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Boronia.'] xxviii. rutace^. 317 



lary, 1- or rarely 2-flo\vered, short, and often recurved. Sepals ovate, mi- 

 nutely pubescent. Petals attaining 3 lines, imbricate and nearly glabrous. 

 Filaments 4 opposite the sepals, thick, attenuate at the top, with perfect 

 shortly apicuhite anthers, 4 opposite tlie petals shorter, chivate, glandular, 

 with anthers usually miiuite and less perfect. Ovary minutely pubescent. 

 Sti,mna veiy large and thick, broadly conical and peltate. — B, laimil'm, Turcz. 

 inJJull. Mosc. 1852, ii. 160. 



"Wr. Australia. Lrammond. Uh Coll. n, 199, and ColL 1843, n. 59; Bmioe, Preiss, 



, B. multicaiiUs, Turcz. iu Bull. Mosc. 1852, ii. 160, appears to refer to some unnumbered 

 specxmeus iu Druinnioud's 5th Coll., agreeing ia every respect with B. crassifolia^ except 

 that the anthers of the sepaline stamens are more perfect, and the stigma is reduced to 4 

 glabrous radiating lobes, closely aduate on a pubescent surface, not distinguishable from the 

 apparently imperfect ovary. I have seen but few flowers of this form, but believe the differ- 

 ences from B, crassifolia to be rather sexual than specific. 



Series III. PiNNAXiE.— Anthers uniform. Leaves pinnate. Peduncles 

 axillai-v. 



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23. B, albiflora, R. Br. Herb, A dwarf, much-branched, erect under- 

 slu-ub or shrub, hirsute with short spreading hairs. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 

 7 to 11, crowded on a short conmio»i petiole, oblong-linear, slightly cuneate, 

 very obtuse, rather coriaceous, the margius often rccm'ved, the lowest of each 

 leaf often 4 or 5 lines long, the others gradually smaller. Flowers small, 

 axdlary, nearly sessile. Sepals ovate or lanceolate, ciliate. Petals attaining 

 iibout 2|- to 3 lines, imbricate, glabrous. Filaments glabrous, clavate and 

 ghnuduhir at the top. Anthers oil perfect, distinctly apiculate. Ovary pubes- 

 cent. Style corneal with a small stigma. Cocci pubescent or glabrous. 

 Seeds smooth. 



^* Australia, South const, K Brown; King George's Sound, Baxter; Garden 

 *^ange, hills N. of Stirlujg rauge, and Chc>'iiye Beach, Maxwell. 



Some specimens of this phnit, with fewer and less crowded leaflets, have the aspect of B. 

 crasalfolia^ but the larger filanjeiits are not attenuate at the top, the anthers more distinctly 

 apiculate, and the stjle quite differeut. 



^24. B. lanuginosa, Eudh in Ilueg. Enum. 16- Stems erect, simple or 

 ^vith erect virgate branches, 1 to 2 ft. high, hirsute with spreading hairs, hard 

 and woody at the base. Leaves pinnate; leaflets 5 to 9 or rarely more, 

 lincar-terete or slightly flattened and cuneate, mostly acnte, rarely \ in. long, 

 glabrous or hirsute, somewliat crowded on a rather short common petiole. 

 Peduncles axillary, short, or the flowers almost sessile. Sepals usually lanceo- 

 late-subidate, more than half as long as the petals. Petals attaining nearly 

 4 lines, muci-onate, imbricate, slightly pubescent, deeply coloured in the 

 centre. Filaments ghibrous or ciliate,^ the longer ones especially thickened 

 ^i^d glandular at the top ; anthers all perfect, shortly apiculate. Stigma 

 suiall— ^. Hricta, liartl. in PL Preiss. i. 169. 



W. Australia, Brummond, Coll. lSi5, n. 9 ; King George's Sound and neighbouring 

 ojstncts, J?. Brown; Preiss, n. 2034; MaxwelL I have not sceu specimens uamed hj 

 *^Ddhcher, but this is the only species of R. Brown's (with whom l\ Bauer collected) which 

 answers to the short diagnosis given. 



Var. (pj hrevicalyx. Sepals veiy small, without the long point of the common form. 

 AhiUips River, Kerb. Mueller, 



