322 . MENISPERMACE. E. 
is distinctly two edged, and on the broad veiws presents 2 or 
3 cost, the surface is punctulate the seed loose side. 
he putamen is thick and long, and very hard outside, 
inside irregular roundish elevations (corresponding to puncta ?) 
Seed of the same shape attached to the end of the putamen 
on which the mark of attachment is, on one side is an 
irregular nearly closed up foveola along one of the broad 
faces. The albumen is lobed, the lobes are so pressed 
together as to appear mere areola, and almost naked, but 
there are traces of a very fine integument which passes 
probably between the lobes. 
2. Phytocrene macrocarpa Gr. Pls. CCCCLXXXVII, and 
Pl. CCCCLXXXVIII. 
Frutex scandens robustus, caule presertim in part. novel. 
aculeato, aculei conico sine ordine, P. novella, sicut ramuli 
ferrugineo-tomentosa, tomento strigis immixto. 
Fol. alterna, exstipulata Menispermaceo-Artocarpina. 
Petioli teretes, (of old leaves immersed at the base into a 
deep foveolain the stem) 11-3 inch. basi incrassati, foliaque 
presertim subtus ad venas ferrugineo-pubescentia. 
Lamina coriaceo-profunde cordata, apice emarginata integ- 
riuscula, subundulata, supra tactu asperula, venis basin palm- 
atis, 7 ; 2 intermediis branched on the outer side, these branch- 
es as well as the primary ones, inosculate by arches inter- 
woven, with reticulate veins prominent below. 
Some irregular white spots above, scattered strigose hairs 
above, pubescence underneath stellate. 
Peduncles in the specimen 3, (appearing to originate from 4 
protuberance on which are the scales,) axillary base surrounded 
with brown linear subulate scales or bractes, very strigos¢ 
hairs subpungent subferruginous, otherwise greenish. 
Capituli of flowers, oblong or nearly spherical, 
from the perianth, otherwise brown from prominent Pistilla. 
There do not appear to be any bractes, | 
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