52 MB. G. BEXTHAM ON TILIACE-I!. 



Folia caeterutu glabra, ovalia v. obovali-oblonga, acuminata, 4-5- 

 pollicaria, basi cuneata et 3-nervia, nitidula, petiolo pollicari. Pedun- 

 culi foeminei axillares, 4-8-pollicares, flore unico terminali parvo. 

 Perianthii segmenta (sepala?) 9, 3-seriata, seriei interioris duplo 

 majora. Carpella 6-10, per anthesin fere sessilia, sericeo-pilosa, stylo 

 setaceo terminata; matura reniformi-globosa, supra podocarpia elon- 

 gata articulata, glabrescentia, podocarpiis 6-9 lin. longis, nunc erectis 

 et basi coalitis, nunc magis patentibus et subliberis. 

 Hah. Cayenne, Martin ; near Korouany, Sagot, n. 23. 



In Australia only four Menispermacea are as yet known, two of 

 them, JPericampylus incanus, Miers (Cocculus JMoorei, F. Muell. 

 Fragm. Phyt. Austr. i. 162), and StepJiania hemandicefolia, Walp. 

 (S. australis and S. Gaudichaudi, A. Gray, Bot. Amer. ExpL 

 Exped. v. i. pp. 37, 38 ; Cocculus HooTcerianus, P. Muell. MSS.), 

 are widely-spread Asiatic species. The other two are peculiar to 

 Australia, viz. Sarcopetalum Harveyanum, P. Muell. Fl. Vict. 

 p. 27, suppl. t. 3, and the following new Tinospora : — 



Tinospora smilacina (Cocculus smilacinus, F. Muell. MS.), Scan- 

 dens, glabra, ramulis subcarnosis. Folia ovata, basi profunda et late 

 cordata, auriculis rotundatis, apice obtusa v. vix acuminata, 3-4 poll, 

 longa, 5-nervia ; venulis minoribus vix prominulis, petiolo subpollicari. 

 Racemi foeminei simplices, pollicares ; floribus parvis viridulis, pedi- 

 cellis 1 lin. longis. Sepala 3 exteriora minima, triangularia, 3 interiora 

 ovata, 1 lin. longa, patentia, tenuia. Petala dimidio breviora, obovata. 

 Drupa oblonga, circa 3 lin. longa ; flores masculi ignoti. 



Hab. Plains of Promise in Eastern Australia, D. Moore. Nearly allied 

 to the Asiatic T. crispa, but the leaves are rather differently shaped 

 and the fruits much smaller. 



J 

 Notes on Tiliacece. By Geobge Bentham, V.P.L.S. 



[Read March 7, 1861.] 

 The Tiliacece are universally admitted, as a natural order, con- 

 nected with Malvaceae and Sterculiacece by their valvate calyx, but 

 differing in their indefinite free, or nearly free, stamens, and 

 distiuguished from Bixacece by their several-celled ovary with aide 

 plaeentation. None of these characters are absolutely constant, 

 but the exceptional cases are readily classed by a combination of 

 accessory characters pointing out their affinity ; and I have no 

 alteration to suggest in the general position and limitation of the 

 order. It has been usual to divide it into two suborders, Tihea 



