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beneath, distantly and adscendingly penninerved, finely and closely 

 net-Yeined. Inflorescuroe axillary or lateral. Flowers (according 

 to the collector's note) fragrant. Primary peduncles often from 1 

 to 1^ inch long, sometimes numerous, forming then a dense tuft ; 

 cymous ramification spreading to about one inch. Pedicels ^ inch 

 or less long, some obliterated. Inner sepals measuring nearly ^Ij 

 inch. Anthers generically quite normal. Pistillate flowers unknown 

 Fruitlets about ^ an inch long, glabrous, very turgid ; exocarp somewhat 

 carnulent ; endocarp thinly cartilagineous, not intruding. Seed 

 obliquely ovate, rather more than ^ inch long. Cotyledons very 

 convex outward. 



The Australian species differs from Pycnarrhena -plemflora in 

 shorter petioles, larger leaves, long peduncles, more distinctly 

 pedicellate flowers, different proportionate size of sepals and rather 

 larger fruitlets ; from P. tumefacta in leaves also dark-green under- 

 neath, not distinctly dilated petioles, six inner sepals and perhaps 

 also in fruit, but the disposition of the flowers is similar ; from P. 

 lucida and P. Manillensis the Australian congener is far more 

 removed; — P. Not^o-Guineensis is as yet only imperfectly known and 

 in some respects allied to our plant. 



Tinospora smilacina has been observed near Springsure by Miss 

 E. Lamont, who sent branchlets with simple filiform aerial roots of 

 several feet length, and remarked also, that this plant will emit 

 numerous fine roots from various parts of its branches, down 

 towards the ground from any height, and that a detached piece oi 

 the plant, when placed against a wall, will push forth roots in search 

 of nourishment. 



Adeliopsis decmnhens occurs also on the Endeavour-River 

 (W. Persieh). It becomes a climber. The leaves attain a length 

 of three and a breadth of two inches. The flowers are fragrant, 

 and petals as well as filaments are, even when fresh, remarkably 

 dark-colored. The fruitlets are almost globular, measuring hardly 

 ^ inch, not stipitate, the stigma" being near the base; the exocarp 

 is rather thin and not succulent, outside yellow ; tlie endocarp 

 smooth, very liard and comparatively thick, its intruding portion 

 occupying the centre of tlie fruitlet and being two-celled. The seed 

 is much compressed and considerably dilated ; the albumen is 

 equable, much broader than the embryo ; the latter semi-aiinularj 

 the radicle not quite so long as the cotyledons. 



Thus the genus Adeliopsis now obtains a fixed systematic position, 

 in the tribe Coccidece near Hypserpa, to wdiich genus indeed it miglit 

 be reduced, notwithstanding the biovulate fruitlets, the latter 

 characteristic not being any longer as a solitary one on record, two 

 ovules in the fruitlets having been noted by Dr. Beccari also in the 

 genus Arcaiigelisia in the tribe Tinosporecc. This characteristic 



