18 CXXVII. LILIACE®. an 
Saisie saci a, hard albumen, and sm embryo. —A glabrous, much- 
branched leafy climber. Flowers bout jm together, pedicellate in the 
The genus is limited to a single species exclusively Australian. 
1. E. latifolius, R. Br. Prod. 981, —Stems much branched, often climb- 
ing to a great height, weak and flexuose, but not twining. Leaves sessile 
or nearly so, varying from broadly ovate-lanceolate to arrow Tindall 
usually tapering to a point, of a firm t texture, with numerous fine but 
prominent nerves, mostly 2 to 4 in. long, those under the branches often 
reduced to small scales. Pedicels 2 to 6 together in the upper cells, 
filiform but rigid, 4 to 9 lines long, articulate close under the flower 
usually 
above 4 in. diameter, of an orange eolour, with about 8 to 195 Mobi but 
sometimes much smaller with very few seeds.—Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soe, xiv. 572 ; Bot. = t. 1245 ; Endl. Ieonogr. t. 4 ; E. Watsonianus, 
Miq. in Linnæa., x : Bromei, E. Muell. Fragm. vii. 78; Luzu- 
riaga latifolia, Poir: Diet. Suppl. iii. 
Queensland. Rockingham m Bay, Dallach 
N.S. Wales. Port 5 ackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and many others; 
northward to qd Sm de Beckler ; southward to Illawarra, Shepherd, Ralston ; 
Twofold Bay, F. Mue 
Victoria. Snowy Ta F: uud 
Var. "weis Leaves mostly or narrow-lanceolate, but occasionally 
with ^ ME ae Br.l.e.; Luzuriaga angustifolia, Poir. 
hn 536. 
FUSE OU. Much more common in tropical and subtropical latitudes thas the 
PESTE form. Shoalwater E Bey hes Pu rland Islands, R. n y 
ton Bay, 4. Cunningham to vem ced Port Denison, Rocking- 
iun Bay, &c., y Bowman, Fitealan, Dallaehy, and many other 
ackson, U. 
S. rarae: Tapedition ; Richmond River, 
Faweett, but the ass all narrow in few specim ens only. 
9. GEITONOPLESIUM, A. Cunn. 
Perianth deciduous, of 6 distinct oblong segments, equal in length, 
3 outer rather firmer, valvate in the bud and shortly hood-shaped 
at the apex; the 8 i inner flat, ptt with thin 
imbricate, Stamens 6 6, hypogynous, not exceeding the perianth; 
entire margins, unt : 
