Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermaceae. 373 



Ileocarpus, nob. — Flores dioici. Masc. ignoti. — Foem. Sepala 

 3, obovata, membranacea. Petala 3, alterna, rotundata, imo 

 unguiculata, sepalis diinidio breviora. Stamina nulla. Ova- 

 rium unicum, oblongo-ovatum, glabrura, gynsecio brevi insi- 

 tum, 1-loculare, ovulo unico e facie ventral! appenso; stylus 

 brevissimus, crassiusculus ; stigma 3-fidum, lobis brevibus, 

 teretibus, suberectis. Drupa transversim ovata, carnosa, styli 

 vestigio hilo proximo notata ; putamen obovatura, corapressum, 

 peripheriara versus utrinque liris 7 brevibus 2-tuberculati8 

 radiatim dispositis muricatum, 1-loculare, loculo hippocrepi- 

 forini circa condylum g>rato; condylus ovatus, laminiformis, 

 utrinque concavus et imperforatus. Semen valde compressum, 

 hippocrepiforme, extus utrinque radiatim sulcatum ; integu- 

 menta membranacea, margine ventrali laxa, hinc crassiora, et 

 cum /m/iicu/o filiform i rigido intra fissuram condyli intrusa; 

 embryo in albumine simplici, carnosus, teres, tenuiter elon- 

 gatus, hippocrepiformis, cotyledonihus semiteretibus, incum- 

 bent ibus, radicula aequilata, iis 3-plo longiore, ad stigma 

 spectante. 



Frutex scandens Abyssinica; folia integra, peltata, deltoideo- 

 oblonga, glabra, \0-nervia, petiolata ; pcdunculus supra-axil- 

 laris, tenuiter filiformis, glaber, apice bract eatus et floribus 

 phtrimis capitato-panicuiatis munitus ; flores minuti, glaberrimi. 



The single species, Ileocarpus Schimperi, is described in the 

 8rd vol. of ' Contributions to Botany/ 



24. UOMOCNEMIA. 



This gcnu>, originally proposed by me in 1851, was founded 

 upon a plant in Drege's South-African collection, named by 

 Dr. Meyer Cissampclos umbellata. The female flower only is 

 known, which difiers from Ileocarpus and Stephania in having 

 four sepals, four petals, and an ovary with an obsoletely bifid 

 stigma. The authors of the * Flora Indica' and the new 'Genera 

 Plantarum' make this genus and Ileocarpus identical with Ste- 

 phania ; but they have no ground on which to justify that deter- 

 mination : it differs from Stephania in the number of its floral 

 parts, and in the shape| of its ovary and stigma j it is, indeed, 

 nearer to Clypea, but suflBciently distinct from either, as the 

 following diagnosis will show : — 



HoMOCNEHiA, nob, — Flores dioici. Masc. ignoti. — Fcem. Sepala 

 4, ovata, extus pilosa, per paria opposita, aestivatione imbri- 

 cata. Petala 4, sepalis 3-plo breviora, rotundata, carnosa. 

 Stamina nulla. Ovarium solitarium, ovatum, breviter stipi- 

 tatum, compressum, rectum, glabrum, sulco longitudinali 

 latere notatum, 1-loculare, ovulo e parieti ventrali appenso ; 



