12 ICONES PLANT ARUM. 



Hab. King George's Sound, South-west Australia, B. Browti^ 

 Drwiumond. 



Caules 2~3-pedaleSj tenues, prseter "basin aphylli. Folia radicalia v. 

 ad basin canlis conferta, prjelonga, angusta, basin versus in vaginam 

 longam apertani dilatata* Spwidce in speciminibus yisis 2 y. 3, in 

 capitulum sen fasciculum termiualem conferta? sessilesque. BractecB 

 involucrantes 2, foliaceEe, angustoe, valde inequales, capitulo longioreSj 

 basi dilatatae, una interdum 3-4-plo longiore suberecta, capitulo tunc 

 sublaterali. Spicitlce semipollicares in U, aristatce subsimiles, sod Mum^ 

 non arcitat^, flores 2 v. 3 summo solo hermapbrodito. Slarmua in 

 spiculis examinatis nunc vix 15 nunc ultra 20. Ovarium glabrum 

 etsi stylus leviter papilloso-pnbescens.— G. Bentham. 



Fig. 1. Spikelct. 2. Flower. 3. Anther. 4. Pistil, 6. Ovary, longitudinal section. 



Plate 1214. 



MADABOSPERMA TEAILLIAN^UM, Benth. 



AscLEPiADEyE, Tribe Cynaxche^. 



Madarosperma, Bentli. in Bentli. et Book. Gen, PI ii, 1241. 



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M, Traillanimij BentJi, Z. c, species unica. 



Hab. Amazon province, IsTorth Brazil, in the gapo on the Rio Negro 

 near Barra, and at San Gabriel da Cachoeira, Spruce, n. 1361 and 

 2389 ; in the gapo on the Rio Padawiri, TrailL 



ramosissim 



alte scandens. Folia opposita, breviter petiolata, ovata, utrinque pu- 

 berula v, demura supra glabrata, majora sesquipoUicaria, rainealia 

 multo minora, floralia ssepius vix semipoUicaria. Flares parvi, flavo- 

 virentes, in cjmnlas^v. fasciculos axilkres sessilesque v. breviasime 

 pedunculatos dispositi. Calyx 5-partitus, pnbescens, segmentis sub- 

 orbiculatis margine membranaceis semiliuea brevioribus. Corolla 

 nrceolata, glabra, linea pauUo longior, tubo subgloboso, fauce con- 

 stricta, lobis 5 oblongis in alabastro angustissinie dextrorsum obte- 

 gentibus in rostmm erectum conniventibus, demum recarvo-paten- 

 tibns, intus paplllosis. Goronce squama) 5, basi dilatatie, tubo stamineo 

 affix95, erectse, antheris fere ad medium adnata, superne libera?, 

 lifTulatse, subrecurvae, gynosteginm superantes. Stamina basi corollae 

 affixa, filamentis in tubum brevissimum connatis; antherse meinbrana 

 inflexa terminatae, auriculis baseos prominnlis, Pollinia in quoque 

 loculo solitaria, oblonga, apicem versus affixa, pendula. Stigma eras- 



