B%U Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacese. 



deciduous, petiolated leaflets in the lower axils of the racemes, 

 which in T. Bakis are largely developed. The branchlets are 

 slender, quite glabrous, dull, and striated with a few raised len- 

 ticels, the internodes being of 2 inches j the leaves are 3-4 

 inches long, 2-2^ inches broad, with a petiole l-I^ inch long; 

 the racemes are 4-6 inches long, the three lowermost flowerless 

 axils 1 inch apart, bearing alternate leaflets similar in form, 

 1 inch long, f inch broad, on a petiole f inch long ; the pedicels 

 are 2 lines long, 2-3 lines apart, bracteated at base, all very 

 glabrous ; the flowers are somewhat large, the inner sepals being 

 fully 1^ line long. 



9. Tinospora Bakis, nob. ; — Cocculus Bakis, A. Rich, in Guill. et 

 Perott. Fl. Seneg. i. 12, tab. 4; — ramulis teretibus, subsube- 

 rosis, glabris, striatis, cortice pallido rimoso verruculoso tectis; 

 foliis oblongis, profunde cordatis, lobis basalibus rotundatis, 

 apice longe acuminatis et mucronatis, canaliculato-recurvis, et 

 hinc subconduplicatis, submembranaceis, glaberrimis, 5-7- 

 nerviis, nervis supra immersis, subtus prominulis j pedunculis 

 axillaribus, 1-3-floris, vel in ramulis novellis apice aphyllis 

 racemum terminalem glaberrimum effbrmantibus ; racemis ? 

 folio brevioribus. — In Africa tropica septentrionali, v. s. in herb. 

 DC, Senegambia S (Perottet) ; in herb. Delessert (Heudelot) ; 

 in herb. Hook., Nubia, ad Fazokel, 6 (Kotschky, 421) ; Cor- 

 dofan, $ (Kotschky, 244). 



I have considered the latter specimens as specifically identical 

 with the former, which is the typical plant of Perottet's collec- 

 tion, the only difference being that in the former the leaves have 

 a broad sinus at the base, while in the latter the basal lobes are 

 separated by a more acute sinus. The leaves are 2-3 inches 

 long, 2-2^ inches broad, on a petiole 1-1 5 inch long; the axil- 

 lary raceme is almost filiform, 4-6 inches long, often, but not 

 always, leaf-bearing at its base, as in the preceding species, the 

 leaves there being l^^-l^ inch long, 1^-1^ inch broad, on a petiole 

 4 lines long; the alternate pedicels, bracteated at base, are 

 1 line long ; the flower expanded, 3 Hues in diam. 



10. Tinospora tenera, nob.; — glaberrima, ramulis tenerrimis, 

 teretibus, striatis, verruculoso-tuberculatis ; foliis rotundato- 

 ovatis, imo cordatis, sinu acuto, lobis basalibus rotundatis, e 

 medio gradatim acutioribus, apice recurvis et breviter atte- 

 nuatis, vix membranaceis, 5-nerviis, nervis teneribus, supra 

 rugoso-punctatis, punctis nigris, subtus pallidioribus, nervis 

 venisque reticulatis paulo prominentibus ; petiolo sublongo, 

 tenerrimo, subito deflexo ; racemis solitariis, supra-axillaribus, 

 glaberrimis, valde elongatis ; rachi filiformi ; pedicellis brevis- 



