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Australian Plants. 



On boggy places, periodically under water, along the 

 Rivers Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee. 



The first species discovered in Australia, bearing affinity 

 to A. multiflora from East India, and to A. pusilla from South 

 Africa; differing from both already in the colour of the petals.. 



Akaliace^. 



26. Panax augustifolius, 



Fruticose, unarmed, glabrous; leaves simply or bi-i)innate; 

 leaflets spreading, carnulent, in three to seven pairs, oblong 

 — ^linear, perfectly entire or sometimes again dissected, almost 

 veinless, opaque, above dark-green, beneath pale; umbels 

 distant in the panicle, pedunculate, many-flowered; calyx 

 obsoletely toothed; styles two, reflexed at the extremity. 



Dispersed through the Mountains from Dandenong and 

 Mount Macedon to the Buffalo Ranges, and through a great 

 part of Gipp's Land. 



The berries are blueish-white, like those of the following 

 species, but somewhat smaller. 



27. Panax dendroides. 



Arborescent, unarmed, smooth; leaves simply or bi-pinnate; 

 leaflets in five-seven pairs, lanceolate, acute, entire, opaque, 

 beneath paler, with above prominent veins; umbels many- 

 flowered, forming a divaricate panicle, which is of equal 

 length with the leaves; calyx with five short teeth; styles 

 two, reflexed from the base. 



Not rare in the valleys of the southern and eastern ranges 

 of this colony. 



CAPRirOLIACEiE. 

 28. Samhiicus xanthocarpa. 



Arboreous; leaves pinnately three- or five-foliolate or bi- 

 pinnate, smooth, without stipules; leaflets lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate, with exception of the basis sharp- 

 serrated, cymes with five or seven principal branches; flowers 

 three- or rarely four-parted; berries yellow, three-seeded. 



On the shady moist banks of the Brodribb, Snowy and 

 Cabbage Tree Rivers. 



A tree with the habit of the common Elder and perhaps of 

 equal utility. 



