Poly gonacee 
POLYGONUM ARTICULATUM 
Br. Prodr. 420 (1810); Benth. Fl. Austral. v. 270; Batley, Queensland Flora, 1272. 
P. AUSTRALE Spreng. Syst. ii. 258 (1825). 
[Prate 248.] 
Calyz monophyllus, albus, sesquilinearis, campanulatus, quinque- 
partitus, persistens ; lacinize ovato-oblonge, aquales, nunc obtusa, 
nunc acutiuscule, duz exteriores  virescentes. Corolla 
filamenta octo, filiformia, receptaculo inserta, erectiuscula, corolla 
nulla. 
Germen 
paulo breviora, alba. Anthere ovales, albidze. superum, 
subrotundum, triquetrum.  Szy/us_filiformis, erectus, longitudine 
staminum, ad medium trifidus, albus, Stigmata  globosa, alba. 
Pericarpium nullum; calyx persistens semen  involvens. Semen 
unicum, subrotundum, acuminatum, acute triquetrum, 
nigro-fuscum, levissimum. 
incrassati. 
calyce minus, 
Caulis teres, glaber ; articuli basi parum 
Folia alterna, petiolata, erecta, lanceolata, acuminata, 
integerrima, pilis brevissimis hispidiuscula, plana, margine _ pilis 
antrorsum arcte incumbentibus subciliato, sex uncias longa. Pedzoli 
supra plani, crassiusculi, duas lineas longi, pilosi, vaginis paulo supra 
earum basin inserti. Vagine dimidios articulos sape unciales 
tegentes, cylindracee, integra, arcta, pilose, pilis longis sursum 
versis ; margine integra, subtruncate, ciliata, ciliis setaceis, erectis, 
ipsa vagina vix brevioribus. Sfzce terminales et intravaginales, 
multifloree, cylindracez, erecta, duas vel tres uncias longa, pedun- 
culate ; fedunculi  teretes, glabri, breves. Aractee cuneiformes, 
subtruncate, cucullate, margine pilis longis ciliate, plerumque 
quadriflore. ores imbricati,  breviter _pedicellati, filiformibus, 
rubicundis, ineequalibus ; longioribus sesquilinearibus. 
Endeavour’s River. Bentham saw this only in Brown’s collection, but Brown rightly 
identified his specimens with those collected by Banks, and named in MS, by Solander, 
which are in the Herbarium. “ 
MUHLENBECKIA RHYTICARYA 
L. Muell. Fragm. v. 92 (1866) ; Benth, Fl. Austral. v. 274. 
[PLaTE 249.] 
Mas: Calyx pentaphyllus. Fodiola ovata, concava, patentia, 
obtusa, margine membranacea,_1-linearia, equalia.  Corol/a nulla. 
Filamenta octo, filiformia, subsquarrosa, foliolis breviora. Anthere 
ovate, erecte, pallide flave. Femina in distincta planta. Cadyx 
profunde quinquepartitus ; laciniae ovate, obtuse, patule, parum 
concavee, I-lineares ; unica lacinia ceteris angustior. Coro//a nulla. 
Lilamenta octo, subulata, plana, minuta (4 lin.), albida. Anthere 
late, parvee, casse. Germen superum, ovatum, triquetrum. Styli 
tres, brevissimi, capillares (vel potius nulli). Szigmata tria, ramosa, 
extus expansa, divaricata, alba, Pericarpinum nullum, sed calyx 
persistens, baccatus factus, ex albido pellucens, magnitudine _pisi 
minoris, obovatus, obtuse triqueter, semen in sinu fovens. Semen 
unum, ovatum, utrinque attenuatum, trigonum. 
Caules volubiles, teretes. Folia alterna, oblonga, acuminata, cordata, 
nigrum, acute 
margine subtilissime undulato-crenulata. 
Endeavour’s River. Bentham does not record the plant as collected by Banks. 
The plate, from the living plant, resembles J. adpressa in habit, but the dried 
specimens agree with J. rhyticarya, to which the fruit shows that the plant is to be 
referred. 
Piperacee 
PIPER BETLE 
L. Sp. Pl. 28 (1753). 
[PLaTE 250.] 
Cauls decumbens, geniculatus, glaber. ofa alterna, basi 
inzequalia, integerrima, glaberrima, subsucculenta ; zx/erzora cordata, 
acuta, novem-nervia, dodrantalia ; supertora ovata, acuminata, vel 
septem- vel quinque-nervia, sensim minora. fetzo/i inferiores foliis 
triplo breviores, superiores foliis sextuplo breviores. Ons. Denticuli 
petiolorum a nobis non visi. Spice solitarize, cylindraceze, crassitia 
penne anserinz minoris, sesquiunciam longze, pedunculate. Pedun- 
culi oppositifolii, spicis paulo breviores. Ons. Forte distincta 
species a Pipfere Betle insularum Indiz orientalis, Asiaque. Habitat 
in sylvis umbrosis Nove Hollandice prope Cape Grafton. Ons. 
Planta Nove Hollandia et illa in Zeylona et Malabaria culta 
exdem distincte videntur a Betle ex Java. 
This is represented in the Banksian Herbarium by four leaves only, from Cape 
Grafton, to which two have been added, apparently from the same collection, from 
Robert Brown’s herbarium. There is no description in either of the MSS. relating 
to Australian plants; that now given is transcribed from Solander’s general descrip- 
tions; it was presumably, like the drawing for the plate, taken from living 
specimens at the time of" collection. There is a mention of betel under New 
Holland in Banks’s Journal on P. 313 Of Sir Joseph Hooker’s edition: « We 
observed that some, though but few, held constantly in their mouths the leaves of a 
herb which they chewed as a European does tobacco, or an East Indian betel ; what 
sort of a plant it was we had no opportunity of learning as 
the chaws, which they took from their mouth to show us. It might be of the betel 
kind, and so far as we could judge from the fragments was so; but whatever it was 
it was used without any addition, and seemed to have no kind of effect upon either 
the teeth or the lips of those who used it.” So far as can be judged from the imperfect 
material, the Australian plant differs in no important particulars from P. Betle. 
Bentham does not mention the plant, but this is explained by its occurrence ‘only in 
cultivation. 
we never saw anything but 
Myristicacee 
MYRISTICA CIMICIFERA 
Br. Prodr. 400 (1810). 
M. CIMICIFERA a. TyPICA Warb. Monogr, Myristic. 501 (1897). 
M. Insiprpa Benth. Fl. Austral. v. 
281; Bailey, Queensland Flora, 1287; ex parte, non Br. 
[PLatE 251.] 
Calyx monophyllus, ovatus, ventricosus, trilinearis, coriaceus, 
flavicans, villosiusculus, apice trifidus; lacinia ovate, acute, patula. 
Corolla nulla, nisi calycem ita dicas. /ilamenta nulla. Anthere 
septem, lineares, duplicate, apici styli adnate, dilute flavicantes. 
Germen forte superum (nullum inferum) sed nulla rudimenta 
seminum. Sty/us columnaris, cylindraceus, crassus, albus, longitudine 
Arboris 
rami teretes. Folia alterna, petiolata, oblonga, integerrima, glabra, 
tubi calycis. S¢zgma simplex, apice attenuato-rotundatum. 
Supra nitentia, 4-uncialia. Pediod? supra canaliculati. 
Sepe 3-6 conglomerati, sessiles, 
Flores axillares, 
interdum unicus solitarius, 
Endeavour’s River. 
retains for the species, 
The two are doubtless conspecific, but the plant figured is that on which Brown based his 
cimicttfera, and which he only knew from the Banksian specimens. Only male specimens 
t Kew, stated by Dr. Warburg (.c.) to have been obtained by 
Banks at Endeavour’s River, must be from some other source. 
