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MENISPERMEJE. 
Selwynia. 
Sepala circiter novem, libera; exteriora 2-4 minora, inzqualia, 
ovali-rotunda ; interiora 5-6 suborbieularia, zestivatione imbricata. 
Petala 7—9, sepalis interioribus breviora, libera, spatulata-cuneata, 
membranea. Stamina 9—10, clavato-cuneata, libera. |. Antherze 
terminales, pene quadrilobo-globosz, biloculatz, loculis tota longi- 
tudine dehiscentibus, Carpidia drupacea, pyriformi-globosa, dorso 
laviuscula, lateribus leviter impressa; cicatrix styli a basi parum 
dissita ; processus putaminis duri loculum conspicue intrans. Se- 
men hippocrepicum. 
Planta lignosa, scandens, Australiw orientalis intratropice, 
foliis tenui-coriaceis ovato-lanceolatis e basi petiolatis, bracteolis 
perminutis, floribus masculis in panieulas terminales et laterales 
emplas collectis, foeemineis simpliciter racemosis, drupis rubicundis. 
Genus à Cocculo quemadmodum nunc limitato florum partibus 
auctis precipue dignoscendum, Tristichocalyci etiam sicut Adeli- 
opsidi et Pachygoni cognatum, seminis structura ignota haud rite 
definiendum appellavi in summe observantiz testimonium nomine 
amici A. R. C. Selwyn, Geologi Guberni coloniw Victori: periti 
et dignissimi, 
Selwynia laurina. 
Cocculus Selwynii, F. M. coll. 
Ad rivulos litori proximos et silvosos cireum sinum marinum 
Rockingham Bay. Dallachy. 
Ramuli subtiliter striolati, glabri. Folia 21-4' longa, plana, 
obtusiuscula, integerrima, concoloria, utrinque glabra et nitentia, 
petiolo utplurimum unciali predita, e basi quinque-nervia, nervo 
mediano fortiore, nervis superioribus adscendentibus sat distanti- 
bus, venis reticulato-confluentibus. Panieule maseule e racemis 
pluribus compositis gracile pedunculatis constantes. Pedicelli flo- 
rigerentes sesquilineam longi v. breviores, fructificantes 4-5" longi, 
omnes cum pedunculis glabri. Bracteze et bracteole ad basin 
peduneulorum secundariorum et pedicellorum site, subulato- 
semilanceolatz, 3-3" longs, ciliolate. ^ Sepala exteriora 1-3" 
longa, interiora 131—132" longa, omnia glabra. Petala glabra, j^" 
longa, haud lobata; pars, quz antherz apponit planiuscula; pars 
qua filamento accumbit superne inflexa. Stamina petalis squi- 
longa, glabra; filamenta sursum sensim incrassata, quasi in anthe- 
ram continuata, Anthere circiter 1" longz, flavae. Flores feemi- 
nei nondum transmissi. Carpidia 3 vel sterilitate germinis unius 
alteriusque 2—1, nigrescentia, circiter 5" metientia; cavitas hippo- 
erepiea, statu monstroso intrusionibus inequaliter quadriloculata. 
