a 
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usually becoming nearly glabrous on the upper side at least when old. 
Flowers nearly white ‘or pale blue, in small nearly sessile — 
eymes, forming short terminal panieles, either simple and spi 
or "ightly branched, the floral leaves reduced to short bracts. Calyx 
in the typical forms about 2 lines long, very rans 5-toothed, 
he nearly twice as long as the oes the 4 upper lobes iut 
in each cell. Drupe globular 
tralia. Victoria river, LE Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 
4 E 
h. 
Queensland. Along coast from MP York je Moreton Bay, R. Brown, 
A, een, Jr Muar, URA and many sr 
he s re , chiefl rime and varying very much 
as to foliage, the DAE following principal ‘A thet ralian fori agre eing more or less with 
Asiatic varieties, but some of them passing into species which in Asia are considered as 
perfectly distinct 
ao 
Ron mbent. Leaflets iu simple 2 Joven) mottiy solitary, obovate or 
hes 3-foliolate and less 
btuse. A bilety n maritime variety in N. Australia c ueensland as in tropical 
8l. V. ovata, Thunb., Hook. and Arn. Bot. Beech. 206, t. 47, R. Br. Prod. 511. 
acutifolia. Decumbent or erect. ‘Leaflets 3 or Sometimes 5 or only 1, ovate or 
9vate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the Ee e one often above 2 in. long.— V. trifolia, 
R. Br. Prod. 511.— Common along the coast of Queensland xr appears to be not so 
orm 
Y parviflora. rect. Leaflets 5 or some times 3, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute. 
rend much II ipi in the two preceding forms, and resembling those of the 
qrati y. gen ich this miny js s scarcely to o be distinguished—In N. 
Atstralia os Cult à ot OE ped uA. and Moreton Bay in Queensland. 
ie ere are numerous intermediate giai connecting the above three principal 
7. V. lignum-vit 8e, A, Cunn., Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. at A tall 
handsome tree, the young branches petioles and inflorescence rusty 
Ease or pubese ent. Leaves all simple (or uniflidlate D clon or 
oval-elliptical, shortly acuminate, narrowed at the base, 1 ong 
mu gates 3E a 3 in., somewhat ja oit NE on ud upper 
middle lower lobe ine the others so much as in some species. 
Stam not exceeding the others i km 
lii, 58. shortly exserted beyond the upper lobes.—F. Mu ragm. 
c and. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cun are op W. Hill, F. Mueller, 
: re Queensland wo , London Exhibition, 1862, 
S Wales 2 * Sydney woods," Paris Exhibition, ness, n. 3. 
3. v. -4cuminata, R. l or large tree, the young 
Br. Prod. 519. A small or lar 
shoots and inflorescence more or less hoary-pubescent, the adult eaves 
