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274 XCIX. POLYGONACEÆ.: [ Muhlenbeckia, 
ania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; common along the seacoast, J. D. 
S. Australia. Seacoast, Spencer’s and St. Meriand 8 dox. F. Mueller and others; 
Kangaroo dida, Siero: use ; Gawler ranges, gne 
Ww. A Labilla rdiere ; Swan river, 204, Preiss, n. m 
i Pay m gem Gordon rivers, Oldfield ; rici ye Re ranges to 
axwell. 
H n M Met issn. orain € lanceolate- €— twice or three 
= as broad, mostl inate. Stems climbing over the tops of tall trees. "Howe 
fruiti wad periant 8 p the latter very adalin ins in H 
Tosd. Jou 78; Polygonum adpressum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 314 
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c. flexuo Leaves scarcely 1 in. long, broad, obtuse or wee acuminate. Flowers 
smaller dani in the type and chiefly in aalr elust ers. Fruit not seen.—Jf. flexuosa, 
Meiss iu Preiss. = a ch in DC. Prod. xiv. 148. 
W. A tralia. Middle island, A. Cunningham fene district, Preiss, ^. 
1355; fiio: and Kalgan rE Oldfield; Anny, F. Mue vg 
ralis 
the latter, aware e inflorescence is more branched, the nut more shining, vety 
prominently 3 ngled, and usually exceeding the sandy succulent Peeni, Sod i 
seems to me to I at least as distinct as the i gracilli 
2. M. gracillima, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 145. A tall herbaceous 
twiner, much more «y ien yf M. adpressa and M. rhyticarya. Leaves 
on long petioles, ovate-cordate or broadly sagittate, pae wa 
clusters small and distant. Perianth not above 1 line diameter when 
fully spread. Stigmas large and copiously fringed. Fruiting pe 
globular and succulent, enclosing "4 sh hy obscurely angel e, j 
In |pressa, but considerably smaller.—Polygonum adpressu Tou 
Queensland. Moreton Bay, Leichhardt; Rockhampton, O'Shanesy ; Dawson and 
Burnett rivers, i Mueller New 
Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and — nw 
d, C. St Meri; Glendon, Leichhardt ; Macleay, Clarence and Hastings T 
Bein’ southward to Illawarra, Herb. Hooker and F.. Mueller. 
3. M. rhyticarya, F. Mfell. Fragm. v. 92. Stems — be l 
at the base. Leaves iade broadly ovate-cordate, obtu 
acuminate, 1 to 2 in. long, often rather thick and vinto, s resenting 
those of the broad- leaved form o adpress ded long pai | 
membranous, enclosing an ovoid-triquetrous nut often 2 lines sing l 
deeply rugose. Seed scarcely furrowed. ae si | 
Queensland. Cape York, Daemel; Port Denison, F'itzalan ; pet 1 
Rocki pue Bays, Dalle lachy. P 
N. S. Wales. New ^g viia C. Stuart ; ee bee . bas | 
R. Brown's specime num adpressum, from qeu l 
appear to — to Py ot but they are not in fruit. 
