NOTES ON THE BOTANY OF SWAN AGE, DORSET. 51 



base, moderately firm in texture, green on both surfaces, strongly 

 distantly dentate ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate. Flowers about 20 

 together in copious lax lateral cymes shorter than the leaves ; 

 flower-pedicels i-^'m. Calyx patellaeform, f lin. diam., obscurely 

 4-lobed. Petals 4, greenish, ^ lin. long, failing without expanding. 

 Fruit black, obovoid, ^ in. diam. in the dried state. — Hedge round 

 a village in South Betsileo, in company with Clitoria heterophylla, 

 Baron 268! Allied to V. cornifolia, Baker, of Nile-land and Upper 

 Guinea. 



ViTis [Cissus) BiTERNATA, sp. n. — A Small shrub, nearly glabrous 

 in all its parts, with scandent very slender branchlets and copious 

 slender spiral tendrils. Petiole about 1 in. long; fully-developed 

 leaves biternately compound; leaflets ovate-oblong, cuspidate, con- 

 spicuously dentate, an inch or less long, thin in texture, green and 

 nearly glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers in small dense peduncled 

 leaf-opposed cymes; pedicels very short. Calyx patellceform, |-lin. 

 diam. Petals 4, greenish, ^ lin. long, falling without expanding. 

 Bud globose. Fruit not seen. — Woods of Western Betsileo land, 

 flowering in December and January, Baron 118 ! AUied to V. micro- 

 dijjtera, Baker, which Mr. Baron has also gathered, climbing over 

 trees especially amongst rocks in ravines in the Betsileo country, 

 where its native name is Famahjentana. He describes its fruit as 

 being not the size of a large pea, 1-celled and 1-seeded. 



CuPANiA isoMERA, sp. n. — A shrub or small tree, glabrous in all 

 its parts, with rather stout terete grey branchlets. Leaves equally 

 pinnate; petiole about an inch long; leaflets usually 3-jugate, 

 opposite, oblong, obtuse, entire, 2-3 in. long, cuneate at the base, 

 moderately firm in texture, green on both surfaces ; rachis of the 

 leaf flattened and winged upwards. Flowers polygamous, arranged 

 in sparse shortly-peduncled panicles terminal on the branchlets ; 

 pedicels about as long as the flowers. Sepals 5, imbricated, oblong, 

 pilose, under -^ in. long, persisting and reflexing. Petals 5, minute, 

 white, spathulate, with 2 scales at the base. Disk prominent, 

 1 lin. diam. Stamens 5, exserted or included, both anther and 

 filament pilose. Fruit turbinate, glabrous, f in. long, with two 

 valves which open down to its base. Seed solitary, enveloped in 

 a scarlet arillus nearly up to the top. — Woods of Western Betsileo, 

 flowering in December, Baron 104 ! Allied to C. Icevis, DC, of 

 Mauritius and Bourbon, from which it differs by its 5 stamens and 

 2-valved fruit. 



(To be continued). 



NOTES ON THE BOTANY OF SWANAGE, DOKSET. 

 By Henry T. Mennell, F.L.S. 



The Botany of the county of Dorset has been so admirably 

 described in Mr. Mansel-Pleydell's 'Flora,' that a casual visitor 

 can hope to add but little to it that is new ; but during a short 

 stay at Swanage last August, I collected the foUowmg unrecorded 

 species, or subspecies : — 



