82 V. MENISPERMAGEiE. [Tristichocahjx: 



together, many-flowered but much shorter than the leaves, pubescent. Pedicels 

 clustered, about 1 line long. Flowers glabrous, scarcely more than 1 line 

 diameter when open. Sepals 9, in 3 series, the outer ones small and lanceolate, 

 the next longer, the innermost still larger, narrow-ovate. Petals about half as 

 long as the inner sepals. Stamens 6 ; anthers globose-didymous, almost 4-lobed. 

 Pachygone? pubescens. — Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 58. 

 Hab, : Quail Island, — Flood (F. v. M.) 



2. T. diffusus (diffuse), Miers Contrib. to Bot. iii. 286. Branches scandent, 

 flexuose, slender, terete, ferruginous, tomentose. Leaves 2in. long, about lin. 

 broad, elliptical, acutely cuneate, apex shortly acuminate, sharply or obtusely 

 attenuated, 5-nerved from the,, base, nerves branching from the outside, the 

 branches looping within the margin, puberulent, upper side shining, under side 

 hoary glaucous, texture somewhat thick, margins revolute and tomentose ; on 

 slender pubescent petioles about 8 lines long. Panicles (male) axillary, solitary 

 or in twos, loosely branched, corymbose, trichotomously divided, tomentose, 1 to 

 IJin. long and about lin. broad ; the short secondary branchlets each bearing 

 about three alternate pedicellate flowers ; pedicels about 1^ line long, the 

 expanded flowers about 2 lines diameter. Sepals 9, ciliate, pubescent, rotate, 

 3 exterior ones lanceolate, 8 intermediate ones lanceolate-oblong, acute, 3 interior 

 ones elliptical, of equal length but twice as broad as the intermediate ones. 

 Petals 6, interior ones one-third the length of the interior sepals, glabrous, cuneate- 

 subtrilobed, lobes rotund, lateral ones involute. Stamens 6, a little exceeding 

 the petals. 



Hab. : In the interior, Sir Thos. Mitchell. 



7. SARCOPETALUM, F. v. M. 

 (Petals fleshy.) 



Sepals 2 to 5, small. Petals 3 to 6, thickly fleshy, nearly globular. Male 

 flowers : Stamens united in a column, divided at the top into two or three short 

 horizontal lobes, each bearing a 2-oelled anther. Female flowers : Carpels 3 to 6, 

 with recurved lobed stigmas. Drupes flattened, the remains of the style near the 

 base. Putamen horseshoe-shaped, the sides concave. Seed horseshoe-shaped. 

 Embryo curved, linear, in rather copious albumen ; cotyledons closed ; racemes 

 simple. 



The genus is limited to the following species. 



1. S. Karveyanum (after Dr. W. H. Harvey), F. v. M. PL Viet. i. 27 and 

 221, t. suppl. 3 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 56. A tall woody climber, with thick terete 

 stems. Leaves broadly ovate or orbicular, acuminate or rarely obtuse, and some- 

 times angular or lobed, attaining 4 to 6in. in breadth, deeply cordate at the base 

 or sometimes slightly peltate, 7 to 9-nerved, quite glabrous, on a petiole of 1 to 

 Sin. Eacemes simple, axillary or mostly lateral below the leaves, solitary or 

 clustered, 1 to Sin. long. Bracts small. Pedicels about 1 line long. Flowers 

 reddish-yellow, scarcely 2 lines diameter, the sepals usually shorter than the 

 thick almost gland-like petals. Drupes 3 or 4 lines diameter, almost pear-shaped. 



Hab. : Scrubs of the south. 



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



8. LEICHHARDTIA, F. v. M. 



(After L. Leichhardt, the explorer.) 



Sepals 6, membranous, of equal length, all free, imbricate in the bud, obovate. 



Petals 3, somewhat fleshy, obcordate-reniform, sometimes shorter than the calyx, 



opposite the outer sepals. Stamens 3, all connate in a very short column, 



