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interilam spitliatnaBa. Sepala interiora exterioribus conspicue 

 latiora. Stigma antice crennlatum. Carpidia drupacea, pruinosa* 

 Variat petiolis ramisque plantge forsan juvenilis villoso- v. hispido- 

 hirsutis. Cocculus incanus (Colebr. in Transact, Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 57 ; Pericampylus incanus,Miers in Annals of Nat. Hist. second ser. 

 vii, 40; Contrib. iii. 118, pl. 111) anostra stirpe sec. cl. Micrsjam 

 separandus est petalis haud glandulosis et in flore foemino praisen- 

 tibus, staminodiis apice haud dilatatis, stylo longiore, stigmatibus 

 duobns elongatis tenuibus, putamine simpliciter non fimbriate 

 echinato. Illos plantae Australiame characteres ex autopsia con- 

 firmavi. 



Pleogyiie Cunninghami (Miers In Tayl. Annals and Magaz. of 



Nat. Ilist. scc. ser. vii. 37, anno 1851 



Miers' Contrib. to Botany, 



Mihi 



iii. 337, Pl. 136) ad sinum maris Cambridge-Gulf detecta. 

 quoque flores masculi omnino ignoti. Pleogyne australis (Benth. 

 Flor. Austr. i. 59 ; Microclisia australis, Benth, in B. ct H. Gen. 

 Plant. i. 436 ; Miers' Contrib. iii. 339, Pl. 137) uuperius nota est 

 a Rockhampton (Thozet), Gracemere (0'Shanesy), Fort Betreal 

 (Bowman), Edgecombe's Bay (Fitzalan). Copia indumentl incon- 

 stans, quamvis semper aliquotenus praisens, Folia interdam vix 

 sesquipollicaria, passim lanceolaria. Carpidia 3-6, conspicue 

 stipitata. Haec planta a P. Cuninngharai forsan haud separabilis, 

 uti jam ill. Bentham autumavit. E rationibus geographicis haa 

 plantee dlstingui nequeunt, nam Stephania hernandifolia et Tino- 

 spora smllacina ab oris orientalibus ad occidentales extendunt, 



Sehoynia laurina (F. M. Fragm. iv. 153 ; Benth. et J. Tlook. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 961 sub Cocculo ; Miers' Contrib. iii. 375, Pl. loO) 

 nuperlus reperta est ad flumen Russelli a Waltero Hill. Flores 

 feminci adhuc ignoti. Endocarpiiim crassiuscule osseum, laevius- 

 culum, condylo ample intrante bicamerato quasi triloculatum, statu 

 ejus tantum monstroso passim qnadriloculatum. Emhryo teresy 

 albumine (Equahili fere triplo tejiuior; cotyledones accumbentes^ 

 igitur faciebus exterioribus ad latera endocarpii spectantes, ad 

 rimam commissuralem haud dlvergentes, plano-convexaB, radicula 

 vix V, dimidio breviores et eidem aiquilatse. Hanc plantam 

 fortasse ad genus Hypserpce (scil. sub nomine H. Selwyni) trans- 

 ferre queas, sed flores foemini adbuc ignoti, quare dispositio con- 

 generlca nondnm certa redditur. 



Tinospora smilacina (Benth. in Journ. of the Linn. Soc. v. 

 Suppl. 52 ; Flor. Au.-tral. i. 55 ; Miers' Contrlb. iii. 37) extendit 

 ad Legrange's Bay, King's Sound, Beagle-Bay (A. Hughan), 

 Adam's Bay (HuUs), Liverpool-Riyer (B. GuUiver), Cape York 

 (Daemel), Gilbert's River (T. Gulliver), Rockingham^s Bay (Dal- 

 lachy), Cleveland-Bay (Bowman), Gracemere (0'Shanesy), Sut- 

 tor's River (Dorsey), Rockhamptdu (Thozet). Folia rhombeo- 

 vel deltoldeo-ovata, ssepe in formam cordatam vergentia, basi 

 truncata vel leniter v. profunde sinuata, passim renata. SepaU 



