240 SMILACINEAE brown. (Smilax.) 



levifer rccurvafis sparsis horridi, pallidi, glabri ; ranuili acutan- 

 «•uli, leviter flexnosi ; squamis axillaribus lafis, abruple acumi- 

 nalis, pungenlibus, leviter recurvafis. Folia spai-sa, oblonga; 

 ramulea lanceolafa, acuminata, acumine complicato -recurvato, 

 basi acuta , reticulato- quinquenervia, nervis tribus intermediis 

 subtus acufangulo- vel subcarinato-prominentibus, utroque ex- 

 fimo multo tenuiore, margini approximato, subcoriacea, glabra, 

 subconcoloria, 4{-pollicaria, l{-2 pollices lata. Petioli acntan- 

 gulo-carinati, infra medium bicirrati et vaginato-marginati, gla- 

 bri, 7-8 lin. longi; cirris filiformibus, spiraliter tortis. Reliqua 

 latcnt. Forma aculeis borrida praecedentis? 



99. S. HoHENACKEIU. Glabra ; ramulis angulatis, aculeis 

 rectis conspersis ; foliis ellipfico-oblongis, acuminatis, in petio- 

 lum angustatis, complicato-recurvatis, 5-nerviis, firmo-membra- 

 naceis, exlineolatis; petiolis ecirratis ; vaginis utroque apice so- 

 lutis; pedunculis axillaribus, simplicibus, supra basim bibracteatis, 

 multitloris, petiolum dorso carinatum superantibus ; perigonii 

 foliolis exterioribus lineari-oblongis, obtusiusculis ; interioribus 

 linearibus, superne angusfatis; antheris aperfis lineari-oblongis, 

 obtusis, filamento triplo brevioribus. S. laurifolia Hohenacker. 

 Pl. Ind. or. no. 122. (v. in Herb. Luc), nec JVilld., nec Roxb. 

 — India orientalis. (Terra Canara, prope urbem Mangalor.)"*} — 

 Ramuli lignosi, angulati, glabri, hinc inde aculeis subulatis com- 

 pressis rectis obsili ; ramuli floriferi flexuosi. Folia disficho- 

 sparsa, petiolata, elliptico-oblonga, acuminata, basi in petiolum 

 angustafa, superne coniplicato-recurvata, reficulato-5-nervia, ner- 

 vis tribus mediis subtiis acufangulo-prominenfibus, utroque ex- 

 fimo tenui, firmo-membranacea, ufrinque glabra, exlineolafa, 

 subconcoloria, supra nifidula, 2{-3-pollicaria, 13-17 Hn. lata. 

 Petioli 5-6 lineas longi, dorso carinati, basi vaginafo- dilatati, 

 vagina utroque latere apice solufa et obtusa, ecirrati , glabri. 

 Umbellae masculae in ramulis axillares, solitariae, pedunculatae, 

 multi-(25-30-)florae; peduncnlo 5-9 lih. longo, angulato?, gla- 

 bro, basi squamis coriaceis late ovatis navicularibus, exleriore 

 acufata involufo , supra basim bibracteafo : bracteis oppositis, 

 oblongis, acutis, navicularibus, glabris. Receptaculnm globosum, 

 bracfeolatum, magnitudine grani cannabis. Flores pedicellafj, 

 magnitudine S. asperae; pedicellis 3 iin. longis, glabris Peri- 

 gonium 6-phyllum, membranaceum, glabrum, exsiccatum fusco- 

 olivaceum, deciduum; foliolis campanulato-connivenlibus, superne 

 recurvatis; exterioribus lineari-oblongis , obtusiusculis, uniner- 

 viis; interioribus vix brevioribus, sed angusfioribus, linearibus, 

 superne angusfatis, obtusis, subenerviis. Alabaslrum subclava- 

 fum, obfusum, 2| lin. longum. Sfamiiia 6, fundo perigonii in- 

 serta, subtorfo-erecfa, foliola perigonii longitudine subaequantia, 

 distincta. Filamenta linearia, fusca. Anlhcrae generis, apertae 

 basi affixae, erecfae, lineari-oblongae, obfusae, pallidac, vix cur- 

 vatae, filamento triplo breviores. Rudimentum pistillinum nullum. 



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