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THE COLONY OP VICTORIA. 
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dichaudii, A. Gray , l. c. 37; Cissampelos liernandifolia, Willd. Spec . Plant . iv. 861; Clypea liernandifolia, 
# Arnott, Prodr. i. 14; Wight, Icon. Plant. Ind. Orient, t. 939; Spidleg . Neilg. t. 7 ; Coccnlus 
Forsteri, Cand. Syst. i. 517. 
Leaves peltate, cordate-orbicular, acute or acuminate, entire ; umbettules capitate. 
In forest-glens on* the south-eastern frontiers of Gipps Land ; thence through the woods of the whole 
eastern coast-tracts of Australia, ascending in New England to the height of 3000 feet; scattered over North 
Australia, extending westward at least as far as the Victoria River; frequent in tropical Asia and also in 
some parts of tropical Africa, also in several of the South Sea Islands. 
A dioecious shrub with winding branches, ascending to considerable height. Branches terete, slightly 
furrowed. Petioles from |-3 inches long, less frequently longer, cylindrical, slightly channelled, near the 
base more or less twisted, soon glabrous, streaked. Leaves chartaceous, flat, 1J-4 inches long, radiating- 
nerved, net-veined, above shining, glabrous and dark-green, beneath paler and clothed more or less copiously 
or scantily with short grey jointed hair, affixed to the petiole usually h or f of an inch above the basal 
margin, rounded-truncate or slightly sinuated at the base, rarely with deep basal sinus. Umbels axillary, 
decompound or proliferous-paniculate. Universal peduncle cylindrical, glabrous or from articulated spreading 
hair downy, at the base minutely bracteate, J-l inch long. Secondary peduncles few or many, shorter than 
the general one, sometimes again divided, longer than the narrow-linear bracts. Umbellules depressed, little 
longer than the linear-subulate bracteoles. Male flowers : Sepals 6-8 in two rows, unequal, about \ line 
long, green, papillose, puberulous, ovate- or orbicular-cuneate, in front repand. Petals 3-4, renate or 
rhomboid, carnulent, green, depressed, shorter than the sepals, clasping the staminal column. The latter 
cylindrical, green, hardly as long as the calyx, at the summit expanded into a disk-like connective. Anthers 
6-8, one-celled, whitish, encircling horizontally the periphery of the connective, bursting lengthwise, con¬ 
fluent into a continous ring. Pollen white, consisting of smooth globules. Female flow r ers : Sepals rather 
more than J line long, slightly dowmy, cuneate-obovate, deciduous. Petals glabrous, rhomboid- or orbicular- 
obovate, about as long as the calyx and as w r ell deciduous. Ovaries glabrous, uncinate-obpyriform, free, 
terminated with 3-6 very minute subulate or dentiform divergent stigmas. Carpels orange-red, in exsiccation 
nigrescent, round, with oblique contracted base, compressed when dry, glabrous, around the margin wrinkled 
and turgid, at both sides impressed, 2—3 lines long, somewdiat larger when fresh. Pericarp succulent. 
Endocarp orputamen crust-like, transversely tuberculate-costate. Embryo three-fourths annular, cylindrical, 
lvhite, surrounded by scanty albumen, J line thick. Cotyledons rather shorter than the radicle. 
According to the new r arrangement of Menispermeee by Miers, the hitherto known Cocculi of tropical 
Australia are to be placed into the genera Tinospora and Pericampylus (conf. Bentli. in Proceed. Linn. Soc. 
v. Second Suppl. p. 52). To these, as Australian, Pachygone should be added, and also an. undetermined 
genus fi*om the north-east coast. It may be anticipated that the members of this order will receive yet 
additions from the litoral tracts of tropical Australia. 
Sarcopetalum Harveyanum— p. 27. 
Petals pale-yellowish. Stamens 2-4. Recent fruit, received from W. Woolls, Esq., almost pear-shaped, 
3-4 lines long. Embryo semiannular, cylindrical, lying’ within copious albumen. Cotyledons nearly 7- as long 
as the radicle, opposite. 
Turritis glabra — p. 33. 
Occurs also in New England, perhaps as an indigenous species. This plant has as yet never been 
found in Australian lowlands. 
Cardamine dictyosperma— p. 35. 
Extends to New r England and the Clarence River. 
