Mr. J. Miers on the Menispcermacec. 133 
pluribus in annulum circumcingentem coalitis, rima horizon- 
tali bivalvatim hiantibus—Fwm. Sepalum unicum, ovatum 
vel oblongum, subconcavum. Petalum unicum, sepalo ante- 
positum et multo minus. S¢amina nulla. Ovarium solitarium, 
gibbum, 1l-loculare, ovwlo unico ad angulum ventralem appenso ; 
stylus brevis, excentricus ; stigma tripartitum, laciniis ariste- 
formibus, divaricatis, seepe uncinatis. Drupa ovata, carnosula, 
stylo persistente ad hilum proximo notata; putamen obovatum, 
compressum, l-loculare, loculo hippocrepiforme, extus liris plu- 
rimis interstitiisque sulcatis radiatim crenato, intus semini con- 
forme ; condylus loculo circumdatus, excentricus, disciformis, 
extus utrinque subconvexus, intus ad hilum marginalem pro 
introitu vasorum tantum pervius. Semen hippocrepiforme vel 
lunatum, compressum ; inéegumentum tenue, linea longitudi- 
nali in fissuram condyli infixa ; embryo in albumine simplici car- 
noso, hippocrepiformis, teres, tenuiter elongatus, cotyledonibus 
incumbentibus, radicula supera, tereti, lis equilonga et equilata, 
ad stylum spectante. 
Frutices aut suffrutices sepius alte scandentes, interdum repentes, 
rarius erectt, plerumque inter tropicos totius orbis crescentes ; 
folia alterna, integra, sepius cordato-orbicularia, petiolata, petiolo 
rarius palatim, sepius plus minusve intra marginem inserto : pa- 
nicule ¢ avillares, composite ramose, sepe cymosa, multiflore, 
vel e ramulo novello aphyllo aut bracteato plurime, hoc modo 
racemum floriferum efformantes ; flores minuti: racemi 9 azil- 
lares, longiusculi, sepe ramiformes ; bracteis plurimis, sepius 
majusculis, foliolosis, suborbicularibus, alternatim approximatis 
aut imbricaiis ; flores minimi, pedicellati, plurimi, in avillis 
bractearum fasciculati et absconditi. 
The characters of all the following species are fully detailed in 
the third volume of the ‘ Contributions to Botany :’— 
Div. 1. AMERICANA. 
* Folia peltata; frutices scandentes. 
1. Cissampelos tropaolifolia, DC. ;—v. s. in hb. Boissier. ¢& ? , 
Cuchero (Pavon); in hb. DC. ¢, Bahia (Blanchet, 290) ; 
in hb. Mus. Brit. ¢, Crato (Gardner, 1444); in hb. Hook. 
3, Peru (Matthews, 2057); Antioquia (Jervise). 
glaberrima, St. Hil.;—C. clematidea, Pres/.—v. v. et 
sic. in hb. meo, ¢ & $, mont. Organ. et Valenca; in hb. 
Mus. Brit. et Hook. 9, Pernambuco (Gardner); in hb. 
Hook., Brazil (hb. Vienn. 1303). 
2. 
3. grandifolia, Tr. & Pl.;—v.s.in hb. Hook. ¢, Maumer 
(Hayes, 168); 9, La Paila (Holton, 667). 
A. sympodialis, Kichl. ;—v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. et Hook. 
