28 Mr. J. Miers on the Meuispermaceae. 



utrinque auriculata^ lobis introflexis^ apice breviter bifida vel 

 emarginata, lobis latis^ obtusis. Stamina 6, petalis opposita 

 et ad ungues affixa; filamenta imo dilatata et interdum vil- 

 losa, superne teretia, tenuia, et glabra, petalis sequilonga vel 

 paulo excedentia ; antherce rotundiuscule 4-lob3e, sine connec- 

 tivo 2-loculares, apice fere peltatim affixse, subintrorsum flexse, 

 rima laterali utrinque 2-valvatim dehiscentes. Ovaria rudi- 

 mentaria 3, punctiformia. — Fcem. Sepala et petala ut in masc. 

 Stamina sterilia 6, circa gynsecium hirsutum affixa. Ovaria 3, 

 gibba, gynsecio parvo insita, glabra, uuilocularia, ovulo unico 

 pariete interne appenso. Stylus nullus. Stigma excentricum, 

 lineare, obtusum, horizontaliter deflexum, rugosum, sulco mar- 

 ginibus crenulatis superne signatum. Drupce 3, vel abortu 1, 

 subglobosse, carnosulse, circa basin stigmate persistente nota- 

 tae : putamen reniformi-orbiculatum, trocbiforme, paulo com- 

 pressum, peripheria carina acuta sulcisque 2 notatum, facie- 

 bus radiatim tuberculato-liratis ; condylus excentralis, utrinque 

 meatu ssepissime amplo margine denticulate profunde vacuus 

 et septo interraedio centro pertusus, hinc fora minibus 3 pa- 

 rallelim distinctis fere centralibus perforatum; l-loculare,loculo 

 quasi annulari circa condylum gyrato, in valvulas 2 facile so- 

 lutum. Semen loculo conforme, fere annulare, extus convexum, 

 intus subconcavum ; integumentum tenue, ad latus internum 

 laxum chalaza notatum, hinc intra laminas septi insinuatum 

 et condyle affixum : embryo in alhumine simplici carnese 

 sepultus, cyclicus, cotyledonibus crassiuscule foliaceis, lineari- 

 oblongis, incumbentibus, radicula tereti supera ad stylum spec- 

 tante 4-plo longioribus. 

 Frutices scandentes Asia et Africa intertropiccs ; folia petiolata, 

 ovata,sapius dense puhescentia,Z-^-nervia; paniculse ^ axillares, 

 ra?nos(E, folio breviores, rarius longiores ; racemi $ axillar'es, 

 pauciflori. 



The species, to be described in the third volume of ' Contribu- 

 tions to Botany/ are the following : — 



1. Holopeira villosaj neb. Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. vii. 42 : — Coc- 

 culus villosus, DC. Syst. i. 525, Prodr. i. 98; Hook. ^ Th, 

 Fl. Ind. i. 193; — Cocculus aristolochiese, DC. Syst. i. 520, 

 Prodr. i. 97; Pluk. Aim. t. 13. fig. 2; — Menispermum 

 villosum, Lam. Diet. iv. 97; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 812; — 

 Menispermum hirsutum, Linn. Sp. 1469 {non Roxb.) ; — 

 Menispermum myosoteides, Linn, Sp. 1469. — In India 

 orientali: v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn., Wall. Cat. 4957 a, g; 

 in herb, variis e multis locis. 



2. laviuscula, nob. ; — Menispermum hirsutum, Roxb. {non 



Linn.) Fl. Ind. iii. 814; — Cocculus sepium, Coleb. Linn. 



