194 Mr. J. Miers on the Meuispermacese. 



(immaturse solum visse) ut ia Chondodendro ad receptaculum 

 crassum affixse, putamine 1-loculari et a condylo septiformi e 

 basi intruso 2-marsupiato, semine ignoto. 

 Frutices scandentes in Brasilia septentrionali et Guiana crescentes; 

 folio, petiolata, ovata, subacuminata, integra, 5-nervia, transver- 

 sim venosa, coriacea, pilosa : paniculse (^ supra-axillareSj soli- 

 taria vel gemincB, spicatim ramosce; ramis brembtiSj paucifloris ; 

 floribus brevissime pedicellatis aut sessilibus. 



Ample characters of the two following species will be given in 

 the third volume of the ^ Contributions to Botany :' — 



1. Sychnosepalum Paraense, Eichl. in Mart. Fl. Bras. fasc. xxxix. 



203, tab. 49. fig. 1.— In Para. 

 2. Sagotianum, Eichl. Lc. p. 203, tab. 49. fig. 2. — In Guiana 



Gallica^ Karouay (Sagot. n. 19). 



44. H.EMATOCARPUS. 



This is a very peculiar genus, established upon the Fibraurea 

 hmnatocarpus of the authors of the ^ Flora Indica -/ but it is very 

 different from that genus, and belongs to quite another tribe, 

 its proper place being among the Pachygonea. It is remarkable 

 for its fleshy fruit, which is far larger than any yet known among 

 the MenispermacecB. I am indebted to Dr. Thomson for one of 

 the drupes, which he brou^t home in spirits ; this enabled me to 

 mark its distinctive features more completely than could possibly 

 be done in the dried state. The drupe is of a dark colour, 

 of a rounded oblong form,. If inch long, 1 J and 1 inch in its two 

 transverse diameters, is supported on a fleshy stipitate support 

 J inch long, and articulated on the globose receptacle of the 

 pedicel. The putamen is of a dark colour, thin, and coriaceous 

 in consistence, 1;^ inch long, 8 lines in diameter one way, 6 lines 

 across in the other direction, oblong, with straight sides, narrower 

 towards the base, with a shallow grooved line running from that 

 point along each of its broader faces for about three-fourths of 

 their length, which grooves correspond with an internal trans- 

 verse septum (the condyle), that divides the cell for the length 

 just stated into two deep marsupial pouches, as in Tiliacora; 

 the cell thus interrupted by the condyle is of a hippocrepical 

 shape, with two very long, parallel, approximated arms, each 

 semicircular in its cross section. The outer surface of the puta- 

 men is densely bristled with innumerable delicately membrana- 

 ceous flat hairs (if they may be so called) about 2 lines long, 

 and imbedded in thick fleshy pulp, much in the manner described 

 in Odontocarya [huj. op. 3 ser. xiv. 98). The seed fills the space 

 and assumes the same shape ; the integument is membranaceous, 



