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5, supra conspicuiores. duobus exterioribus excepto per- 
currentes, venulis paucis obscuris. Flores masculi raee- 
mosi vel interdum subumbellati, racemis axillaribus soli- 
tariis vel gemmatis (interdum plus tiumerosis) basi brae- 
teas plures min utas imbricatas persistentes gerentibus 
2-7-floribus pedunculo incluso ca. 5-8 mm. longis; 
alabastra matura subglobcsa, ea. 1.75 mm. diam. ; pedi- 
eelli singuli in axillis bractearum eaducarum orti, ea. 
0.75-2.0 mm. Iongi, basi artieulati; perianthii segmenta 
5, valvata, triangulari-ovata, 1-1.2 mm. longa. 0. 8-1.0 
mm. lata, apice incrassata vel subappendiculata, obtusa 
vel subacuta, intus praeeipue basin versus ± minute papil- 
losa, infra medium crista pilorum longorum ornata; 
stamina 5, segmentis perianthii opposita. filammtis 
compressis ca. 0.45 mm. longis usque ad 0.35 mm. latis 
apicen. versus angustatis, antberis oblique terminalibus 
ea. 0.5 mm. latis 4-locularibus ; discus erassus, concavus, 
5-lobatus; stylus inchoatus, ca. 0.4 mm. longus, obtusus. 
Flores feminei axillares, fasciculati vel interdum solitarii, 
ca. 3.5 mm. Iongi, in alabastro clavati, pedunculati, 
pedimculis apice articulatis usque ad 2 mm. longis 
bracteis pluribus imbricatis 0.25-1.0 mm. longis ornatis; 
perianthii segmenta 5, valvata, deltoideo-ovata, ca. 1 mm. 
longa, obtusa, apice incrassata, intus ± minutissime papil- 
losa : staminodia plerumque nulla vel interdum usque ad 
0.3 mm. longa; discus erassus, concavus, margine leviter 
5-lobatus; ovarium inferum, uniloculatum, uniovulatum, 
ovulo 5-lobato ad apieem placentae basalis erectae erassae 
sita; stylus brevis, erassus, ca. 0.25 mm. longus; stigma 
5-lobata, lobis stylo subaequilongis vel brevioribus. 
Fructus ignotus. 
QUEENSLAND.— Cook District: Danbulla, NNE of Atherton, 
near crest of Tinaroo Range in rain-forest, alt. 3,500ft., 7th 
September, 1943 S. T. Blake 15261 (male flowers) (tall liana 
with rouah grey fissured bark; leaves green above, paler 
beneath; flowers greenish); Mt. Edith, Lamb Range, ca. 15 miles 
NE of Atherton, in exposed low rain-forest at the summit, alt. 
3,800ft., 23rd August. 1947, L. S. Smith 3394 (female flowers — 
TYPE) (Stem erect to 8ft., then trailing over small trees in the 
vicinity; leaves fleshy; flowers greenish); same locality, 15th 
August, 1948, L. S Smith 3752 (female flowers— a Merotype) 
(a scrambling and twining liana, stem 2pns diam. towards 
the base; outer bark greyish or brownish corkv fissured, ’-'ore 
or less tessellated in patches; inner bark l/8-3/16in. thick, very 
pale pink; wood pale yellow with a narrow pinkish pith; young 
shoots pinkish, open flowers greenish-white); same IocdUty 
15‘h August, 1948, L S. Smith 3752A (male flowers) (a liana, open 
