196 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacese. 



<;entre, upon a short raised receptacle, are three abortive, small, 

 subulate ovaries. The $ flower is not yet known. 



1 have adopted for the generic name that originally given to 

 the typical plant, substituting for it, specifically, another to 

 commemorate the name of its discoverer. The red colour of the 

 fleshy sarcocarp of the fruit suggested the name Hamatocarpus, 



HiEMATOCARPUS, nob.*; — Baterium, nob,{^). — Flores dioici. 

 Masc. Sepala 12-15, in seriebus 4-5 alternatim disposita, 

 gradatim minora, membranacea, ciliata, guttatim picta, 6-9 

 exteriora suborbicularia, 6 interiora majora, subsequalia, obo- 

 vata, sestivatione imbricata. Petala 6, sepalis dimidio minora, 

 ovata, fusca, glabra, marginibus membranaceis, imo auriculis 



2 minimis involutis munita. Stamina 6, petalis sequilonga et 

 opposita, biserialia, subimbricata, androecio centrali affixa; 

 filamenta libera, brevia, apice in connectivum magnum late 

 orbiculatum galeato-concavum submembranaceum guttatim 

 pictum desinentia; antherce 2-lob8e, lobis remote sejunctis, 

 oblongis, subdivergentibus, submembranaceis, latere utroque 

 connectivo semiimmersis et rima obliqua introrsum dehiscen- 

 tibus. Ovaria sterilia 3, minima, subulata, filamento sequi- 

 longa, centralia. — Fcem. Sepala et petala ignota. Ovaria e 

 cicatricibus in toro notatis 4-6. DrupcB totidem vel abortu 

 solitarise, ovali-oblongse, maximse, carnosse, singulatim carpodio 

 longiusculo et crasso stipitatse, styli vestigio hoc procul no- 

 tatse; putamen subparallele oblongum, paululo compressum, 

 imo aliquantulo angustius, tenuiter coriaceum, a basi longe 

 ultra medium utraque facie sulcatum, extus fibrillis seu pilis 

 tenuiter membranaceis anguste loriformibus erectis in pulpam 

 carnosam immersis dense vestitum ; condylus internus, 

 septiformis, sulcos externos adversus, ultra medium loculi 

 protensus j loculus hinc profunde bimarsupiatus. Semen lo- 

 culo conforme ; integumentum membranaceum, latere interiore 

 chalaza notatum et ad condylum aflSxum : embryo exalbumi- 

 nosus, parallelim et adpresse plicatus, hinc longe bicruris; 

 cotyledones magnse, crassissimse, longissimse, semiteretes, ac- 

 cumbentes, radicula brevi conica ad stylum spectante 16-plo 

 longiores. 



IFrutices Himalayenses, scandentes ; folia peiiolata, oblonga, e basi 

 S-nervia, crasso-coriacea, glaberrima : paniculse ^ racemos<Bj 

 supra-axillares, 2-S -fasciculate, rachi tenui, folio longiore, 

 ramis brevibus, paucifioris : racemus $ axillaris, pauciflorus, 

 fructifer petiolo paulo longior ; pedunculus crasstis, lignosus, 

 toro subgloboso terminatus; drupse 3-6, horizontaliter radiantes, 

 toro affixce, 



* Huj. op, ser. 3. xiii. p. 124, 



