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sistente basi proximo notata; putamen subosseum, globoso- 

 ovale, paululo compressum, l-loculare, loculo circa condylum 

 hippocrepice gyrato ; condijlus excentralis, subglobosus, utrin- 

 que convexus, vacuus, in siuu basali pro vasorum introitu 

 pertusus. Semen loculo conforme ; embryo intra albumen sim- 

 plex, hippocrepicus, tenuiter teres, cotyledonibus semiteretibus, 

 incumbentibus, radicula supera ad stylum spectante 3-plo 

 longioribus. 

 Frutices scandentes Asia intertropicce, sapius pubescentes aut re- 

 trorsum hispidi; folia alterna, peltata, deltoideoroblonga aut 

 obovata, subcordata, 5-7-nervia, petiolo tenui : inflorescentia 

 (J axillaris, aut racemus elongatus, rachi tenui, sape geniculatim 

 fleaniosa, floribus numerosis minutis in glomerulos remotos 

 aggregatis; aut in utroque sexu panicula racemosa, ramis 

 alternis, remotis, longiusculis, scepe itei'um ramosis, floribus 

 corymbulosis aut agglomeratis. 



Copious descriptions of all the following species will be given 

 in the third volume of my ' Contributions to Botany ' : — 



1. Cyclea peltata. Hook. & Th. (in parte) Fl. Ind. i. 201;— 



Menispermum peltatum, Lam.; — Cocculus peltatus, DC; 

 —V. s. in hb. Soc. Linn. (? & ? , Sylhet (Wall. Cat. 4978 c), 

 Prome (Wallich) ; in hb. Hook. (^ & ? , Java (Spanaghoe, 

 194) ; S> Assam (Griffiths, 355). 



2. barbata, nob. ; — Cissampelos barbata, Wall, [in parte), 



Rangoon (Wall. Cat. 4978 a, a), Taong Dong (Wall. Cat. 

 4978 e). 



Amottii, nob.; — Cyclea Burmanni, Wight, III. i. 22 



(in parte) ; — C. Burmanni, Hook. ^ Th. I. c. 201 {in parte) ; 

 Clypea Burmanni, W. ^ A. Prodr, i. 14 [in parte) ; — v. s. 

 in hb. Soc. Linn. ^J, Kelaben (Wall. Cat. 4978 a, b); Singa- 

 pore (Wall. Cat. 4978) ; ? , Prome (Wall. Cat. 4978 b) ; 

 in hb. Hook. $ , Rangoon (M'Clellar d) ; ? , Kurg (Hook, 

 & Th.) ; S > Khasya (Hook. & Th.) ; q , Mangalore (Ward) ;; 

 ? , Ind. or. (Walker). 



Burmanni, Hook. & Th. /. c. 201; — Rhaptomeris Bur-- 



nianni, nob. olim ; — Clypea Burmanni, W. ^ A. Prodr. i. 

 14 {in parte) ; — Cocculus Burmanni, DC. Syst. i. 517 ; — - 

 v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit., Ceylon (Hermann) ; in hb. Hook. ^ ,, 

 Ceylon (Walker, 194) ; ? , Ceylon (Gardner, 33), Ceylom 

 (Thwaites, 1049); ^j , Kandy (Champion) ; Ind. Penins^ 

 (Wight, 40) ; J^, Concan (Stocks, Gibson, Law). 



5. ■ versicolor, nob.; — Cyclea peltata, Hook. ^ Th. {in parte)) 



I. c. 201 ; — Cissampelos discolor. Wall, {in parte) ; — v. Si. 

 in hb. Soc. Linn. ^, Nielgherries (Wall. Cat. 4982 b).';^ 

 ? , Trevandrum (Wall. Cat. 4982 a, b, non. a, a). 



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