V. MENISPERMACE^. 29 



2. FAWCETTIA, F. v. M. 



(After 0. Fawoett). 



Sepals 6, membranous, 3 outer ones ovate-lanceolate, 3 inner ones longer, 

 broadly or orbicularly-ovate, imbricate in the bud. Petals 6, a little longer than 

 the outer sepals, obcordate or rhomboid-orbicular, membranous. Stamens 6, free, 

 filaments planiuscula. Anthers cordate, bursting longitudinally. Stigma terminal. 

 Endocarp eohinulate- scabrous outside. Condyle (a name of Miers for the in- 

 trusion of the endocarp) ample, 1-celled. Seed longitudinally horseshoe-shaped. 

 Albumen even. Cotyledons very broad, plain, divergent, quite entire ; radicle 

 slender, very short. — A climbing shrub. Leaves cordate or ovate-lanceolate. 

 Fruit red. 



1. r. tinosporoides (Tinospora-like), F. v. M. Fragm. x. 93. Leaves 2 to 

 Sin. long, 1 to 2in. broad, glossy, 3 — 5-nerved, and reticulate-veined, on petioles 

 of about lin. Panicles from the old leafless branches ; male about 6 or Tin. 

 long, the branchlets about lin. or less. Interior sepals entire, about f of a line 

 long. Petals green. Anthers yellow. Female flowers not seen. Carpels f to 

 lin. long. Seeds very bitter. Endocarp dark, parchment-like. 



Hab. : Southern scrubs. 



LEGNEPHORA, Miers. 



(Fringe or border bearing.) 



Flowers diceeioua. Male : Sepals 6, 2-seriate, subequal, elliptical scarcely 

 acute, pilose outside, the outer ones a little narrower, imbricate in the bud. 

 Petals 6, squamiform, opposite the sepals and 6 times shorter, cuneate-rotundate, 

 the sides glandulously fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 6 of equal length and opposite 

 to the petals ; filaments terete, thickening upwards. Anthers subglobose, twice 

 as broad at the filament, dorsifixed, introrse, 2-celled, cell-connective narrow, 

 separation a trifle excurrent, fissures transverse on both sides, dehiscence 

 2-valved. Female : Sepals as in the male. Petals none. Stamens 6, sterile, 

 opposite and half the length of the sepals, cuneate-linear, apex dilated and trun- 

 cate, subcanaliculate, with semi-immersed concave glands. ■ Ovaries 3, gibbose- 

 globose, pilose, 1-celled, 1-ovulate. Style very short or obsolete. Stigma 

 cordate-orbiculate, concave, entire, horizontally reflexed. Drupes 3 or less by 

 abortion, compressed-globose, fleshy, stigma near the base ; putamen cuneate- 

 orbicular much compressed, thin bony, both faces with a prominent horseshoe- 

 shaped sear, witt 3 series of imbricating laciniated, flat, pergamenous scales, 

 surrounding the flat, concave, scutiform condyle. — From Miers' Contri. to Bot. 

 iii. 288. 



1. !■. XVIOorei (after C. Moore), Mien Contri. to Bot, iii. 289. A tall 

 puberulent scrub-climber. Branches terete, striate, compressed at the nodes. 

 Jjeaves 2f to 5^in. long, 2 to 5fin. broad, ovate, the lower ones very obtuse or 

 truncate, narrowing above the centre, to an acute point, margins crispate- 

 undulate, 5 to 7 nerves from the base, rigid and prominently reticulate, shining 

 on the upper with a yellowish or whitish thin down on the underside ; petiole 2 

 to 3in. long, thin puberulous. Panicles (male) axillary, tomentose, longer than 

 the petioles, alternately branched ; branches often 2 to 4 in a verticil, trichbtomous 

 at the apex, branches few-flowered. Sepals elliptical, both sides puberulent. 

 Racemes (female) axillary or terminal of few flowers. Drupes subglobose, 

 glabrous. — ^Miers I.e. Cocculus Moorei, P. v. M. Fragin. i. 162. Pericampylus 

 incanus, Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 58. 



Hab. . Scrubs of southern arts of Queensland. 



