Kustrephus.] CXXXV. LILIACE^. 1623: 



1. E. latifolius (leaves broad), R. Br. Prod. 281 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 18. 

 Stems much-branched, often climbing to a great height, weak and flexuose, 

 but not twining. Leaves sessile or nearly so, varying from broadly ovate- 

 lanceolate to narrow-linear, usually tapering to a point, of a firm texture, 

 with numerous fine but prominent nerves, mostly 2 to 4in. long, those under 

 the branches often reduced to small scales. Pedicels 2 to 6 together in the 

 upper cells, axil filiform but rigid, 4 to 9 lines long, articulate close under the 

 flower and persistent. Perianth-segments usually about 3 lines long, stamens, 

 varying much in the respective proportions of the filaments and anthers, but 

 both together usually almost as long as the perianth. Fruit usually above fin. 

 diameter, of an orange colour, with about 8 to 12 seeds, but sometimes much 

 smaller with very few seeds. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 572 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 1245 ; Endl. Iconogr. t. i; E. Watsoniamis, Miq. in Linnsea., xviii. 84 ; P. 

 Brownei, F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 73 ; Ltixiiriaga latifolia, Poir. Diet. Buppl. iii. 535.. 



Hab.: Common north and south. 



Var. angiistifoUa. Leaves mostly linear or narrow-laneeolate, but ooeasionally wiih a few- 

 broad ones. — E, angustifolius, B. Br. I.e. ; Litzuriaga angustifolia, Poir. I.e. 536. 



Hab.: Much more common in tropical and subtropical latitudes than the broad-leaved form* 

 Shoalwater Bay to Northumberland Islands, E. Brown; from Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham 

 and others, to Kockhampton, Port Denison, Eoekingham Bay, &o , Bowman, Fitzalan, Dallachy, 

 and may others. This form is more frequently tnet with climbing over the bushes on open 

 pasture, while the broad leaved form is more of a scrub plant. 



5. GEITONOPLESIUM, A. Cunn. 



(Referring to its near affinity to the preceding genus.) 



Perianth deciduous, of 6 distinct oblong-segments equal in length, the 3 outer 

 rather firmer, valvate in the bud and shortly hood-shaped at the apex ; the 3- 

 inner flait, obtuse, with thin entire margins, slightly imbricate. Stamens 6, 

 hypogynous, not exceeding the perianth ; filaments filiform, free or very slightly 

 connected in a ring at the base ; anthers oblong-linear, erect, the cells opening in 

 longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile, short, 3-celled, with several ovules in each 

 cell; style filiform, the stigmatic apex undivided. Fruit nearly globular, 

 3-celled, without pulp, the pericarp somewhat succulent, at length dry and some- 

 times opening loeulicidally in 3 valves. Seeds irregularly-shaped, with a black 

 rather thickly membranous testa, hard albumen and small embryo. — A glabrous, 

 much-branched leafy climber. Flowers small, in loose terminal cymes. 



The genus is limited to the single Australian species which extends to the South Pacific- 

 Islands. It closely lesexnWes Eusti-eplnis both in habit and character, differing only in. 

 inflorescence and in the entire not-fringed inner perianth -segments. — Benth. 



1. Cr. cymosum (cymose), A. Cunn. in Bot. Mar/, t. 3131 ; Benth. FL. 

 Austr. vii. 19. Stems much branched, twining and climbing to a considerable 

 height, with small broad scales under each branch. Leaves from linear to 

 lanceolate-oblong or almost ovate, contracted into a short petiole, obtuse acute or 

 tapering into a fine point, usually 2 to Sin. long, rather rigid, with fine nerves, 

 the midrib more prominent. Flowers drooping, in loose terminal cymes, some- 

 times short simple and few-flowered, sometimeis several in an oblong panicle of 3- 

 to 4in. Perianth purplish -green, 3 to 4 lines long, the pedicels usually shorter,, 

 articulate close under the flower, with a minute bract. Berry-like fruit of a dark 

 blue, 4 to 6 lines diameter. Seeds few. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 572 ;,. 

 P. v. M. Fragm. vii. 74 ; Lmzuriaga cyviosa and L. montana, R. Br. Prod. 282 ; 

 Medeola angustifolia, Red. Lil. t. 393 ; Oeitonoplesium niontanum and G. asperum^ 

 A. Cunn. I.e. ; G. avgustifolimn, C. Koch in Walp. Ann. vi. 143. 



Hab.: From Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, Leichhardt, to Rockhampton. Eoekingham Bay,, 

 and Percy Islands, Dallachy, A. Cunningham and others ; Stanthorpe and Killarney. 

 P. O'Shanesy recommends the young shoots as a substitute for Asparagus, F.v.M. 



