1004 LXXX. ASCLEtlAbfiJa. [Gymnema. 



broadly and obtusely oonieai or almost globular, shortly exceeding the' anthers. 

 Follicles narrow, acuminate, 2 to Sin. long. — Dene, in DC. Prod. viii. 621 ; 

 Wight, Ic. t. 349 ; G. geminatum, E. Br. Prod. 462 ; Dene, in DC. Prod. viii. 623. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, B. Brown. 



The species is also in Ceylon and the Indian Peninsula, and has probably a much wider range 

 in tropical Asia. B. Brown indicated the close resemblance of the Australian to the Indian 

 plant ; and, after a careful analysis of the flowers of both, I can detect no character to separate 

 them unless the scales of the corolla may be slightly more decurrent in the former than in the 

 latter. — Benth. 



2. Gr. pleiadenium (from the cluster of small glands at base of leaf), F. v. 

 M. Fragm. xi. n. A tall twiner; branches glabrescent. Leaves with a thin 

 pubescence, herbaceous, ovate, 2 to Uin. long, rounded at the base, the apex 

 obtusely acuminate, nerves somewhat distant, veinlets very fine, with a cluster 

 (about 10) of small glands just above the petiole. Petiole thin, about fin. long. 

 Peduncles interpetiolar, often solitary, bearing many-flowered umbels. Pedicels 

 about 2 lines long. Calyx scarcely 1 line long, lobes lanceolate, the upper part 

 reflexed. Corolla yellow, about 3 lines long ; lobes glabrous inside, the outside 

 thinly pubescent, the tube crested inside about the middle, anther membrane 

 broad. No corona. Column about 1 line high. Pollen-masses 2, erect. Stigma 

 white, 1 line, diameter. Ovary almost 4 lines long and f line broad in the lower 

 part. Fruit narrow-elliptic at the lower part, tapering upwards to subulate- 

 terete. Seeds brown, ovate, 3 to 4 lines long. Coma-hairs about lin. long. 



Hab.: Described from a plant, at one timfe (1879) growing in the Brisbane Botanical Garden, 

 which had been brought by Mr. W. Hill from Pine River. 



3. Gr, brevifolium (leaves short), Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 343. Apparently 

 erect, pubescent. Leaves on very short petioles, ovate, obtuse, with recurved 

 margins, becoming at length glabrous above, | to lin. long. Umbels usually 

 opposite, on very short peduncles. Pedicels 1 to 2 lines long. Sepals herbaceous, 

 pubescent, obtuse, about f line long. Corolla-tube broad, about as long as the 

 calyx, slightly contracted at the throat ; lobes very obtuse, shorter than the tube, 

 all as well as the throat and tube glabrous iriside, without scales. No corona. 

 Follicles pubescent, not thick, acuminate, about 2in. long. 



Hab.: Bookhampton, Thozet; Princhester Creek, Bowman. 



4. G. trinerve (leaves 3-nerved), R. Br. Prod. 462 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 

 343. Nearly erect or shortly twining, pubescent all over but the hairs few on 

 the upper side of the leaves. Leaves shortly petiolate, oval-oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, very obliquely penniveined or 3-nerved at the base, 1 to 2in. 

 long. Umbels solitary, sessile. Pedicels 1 to 2 lines long. Calyx-segments 

 herbaceous, pubescent, obtuse but not broad, above 1 line, long. Corolla shortly 

 exceeding the calyx; the tube short and broad ; lobes obtuse, longer than the 

 tube, the throat without scales, but half-closed with tufts of hairs alternating 

 with the lobes and sometimes forming a complete ring. Corona none except very 

 obscure glands or protuberances at the base of the gynostegium. Stigma not 

 prominent. — Bidaria trinervis, Dene, in DC. Prod. viii. 624. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 



11. GONGRONEMA, Dene. 



(Filaments knotted.) 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla urceolate, subrotate or broadly campanulate, lobes 



narrowly overlapping to the right. Column short ; corona scales adnate to the 



base of the anthers or none. Anther-tips inflexed, concealing the stigilia. 



