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308 .LXXV. APOCYNE.E. [^^i/^'^^. 



Tasmania. Kent's Group, Bass's Straits, i?. Brown ; rocl\y places, north coast, /. D. 

 IToolcer. 



S. Australia. Along the coast, St. Viucent*s and Spencer's Gulfs, etc., F. Mueller ^\A 

 others. 



"W, Australia. Goose Island Bay, H, Brown ; along the south and west coasts, 

 Bmmmond, n. 88, SfippL n, 40, 52, Preiss^ n, 1299, and others, up to Murchison river 

 Ohljield, and Sharks' Bay, Mihie, 



2. A. ruscifolia, iZ. Br. Prod. 470. A tall, Iiandsome, glabrous 

 slimb. Leaves in Avhorls of 4 or rarely of 3 only^ from broadly ovate-ellip- 

 tical to narrow-lanceolate, acute with a short pungent point, contracted into 

 a very short petiole, the margins recurved or revolute, coriaceous and shiniug, 

 obliquely and pronnnently veined on the upper side, f to 1^ in. lo»g- 

 Flowers small, in sessile terminal heads, and the flowers themselves sessile. 

 Calyx-segments lanceolate, ciliolate, nearly 1 line long. Corolla-tube under 

 3 lines long, the lobes about half as long, the throat scarcely thickened in- 

 side. Ovary surrounded by hairs at the base. Fruits orange-coloured, cou- 

 sisting of 1 or 2 carpels, eacli with 1 or 3 ovoid-globular articles about 4 

 lines long. Seed with a wrinkled testa and ruminate albumen.— A. DC. 

 Prod. viii. 347 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3312 ; Lodd. Bot Cab. t. 1811 ; A, Ricliard- 

 sonii, Sweet in Loud. Hort. Brit. 67 (according to A. DC). 



^ Queensland- .Sandy Cape, Harvey's Bav, S.Brown; Cape Cleveland, Eudeavour 

 mer and Brishane river, J, Cunnhigham ; Burdekiu river, F. Mueller; Curtis island, 

 Henne; Port Deaisoo, Fiizalan ; Rockhampton, Dallachy ; Ipswich, NernsL 



N. S. "Wales. :Macleay and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; Richnioad river, Fatccetl ; 

 Lord Howe's Island, 3Il/ne. 



P!' Jiliidl Fragm. iv. 149, v. 213. Very near the 



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broad- 

 the ve 



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have occasionally a few small teeth or prickles. Flowers rather larger- 

 Corolla-tube slender, fully 4 lines long, tlie lobes narrow, nearly 3 lines. 

 Articles of the frnit ovoid, about 4 lines long. 



Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachj. 



4 A. Obtusifolia, R. Br. Trod. 470. A glabrous shrub. Leaves 

 usually m whorls of 3, obovate or oblong, very obtuse, narrowed into a very 

 short petiole, smooth and shining above, the margins sliglitly recurved, the 

 veins parallel and fine, but very obscure and not so numerous as in A.f' 

 cala mostly 1 to 2 in. long. Flowers 3 to 7 together, iii little axillaij 

 heads or cymes, the common peduncle slender, 3 to 4 lines long, «'!*", 

 small bracts under the head, the flowers sessile or on short thick pedieels- 

 Lalyx-segments ovate, obtuse, about \ line long. Corolla-tube twice or three 

 times as long as the calyx, the lobes very broad, fully as long as the tube. 

 Anthers muci-onate. Articles of the fruit nearly globular, 3 to 4 lines Jw- 

 meter.— A. DC. Prod. viii. 346. 



dea^o^rri^^f V '^^""^r^" ^'^^ ^"*1 ^'■"^^ Sound. T.. Brown ; Cape Cleveland and En- 

 deavournver, ^. <:«„;,,„^^«;«. Curtis I.laad. //«,„;. 



5. A. spicata, R. Br. Prod. 470. A shrub, glabrous except the inflo- 

 rescence, the branchlets angular. Leaves in whorls of 3 or rarely 4, oval or 



