14 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacee. 
linea longitudinali ad condylum affixum; embryo in albumini 
simplici carnoso, hippocrepiformis, tenuiter elongatus, teres, 
cotyledonibus semiteretibus, incumbentibus, radicule supere 
tereti ad stigma spectanti zquilongis et equilatis. 
Frutices scandentes, in Asia intertropica, in insulis adjacentibus, 
necnon in Australia et Africa crescentes; radix sepe tu- 
berosus ; caulis ramosus ; folia alterna, profunde peltata, sub- 
orbicularia, deltoideo-ovata vel oblonga, integra vel sinuato- 
angulata, imo rotundata, truncata vel cordato-sinuata, palmati- 
nervia, sepius glabra: panicula in utroque sexu supra-axillaris, 
sepe longissime pedunculata, umbellatim ramosa; umbellis 
iterumque umbellulatis, multifloris ; flores minuti, in capitulas 
dense aggregati, vel laxe corymbulosi. 
The following species will be fully described in the third 
volume of my ‘ Contributions to Botany : ’— 
l. 
cw) 
4. 
Stephania longa, Lour. Coch. 11. 747 ;—Cocculus Roxburghi- 
anus, Wall. in parte (non DC.) ;—v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. 
$, China (Staunton) ; in hort. bot. Cale. culta (Roxburgh) ; 
in hb. Soc. Linn. hort. Cale. cult. (Wall. Cat. 4972, non 
A,B,C); in hb. Hook., Khasya (Hook. & Th.). 
Japonica, nob. ;—Cocculus Japonicus, DC. Syst. i. 516; 
Prodr. i. 96 ;—Menispermum Japonicum, Thunb. Jap. 195; 
Lam. Dict. iv. 96 ;—Clypea venosa, Bl. Bydr. 27;—Stepha- 
nia venosa, Walp. Rep. 1. 96;—v.s. in hb. variis, ¢ & 2, 
ins. Philipp. (Cuming, 1160); im hb. Hook. Kurg, ¢ 
(Hook. & Th.); ¢, Concan (Law); 9, Concan (Gibson) ; 
pen. Ind. ¢& 2 (Wight, 953). 
glaucescens, Walp. Rep. 1. 96;—Clypea glaucescens, 
Dene. Nouv. Ann. Mus. iti. 428, t. 18;-——Cocculus Japonicus, 
var. Timoriensis, DC. Prodr. 1. 96 ;—v. s. in hb. Lindl. g, 
Timor (Dene). 
rotunda, Lour. (non H. & T.) Coch. u. 747; Hook. & 
Th. in parte, Fl. Ind. 1. 197 ;—-v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. ¢, 
China (Loureiro) ; in hb. Hook. ¢, Kumaon (Thomson, 
1227). 
Roaburghiana, nob. ;—Stephania rotunda, H. & T. in 
parte, 1. c. 197;—Cocculus Roxburghianus, DC. Syst, i. 
516; Prodr.i. (non Willd.) ;—Cissampelos hexandra, Roxb. 
Fi. Ind. 11. 841 ;—Cissampelos Pata, Buch. (non Roxb.) ;— 
Cissampelos Finlaysonianus, Wall. (in parte) ;—v.s. in hb. 
Soc. Linn. 9, Madras (Wall. Cat. 4977 p), ¢ & 2, Siam 
(ibid. 4974.4); , Moulmem (ibid. 4977 n); 9 (ibid. 
1291); in hb. Mus. Brit. 92, India (Buchanan) ; in hb. 
Hook., Bengal (Hook. & Th.), Bunsal (Thwaites). 
glabra, nob. ;—S. rotunda, Hook. & Th. (in parte) 
