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Boronia.l xxviii. rutace.e. 321 



iindershrub with a thick rhizome as in B, parvi^ora, or a small shrub, rarely- 

 stouter and 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves eitlier simple with lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate acute leaflets, mostly under | in., but sometimes nearly 1 in. long, 

 or 3-foliolate with small acute leaflets, ou a short common petiole. Pedicels 

 axillary, solitary, and 1-flowered. Sepals sliort. Petals 2 or 3 times as long, 

 nnbrieate, pink, and glabrous. Filaments hairy and glandular towards the 

 top. Anthers conspicuously apicidate, the appendage erect or recin-vcd, 

 . Seeds opaque and usually minutely tuberculate. — DC. Prod. i. 722 ; F. Mu-ll. 

 PI. Vict. i. il-i; B, liyHHopifolia, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 148; 

 Hook. f. PL Tasm. i. 66; B. tetrathecoides, DC. Prod. i. 722 ; Hook. Comp. 

 Bot. Mag. i. 277- 



Queensland. Stradbrooke Island, Fraser. 



N. S, Mrales. Port Jackson, R. Broimiy Sl ehe)% ^ -^^^^jjnid others; northward to 

 Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; ^^ew EngTancITTr^^zr;'. 



Victoria. ]Vot rare, as well la swamps and alpine localities as in dry forest-land or on 

 stony, ridges, T, Mueller, 



Tasmania. Abundant throughout the colony, /. D, Hooker^ 



S. Australia. Striugybark Forest, between Mount Lofty and the Onkaparinga, J^. 

 Mueller. 



Var. trifoliolata. Stems short, glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate, with linear leaflets.— 5. 

 9^ana, Hook. Tc. PL t. 270. — In Victoria aud Tasmania. In some of the Victorian speci- 

 niens, simple and trifoliolata leaves occur on different branches of the same plant. 



Var. robusta. Leaves 3-foiiolate as in the last var., but stems stout and more shrubby, 

 attaining 2 ft. or more. — Port Jackson, Sieber, n. 283; Blue Mountains, A, Cunningham; 

 ^toi-eton Island, F, Mueller, 



Var. (?) pnbescens. More or less pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate. Leaflets very small, 

 ovate or obovate. Flowers small, the pedicels usually longer than the leaves. — In the Gram- 

 Piaus, Wilhelmi, Robertson. 



35. B, anemonifolia. A, Cunn, in Fldd, N, S. TFales, 330. A shrub 

 of 2 or 3 ft., gLibrous or pubescent, and often glaucous. Leaves either simply 

 3-foliolate with the leaflets 3-toothccI, or all 3 leaflets or the terminal one only 

 »gani 3-foliolate or pinnately 5-foliolate, or sometimes some of them a third 

 tjme divided, and all usually thick, linear-cuneate or, if entire, acutely linear, 

 flowers in axillary cvmes of 3, 5, or even more, very rarely reduced to single 

 flowers. Stamens ami fruit of B. pohjgaUfoUa. 



Queensland. Newcastle and Burnett rivers, F, Mueller; near Limlley's Range, Mil- 

 chelL 



.N. S- "Wales. E. coast, R. Broton; Hunter's River and Bine Mountains, A. Can- 

 ^^ngham auJ others. 



Victoria. Mountains of Gipps' Laud. F, Mueller. 



Tasmania. Lerweat river. King's Island, R. Brown ; northeru parts of the island 

 I'eiU the coast, J, D. Hooker, 



W. AustraUa. Canning river, Preiss, n. 2628. 



{nis species, which F. Mueller thinks ou^-ht to he united with B. polygalifolm as a 

 variety, has by others been subdivided into S/which may be considered as tolerably distinct 

 races, viz. :_ 



«. dentigera. Pubescent or rarely glabrous. Leaflets usually 3, Hucar-cuncate, thick, 

 ^;toothed at the top. Flowers 1 to 3 on each peduncle.—^, dentigera, F. Muell. m Trans. 



227.— N. S. 



J:»cU Inst. 1855, 82; Cganolhamnus tridadi/lUes, Bartl. in PI. Preiss. n. 2; 

 "'ales, Victoria ; Tasmania, E. coast, C. Stuart; AV. Australia, PreUs, n. 2628. ^ 



^. variabilis. "Usually glabrous. Leaves irregularly compound, more or less tmce ter- 

 'late but scarcely bipiunate. Leaflets oblong, obtuse, or lineai'-cuneate. Flowers rather 

 ??all, 3 or more in the cyme.— ^. variabilis. Hook. Comp. Bot. xMag. i, 277 (partly) ; 

 ^ook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 67- — The common Tasmanian form. 



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