80 V. MENISPEEMACE^. 



3. PERICAMPYLUS, Miers. 



Sepals 6 in 2 series, the inner ones larger. Petals 6, smaller than the sepals, 

 the edges embracing the stamens. Male flower : Stamens 6, free, the anther- 

 cells lateral. Female flower : Staminodia 6'. Carpels 3, the styles 2-cleft. 

 Drupes globular, somewhat flattened, the remains of the style near the base. 

 Putamen horseshoe-shaped, crested on the back, the sides concave. Seed horse- 

 shoe-shaped. Embryo in the axis of the albumen, with narrow cotyledons closed 

 against each other. Leaves broad. Cymes dichotomously branched. 



The genus is limited to the following species. 



1. P. incanus (hoary), Miers ; Hook, and Thorns. Fl. Ind. i. 194 ; Benih. Fl. 

 Austr. i. 56. Achenium with the younger branches shortly tomentose or at 

 length glabrous. , Leaves nearly orbicular, sometimes slightly peltate, 2 to ,4in. or 

 sometimes above 5in. diarneter, glabrous above, usually hoary underneath, on 

 petioles of 1 to 2in. Flowers very small, in axillary dichotomous cymes, 

 shorter than the leaves. Sepals hairy on the back., Drupes TeA.^Coccithis 

 Mom-ei, P. V. M. Fragm. i. 162. 



Hab. : Woody valleys, Moreton Bay and Wide Bay, C. Moore.' W. Hill, P. Mueller. 



The root-bark contains an active poisonous principle, T. L. Bancroft. 



Miers in Gontri. Bot. iii. p. 118 has the following note after his description of Pericampylus 

 incana : — "The authors of the Flora Indica have absorbed in this the only species they 

 acknowledge in the genus ; and Mr. Bentham has done the same in his Flora Auitraliensis i. 58 : 

 a plant from Australia which is extremely different, not onjly in a specific, but in a generic point 

 of view ; it is the Gocculus Moorei of Dr. Mueller, which I have elsewhere described as the type 

 of a distinct genus, under the name of Legnephora." As Mr. Miers disowns the Australian 

 plant, being that named by him P. incanus, I have considered it advisa-ble in the present 

 work to insert both the notice given in the Flora Australiensis and almost all the generic and 

 specific descriptions of the plant from Miers Contri. iii. 118 of the Australian plant under 

 the name Legnephora ; and also a copy of his excellent plate of the same. 



4. LIMACIA, Lour. 



(Fruit resembling shell of a snail.) 



Sepals 6, 2-seriate, Outer smaller. Petals 6, much smaller, auricled, embracing 

 the stamens. Male flowers: Stamens 3, 6, or 9, free; anthers adnate, bursting 

 vertically. Female flowers : Staminodia 6, clavate. Ovaries 3 ; style short, 

 compressed. Drupes obovoid or reniform, style-scar subbaisal; endocarp 3-celled, 

 2 lateral cells empty. Seeds elongate, eiiibracirig the intruded endocarp. Ein- 

 bryo slender, cotyledons elongate, J-terete, appressed. 



Selwynlaj F. v. M. — Sepals about 9, outer 2 to 4 smaller, unequal, roundish-oval,, inner 5 

 to 6 suborbicular, imbricate in the bud. Petals 7 to 9, shorter than the inner sepals, free, 

 spathulate-cuneate, membranous. Stamens 9 to 10, clavate-cwneate, free. ■■, Anthers terminal, 

 almost i-lobed-globose, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Carpels drupaceous, pyrifonn-gldbose. 



1. H. Selwynii (after Bishop Selwyn), F. v. M. A tall climber, glabrous 

 except for the white mealy substance which frequently covers the branches. 

 Branchlets striate, often elongated and slender when bearing inflorescence. 

 Leaves alternate, thin-chartaceoua, from ovate-lanceolate to oblong or linear- 

 lanceolate, 3 to Sin. long. 1 to 2^in. broad, the apex often elongated, rounded at 

 the base, primary nerves distant, very oblique and looping distant from the 

 margin, 3-5-nerved at the base, the transverse-reticulation fine, margins entire ; 

 petioles slender but thickening towards the top, ^ to IJin. long. Inflorescence 

 supra-axillary, very slender panicles. Male flowers pedicellate about 2 lines 

 diameter ; bracts minute orbicular, eiliate. Sepals orbicular, more than twica the 

 size of the bracts, marked by 3 to 5 veins all starting from the base but' not 



