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glabrous ; the anther-cells are oval, widely separated, and late- 
rally imbedded in the fleshy connective, bursting by an oblique 
suture. 
Microclisia, Bentham. — Flores dioici. Masc. Sepala 15, im- 
bricatim et ternatim disposita, quorum 12 minima, triangu- 
laria, bracteiformia, extus gradatim paululo minora, 3 inte- 
riora reliquis 4-6-plo longiora, lanceolato-oblonga, subacuta, 
aestivatione subvalvata, cum marginibus involutis, apice de- 
mum patentim reflexo. Petala 6, biseriata, sepalis dimidio 
breviora, imo cuneato-unguiculata, limbo suborbiculato, mar- 
ginibus subcrenatis et subinvolutis, glandulis 2 carnosulis 
irregularibus notata, subpellucido-punctata, glabra. Stamina 
3, centralia, libera, petalis paulo longiora ; filamenta teretia, 
incurvatim erecta; antherce subglobosse, sub-4-lob3e, 2-locu- 
lares, dorso affixse, introrsae, utrinque transversim et 2-valvatim 
dehiscentes. — FI. Foem, ignoti. Drupce 3, reniformi-globosse, 
stylo persistente basin versus notatse •, putamen conforme, 1 - 
loculare; condylus omnino internus, umboniformis, parvus, 
sinu ventrali adversus. Semen loculum implens, condylo af- 
lixum, exalbuminosum : embryo cotyledonibus magnis, crassis, 
subcurvatis, fere conferruminatis, radicula minima, vix di- 
stincta. 
Frutex Australasiee orientalis, scandens : ramuli pubescentes ; 
folia oblonga, subcoriacea, e basi ‘S-nervia, reticulata, subtus 
pubescentia, petiolata : racemi ^ axillares. 
Microclisia Australis, Benth. Nov. Gen. i. 436; — Pleogyne Aus- 
tralis, Benth. FI. Austr. i. 59 ; — ramulis teretibus, striatis, 
subglabris, junioribus puberulis; foliis lanceolato-oblongis 
vel oblongis, imo rotundatis vel valde obtusis, ultra medium 
sensim acuminatis, apice obtusulo et mucronulato, e basi 
3-nerviis, pinnatim et arcuatim nervosis, supra viridibus, 
valde reticulatis, glabris, vel in nervis tantum puberulis, 
subtus dense cinereo-tomentosis, nervis paulo prominulis ; 
petiolo tenui, apice crassiore, pubescente, limbo 7-plo bre- 
viore ; panicula ^ axillari, petiolo 3-plo longiore, pubescente, 
ramis paucis, 1-3-floris, vel e ramulo novello aphyllo pauci- 
bracteato, paniculam ramosam elongatam mentiente, bractea 
foliiformi brevi ; sepalis 15, extus pilosulis ; petalis 6, quorum 
3 interiora staminibus opposita paulo majora, sepalis inte- 
rioribus 6-plo brevioribus, glabris, pellucido-punctulatis, pal- 
lidis, glandula utroque latere signatis; staminibus 3, petalis 
2-plo longioribus. — In Australia orientali : v. s. in herb. Hook., 
Moreton Bay and Fitzroy Range (F. Muller), Moreton Bay 
(Oldham). 
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