Passiflora.) 
LVT. PASSIFLOREiE. 689 
rather shorter than the calyx-lobes. Fruit green, about 2in. long, oval. Seeds 
very dark, foveolate-rugose. — Disemma Herbertiana, DC. Prod. iii. 832 ; F. v. M. 
Fragm. ix. 68. 
Hab.: Brisbane- River, Moreton to Rockingham Bay. 
7. P. aurantia (orange-coloured), Forst. Quite glabrous. Leaves broad, 
usually under 3in. long, with 3 broad obtuse lobes rarely divided to the 
middle of the leaf, and each lobe occasionally sinuate or more or less distinctly 
2 or 3-lobed, the petiole with 2 glands very near or distant from the summit, 
very rarely obscure or altogether wanting. Flowers rather large, sometimes pale 
when they first open but soon assuming a brick-red ctr dull scarlet colour, on 
pedicels much shorter than the leaves, with 2 or 3 scattered setaceous bracteoles 
at or below the middle. Calyx-lobes about ljin. long or rather more. Petals 
narrow, scarcely more than half as long as the calyx-lobes. Inner corona broadly 
tubular, slightly contracted, plicate and shortly lobed at the orifice ; outer corona 
about the same length, of a single row of filaments. Ovary-stalk longer than the 
petals, shorter than the calyx-lobes. Fruit oval, about l^in. long.— P. coccinea, 
Soland. in Herb. Banks, not of Aubl.; Disemma coccinea, DC. Prod. iii. 333 ; 
P. Banksii, Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 312. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham ; Keppel Bay, R. Brown; 
Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham and others; islands of the coast, M'GiUivray, 
Henne. 
8. P. brachystephana (crown short), F. v. M. Glabrous, like P. 
aurantia. Leaves smaller but otherwise precisely the same. Flowers also 
differing only in size. Calyx under lin. long. Petals less than half as long. 
Corona very short, but otherwise like that of P. aurantia. — Disemma braclujstephana, 
F. v. M. Fragm. i. 56. 
Hab.: Scrub on the Burdekin, F. v. Mueller. 
There was but a single expanded flower on the specimens, and in that the petals do not 
show, but on examining a bud I found the structure precisely as in P. aurantia. The species will 
require verifying on better specimens. — Benth. 
I have never seen this species growing, and the specimens of it sent to me by collectors 
differ in nowise from P. aurantia. 
2. MODECCA, Lam. 
(An Indian name.) 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx-tube short, campanulate or elongated. Petals 
small, especially in the females. Stamens as many as calyx-lobes, usually with 
a small scale opposite to each, free or united at the base, reduced in tbe females 
to small staminodia, or wanting. Ovary rudimentary in the males, more or less 
stalked in the females, with 3 parietal placentas, stigmas 3, sessile or nearly so, 
or on a 3-fid style. Capsule inflated, coriaceous or thin, more or less dehiscent 
in 3 valves. Seeds with a small cup-shaped aril. — Tall climbers. Leaves entire 
or palmately or pinnately lobed or divided ; stipules often inconspicuous. 
Flowers usually very small, white or green, in cymes or racemes, on axillary 
peduncles, the rhachis produced into a simple tendril. 
The genus extends over tropical Africa and Asia. Of the 2 Australian species, one is endemic, 
although very nearly resembling one from Kasia ; the other is also met with in tropical Asia. 
Fruit broad and very obtuse at the end 1. M. australis. 
Fruit tapering towards each end ,2. .M. populifolia. 
1. 1VE. australis (Australian), R. Br. in DC. Prod. iii. 337 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. iii. 312. A climber extending greatly amongst underwood 
(A. Cunningham, j , quite glabrous. Leaves on long petioles, broadly ovate- 
cor.late, quite entire, scarcely acuminate, 4in. long or more, membranous, the 
