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the different forms of leaves not only of these but also of the following' variety occurring occasionally on the 
same stems. Leaflets of the variety with bi-ternate leaves alike to those of the trifoliolate variety, provided 
with a common and with special petioles of nearly equal length; the lateral petioles become, however, 
occasionally suppressed and then their leaflets single, by which means impari-pinnate bijugate leaves are 
formed. In rare instances the biternate leaves become still further enlarged by ulterior divisions, rendering 
the leaf decompound. Pedicels 1-7 lines long, generally axillary, in the foliolate varieties terminating occa¬ 
sionally the branchlets, when the ternate and often diminutive leaves may be regarded as bracts, bearing 
their bracteoles, which are §-1 line long, seldom above the middle sometimes close to the base, generally 
rather stout and thickened towards the calyx, when ternate borne on a short peduncle, which is at the apex 
bibracteate, when alar very rarely disposed by the suppression of the floral leaves in a reg-ular cyme. Sepals 
§-l| line long, participating in the smoothness or to some extent in the hairiness of the leaves, however, 
inside glabrous, acute or short-acuminate, but slightly membranous at the margin. Petals imbricate in 
aestivation, sessile, broad- or lanceolate-ovate, inside always glabrous, generally 2-3 lines long, in a small- 
flowered variety hardly exceeding 1 line. Filaments linear-filiform, 1-1J line long, in the small-flowered 
form only \ line long, bearing the anther at the inner face of the blunt more or less incrassate yet not club- 
shaped apex, not drawn out into a distinct lateral bristle, neither in any instance quite glabrous, although 
their white and generally dense downs are occasionally confined to the lower portion. Anthers ovate-cordate, 
line long, blackish or dark brown at the back, terminated into a minute small point or a more or less 
straight or recurved beak, which even occasionally bears one or more very minute bristles or a minute beard; 
the appendage never entirely imperceptible. Pollen yellow. Style glabrous or less commonly clothed with 
dense spreading downs, four-furrowed, twisted in age. Stigmas minute, coherent into one, or more or less 
separated from each other. Ovary almost constantly glabrous. Carpels oblique-ovate, rounded-blunt, l|-3 
lines long. Endocarp pale straw-colored, veinless; its tooth at the sinus sometimes almost obliterated. 
Placental membrane white, veiy tender, deltoid- or lanceolate-ovate, pointed, often 1 line long. Funicles 2, 
very short, in juxtaposition. Seeds oblique-ovate, hardly or slightly compressed, with more or less prominent 
dots, black, 1-11 line long. Testa crustaceous. Embryo very slender. 
The characteristic of this species as offered in the foregoing pages rests on the examination of about 60 
specimens from different localities and in varied stages of development. The suffruticose variety resembles 
B. parviflora. 
Soronia pinnata, Smith, Tracts relating to Natural History , p. 290, t. 4; Andr. Bot. Pepos. t. 
58; Venten. Malmais . t. 38; Loddig. Bot. Cabin . t. 473; Poem. Archiv. iii. 3 ; Adr. de Bess, in Mem. du 
Museum , xii. t. 22, f. 26; Bot. Mag. t. 1763; MauncEs Botanist , ii. t. 99; B. pilosa, Labill. Nov. Holl. 
Plant . Specim. i. 97, t. 124; B. variabilis, Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 255; Cornpan. to the Bot. Mag. i. 277; B. 
tetrandra, J. Hook. Journ. of Bot. i. 118; IAndl. S> Paxt. Flower Garden, t. 8; B. anemonifolia, Paxt. 
Mag. of Bot. ix. 123; B. Fraseri, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4052; B. Gunnii, J. Hook. FI. Tasm . i. 68; B. citrio- 
dora, Gunn , in FI. Tasm. i. 68. 
Shrubby, leaves impari-pinnate , petiolate, with from 2-6 rarely 1 pair of entire narrow- or ovate- or 
linear-lanceolate or linear, rarely ovate, flat, seldom linear-subulate leaflets; rachis channelled, wingless; 
pedicels axillary and terminal, solitary, twin, ternate or cymose, about as long as or longer rarely shorter 
than the dowel's, bibracteolate; petals several or many times longer than the deltoid- rarely subulate- 
semilanceolate glabrous sepals, rarely less than double as long, finely downy inside and at the outer margin; 
stamens 8, all fertile; filaments ciliated, very rarely hairless, always glandulous, verrucose at the apex; 
anthers without appendage , glabrous, cordate or oblong'-ovate, borne on a very short stipes; ovary pyramidate- 
or globose-ovate, glabrous; style short, seldom obliterated; stigma minute, undivided; carpels shorter than 
the petals, oblique-ovate; endocarp at the junction of the valves toothless; seeds shining-black, smooth ; 
embryo shorter than the albumen; radicle twice as long as the cotyledons. ^ 
