50 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermaceze. 
constant in the same panicle of flowers, varying from 7 to 12, 
including 3 minute basal bracts, which also vary in number and 
size; they are much imbricated. There are no petals. The 
drupes are fleshy and gibbously oval, the persistent stigma 
being very excentric, and much nearer the base than the apex : 
here the gynecium by subsequent growth is converted mto a 
stout cylindrical carpophorum *, which becomes divided at its 
summit into 2, 3, or 4 forks, answering to the number of drupes 
perfected, leaving cicatrices corresponding with the number of 
abortive ovaries—a development similar to that I have described 
in Tiliacora and Sciadotenia. The putamen is oval, with a short 
reniform sinus on its ventral face; it is of a thin corneous tex- 
ture, its smooth surface is grooved in anet-like form, the grooves 
being filled with capillary fibres, from which it may be inferred 
that in a fresh state its mesocarp consists of aggregated masses 
like those observed in Anomospermum ; on the side of the reni- 
form depression of the putamen, there are two small circular 
apertures leading into two distinct chambers of the large sub- 
globular condyle, which projects far into the centre of the cell, 
and the integuments of the seed enter into the deep groove along 
its face, and are there firmly attached along the line of the 
raphe. The structure of its seed quite corresponds with the 
rest of the Heteroclinieew, but the fissures of the ruminated albu- 
men do not penetrate so deeply as in many genera: the coty- 
ledons are extremely divaricated, and enclosed in distinct cells of 
the albumen. 
The authors of the ‘Flora Indica’ acknowledge only the ori- 
ginal type, but A. lemniscata from Java, as well as others to be 
described in the ‘ Contributions to Botany,’ are distinct species ; 
they do not admit A. flavescens, which appears to me correctly 
referred here by Wight and Arnott, and they regard the Ceylon 
species, A. ¢oxifera, as being identical with the type; but the 
grounds on which they are considered distinct will be stated. 
Concerning A. Bauerana of Endlicher, I can learn nothing: it is 
figured in his ‘Atakta ’—a book I have not been able to consult, 
nor can I find in any botanical work a description of the species. 
Anamirta, Coleb.—Flores dioici. Mase. Sepala 7-12, imbri- 
cata, quorum 2-4 exteriora minora, ovata, concava, submem- 
branacea. Petala nulla. Stamina 15-55, receptaculo parvo 
sessili, pluriseriatim in globum aggregata: jilamenta fere ob- 
soleta: anthere 4-lobee, sub-4-locellatz, rima transversa 2-val- 
* It would be well to confine the use of the term Carpophorum to those 
kinds of development resulting from the growth of the torus, leaving the 
word Carpodium to designate the stipitate support where it is an mere- 
ment of the fruit itself. 
