Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacee. 373 
ILEocarrvus, nob.—Flores dioici. Masc. ignoti.—Fem. Sepala 
3, obovata, membranacea. Petala 3, alterna, rotundata, imo 
unguiculata, sepalis dimidio breviora. Stamina nulla. Ova- 
rium unicumn, oblongo-ovatum, glabrum, gynzcio brevi insi- 
tum, l-loculare, ovu/o unico e facie ventrali appenso; stylus 
brevissimus, crassiusculus; stigma 3-fidum, lobis ‘brevibus, 
teretibus, suberectis. Drupa transversim ovata, carnosa, styli 
vestigio hilo proximo notata ; putamen obovatum, compressum, 
peripheriam versus utrinque liris 7 brevibus 2-tuberculatis 
radiatim dispositis muricatum, 1-loculare, loculo hippocrepi- 
formi circa condylum gyrato; condylus ovatus, laminiformis, 
utrinque concavus et imperforatus. Semen valde compressum, 
hippocrepiforme, extus utrinque radiatim sulcatum ; integu- 
menta membranacea, margine ventrali laxa, hine crassiora, et 
cum funiculo filiformi rigido intra fissuram condyli intrusa ; 
embryo in albumine simplici, carnosus, teres, tenuiter elon- 
gatus, hippocrepiformis, cotyledonibus semiteretibus, incum- 
bentibus, radicula wquilata, us 38-plo longiore, ad stigma 
spectante. 
Frutex scandens Abyssinica; folia integra, peltata, deltoideo- 
oblonga, glabra, 10-nervia, petiolata ; pedunculus supra-axil- 
laris, tenuiter filiformis, glaber, apice bracteatus et floribus 
plurimis capitato-paniculatis munitus ; flores minutt, glaberrimt. 
The single species, [/eocarpus Schimperi, is described in the 
3rd vol. of ‘Contributions to Botany.’ 
24. HomMocNEMIA. 
This genus, originally proposed by me in 1851, was founded 
upon a plant in Drége’s South-African collection, named by 
Dr. Meyer Cissampelos umbellata. The female flower only is 
known, which differs from J/eocarpus and Stephania in having 
four sepals, four petals, and an ovary with an obsoletely bifid 
stigma. The authors of the ‘ Flora Indica’ and the new ‘Genera 
Plantarum’ make this genus and J/eocarpus identical with Sée- 
phania ; but they have no ground on which to justify that deter- 
mination: it differs from Stephania in the number of its floral 
parts, and in the shape: of its ovary and stigma; it is, indeed, 
nearer to Clypea, but sufficiently distinct from either, as the 
following diagnosis will show :— 
Homocnemta, nob.—Flores dioici. Mase. ignoti.—Fam. Sepala 
4, ovata, extus pilosa, per paria opposita, <estivatione imbri- 
cata. Petala 4 4, sepalis 3-plo breviora, rotundata, carnosa. 
Stamina nulla. Ovarium solitarium, ovatum, breviter stipi- 
tatum, compressum, rectum, elabrum, suleo longitudinali 
latere notatum, 1l-loculare, ovulo e parieti ventrali appenso ; 
