326 XXVIII. RUTACE.^. {Boronia, 



Seuies tit. Pedunculate. — Anthers uniform. Leaves simple. Pe- 

 duncles terminal, elongated^ usually several- flowered. 



50. B, scabra^ Lindh Swan Riv. Jpp. 17. A mucli-branclicd erect 

 slirub of 1 to 1 1 ft., roughly pubescent or hirsute with short spreading hairs. 

 Leaves all simple, nearly sessile, linear or oblong, very obtuse, rarely exceed- 

 ing 4 or 5 Ihies, the margins much revolute and usually pale underneath. 

 Plowers terminal, solitary or few in shortly pedunculate cymes, or in cyme- 

 like leafy clusters. Sepals with a veiy short broad base and filiform hispid 

 points. Petals rather narrow, but imbricate, 2 to 3 Hues long, finely raucro- 

 nate. Filaments ciliate, almost capitate and glandular at the top; anthers 

 tipped with a rather large recurved appendage. Style rather thick, glabrous 

 or pubescent. Cocci usually pubescent. Seeds smooth and apparently opaque, 

 but not seen quite ripe. 



WT. Australia. Swaa River, Brummond, \st ColL; Fraser. The young leaves are 

 often clustered in the axils, but, as far as I have seen, always simj)Ie. 



51. B. thymifolia, Turcz, in Bull. Mosc. 1852, ii. 165. A much- 

 branched, rather slender sbrub, glabrous or slightly pubescent with short 

 spreading hairs. Leaves all simple, nearly sessile, linear, obtuse, rarely at- 

 taining 4 lines, the margins much revolute. Flowers 1 to 3, on rather long 

 terminal peduncles, or sometimes more luimerous, forming a showy corymbose 

 cyme. Sepals broad, shortly acuminate, glabrous or hirsute. Petals attain- 

 ing about 3 lines, imbricate, glabrous. Filaments slightly ciliate, clavate 

 and ghmdular at the top ; anthers tipped with a prominent recurved white ap- 

 pendage. Style short, pubescent -, stigma oblong. — B.fascicuUfolia, F. Muell. 



Fragm. i. 99 ; ii. 99, 



•W. Australia, T)nm7nond, Wi ColL n, 195, A. Gregory; Salt river, ril^gerald river, 

 etc., Maxwell. — The species differs from B. scabra, chiefly ia the long peduncles, short sepals, 

 and in the want of the long points to the petals. 



52. B. ovata, Lmdl in Bot. Reg, 1841, tirider n. 47- A glabrous under- 

 shrub or shrub, forming a thick stock and erect dichotomons stems, usually 

 under 1 ft. Leaves almost sessile, cordate-ovate or the upper ones lanceolate, 

 obtuse or acute, under \ in. loug, the marghis entire and recurved. Flowers 

 few, in loose terminal pedunculate dichotomons cymes, the branches and pedicels 

 slender. Sepals short, acuminate. Petals attaining about 4 lines, imbricate, 

 glabrous. Filaments glabrous, capitate and glandular at the top; anthers tipped 

 with an obtuse recurved appendage. Style rather thick, glabrous or hairy. 



Vr. Australia 



Swan River, Drummond, \st ColL; Darling range, ColUe 



53. B. fastigiata, BartL in PL Preiss, i. 167. A glabrous gloucous 

 shrub or undershrub, with erect and rigid or weak and decumbent branches. 

 Leaves obovate, spathulate or oblong, rarely attaining ^ in., very obtuse, en- 

 tire or denticulate, narrowed at the base. Flowers in loose umbcl-Uke simple 

 cymes, terminal or in the upper axils, the common peduncle short, ^vlth 

 usually 4 to 6 niher long pedicels, thickened upwards. Sepals ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, herbaceous and almost valvate. Petals rarely twice 

 as long, attaining about 3 lines. Filaments ciliate, narrowed upwards, 

 slightly glandular; anthers oblong, almost terminal, not apiculate. Cocci 

 truncate. Seeds smooth and shiuimr. 



