8 CXXVII. LILIACER. [ Smilax. 
petioles and the peduncles more branched. 8. 
so at first sight very like the broad-leaved dern. of S. australis, = p usually, 
m not always, 2 ovules to 2 cell of the ovary. Of R. Brown's spes S. elliptica 
ax Se yng here from his short diagnosis agreeing well with some of the N. S. pate les 
Roxb., which, however, has the leaves usually pom larger, with drea wings to the 
hed. Chi a, Linn , from China and Japan, 
of S. austr alle, no specimen being preserved in fre arium ; 8. 
latifolia, donis the Ca "e ntaria Islands, is a broad-leaved form, precisely similar to 
some of our See vag Land (stewart but without any prickles x ae e rather 
€ specim gum own's herbari In other specimens, Y fe 
a this paet species, the pric ckle es T so few and minute that ‘thay can € 
ese ete ya T carefulsearch. In others the prickles are numerous, and so 
of them piel and long, mixed with sm me eed 
* a 
graph of Smilacew, in which he has brought oa several characters hitherto 
i . fro 
er 
d femal 
the same stations; and it is very possible that a study “of the li lant; doy 
good charabters f for distinct varieties if not for Arasia specie mag BnS, 
2. RHIPOGONUM, Forst. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth iss! of 6 distinet edie 
segments, all equal or the outer ones shorte d often, but not always, 
E agittate, erect, nearly as 
long gm the perianth. Ovary sessile, tmi tapering at the top into a 
seeds variously flattened, with a e hilum, without any strophiole. 
Testa thin, light brown, closely du to the hard Mox kayo 
small, at a distance from the hilum.—Tall branching climbers. Leaves 
ofen nity opposite or nearly so bn t sometimes all alte 
nerved, wi nsverse relicaiata’ veins, the petioles without wings or 
neni. Flowers QE or shortly Locales in racemes either ias 
terminal leafless panicle. 
Besides the four Australian species, which are all endemic, there is one in New 
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