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tioned by Miers. I was therefore induced to piiLlisli it as new uiidcr tLe name oi Microclisia. 



The further more perfect fruiting specimeus I have since seen have enabled me to identify 



it with a very imperfect frngnient named by Miers in A. Cunningham's herbarium. The 



genus is distinguished from dl, except the African TricUsia, by the remarkably valvatc 

 inner sepals. 



1. P. australiSj Bentlu A climber, with a soft pubescence like that of 

 Pericampylus, sometimes very copious, sometimes quite disappearing from the 

 dipper surface of the leaves. Leaves from ovate to oblong, obtuse or scarcely 

 acute, the larger ones 3 to 4 in. long, rounded but not cordate at the base, at 

 length rather coriaceous and shining above, reticulately penuinerved. ]\Iale 

 cymes or single flowers in little axillary solitary or clustered panicles, seldom 

 above 1 in. long, and softly pubescent. Inner sepals about 1 line long, the 

 outer ones very minute. Female inflorescence probably more simple. Drupes 

 about 5 lines broad, glabrous, with a verj'" thin endocarp. — Microdisia^ViQwth.. 

 luBenth. and Hook. Gen. PL part i. Addend, 435. 



Queensland. Kcppel Bay, R. Brown; MoretoQ Bay, A, Cunningham, F. Mueller j 

 iitzroy river, F. Mueller. 



7- ADELIOPSIS, Benth. 



Sepals 6, in 2 rows, tlie inner ones considerably larger, and 2 or 3 outer 

 smaller bracts, all much imbricate in each row. Petals 3, smaller than the 

 inner sepals, broad and sliglitly concave. Male fl. : Stamens 9 to 12 ; fila- 

 iiients linear-terete; anthers small, globose-didymous. Pemale fl. ; Staml- 

 nodia wantiuo-. Carpels 3, with a large, recurved, broad and thick stigma, 

 ^Tid 2 ovules in each carpel, inserted one above the other on the inner angle. 

 ^niit unknown. — Flowers clustered in short axillary spikes. 



'file genua consists of a single species, which has the hahii. iuihricate sepals, anJ the 

 geueral form of the stamens and carpels ^l F achy gone, to Avhich I should have referred it, 

 put for the petals reduced iu number and not involute, the increased number of stamens 

 jn the males and their entire deficiency in the females, and for the 2 ovules in each carpel, 

 ihe latter character apjjears constant, as far as I have been able to ascertain, and does not 

 exist to my knowledge in any other Meuispermaceous plants. The fruit being imkuown, 

 ttie tnbe to ^vhich the genus must he referred cannot as yet be fi:^cd ; but it will stand either 

 Jiext to Cocculus amongst Coccule^, or more probably near Fachjgoue in Fachggone^e, 



}' A. decumbens, Benth. Branches rather thick, leafy, densely clothed 

 ^ith a soft velvety tomentum or almost hirsute, and from the name given, 

 probably decumbent and not climbing. Leaves ovate or oval-oblong, 1^ to 



f ^- loiiff. veiy obtuse, rounded at the base, thickly coriaceous, softly tomcu- 

 — ^ ' glabrous above 



ing at the top of 



— ^^jii-, vury oucuse, rounclea at tlie uasc, imcM} l-uiuk:cu 

 tose or velvety on both sides when young, becoming nearly 

 when old, the thickened rcvolute nerve-like margin terminati..g at c.xv .^^^ -• 

 ^le niidrib on the uuder side in a prominent hirsute gland or tuft of hairs, 

 -^iowors small, in little clusters along the rhachis of bhort axillary spikes, sel- 

 ^om above \ in. long, the outer bracts veiy small, acute, and luiiry, the outer 

 sepals also hairy, but rather larger and more obtuse, the inner sepals nmch 

 arger, orbiciUar, and glabrous, except the ciliate edge, the petals about f as 

 ^^oG as the inner sepals and quite glabrous. 



^eensland 



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\".i.uuui, uieuiion 01 tnc ovules) uiiacr inc imnie oi ^tavitutu,!..} "••-- > -» - 



™anj other cases, the term J^^^/o/^^iwas eviamitly iutundcd as a memorauduui, not as a 

 gcucric name, for wliich it is unsuitcd {Hb. R. Br.). 



