Ser. Melanospeeme^. Fam. Fncacete. 



Plate CLXXV. 

 CYSTOPHORA UVIFERA, /. j^. 



Gen. Char. Eooi scutate. Frond pinnately decompound, dendroid, with 

 a distinct stem, branches, and ramuHform leaves. Vesicles stipitate, 

 simple, rarely absent. Receptacles pod-like, torulose or moniliform, 

 developed in the ramuli. Scapliidia hermaphrodite. Spores obovoid, 

 — Cystophora (/. Ag^f from KV(nL<;, a bladder, and ^opeco, to hear. 



Radix scutata. Frons pinnatim decomposita, dendroidea, cmile propria, ramis 

 foliisqiie ramuliformibus donata. Vesicula stipitatce, simplices, raro nullee. 

 Receptacula siliquceformia, torulosa v. nodulosa, apice ramulorum evoluta. 

 Scaphidia hermaphrodita. 



Cystophora uvifera; stem terete, undivided; branches issuing from all 

 sides, pinnately ramulose ; ramuli fiUform, simple or forked, the ulti- 

 mate changing into cyhndrical receptacles ; vesicles spherical, point- 

 less, issuing from the stem, and occasionally from the larger branches. 



C. uvifera ; caule tereti indiviso ; ramis tmdiqtie ecjredieiitibus phmatim ramulo- 

 sis ; ramulis filiformibus simpUcibus v.furcatis, ultimis in receptacula cylin- 

 dracea abeuntibus; vesiculis sphcericis muticis e caule vet raro ramis majoribus 

 egredientibus. 



Cystophora uvifera, /. Jg. Sp. Alg. v. 1. p. 246. Harv. Alg. Austr. Exsic. 

 n. 13. Harv. in Hook. Ft. Tasm. v. 2. p. 284. 



Blossevillea uvifera, Harv. in Hook. Land. Journ. v. 6. p. 414. Kiitz. Sp. 

 Jig. p. 630. 



Sargassum uviferum, Ag. Syst. p. 306. Sond. PI. Preiss. v. 2. p. 165. 



Hab. Western Australia, Preiss. Coast of Victoria, Dr. Mueller, W. H. H., 



etc. Tasmania, Gmm, W. H. H., etc. 

 Geogr. Distr. West and south coasts of New Holland. Tasmania. 



Descr. Root branching. Stem 1-3 feet high, half a hne to a line in diameter, 

 cylindrical, quite simple, naked and rough with the remains of broken 

 branches for 4-6 inches above the base, thence upward closely set through- 

 out with alternate lateral branches ; the whole frond having an ovate-oblong 

 outline. The branches issue from all sides of the stem ; usually they are 

 3-5 inches long, and destitute of vesicles, somewhat pinnated throughout 

 with subsiraple or slightly compound ramuli; occasionally they are 12-14 

 inches long, in which case they bear vesicles like the stem, and are more 

 decompound than ordinary branches. Vesicles globose, 2-4 lines in diame- 

 ter, without point, on short cylindrical petioles rising from the stem (rarely 

 also from the branches), generally abundant. Receptacles formed from the 

 terminal ramuli, cylindrical, ^1 inch long. Colour a dark-olive. Substance 

 coriaceous, flexible. 



