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attached at its duplicature to the condyle, and marked near that 

 point by a dark chalaza; there is no albumen; the two fleshy 

 cotyledons occupy nearly the whole space of the cell, are 2 inches 

 long, suddenly and accurabently bent to half that length by their 

 sudden duplicature round the septiform condyle ; the radicle, 

 J inch long, and therefore only one-sixteenth part of their 

 entire length, is narrow and conical, situated at the lower ex- 

 tremity of one of the divisions of the cell. 



In the Hookerian Herbarium, under Tinomiscium, I found a 

 specimen, without leaves, but with ^ flowers, which, I consider, 

 belongs to the typical species, especially as it is also from 

 Khasya, and from a similar elevation (3000-4000 feet). I was 

 led to this conclusion by comparing it with another specimen, 

 also from Khasya, having leaves of a similar texture and peculiar 

 venation, and a habit quite conformable with Haematocarpus 

 Thomsoni : on a former occasion I had selected this plant as the 

 type of a new genus, Baterium^j which now, therefore, merges 

 into Hcematocarpus. Another specimen in the same herbarium, 

 without flowers, from the neighbouring district of Sikhim, may be 

 considered the counterpart of the (^ flowering specimen which 

 I have referred to the typical species : it quite agrees with the $ 

 plant in the size, texture, and venation of the leaves, only that they 

 are a trifle broader and rounder at base. In all these specimens 

 the leaves are oblong, acuminated, somewhat thick and coriaceous, 

 very glabrous, subpolished above, glaucous beneath, with two 

 principal simple nerves springing from the base, running parallel 

 with the margin, and then arching with other short lateral nerves 

 that rise from the midrib beyond its middle. In both species the 

 ^ inflorescence has from two to four panicles fasciculated in the 

 axils, each on a slender rachis longer than the leaves, with short 

 alternate branches, each bearing two small pedicellated flowers : 

 these have twelve sepals in imbricated ternate series, gradually 

 smaller outwards, membranaceous, glabrous, with ciliated mar- 

 gins, and marked with coloured spots ; the six petals are half 

 the length of the larger sepals, oblong, somewhat dark and 

 fleshy, with two small, erect, auricular scales fixed upon their 

 claw ; the six stamens are opposite to them, the filament being 

 short, flat, thin, widening at the apex suddenly into a larger, 

 orbicular, membranaceous connective, which is galeately concave, 

 with two much smaller anther-lobes widely separated, subdiva- 

 ricated, and partly imbedded in its lateral margins, each open- 

 ing introrsely by an obliquely longitudinal fissure ; these stamens 

 are in two series, connivent, and somewhat imbricated ; in the 



• See my synopsis of the genera of the MenispermacecB {huj. op. ser. 3. 

 xiii. p. 124). • . 



