MENISPERMUM. 317 
1. Fruit nat. size. - 
2. One drupe viewed on its ventral face. 
3. Do. transverse section. ; 
4. Do. long section of fleshy portion, exposing the 
outer face. 
5. Drupe, long section, through the smaller diameter. 
6. Drupe separated inner face. 
7. Do. outer. 8. Do. lateral. . 
9. Long section of drupe through small diameter. 
10. Seed separated viewed on its raphal face. 
ll. Portion of raphe and testa. 
12. Portion of testa =|; granulations aften resembling sto- 
mata. 
13, Long section of seed through the greater diameter, or 
opposite the raphe. 
14. Embryo, raphal face of. 
15. Do. dorsum. 
16. Do. one cotyledon removed, shewing that they are op- 
posite in their extention, and that their partial corres- 
pondence is owing to the obliquity of their inner mar- 
Nat. size. 
Nat. size. 
gins, 
l7. Young embryo. 
18. Do. viewed edge-ways. j 
— Upper Assam. Suddyah in sylvis: August 26th, 
4. Menispermea, Pl. CCCCLXXXVI. Fig. III. 
Suffrutex scandens, foliis alternis, oblongo-lanceolatis, 
breviter cuspidatis, integris subcoriaceis supra  lucidis, 
paulo basin supra 3-veniis, v. secondarie distincte paucs, 
Pagina ceterum reticulata. Inflorescentia ut patet e fructus 
dispositione paniculata, 
Ictus compositus vel abortione simplex in pedunculo $ 
haies utringue incrassato, ovalis vel ovali-ellipticus viridis 
i ovi pidgeon magnitudine, subsessilis apice depressus ad 
Styli basis, secus faciem interna quoad axin, longitudi- 
