Vitis.] XXXIX. AMPELIDEiE. 288 



fully 1 line long. Petals separating or slightly cohering. Disk 4-lobed, but not 

 very prominent. Style conical. Berry nearly globular, rather small. — Cusm 

 hypoglauca, A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 272 ; G. australasica, F. v. M. 

 in Trans. Phil. 8oc. Vict. i. 8. 



Hab.: Coastal scrubs from the border of New South Wales to Cairns. 

 Wood soft and spongy, of a grey ooloux.—Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 86. 



15. V. Sterculifolia (Sterculia-like), F. v. M. Herb. ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 

 450. " Yaroong," Moreton Bay, Watkins, Fruiting specimens quite glabrous. 

 Leaflets 5, digitate, elliptical-oblong or somewhat obovate, shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate, 3 to 4in. long, entire, narrowed into a very short petiolule, coriaceous, 

 or sometimes thin chartaceous, penniveined, the reticulate veinlets much less 

 conspicuous than in V. hypoglauca, with glands or foveolffi in the axils of some of 

 the primary veins underneath. Flowers 4-merous. Calyx crenulate. Petals 

 about 1 line long. Style very slender and short. Stigma not dilated. Fruiting 

 cymes on short peduncles. Berries ovoid, rather large. 



Hab.: Islands of Moreton Bay and scrubs of the southern coast. 

 Wood light-brown, soft and spongy. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 86a. 



16. V. penninervis (feather- veined), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 177. A glabrous 

 climber with somewhat terete branches, tendrils few or none. Leaves digitate, 3 

 to 5-foliolate. Petioles 1 to 2^in. long. Leaflets 2 to Bin. long, chartaceous, 

 obovate, apex obtuse or somewhat acute, reticulation close, decurrent upon the 

 petiolules. Peduncles about 2in. long. Flowers bisexual, pedicellate, almost in 

 umbels, buds globose-ovate. Calyx truncate or very short and obtusely 4-lobed. 

 Petals 4, brownish, free, about f line long. Anthers minute cordate when 

 expanded. Disk annular. Style short, thickened below. Ovary 2-celled. Stigma 

 scarcely as broad as the style. Berry obovate, 2-eelled, 2-seeded, fin. or more 

 long. Seeds 2 to 6 lines long, obtuse at both ends, rugulose, brown, shining. 



Hab.: Eookiughajn Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M., I.e.) ; ranges about the Barron Eiver, L. J. 



Nugent. 



17. V. opaca (on account of its thick growth), F. v. M. Herb.; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. i. 450. Pepper Vine of Eraser's Island. " Wappo Wappo " and 

 " Yaloone," Bockhampton, Thozet. Underground tuberous stems large, quite 

 glabrous. Leaflets 5, rarely 3 or 4, digitate, from linear-cuneate to elliptical- 

 oblong, obovate or narrow rhomboidal, obtuse or acuminate, mostly 1 to 2in. 

 long, entire or slightly toothed, narrowed at the base into very short petiolules 

 or almost sessile, rather firm but not coriaceous, smooth, obscurely penniveined, 

 usually pale underneath. Cymes rather loose, but not large. Flowers glabrous, 

 globular, about 1 line diameter. Petals yellow, 5 or rarely 4, separating. Disk 

 prominent, entire or scarcely lobed. Style short, conical. Berries depressed- 

 globular. — C'issm opaca, F. v. M. in Trans. Vict. Inst. iii. 23. 



Hab.: Common throughout the colony. 



Berries and yam both eaten without any preparation, Thozet. 



Fruit used for jam-making, Miss Lovell. 



18. V. G-ardineri (after T. E. Gardiner), Bail. An herbaceous species 

 producing from the rootstock annually a growth of long prickly stems, upon which 

 the flowers appear before the leaves. Primary petioles about IJin. long, the two 

 lateral ones nearly as long, all tomentose and bearing from 2 to 5 palmately- 

 arranged leaflets. The terminal leaflet between the two lateral petioles on a 

 petiolule nearly as long as the secondary petioles, ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, 

 rounded and usually equal-sided at the base ; leaflets on the lateral petioles 

 narrowing to a somewhat elongated apex and at the base to short petiolules, the 

 margins with more or less prominent glandular teeth, length varying from 1 to 

 2fin., some very unequal-sided at the base, upper side slightly tomentose, the 



