48 FLORA OF TASMANIA, [Smilacee. 
onusto ; folio radicali solitario, lineari-elongato v. fihformi, gramineo ; scapo flexuoso, gracili, tereti, myido, 
aphyllo v. basin versus unifoliato, superne vaginato, simplici v. apice subpaniculatim ramoso; vaginis parvis, 
distantibus ; floribus inconspieuis, erectis, Jlavo-viridibus. 
A very anomalous plant, referred doubtfully to Melanthacee by Brown, from Labillardiêre's unsatisfactory 
figure, although the perianth is most decidedly superior.—A small, slender, inconspicuous plant, 3-10 inches high, 
very variable in habit, number, and breadth of leaves, slenderness of scape and leaves, both of which are sometimes 
filiform, and in number and size of the flowers, which are hermaphrodite or unisexual. Root of tufted fleshy fibres. 
Base of the stem surrounded with white, hyaline, shining, linear, acute sheaths, an inch long, external to which = some- 
times a dense fibrous mass of decayed sheaths. Radical leaf solitary. Scape rigid, flexuous, leafless, or with one 
leaf towards the base, and small, distant, sheathing bracts above. Flowers solitary or panicled, erect, 1—1 inch 
in diameter. Ovary linear-clavate, three-celled, with numerous axile ovules in two series, and three recurved styles. 
Perianth of six spreading, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute segments, the three outer of which are decurrent on the 
ovary. Stamens six, erect, with subulate filaments, which, after the fall of the versatile anthers, are recurved, and 
project between the segments of the perianth. Capsule linear, 2 3 inch long, coriaceous, three-angled, deeply three- 
grooved ; cells apparently bursting inwards. (Name from kaumvAos, curved, and vna, a thread ; in allusion to the 
curved filaments.) 3 
1. Campynema linearis (Lab. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 93. t. 121).— Br. Prodr. 291; Fl. Antarct. i. 
78, in notes. (Gunn, 954.) 
Has. Heathy places at Middlesex Plains, Rocky Cape, Macquarrie Harbour, between Lake St. Clair 
and Franklin River; Recherche Bay, etc., ascending to 4000 feet, Labillardiere, Gunn, Milligan.—(El. 
Jan.—March.) 
Nat. Ord. X. SMILACEA. 
Of this Order there are few Australian genera or species. These consist of Drymophila, an Asparagus, 
two of Eustrephus, four of Geitonoplesium, a Rhipogonum, and several species of Smilax. The majority of 
these are natives of the Tropics and East Coast. 
Gen. I. DRYMOPHILA, Br. 
Perianthium petaloideum, 6-phyllum ; foliolis patentibus, egualibus, deciduis. Stamina 6, hypogyna ; 
antheris introrsis. Ovarium 3-loculare ; stigmatibus 3, revolutis; ovulis plurimis, biseriatis, anatropis. 
Bacca subglobosa, 3-locularis ; semina plurima, ovata; testa membranacea, cum nucleo connata ; umbilico 
basilari, punctiformi; alumine dense carnoso ; embryone axili; radicula umbilico proxima.—Herba pe- 
rennis ; rhizomate repente, noduloso ; caulibus gracilibus, erectis, subflexuosis, vaginatis ; vaginis membrana- 
ceis, distantibus, superne foliatis; foliis distichis, sessilibus, e torsione baseos angustata resupinatis, lan- 
ceolatis v. lineari-oblongis, acuminatis, striato-nervosis ; pedunculis azillaribus terminalibusque, solitariis, 
unifloris, ebracteatis, inarticulatis ; floribus albis, cernuis ; baccis eeruleis, pendulis. 
D. cyanocarpa, the only known species, is very closely allied to the genus Callizene of New Zealand and South 
Chili, but differs in the almost sessile, large, revolute stigmas. — A slender herb, with a ereeping, perennial 
rhizome, and. slender, annual, erect, simple or rarely-branched stems, 1-2 feet high, which are cylindrical and 
leafless below, bearing there only a few distant, scarious, sheathing scales, and compressed and leafy above. Leaves 
alternate, 1-3 inches long, linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, distichous, narrowed at the base into a 
are nearly horizontal. Flowers white, 373 inch broad, 
on slender, curved, solitary peduncles, axillary and terminal, nodding, of six equal, spreading leaflets. Stamens six. 
Ovary three-celled, with many ovules, Styles three, recurved. Berry very variable in size, deep bright-blue 
