XLVIII. 
BILLARDIERA MUTABILIS. 
Changeable Billardiera. 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Rhamni. . Juss. Gen. pb. 376. 
Sect. XI. Stamina toro inserta petalis alterna. Fructus drupaceus aut baccatus. 
Calyx 5-phyllus, coloratus, deciduus. Petala 5, basi contigua, calyce 2-plo longiora, decidua. 
Filamenta 5, extus canaliculata. Anthere ante anthesin in quibusdam conyergentes. Peri- 
carpium basi inter filamenta prominens et melliferum, oblongum basi styli persistente, succu- 
lentum, clausum, 2-loculare loculis pulp’ farctis, deciduum. Stigma glutine hemisphericum, 
defloratum plus minus 2-lobum. Semina numerosa, medio septi funiculis brevissimis Q-plict 
serie imbricata. Frutices graciles, contra solem volubiles ramulis varie deflexis. Gemme 
arce, subrotunde. Folia alterna, subfrondosa, in cunabulis convoluto-imbricata, brevissime 
Stipule nulle preter gemmarum 
Bractea ad 
basin pedicellorum minute, caduce ; in unifloris nulle. Genus Pittosporo in serie naturalt 
proximum : hoc citra dubium ponit Fructus tener liquore oleoso subaromatico scatens, et Embryo 
in perispermo cartilagineo justa hilum minutus. 
ig 
B. foliorum laminis lineari-lanceolatis: floribus sepius solitariis: petalis demum purpureis 
rubrisque ; pericarpio fusiformi, lev! 
Sponte nascentem in New South Wales, legit G. Paterson. 
Floret apud nos a Junio in Septembrem. 
This curious genus was first established by Dr. J. E. Smith in his specimen of the Botany of 
New Holland, in honour of John Julian La Billardiere, M. D. and the very imperfect character 
there given, is copied by that indefatigable French botanist in the work he is now publishing, 
bats a any alteration. Neither of these celebrated pe have — bce ect 
ity: for i i ion, an uminous seeds, remo 
a “ ty: for the habit, total absence of stipulation, et ae ae 
Jussieu, but when that assem- 
ong sieu, but when that assen 
blage of dissimilar genera is reformed, these two will constitute a separate Order. The species 
: ‘ ‘usiformis of La Billardiere, and before I read his 
dose or approximated near the end of the branches as in Pittosporum, narrow and 
se A ; . » ceen, the point recurved and mucronate, more 
Jate, gg a — in any specimens I have seen, the pointr oe welt together, the 
peduncle of the first branching out a little above its base. Peduncle dark perp r, erect, 
_ the flower, round and hairy. Cal ale w: leaflets unequal in size but reguiar, ne) 
Jance.wedge-shaped, very entire, atime on both sur 
thickened and prominent at the base. — 
inucronate, hairy 
etals 5, pale yellow, changing as they decay first to @ 
