Rhipogonum. | CXXVII. LILIACER. 9 
Glabrous. Leaves narrowed into a distinct twisted petiole. 
Leaves mostly 3 to 4 in., not ab 
road. Flowers casually, pedicellate i. R. album. 
Leaves mostly 6 to 8 in., three times as long as broad. 
Flowers usually se essile 2. R. discolor. 
More or € pubescent. Leaves: rounded or cordate ‘at the 
base and nearly sess 
Leaves 2t to 3 in. long. Ovary glabrou ws rue x Oe, dir QUEM 
Leaves 3 to 6 in. long. Ovary densely vinis 5o ety A 
album, R. Br. Prod. 293.—A tall glabross climber, the prin- 
cipal branches often aha with prickles, the smaller ones usually 
without any, or only with a few small ones. Leaves irregularly opposite 
or alternate, on short twisted petioles, elliptical or oblong, varying to 
ovate or almost lanceolate, shortly acuminate, narrowed at the base, 
mostly 3 to 4 in. long, though occasionally nearly twice as long or under 
3 in.; coriaceous, 3- or 5-nerved, the intermediate reticulate veins pro- 
minent. Racemes axillary, isole. shorter or scarcely longer than the 
leaves, a few of the upper ones sometimes forming a à terminal leafless 
paniele. Flowers usually distant ees the rhachis, at first nearly sessile, 
but the pedicels growing out to 2 or 3 lines, or sometimes pedi- 
cellate from the first. Perianth 8 to 4 lines long. Ovary glabrous. 
Berry 4 to 5 lines diameter, said to be red when fresh, drying blaek. 
—Kunth, Enum. v. 272; F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 79; R. "Mooreanum, F. 
Muell. Fragm. i. 44. 
u land. Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller, and 
— Rockhampton, Dallachy and others 
. Wales Port Jackson to the Blue ‘Mountains, R. Brown, Woall:, and others; 
"m to New den cendi anum ; Hastings, Clarence, and Richm hmond Rivers 
snowy River, eastern Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller. 
Var. leptostachya. Racemes slender, often branched, but with few flowers on 
slender Paaki r^ 3 to 4 lines 
Queensland. radians Bay, Dallachy. 
9. R. disco vi Muell. Fragm. vii. 78. A stout erm climber, 
nearly allied to R. album, with similar prickly or smooth brannas. 
Leaves ae or lanceolate, 6 to 8 in. long, and seams above 2 in. 
broad, rounded or narrowed into a twisted petiole at the base, much 
thicker than in R. album, the transverse reticulate veins much fewer and 
not so fine. Racemes axillary, 4 to 6 in. long, the flowers sessile or 
nearly so. Perianth-segments rather shorter and broader than in H. 
album. Ovary qun 
N. S. Wales. Hunter er, 4. Cunningham ; Clarence River, Beckler ; New 
England, Parrott ; Tweed iver, S Guidfoyle. 
3. 7 Fawcettianum, F. Muell. Herb.—Branches slender, without 
prickles, sprinkled with a loose rufous pubescence. Leaves on very 
short petiolis or almost sessile, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
