Etiromatia.] IV. ANONACEyB. 27 



and connivent. Fruit turbinate, about fin. diameter, the pericarp thin; the top 

 convex, with the tips of the carpels distinctly prominent, the base of the perianth 

 scarcely projecting as a slight ring round the edge. — FJ. laurina, Hook, in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 4848. 



Hab. : Scrub land north and south. Flowering from September to March. 



2. E. laurina (laurel -like), R. Br. in Flind. Voy. ii. 597, t. 2 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. i. 54. An erect glabrous tall shrub or small tree with weak branches. 

 Leaves evergreen, oblong or almost elliptical, shortly acuminate, 3, 4, or some- 

 times Sin. long, narrowed into a short petiole which is not decurrent on the 

 branch. Flowers solitary, on short lateral or nearly axillary peduncles, the buds 

 at first oblong, becoming nearly globular and about ^in. diameter before opening ; 

 when the bud has fallen the stamens expand to about lin. diameter. Petal-like 

 staminodia connivent or the outer ones scarcely open, glabrous or with a very few 

 stipitate glands ; perfect stamens longer, erect or 'Spreading, the linear anthers 

 tipped by a short fine point, the filaments dilated. Fruit urceolate-globular, 

 nearly fin. diameter, the persistent base of the perianth forming a narrow rim 

 projecting above the nearly flat top. — F. v. M. Fragm. i. 45. 



Hab. : In most southern and northern coast scrubs. Flowering about November. 



Wood close-grained, of a light colour, and prettily marked. — Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woods No. 3a. 



Order V. MENISPERMACEJE. 



Flowers dioecious. Sepals usually 6 in 2 series, rarely 9 or 12 in 3 or 4 series, 

 or very rarely 5 or fewer, imbricate or very rarely talvate in each series, the inner 

 ones the largest. Petals usually 6, smaller than the sepals (except in 

 Sairopetalum), nearly equal but imbricate in 2 series in the bud, rarely fewer or 

 none. Male fl. : Stamens usually 6, free and opposite the petals, or united in a 

 central column, rarely 9 or more or only 8. Female fl. : Staminodia usually 6, 

 free. Carpels distinct, usually 3, sometimes 6 or more or only 1, containing 1 or 

 very rarely 2 amphitropous ovules peltately attached to the inner angle. Style 

 terminal, usually recurved, and often expanding into a short sessile stigma. 

 Fruit-carpels drupaceous, nearly straight, or more frequently curved, so that the 

 remains of the style are near the base, the putamen then becoming more or less 

 horseshoe- shaped, with an inner projection of the endocarp bearing the plaeentaa. 

 Seed taking the shape of the cavity, with a thin membranous testa. Albumen 

 sometimes fleshy, entire or rutnihate, sometimes thin or none. Emhryo nearly as 

 long as the albumen or occupying the -wrhole seed, the radicle pointing to the 

 remains of the style. — Climbers usually woody, or in a very few non-Australian 

 species erect herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, without stipuleisj entire or rarely 

 palmately lobed, usually with 3 or more palmate ribs at the base. Flowers small, 

 in axillary panicles, racemes, or cymes. 



A considerable tropical Order, both in the New and the Old World, a very few species extending 

 into more temperate regions in North America, eastern Asia, and southern Africa. — Benth. 



Tbibe I. Tinosporeee. — Flowers 3-merous. Ovaries usually 3. Drupes with a subterminal 

 rarely ventral or subbasal style-scar. Seed oblong or subglobose ; albumen copious or scanty ; 

 cotyledons foUaceous, usvMly spreading laterally. 



Flowers in simple racemes. Inner sepals broad and thin. 



Carpels of the fruit ovoid, the style at the top. Seed albuminous, 

 hearly Straight . 1. TiNospoE.t. 



Male fiowers paniculate, female spicate. Carpels of fruit oblique, ovate 

 turgid, echinulate-scabrous .... . . 2. Pawoettu. 



