Sarcojpe(al'(m.] V. menispermace.e. 57 



Emljryo curved, linear, in rather copious albiimen ; cotyledons closed.— Ea- 

 cemcs simple. 



The gcuus is limited to the following species. 



1, S. Harveyanum, R MnelL PL Vict. 1. 27 and 221, t, snppl. 3. A 



tall woody climber, Avith thick terete stems. Leaves broadly ovate or orbicu- 

 lar, acuminate or rarely obtuse, and sometimes anovular or lobed, attaininf]^ 4 

 to b lu. m breadth, deeply cordate at the base or sometimes slightly peltate, 

 7- to 9-nerved, quite glabrous, on a petiole of 1 to 3 in. Kacemes simple, 

 axillary or mostly lateral below the leaves, solitaiy or clustered, 1 to 3 in. 

 long. Bracts small. Pedicels about 1 line long. Plowers reddish-yellow, 

 scarcely 2 lines diameter, the sepals usually shorter than the thick almost 

 gland-like petals. Drupes 3 or 4 lines diameter, almost pear-shaped. 



Queensland. Morcton Bay, W. Hill. 



N. S. 'Wales. Pyit Jackson to the Blue :Moimtains, Tl. Brown and others ; southward 

 of the coloiiy, A. Cunningham, to Twofold Bay, F. 3Iuener. 

 Victoria. Forests near the mouth of SnoVy river, F. Mueller. 



4. STEPHANIA, Lour. 



(Clypea, Bhime.) 



Male fl.: Sepals 6, 8, or 10, in 2 series. Petals 3, 4, or 5, shorter than 

 the sepals, obovate. Stamens united in a column bearing a flat disk, with 

 the sessile anthers confliient into a single ring round the margin. Female fl. : 

 Sepals 3, 4, or 5. l>etals as many. Carpel 1, with a divided stigma. Drupe 

 compressed, the scar of the style not far from the base. Putamen horscshoc- 

 shapcd, with an open concavity on each side. Seed cur\'ed, with little albu- 

 men. Embryo linear, with closed cotyledons.— Leaves mostly peltate. Flowers 

 w simple or compound umbels. 



A small geuus, extending over tropical or subtropical Africa and Asia. The Austiallaii 

 species common over the whole i 



ange. 



1- S. hernaudisefolia, Wal^.; Bool, and TJiom. FL Lid. i. 196. A 

 glabrous or more or less pubescent climber. Leaves broadly ovate, orbicidar, 

 or nearly triangular, usually more or less peltate at the base, the larger ones 

 ^ or 4 m. long, on a petiole of 2 or 3 in., but often much smaller, glabrous 

 or pubescent xmderneath. Peduncles axillary, shorter tlian or rather longer 

 tnan the petioles, bearing an umbel of about 5 rays, each ray teruunated by 

 a head or partial umbel of 8 to 12 small sessile or shortly pedicellate flowers, 

 f the partial umbel again compound.— F. Muell. PI. Yict. i. 220; Clypea 

 f^ernandifoUa, W. and Arn. Prod. i. 14 ; Wight, Ic. t. 93 Q. 



Ki ^' .A'^st^alia. N. coast, U. Brown ; roclcy declivities and cataracts of Fitzroy and 

 StoW Range, F. J/,,.//.;-. , ,, , 



9iieeusland. Keppel Bay. R. Brown; tropical districts, A. Cunmnglani ; 31oroton 



\, t^ylor's Kann;e, and Burnett river, F. Mueller. „ , ,, ^^ . 



^^v *•• Wales. Near Sydney, American Brploring Expedition, irirvey, ^ni other, 

 ythward to Clarence river, BecUer, and sou(h^vard to lllawara and Tv^•ofold Baj, K 

 ' i^r'"' liut rare in the latter locality. 



Victoria. Porcst glens, S. E. extremity of Gipps' Land, F. IfueNer. 

 The glabrous form, S. austral^, Miers; A. Gray, in Bot. U. S. Expl ExH. i. 38 and 

 the pubescent one, 5. Gandichaudi, A. G^ay, in Bot. U. S. Expl. Exped. i. 37, Lave beeu 



