Smilax. | CXXVII. LILIACER. 7 
twisted, short but slender; bearing slender tendrils, but not at all or 
scarcely winged below them.  Peduneles axillary and simple, or a few 
of the upper ones in a terminal panicle. Pedicels rarely 8 lines long. 
Perianth nearly globular in the bud, the outer segments broadly ovate, 
scarcely above 1 line long. Anthers almost sessile, very much shorter 
than the perianth. Female flowers not seen. Berry the size of that of 
S. australis, —R. Br. Prod. 298; Endl. Iconogr. t. 39; F. Muell. 
ragm. vii. 77. Zee 
Queensland. . Rockhampton, Bowman; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
N. S. Wales” Port Jackson, R. Brown atid others; New England, C. Stuart > 
Hastings and Macleay Rivers, Bechler ; Clarence River; C. Moore. 
reticulate veins, the petioles short and twisted, narrowly or scarcely 
inged below the tendrils. Umbels many-flowered, on axillary peduncles 
usually simple and à to ł in. long, but sometimes longer slightly 
which are oblong and at length recurved ; in the female flowers the fila- 
ments are usually present, but without anthers. Ovary entirely deficient 
in the males, sessile with 1 ovule in each cell in the females. Berry 
black, globular, about 4 lines diameter, with 1 globular seed or 2 flat- 
tened on their inner faces. Embryo often at least half as long as the 
albumen.—F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 78; S. latifolia and S. elliptica, R. Br. 
Prod. 298 ; S. spinescens, Miq. in Linnea, xviii. 89. 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Goulburn Islands, 
A. Cunningham ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 131 ; Liverpool River, Gulliver. 
eensland. Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller, and 
others; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Cape York, M'Gillivray. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and many others ; 
northward to New England, C. Stuart ; Hastings, nce, Macleay, and Kichmond 
Rivers, Beckler, Wilcox, Henderson, and others ; southward to Illawarra, 4. Cunning- 
ham ; and 'Twofold Bay, F. Mueller; Lord Howe's Island, €. Moore. 
Snowy River and other localities in eastern Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller 
and others. : 
The species seems nearly allied in many respects to the East Indian S. ovalifolia, 
