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notatse, glabrae, longiuscule stipitatae, pulposae : putamen te- 
nuiter testaceum, reniformi-orbiciilatum, valde compressum, 
utraque facie excavatione lata scutiformi impressum, ambitu 
hippocrepiformi tuberculis crebriter scrobiculato-rugosum, 
1-loculare; condylus internus, parvus, ad sinum paulo in- 
trusus, vacuus, utrinque foramine minuto extus perforatus. 
Semen loculum implens, reniformi-ovatum ; mtegumentum 
membranaceuni, lateraliter chalaza notatum, et bine intra 
condylum insinuatum : embryo (forma ignota) albumine in- 
clusus. 
Frutex Australiee orientalis, scandens ; folia petiolata, peltata vel 
obsolete peltata, deltoideo-ovata, imo cordata, vel omnino 
ovalia, apice subacuta, e basi 1-nervia, transversim venosa et 
reticulata, glaberrima, supra nitida, subtus pallide glauca : 
racemi in nodis annotinis aphyllis plurimi, fasciculati, vel in 
axillis solitarii, petiolo breviores, spicatiflori et bracteolati ; 
flores alternatim pedicellati : racemi $ sirnillimi. 
Sarcopetalum Harveyanum, F. Muell. FI. Viet. 27, tab. suppl. 3 ; 
Benth. FI. Austral, i. 57; — alte scandens; ramulis teretibus, 
ruguloso-verrucosis, griseis, glabris; folds subpeltatis, del- 
toideo-ovatis vel oblongioribus, imo sinu profundo cordatis, 
dehinc gradatim acutis, mucronatis, e basi 7-nerviis, juniori- 
bus submembranaceis, demum rigidis, utrinque glabris, 
supra Isete viridibus, venis transversis valde reticulatis, subtus 
olivaceo- vel fusco-glaucis, nervis venisque prominulis ; petiolo 
striato, glabro, limbo paulo breviore : racemis ^ sparsim supra- 
axillaribus, 1-4, vel e nodis annotinis aphyllis plurimis, petiolo 
dimidio brevioribus ; rachi tenui, ramisque 1-3-floris brevis- 
sime strigosis ; floribus pedicellatis : racemis $ consimilibus, 
aut axillaribus et solitariis, petiolo brevioribus. — In Austra- 
lasia : V. s. in herb. Hook., Swany River (Mueller), Victoria 
(Mueller), Moreton Bay (Oldfield), Illawarra (Cunningham, 
178). 
This is described as a gigantic climber, with a thick, terete stem 
covered by a brownish -grey minutely verrucose bark, chartaceous 
leaves 4^-5^ inches long, including a basal sinus 9-12 lines deep, 
4—5 inches broad, on a petiole 2^-3| inches long. The racemes 
are many fasciculated on the old leafless branches, or solitary 
far above the axil of the leaf, or two to four distinct and supra- 
axillary, 2-3 inches long; rachis rather slender, branching from 
near the base; branches alternate, 1-3 lines apart, 1-2 lines 
long, with a small lanceolate bract at base, bearing on their 
summit from one to three flowers on extremely short pedicels. 
I have seen only $ flowers : these have four nearly equal sepals 
in two series, very membranaceous, glabrous, subrbomboid, with 
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