188 XXIX. EIJTACE^. [Boronia. 



9. B. polygalifolia (Polygala-leaved), Sm. Tracts 297/ i. 7; BentlK Bl. 

 Austr. i. 8. Usually a low glabrous undershrub with a thick rhizome as in B. 

 parriflora, or a small shrub, rarely stouter and 1 to 2ft. high. Leaves either 

 simple with lanceolate or linear-lanceolate acute leaflets, mostly under ^in., but 

 sometimes nearly lin. long, or 8-foliolate with small acute leaflets, on a short 

 common petiole. Pedicels axillary, solitary, and 1 -flowered. Sepals short. 

 Petals 2 or 8 times as long, imbricate, pink, and glabrous. Filaments hairy and 

 glandular towards the top. Anthers conspicuously apiculate, the appendage erect 

 or recurved. Seeds opaque and usually minutely tuberculate. — DC. Prod. i. 722; 

 F. V. M. PI. Vict. i. 114; B. hyssopifolia, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 148 ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 66 ; B. tetrathecoides, DC. Prod. i. 722 ; Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. i. 277. 



Hab.: Stradbroke Island and many other localities in southern Queensland. 

 Var. robusta. Leaves 3-folioIate, as in var. trifoliolata, but the stems are stout and the plant 

 more shrubby, attaining 2ft. or more. — Moreton Island, F. v. M. 



10. B. anemonifolia (Anemone-leaved), A. Cunn. in Field, N.S. Wales, 380 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 321. A shrub of 2 or 8ft., glabrous or pubescent, and often 

 glaucous. Leaves either simply 3-foliolate with the leaflets 3-toothed, or all 8 

 leaflets or the terminal one only again 8-foliolate or pinnately 5-foliolate, or 

 sometimes some of them a third time divided, and all usually thick, linear-euneate 

 or, if entire, acutely linear. Flowers in axillary cymes of 3, 5, or even more, 

 very rarely reduced to single flowers. Stamens and fruit of B. polygalifolia. 



Hab.: Newcastle and Burnett Rivers, F. i\ M.; near Lindley's Eange, Mitchell. 



Var. anethifolia. Leaves still more compound, often bipinnate, and leaflets narrower and more 

 acute than in other varieties. Flowers 3 or more in the cyme. — B. anethifolia, A. Cunn.; Endl. in 

 Hueg. Enum. 16 ; Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 1841, under n. 47 ; B. bipinnata, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. 

 Austr. 225. — The common form in the interior of Queensland and N. S. Wales'. — Benth. Fraser's 

 Island, Miss Lovell. 



11. B. falcifolia (curved leaves), A. Cunn.; Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. 1841, under 

 n. 47 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 322. A glabrous, erect, heath-like shrub, with virgate 

 branches. Leaves rather crowded, 3-foliolate ; leaflets linear-terete, mueronate, 

 mostly -^ to -Jin. long, on a common petiole rather shorter than themselves. 

 Pedicels 1 to 3-flowered, in the upper axils. Bracts linear-subulate. Sepals 

 lanceolate, subulate-pointed. Petals rather longer than the sepals, attaining 8 to 

 4 lines, acute, imbricate, glabrous. Filaments clavate and glandular upwards ; 

 anthers not apiculate. Stigma in some specimens capitate, in others not thicker 

 than the style. — B. paleifoUa, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 16 (through a misreading 

 of Cunningham's label). 



Hab.: Islands of Moreton Bay A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller, and others ; Wide Bay, Bidwill. 



12. B. parviflora (flowers small), Sm. Tracts, 295, t. 6; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 i. 324. A small, glabrous undershrub, forming a thick woody rhizome with 

 numerous prostrate, ascending, or erect branching stems, usually under 6in. but 

 sometimes nearly 1ft. long. Leaves all simple, from oblong to linear-lanceolate, 

 rather acute, rarely -J^in. long. Flowers small, terminal, solitary or few in a leafy 

 terminal cyme, on short thickened pedicels, one or two rarely axillary by the 

 abortion of the flowering branch. Sepals acute, 1^ to 2 lines long. Petals not 

 much exceeding them, imbricate, glabrous. Filaments glabrous or slightly hairy 

 and glandular towards the top ; anthers very minutely or not at all apiculate. 

 Ovary glabrous ; style short and thick. Cocci small. Seeds smooth and shining. — 

 DC. Prod. i. 721 ; F. v. M. PI. Vict. i. 118 ; B. piloneina, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. 

 i. 98, t. 126 ; DC. Prod. i. 722 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 66. 



Hab.: Islands of Moreton Bay. 



Some specimens much resemble at lirst sight some of the smaller forms of B. polygalifolia, 

 but a careful examination of the inflorescence will always suffice to distinguish them, in- 

 dependently of the seeds. — Benth. 



