410 LXI. RUBIACE. [ Gardenia, 
"Queensland. Grassy barren places, Burdekin river, F. Mueller ; granite hills, Cape 
Upstart, oco eee Mount Elliot, Edgecombe Bay, Dadlachy. 
7. G. suffruticosa, R. Br. Herb. Stems erect, under 1 ft. high, simple 
and leafless at the base, with 2 or 3 very short leafy branches, forming a 
tuft at the end. Leaves crowded, oblong, 14 to 3 in. long, narrowed into a 
very short petiole, resinous and pubesc ent on both sides or at least under: 
neath. be ta s solitary and nearly sessile in the fork of the branches. 
een nt, a out $ in. diameter, 
N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 
. G. fucata, R. Br. Herd. An erect branching shrub, ed. glabrous, 
aves ER obtuse at both ends or narrowed into the very short petiole, 
early 2 in. long. Flowers solitary, terminal. Calyx:tube we at- 
aa into a short pedicel; limb divided to the base into 5 or 6 linear 
lobes, about 3 lines long. Corolla-tube slender, about 6 lines long ; lobes 5 
or 6, broad, shorter than the tube, 
pais Gulf of gig cay R. Bro I have not dissected the fone, d 
notes, as well vem the ge and resinous shoots, there 
ëch of iis belonging i to the ‘te 
. G. Jardinei, F. Muell. Herb. A tree, quite glabrous. Leaves very 
doni preise, ov te, obtuse at both ends, 3 to 4 in. long in the specimens 
Ho een, the remains of the pedicels lateral from the new 
shoot 1 having RW out Fruit ovoid, glabrous, nearly 2 in. long, erown 
by the cas of 5 distinct teeth, without any prominent entire ibe Pla- 
nta 
Queensland. Port Denison and Mount Elliott, Dallachy. 
10. G. chartacea, F, Muell. Rep. Burdek. Baped. 12. Shrubby, the 
branches slender, Besten: with short appressed hairs. Leaves on very 
short petioles or nearly sessile, EEN or whorled, from ‘lliptical-oblong wd 
linear-lanceolate, acumi inate, 3 to 5 in. lon ; with rominent very o 
- veins, glabrous above, spriukled with p ressed hairs underneath, 
of Gardenia. Flowers Nr ei, apparently axillary, E per 
Sitemnaland. Brisbane river ge n Bay, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller. 
d gham, 
S. Wales. Clarence river, ein ; zw Lindsay and Wilson's Creek, Herb. 
F. Mueller. 
Var. (P) ets r tes Leaves orte liti 4 to 6 in. long, M e veba ee ie 
diverging feng rtacea. Flowers in terminal clusters, on short 3 fid pedun 
ong an gien Calyx glabrous. Sege 2.—Richmond rive beri 
pedi 
This has every — of being a distinct species, but as it is not in fruit, an 
