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bark. Leaves H-2| inches long, lanceolate, obtuse, shortly petroled, obtn-ely Narrate, deep green, coriaceou-, 
shining; stipules lanceolate. Flotn-rs axillary, small, solitary or few together, shortly prduncbd. ] inch diameter. 
&?j»«& four, spreading, connate at the base, lanceolate, wdvate, pubescent within. Prial* much smaller than the 
sepals, inserted into a lobed disc. Stamen* inserted into the disc ; filaments slender, as long as the sepals ; am hers 
cordate, produced into a long point. Ovary tree, two-celled, with two diverging, slender styles. <> 
dulous from the dissepiments of the ovary. (Name from avoSos, difficult of ceeew, and rtroXor, in allusion to the 
small petals.) 
Gen. II. BAUERA, Kenned. 
Calyx tubo brevissimo, limbo 6-10-partito. Petala 6-10, perigyna. Stamina indefinita v. delinita, 
antheris dorso affixis, loculis connatis. Ovarium basi calycis adnatum, 2-loculare, ovulis in placentis medio 
dissepimento utrinque adnatis horizontalibus ; stylis 2, filiformibus, divaricatis. Capsula 2-locularis, biloba, 
loculis rima loculicide dehiscentibus. Sem'ina pauca ; testa granulosa v. minute reticulata; raphe elevata. 
Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi orthotropus, rectus, cylindraceus ; cotyledonibus brevibus. — Frutices, loliis 
opposite*, sessilibus, S-foliolatis, exst/p/dati* ; lloribu- tunUanbux, so/i/ar/i*, j>rdic<-Uatis. 
This pretty and very curious genus is confined to South-eastern Australia and Tasmania : several species have 
been described, but they arc probably all reducible to one. It has no immediate allies, and has by some been con- 
sidered the type of a distinct Natural Family. --Sit, all. straggling or subscamlent shrub-, with opposite, exstipulate. 
Bauer, the celebrated Botanical painters.) 
1. Bauera rubioides (Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 198); ramulis pubescenti-pilosis, foliolis glabcrrimis v. 
superne pilosis lanceolatis subcrenatis, pedunculis foliis brevioribus longioribusve, petalis lineari-oblongis 
obovato-oblongisve, staminibus numerosis. — Situ, Bot. Mag. t.llo; Vent. lard. Malm. t. 96; DC. Prodr. 
iv. 13. B. rubisefolia, Salisb. Ann. Bot. i. 514. t. 10. B. sessiliflora, F. Muell. Trans. Vict. Insf'd. 
Yariat insigniter statura, magnitudine florum et foliorum, ramis erectis v. prostratis v. subscandentibus, 
foliolis ellipticis lanceolatisve brevibus elongatisve, pagina superiore glaberrima v. pilosa, petalis obovatis 
linearibusve albis v. roseis. 
Yar. a; 6-8-pedalis, caulibus diffusis subscandentibus, ramulis robustis, foliolis glaberrimis |-f-uncia- 
libus. {Gunn, 156.) 
Var /3 humilis; 3-5 -pedalis, caule erecto ramulis divaricatis gracilionbus, foliolis glabernmisv.su- 
perne pilosis.-B. humilis, Sweet, Hort. Sub. 124; DC. Prodr. iv, 13; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1197. {Gunn, 
626.) 
Yar. y. depresm ; caule brevi, ramis depressis, ramulis robustis gracihbusve. 
Yar. 8. microphylla ; caule depresso ramisque interdum valde elongatis proMrati* divancatim ramosis, 
foliolis minimis oblongis.-B. microphylla, Sieb. PL Exsicc. 2S6 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 13. {Gunn, 820.) 
(Tab. XXXI.) 
Hab. Very abundant throughout the Colony, generally growing in poor, wet soil.— (Fl. Tvov.-.Tan,; 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
A very common and beautiful plant, singularly variable, easily recognized by its much-branched, slender, hairy 
stems, small, sessile, trifoliolate leaves, with elliptical or lanceolate leaflets that are obscurely crenate, glabrous or hairy , 
