Ju guuruse Ox ERI M ceca eis ruit E AE err agris A ee Mr 
E XCIX. POLYGONACER, 275 
aris, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 978; Tasm. . 
i, "S inui small diffuse or prostrate shrub, forming matte pues of a 
species. Nuts as long as the scarcely succulent l 
smooth and tong 3-angled. Seed not seen paren eissn, in 
: P e . 147; M. parvifolia, Meissn. in Linnea, xxvi. 362. 
TOURS Hee ; naked rocky margins of Fish river, A. Cunning- 
i py Howe’ s Island, C a TE 
Mullen Gravelly banks of “the "Mitta- Mitta, Maroka valley and Snowy river, £. 
mo Moist places in various parts of the colony, ascending to 4000 ft., J. D. 
This species is also in New Zealand. 
9. M. polybotrya, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 693, and in DC. Prod, 
ty. 145. Stems woody at the reds oat or ascending, 1 to 2 ft. 
long, rather stout and not much branched. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
oy , Narrowed into a rather long ends the larger ones 2 to 3 in. 
es s 
rather long pedicels, females larger on shorter pedicels a 
or less e ruiting perianth scarcely thickened. Nut nearly 
globular, obscure] 3-an d with 6 prominent longitudinal 
ob gles separated by 3 deep and narrow, and 3 shallow 
mbryos proe DIDA RENT and accumbently incurved 
8 en seeds from the same specimen.—F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 130, 
ed P olygonum bin um. 
‘Australia. Swan river, Drummond, Oldfield, Preiss, n. 1353, and others. 
M. polygonoides, P. Muell. Fragm. v diffuse or erect 
v.79. A 
hes 
tub or shrub, attaining several ft., with numerous branc 
elongated and leafy ^ When br or luxuriant, clustered wiry and 
i ste 
Ppearin mes almost Yentioas on old stem s linear 
gaoeolato, contracted at the base, rarely broad or occasionally —! 
x uriant shoo en small an ow ost E ang 
alm hes. Flowers small, very few to r and the fema oa o 
l ost solitary, all axillary. "Périanth under 1 "ine long nme etm 
Loi 1t lines when in fruit but searcely succulent. — shortly 
ed D the sti igmas at first somewhat dilated and entire, larger 
x fringed when fully out. Nut nearly pa obtuse 
 puewhat shining but oliin mgn rugose. it cii viii, 909, and in 
e F Mue peii e Kew aay: 95; wat us 
stenophylla, F. Muell. Fragm. i ; P olygonum angustissimum, 
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