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quite distinct, flat, subfoliaceous, and the conical radicle is well 
developed. 
In the view of these facts, I have regarded Microclisia as 
distinct from Pleoyyne — a conclusion strengthened by the great 
difference in the geographical distribution of the plants, which 
are found at two opposite sides of the Australian continent. 
Pleogyne, nob. — Flores dioici. Masc. ignoti. — Foem. Sepala 6 
in ordine ternario alternatim disposita, triangularia, acuta, 
extus valde pilosa, exteriora minutissima, interiora duplo ma- 
jora. Petala invisa aut nulla. Stamina sterilia 6, minuta. 
Ovaria 6 (vel interdum 7), gibboso-ovata, lateribus valde 
compressa, in stylum oblique attenuata, sericeo pilosa, gynse- 
cio piloso crebriter insita, 1-locularia, ovulo solitario, angulo 
intemo appenso. Styli totidem, simplices, longiusculi, subu- 
lati, glabri, acuti, subdeflexi, dein curvatim adscendentes et in 
centrum conniventes. Drupce 6 vel abortu pauciores, gibboso- 
ovatse, subcompressse, pilosse, styli vestigio pedicello proximo 
notatse; putamen (vix maturum) reniformi-ovatum, valde 
compressum, 1-loculare; condylus internus, sinum versus in- 
trusus, parvus, subglobosus. Semen loculum implens, luna- 
tum ; integumentum membranaceum, condylo affixum : em- 
bryo exalbuminosus, cotyledonihus amplis, valde compressis, 
crasso-carnosis, accumbentibus, falcatis, radicula parva supera 
ad stylum fere basalem spectante multoties majoi’ibus. 
Frutex Australia septentrionalis scandens ; ramuli teneri, teretes, 
pubescentes ; folia obovata, coriacea, nervosa, reticulata, sub- 
glabra, subtus pubescentia, petiolata : racemi $ axillares, soli- 
tarii, pilosuli, folio breviores, pauciflori. 
Pleogyne Cunninghami, nob., in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 
43 ; — ramulis teneris, teretibus, pubescentibus •, foliis obo- 
vatis, imo rotundatis vel obtusioribus, apice acutiusculis et 
mucronatis, reticulatis, nervis prominulis, inter se arcuatim 
nexis, margine cartilagineo prominulo, coriaceis, utrinque 
pallidis, supra nitentibus, subglabris, aut in nervis puberulis, 
subtus cano-pubescentibus ; petiolo tortuoso, tomentoso, limbo 
5-plo breviore : racemis ? axillaribus, solitariis, tomentosis, 
folio brevioribus ; floribus paucis, minutis, pedicellatis ; drupis 
6 vel abortu paucioribus, pubescentibus, pisi minoris mole. — 
In Australia boreali : v. s. in herb. Heward, Cambridge Gulf 
(A. Cunningham, 1819). 
This is a very arid-looking plant, with short flexuous branch- 
lets and rigid leaves of a yellowish hue, somewhat polished, very 
reticulated, 2-2^ inches long, 1-1 f inch broad, on a curving 
petiole 4-6 lines long j the rachis of the $ raceme is f- 1 inch 
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