SMILACINEAE brown. (Smilax.) 161 



Lalill. IVov. Caled. 17. /. 22. (ic. mala, praesert. quottd analys.) 

 Inermis ; glabra ; ramis teretibus; foliis ovafis, acuto-mucronatis, 

 cordatis, complicato-recurvatis, 5-nerviis, subcoriaceis, obsolefis- 

 sime pellucido - lineolatis , subtus glaucescentibus ; pedunculis 

 (inascnlis) axillaribus , multifloris. — Nova Caledonia. *) — 

 Haini teretes, laeves, purpurei, glabri, inermes; rainuli flexuosi; 

 vagiuulae axillares baud pungentes. Folia sparsa, ovafa, acuto- 

 mucronata, basi rotumlata, complicato-recurvata, nervo margi- 

 nata, reticulato-quinquenervia, nervis subtus prominentibus, cx- 

 tinns tenuioribus, subcoriacea, obsoletissiune pelliicido-lineolata, 

 glabra, subtus glaucescentia, 2|-2§-polIiearia, 17-21 lin. lata. 

 Petioli 6-91ineas longi, glabri, supra basim vaginato-marguiafam 

 bicirrati; cirris filifoi-mibus, spiraliter tortis, in foliis ramuleis 

 saepe plane abortientibus. Umbellae masculae axillares, solita- 

 riae, multi-(20-25-)florae, in ramulis flcxuosis foliatis racemoso- 

 dispositae; pedunculo 7-8 lineas longo, tenui, glabro ; recepta- 

 culo globuloso, bracteoloso, magnitudine grani sinapis. Flores 

 1£ lin. lati ; pedicellis 2-2| lin. longis, tenuibus, glabris. Ala- 

 bastrum globoso-ovale , obtusum, | lin. longum. Perigonium 

 hexapbyllum, glabrum, deciduum ; foliolis crassiusculis, acutius- 

 culis, exsiccatis fuscis, campanulato-conniventibus ; extcrioribus 

 ovatis , concavis ; interioribus paulo brevioribus, oblongis, pla- 

 niusculis, serius utroque latere reflexo leviter incurvatis. An- 

 tbcrae 6, sessiles, fundo perigonii insertae eoque triplo brcvio- 

 res, uniloculares, apertae (in alabastris juvenilibus) ovafae, acu- 

 fae, pallidae. Rudimentum pistillinum nullum. (Descr. juxta 

 specimen Forst. in Herb. Willd.) 



2. S. GL\CYPH\LLA Smith in While's Voy. 230. Broivn. 

 Procl. 293. Poir. Encycl. snppl. 5. 27. Endl. Iconogr. t. 39. 

 Inermis; glabra ; ramis teretibus, laevibus; foliis ovato-oblongis 

 vel ovato-Ianceolatis, acuminatis, mucronalis, basi rofundatis, 

 majoribus obsolete cordatis, trinerviis, coriaceis, exlineolatis, su- 

 pra nitidis, subtus glauccscenfibus ; pcdunculis axillaribus, mul- 

 tifloris, petiolum subaequantibus. Ripogonum album Sieb. Hcrb. 

 Nov. Holl. n. 586. Smilax dulcis Desf. — INova Hollandia, ad 



phyUobolam, ficifoliam et clasticam, ad illam reliquas collocat species 

 suas brasilienses (S. papyraceam , officinalem, Japicangam, proceram, 

 ruinitloram, cissoidem, polyuntliam, rutescentem, dentatum, nitidam, irro- 

 ratam, stamineum, syringoidem, robustam, oblongifoliam, vimineam, ru- 

 biginosam, pruiuosam, campestrem, montanam, scalarem, marginulatam, 

 brasiliensem, verrucosam, lappaceam, odontolomam, salicifoljam et larva- 

 tam). In Pharmacosmilace folia coriacea vel raro coriaceo-membrana- 

 cea, plerumque quinquenervia, venis dense reticulatis nervisque in utra- 

 que pagina arcte prominulis; antlierae lineares, a medio reflexae (ex- 

 cepta Smilace stuminea), filamentum aequuntes vel superantes; in Pachy- 

 smiluce contra folia pacbydermia, elastico-coriacea, nervo mediano sub- 

 impresso, venis tumidulis, non nut parum prominulis; antherae breviter 

 oblongae vel subglobosae, recurvae, filamento saepissime multo supc- 

 ratae. 

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