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growing over a shrub several feet high, and literally covered with 

 large, yellow flowers. The "custard apple" family, Anonacece, 

 includes trees, shrubs, and climbing plants, some of which 

 produce sweetly scented flowers and edible fruit. Menispermacece. 

 are represented by five genera and species. All are climbing 

 plants and some regarded as poisonous. Nymphceaceai, con- 

 sisting of only two genera and species, sometimes cover the 

 surface of lakes with their large leaves and beautiful flowers. I 

 have seen waterlilies growing in many parts of the world, but 

 never any that presented a more beautiful sight than Nymphcea 

 gigantea Hook., on a lake a few miles west of Grafton. Many of 

 the leaves were eighteen inches in diameter, and the lovely blue 

 flowers a foot across. Hundreds of such blooms in the bright 

 sunlight are a sight not easily forgotten. Under Capparidece 

 there are a few interesting species, including Gapparis nobilis 

 F.v.M., which grows into a fair sized tree with evergreen shining 

 leaves, white flowers, and globular or ovoid fruits. I have grown 

 this species in the neighbourhood of Sydney, where it has pro- 

 duced flowers for the last few years Some of the several trees 

 and shrubs of Pittosporece have sweetly perfumed flowers. 

 tfymenosporum flavum F.v.M , is one of the most handsome 

 evergreen and floriferous trees of this Order. When in bloom its 

 terminal corymbose panicles of large, yellow flowers never fail to 

 attract the attention of the most unobservant person. The 

 allied "Orange-thorns," Citriobatus mnltijlorus A. Cunn, and 

 C. paucijiorus A. Cunn., produce numerous yellow fruits like very 

 small oranges. Those of the former being sometimes nearly 

 half an inch in diameter, while those of the latter are often four 

 and a half inches in circumference. Many species of the seven 

 indigenous genera of Malvaceae, are found over a great part of this 

 region Amongst the shrubby kinds none have such large and 

 varied coloured flowers as the different species of Hibiscus. 

 Those producing the most showy flowers are H. rhodopetalus 

 F.v.M., with red flowers from three to four or more inches in 

 diameter, //. divaricatus Grah., with yellow flowers with a 

 crimson eye, from four to five inches in diameter, and H. spleudens 

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