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sistente basi proximo notata; putamen subosseum, globoso- 
ovale, paululo compressum, 1-loculare, loculo circa condylum 
hippocrepice gyrato ; condylus excentralis, subglobosus, utrin- 
que convexus, vacuus, in sinu basali pro vasorum introitu 
pertusus. Semen loculo conforme ; embryo intra albumen sim- 
plex, hippocrepicus, tenuiter teres, cotyledonibus semiteretibus, 
incumbentibus, radicula supera ad stylum spectante 3-plo 
longioribus. 
Frutices scandentes Asie intertropice, sepius pubescentes aut.re- 
trorsum hispidi; folia alterna, peltata, deltoideo-oblonga aut 
obovata, subcordata, 5—7-nervia, petiolo tenui: inflorescentia 
dg axillaris, aut yacemus elongatus, rachi tenui, sepe geniculatim 
flexuosa, floribus numerosis minutis in glomerulos remotos 
aggregatis ; aut in utroque sexu panicula racemosa, ramis 
alternis, remotis, longiusculis, sepe iterum ramosis, floribus 
corymbulosis aut agglomeratis. 
Copious descriptions of all the following species will be given 
in the third volume of my ‘ Contributions to Botany ’ :— 
1. Cyclea peltata, Hook. & Th. (in parte) Fl. Ind. i. 201 ;— 
Menispermum peltatum, Lam. ;—Cocculus peltatus, DC. ; 
—y. 8. 1n hb. Soc. Linn. ¢ & 9, Sylhet (Wall. Cat. 4978 c), 
Prome (Wallich) ; in hh. Hook. g & 2, Java (Spanaghoe, 
194); 3, Assam (Griffiths, 355). 
2. barbata, nob. ;—Cissampelos barbata, Wall. (in parte), 
Rangoon (Wall. Cat. 4978 4, a), Taong Dong (Wall. Cat. 
4978 b). 
ey Arnotiu, nob.;—Cyclea Burmanni, Wight, Ill. i. 22 
(in parte) ;—C. Burmanni, Hook. & Th. 1. c. 201 (in parte) ; 
Clypea Burmanni, W. & A. Prodr. i. 14 (in parte) ;—v. s. 
in hb. Soc. Linn. 3, Kelaben (Wall. Cat. 4978 a, 6); Singa- 
pore (Wall. Cat. 4978); 9, Prome (Wall. Cat. 4978 B) ; 
in hb. Hook. 9, Rangoon (M‘Clellard); 92, Kurg (Hook. 
& Th.); ¢, Khasya (Hook. & Th.) ; > , Mangalore (Ward) ; 
2, Ind. or. (Walker). 
A., | Burmanni, Hook. & Th. 7. c. 201 ;—Rhaptomeris Bur- 
manni, nob. olim;—Clypea Burmanni, W. & A. Prodr. 1. 
14 (in parte) ;—Cocculus Burmanni, DC. Syst. 1. 517 ;— 
v.s. in hb. Mus. Brit., Ceylon (Hermann) ; in hb. Hook. 3, 
Ceylon (Walker, 194); 9, Ceylon (Gardner, 33), Ceylon 
(Thwaites, 1049); g, Kandy (Champion); Ind. Penins. 
(Wight, 40); ¢, Concan (Stocks, Gibson, Law). 
versicolor, nob.;—Cyclea peltata, Hook. & Th. (in parte) 
Ll. ce. 201 ;—Cissampelos discolor, Wall. (in parte) ;—v. s. 
in hb. Soc. Linn. g, Nielgherries (Wall. Cat. 4982 8) ; 
?, Trevandrum (Wall. Cat. 4982 a, b, non A, a). 
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