254 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacese. 



appenso. Stylus subulatus, tenuiter elongatus, apice un- 

 cinato-incurvatus. Stigma obsoletum. — Fl. fcem. (sec. Roxb. 

 sepala et petala maris; ovaria 13, in unica serie gynophoro 

 insita; stylus subulatus; stigma simplex). DrMj9« 3-6, vel 

 usque ad 12, valde gibboso-obovatse, compressse, in summo 

 carpophoroi-um totidem e gynsecio cylindrico enatorum suffultae 

 et articulatse, hoc modo radiatim horizontales, singulse stylo 

 persistente imo proximo notatse; putamen oblongum, com- 

 pressum, imo truncatum, hinc ultra medium utrinque sul- 

 catum, coriaceum, 1-loculare, condylo intemo septiformi 

 transversali ultra medium protenso, siccitate 2-marsupiatum, 

 intus Iseve, l-spermum; semen loculo conforme, 2-crure ; 

 integumenta membranacea, tenuia, inter rimas albuminis pli- 

 cata, et per raphen ad condylum affixa ; embryo elongatus, 

 teres, intra albumen copiosum undique transversim et anfrac- 

 tuose niminatum hippocrepice inflexus, cotyledonibus sub- 

 compressis, incumbentibus, radicula tereti rcquilatis et 3-plo 

 longioribus, hac in locello superiore ad stylum spectante, illis 

 in inferiore ad hilum tensis. 

 Frutices scandentes Asia intertropica et insularum ; folia oblongo^ 

 ovata, glabra, '6-nervia, et scepe triplinervia ; racemi subpani- 

 culati, axillares, solitarii vel gemini. 



The following species will be described in the third volume 

 of ' Contributions to Botany ' : — 



1. Tiliacora racemosa, Coleb. ; — T. acuminata, H. ^ Th.; — Coc- 

 culus acuminatuSjDC; — C. radiatus,Z)C — India orientalis. 



2. fraternaria, nob. — Ceylon. 



3. cuspidiformis, nob.; — T. acuminata, H. ^ Th. [in parte), 



—Ceylon (Thwaites, 1056). 



4. abnormalisj nob. — Ind. orient. 



16. Abuta. 



In 1851 I endeavoured to establish the characters of this 

 previously obscure genus, which had been fused into Cocculus, 

 when 1 referred to it several plants from Guiana and Brazil, 

 which approximate in habit and general structure to Aublet's 

 typical species, Abuta i-ufescens. The leaves are generally of 

 large size, broad, often cordate at base, smooth above, and co- 

 vered beneath with dense yellowish tomentum, with very promi- 

 nent digitate nervures, externally branched, and with strong 

 transverse veins. The inflorescence is in long, pubescent, axil- 

 lary racemose panicles, and its drupaceous fruits, densely to- 

 mentose, contain an oblong coriaceous putamen, with a bimar- 

 supiate cell, enclosing a single hippocrepiform seed, having an 



