Pittosporece .] 
THE COLONY OE VICTORIA. 
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Leaves ovate- or lanceolate- or linear-oblong, or ovate, smooth, ciliate; pedicels solitary; petals many 
times longer than the ovate- or narrow-lanceolate sepals, narrowly oblong-cuneate, hardly recurved towards 
the summit; stamens many times longer than the calyx; style very long ; berry one-celled , hollow , destitute 
of pulp, generally blue. 
On shady rivulets and in damp mountain forests; in Gipps Land, in the Western Port district, towards 
Cape Otway, in the Grampians, in the Dandenong Ranges, on Mount Macedon and Mount Disappointment, 
in the Buffalo Ranges, around Mount Buffer ascending to subalpine elevations. Common throughout 
Tasmania. 
A most beautiful climber, attaining in favorable spots a height of about 20 feet, generally, however, 
smaller in size. Branches slender, scantily silky in youth, glabrous in age. Leaves herbaceous, chartaceous 
or subcoriaceous, inches long, 1-8 lines broad, entire, seldom few-toothed or even occasionally cpiite 
pinnatifkl, tapering into a very short petiole or nearly sessile, oftener blunt than acute, flat or somewhat 
recurved at the margin, shining above, often paler and opaque beneath, one-nerved, faintly veined. Pedicels 
terminating the branchlets, slender- or capiUary-filiform, 1-1J inch long, bearing at the base a very cadu¬ 
cous linear-subulate membranous ciliolate bracteole of 1-2 lines length. Flowers cernuous or pendulous, 
without fragrance. Sepals membranous, 1^-3 lines long, ciliated, more or less acuminate. Petals, except 
at their veiy top or towards their base, glabrous, |-1J inch long, tapering gradually into the long unguis, 
introflexed at the lower margin, lined with several alternately more prominent and faint longitudinal veins, 
pervaded besides with numerous very tender anastomosing veinlets, rounded-blunt or somewhat acute or 
rarely short-acuminate, gTeenish-yellow, striped with purple or changing considerably into a purplish color, 
soon after fecundation separating from each other. Filaments linear-setaceous, glabrous, frilly as long as the 
petals or about one-third shorter. Anthers f-1 line long, affixed above the basal sinus, g-enerally placed 
more horizontally than those of other species, cordate-oblong, accidentally quite as revolute as in B. elegans. 
Style capillary, 7-15 lines long, glabrous, sometimes short-exserted, articulated near the base, for a long 
while persistent. Stigma minute, at last dilated, slightly lobed. Ovary glabrous or scantily silky, tapering 
into a very short occasionally obliterated stipes. Berry smooth, shining, cyan- or pale-blue, rarely, according 
to observations of Tasmanian botanists, greenish or yellowish, ovate or cylindrical-ovate or. rarely verging 
into a spherical form, bluntly quadrangular, emarginate or subtruncate at the bottom and top, J-l inch 
long, by the early rupture of the septum one-celled, the septum being thereby reduced to a narrow ridge, 
slightly impressed along the dissepiment, provided with no conspicuous stipes. Pericarp spongy-fleshy, J-l 
line thick, inside white. Seeds generally numerous, reduced to about a dozen in diminutive fruits, dark- 
brown, shining, about 1 line long, nearly round, slightly compressed and angmlar, very finely reticulated, not 
enveloped in any pulp, but loosely filling the cavity of the fruit, attached in two rows along each rudimen¬ 
tary septum. 
Sect. II. Plerocarpus. 
Petals bending together into an almost bell-shaped corolla. Style short, filiform. Berry filled 
with pulp, two-celled. 
Billardiera scandens, SmithBot.ofNewHoll.il; Bot.Mcig.t. 801; Sweet FI. Austr. t. 5 4; 
Turp. Diet. Sdenc. Nat. t. 130; Pteichenb. Mag. dee JEst. Bot. 25 ; B. Canariensis, T Vendl. Hort. Herrenh. 
iii. 1 . 15; B. mutabilis, Salisb. Parad. Londin. i. t. 48; Bot. Mag. 1 . 1313; J. Hook. FI. Tasm. i. 37; B. 
angustifolia, Cand. Prodr . i. 345; B. grandiflora, Putt. inJEndl . Stirp . Nov. JDecad.* 53 ; B. latifolia, Putt. 
1. c. 52; B. brachyantha, F. M. in Linncea , xxviii. 570. 
Leaves ovate- or oblong- or linear-lanceolate, or broad-linear, beneath silky-downy or smooth, ciliate; 
pedicels solitary, rarely 2-4, fasciculate; petals twice or three times as long as the lanceolate- or linear- 
subulate sepals, narrowly cuneate- or spathulate-lanceolate, acuminate, considerably recurved towards the 
