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Guatteria.] MENISPERMACEA (Harv.) 9 
inch wide ; petiole 1-2 lineslong. Peduncles 6-8 lines long, thickish. Pedicels 2 
lines long. Torus thickish. Berries fleshy, as large as cherries. Seeds horizontal, 
shining, 3} lines long. 
Il. GUATTERIA. R. & P. Endl. 
Sepals 3, rounded or ovate, small. Petals 6, in two rows valvate in 
_ estivation, flat, ovate, oblong or linear. Stamens indefinite, broadly 
wedgeshaped, with a truncate, capitate connective ; anther-cells dorsal, 
remote. Ovaries numerous, oblong ; ovule solitary, basal, erect. Style 
oblong, furrowed at base, on the inside. Torus little raised, plano- 
convex, sometimes hollow in the centre. Carpels dry, with a thin and 
often brittle pericarp. Seed erect. Hook. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. p. 138. 
Endl. Gen. No. 4721. 
Trees, often of large size, or shrubs—(sometimes climbing) various in habit ; 
leaves obliquely nerved. Flowers axillary or opposite the leaves. A large i 
and subtropical genus, with species in both hemispheres. Name in honour of J. B. 
Guatteri, an early Italian botanist, once Professor at Parma. 
1, G. caffra. (Sond.) ; twigs, petioles and nerves of the leaves at 
first appressedly hispidulous ; leaves on short petioles, oblong, obtuse, 
acute or acuminate, obtuse at base, paler on the under side ; peduncles 
opposite the leaves, solitary, very short, bifid, the longer branch 
bracteate ; pedicels 2-4, recurved; carpels oval-oblong, apiculate, 
glabrous, somewhat longer than the stalk, one-seeded. Unona caffra, 
E. Mey. in Pl. Drege. , 
Has. Woods at Omsamwubo and Port Natal; Feb. Apl. Drege, Gueinzius 
(Herb. Sond., T.C.D.) 
Branches glabrous, tuberculated with white warts: twigs flexuous, round. 
Petioles erectopatent, 2 lines long. Leaves 3-4 inch long, 1-1} inch wide, the 
lower ones on the branches smaller, very entire, membranaceous, netted veined, 
glabrous above, the nerves prominent below, and at first covered with close-pressed 
reddish hairs. Peduncles opposite the leaves or a agape! a line long, divided 
into two spreading arms 4 inch long. Pedicels 2 lines long, thickish. Flowers un- 
known. Torus dilated, 2 lines wide. Carpels 2-4, glabrous, greenish, minutely 
Sagem 3 lines long, minutely apiculate, with a thin pericarp. Seed erect.— 
ot unlike @. suberosa, Dun. Probably, the supposed Popowia from Natal, alluded 
to by Hook. & Thoms. ( Fl. Ind. p. 105) is the same as our plant. 
Orper II, MENISPERMACEZ, DC. 
ok (By W. H. Harvey.) 
(Menispermez, Jus. Gen. 284. Menispermacee, D.C. Prod. 1. p. 95. _ 
Endl. Gen. Pl. No. clxxii, Lindl. Veg. King. civ.) ~ 
Flowers minute, unisexual, usually dioecious. Sepals 2-12, in one 
or two or several rows, separate, or rarely united at base, almost always 
imbricate. Petals mostly shorter than the sepals, equalling them in 
number, or fewer, imbricate, sometimes none, sometimes united into a 
cup-shaped corolla. Stamens (in the male flowers) as many, or twice, 
or thrice as many as the sepals ; filaments free or united into a column 
anthers opening outwards, either vertical or horizontal, adnate with 
filament. Ovaries (in the female flowers) mostly three, rarely 
