Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacee, 171 
paulo compressa, sursum gradatim crassiora ; anther bilobe, 
exteriores subintrorse, centrales subextrorse, lobis connec- 
tivo subexcurrente sejunctis, filamento fere lateraliter adnatis, 
rima longitudinali subobliqua dehiscentibus.—F/. fem. ig- 
noti. 
Frutex scandens Africe occidentalis equinoctialis ; ramuli debiles; 
folia ovata, cordata, apice acuminata, imo 5-nervia, pilis sparsis 
munita: inflorescentia supra-axillaris, e pedicellis geminis uni- 
floris; pedicellus petiolo 2-plo longior ; flos pro ordine majus- 
— culus. 
The only known species will be fully described in the third 
volume of my ‘ Contributions to Botany.’ 
Synclisia scabrida.—In Africa equinoctiali: v.s. in herb. Hook., 
Gaboon River (Mann, 986) ; Congo (C. Smith). 
57. PENIANTHUS. 
Among the plants arranged under Fibraurea in the Hookerian 
herbarium, I noticed one from the island of Fernando Po, which 
is very different in habit, particularly in its leaves, which are 
not triplinerved as in that genus; its inflorescence, instead of 
being a very long and laxly spreading panicle, is barely half an 
mech long, consisting of a very short supra-axillary peduncle 
that supports a number of umbellated 1-flowered pedicels of 
half its length, all beg pubescent. It is a female specimen, 
its flowers having nine sepals in three series diminishing in size 
outwards and imbricated in estivation, six minute petals affixed 
by their claws to the feet of as many sterile stamens seated 
round a raised gynecium which supports three short, gibbously 
+ cena pilose ovaries, almost concealed (when seen from 
above) by their very large sessile stigmata, which resemble those 
of Calycocarpum. Its leaves are of considerable size, lanceolately 
oblong, narrowing towards both extremities, and acuminated 
at the summit, having many parallel divergent nerves that 
archingly anastomose together near the margin, in which respect 
they offer some resemblance to Pycnarrhena. I know of no 
genus to which this plant can be referred. 
Peniantuvs, nob.—Flores dioici. Masc. ignoti.—Fam. Sepala 
9, alternatim i in ordine ternario disposita, quorum 8 exteriora 
minora et bracteiformia, 3 intermedia ovata, paulo majora, 
glabra, 3 interiora adhuc majora, orbiculari-ovata, concava, 
carnosula, marginibus membranaceis, glabra, eestivatione im- 
bricata. Petala 6, minima, staminibus opposita, late obovata, 
erecta, subcarnosula. Stamina 6 sterilia, libera, ovarii dimidio 
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