Dioscorea. | CXXV. DIOSCORIDEJE. 461 
shortly — -: axis about 2 in. long, the protruding angles or 
lobes about 4 in 
^N. Austra s, Hulls. 
Queensland. Sent by Memes collectors as very common from Brisbane river, 
Moreton bay. A. Cunningham, and others, to Rockingham bar, Dallachy. 
N. S. Wales. Hunter's and Paterson’s rivers, Æ. Brown; Hastings and Clarence 
p Beckler, and others; Richmond river, C. "Moore, "Lot others; New England, 
D. punctata, R. Br. Prod. 294, is referred by F. Mueller denn hesitation to D. 
Eden. In Brown's herbarium there are two 0 specimens in the same sheet, both in 
flower only, without the precise station for either. In both the leaves are similar to 
lobes, but in the other the perianths are rather those of D. sat The D. transversa 
itself is evidently nearly allied to D Pete un 1fi 
t i 55, p. 71, and confirmed by Japanese specimens in the Kew 
herbarium. The Australian plant has the leaves rather different, the basal sinus always 
oft i i T fruit a. 
d ; 
appears to be rather larger, but tl etd be varia e D. batatas Decsne., is cer- 
Rae quite distinct from it, but hal y the Mnt. as the common Indian D. glabra, 
- hastifolia, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 99. A smaller d than 
D. transversa, with slender almost filiform iude stems. Lower leaves 
toni ular-hast tate, 3- or 5- Dur ved, under 1 in. long and somotiries as 
v. E 
W.A lia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 821, ii n. 1954; Cham- 
pion ir and 3 Murchison river, Oldfield; Pinjarrah, J. S. Pries. 
3. D. sativa, Linn. as Pl. 1463, Hort. Cliff. t. 28, but not of 
rti Enum. Stems from a tuberous rhizome elongated and twining, 
ring green g polities bulbs in the veda of the S Leaves 
. very small, the AiK aRt very narrow, those of each series 
almost valvate in the bud, the inner ones linear. Stamen , the 
anthers almost sessile in the centre of the flower round a rudimentary 
pistil. Female C i in longer slender single spikes. Capsule ob- 
ong, the axis about 2 in. long. Seeds boron ge! wing a t the lower 
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