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cuni isonyma Thunbergi jungebat, quatn ob rem Androcymbio 

 leucantho esset adducenda. Melanthium scriptorum veterutn, 

 videlicet Dioscoridis, DodouEei, Lobelii, Dalechampi, Matthioli, 

 Camerarii ut diu scimus Nigellffi species diversas comprehendit. 

 Mehmthinm dicline, Willkomm Icon. Fl. Ilisp. i. 14 nondum vidi. 

 Biirchardia umhellata (R. Br. Pr. 273 ; Kunth Enum. iv. 

 164 ; J. Hook. Fl. Tasm. ii. 46 ; Charsley Wild Flowers ai-ound 

 Melbourne, pl. 5, fig. 3 ; B. multiflora, Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxv. 

 Appeud. 58 ; B. congesta, Lindl. L c.) per Australiam magis 

 temperatam abunde crescit et ad flumina Richmond's et Murchison'3 

 River pervenit. Herba simplex, v. passim bi- v. triumbelJata, 

 digitum usquft 2J' alta, nonnunquam caulcs tres ex eadem basi 

 producens, Radix cuniculis nullo modo noxia. Folia in parte 

 caulis inferiore duo, longitudinem sesquipedis attiuentia ; 1 rarius 

 2 in caule altiora, ssepe abhreviata et bracteas referentia, passim 

 autem elongata. Umbella 2-20-flora. Pedicelli usque 2^" longi. 

 Bracteolae involucrantes perbreves vel elongatge, lineares v, lanceo- 

 lat^e. Sepala libera, ante anthesin induplicata et valvato-ap- 

 proximata etsi disjuncta, acuta v. obtusa, usque ad 8'" longa et 

 3'" lata. Filamenta lineari-subulata, medium versus crassiora. 

 Antherae 1-I§'" long^, setate valde recurvatse^ nigritje vel in planta 

 occidentali frequenter lutcte. Styli V" longi vel breviores, subu- 

 lati, loculis germinis (ut in Androcymbio) continui. Capsula 

 chartacea, trigono-ellipsoidea, peracuta, septicide in carpidia 3 

 separabilis, loculicide extus ad apicem et intus profunde dehiscens ; 

 valvEe cymbiformeSj ad axim capsulee conniventes. Semina fusca, 

 nitidula, insigniter angulata et deformia, irregulariter rhombea, 

 tetrahedra, semirotunda, circiter T^' metientia. Embryo pasne 

 ovatus, albumine vix corneo haud valde duro aliquoties brevior. 



Smilax glycypJiylla, 



Smith in White's Voy. 230 c. icone ; R. Br. Pr. 293 ; Endl. Iconogr. t. 39 ; 



Kunth Enum. v. 161. 



Frutescens, inermiSy foliis tri?ierviis coriaceis e forma anguste 

 lanceolata in ovato-cordatam vergentibus integerrimis subtus 

 scepissime glaiicis^ nmbellis racemoso-paniculatis^ alabastris 

 globosis v. ovato-globosis atropurpureis, sepalis brevibus^ exteri- 

 oribus lanceolato-ovatis, interioribus lanceolato-Iinearibus, Jlla- 

 inentis anthera parva brevioribus^ germiuis loculis unigemmulatis. 



A portu Jacksoni usquc ad Rockingham's Bay, montes etiam 

 Novffi Anglise adscendens. 



Eami haud angulosi. Folia passim latitudinem 3'' attinentia, 

 raro (in quibusdam speciminibus a Rockingham's Bay) utrinque 

 saturate viridia et utrinque nitentia. Pedunculi graciles. Bractea 

 ad basim pedunculorum snbulato-semilanceolato, biluiearis v, bre- 

 vior. Pedicelli fere capillares. Umbell^ interdum solitari^e. Se- 

 ])ala Iihera; exterlora I^'''' longa, acufa, crassiuscula, a^stivatione 



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