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Gardenia.) . LXI. RUBIACER. 409 
pu with 4 to 6 linear lobes, very variable in breadth and length, 
N. Australia. York Sound, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; Victoria river, Bynoe. 
um ry leet fen, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 54. A shrub, with thick 
Md es, the young shoots and buds hoary-pubescent, the older leaves gla- 
E. ur nearly so. Leaves petiolate or nearly sessile, broadly ovate or almost 
in SN very obtuse, rounded or cordate at the base, coriaceous, marked as 
i € other species with ciliate pits in the axils of the primary veins, but 
ven SS be constant. Flowers terminal, solitary, nearly sessile, pubes- 
e * yx-limb ribbed, 4 to 6 lines long, divided to about the middle into 
ear obtuse lobes, occasionally cohering ; corolla-tube $ in. long, slightly 
3 m? ru 
, crowned by the base of the calyx-limb. 
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A. Cunningham ; 
Cambridge Gulf and Vansittart Bay, N.W 
bs Australia. . coast, 
places, Victoria river, F. Mueller ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 
ES Macgillivreei, Benth. A small tree, quite glabrous or the calyx 
ightly pubescent. Leaves almost sessile, elliptical or obovate-oblong, acu- 
us and 3 to 4 in. long in our speci- 
g. 
lateral the growing out of the new shoot, very shortly pedicellate, 6- 
us. Calyx-tube ovoid, about 3 lines long; limb campanulate, at le 
l D 
SÉ oblong, about 1 in. Placentas (in the ovary examined) 3. Style slightly 
ened at the end. Fruit (if rightly matched) hard, ovoid, 14 in. long. 
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ensland. EI 3 *Gilli d i i 
"A ad. Cape York, M‘Gillivray, W. Hil. M(‘Gillivray’s specimens are in 
er only, Hill's in fruit only, but they appear to belong to the same species. 
6 
Oen eata, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 55, and Rep. Burdek. 11. A 
arge shrub or small tree, the branches, under side of the leaves, inflo S 
ee tu > z 8 
tube about 3 in. long; lobes neatly as long when fully out, though much 
a gà When first expanding. Placentas 3. Style slightly clavate at ihe 
^ entire. Fruit ovoid or nearly globular, 1 to 14 in. long or rather more, 
said to be eatable when fresh. 
