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tab. 188, under the name of Abuta concolor. The type is A. 

 Gardnerianum from Brazil (Gard. n. 3567) ; another species is 

 A. Gnianense (Schorab. n. 440). The Cocailus Domingensis, 

 DC. (DeLess. Icon. Sel. tab. 96), also belongs here. It bears 

 much similarity in the form of its flowers to Abuta. I have 

 seen only the male flowers and seed ; the female flowers are 

 wanting to complete its generic characters. 



31. Limacia, Lour. This forms another of Loureiro's genera 

 which I have restored upon very sufficient data : it represents a 

 very distinct group of plants of East Indian growth, which I 

 have been able to compare wdth the typical species L. scandens, 

 Lour., still existing in the British Museum, and which bears a 

 close analogy to Anelasma, their analogue of the other hemisphere. 

 Here belong the Cocculus velutinus, Wall. (Cat. n. 4970, a : 

 Cuming, n. 3403) ; and Cocculus ohlongus, Wall. (Cat. n. 4963). 

 I have formed a subgenus under the name of Stereoclea for two 

 species, which differ only in having three, instead of six stamens ; 

 one is the Menispermum triandrum, Roxb. (Wall. Cat. n. 4963) ; 

 the other also exists in the Wallichian herbarium (Wall. Cat. 

 n. 4953 in partem). 



33. Pleogyne is a genus proposed for an Australasian plant 

 of Cunningham's collection, distinguished by the unusual number 

 of its ovaria. I have seen only the female flowers and the fruit ; 

 the male flowers are therefore wanting to complete its generic 

 character. 



33. Botryopsis was constituted many years ago, upon a plant 

 which I examined in the Organ Mountains of Brazil. I met 

 with its male flowers and fruit, but its female flowers are yet 

 wanting. Its species bear much external resemblance to those 

 of Abuta, and they are only to be distinguished by an examina- 

 tion of their flowers, which are very distinct in structure. I have 

 ascertained that the Cocculus platyphyllus, St. Hil., belongs to 

 this genus, and hence also C. Ildefonsianus, St. Hil. and TuL, 

 which is said to be only a variety of the same. It is probable 

 that the Cocculus cinerascens, St. Hil., is also referrible here. 



34. Pachygone will represent a group of East Indian plants, 

 distinguished also for their exalbuminous seeds, and of which the 

 Cocculus Plukenettii, DC, may be considered the type. Its cha- 

 racters have been fully determined. Here may be referred the 

 Cocculus Wightianus, Wall. (Cat. 4959), C. brachystachys, DC, 

 judging from the structure of its fruit, and probably also C. lep- 

 tostachys, DC. 



35. Sciadotenia is a new genus, proposed for a plant of Mar- 

 tin's collection from Cayenne, with a decidedly umbellate in- 

 florescence, and a very distinct habit. Both its male and female 

 flowers arc unknown, but its seed is of peculiar structure. 



