Melodinus.] LXXIX. APOCYlfACEiE. 977 



3 lines long ; lobes narrow, acute, about 2 lines long, the upper part of the tube 

 villous inside, the throat-scales irregularly united in an undulate or lobed ring. 

 Anthers in the middle of the tube. Ovary glabrous. Fruit ovoid, pulpy inside, 

 about lin. long. 



Hab.: Brisbane Eiver, Moreton Bay, W. Hill ; common along the southern oreeks. 



2. M. G-uilfoylei (after W. E. Guilfoyle), F. r. M. Frar/m. vi. 118 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Amtr. iv. 304. " Byamurra," TuUy Eiver, J. F. Bailey. A tall woody climber, 

 quite glabrous. Leaves very shortly petiolate or almost sessile, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate but obtuse, rounded at the base, coriaceous, penniveined, somewhat 

 shining, 2 to Sin. long. Peduncles usually 2 in each axil, slender, 8 to 4 lines 

 long, 1-flowered, but with 2 or 3 pairs of minute bracts. Calyx-segments very 

 acute, about 1 line long, without glands. Corolla-tube 2^ lines long, the lobes 

 at least as long, narrow, acute ; throat-scales oblong, distinct. Anthers in the 

 middle of the tube, lanceolate. Ovary glabrous. Fruit globose-oval, 2Jin. long, 

 2in. diameter. Pericarp 3 lines thick, greenish-yellow when ripe. Seeds black, 

 thick, angular, 4 lines long, 2 lines thick ; albumen slightly ruminate. 



Hab.: Eookingham Bay, Dallachy. Fruit from L. J. Nugent (Cairns). 



3. IVC. murpe (aboriginal name of fruit). Bail. Bot. Bull. x. " Murpe," 

 Eussell Eiver, Hancock. A pubescent climbing plant. Leaves 3 to 4^in. long, 

 elliptic-pblong, rounded at the base, the apex elongated or somewhat abruptly 

 acuminate ; petioles very short ; margins somewhat wavy, midrib and veins very 

 hairy. Fruit on a stout curved peduncle, about lin. long at or near the ends 

 of the branchlets, oblong, 3in. long, diameter about 2Jin.; pericarp thin, burnt- 

 umber colour and glabrous outside when ripe, the interior spuriously divided 

 into four masses. Seeds imbedded in a very sweet pulp, smooth, dark-brown, 

 about 5 lines long, tapering to one end, triangular with the outer side rounded, 

 attached by the centre, the funicle ramifying and forming the divisions of the 

 fruit ; albumen scanty ; embryo occupying nearly the whole length of the seed, 

 the radicle longer than the oblong cotyledons. 



Hab.: Russell River. 



Mr. E. J. Hancock, from whom I received the specimens, says that the fmit is eaten. 



3. CARISSA, Linn. 



(Supposed to be an Indian name.) 



Calyx without glands. Corolla-tube cylindrical, slightly swollen round the 

 anthers ; lobes spreading, contorted in the bud, the throat without scales. 

 Anthers oblong or lanceolate, mcluded in the corolla-tube. Ovary single, 

 2-celled ; ovules several in each cell, in 2 rows ; style filiform, with a more 

 or less thickened or conical stigma. Fruit ovoid or globular, succulent, in- 

 dehiscent. Seeds usually 1 or 2, without hairs, albuminous. — Shrubs or trees, 

 often armed with opposite axillary spines. Leaves opposite. Flowers in 

 termiiial or axillary cymes. Bracts very small. 



The genus is dispersed over tropical and southern Africa, East !■ dia, and the Indian 

 Archipelago. The Australian species are endemic. 



Leaves 2 to Sin. long, acuminate. Pedicels longer than the calyx .... 1. C. laxifloru. 

 Leaves on the flowering branches under 2in. Flowers sessile or the pedicels 

 shorter than the calyx. 

 Leaves ovate rhoraboidal or orbicular, those of the smaller branches 

 broadly elliptical.. 



Glabrous or very slightly pubescent 2. C. ovata. 



Young leaves densely pubescent, adult ones very scabrous . . . 3. C scabra. 



Leaves lanceolate or narrow-elliptical .....,,.,,.., 4. 6'. lunceolata. 



