94 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermaceae. 



teres, brevis. Stigma stylo continuum, tenuiter subulatum,lon- 

 giasculura, horizontaliter reflexum, superne valde sulcatum. 

 Drupce 3, vel abortu solitarise, obovatse vel subglobosse, styli 

 vestigio pedicellum versus notatse, sarcocarpio crasso coriaceo 

 vestitse : putamen subovatum, paulo compressum, utrinque a 

 basi ultra medium sulcatum, coriaceum, rarius duriusculum, 

 1-loculare; condylus transversim septiformis, a basi ultra me- 

 dium loculi subdiagonaliter (rarius paulo brevitus) protensus ; 

 loculus exinde conspicue subbimarsupiatus. Semen hippocre- 

 pice plicatum, loculum implens, exalbuminosum ; integumentum 

 membranaceum, circa condylum replicatum et per raphen et 

 chalazam ei ligatum : embryo cotyledonibics magnis, carnosis, 

 accumbentibus^ medio subito replicatis, radicula brevissima, 

 tereti, subsupera, ad styli vestigium basale spectante. 

 Frutices scandentes Americce meridionalis et Mexicani ; ramuli 

 flescuosi, axillis nodosi ; folia ohlonga, apice scBpius attenuata, 

 sape crassa coriacea, alternatim nervosa, glaberrimaj petiolata ; 

 paniculse axillares, racemosa, plurimce, scepius rachi elongata 

 gracilis ramis filiformibus, glabra, e gemmuia pilosa huge 

 supra-axillari ortce^ folio scepius longiores rarius plurimce, 

 petiolo breviores, in capitulum axillare approximatce ; flores 

 glabrij minusculi. 



The following species will be described in the third volume of 

 my ' Contributions to Botany :^ — 



1. Hyperbcena nemoralis, nob., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. vii. 44; — 

 Hyperbsena Tweedii, nob, I. c. 44 : v,v. ^ , Rio de Janeiro : 

 v.s. ? , in herb. Hook., Porto Alegre, prov. Rio Grande 

 (Tweedie). 



2. graciliflora, nob. ; — Hyperbsena reticulata, Benth. {in 



parte) Journ, Linn. Soc. v. Suppl, 50 ; — Pachygone Domin- 

 gensis, Eichl. (in parte) in Mart. Fl. Bras, xxxviii. p. 98. — 

 In Guiana Brasiliana : v. s. (^ in herb, variis, Rio Cassiquiari 

 (Spruce, 3167). 



Moricandii, nob. 1. c. 44; — Hyperbsena reticulata, i^ewM. 



{in parte) I. c. 50; — Pachygone Domingensis, Eichl. {in 

 parte) I. c. 198. — In Brasilia : v, s. in herb. Hook. ^ , Ilheos 

 (Moricand, 2346). 



4. Hostmanni, nob. 1. c. 44 ; — Hyperbsena reticulata, Benth. 



{in parte) I. c. 50 ; — Anelasma minutiflora, Sagot, in herb. ; 

 — Pachygone Domingensis, Eichl. {in parte) I. c. 197, tab. 

 47. fig. 2. — In Guiana: v, s. in herb. Hook., Surinam 

 (Hostmann), Guiane Fran9aise (Sagot, 833). 



5. Mexicana, nob. I.e. 44; — Hyperbsena reticulata, 5e/i^A. 



/. c. 50; — Pachygone Domingensis, Eichl. {in parte) I. c. 

 198. — In Mexico: v, s.S in herb. Hook. (Jungensen, 91). 



