90 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacese. 



cum glandula concava in quoque angulo semiimmersa. Ova- 

 ria 3, gibboso-globosa, pilosula, 1-locularia, 1-ovulata. Styliis 

 brevissimus aut obsoletus. Stigma cordato-orbiculatum, con- 

 cavuni, indivisum^ horizontaliter reflexurn. DrwpcR 3, vel 

 abortu pauciores, compresso-globosse, carnosse, stigmate basin 

 versus notatse : jow/flmewcuneato-orbiculare,valde compressum, 

 tenuiter osseum^ utraque facie carina hippocrepiformi promi- 

 nula circa excavationem excentricam obovatam scutiformem 

 signatum, carina marginali latissima, e laminis pergamiiieis 5 

 (quorum 1 peripherica^ et utrinque laterales 2) profunde 

 fimbriatim incisis, secta in lacinias irregulares, paraliele ra- 

 diantes, ad pulpam carnosam arete adhserentes, 1-loculare, 

 loculo hippocrepico aut subcyclico ; condylus omnino internus, 

 scuto externo multo brevior, vacuus, clausus. Semen (vix 

 maturum visum) j integumentum loculum implens, membra- 

 naceum_, medio ad latus internum chalaza notatum et hinc 

 intra condylum insinuatum : embryo cotyledonibus lineari- 

 oblongis in albumine sepultus. 

 Frutex Australice orientalise scandens ; folia petiolata, ovata, e 

 hasi 6-7-nervia, supra glabra, nitida, subttts glauco-pruinosa ; 

 panicula S axillaris^ tomentosa : racemus $ axillaris et termi- 

 nalisj sub-6-florus ; drupse glabra. 



The following species will be described in the third volume of 

 the ^ Contributions to Botany :' — 



Legnephora Moorii, nob. ; — Cocculus Moorii, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 

 163 ; — Pericampylus incanus, Benth. (non nob.) Fl. Austral. 

 i. 58. — In Australia : v. s. in herb. Hook., ^ , Wide Bay, 

 Queensland (Oldfield), Macarthur (Backhouse); $ , Burnett 

 River (Mueller) . 



40. Sarcopetalum. 



This genus was established by Dr. Mueller in his ' Flora of 

 Victoria' (p-26, tab. suppl. 3), where the typical plant is de- 

 scribed and figured. Its chief peculiarity consists in its mona- 

 delphous stamens in the ^ flower, the central column being 

 divided, near its summit, into two or three antheriferous forks ; 

 its sepals vary in number from two to five ; its petals are three 

 to five, longer than the sepals, extremely fleshy, and tumidly 

 scrotiform : the $ flower has four small, denticulated, subrhom- 

 boidal sepals, four or five much larger, very fleshy, scrotiform 

 petals, with as many shorter sterile stamens attached to their 

 claws ; three to six ovaries, with a deeply 2-3-fid reflected stigma; 

 subglobose drupes, with a reniformly orbicular, compressed, 

 testaceous putamen, having externally on each side a semicir- 

 cular excentric impression, and an internal condyle that intrudes 



