Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacese. 191 



extus pilosula, 6 interiora majora, elliptica, apice subreflexa. 

 Petala 6, staminibus opposita, interdum rotuudata et squa- 



• miformia vel ssepius sepalis interioribus paulo minora, 

 cuneato-oblonga, carnosula. Stamina 6, biserialia, cen- 

 tralia, libera, ad basin arete aggregata, et in toro cylindrico 

 subconnata, apice conniventia; filamenta curvatim suberecta, 

 apice valde incrassata, claviformia ct inflexa; antherca 2- 

 loculares, loculis ovatis, segregatis, subimmersis, utrinque 

 rima longitudinali dehiscentibus, connectivo crasso, in apicu- 

 lum longum introrsus curvatura ssepe subbifidum excur- 

 rente. — Foem, Sepala et petala raarium. Stamina sterilia 6, 

 minima aut nulla. Ovaria ssepius Q, erecta, gynsecio brevi 

 insita, gibboso-oblonga, sursum tenuiora, glabra, 1-locularia, 

 ovulo unico lateri interne appenso. Stylus subnullus. Stigma 

 rhomboideum, acutum, convexum, medio carinatum, deorsus 

 reflexum. DrupcB 6 vel abortu pauciores, gibboso- vel cuneato- 

 oblongse, imo longiuscule stipitatse, et ad torum majusculum 

 affixes, subhorizontaliter radiantes, vix pulposse, stigmate basi 

 proximo notatae; putamen subcuneato-oblongum, paulo com- 

 pressum, utraque facie a basi ultra medium sulcatum, char- 

 taceo-coriaceum, 1-loculare ; condylus omnino internus, septi- 

 formis, sulcis ad margines conversis, a basi ultra medium pro- 



• tensus. Semen loculum bimarsupiatum implens, et circa con- 

 dylum hippocrepice subito inflexum, exalbuminosum ; inteyu- 

 mentum membranaceum, hippocrepice plicatum, in sinu aha- 

 laza obscura notatum, et hinc linea incrassata ad condylum 



• adhserens ; embryo valde carnosus, cotyledonibus magnis, ac- 

 cumbenter hippocrepice incurvis, rarius paululo insequalibus, 

 radicula brevi parva supera ad stigma spectante multoties 

 longioribus. 



Frutices scandentes America meridionalis inter tropiccpy cortice 

 tuberculato, ramulis ad axillas cupuloso-nodosis ; folia alternay 

 suborbiculariaj ovata aut oblonga, rarius subcordatay scepe 

 paululo peltata, e basi b-nerviaj supra glabra, subtus scepe sub- 

 tomentosa ; petiolo utraque extremitate tumido : paniculse elon- 

 gatcPy aut solitaria et axillares vel in ramis annotinis aphyllis 

 perplurima et fasciculate ; flores minimi, pedicellati. 



Descriptions of the following species will be given in the third 

 volume of my ' Contributions to Botany :' — 



1. Chondodendron tomentosum, R. &P. (non Benth. nee. Eichl.), 

 Prodr. Fl. Per. 132, Syst. 261 ;— Epibaterium tomentosum, 

 Pers. Ench. i. 561; — Cocculus Chondodendron, DC. Syst, 

 i. 522, Prodr. i. 98. — In Peruvia : v. s, in herb, 3Ius. Brit, 

 et De Boissier, Pillao (Ruiz et Pavon) , 



