. Austr. p. 85.

LOC. "Common on the Murray and in the interior." D. Sturt.

DESC. Suffrutex pubescens, subcinereus; ramis striatisnec omnino
teretibus. Folia sesquipollicaria, linearia, acuta. Fasciculi multiflori.
Calycis foliola obtusa, pube tenui cinerascentia. Corolla glabra; tubo
absque squamulis denticulisve, ventricoso; limbovix longitudine tubi,
laciniis conniventibus sinistrorsum imbricatis. Coronae foliola e basi
dilatata adnata linearia, indivisa. Massae Pollinis (Pollinia) lineares.

OBS. Doubah was originally found by Sir T. Mitchell, but with fruit only,
in one of his journeys, and also in his last expedition; and, according
to him, the natives eat the seed-vessel entire, preferring it roasted.
Captain Sturt, on the other hand, observes, that the natives of the
districts where he found it, eat only the pulpy seed-vessel, rejecting
the seeds.

16. JASMINUM lineare. Br. prodr. 1. p. 521.

Jasminum Mitchellii. Lindl. in Mitch. trop. Austr. p. 365.

OBS. In Captain Sturt's collection there are perfect specimens of this
plant, on which a few remarks may be here introduced, chiefly referring
to its very general existence in the sterile regions of the interior of
Southern Australia, and even extending to the north-west eoast.

The species was established on specimens which I collected in 1802, in
the sterile exposed tract at the head of Spencer's Gulf. With these I
have compared and found identical Mr. A. Cunningham's specimens gathered
in the vicinity of the Lachlan, in 1817; Captain Sturt's, in his earlier
expeditions, from the Darling; those of Sir Thomas Mitchell, in his
different journeys; and specimens collected in one of the islands of
Dampier's Archipelago. In this great extent of range, it exactly agrees
with a still more remarkable plant, and one much less likely to belong to
a desert country, namely, Clianthus Dampieri.

I have considered Jasminum Mitchellii as hardly a variety of J. lineare,
the character of this supposed species depending on its smooth leaves,
and its axillary nearly sessile corymbi or fasciculi, which are much
shorter than their subtending leaves; but even in the specimen contained
in the collection presented to the British Museum by Sir Thomas Mitchell,
the young branches, as well as the pedunculus and pedicelli, are covered
with similar pubesceuce, and in the same degree as that of J. lineare;
the specimens from Dampier's Archipelago have leaves equally smooth, but
have t