522 Prof. Don's Monograiph of the Genus Disporum. 



KREYSIGIA. Rekhenb. 

 Tripladenia. Don. 



Perianthium 6-phyllum, petaloideum, patens, sequale, deciduum : foliolis sesti- 

 vatione involutis, basi biappendiculatis ! sessilibus. Stamina 6, toro, nee 

 basi sepalorum inserta. Antherce erectse, extrorsae, biloculares, duplici 

 rima longitudinali dehiscentes. Ovarium liberum, 3-loculare : loculis bi- 

 oviilatis : ovulis coUateralibus, erectis. Stigmata 3, recurvata. Pericar- 

 pium subbaccatum, 3-loculare, 3-valve, loculicido-dehiscens : loculis 1 — 2- 

 spermis. Semina suborbiculata, hinc convexa, inde angulata v. eoncavi- 

 uscula, glabra, nitida, colore succinea, hilo maxirnfe fungoso-strophiolato, 

 chalaza orbiculata concava fusca, rhaphe dimidio seminis vix breviori, 

 elevata : testd membranaceS, : albumen corneum. {Embryo juxta basin 

 dorsi seminis minutus, rectus, alburnine inclusus. R. Brown.). 



Herba (Novse HoUandiae) perennis, rhizomate diviso fibroso multicipite, cauli- 

 bus subsimplicibus, multangulis, minute papuloso-scabris. Folia amplexi- 

 caulia, ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, multinervia, subtus punctis scabra, 

 supra Icevia. Pedunculi ajcillares, solitarii, subfiliformes, unifori, infra 

 medium subarticulati, involucelloque triphyllo Uneari-subulato muniti ; in- 

 ternodio inferiore copiose papuloso-scabro ; superiore longiore, Iceviusculo. 

 Flores pallida lilacini. Sepala basi biappendiculata ! appendiculis (glan- 

 dulis prorsus episepalis, nee staminum rudimentis) submarginalibus, com- 

 pressis, palmato-trifidis, raro 4.-fidis, albis, lobis glanduld luted minute 

 papillosd capitatis. Filamenta subulata, distincta, basi dilatata, libera, 

 nee sepalis adnata. Antherse oblongce, obtusre, albce. Stylus brevis, cras- 

 sus, trigonus. Stigmata 3, subulata, recurvata, stylo vix longiora,'lined 

 {serie stigmatis) absorbenti longitudinali. Per'icarpmmf usco-p?irpurascens, 

 subrotundo-trigonum. 



1. Kreysigia multiflora. Reichenb. Icon. Exot. cent. 3. p. II. tab. 229. excl. 



syn. Br. Prodr. 

 Tripladenia Cunninghamii. Don in Proceed. Linn. Soc. n.b. p. 46. 

 Hab. in Nova HoUandia ad lUawarra. Allan Cunningham. V . (v. v. c. in 



Horto Reg. Kewens.). 



