Nolelm.] Lxxiv. jasmineje. 



299 



Leaves mostly broadly lanceolate. a nr r *f t 



Leaves reticulate on botk sides. Pruit above \ in. diameter . 2. N. longijoha. 

 Leaves scarcely reticulate underaeath, but copiously dotted. 



Fruit small .- ; 3. iV^-i^.'/^cM^. 



Leaves narrow-lanceolate; veins very oblique and prominent 

 above, scarcely conspicuous underneath. 



Fruit about \ in, diameter w^hen ripe . 4- ^- ^nicrocar^a. 



leaves thick, smooth, verv obscurely or not at all veined. k xr ;• / ' 



Leaves mostly lanceolate, without thickened margins . . - . • &• -^- ng^istrtna. 



Leaves linear or scarcely linear -lanceolate, with thickeued nerve-like 



^ , . . , 6. iV^. linearis. 



margms 



1. N. ovata, H. Br. Prod. 534. Glabrous or pubescent. Leaves very 

 shortly petiolate, ovate or broadly ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, cordate 

 broadly rounded or very sliortly contracted at tlie base, coriaceous, much ic- 

 ticulate and more regularly so' than iu N. louffifoUa, H to 2 ni. long, ila- 

 cemes short and few -flowered, but usually pedunculate and most trequentiy 

 inserted rather above the axils. Pedicels short. Flowers and truit ot iv. 



longi/oUa. 

 N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown ; Grose river, Miss Atkinson. 



2. N. longifoUa, Vent. Choix, t. 25. A tall shrub or small slender 

 tree, the branches and under side of the leaves in the typical form or rarely 

 both sides of the leaves pubescent with short hairs, sometimes soft and 

 dense, sometimes scarcely visible without a lens or the whole plant quite 

 glabrous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuteor acuminate, tnpeii g 

 into a petiole often rather long, coriaceous but sometimes tlmi, prominently 

 atid in-cgailarly reticulate on both sides, 2 to 6 in. long. Flo^^"e^-%f^^; ; "' 

 axillary racemes rarely 1 in. long, and flowering usually from near the ba.e. 

 Pedicels at first nearly as long as the flowers, much longer when in t mt 

 Calyx exceedingly small, obscurely toothed, opening flat l^^i.als scarce yi 

 line long, broad, concave. Anthers large, almost sessde ^ruf . ^^ '';_^^^^J 

 globuhu^ said to be about i in. diameter when fresh, of a dark bUnh colour 

 ^•ith a very succulent mesocai-p and hard endocarp, often appealing mucli 

 smaller and drier in dried specimens but evidently unripe.-K. ±5r. rroa. 

 523; DC. Prod. viii. 291 ; N. reticulata, DC. I. c. ; OX'^'f^f/^l. 

 Bot. Pep. t. 31G, not of Vahl ; N. ovata, Endl. Tconogr. t. f : J^^^ ot fC" ^ 

 ^- venoL, P. M^ell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 131 ; and m Hook, kcw 

 Journ. viii. 103 ; N, rigida, Sieb. PI. Exs. 



Queensland. Brisbane river, Moretoa Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser, F. Mueller; 



Eoekiogham Bay, Dallachy. ■ d t? . .„ <r,V;5^r n 274, anJ 



N. S. Wales. Port Jacksoa to the Blue Mounta,ns. n. X'^'u !£tM^ ' n k 67, 

 «>any others (Sydney woods. Paris Exhibition, 1855, Moore, n. 3/'^^^^^/;""' ^^^^.^^ ' 

 187) ; northward to Hastings, Macleay. and Clarence rivers, A. Cunmvgham, BecUer, 

 *nd others ; southward to lUawarra. A. Cunningham and others. 



Victoria. Woods of the eastern 



Victoria. Woods of the eastern part ot inpps ^..iuu, .. .... 



The northern and southern specuncus belong 'J'""^* f^^^J^ 'Vh'/to Vew S'and! 

 pubescent one is chiefly about Port Jackson and in the Blue ^^^''^^ ^"ifp^I^e^cfat all 

 «ome of C. Stuart's specimens from the latter station being <J'^"f ^^"^jt^es but much 

 over. Sieber's specimens, n. 274, have remarkably 1»"? ^"^^^ '^^"f,i;S specimens. 

 "Mrer ia shape to those fig.iTed by Ventenat than those of the common glabrous pe 



