SMILACINEAE brown. (Danae.) 277 



tijmi longitudinis partem superans, teretiusculus, extremitatc 

 extcriore (radiculari) turgidior. (Descr. fructus et. semiuis ex 

 Gaertn.) Frutex crectus, ramosus, semperviretis ; rainis 

 spursis. Folia sparsn, squumucformiu, rumulos stipantes 

 foliiformes (c/adodia), soliturios, membrauaceos, striato-ner- 

 vosos (nervis reticuluto-utiastomosantibus), steriles. ltucemi 

 in apice rumorum solitarii, puuciflori; pcdicelli spursi, 

 basi bibracteolnti, cum jiore articulati; bracteola e.vteriore 

 foliis simillima, nisi paulo minore, intcriore abbreviata, 

 latissima. 



1. D. RACEMOSA Moench. Melhod. p. 170. Ruscus racc- 

 mosus Linn. Spec. 1474. (Sabb. Hort. 1. t. 10. Ilerm. Lngdb. 

 1. 681. Moris. s. 13. /. 5 f. 14.) Gaerln. Frticl. 1. 60. /. 16. /. 8. 

 Lam Encycl. 2. 527. IVilld. Spec. 4. 876. Spre7ig. Syst. 3. 18. 

 Danaida racemosa Link, llandb. 1. 274. — Insulae Arcliioelagi, 

 Caucasus (in sylvis montium Taliisch). "j^ — Cladodia oblique 

 lanceolata, acuminata, brevissime stipitata, l|-pollicaria. 



SEMELE kunth in Act. Acad. Berol. 1842. p. 49. 



Florcs hermaphroditi, masculis crebrioribus ? intermixti. 

 Perigonium busi turbinalum, limbo 6-partitum, persisteus; 

 laciniis ellipticis, unincrviis, aequalibus, patentissimis. Sta- 

 miua 6, fauci perigonii inserta. Filamenta in tubum abbre- 

 viatum connata. Antberae biloculares, suinmo tubo stami- 

 neo immediate insertae, subrotundo-reniformes, leviter cobae- 

 rentcs?, borizontaliter patentes. Pistillum e tribus conllatum. 

 Ovarium liberum, sessile, subglobosum, apice in coiumnam 

 stylinam crassam angustatuin, triloculare; ovula in loculis 

 gemina, collateralia. Stigma peltato -ampliatum, integrum, 

 magnum, oriKcium tubi anthcriferi claudens. Bacca globosa. 

 Frute.v ramosus, subsarmentosus,sempervirens . Folia sparsa, 

 squamaeformin, ramulos stipantia foliiformes (cladodia), so- 

 litarios, coriaceos, striato-nervosos (tiervis reticulato-aua- 

 stomosantibus), margine floriferos. Fedicelli uniflori,fasci- 

 culatocongcsti, basi bracteolati, cutn perigonio articulati; 

 fasciculis superne ad ntrumque marginem cladodii 1-2-4., 

 rcmotiusculis, singulis nervum crassiorem terminantibus. 

 Distincta a Danae, cui proxima, infloresccntia, pcrigonii 

 stigmatisque forma. 



1. S. ANDROGYNA. Ruscus aiulrogynus Linn. Spec. 1474. 



