112 THE FLORA OF THE NOETHBEN TBEEITOKY. 



MENISPERMACEiE. 



Sepals imbricate. Petals 6. Stamens 6, free. Carpels 3. — 2. Tinospora. 



Sepals imbricate or open. Petals usually 3 to 5. Stamens united in a 

 central column. Carpels broad, the style near the base. Seed albuminous. — 

 1. Stephania. 



1. STEPHANIA, LouB. 

 (CLYPEA, Blume). 



1. S. hernandiaefolia, Walp. — N. Coast, R. Brown ; rocky declivities and 

 cataracts of Fitzroy and Stokes' Range, F. v. Mueller. Root poisonous. 



2. TINOSPORA, MiEES. 



Leaves ovate-cordate, entire. — 1. T. smilacina. 



Leaves broad, obtusely 3-lobed, much veined. — 2. T. Walcottii. 



1. T. smilacina, Benih. — Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; 

 common in many parts of Arnhem's Land, and thence to the Burdekin, F. v. 

 Mueller. 



2. T. Walcottii, F. v. i¥.— Nichol Bay, Walcott, 



Tristichocalyx jpubescens, F. v. M. ; Pachygone Hullsii, F. v. M. ; recorded 

 in National Herbarium Census from North Australia. 



LAURACE^. 



Sub-order I. Trees or shrubs with perfect leaves. Anther-valves opening 

 upwards. 



Three stamens belonging to the inner series, with extrorse anthers. — 2. 

 Cryptooarya. 



All the stamens with introrse anthers. Flowers dioecious, in heads or 

 umbels, with an involucre of about 4 bracts. — 1. Litsea. 



Sub-order II. Leafless parasitical twiners. Anther- valves opening up- 

 wards. Single genus. — 3. Cassytha. 



1. LITSEA, Lam. 

 (Including Tetranthera, Jacq.). 



1. L. chinensis, Lam. {Tetranthera laurifolia, Jacq.). — Islands of the 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne ; Port Darwin, Schultz. 



2. CRYPTOCARYA, R. Be. 

 (Caryodaphne, Blume). 



1. G. glaucescens, R. Br. ( Var. Cunninghamii, Benth). — Hunter's River, 

 Brunswick Bay, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham. 



3. CASSYTHA, Linn. 1753 



{Calodium, Lour, 1790 ; Ozarthris, Rafin, 1836 ; Rombut, Rumph., 1763 ; 

 Rumputris, Rafin, 1836 ; Volutella, Forsk., 1775). 

 Laurel Dodders. Ail destructive to other plants. 

 Flowers sessile in a spike or head. 



Flowers capitate, very small (the spikes contracted into ovoid 



globose or few- flowered heads). — 2. C. glabella. 

 Flowers spicate, the spikes when fully out oblong or elongated, the 

 lower or all the flowers more or less distant. 

 Flowers 1 to \\ lines long. Spikes usually elongated, the 



flowers distant. — 1. C. flliformis. 

 Flowers 2 lines long. Spikes very short. — 3. C. melantha. 



