192 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermaceae. 



3. Chondodendron cretosum, nobl; — Botryppsis \)\s.iy ^ihyWa, Bent h, 

 inJourn. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 2. 51 ; — Botryopsis Spruceana, 

 Eichl, in Mart. Fl. Bras, fasc. xxxviii. p. 199, tab. 48. 

 fig. 1. — In Peruvia alta : v, s, in herb, variis <^ et $ , Tara- 

 pota (Spruce, 4474). 



3. platyphyllum, nob. ; — Botryopsis platypbylla, noh. olim 



in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 43 ; Benth. /. c. 51 ; Eichl. {in 

 parte) I. c. 199 ; — Cocculus platyphyllus, St. Hit. PI. Lfs. 

 tab. 42, Fl. Br. Mer. i. 59 ; Walp. Rep. i. 95.— In Brasilia, 

 prov. Diamantina. 



4. obscurum, nob. — In Brasilia : v. v. c? et $ in montibus 



Organensibus. 



5. cinerascenSf nob. ; — Cocculus cinerascens, St. Hit. FL 



Bras. Mer. i. 59; Walp. Rep. i. 95; — Botryopsis platypbylla, 

 Eichl. (in parte) I. c. 200. — In Brasilia : v. s, in herb, Mus. 

 Brit. (Bowie & Cunn.). 



6. amulum, nob. ; — Cocculus platypbyllus. Mart, [non St. 



Hil.)Fl. Bot. Zeit. xxiv. App. 2. 42 ; — Botryopsis platy phylla, 

 Eichl. {in parte) I. c. 200, tab. 48. — In Brasilia : v. s. in 

 herb. De Candolle ^ (Martins) ; in herb. Be Boissier (^ , 

 Bahia (Luschnatt). 



7. ovatum, nob. ; — Cocculus ovatus, Veil. Fl. Flum. x. tab. 



141 ; — Cocculus platypbyllus, var. Ildefonsianus, St. HiL 

 et Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2. xvii. 134; — Cocculus panicu- 

 ligerus. Mart, I. c. ii. 43 ; Walp. Rep. ii. 348 ; — Botryopsis 

 platyphylla, Eichl. {in parte) I. c. 200. — In Brasilia. 



8. nemophilum, nob. — In Brasilia : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, 



Eio de Janeiro (Gardner, 5353), 



43. Sychnosepalum. 



In treating of Chondodendron, I have already commented on 

 this genus, which was established by Dr. Eichler in Martius's 

 ' Flora Brasiliensis.^ I there showed how much it agrees with 

 the former genus in habit and inflorescence, in the number of 

 its sepals, petals, and stamens in the (^ , and in the number of 

 floral parts, with six stipitated ovaries, in the $ flower. The only 

 diff*erence consists in the stamens ; for in Sychnosepalum the outer 

 filaments, always shorter, are free almost to the base, while the 

 three inner ones, for nearly their whole length, are united into 

 a central column, and at other times all the stamens are equally 

 and more or less partially agglutinated together in two series ; 

 the anthers are 2-celled, the cells being introrse, oval, dorsally 

 affixed on the apex of a narrower filament, collateral at their 

 summit, but very divaricated at their base, and bursting by an 

 obliquely longitudinal fissure. On the other hand, in Chondo- 



