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Boronia.\ xxviii. kutace^. 



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usually mucronate. Filaments woolly-hairy, especially towards tlie thickened 

 summit ; anthers very minutely or not at all apiculate. Style short. Seeds 

 smooth and shining.— DC. Prod. i. 721 ; Andr. Bot. Eep. t. 58 ; Vent. Jard. 



Malm. t. 38; Bot. Mag. t. 1763 ; E. MuclL PL Vict. i. 115 ; BJorihunda, 



bieb. ni Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 148 ; Ecichb. Icon. Exot. t. 71- 



N- S. "Wales. Port Jackson ami Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieher, n. 300, 301, 

 audi'/. 3iixf, n. 533, and others. These specimens appear to be sexually diaiorp'Eous. Tii 

 some I fiiiil the stamens densely woolly, the anthers small, 4 of them perhaps imperfect, and 

 the very short style bearing a jhick globular stigma as large ns or larger than the ovary. In 

 other specimens the filaments are shorter and not quite so woolly, the anthers larger and 

 more perfect, the style cylindrical, with the stigma scarcely thickened. 



Var. Muelleri. Leaflets in distant pairs. Flowers nearly as large as in the Port Jackson 

 specnnens, but the filaments much less hairy, the anthers not at all apiculate, and I am un- 

 able to detect any dimorphism ; the stigma minute or slightly capitate. 



Victoria. Sources of the Bunyip river, in the Grampians, near Portland Bay, and to- 

 wards the mouth of the Glenelg, F, Mueller, 



\ar. (xiinnii. Leaflets more crowded, but the lowest pair always distant from the stem, 

 ■tlowers smaller than in the Port Jackson plant, with the filaments much less hairy, and the . 

 s^thers and style (as far as I have been able to ascertain) homomorj)hous, as in the var. 

 Muel/eH.—B, tetrandra, var. grandiflora. Hook. Joum. Bot. ii. 419; not Labill.; J?. 

 Oitmiii^ Hoo_k. f. n. Tasm. i. 68, t. 10. 

 Tasmania- Near Port Dalrymple, i?. Brown; S. Esk river, near Launceston, Ginm, 

 B, ciiriodora, Guun, in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. G3, common in alpine situations iu Tas- 

 inania («/. J). Hooker ^ Gunn) ; is generally of smaller stature, with the leaflets often reduced 

 ^0 d ; but it is often not distingui^^habJe from the var. Gunnii iu the dried state, when the pe- 

 culiar lemon-scent, which it is said to be so easily known by, has entirely disappeared, 



29. B. pilosa, Lahill. PL Nov. IIolL i. 97, t. 124. A shrub, veiy 

 nearly allied to B. pbuiata, with which P. Mueller proposes to unite it, and 

 perhaps with reason, but the aspect is different. Branches almost always 

 inore or less pubescent. Jjeaflets crowded on a short common petiole, the 

 lowest pair close to the stem, usually naiTower and more obtuse than in B. 

 T^nnata. Cymes compact, 3- or rarely 5-flo\vered and often reduced to shijjlc 

 flowers, which are generally smaller than in B. plnnata. Filnments ciliate 

 J'^ither than woolly ; anthers not at all apiculate. Stig-ma slightly enlarged, 

 never large and globular, nor yet very minute.— DC. Prod. i. 721 ; Hook. f. 

 FL Tasm, i. 67. 



Victoria. Iu the Grampians, Wilhelmi; Portland Bay and mouth of the Glenelg* 



^obertsoiK 



f ^^^'"^^ia,^ . Brown; abundant throughout the colony, J. B. Hooker. In a very 

 rew Tasmauiau specimens the leaflets are not quite so crowded, but their narrow form and 

 the pubescent branches ai-e those of B, pUosa, 



^Series IV. Cyane^.— Flowers usually blue or bluish. Foliage of the 



^ ariabiles, 



30. B. spinescenSy Benth. A glabrous undcrshrub with erect or as- 

 cending rigid stems of 1 to 1^ ft., the lower brauchlcts often converted into 

 divaricate leafless thorns of 1 to 2 in. Leaves nearly sessile, simple, entire or 

 ^-lobed, either ovate or lanceolate and scarcely 2 liiies ot rarely almost linear 

 Jiid 3 or 4 lines long. Peduncles axillary, 1-flowercd, 2 or 3 lines long, 

 ^^pals leafy, obtuse, often fully 2 lines long. Petals not twice as long, ap- 

 Parently bluish, "Filaments slightly dilated at the base, ciliate, terete and 



