80 PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO [Pittosporece. 
summit; stamens of about equal or double the length of the calyx; style very short; berry livid, two-celled; 
seeds enveloped, in pulp; compressed. 
On stony or rocky declivities, chiefly amongst scrubs along rivers or in moist forest country; through 
the southern and eastern parts of the colony, ascending' to the Alps; extending through Eastern Australia as 
far north as Wide Bay, westward seemingly not beyond Mount Gambier; noticed also over the whole 
territory of Tasmania. 
A twining 1 shrub or suffruticose plant, generally a few feet high. Branches almost terete, glabrous or 
more or less densely clothed with soft spreading or silky or velvety downs, seldom smooth from the beginning. 
Leaves herbaceous, tapering' into a very short petiole or nearly sessile, flat or in age along the margin 
recurved and often undulated, sometimes slightly crenulate, generally perfectly entire, one-nerved, finely and 
copiously veined, rarely blunt, j-2| inches long, 3-8 lines broad, in age always on the upper page nearly or 
perfectly glabrous, beneath silky or in various degrees pubescent, or smooth and then of pale color. Pedicels 
terminating the branchlets, 2-14 lines long, filiform, smooth or downy, provided at the base with one or 
two bracteoles, which are linear-subulate, very caducous, 1-3 lines long, membranous and finely downy at 
the back and at the margin. Sepals membranous, 3-5 lines long, generally outside somewhat silky- or 
villose-downy, inside smooth, occasionally one or the other reduced to the length of only 2 lines, rarely 
transformed into spurious leaves, which resemble those of the stem, except in size. Petals connivent in their 
lower part, soon perfectly free, 7-12 lines long, greenish- or pale-yellow, not seldom tinged with violet or 
purple, glabrous except at the apex, narrowly cuneate- or spathulate-lanceolate, streaked along near the 
middle with three fine longitudinal veins, which are laterally ramified. Filaments setaceous, glabrous, some¬ 
times not longer than the sepals, always considerably shorter than the petals. Anthers pale-yellow, violet 
according to Sweet's plate, line long, cordate-oblong, straight, erect. Pollen-grains tetraedrous-sphe- 
rical, opening by pores. Style about 1 line long, rarely shorter, glabrous, seldom silky, articulated at or 
above the base. Stigma dilated, \ line or less broad, faintly lobed. Ovary sessile, silky, gradually less 
densely hairy, or from the beginning but laxly downy, or even perfectly glabrous. Berry cylindrical- or 
spherical- or quadrate-ovate, blunt at the base and apex, in various degrees downy or glabrous, J-l inch 
long, slightly compressed. Seeds horizontally disposed in a close double row throughout each cell, brown, 
ovate- or renate-orbicular, very slightly wrinkled, measuring about # l line in diameter. 
B. parviflora (Cand. Proclr. i. 346) represents most probably a small-flowered state of this species. 
In flower throughout the year, but principally during the spring season. 
Billardiera cymosa, F. M. in Transact, of the Victor. Inst. i. 29; Klatt in Linncea, xxviii. 571; 
B. sericophora, F. M. in Linncea , xxv. 371; B. versicolor, F. M. in Linncea, xxviii. 571 5 B. pseudo-cymosa, 
Klatt, l . c. 
Leaves narrow- or broad-lanceolate, sometimes ovate, rarely orbicular, beneath somewhat downy or 
silky or smooth, ciliate * pedicels cymose-paniculate or fasciculate, rarely solitary; petals three or several 
times longer than the ovate- or subulate-lanceolate sepals, acuminate, considerably recurved towards the 
summit; stamens about twice as long as the calyx; style very short; berry livid, two-celled; seeds enveloped 
in pulp. m 
In the desert on the Murray River and its lower tributaries, otherwise within the precincts of the 
Colony of Victoria only as yet found on scrubby barren ridges in Bacchus Marsh. Not rare in the Colony 
of South Australia on barren plains or stony or scrubby' arid ranges, scattered from Guichen Bay to Venus 
Bay and to Mount Ilefnarkable, ranging to wide distances inland; frequent in Kangaroo Island. 
A shrub, attaining sometimes a height of 12 feet, although it generally occurs of less extensive growth 
and even sometimes quite dwarf. Stem covered with a brown scarious periplileeum. Branches climbing, 
glabrous or clothed with an either more velvety or more silky indument. Leaves subsessile or short petio- 
late, chartaceous or more or less herbaceous or coriaceous, oftener smooth than downy, one-nerved, very 
