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Australian Plants. 



VINIFER^. 



5. Cissus Australasica, 



Leaves palmate, quinquefoliate j leaflets coriaceous, stalked^ 

 smooth, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, towards the top 

 remotely serrate or entire, below glaucous ; the paniculate 

 cymes or the tendrils shorter than the opposite leaf or equally 

 long ; flowers four-parted. 



On the wooded banks of the Broadribb River. 



This second Australian species, which forms a high climber, 

 appears to agree best with Cissus diversifolia of Candolle, 

 (not Walpers.) 



SAPINDACEjE. 



6. Dodonaea prociimbens. 



Branches prostrate j twigs hardly angulated j leaves some- 

 what scabrous, flat, cuncate, grossly three-toothed at the top ; 

 pedicels at the summit of the twigs solitary or rarely two or 

 three together, shorter than the leaves, as well as the calyx 

 hirtellous ; flowers dioecious, pentamerous, with a long style ; 

 capsule with three broad rounded wings. 



In subsaline flats and peaty places at the foot of Mount 

 Sturgeon and Mount Abrupt. 



This Dodonaea is with facility recognised by its procum- 

 bent growth, and the extremely long style which generally 

 measures one inch. 



7. Dodonaea deflexa. 



Upright, somewhat scabrous, viscose; twigs angulated, 

 patent ; leaves coriaceous, nearly round or ovate, repand and 

 undulate at the margin, and sometimes remotely toothed, 

 truncate or rounded at the top; flowers dioecious, axillary, 

 solitary or geminate ; pedicels deflexed, shorter than the 

 leaves ; sepals ovate, nearly round ; capsule truncate, with four 

 or five wings, which are expanded upwards. 



In the desert scrub along the Murray Eiver and Spencer's 

 Gulf. 



8. Dodonma bursarifolia. 



Smooth, not viscous ; twigs indistinctly angulated ; leaves 

 coriaceous, nearly opaque, flat, obovate, cuneatc, blunt, 

 rarely apicnlate or emarginate, always entire; flowers dioecious, 

 axillary, and terminal, solitary, or two and three together ; 

 sepals, oblong-linear ; anthers whitish ; capsule three or four 

 sided, with extremely narrow wings ; seeds shining black. 



