Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermace. AD 
- pressis ; costulis x. radiantibus, et liris spiralibus transeuntibus, 
in spira iii. supra costas conspicuis, unaque in sutura, dense in- 
sculpta; interstitiis alte celatis; apertura subquadrata; labro in 
medio incrassato. Long. *19, long. spir. °12, lat. :08 poll., 
div. 30°. 
51. ?Anachis fuscostrigata. 
?A. testa parva, turrita, livida, nitida ; zonis rufo-fuscis, subspiralibus, 
in Spira cire. lil., interdum, maxime ad basim, confluentibus, con- 
spicue cincta; lirulis radiantibus subobsoletis, circ. x., prope su- 
turam se monstrantibus ; ; apertura subquadrata. Long. - 13, long. 
spir. ‘095, lat. -045 poll., div. 20°. 
52. Pisania elata. 
P. testa minore, valde turrita, Latiroidea; alba, rufo-fusco antice et 
postice varie maculata seu strigata; anfr. nucl.?....; norm. vi., 
convexis, suturis impressis; costis radiantibus vi.—vili., obtusis, 
interstitiis undatis ; lirulis spiralibus distantibus, in spira plerum- 
que iii., aliis minoribus intercalantibus; canali angusto, sub- 
recurvato ; apertura subovata; pariete postice dentata; columella 
parum contorta. Long. ‘68, long. spir. *37, lat. +29 poll., div. 38°. 
VI.—On the Menispermacee. 
By Joun Mrers, F.R.S., F.L.S. &c. 
[Continued from vol. xii. p. 491.] 
9. ANAMIRTA. 
This genus was proposed in 1819 by Colebrook for the typi- 
eal species, of which he had only seen the male plant: the male 
and female plants were afterwards described, with more pre- 
cision, and figured by Dr. Arnott: but there are some few inac- 
curacies in those details; for the anthers in the male flower are 
aggregated upon a scarcely elevated receptacle, not raised upon 
a stipitated column, as is there shown, and in the female flower 
the monadelphous ring of 10 sterile stamens is altogether over- 
looked, as is likewise the 5-lobed raised gyneecium. Anamirta 
resembles Parabena in the aggregation of its numerous stamens 
upon a receptacle, their number varying in different species 
from 15 to 55. It is stated by Dr. Arnott, as well as by the 
authors of the ‘Flora Indica,’ that the female flower bears 3 
ovaries; I have found constantly 4 or 5, and have never met 
with a smaller number in the many flowers I have examined. 
The normal number would seem to be 5, judging from the pro- 
portion of the sterile stamens that surround them, these being 
invariably 10, in a single series, united in an annular ring (not 
9, as stated by those authorities). The number of sepals is in- 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 3. Vol. xiv. 4. 
