450 XXXVIl. AMPELIDE.?:;. \Fltl8. 



glabrous. Petals separating. Disk indistinct. Style very shortly conical 

 or scarcely any, "W'ith a truncate stigma. Berries ovoid-globosc. — Cisms 

 acetosa, F. Muell. Trans. Yict. Inst. iii. 24, 



N. Australia, N, coast, R, Brown; Victoria and Fitzninurice rivers, F. 3IueUer ; 

 Swecrs Island, Henne, The specimens first described wcrC; according to P. Mueller's notes, 

 from tall herbaceous not cliiubiug stenis, but others are evideutly climbing, witli the usual 

 tendrils. 



11. V, hypoglauca^ F. Muell. PL Vict, i: 94. Young slioots rnsty- 

 tomentose or villoiis, adult specimens usually quite glabrous. Leaflets 5, 

 digitate, obovate, oval or oblong-elliptical, shortly and often acutely acumi- 

 nate, 2 to 3 in. long, the lateral ones smaller than the central ones, entire or 

 toothed towards the top, obtuse at the base, on rather long pctiolules, coria- 

 ceous, penniveined and finely reticulate, pale or glaucous underneath. Byrnes 

 rather dense, shortly pedunculate. Plowers yellowish, gla1)rous, ovoid, fully 

 1 line long. Petals separating or sHghtly cohering. Disk 4-lobed, but not 

 very prominent. Style conical. Berry nearly globular, rather small. — Cisstts 

 Jiypofjlauca, A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl.Exped. i. 273 j Caustralasica,^, Muell. 

 in Trans. Phil. Soc. Yict. i. 8. 



■ W- S.Wales. Port Jackson, H. Brown, and others; northward to Clarence river, 

 Beckler ; New England, C, Stuart; southward io Kiauia, Harvey; Twofold Bay, F, 

 31 u eller, 



Victoria. Forest streams and rivulets in eastern Gipps' Laud, F. Mueller, 



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12. V, sterculifolia, F. Muell, Herb, Fruiting specimens quite gla- 

 brous. Leaflets 5, digitate, elliptieal-oblong or somewhat obovate, shortly 

 and obtusely acuminate, 3 to 4 in. long, entire, narrowed into a very sliort 

 petiolule, coriaceous, penniveined, the reticulate veinlets much less conspicuous 

 than in V. hypoglauca^ with glands or foveolse in the axils of some of the 

 primary veins underneath. Flowers not seen. Fruiting cymes on short pe- 

 duncles. Berries ovoid, rather large. 



W. S. "Wales, Hastings river, Beckler, One specimen has a very young flower-cyme, 

 which is slightly rusty-pubescent, but not far enough advanced to give the floral characters. 



13. V, opaca, 1\ Muell, Ilerh. Quite glabrous. Leaflets 5, rarely 3 or 

 4, digitate, from linear-cuneate to elliptical-oblong, obovate or narrow 

 rhomboidal, obtuse or acumhiate, mostly 1 to 2 in. long, entire or slightly 

 toothed, narrowed at the base into very short petiolules or almost sessile, 

 rather firm but not , coriaceous, smooth, obscurely penniveined, usually pale 

 imdemeath. Cymes rather loose, but not large. Flowers glabrous, globular, 

 about 1 line diameter. Petals 5 or rarely 4, separating. Disk prominent, 

 entire or scarcely lobed. Style shoj't, conical. Berries depressed-globular. 

 Cisms oj)aca, F, Muell, in Trans. Vict. Inst. iii. 23. 



Queensland. Bnrdeliin river, F. MneUer ; Brisbane river, Morcton Bay, Fraser, 

 F. Mueller; Rocldiamjjton, Thozei ; Port Denison, Flizalan; E. coast, R. Brown (with 

 the leaves mostly 3-foliolatc). 



14. V. angustissima, F, Muell, Trar/m, i. 141. Glabrous and rather 

 slender. Leaflets usually 5, digitate, narroAv-linear, 1 to 3 in. long, entire, 

 coarsely toothed or lobed, narrowed at the base; occasionally, however, the 

 lower ones arc slightly pedate or united into 3 cuneate and coarsely toothed 

 leaflets, or into a single broad pahnately-Iobed leaf. Cymes compact and 



