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tatae : putamen valde osseum, subglobosum, paulo compressum, 

 peripheriam versus utrinque radiatim sulcatum, carina peri- 

 pherica laevi, l-loculare, loculo lunato circa condylum gyrato ; 

 condylum excentricum, intus septulo integro 2-caiii£ratuin, 

 utrinque meatu lineari pano extus perforatum ; semen ioculo 

 conforme, dorso angulatum, ventre subplanum; integumenta 

 tenuia, medio raphes ventralis prominentis linearis condylo 

 affixa; embryo intra albumen simplex copiosum carnosura 

 fere annulosum tenuiter elongatus, omnino teres, cotyledonibus 

 accumbentibus, ad hilura tensis, radicuUe superae ad stylum 

 spectauti ajqualibus, vel subbrevioribus. 

 Frutices scandentes Asia tropica et insularum indigena ; folia 

 eliiptica, sapius fflaberrima, 3-nervia, breviter petiolata ; raccmi 

 axiliares, petiolum aquantes, vel duplo longiores. 



The following species are enumerated in my ' Contributions 

 to Botany,' vol. iii. : — 



J, Hypserpa cuspidata, nob.; — Cocculus cuspidatus, Wall.; — 

 Limacia cuspidata. Hook. ^ Th. — Penins. Ind. et Ceylon 

 (Wall. Cat. -4960; Gardner, 30; Thwaites, 1051). 



2. nitida, nob.; — Limacia cuspidata, Hook. ^- Th. in part. 



— Hong Kong. 



3. pravaricata, nob. — Pulo Penaug ; ins. Philip. (Cuming, 



1252). 



4. funifera, nob. — Africa centralis (Mellor). 



5. heteromera, nob. — Borneo (Motley, 710). 



6. propensa, nob. — Borneo (Motley, 179). 



7. paucijlora, nob. — Ceylon (Walker). 



8. triflora, nob. ; — Cocculus triflorus, DC. ;— Limacia mi- 



crophylla, Miq. — Sumatra et Java. 



9. wlijlora, nob. — Ceylon (Walker). 



19. Limacia. 



In describing Hypserpa, I have shown it to be very distinct 

 from Limacia, with which it has been confounded by the authors 

 of the 'Flora Indica' and the 'Genera Plautarum.' In habit 

 there is a certain degree of resemblance between them ; but in 

 their floral structure there is a positive want of compatibility. 

 In Limacia the male flowers are constantly isomerous, the inner 

 row of sepals is three ; they are thick, fleshy, pilose on both 

 sides, with a decidedly valvate aestivation ; the petals are invari- 

 ably six, and embrace as many stamens standing opposite to 

 them ; there is, however, a distinct group in which only three 

 stamens are present, but the flowers are still isomerous : rudi- 

 menU of throe or six ovaries are found ia the centre of the 



