184 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacese. 



8J inches, the lower lobes 8 inches, the basal portions of which 

 are closely approximated and extend 3^ inches below the inser- 

 tion of the petiole ; the petiole is 6| inches long, and 2 lines 

 diam. The peduncle of the male raceme is 13 inches long, 

 slender, polished, of a reddish chestnut-colour, striated, and 

 furnished with a very few retrorse stiff hairs, which are some- 

 times glandular at the apex ; its branchlets 3 lines apart are 

 bracteated, 6-8 lines long, with nearly sessile flowers ; the female 

 raceme is simple, 3 inches long, with a few distant 1 -flowered 

 pedicels, 3 lines long. 



3. Jateorhiza Calumha, nob. ; — Cocculus palmatus. Wall, {non 

 DC.) ; — Menispermum Columba, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 807 {non 

 Comm.) ; — ramulis teretibus, angulato-striatis, breviter retror- 

 sum hispido-pilosis ; foliis late orbicularibus, sinuato-lobatis,si- 

 nibus rotundatis, lobis 5, late ovatis, acutis, apice mucronato- 

 - acuminatis, basalibus profunde divaricatis, et hinc late cordatis, 

 7-9-nerviis, supra opacis, utrinque pilis brevibus adpressis 

 curvulis rufescentibus munitis, subtus pallidis, nervis venis- 

 que valde reticulatis prominentibus, in nervis longius et 

 patenter glanduloso-hispidulis ; petiolo subtenui, striato, imo 

 incrassato et tortuoso, patenter glanduloso-hispido ; race- 

 mis axillaribus, solitariis vel plurimis, c? foliis longioribus, 

 imo nudis ; rachi valde elongata, striata, patenter strigosa, 

 ramis elongatis, divaricatis, fere capillaribus, glabris, sub- 

 flexuosis, paucifloris, imo bractea lineari setoso-ciliata donatis; 

 floribus sessilibus, fere ebracteatis. — In Africa Australi, ora 

 orientali inter Mozimba et Ibo (lat. ll°aust,), v. s. in herb. 

 Sac. Linn. (Wall. Cat. 4953), hort. Bot. Calc. cult. 

 I have nowhere seen native specimens of this species, the 

 male plant of which was introduced, many years ago, from the 

 locality above quoted into the Botanic Garden of Calcutta, where 

 it is still cultivated. A long account of it was published 

 by Dr. Berry, in the 'Asiatic Researches^ (x. 385, t. 5). Its 

 native place is 5° to the northward of Mozambique, where the 

 former species is found. Its branches are soft and of very lax 

 texture, of annual growth, seldom exceeding f inch diam. ; its 

 leaves are not so membranaceous as those of the former species, 

 and in no degree polished above, the reticulations being finer, 

 more numerous, and more prominent : in the former species the 

 incisures are acute; here they are wide and rounded; and the 

 basal lobes, which in the former are longer, more parallel, and 

 nearly overlapping one another, are here shorter and much di- 

 varicated : the petiole is not so densely pilose, and is only half 

 the thickness of that of the former. The inflorescence is very dif- 



