RHIPOGONUM. SMILACEÆ (AUCTORE ALPH. DE CAND.). 917 
pioribus ab eo alternatim vel opposite procul a basi segregatis, cen- 
trali prope basim pubescente, nervulis reticulatis, siccis eminentibus, 
parenchymate pellucide punetato. Racemi folio subbreviores, inter 
folium et squamam ovatam 4-5 mill. longam extus rufo-villosam nas- 
centes, bracteis inferne paucis (in specimine 4), alternis vel suboppo- 
sitis, 4-5 mill. longis, glabriusculis, flore destitutis, inferioribus obtu- 
sis, super. acutis; inde numerosis, approximatis, flores sessiles (ex 
auct.) vel subsessiles foventibus. Squam:e flori proximæ 3, patentes, 
glabriusculæ ; una inferiore, lanceolata, 4-5 mill. longa, aliis rotun- 
datis, 1-1 !/, mill. longis. Sepala petalaque ovato-oblonga, 7-8 mill, 
longa, 3-nervia, demum patentia. Stamina petalis vix breviora. Fila- 
menía fere — Antheræ lineares, basi obtusæ, apice acutæ. 
Ovarium ovoideum, in stylum brevissimum attenuatum, 2-3 mill. 
longum, pilis longis pallidis suberectis facile detersis usque ad stig- 
mata vestitum. Stigmata excurva, obtusa, minima. Baccæ ignoto. 
In Nova Wallia australi (Benth. 1. c.), ad Richmond river (F, Muell, 
in h 
SPECIES EXCLUSA. 
R. dubium (Endl. Prodr. fl. Norf. p. 30). Ramum unicum, sine 
flore, a cl. auetore infauste descriptum in h. vind. vidi et Dioscoream 
jüdililvi, Adumbratione ad el. Bentham missa Dióseoream sativam L, 
(non Kunth) agnovit, quae Helmia bulbifera Kunth. 
