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BILLARDIERA seandens. 
. Climbing Billardiera. 
Linnean Class and Order. PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. PITTOSPOREZR. Brown gen. rem. ter. aust. p- 10. 
BILLARDIERA, Calyx 5-sepalus, sepalis acuminatis. Petala 5, unguibus mar- 
gine subconvolutis approximatis. Bacca ellipsoidea, styio terminata.—Suffrutices s@- 
pits scandentes, australasici ; pedicellis axillaribus 1-2-floris; fructibus edulibus. DC. 
prodr. 1, p.345, 

B. scandens, ramis scandentibus junioribus villosis, foliis lineari-oblongis integris un- 
dulatis, pedicellis unifloris villosis flore brevioribus, baccis velutinis. DC. prodr. 
1. p. 345. 
Billardiera scandens. Smith new holl.1. t.1. Wéillden. sp. 1.p.1150. Hort. Kew. ed, 2. 
v. 2. p. 39. Botan. magaz. 801. Spreng. syst. 1. p. 792. 
Labillardiera scandens. Rem. et Schult. syst. 5. p.330. 
Billardiera canariensis. Wendl. herren, 3. t.15. 


A small slightly climbing evergreen Shrub : d7anches slender, 
tinged with red, and thickly clothed with villous spreading hairs. 
Leaves alternate, variable, oblong, lanceolate, or oblongly linear, 
acute, very much undulate at the edges, hairy on both sides. Pe- 
tioles short, hairy, more or less reddish. Jlowers solitary, or 
sometimes in pairs, terminal, pendulous, straw-coloured. Pedt- 
cles short, hairy. Bractes narrowly linear, taper-pointed, hairy, 
deciduous. Calyx of 5 sepals, that are lanceolate, taper-pointed, 
erect, thickly clothed with villous hairs. Petals 5, oblong, acute, 
reflexed at the points. Stamens 5, distinct, inserted on the re- 
ceptacle, and alternate with the petals ; anthers blue, or purple. 
Ovarium densely clothed with soft woolly down, terminated by 
a smooth simple style. Bezry about the size of a hazel-nut, ob- 
tuse at both ends, densely tomentose, full of fleshy pulp, and con- 
taining numerous seeds in 4 series. 
The present plant forms a small climbing shrub, well adapted 
for a Conservatory, or Greenhouse, where it is not wanted to 
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