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Boronia clavellifolia, F. M. in Transact. Phil. Soc . Viet. i. 12; Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. i. 99. 
Shrubby, glabrous, seldom finely downy; branchlets generally tuberculate, almost cylindrical; leaves 
short-stalked , impari-pinnate, with one rarely t?vo pair of very small Hunt chihshaped f l form or nearly 
cylindrical leaflets ; pedicels axillary and terminal, solitary, binate or ternate, shorter than the flowers, 
bracteolate; petals less than twice as long or several times longer than the ovate-rhomboid ciliate sepals, 
nearly glabrous; stamens 8, all fertile; filaments hairless, glandulous, thickened at the apex; anthers api- 
culate , pale, borne on a short stipes; style short, slender, glabrous; stigma minute, undivided; carpels 
somewhat shorter than the petals; endocarp at the junction of the valves almost toothless; seeds smooth, 
dark-brown, opaque. 
In the sandy desert towards Lake Lalbert; in various localities in the Mallee Scrub of South Australia 
near the Murray River; in Western Australia around Middle Mount Barren, near the Phillips Ranges, and 
on the Gardiner River, extending probably also through the intervening desert country. 
A low shrub with many spreading branches. Petioles J-1J line long, as well as the rachis when 
developed channelled-semicylindrical. Leaflets shining, 1-3 rarely 4-5 lines long, about \ line thick, 
beneath towards the base often with an indistinct furrow. Pedicels J-1J line long, not only provided with 
two ciliolate complicated subovate bracteoles of about f line length, but often also at or near the base with 
similar bracts. Sepals §-l line long, gTeenish, glabrous or slightly downy at the back. Petals 2—4 lines 
long, rose-colored, lanceolate-ovate, rather acute, imbricative in pra?florescence, slightly or imperfectly downy 
inside and at the margin, with broad base, sessile, long persistent. Filaments about 1 line long, alternately 
somewhat shorter, smooth towards the base, beset with minute whitish papillae towards the top. Anthers 
about l line long, cordate, protracted into a pale straight blunt or acutish apex. Pollen-grains yellow. 
Ovaries smooth, soon disconnected. Style terminated by a depressed-capitate stigma. Disk short, entire. 
Carpels 1J-2J fines long, oblique-ovate, pointed by a very minute rostellum. Endocarp shining, nerveless, 
pale-yellow. Placental membrane minute, ovate, acuminate, very tender. Seeds oblique-ellipsoid, generally 
rather longer than 1 line, one or two in each carpel. Testa brittle, thin. Embryo in the few seeds available 
for examination not well developed. 
B. brachyphylla (F. M. Fragm. Phyt. i. 99) bears in habit and appearance a complete resemblance to 
B. clavellifolia, and may indeed be only a variety; it differs in subsessile leaves, lanceolate-subulate sepals, 
fringed filaments, cornute anthers, a thin-conical puberulous style, and perhaps in fruit. Its identity with 
B. oxyantha (Turcz. in Bullet, de Moscou, 1852) can according to diagnosis scarcely be doubted. Both 
B. leptopliylla and B. inornata (Turcz. 1. c.) may be the same as B. clavellifolia, but are not clearly to be 
recognized from published descriptions. If identical they may be combined under the name here adopted. 
Boronia ccerulescens, F. 31. in Transact. Phil. Soc. Victor, i.p. 11; Cyanothamnus tenuis, Lindl. 
Sivan Fiver Botany, ?8. 
Sujfruticose ; branchlets cylindrical; leaves simple , small, sessile , linear - or oblong-semicylindrical, 
channelled, blunt, entire, rarely rhomboid- or ovate-cuneate, often beneath tuberculate, sometimes three¬ 
toothed or cleft into three linear-oblong lobes; pedicels axillary and terminal, solitary, as long as or shorter 
than the flowers, bibracteolate; petals bluish , rarely white, veined, nearly twice or thrice as long as the 
rhomboid- or ovate- or narrow-semilanceolate sepals; stamens 8, all fertile; filaments linear-subulate, ciliated, 
straight at the apex; anthers conspicuously terminated with a white ellipsoid or ovate appendage; style 
short, filiform; stigma minute, quadrate-hemispherical; disk very depressed, entire; carpels at least one- 
third shorter than the corolla; endocarp at the junction of the valves protracted into a deltoid tooth; seeds 
opaque, black, rough; radicle as long as the cotyledons. 
In the desert tracts along the Murray River and its lower tributaries, chiefly in sandy soil, also on 
sterile plains* at the foot of the Grampians; in South Australia on the sandy coast of Guichen Bay and Cape 
Jaffa, and near St. Vincent’s and Spencer’s Gulf; in Western Australia, according to Oldfield, near the South 
