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prominent as well as the reticulation ; petioles from 1^ to 2in. long, articulated 

 near the top, and prominently swelled at each attachment. With the leaf -bearing 

 shoot were received 2 panicles about 6in. long, bearing rigid branches of about 

 Ifin. long, with few pedicellate flowers (those termed panicles were old and dry 

 and possibly may be terminal leafless shoots and the supposed branches really 

 short racemose panicles). Drupes red, broad pyriform, the style-scar very near the 

 base, compressed, about IJin. long and nearly as broad, the transverse section 

 8 or 9 lines. Pericarp somewhat fleshy ; endocarp roughly tuberculose. 



Hab. . Moiuilyan Harbour, )('. Mugford. 



I should not have published the above Imperfect description had not Mr. Mugford left the 

 district, and I have no one in the locality now to collect and forward me additional specimens 

 of the species. The leaves of the present plant closely resemble those figured by Miers in Cont. 

 to Bot. iii. pi. 144 of Spirospermum ijenduliflonim (Thouars). 



12. PYCNARRHENA, Miers. 

 (Referring to the dense fascicles of male flowers). 

 Sub-erect or climbing shrubs. Flowers axillary, fascicled or shortly panicled, 

 dioecious. Male flowers : Sepals 6, with 3 bracts, inner larger, orbicular; petals 

 6, small-lobed ; stamens 9, filaments very short ; anthers sub-didymous, bursting 

 transversely. Female flowers unknown. Drupe broadly oblong, sub-gibbous, 

 style-scar lateral ; endocarp sub-reniform. Seed slightly concave ventrally, 

 albumen none; cotyledons oblong, half- terete, very thick, slightly incurved ; 

 radicle minute, ventral.— Hook. Fl. of Brit. Ind. i. 105. 



1. P. australiana (Australian), P. v. M. Vict. Nat,, Sept., 1886. A tall 

 climber. Leaves glabrous (as far as seen), attaining llin. in length with a 

 breadth of Sin., thiek-chartaceous, shining on both sides, hardly paler on 

 the back, ovate or elliptical, protracted into a short and blunt apex, distinctly 

 penninerved and finely net- veined, on short petioles. Inflorescence axillary or 

 lateral, with minute appressed hairs ; the pedunples few or many together, 

 rather elongated, 1 to l^in. long, branching cymosely about lin. wide. Pedicels 

 2 lines long, or scarcely any. Sepals almost orbicular, in 3 rows, the outer 3 

 considerably shorter, the other 6 nearly equal, about 1 line long ; the petals much 

 smaller and almost rhomboidal. Stamens very short, the filaments nearly 

 cuneate, united at the base. Anthers of the genus. Female flowers unknown. 

 Carpels about |-in. long, glabrous, obliquely ovate-globular, on often very short 

 stipes ; exocarp somewhat fleshy, endocarp thinly cartilaginous. Seeds obliquely 

 ovate, about 4 lines long. Cotyledons very convex outward. — F. v. M., I.e. 



Hab. : Endeavour Eiver and near Trinity Bay. 



The above species, Baron Mueller says, differs from P. pleniflora in shorter petioles, larger 

 leaves, long peduncles, more distinctly pedicellate flowers, different proportionate size of sepals, 

 and rather larger carpels ; from P. tumefacta in leaves also dark-green underneath, not distinctly 

 dilated petioles, 6 inner sepals, and perhaps also in fruit, but the disposition of the flowers is 

 similar ; from P. lueida and P. manilleiisis, the congener is far more removed. P. nova- 

 guinensis, as yet imperfectly known, is in some respects allied to the Queensland species. — 

 F, V, M., I.e. 



13. PLEOGYNE, Miers. 



(Stigmas numerous.) 



Outer sepals about 6, very small, 3 inner ones much larger, valvale in the bud, 

 connivent at the base and recurved at the top when open. Petals 6, much 

 shorter, the margins dilated and involute. Male flowers ; Stamens 3 ; filaments 

 linear-terete ; anthers small, globose-didymous. Female flowers with 6 carpels 

 (Miers). Drupes 3 to 6, reniform, with the scar of the style lateral, the put^men 



