20 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermaceee. 
6. Cyclea laxiflora, nob. ;—v. s. in hb. Hook. ¢ & 2, Malacca 
(Griffiths). 
he peregrina, nob.;—v.s. in hb. Hook. ¢& 9, Borneo 
(Mottley, 673 & 684). 
8. debilifiora, nob. ;—v. s. in hb. Hook. ¢, Khasya (Hook. 
& Th.). 
9. pendulina, nob. ;—v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. ¢ & 3, Ni- 
cobar Isl. (Soc. Fratr.). 
10. deltoidea, nob. ;—v. s. in hb. Hook., Hong-Kong 
(Champion). 
32. PERAPHORA. 
This genus was first proposed by me for a plant originally col- 
lected in Bhootan by Griffiths, which had female flowers and fruit 
only. Since then I found that the Cyclea populifolia described 
by Messrs. Hooker and Thomson is the male plant of the same 
species. It differs from Cyclea in its habit, its large, coriaceous, 
cordate leaves on a rigid petiole almost palately inserted, its 
different mode of inflorescence, in its floral structure, and in its 
putamen. Although the male flower has a campanular calyx, it 
has no petal; the female flower has two comparatively large, 
opposite, sacciform, fleshy sepals, and no petal, and its putamen 
bears no resemblance to that of Cyclea. It is thus certain that, 
with the exception of a campanular calyx in the ¢ flower, the floral 
structure in both sexes is totally at variance with the characters 
of the genus to which it has been referred by the authors of the 
‘Flora Indica.’ In the number of calycine parts it accords with 
Antizoma; but it differs in having no petals, and in the gamo- 
sepalous calyx of its ¢ flower: these differences, together with 
the very dissimilar habits of the plants, will maintain the validity 
of both these genera. The putamen, in its shape and its curved 
spines, resembles that of some species of Stephania, but it differs 
in having an imperforated condyle. 
The generic name was suggested by the singularly bursiform 
sepals of the female flower. 
Prerarnora, nob. ;—Cyclea (in parte), Hook. & Th.;—Flores 
dioici. Mase. Calyx globoso-campanulatus, ore parvo, 4—5- 
dentato, glaber, carnosulus. Petalum nullum. Stamen uni- 
cum, centrale, subinclusum; jilamentum breviter filiforme ; 
anthera subglobosa, 4—5-locularis, loculis cirea connectivum 
peltatum in annulum connatis, margine rima externa horizon- 
taliter dehiscentibus.—Fwm. Sepala 2, opposita, pro mole 
majuscula, suborbiculata, valde concava, imo gibboso-saccata, 
ungue brevi affixa, carnosa, lateribus tenuioribus et expansis, 
apice truncato et subreflexo. Petala nulla. Stamina nulla. 
