angular or compressed. Leaves pinnate; leaflets 3 or 5, 

 m distant pairs, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, the terminal one usually 1 to 

 1^ in. long, the others smaller, all glabrous but pale underneath. Peduncles 

 axdlary, short, bcaiing an umbel of 3 to 6 flowers. Sepals very small, 

 letals attaining fully 3 lines, valvate, hoary outside, with a prominent midrib. 

 Filaments glabrous, much thickened and glandular at the top ; anthers mi- 

 nutely apiculate. Disk very thick. Stigma capitate but small. — B. miemo- 

 nifoUa, Paxt. Mag. Bot. ix.' 123, with a fig., not A. Cunu. 



W. S. ^Vales. Ravines on the Nepean river, Fraser. 



17. B. mollis. A, Cmin,; Lwdl, Bol. Reg, 1841, nnder t. 47. A shrub, 

 with the habit of B: Fraseri, but the branches -and petioles densely and 

 softly hirsute. Leaflets usually 3 or 5, in distant pairs, the terminal one 

 oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, 1 to 1^ in. long, the others much shorter and 

 broader in proportion, all glabrous or nearly so above, tomentose-pubesceut 

 or villous underneath. Peduncles axillaiy, very short, bearing an umbel of 

 several flowers larger than those of B, FraserL Sepals linear. Petals ovate- 

 acuminate, attaining 5 or 6 lines, valvate. Stamens and style of B, Frasei'i. 



If. S. V/ales. Nepean river, A. Cunningham; near Sydney, LgalL 



Series II. HETERANDRi^. — Sepaline anthers usually diiferent from the 

 petaline ones, and often imperfect. 



^ 18, B. megastigma, Nees, hi PL Preiss. ii. 227. A shnib, ^nth erect 

 virgate branches, glabrous or nearly so- Leaflets 3 or rarely 5, sessile or 

 with a very short common petiole, linear, obtuse, rarely |- in. long, rather 

 tuck and rigid, glabrous. Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, the pedicel much 

 thickened under the flower. Sepals short, broad, obtuse. Petals attaining 

 about 3 lines, broad and much imbricate, of a dark purple outside, drying 

 almost black, yellowish inside. Pilaments glabrous, rather attenuate and 

 incurved at the top, the 4 longer ones opposite the sepals wiih large pnrple 

 anthers, the 4 smaller opposite the petals with small yellow anthers close 

 ^nder the stigma. Stigma purple, very broad and thick, truncate at the top, 

 expanded laterally into 4 thick prominent lobes.— F. Muell. Fragm. ii, 97 ; 

 ^. tnstis, Turcz. m Bull. Mosc. 1853, ii. 102. 



, ^^jy- Australia. King George's Sound and neighbouring districts, Milne, Preiss, u. 

 fr , ' ^^'i^^*Jf^o?id, 5M ColLn, 201, aud others. lu this and the two following species 

 toe large purple or black anthers are said to be barren, and the pollen perfect onlj in the 

 vtry small yellow petaliue anthers, a point 1 am unable to ascertain positively from dried 

 specimens, 



.19. B. heterophyUa, F. Muell. Imgm. ii. 98. A tall glabrous shrub, 

 ^ith numerous slender brandies. Leaves either simple and linear, 1 to 

 2 m. long, or pinnate, with 3 or 5 linear leaflets on an elongated common 

 petiole. Peduncles axillary, l-flowered, slender below the bracts, thickened 



