Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacez. 101 
albumen. The whole plant is glabrous, but neither its male nor 
female flowers are known. In many of its characters it ap- 
proaches Aspidocarya, Parabena, Odontocarya, and Jateorhiza, 
but differs from all of them in having a very large 1-locellate 
chamber in the condyle of its putamen. Its name is derived from 
piytov, horrificus, capva, nuz, in allusion to its hystricoid putamen. 
Rurciocarya, gen. nov.—F lores det 2ignoti. Drupa ovoidea, 
pulposa, uviformis ; putamen ovoideum, compressum, osseo- 
testaceum, 1-loculare, crista lamelliformi apiculata lateribus 
et dorso undique crebriter echinata, spinis rectis apice trun- 
catis, singulis fascicula pilorum terminatis ; condylus faciem 
ventralem fere totam occupans, scutiformis, prominens, sub- 
convexus, levis, extus meatu lineari longulo perforatus, ample 
l-cameratus, et intra loculum seminis valde intrusus: semen 
loculo conforme, meniscoideo-ovatum, facie ventrali concavum, 
extus convexum; integumenta tenuissima, raphe ventrali longi- 
tudinali notata; embryo paulo convexus, intra albumen carno- 
sum simplex inclusus, cotyledonibus tenuiter foliaceis, late- 
raliter valde divaricatis, in locellis albuminis sejunctim positis, 
radicula tereti brevi supera ad stylum spectante ter longioribus. 
Suffrutex scandens Africe tropice occidentalis, glaberrimus ; folia 
magna, late oblonga, valde cordata, 5-nervia, submembranacea, 
petiolo elongato; racemi fructifert supra-axillares, solitarit, 
glaberrimi, petiolo longiores, pedicellis simplicibus ; drupe uvi- 
formes, pulpose. 
The typical species will be described in the ‘ Contributions to 
Botany,’ vol. iii. :— 
1. Rhigiocarya racemifera, nob. ;—fluv. Quorra. 
14. ANOMOSPERMUM. 
The type of this genus is a scandent shrub which I found in 
the Organ Mountains in 1837; other species exist in Guiana 
and Northern Brazil. They have all oblong, stiff, glabrous, 
subcoriaceous leaves, sometimes reticulated, with rigid petioles 
articulated on the branch in a prominent cup. The inflorescence 
is in axillary racemes issuing from a hairy tuft a little above the 
petiole. The male raceme, in some species, is the length of, 
or longer than the leaf, its alternate branches bearing one to 
three flowers, or sometimes the inflorescence is reduced to a 
solitary pedicellated flower in each axil. The female raceme is 
much shorter and few-flowered. The flowers are of similar size 
in both sexes, measuring, when expanded, 2 or 3 lines in dia- 
meter: they consist of six fleshy sepals, alternate in two series, 
the outer three being much smaller and bracteiform ; they have 
