G pin anther a.'] LXIVI. ASCLEPlArtE.K. 327 



of small frlands inside at the base, often united into small lobed scales alter- 

 nating with the segments. Corolla-tube about 3 lines long, the lobes nearly 

 as loiig^, broadly ovate. Corona-scales broad, nnicrouate or denticulate. 

 Filaments broad and flat, connivent but not connate. Anthers acuminate, 

 glabrous, the cells subdivided by vertical partitions between the pollcn-mnsses. 

 Stigma very shortly 2-lobed. 'Follicles divaricate, rather slender, 2 to 3 in. 

 long.— Dene, in DC. Prod. viii. 493. 



N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Sandy Island, Victoria 

 river, F. Mueller ; Swecrs Island, Heniie ; Forster's Range and Daly waters, W^aterfiovse. 



Queensland. Port Curtis, IVGillivray; Nerkool Creek, Sittor river, and Mount 

 ■^Vjalt, Bowman. 



Tribe II. Secamone.'e.— Pollen-masses smooth, 4 to each anther. 



2. SBCAMONE, E. Br. 



Corolla rotate, deeply 5 -lobed, the lobes contorted in the bud, the right- 

 hand edges overlapping. Corona of 5 laterally compressed segments, 

 verlically^dnnte to the gynostegium at the base, with free falcate or lignlate 

 points, usually shorter than the gynostegium. Filaments connate. Pollen- 

 masses 4 to each anther, nearly smooth, erect, attached in fours, 2 from each 

 ai^joining anther, to small appendages of the styles (as in the genera with 2 

 masses to each anther). Stigma very short and obtuse.— Stems from a woody 

 ^ase, stragdins trailino- or° twining. Leaves herbaceous, often pellucid- 



dotted, prowers very small in loose axillary or interpetiolar solitary cymes 



The genus extends over tropical Asia, southern Africa, and the Mascarene Islanc'.s, the 

 Australian species hoth endemic, unless one proves really to be the same as a Philippine 

 island one. 



Jeaves ovate-acuminate or lanceolate ' \- ^- ell'uf'^^- 



^aves ovate, ohtuse or scarcely acute ^- ^- °'"'^''- 



1- S. elliptica, n. Br. Trod. 464. A rather slender twiner or low 

 straggling shrub, quite glabrous or the inflorescence slightly pubescent. 

 Leaves petiolate, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, rounded or acute at the base, 

 the veins scarcely conspicuous, 1 to U or rarely 2 in. long. Cymes shortly 

 Petlunculate, several-flowered, but shorter than the leaves, the peduncles and 

 pedicels glabrous or scarcelv pubescent. Calyx-segments membranous or- 

 l^'eular, ciholate, about \ line long. Corolla " yellow with a very short 

 tube, nearly rotate, deeply lobed, spreading to about 2 lines diameter, with 

 small introrse auricles ov appenda-es at the base of the lobes. Corona of 5 

 small laterally compressed segments, adnate to the gynostegium at the base, 

 ^itt free incurved falcate points considerably shorter than the_ gynostegium. 

 follicles divaricate, 2 to 2^ in. long, tapering into a long point --Dciie. m 

 ^^- Prod. viii. 504 ; S. emetica, F. Muell. Pragm. v. 161, not of E. Br. 



W. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Jl. Brown; Port Essington, 



■Armstrong. 



Queensland. Port Curtis, M^GUlwray ; Port Denison, FUzalan; Rtzroy river, 

 f;'^«««; Rockingham ^^j, BaUachj ; Rockhampton, O'Sto^*;^; Moretoa Bay, i'- 

 ^i^dler, C. Stuart ; Peak Downs, F. Mueller ; Mackenzie river, Leichhardt. 

 ' ^- "WTales. Clarence river, C. Moore. 



