i2 MENISPERMACEZ (Harv.) [Antizoma. — 
long as the petal. Petal single, cup-shaped, depressed, crenulate at 
the margin, somewhat fleshy. Staminal column as in Cissampelos : 
anther-lobes 4-10. Female: Sepals 2, opposite, ovate, very concave, fleshy, 
slightly imbricate in estivation. Petals 2, opposite the sepals, minute, 
scale-like, orbicular, fleshy, hypogynous. Ovary single, obovate, sub- 
compressed, conical above. Style none. Stigma obsolete, or obtusely 
2-lobed. The fruit unknown.”—Mier's MSS. in litt. 
Small, South African shrubs, erect or somewhat twining ; the branches mostly 
virgate. Leaves alternate, sometimes very small, linear or oblongo-lanceolate, very 
entire, opaque, leathery, on short petioles ; the petiole with a short spine at base, 
on the outside. Inflorescence axillary ; flowers very minute. The generic name 18 
composed of avr1, opposite, and (wpa, a vestwre ; ‘ from the position of the sepals in 
regard to each other, and from the petals being again opposed to them.”—Meers. 
1. A. calcarifera (Miers) ; “erect, branching ; twigs virgate, striate, 
the younger downy ; leaves elliptic-oblong, rounded at both extremi- 
ties, emarginate or mucronulate, with revolute margins, leathery; nerves 
few, parallel, patent-oblique, uniting toward the margin, immersed ; 
petiole nearly obsolete, pubescent, the infra-petiolar spine very short, 
acute, reflexed ; male flowers few, fascicled on a very short axillary 
peduncle.” —Miers. Cissampelos calcarifera, Burch. in DC. Prod. 1. p. 102- 
Has. 8. Africa, Burchell, (Cat. 1798 & 2829.) (Herb. Burchell.) 
The leaves are 5-10 lines long, very minutely glandularly-rugose and sparingly 
cinereo-puberulent on each side, 3 lines broad, rounded at the extremities; the 
petiole scarcely } line long.— Miers. : 
2. A. Burchelliana. (Miers); “somewhat climbing, twigs slender, pu- 
bescent ; leaves lanceolate, the upper ones narrower, obtuse at each end, 
mucronulate, the subsinuate margin scarcely revolute ; nerves few, 
very slender, arching obliquely from a subprominent midrib ; petiole 
rather short, pubescent ; the spine obtuse, strong (inch long) subre- 
flexed, much longer than the petiole.”  MMiers. 
Has. 8. Africa, Burchell. (Cat. 1795. bis.). (Herb. Burch.) : 
“Tn habit this plant is very different from the preceding species, that being a low 
erect shrub, while this has slender, scandent branches: in the former species the 
nervures are immersed and scarcely perceptible,’ short and very patent; here they 
are more parallel with the leaf and slightly prominent. The leaves are comparatively 
large, 3 inches long, and from } to ¢ inch broad, brownish-green, glandularly- 
rugulose and thinly pubescent at each side: the petiole is g-inch long; the very 
obtuse spine is about an inch in length ; the distance of the internodes about an 
_3. A{Harveyana‘(Miers) ; “ stem erect, slightly scandent ; branches 
virgate, striate, glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, the upper ones gradually 
narrower, obtuse at the apex, mucronate, thickish, the young puberu- 
lent, the older glabrous on both sides and glandularly rugulose, the 
underside glaucescent, the margin revolute ; nerves obsolete ; petiole 
very short, armed at base with a short, acute, reflexed spine ; male 
inflorescence axillary, peduncle solitary, twice as long as the petiole, 
flowers capitate-crowded.” Miers. MSS. , 
Has. Interior of S. Africa. Crocodile River, Burke. (Herb. — T.C.D.). 
_ “This species is sufficien tly distinct inict from the two" appears to have 
