Liwacia.] V. MENISPERMACEiE. 81 



reaching the apex, margins entire. Petals very minute, thick and somewhat 

 triangular, shorter than the stamens and hidden by these organs in the expanded 

 flower. Stamens 12, filaments cuneate. Anthers almost white. Drupe red 

 when fresh, oval, compressed, about 5 lines long, drying a dark colour. 



The above is written from the examination of specimens received from E. Cowley, Kamerunga, 

 and these in general appearance seem identical with a small specimen since received by me from 

 the late Baron Mueller ; his description and mine in some respects differ, but not, in my 

 opinion, sufficient to found distinct species upon. The Baron first mentioned his plant as a 

 Cocculus, then gave it generic rank as Selwynia, and lastly as Hypserpa (a genus of Loureiro 

 included by present botanists in Limacia). It will be observed from the generic characters, 

 copied from Hook. Fl. of Brit. Ind., of Limacia, and the brief generic characters of Selwynia, 

 from F. V. M. Fragm. iv., that some alterations will have to be made in the generic characters of 

 Limacia to admit the Queensland plant. I 



5. ADELIOPSIS, Benth. 



(Named so on account of some doubt regarding the plant.) 



Sepals 6 in 2 rows, the inner ones considerably larger, and 2 or 3 outer smaller 

 bracts, all much imbricate in each row. Petals 3, smaller than the inner sepals, 

 broad and slightly concave. Male flowers : Stamens 9 to 12 ; filaments linear- 

 terete ; anthers small, globose-didymous. Female flowers : Staminodia wanting. 

 Carpels 3, with a large, incurved, broad and thick stigma, and 2 ovules in each 

 carpel, inserted one above the other on the inner angles. Fruit unknown. 

 Flowers clustered in short axillary spikes, or racemose panicles. 



1. A. decumbens (spreading over the ground), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 59. 

 Branches rather thick, densely clothed with a soft velvety tomentum or almost 

 hirsute, and, from the name given, probably decumbent and not climbing. 

 Leaves ovate or oval-oblong, Ij to 2in. long, very obtuse, rounded at the base, 

 thickly coriaceous, softly tomentose or velvety on both sides when young, be- 

 coming nearly glabrous above when old, the thickened revolute nerve-like margin- 

 terminating at the top of the midrib on the under side in a prominent hirsute 

 gland or tuft of hairs. Flowers small, in little clusters along the rhachis of short 

 axillary spikes or branches of the panicle, ^ to 2in. broad, the outer bracts very 

 small, acute, and hairy, the outer sepals also hairy, but rather larger and more 

 obtuse, the inner sepals much larger, orbicular, and glabrous, except the ciliate 

 edge, the petals about two-thirds as large as the inner sepals and quite glabrous. 



Hab. : Cape York Peninsula. 



6. TRISTICHOCALYX, F. v. M. 



(Three rows of sepals). 



Male flowers : Sepals 9, 3-seriate, outer ones small lanceolate, intermediate 

 ones longer, inner ones larger, narrow-ovate. Petals 6, smaller than the inner 

 sepals. Stamens 6, free, filaments thickened upwards ; anthers subglobose- 

 didymous, 4-celled. Female flowers : Drupes " renate-ovate turgid." Style-scar 

 a little from the base ; putamen reniform-globose, somewhat compressed, ven- 

 trically concave, with an intruding process. Seed reniform, albumen fleshy, 

 uniform, embryo radicle short, cotyledons oblong. — Scandent pubescent shrubs. 

 Leaves coriaceous, broadly ovate, not peltate. Male flowers in axillary racemes, 

 usually in many-flowered clusters. 



Leaves 3 to 4in. long. Flowers glabrous 1. 2'. pubescens. 



Leaves 2in. long. Flowers pubescent 2. T. diffums. 



1. T. pubescens (downy), F. v. M. A woody climber, the young branches 

 pubescent. Leaves petiolate, broadly ovate, shortly acuminate or rarely obtuse, 

 3 to 4 in. long, 5-nerved at the base, coriaceous, glabrous and shining ot slightly 

 scabrous above, pubescent underneath. Male racemes axillary, often 2 or 3 



