Ckumanlhera.] iv. menispeumace^ (oliveb). 41 



Stamens 6, monadelphous ; filaments free above or united to the anthers (or 

 3 outer free in G. ? nervosa) ; anthers free (obovoid or ellipsoidal in Niger 

 specimens), 2-locular, dehiscing longitudinally. Female fl. : Staminodia 6. 

 Urpels 3, each narrowed above into a short acuminate, linear, recurved style. 

 jJrupes ovoid, with the slightly oblique scar of the style near the apex, 

 rutamen thin, very concave on the inner face, the intruded portion nearly 

 hemispherical. Seed meniscoid, with ruminate albumen. Cotyledons broad, 

 laterally divaricate. — A climber with large, membranous, cordate leaves, 

 ■flowers in simple axillary racemes. 



Ine genus consists of a single species, if the Niger specimens be rightly referred to the 

 me as the Abyssinian, upon which the original description of the genus was based. I 

 ye not found a seed in any of the drupes which I have opened. The above description of 

 « >s from the « Genera Plantarum.* 

 nnnal shoots and leaves pubescent. Racemes simple, solitary. Sta- 

 mens monadelphous 1. C. dependent. 



Jolly glabrous. Racemes (<J) simple or panicled, two or three 



together. Three outer stamens free 2. C. ? nervosa. 



J C. dependens, Hoclid. in Mora, 1844, 21. Stem with softly pubes- 

 cent or shortly pilose annual branches. Leaves cordate, entire or more or 

 Ks distinctly 3-lobed towards the apex, Jobes distant rounded, or obtusely 

 angular or broadly and obscurely 5-7-sinuate-lobed, extremities of the lobes 

 "nor without the short, soft, excurrent tip of a nerve, sinus of the cor- 

 a 'e base broad and rounded or narrow and deep ; thinly membranous, very 

 ort 'y and softly pubescent, usually 3-6 in. broad ; 'petiole 2-4 inches. 

 K mC J axillai T> 3 " 9 in. long. Bracts filiform or subulate, pilose, 2-3 lines 

 n Sj Male flowers solitary or 2 or 3 in the axil of each bract ; pedicels 

 jorter than or scarcely equalling the bract. Fruit-pedicels patent, at length 

 rec »rved, exceeding the bracts. 



Nil! 6 ! Guinea ' Niger, Barter/ 

 men.) d " Ab yssiuia, Schimper ! (? Unyoro, Speie and Grant, an imperfect spcci- 



arter desc nbes the flowers as green, the fruit scarlet. 



dat!' ?' ? nerv °sa, Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3. xiii. 487. Leaves cor- 

 2 gig acuminate or apiculate, 5-nerved, 2£-4 in. broad, on petioles ot 

 ]; J 1 Mal e flowers in simple or paniculate axillary racemes, nearly equal- 

 conn * P ? tloles > usually 2 or 3 together. Stamens 6 ; 3 outer free ; 3 inner 

 m : * tllr oughout ; anthers 2-celled. Female flowers and fruit unknown, 

 ca SS ™ fruiting specimen described by Mr. Miers, under the name of Rhigw- 

 Who ? g t0 this s P eci(, s, which appears to me not improbable. Perhaps 

 tatJ'l mwa and °- dependens might be merged in Tinospora, as sug- 

 I** to me by Dr. Thomson. 



PP6r Gui »»ea. Bagroo river, Mann ! 



2 - Ja TEORHIZA, Miers ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 34. 



5hoHp a \ 8 k 6 ' in 2 series > nearl y e q ual or the ' nner sli s htl y ]ar s er - Petals 6 ' 



menu f the se P al8 ' with involute margins. Male fl. : Stamens 6 ; fila- 

 ree or more or less connate below ; anthers free, extrorse, 4-lobed, de- 



