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lefs confpicuoufly interefting objects. Nor will the 
{cientific botani{t find the plant before us unworthy 
of his moft accurate attention. 
Its genus is eafily characterifed in the Linnean fyftem 
by the many-feeded berry above the flower, and may 
{tand fomewhere between E/callonia and Mangifera. 
We cannot certainly tell what genera are its natural 
allies, efpecially as we have no knowledge of the fruit 
and feeds except from a drawing. May it be akin to 
the Capparides of M. de Juffieu? 
The name Bi//ardiera is given it in honour of James 
Julian la Billardiere, M.D. F. M. L. S. now engaged as 
botanift on board the French fhips fent in fearch of 
M. de la Peyroufe. His lcones Plantarum Syrie rariorum, 
the fruits of a journey to the Levant in 1786, juftly en- 
title him to fuch a diftinction. 
We have acquired two {pecies of this genus from New 
South Wales. The root of the prefent is woody and 
zigzag, with a reddifh inner bark. Svewzs feveral, twining 
among other fhrubs, branched, woody, round, downy 
when young, deftitute of leaves except on the young 
branches. Leaves alternate, feffile, lanceolate, bluntith, 
moftly entire, but undulated and revolute in fuch a 
manner as to appear dentated, which they fometimes 
really are, paler beneath, flightly veined, moft hairy 
when young. Stipu/e none. Flowers folitary, enveloped 
in long leaves, terminating the young branches, on fhort 
downy footfalks, drooping, of a pale lemon-colour, 
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