12 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacee. 
flexucsi, axillis nodosis et approximatis ; folia oblonga, utrinque 
subacuta, lucida, glaberrima, penninervia, supra in nervis sul- 
cata, petiolo brevi, apice valde tumido et cavo: panicule g 
perplurime vel pauciores, supra-axillares, fasciculata, interdum 
brevissime et crebriter subglomerate, aut laxe ramose et petiolo 
paulo longiores ; floribus parvis: in 3 pedicelli pauci, axillares, 
et 1-flori. 
The characters of the following specics will be given in the 
third volume of the ‘ Contributions to Botany ’— 3 
1. Pycnarrhena pleniflora, nob. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. vii. 44; 
—Pyenarrhena planiflora, Hook. & Th. Fl. Ind. i. 206 ;— 
Cocculus planiflorus, Wall. (pro errore typographico vice 
pleniflori)—In India orientali: v. s. in herb. Soe. Linn. 
3, Sylhet et in hort. Bot. Cale. cult. (Wall. Cat. 4961) ; 
. tn herb. Hook. 2 , Bengal (Griffiths). 
2. 
tumefacta, nob.— In Borneo: v. s. in herb. Hook. 3, 
Bangarmassing (Motley, 357). 
3. mecistophylla, nob.—In Himalaya: v. s. in herb. Hook., 
Assam (Griffiths, 1264), 
51. ANTITAXIS. 
This genus was proposed by me in 1851 for a plant collected 
in Malacca by the late Mr. Griffiths, with male flowers. It is 
only lately that I have seen other specimens in fruit. It has 
large lanceolate leaves, with alternate pinnate slender nerves, 
anastomosing towards the margin, and with rather short pe- 
tioles: in the g it has a few slender 1-flowered pedicels, fasci- 
culated in each axil; in the ? the inflorescence is similar. The 
3 flower has eight sepals decussately arranged in opposite pairs, 
the two inner series being larger, equal in size, and imbricated 
in zstivation ; it has two petals alternate with the inner pair of 
sepals, and somewhat smaller than these, four stamens cruciately 
placed opposite the petals, with filaments somewhat shorter than 
they, fleshy, thickening upwards, the anthers partly immersed 
in their summits, globular, 1-lobed, opening somewhat extrorsely 
by a diagonally transverse fissure, showing two gaping lips, as 
in Anelasma and Elissarrhena. The 9 flower is unknown; but 
the drupes are subglobose and tomentose, with a somewhat 
reniform putamen, which is chartaceous and brittle, with an 
almost obsolete condyle in the sinus of the ventral side; the 
embryo is exalbuminous, reniformly orbicular, with large, fleshy, 
curving, accumbent cotyledons which nearly fill the cell, and a 
very minute, somewhat superior radicle. The leaves are coria- 
ceous, glabrous, shining, having a peculiar nervation resembling 
