14 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacefe. 



linea longitudinal! ad condylum affixum ; embryo in albumini 

 simplici carnoso, hippocrepiforrais, teuuiter elongatus, teres, 

 cutijledonibus scmiteretibus, incumbentibus, radiculce superse 

 tereti ad stigma spectanti sequilongis et sequilatis. 

 Frutices scandentes, in Asia intertropica, in insulis adjacentibus, 

 necnon in Australia et Africa crescentes ; radix Sfppe lu- 

 bej'osus ; eaulis ramosus ; folia alterna, profunde peltata, sub- 

 orbicularia, deltoideo-ovata vel oblonga, integra vel sinuato- 

 angulata, imo rotundata, truncata vel cordato-sinuata, palmati- 

 nervia, scepius glabra : panicula in utroque sexu supra- axillaris, 

 scppe longissime pedunculata, umbellatim ramosa ; umbellis 

 iterumque umbellulatis, multifloris ; ilores minuti, in capitulas 

 dense aggregati, vel laxe corymbulosi. 



The following species will be fully described in the third 

 volume of my ' Contributions to Botany : ' — 



1. Stephania longa, Lour. Coch. ii. 747; — Cocculus Roxburgh!- 

 anus, Wall, in parte {non DC.) ; — v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. 

 (J, China (Staunton) ; in hort. hot. Calc. culta (Roxburgh); 

 in hb. Soc. Linn. hort. Calc. cult. (Wall. Cat. 4972, non 

 A, B, c); in hb. Hook., Khasya (Hook. & Th.). 



2. Japonica, nob. ; — Cocculus Japonicus, DC. Syst. i. 516; 



Prodr. i. 96; — Menispermum Japonicum, Thunb. Jap. 195; 

 Lam. Did. iv. 96; — Clypea venosa, Bl.Bijdr. 27; — Stepha- 

 nia venosa, Walp. Rep. i. 96; — v. s. in hb. variis, J" & $ , 

 ins. Philipp. (Cuming, 1160); in hb. Hook. Kurg, ^ 

 (Hook. & Th.) ; ^ , Concan (Law); $ , Concan (Gibson) ; 

 pen. Ind. c?&? (Wight, 9.53). 



glaucescens, Walp. Rep. i. 96; — Clypea glaucescens. 



Dene. Nouv. Ann. Mus. iii. 423, t. 18; — Cocculus Japonicus, 



var. Timoriensis, DC. Prodr. i. 96; — v. s. in hb. Lindl. ^ , 



Timor (Dene). 

 4. rotunda, Loar. (non H. & T.) Coch. ii. 747; Hook. & 



Th. in parte, Fl. Ind. i. 197;— v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. S, 



China (Lourciro) ; in hb. Hook. (J, Kumaon (Thomson, 



1227). 

 5. Roxburghiana, nob. ; — Stephania rotunda, H. &• T. in 



parte, I. c. 197; — Cocculus Roxburghianus, DC. Syst. i. 



516; Prodr. i. [non Willd.) ; — Cissampelos hexandra, Roxb. 



Fl. Ind. iii. 841 ; — Cissampelos Pata, Buck, {non Roxb.) ; — 



Cissampelos Finlavsonianus, Wall, [in parte) ; — v. s. in hb. 



Soc. Linn. ? , Madras (Wall. Cat. 4977 d), c? & ? , Slam 



(ibid. 4974 a); S> Moulmein (ibid. 4977 h) ; ? (ibid. 



1291); in hb. Mus. Brit. ?, India (Buchanan); in hb. 



Hook., Bengal (Hook. & Th.), Bunsal (Thwaites). 

 j6. glabra, nob.; — S. rotunda. Hook. ^ Th. {in parte) 



