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lefs confpicnoiifly interefting objedts. Nor will the 
fcientific botanift find the plant before us unworthy 
of his moll accurate attention. 
Its genus is eafily charadlerifed in the Linnxan fyftem 
by the many-feeded berry above the flower, and may 
ftand fomewhere between EJcallonia and Mangifera. 
We cannot certainly tell what genera are its natural 
allies, efpecially as we have no knowledge of the fruit 
and feeds except from a drawing. May it be akin to 
the Capparides of M. de Juffieu ? 
The name Billardiera is given it in honour of James 
Julian la Billardiere, M. D. F. M. L. S. now engaged as 
botanift on board the French fliips fent in fearch of 
M. de la Peyroufe. His leones Plantarum Syria rariorum^ 
the fruits of a journey to the Levant in 1786, juftly en- 
title him to fuch a diftindlion. 
We have acquired two fpecies of this genus from New 
South Wales. The root of the prefent is woody and 
zigzag, with a reddifli inner bark. Stems feveral, twining 
among other flirubs, branched, woody, round, downy 
when young, deftitute of leaves except on the young 
branches. Leaves alternate, feflile, lanceolate, bluntifli, 
moftly entire, but undulated and revolute in fuch a 
manner as to appear dentated, which they fometimes 
really are, paler beneath, ilightly veined, moft hairy 
when young. Stipula none. Flowers folitary, enveloped 
in long leaves, terminating the young branches, on fliort 
downy footjlalks^ drooping, of a pale lemon-colour, 
without 
