Mr, J. Miers on the MenispermaGese. ISS- 



ferent, the flowers being larger, and the ciliated bracts at the base 

 of the branchlets far more conspicuous. The leaves are smaller 

 and broader in proportion, their total length, including the basal 

 lobes, being 7f inches, while their breadth is 9 J inches, the 

 central lobe from the insertion of the petiole measuring 6 inches, 

 the lateral lobes 5| inches, the lower lobes 5 inches, the basal 

 portions of which are wide apart, and extend If inch below the 

 line of insertion of the petiole; the petiole measures 5| inches, 

 and is 1 line diam. The male raceme is 18 inches long, its 

 rachis being sparsely pilose with spreading glandular I'eddish 

 hairs ; its branchlets are divaricated, fihform, flexuose, glabrous, 

 1^ inch long, and 7-8-flowered; the flowers are sessile, gla- 

 brous, and 3 lines diam. when expanded. 



3. Jateorhiza strigosa, nob.. Hook. Fl. Nig. 212, pi. 18; — Coc- 

 culus macranthus, Hook. fil. in Hook. Icon. pi. 759 ; — foliis 

 rotundatis, sinuato-3-lobatis, basi profunde inciso-cordatis; 

 lobis acute 3-angularibus, mucronatis, lateralibus imo in 

 auriculas basales profundas rotundatis, marginibus parallelis 

 fere approximatis, submembranaceis, reticulatis, supra nitidis, 

 subtus pallidioribus, 7-nerviis, nervis utrinque setoso-strigosis, 

 setis adpressis rigidis rufulis longiusculis, margine dense 

 setoso-ciliatis ; petiolo striato, auriculis 2-plo longiore, arete 

 setoso-strigoso ; racemo axillari ; floribus cseruleo coloratis 

 (Smith), lutescenti-albis (Vogel). — In Africa, ora occidentali, 

 V. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., Congo et ins. Fernando Po (Exped. 

 Tuckey) ; in herb. Hook, c? et ? , Clarence Cove, Fernando 

 Po (Vogel). 



This is a very distinct species. The leaves, including the 

 basal lobes, are 9^ inches long, 9 inches broad ; from the apex 

 to the insertion of the petiole is 7^ inches ; the lateral lobes, 

 with a broad intervening sinus or undulation, are 6 inches long; 

 the depth of the basal lobes is therefore %\ inches ; the petiole 

 is 5^ inches long. The raceme is 5 inches long, its branchlets 

 2-3 lines in length; its flowers are much smaller than those of 

 the preceding species, and about the size of those of the first- 

 mentioned typical plant, scarcely exceeding 2 lines diam. when 

 expanded. The above dimensions are from the specimen in the 

 British Museum : in those of VogeFs Collection the leaves are 

 only 3-4i inches long, 4-6 inches broad, on a petiole 6-8 inches 

 long ; the racemes are only 2-4 inches long. 



[To be continued.] 



