Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacez. ' 106 
Masc. Sepala 6, biseriata, quorum 3 exteriora minuta, bractei- 
formia, 3 interiora multoties majora, alterna, orbiculata vel 
oblonga, concava, carnosa, petaloidea, glabra, zstivatione 1m- 
bricata. Petala 6, eequalia, sub-2-seriata, sepalis paulo bre- 
viora, suberecta, vel arcte congregata, interdum unguiculata, 
gibbosa, concava, carnosa, apice truncata, marginibus valde 
inflexis, hinc stamina amplectentia. Stamina 6, petalis equi- 
longa et opposita, cum is inserta ; filamenta sigmoidea, car- 
nosa, subcompressa, apice incrassata ; anthere 2-lobe, in- 
trorse, imo divaricate, semiimmersz, utrinque rima laterali 
dehiscentes.—F/. hermaphr. Sepala, petala et stamina ma- 
rium : ovarium unicum, sterile, centrale, cylindricum, stigmate 
clavato coronatum. — FV. fom. Sepala et petala marium. 
Stamina 6, breviora, antheris minutis, effoetis.  Ovaria 3, 
libera, obovata, gibba, supra gyncium pilosum insita, sepalis 
interioribus opposita, 1-locularia, ovudo unico parieti ventrali 
affixo. Stylus brevissimus, excentricus, crassiusculus. Stig- 
ma ligulatum, acutum, canaliculato-recurvam. Drupe 3, 
vel abortu 1, majusculz, oblongz, vel gibboso-ovate, plus 
minusve excentrice stipitate; pericarpium nitens, crassum, 
coloratum, styli vestigio apice vel longe a basi notatum, inde. 
hiscens ; mesocarpium mucilaginoso-pulposum, translucidum, e 
glandulis plurimis angulatis, arcte cohzrentibus confectum ; 
putamen cylindrico-oblongum, vel reniformi-ovatum, sub- 
osseum : condylus internus, ad faciem ventralem, laminiformis, 
longitudinalis, fere ad centrum loculi protensus, hine semi- 
septum mentiens. Semen loculo conforme condylo utrinque 
plicatum : albumen copiosum, loculum implens, carnosum, in 
fissuris numerosissimis undique profunde ruminatum, integu- 
mentis 2 tenuibus fissuras penetrantibus arcte cinctum ; em- 
bryo elongatus, tenuissimus, teres, fere rectus, vel imo arcuatus, 
in centro albuminis situs, cotyledonibus tenuibus, radicule brevi 
tereti ad hilum spectanti eequilatis et multoties longioribus. 
Frutices scandentes, Brasilienses et Guianenses, glabre ; folia al- 
to 
terna, elliptica, subcoriacea, 3-nervia, valde reticulata, petiolata; 
racemi supra-axillares. 
The following species will be described in the ‘ Contributions 
Botany : ’=— 
Anomospermum nitidum, nob. ;—mont. Organens. 
ovatum, nob. ;—Brasilia. 
oblongatum, nob. ;—Rio Janeiro. 
Schomburgku, nob. ;—Guiana Brit. (Schomb. 833). 
lucidum, nob. ;—Cayenne (Melinon, 115) ; Demerara 
(Anderson) ; Panuré Rio Uapés (Spruce, 2563). 
Hostmanna, nob. ;—Surinam (Hostmann & Kappler, 1298). 
[To be continued. ] 
