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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Pittosporece. 
base. Anthers cordate-ovate, about \ line long, yellow or red. Pollen-grains ellipsoid, bursting lengthwise, 
occasionally red. Style line long. Stigma very small. Ovary glabrous. Capsule pale-brown, 2-3 lines 
long, 3-4 lines broad, smooth. Valves inside streaked by transverse veins. Funicles minute, tooth-like. 
Seeds attached in a double row within each cell to the dissepiment, dark-brown, opaque, kidneyshaped-ovate, 
glabrous, about 1 line long. Hilum lateral. 
Specimens communicated by W. Woolls from Parramatta, from whence Putterlick received his Bursaria 
diosmoides, accord fully with our plant. Specimens from the Argyle county have their flowers somewhat 
larger and ternate. 
CHEIRANTHERA. 
All. Cunn. in JBot. Regist. 1719. 
Sepals free. Petals equal, spreading, neither coherent nor unguiculate. Stamens unilateral 
Filaments short. Anthers opening at the apex with two pores, free or at first coherent. Pollen-grains 
ellipsoid, bursting lengthwise. Ovary reclined. Style filiform. Stigma minute, slightly bilobed. 
Capsule parchmentous, ellipsoid-cylindrical, perfectly two-celled, with loculicidal dehiscence to the 
middle and septicidal dehiscence to near the base. Seeds many in each cell, dry, subglobose, ’wingless. 
Small erect suffruticose plants, inhabiting sparingly extratropical tracts of Australia, Leaves 
linear or filiform, alternate or fasciculate. Flowers erect, mostly terminal and corymbose, rarely 
solitary. Petals blue.— Putt. Syn. Pitt. 24 ; Planch, in Annal. Scienc. Hatur. iv. 266, t. 2. 
Sollya differs from Cheiranthera in anthers cohering conically around the pistil and in truly 
baccate fruit, and agrees with it in the corolla and in anthers opening by pores. The latter character 
removes these genera from all other Pittosporece. Our extensive botanical collections from almost 
every explored part of Australia contain of this genus only two other species, namely, C. brevifolia 
and C. tortilis (Fragm. Pliyt. Austr. i. 97 and ii. 75), the genus being therefore probably not one of 
numerous species. C. Preissiana (Putt, in Lehm. PL Preiss. L 201), of which the flowers and ripe 
fruits are not described, may possibly not belong to the genus. Putterlick remarks, that in its 
climbing habit the latter agrees with two South-Western Australian undescribed congeners. 
Cheiranthera linearis, All Cunn. in Rot. Reg . 1719; Hook. Icon. Plant, i. t. 47; Pntterl. Syn. 
Pittosp. 24; Schlechtend. Linncea , xx. 636; Planch, in Houtte FI. de Serves , viii. 291, with plate; Hegel 
Gartenjl. i. 227, t. 22; F. M. Fragm. Pkytogr. Austr , i. 97; C. cyanea, Brogn. Toy . Coquille , t. 77. 
Leaves fasciculate or alternately-crowded, long-linear, acute, somewhat channelled, entire, rarely 
lanceolate-linear, flat and remotely toothed; anthers about four times shorter than the large corolla , free, 
subcordate at the base. 
On banen stony ridges and hills; thus on Mount Mclvor and near the Ovens River; thence to the 
vicinity of the Flinders Ranges, Spencer’s Gulf and St. Vincent’s Gulf, and to the Upper Lachlan River. 
A handsome plant, from a few inches to 1J foot high. Rhizome woody. Steins often simple and 
somewhat flexuose, or provided with strict branches, either glabrous or very scantily clothed with short 
spreading downs. Well developed leaves from §—2 inches long and as many lines broad, one-nerved, 
minutely ciliolate, otherwise almost glabrous, of equal color on both pages; serratures, if present, seldom 
extending below the middle of the leaves, generally only occurring near the apex, very minute or fully 1 line 
long. Primordial leaves cordate. Corymb few-flowered, occasionally reduced to one flower, not often axillary. 
Geneial peduncle inch long. Pedicels measuring from 2 inches, thickened towards the apex, bearing 
below the middle two generally alternate linear-subulate bracteoles, which measure 1-2 lines, furnished at 
the base with a biact somewhat larger than the bracteoles. Sepals 2A lines long, lanceolate, gradually 
