370 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacec. 
bent back extrorsely at a right angle, and upon which the 
anther-cells are laterally imbedded, with a narrow and some- 
times excurrent connective between them: it differs no less in 
its excentric style, with a bifid or twice-bifid stigma; in its pu- 
tamen, which (although with a condyle like that of Menispermum) 
has the whole of its external ring covered by two or three lateral 
and two dorsal concentric rows of tubercular spines, with trans- 
verse radiating grooves between the spines. Pertcampylus, in 
the structure of its putamen and seed, differs as widely from 
Cocculus as Menispermum has been shown to be at variance with 
that genus—a difference which places Cocculus in a separate 
tribe. The inner surface of the cell of the putamen in Pevi- 
campylus and the external corresponding face of the seed are 
marked by broad radiating grooves, conformable with the spaces 
between the external spines; the embryo, as in Menispermum, is 
very long, uniformly very slender, quite different from the thick 
foliaceous cotyledons of Cocculus, where they are greatly broader 
than the short terete radicle. 
Prricampytus, nob.—Flores dioici. Masc. Sepala 9, ternatim 
disposita, quorum 3 exteriora bracteiformia, minutissima, 3 
interiora spathulato-oblonga, 8 intermedia paulo longiora, 
oblonga, extus pilosa, zstivatione imbricata. Petala 6, sepalis 
opposita, et 3-plo breviora, cuneato-ovata, apice subtruncata 
vel obsolete 3-loba, marginibus introflexis, ad andrcecium 
brevissimum unguibus affixa. Stamina 6, petalis amplexa, 
subbiserialia, erecta ; filamenta omnino libera, andreecio con- 
gregatim imposita, apice ample clavata, gibbosa, et subextror- 
sum reflexa; anthere 2-lobe, lobis compresso-globosis, con- 
nectivo angusto subexcurrente sejunctis, utrinque rima laterali 
hiantibus. Sepala 6, ut in masc. Petala 6, latiora, 
apice truncata lateribusque inflexa. Stamina sterilia 6, 
filiformia, apice vix glandulosa, petalis longiora, imo gynecii 
affixa. Ovaria 3, valde gibbosa, ovata, gyneecio brevi 6-gono 
imposita, 1- locularia, l-ovulata; stylus brevis, crassus, rostels 
latus ; stigma lineare, subito deflexum, supra canaliculatum, 
ultra medium divaricato-bifidum vel bis bifidum. Drupe 3, 
gibboso-ovate, transverse, carnose, stylo persistente basi 
proximo notate ; putamen osseum, suborbiculatum, compres- 
sum, peripheriam versus utrinque ‘spinulis plurimis acutis vel 
truncatis in seriebus 2 vel 3 circa condylum concentrice dis- 
positis echinatum, 1-loculare, loculo hippocrepico ; condylus 
utrinque concavus et laminiformis, imperforatus ; semen loculo 
conforme, radiatim suleatum ; integumenta tenuissima, ventre 
laxa, et hine per raphen in sulcum condyli intrusa; embryo 
teres, gracilis, i albwmine simplici cyclice arcuatus, cotyle- 
