Refugium Botanicun.| ‘August, 1868. 
TAB. 25, 
Natural Order PrrrospoRAcE®. 
Genus BILLARDIERA, Smith. 
B. cymosa (Ff. Muell, Trans. Vict. Inst. i. p. 29). Caulibus flexuosis 
subglabris, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis subsessilibus, floribus in cymis 
subsimplicibus 4—6 floris sessilibus vel breviter pedunculatis aggre- 
gatis, pedicellis calyce longioribus, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis subgla- 
bris vel paullulum sericeis, corolla segmentis patulis violaceis 
oblongo-lanceolatis tubo sequantibus, baccis glabris oblongis. — 
Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. i. p. 124. B. cymosa and pseudo-cymosa, 
Klatt, Linnea, xxvii. p. 571. 
A native of the colonies of Victoria and South Australia. 
A low shrub, with firm, slender, diffuse or slightly climbing 
branches. ‘The old stems bright brown and naked, the young 
ones green and inconspicuously gray-silky upwards. Stipules 
none. Leaves sessile or nearly so, alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 
the largest fifteen to eighteen lines long by about half an inch 
broad, the point acute or subobtuse, the edge quite entire, the 
base narrowed, the texture chartaceous, the colour a uniform 
pale green on both sides, the veins not conspicuous. flowers in 
short-stalked or sessile terminal cymes of four or six flowers 
each. Bracts lanceolate. Pedicels three to six lines long, firm, 
erect, usually slightly silky, often bracteolate. Calyx an eighth of 
an inch deep, cut down to the base, subglabrous or incon- 
spicuously silky; the sepals linear-lanceolate. Corolla half an 
inch deep, divided about half-way down, the tube greenish-white 
on the outside, the divisions spreading horizontally when the 
flower is fully expanded, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or cuspi- 
date, violet-coloured, a line and a half or two lines broad. Ovary 
clavate, finely silky, completely two-celled, with a short style and 
a broad hollow stigma. Fruit a small oblong berry, with numerous 
seeds enveloped in pulp.—J. G. B. 
This is a neat and pretty little sub-climbing plant, which thrives 
well in a dry airy greenhouse, grown in sandy turfy peat, and not 
too much potroom. It is impatient of much moisture at the root. 
I am indebted to my friend 8. Solly, Esq., F.R.S., for the seeds 
of this plant, which he received from South Australia—VW. HW. S. 
