SiLAX. SMILACEJE (AUCTORE ALPH. DE CAND.). 50 
hami teretes, passim substriati, remote aculeis subrecurvis bre- 
vibus armati. Ramuli graciles, angulati. substriati, inermes, Petioli 
5-9 mill. longi, a basi usque ad !/, vel 1/ marginibus inflexis vagi- 
nati, nonnunquam cirrhiferi, supra torti. angulosi. Limbi anguste 
oblongo-lanceolati, basi acuti, apice longe acuminati, a basi 5-nervii, 
sive inclusis marginibus 7-nervii, 7-10 cent. longi, 1-3 1/, cent. 
lati, nitidi, ex Kunth non lineolati, sed in specim, h. DC. et Deless. 
lineolis pellucidis manifeste donati, in speciminibus h. Kunth rario- 
ribus, punctulis prseter lineolas nullis aut difficile trans lumen 
videndis. Racemi 1-2 cent. longi, inter axillam et squamam ovato- 
subacutam latam 2 mill. longam nascentes, prope basim (sæpius intra 
bracteam) bractea ovato-acuta 1-2 mill. longa et gemmula abortiva 
subopposita vestiti, rhachi ideo minima, Umbella 15-30-flora. Pe- 
dicelli gracillimi, 8-12 mill. longi, inter bracteolas minimas ovato- 
acutas receptaculo ovoideo 1-2 mill. longo inserti. Alabastra masc. 
vix 3 mill. longa, obovoidea, basi acuta, apice obtusa. Sepala obovato-. 
oblonga, 3-4 mill. longa. Petala oblonga, petalis fere æqualia, similiter _ 
patenti-recurva. Antheræ oblongæ, obtuse, filamento gracili in ala- 
bastro 3°, deinde 5? breviores. — Flore femineo ignoto locus in genere 
dubius. An loculi biovulati? Tune præsentis sectionis, prope S. lan- 
ceæfoliam, ut ex habitu. 
In Sillet (Wall. ! 5128, a, in h. DC., Deless. berol., monac.), Chit- 
tagong, ex specim. hort. calc. (Wall. 5128, b, a me non vis.) et Khasia , 
(h. ! Kurz.) 
De synonimis exclusis hocce notandum : Smilax laurifolia Wall. 
olim in h. DC. (non alior.), quæ Sm. Roxburghiana Alph. DC. 7° not. 
pl. rar. jard; de Genève, p. 52 (non Wall. list, sed Wall. olim in pl. 
exs.) est Cocculus laurifolius DC.! Syst; Deless. Ic. 1, t. 97; Wall.! list, 
4965, a; Hook. f. et Th. Fl. ind. 1, p. 101. Specimen Gaudichau- 
dianum a Kunthio memoratum est S. lævis Wall. 
SECTIO II, — COILANTHUS. 
Flores masculi hexandri, sepalis petalisque ineurvatis (1) ; feminei 
loculis uniovulatis. — Omnes Asiaticæ vel Australasicæ ; foliis disti- 
chis, perstantibus ; filamentis staminum brevibus ; —: rectis — 
omen ex forma floris : KoQoc, cavus, et dv0oc, flos. 
(1) In ultima specie, dubia, sepala petalaque patentia, non tamen ut in aliis sec- 
tio nibus ex excurvata. 
