Puate 2740, 
SIEBERA DEFLEXA, Benth. 
UMBELLIFERS. 
Siebera deflexa, Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. p. 355; Hemsl. in Gard. 
Chron. 3rd series, xxx. oie tae Tikchyaeis banka 1 urcz. in 
Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 1849, ii. 
West AUSTRALIA : paces ea. communicated by A. MMor- 
Tis0Nn. 
This little shrub has been ph gor on account of its producing an 
edible tuber. Some months ago . Morrison, botanist to the 
Department of Agriculture, Perth, We st Australia, sent the tuber 
its forming tubers, or, at ‘Teast, of the tubers being paeoninir i with 
the plant. The tubers are known to the aborigines as * yuke,’ and in 
a later communication Mr. Morrison states, in answer to my ‘tages 
that he did not know whether the plant propagates itself from the 
i i n any bud 
e would endeavour to obtain further specimens. It is oe an 
unusual boii for a woody plant to form separate tubers.—W. Borrine 
HeEmMsLe 
Note.—Since the above was passed for the press further material 
has been received from Mr. Morrison. It consists of four plants, two 
e 
suspect, therefore, that the tuber is the first product of germina- 
tion, and the statement that the tubers are formed in strings is pro- 
bably due to some mistake. W. B. H. 
Fig. 1, diagrammatic sketch by Mr. Morrison, showing that the tubers are formed 
in strings ; 2, base of a stem pe tap Aol des ng scar ning it had been oh geiied cm 
a tuber; 3, tube ; 4, leaves; 5, a male; 6, a fertile flower; 7, the same with pet 
and stamens poof 8a es rr except 1 teaduoedy oa 2 and 3 (natural 5 
enlarged, 
