Bossicea.] 
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4. B. Scortechinii (after Rev. B. Scortechini), F . v. M. South. Science Rec. 
■Jan., 1883. Shrub, diffuse, the branches not compressed, almost silky. Stipules 
minute, semilanceolate. Leaves scattered, ovate-oblong, the apex blunt, at first 
clothed with appressed hairs on both sides, afterwards glabrous. Pedicels 2 or 3 
lines, or as long as the calyx, bearing a pair of minute bracteoles about the 
middle. Calyx silky. Petals glabrous. Pod linear-oblong, hairy. Seeds 7 to 9 
Hab.: Dumaresque River. 
5. B. buxifolia (Box-leaved), A. Cunn. in frield, N. S. Wales, 348; Benth. 
FI. Austr. ii. 163. A procumbent or diffuse shrub with numerous slender terete 
or scarcely flattened branches, minutely but softly pubescent. Leaves broadly 
ovate or almost cordate, acute, 1J to nearly 3 lines long, nearly flat, coriaceous, 
transversely wrinkled and sprinkled with a few hairs above, loosely pubescent 
underneath. Pedicels much longer than the leaves, with small, broad, deciduous 
bracteoles above the middle. Calyx minutely pubescent, scarcely 2 lines long, 
the upper lobes broad truncate, as long as the tube, and more or less united, the 
lower ones lanceolate and much shorter. Standard broad, twice as long as the 
calyx; wings and keel shorter. Ovary nearly sessile, glabrous or with ciliate 
edges, with about 6 ovules. Pod usually f to lin. long, Jin. broad, almost sessile, 
the margins nerviform. — B. decumbem, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 9. 
Hab.: Southern parts of the colony. 
6. B. Brownii (after Robert Brown), Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 163. An erect 
apparently stout much-branched shrub of 3 or 4ft., with the habit of B. rhombi- 
folia, the branches terete or slightly compressed, softly pubescent. Leaves 
distichous, broadly ovate, almost cordate, obtuse or mucronulate, 2 to 4 lines long, 
mostly oblique at the base, flat, coriaceous, loosely pubescent or hairy. Pedicels 
mostly shorter than the calyx, with deciduous bracteoles near the base. Caly^ 
about 2 lines long ; lobes much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones broad, 
rounded-falcate. Petals fully twice as long as the calyx, the keel nearly as long 
as the standard. Ovary glabrous, on a long stipes, with usually 3 ovules. Pod 
f to lin. long, about 5 lines broad, the margins broad, the upper one much 
thickened ; the stipes longer than the calyx. 
Hab.: Port Bowen, R. Brown, also in Leichhardt's Collection. Allied in foliage to B. buxifnlia. 
but the pod is that of B. rhombifolia. — Bentli. 
7. B. rhombifolia (leaves rhomboid), Sieb. in DC. Prod. ii. 117 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. ii. 161. A tall much-branched shrub, quite glabrous and often 
glaucous, the young branches often flattened. Leaves distichous, from obovate 
to broadly rhomboidal, usually mucronulate, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long and 
broad, coriaceous, flat, with a prominent midrib. Pedicels shorter than the calyx, 
with small broad bracteoles below the middle. Calyx about 4 lines long, the 
lobes much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones very broad and falcate, the 
lower ones small but nearly as long. Petals twice as long as the calyx, nearly 
equal in length. Ovary on a long stipes, quite glabrous, with 2 or 3 ovules. Pod 
f to nearly lin. long, about 4 lines broad, the margins, especially the upper one, 
broad and thick, the stipes longer than the calyx, the seeds often separated by a 
cellular substance as in B. heterophylla. — B. lenticularis, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1238, 
from the fig., not of Sieb. 
Hab.: In the gullies of the Mantuan Downs, Mitchell; Dogwood Creek, Leichhardt ; Boyne 
River (a variety with small obovate leaves), C. H. Hartmann (F. v. M.) 
B. rotundifolia, DC. Prod. ii. 117, from “eastern New Holland,” must, from the character 
given, be closely allied to the above, perhaps a luxuriant variety, with the leaves 4 to 5 lines 
long and 5 to 6 lines broad. — Benth. 
