52 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacez. 
a globular head, not sessile as in that genus, but borne on the 
apex of a long slender monadelphous column as in Cissampelos. 
It has 6 sepais, obsoletely saccate or swollen at base, as in Jateo- 
rliza, imbricated in 2 series, and 6 distinct petals. The sterile 
stamens of the female flower are arranged in an annular whorl 
round the stipitate gynecium, on which 3 unilocular ovaries 
are seated. The putamen, as in Rhigiocarya, is covered with pro- 
minent, obtusely hooked, echinated spines, arranged in longi- 
tudinal series, the dorsal middle row terminating in a long apical 
tooth. The condyle is formed as in Odontocarya and Aspido- 
carya; but, for want of perfect specimens, the shape of the 
embryo is not known. 
PARABENA, nob.—Flores dioici. Mase. Sepala 6, oblonga vel 
spathulato-oblonga, 2-seriata, imo carnosa et subsaccata, 3 
exteriora angustiora et paulo breviora, extus sericea, estiva- 
tione imbricata. Petala 6, parva, spathulato-oblonga, extus 
dorso carinata, imo carnosa, erecta. Stamina monadelpha: 
filamenta in columnam teretem gracilem centralem coalita ; 
_ anthere 6, subglobose, supra columnam 2-serialiter arcte 
ageregatz, 4-sulcate, 4-locellate, rima transversali 2-valvatim 
hiantes.—Fem. Sepala et petala ut in mase. Stamina sterilia 
6, gynecium ambientia, summo glanduloso-4-loba. Ovaria3, 
gynzecio brevi imposita, libera, erecta, gibba, glabra, 1-locu- 
laria, ovu/o unico ad angulum internum medio appenso ; stylus 
brevis, teres ; stigma dilatato-recurvum, suleatum. Drupe 3, 
ovate, subcarnosze, stigmate persistente subexcentrico apicu- 
latee: putamen osseum, suborbiculare, compressum, ventre 
subplanum, ad dorsum convexum, spinis obtusis hamatis in 
seriebus longitudinalibus exasperatum, serie centrali promi- 
nentiore, et hinc in dentem longum apiculatum: condylus 
medio faciei ventralis, ovatus, extus concavus, intra loculum 
convexus; semen loculo conforme, summo condyli affixum ; 
cetera ignota. 
Frutices scandentes Indie orientalis; folia oblonga aut ovata, 
apice repente attenuata, cordata, vel angulato-hastata, 5—9- 
nervia, integra, aut sinuato-dentata ; panicula axillaris, petiolo 
sublongior. 
1. Parabena sagittata, nob. ;—Ind. Orient. 
Described in the ‘ Contributions to Botany,’ vol. ui. 
1]. AsprpocaRYA. 
This genus, established by the authors of the ‘ Flora Indica,’ 
is one of much interest ; its stamens are monadelphous after the 
manner of Cissampelos ; the shape of its extremely flattened puta- 
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