__ASPARAGINEAE. 565 EUSTREPIUS. 
1. Eustrephus angustifolius x. srowN Prodr. L p.281. Folia linearia 
vel lineari-lanceolata; pedicelli gemini vel solitarii, Luzuriaga Poir. 
Diet. Suppl. III. p. 535. — Tropisch Nieuw-Holland. 
2. Eustrephus latifolius r. Brown /.c. Bot. Mag. tab. 1245. Folia 
ovata vel elliptico-lanceolata ; pedicelli aggregati. Conf. zoLu. Cat. p. 67, 
n. 1008 quem haud vidi, et nassK. Pl, Jav. rar, p. 115 (E. leucan- 
thus qui forsan idem). Luzuriaga Poir. l.c. — Met de voorgaande, waar- 
schijnlijk ook in het oostelijk gedeelte van den Indischen Archipel. 
Ordo CCXVIIL. SMILACINEAE R‚ BROWN. 
Herbae perennes, acaules vel caulescentes, aut frutices, saepe scan- 
dentes vel volubiles, foliis sparsis, interdum oppositis vel verticil- 
latis,in nonnullis ad squamas redactis, floribus hermaphroditis vel 
dioicis. Perigonii 6-rarissime 4—8-vel 10-phylli, saepe corollini, 
persistentis vel decidui, phylla aestivatione imbricata libera vel magis 
minusve connata, interiora minora vel majora, in unico genere nulla, 
Stamina tot quot perigonii phylla, rarissime 3 interiora deficientia, 
perigyna, interdum hypogyna, filamentis liberis, in perpaucis con- 
natis, antheris bi- in Smilace uni-locularibus. Ovarium liberum 
vel basi perigonii semiadnatum, tri- interdum uní- bi- quadri- vel 
quinque-loculare ; ovula in loculis gemina, collateralia, vel plura 
biseriata, anatropa vel hemianatropa, in Smilaceà tribu solitaria 
pendula, (orthotropa?). Stylus terminalis, stigmate trifido vel 
integro, rarissime stigmata 3 sessilia. Bacca 1—3-, rarissime 2-, 
4-, vel 5-loeularis, loculis mono-pleiospermis. Semina nidulantia, 
plerumque globosa, testâ membranaceâ, nunquam atrâ, vulgo stra- 
mineà vel fuscescente, albumine carnoso vel subeorneo, embryo 
sub micropyle incluso. 
Tribus I. Smrracear KoNTH Enum. V. p. 159. Flores dioici ; perigonii 
Pliylla utplarimum libera. Stamina in fl. fem. castrata. Ovarium in 
masc, plane obliteratum. Antherae uniloculares bilocellatae. — Utplu- 
rimum suffratices, cirrhis geminis petiolaribus, fl. umbellatis. 
L SMILAX rourner, Flores dioici. Perigoniì hexaphylli co- 
rollini patentis phylla distincta uninervia, exteriora plerumque latiora. 
Stamina 6 clavata, fundifixa, phyllis breviora, in fl. fem. castrata. 
Filamenta linearia. Antherae uniloculares bilocellatae erectae, 
interne sulco lineari dehiscentes, dein recurvatae. Ovarium ellip- 
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