254 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacee. 
. appenso. Stylus subulatus, tenuiter elongatus, apice un- 
cinato-incurvatus. Stigma obsoletum.—F/. faem. (sec. Roxb. 
sepala et petala maris; ovaria 12, in unica serie gynophoro 
insita; stylus subulatus; stigma simplex). Drupe 3-6, vel 
usque ad 12, valde gibboso-obovate, compresse, in summo 
carpophororum totidem e gynzcio cylindrico enatorum suffulte 
et articulate, hoe modo radiatim horizontales, singule stylo 
persistente imo proximo notate; putamen oblongum, com-— 
pressum, imo truncatum, hine ultra medium utrinque sul- 
catum, coriaceum, 1-loculare, condylo interno septiformi 
transversali ultra medium protenso, siccitate 2-marsupiatum, 
intus leve, l-spermum; semen loculo conforme, 2-crure ; 
integumenta membranacea, tenuia, inter rimas albuminis pli- 
cata, et per raphen ad condylum affixa; embryo elongatus, 
teres, intra albumen copiosum undique transversim et anfrac- 
tuose ruminatum hippocrepice inflexus, cotyledonibus sub- 
compressis, incumbentibus, radicule tereti equilatis et 3-plo 
longioribus, hac in locello superiore ad stylum spectante, illis 
in inferiore ad hilum tensis. 
Frutices scandentes Asie intertropice et insularum ; folia oblongo- 
ovata, glabra, 3-nervia, et sepe triplinervia ; racemi subpani- 
culati, axillares, solitarit vel gemini. 
The following species will be described in the third volume 
of ‘Contributions to Botany’ :— 
1. Tiliacora racemosa, Coleb. ;~-T. acuminata, H. & Th.;—Coc- 
culus acuminatus, DC.;—C. radiatus, DC.—India orientalis, 
2. fraternaria, nob.—Ceylon. 
3. cusptdiformis, nob.;—T. acuminata, H. & Th. (in parie). 
—Ceylon (Thwaites, 1056). 
A. abnormalis, nob.— Ind. orient. 
16. AsuTa. 
In 1851 I endeavoured to establish the characters of this 
previously obscure genus, which had been fused into Cocculus, 
when I referred to it several plants from Guiana and Brazil, 
which approximate in habit and general structure to Aublet’s 
typical species, Abuta rufescens. The leaves are generally of 
large size, broad, often cordate at base, smooth above, and co- 
vered beneath with dense yellowish tomentum, with very promi- 
nent digitate nervures, externally branched, and with strong 
transverse veins. The inflorescence is in long, pubescent, axil- 
lary racemose panicles, and its drupaceous fruits, densely to- 
mentose, contain an oblong coriaceous putamen, with a bimar- 
supiate cell, enclosing a single hippocrepiform seed, having an 
