Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacce. 21 
Ovarium solitarium, gibboso-orbiculare, 1-loculare, loculo lu- 
nato ; ovulum unicum, loculo conforme, funiculo brevi e medio 
faciei ventralis appensum. Stylus brevis. Stigma breviter 8- 
fidum, laciniis linearibus, suleatis, reflexis. Drupa subglobosa, 
stigmate persistente ad hilum proximo notata, carnosa; putamen 
tenuiter osseum, late subovatum, compressum, peripheriam 
versus utrinque spinis obtusis recurvo-hamatis in seriebus 3 
circa condylum hippocrepicis concentrice dispositis echinatum, 
l-loculare, loculo lunato; condylus disciformis, excentralis, 
utrinque concavus, imperforatus, medio stria longitudinali 
sulcatus ; semen loculo conforme; embryo ignotus. 
Frutex in regionibus Himalaye scandens ; folia majuscula, vix 
peltata, oblonga, imo cordata, a medio sensim angustiora, 
apice acuta, e bast 7-nervia, coriacea, subtus pubescentia, 
petiolo tereti, limbo breviore: inflorescentia ¢ et 2? racemi- 
formi, paniculata, pubescens, ramis alternis, divaricatis, iterum 
divisis, bracteolatis ; flores minimi, pedicellati, glabri. 
The single species will be described in the third yolume of my 
‘Contributions to Botany’ :— 
1. Peraphora robusta, nob. ;—Cyclea populifolia, H. & Th. Fl. 
Ind. i. 202 ;—Menispermea, Griffiths in Itin. Bootan, i. 
114 & 165; Icon. Boot. tab. 22 & 23 ;—-v. s. in hb. Mus. 
Brit. et Lemann, ?, Bhootan (Griffiths, 1732); im hb. 
Hook. g & 2, Sikhim (Hook. & Th.), Bhootan (Griffiths, 
1782). 
30. PERICHASMA. 
I propose this genus for a plant, belonging to the tropical 
African Flora, which offers many peculiar characters. Although 
the number of its floral parts corresponds with that of Stephania, 
the entire aspect of the plant proclaims that it cannot belong to 
that genus, as does that of Clambus for a similar reason. Its slender 
branches, with very distant axils, are furnished with long, patent, 
simple hairs, which I have never seen in any species of Stephania ; 
its leaves are larger, and, though peltate, are pilose on both sides, 
and their margins are furnished with a strong marginal nerve, 
which is indented into several rounded lobes or large crenatures, 
and they are supported upon unusually long and slender petioles. 
The inflorescence, instead of being, as in Stephania, a compound 
umbel rarely exceeding an inch or two in length, is here a very 
slender pendent raceme a foot and a half long, with numerous 
distant, short, alternate branches, which are again and again 
alternately divided: in all these respects the general habit of the 
plant is more in harmony with some species of Cyclea. The 
flowers are very minute, pedicellated, with six oblong, subacute 
