20 j\Ir. J. Mlers on the Menispermaceje. 



6. Ci/clea laxiflora, nob.; — v. s. in hb. Hook. ^J & ? , Malacca 



(Griffiths). 

 7. peregrina, nob. ; — v. s. in hb. Hook, c? & ? , Borneo 



(Mottley, 673 & 684). 

 8. debiliflora, nob. ; — v. s. in hb. Hook. (^ , Khasya (Hook. 



&Th.). 

 . 9. pendulina, nob. ; — v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. (^ & ? , Ni- 



cobar Isl. (Soc. Fratr.). 

 10. deltoidea, nob. ; — v. s. in hb. Hook., Hong-Kong 



(Champion). 



32. Peraphora. 



This genus was first proposed by me for a plant originally col- 

 lected in Bhootan by Griffiths, which had female flowers and fruit 

 only. Since then I found that the Cyclea populifolia described 

 by Messrs. Hooker and Thomson is the male plant of the same 

 species. It differs from Cyclea in its habit, its large, coriaceous, 

 cordate leaves on a rigid petiole almost palately inserted, its 

 diffijrent mode of inflorescence, in its floral structure, and in its 

 putamen. Although the male flower has a campanular calyx, it 

 has no petal; the female flower has two comparatively large, 

 opposite, sacciform, fleshy sepals, and no petal, and its putamen 

 bears no resemblance to that of Cyclea. It is thus certain that, 

 with the exception of a campanular calyx in the 6 flower, the floral 

 structure in both sexes is totally at variance with the characters 

 of the genus to which it has been referred by the authors of the 

 ' Flora Indica.' In the number of calycine parts it accords with 

 Antizoma; but it diff'ers in having no petals, and in the gamo- 

 sepalous calyx of its <^ flower : these diff'erences, together with 

 the very dissimilar habits of the plants, will maintain the validity 

 of both these genera. The putamen, in its shape and its curved 

 spines, resembles that of some species of Stephania, but it differs 

 in having an imperforated condyle. 



The generic name was suggested by the singularly bursiform 

 sepals of the female flower. 



Peraphora, nob. ; — Cyclea {in parte), Hook. 6f Th. ; — Flores 

 dioici. Masc. Calyx globoso-campanulatus, ore parvo, 4-5- 

 dentato, glaber, carnosulus. Petalum nullum. Stamen uni- 

 cum, centrale, subiuclusum ; filamentum breviter filiforme ; 

 anthera subglobosa, 4-5-locularis, loculis circa connectivum 

 peltatum in annulum connatis, margine rima externa horizon- 

 taliter dehiscentibus. — Foem. Sepala 2, opposita, pro mole 

 majuscula, suborbiculata, valde concava, imo gibboso-saccata, 

 ungue brevi affixa, carnosa, lateribus tenuioribus et expansis, 

 apice truncato et subreflexo. Petala nulla. Stamina nulla. 



