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cordate. Cymes loose, divaricate, many-flowered, on long peduncles. Flowers 

 nearly globular, above 1 line diameter. Petals 4, usually falling off together. 

 Disk broad. Style conical. Berry depressed-globular. 



Hab.: Walsh River, T. Barclay ■ Millar ; Torres Straits, R. Brawn; Cape York and Piper's 

 Island, M Gillivray. Also in the Fiji Islands, where, according to Seeman, the stems are used 

 in washing linen. 



A. Gray, in Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 272, had referred this plant with doubt to Gissus 

 geniculata, BL, and perhaps correctly so, for although Blume describes the central leaflet as 

 oblong-lanceolate, yet he mentions a broad-leaved variety, but with more pubescent leaves. All 

 are closely allied to the common B. Indian V. pedata, Wall., and may be a 3-foliolate variety of 

 that very variable species. — Benth. 



8. V. acris (acid), F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 75 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 449. Branches 

 and leaves softly pubescent or hairy. Leaflets 3, broadly ovate, acuminate, 

 crenate, 3 to 4in. long, thin, hairy on both sides, penniveined with transverse 

 veinlets, the lateral leaflets oblique, obscurely cordate, and more or less 5-nerved 

 at the base, on petiolules of J to Jin. Cymes loose and divaricate on long slender 

 peduncles, the branches almost filiform and nearly glabrous. Flowers nearly 

 globular, about ^ line diameter. Petals 4, apparently distinct. Disk very 

 prominent. Style short, conical. 



Hab.: Brisbane, Burnett, and Pine Elvers. 



The foliage is that of V. mollissima, Wall., from the Archipelago, from which the species 

 appears to differ chiefly in the very slender inflorescence and small flowers. These may, how- 

 ever, not be full-grown in the very few Specimens seen.— Benth. 



9. V. trifolia (3 leaflets), lAmn. Spec. PI. 293 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 499. 

 Softly hoary-pubescent all over, especially the young shoots, or sometimes nearly 

 or quite glabrous, arising from a tuberous, underground stem. Leaflets 3, ovate- 

 acuminate, obovate or rhomboid, usually 1 to 2in., rarely Sin. long, coarsely and 

 irregularly toothed or crenate, softly herbaceous, usually thick and sometimes 

 almost fleshy, the lateral ones very oblique, on short petiolules. Cymes many- 

 flowered, divaricate, on long peduncles, hoary or pubescent. Flowers nearly 

 globular, about 1 line diameter. Petals 4, distinct. Disk very prominent. Style 

 in some specimens short with a broad peltate stigma, in others slender with a small 

 stigma. Berry small, depressed-globular. — Cissits carnosa, Lam.; DC. Prod. i. 

 630; C. cinerea, Lam.; DC. I.e. 631 ; C. crenata, Vahl. DC. I.e.; Vitis carnosa, 

 W. and Arn. Prod. 127 ; Wight, Ic. t. 171 (a broad-leaved form) ; 7. psoralifolia, 

 F. V. M. Fragm. ii. 75. 



Hab.: Cape York, M'Gillivray, and many other parts of tropical Queensland. 

 The species is very common in East India and the Archipelago, and is probably described 

 under several names besides those above quoted. — Benth. 

 Tubers said to be edible, F. v. M.' 

 The roasted roots used for food, Both. 



10. V. strigosa (hairs stiff). Bail. A tall scrub-climber with rather stout 

 angular branches prominently striated between the angles. Leaves 3-foliolate. 

 Petiole about Bin. long ; petiolules of lateral leaflets less than Jin. long, of the 

 central leaflet about lin. long, when young hispid. Leaflets cordate, often long, 

 acuminate, broadly crenulate, 3 to Sin. long, 2 to 3in. broad above the base, 

 lateral ones very unequal sided at the base and usually larger than the terminal 

 one, the nerves all more or less bristly, particularly on the under side towards the 

 base, the lowest pair of nerves starting from near the top of the petiole. No 

 tendrils or flowers on the specimens examined. Fruit depressed-globular, 4- 

 seeded. Seeds almost hemispherical. 



Hab.: Eanges about the Barron Eiver, L. J. Nugent. 



11. v. japonica (Japanese), Willd.; J. E. PUmrhon in. A. and C. Be Gandol. 

 Mono. Phan. v. 561. Whole plant nearly or quite glabrous, the branches and 

 under side of the leaves more or less glaucous. Branches striate, sometimes 



