74 XII. MTTOSfORE^. [Citriohabus. 



lines long, always solitary in the axils, and not very numerous on the bush, not- 

 withstanding the specific name. Ovary pubescent, with 2 parietal placentas and 

 8 to 12 ovules to each. Berry 2 to 5 lines diameter, containing from 2 to above 

 a dozen seeds, which are not viscid. 



Hab.: Southern parts of the colony. 



Wood close in grain and very tough, colour light. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 13a. 



2. Ca pauciflorus (few flowers), A. Cunn. in Loud. Hort. Brit. Suppl. 686 

 (iimne only) ; Bentli. Fl. Austr. i. 122. Habit of C. midtijiorus, but stouter and 

 more rigid, the branches similarly rough, with a minute pubescence, and thorny. 

 Leaves from obovate to cuneate-oblong, rarely orbicular, mostly entire and obtuse, 

 but occasionally mucronate or truncate and 3-toothed, rarely exceeding Jin. in 

 length, often petiolate and more rigid than in C. rivultiflorm. Flowers larger 

 than in that species, the petals 4 to 6 lines long, united into a complete tube to 

 two-thirds of their length. Ovary pubescent, with 5 parietal placentas, covered 

 with innumerable minute ovules. Style longer than in G. multiflorus. Fruit 

 attaining 1 to Ifin. diameter, with a thick coriaceous pericarp. Seeds numerous, 

 in a viscid pulp. — Lviosporim spinescens, F. v. M. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. ii. 76. 



Hab.: Coast scrubs of central parts of the colony. 



Wood close-grained, of a light uniform colour, and hard. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No 14. 



8. C> lancifolius (lance-leaved). Bail. A small tree, bark whitish, branch- 

 lets slender, and the smaller ones often terminating in sharp spines. Leaves 

 alternate, lanceolate, membranous, about IJin. long, |^in. broad, on very short 

 slender petioles, the veins very oblique, looping far within the margin, delicately 

 reticulate and dotted with guttate oil-cells, margins entire. Flowers axillary 

 or lateral, solitary or in pairs, on very short peduncles, bracts minute. Sepals 5, 

 linear, recurved. Petals 5, linear, more or less imbricate, cohering in a tube of 

 nearly their whole length. Stamens 5, shorter than the petals and opposite 

 them ; filam_ents flattened but tapering towards the anther, which is sagittate, free 

 with 2 cell-slits the length of the anther. Style glabrous, stigma truncate or 

 very shortly and obtusely lobed ; ovary silky-hairy, seems to be 1-celled, superior. 

 Fruit a berry, nearly globose, about 5 lines in diameter, with a thin coriaceous 

 pericarp. Seeds 9 in the fruits opened, enveloped in a viscous fluid, somewhat 

 reniform, flattened, dark-brown. 



Hab.: Killarney, on border of scrub, in flower, .7. F. Bailey ; Warwick, fruit specimen, C. J. 

 Gwyther. 



6. BILLARDIERA, Sm. 

 (After J. J. Labillardiere.) 

 Petals connivent or cohering in a tube to above the middle, spreading at the 

 top. Anthers oblong or ovate, shorter than the filaments. Ovary sessile, or 

 nearly so, completely or rarely imperfectly 2-celled, glabrous or pubescent. 

 Fruit succulent or fleshy and indehiscent, ovoid or oblong. Seeds ovoid reniform 

 or globular, often enveloped in a viscid pulp. — Undershrubs, with the branches 

 usually twining. Leaves entire or sinuate. Flowers greenish-yellow, purple, or 

 rarely blue, either solitary or clustered and pendulous, or in terminal cyiies 

 and erect. 



The genus is limited to Australia, and differs from Mananthus only in the baccate, not 

 capsular, fruit. 



1. B. scandens (climbing), Svi. Bot. Nor. Holt. i. t, 1; Benth. Fl. Amtr. 

 i. 123. Stems twining, often to a considerable extent, or short and flexuose 

 nearly glabrous or more or less silky or velvety-pubescent, or hairy. Leaves from 

 ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate or linear, obtuse or with a recurved point usuallv 

 1 to 2in. long, entire or often with undulate margin, usually narrowed into a 



